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