Maria M. Arréllaga – International Relations and Global Studies
“Social and Environmental Impacts of the Quest for ‘Green Gold’ in South America: A Political Ecology Analysis of the Soy Production Boom in the Gran Chaco”
Faculty Adviser: Michael Anderson
James Beveridge – Anthropology
“How the Bolivian Government Fragments the Resistance Movement of the TIPNIS Indigenous Territory”
Faculty Adviser: Shannon Speed
Sarabeth Flowers – English
“Postmodern Re-Enchantment: Transcendence Through Language in the Works of Don DeLillo”
Faculty Adviser: Martin Kervorkian
Kyle Lee Harper – Anthropology
“Tem Gente Aqui: How Traditional Ribeirinho Communities are Resisting Invisibility and the Amazonian Developmentalist Agenda of the Brazilian State”
Faculty Adviser: Circe Sturm
Sarah Lusher – English
“The War Fought Between the Words”
Faculty Adviser: Mia Carter
Daniel Muñoz – Philosophy
“A Defense of Commonsense Causation”
Faculty Advisers: Galen Strawson and David Sosa
Mohammed Nabulsi – Philosophy
“The Nature of Belief’s Implications for Evidentialism”
Faculty Adviser: Miriam Schoenfield
Alyssa O’Connell – English
“The Problem of Tolkien’s Dwarves”
Faculty Adviser: Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
David Oh – Economics
“The Gift of Salvation”
Faculty Adviser: Stephen Trejo
Kanyinsola Obayan – African and African Diaspora Studies
“State Violence, Radical Protest and the Black/African Female Body”
Faculty Adviser: Christen Smith
Jean G. Raveney – Philosophy
“’Realism and Powers’: Making Sense of the Arguments Facing Best Scientific Theories”
Faculty Adviser: Robert Koons
Victoria Schwartz – History
“’Working’ in Verbs: Gender and Labor in
Pre-Industrial England”
Faculty Adviser: Julie Hardwick
Cassandra Shulter – English
“Textile Arts As Represented in 19th-Century Industrial Novels” Faculty Adviser: George Christian
Robert Van Patten – Asian Studies
“The Origin and Role of Heaven in Early Chinese Religious Thought”
Faculty Advisers: David Sena and Chiu-Mi Lai
Eric Zaizar – Psychology
“Enhancing Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders with
Photobiomodulation”
Faculty Adviser: Michael Telch