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Smith College’s annual showcase of student research and performance highlights students’ intellectual achievements and their collaborative efforts with faculty in a variety of departmental, program and interdisciplinary projects. It is a celebration of liberal arts education.

The 2011 event featured the work of 404 students who participated in 252 presentations, with the guidance of 126 faculty members. Students participated in individual talks, panels, poster sessions, exhibits and performances, in the areas of science and technology, performing arts, and social, cultural and literary studies.

African Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Archives Concentration, Art

Biochemistry, Biological Sciences

Center for Community Collaboration, Chemistry, Classics, Comparative Literature, Computer
Science

Dance, East Asian
Languages & Literatures, Economics, Education &
Child Study

Engineering, English
Language & Literature

Environmental Science & Policy, Exercise & Sport Studies, Film Studies,
First Year Seminar, French Studies

Geosciences, Global
Learning Seminar,
Government

History, Interdepartmental Programs, Internships,
Italian Language &
Literature, Jewish Studies,
Kahn Institute

Landscape Studies, Latin American & Latino/a
Studies, Linguistics,
Mathematics & Statistics

Museums Concentration,
Music

Neuroscience

Philosophy, Physics,
Poetry Concentration, Psychology

Religion, Russian Language
& Literature, Smith Studies,
Sociology, Spanish & Portuguese, Study of
Women & Gender, Theatre

History

Alison Kuzara 11
The Role of Africa in America's Culture War
PowerPoint presentation deriving from special studies with David Newbury, Gwendolyn Carter Professor of African Studies (History)
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Bonnie Stinson 11
Coalition-Building, Identity, and Nonviolence: Egypt 2010-2011
PowerPoint presentation deriving from classwork with Nadya Sbaiti, assistant professor of history
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Anna Holley 12J
Reclaiming a Voice with Action
paper presentation deriving from classwork with Jennifer Guglielmo, associate professor of history
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Anne Watanabe 12
From Radical Feminist Anti-Violence Movements to Shelters and Rape Crisis Centers: Cooptation, Resistance and Historical Erasure, 1970-1994
paper presentation deriving from classwork with Jennifer Guglielmo, associate professor of history

Katey Maya Dare Pillars 11
Pedagogy, Poetry, Particularity: The Tenishev School in Late Imperial Russia
PowerPoint presentation deriving from thesis with Sergey Glebov, Five College assistant professor of Russian history
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Interdepartmental Programs

Taylor Beall 13, Zachary Clemente HC12, Phoebe DeGroot 13, Elizabeth Donovan 13, Diana Fiumefreddo 11, Lara Hamsher 12, Anastasia Karaiosifoglou MHC12, Linda Son 13, Yamin Tun 14 and Ruby Zucker 12
Applied Design and Prototyping in IDP 250
science poster session deriving from classwork with Susannah Howe, director of the design clinic and lecturer in engineering, and Eric Jensen, manager of the Center for Design and Fabrication

Internships

Erica Zhang 13
Found in Translation: Editing the Metamorphoses Journal
PowerPoint presentation deriving from STRIDE research with Thalia Pandiri, professor of classics

Italian Language and Literature

Chrysanthe Peteros 11, Christine Davenport 11 and Julia Simmons 11
Italian Transformations: An Examination of Culture through Politics, Artistic Form, and Language
panel presentation deriving from theses with Alfonso Procaccini, professor of Italian language and literature, and Anna Botta, professor of Italian language and literature and of comparative literature

Jewish Studies

Reyna Levine 11
Modern Israeli Society and the Political Agenda
art presentation deriving from special studies with Justin Cammy, assistant professor of Jewish studies
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Kahn Institute

Deborah Abiola Ahove 11
Female Education and Empowerment in Developing Countries
panel presentation deriving from Kahn Institute Project with Susan Bourque, Esther Booth Wiley Professor of Government, and Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor (Education and Child Study)
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Chi Gao 11
The Effect of the One-Child Policy on Girls' Education in China
panel presentation deriving from Kahn Institute Project with Susan Bourque, Esther Booth Wiley, and Rosetta Cohen, Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor (Education and Child Study)
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Gwen Gethner 11
The College Girls, Women's Education, and the Smith College Relief Unit
panel presentation deriving from Kahn Institute Project with Susan Bourque, Esther Booth Wiley Professor of Government, and Rosetta Cohen, Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor (Education and Child Study)
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Ella Hartenian 11
The Effect of Density on Women's Education
panel presentation deriving from Kahn Institute Project with Susan Bourque, Esther Booth Wiley Professor of Government, and Rosetta Cohen, Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor (Education and Child Study)
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Juliana Jackson 11
Educated Women in the Middle Ages
panel presentation deriving from Kahn Institute Project with Susan Bourque, Esther Booth Wiley Professor of Government, and Rosetta Cohen, Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor (Education and Child Study)
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Samra Nadeem 11
Female Education Through Pakistani Soap Operas
panel presentation deriving from Kahn Institute Project with Susan Bourque, Esther Booth Wiley Professor of Government, and Rosetta Cohen, Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor (Education and Child Study)
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Darcy Rendón 11
Mexican Women's Education: 1916-1923
panel presentation deriving from Kahn Institute Project with Susan Bourque, Esther Booth Wiley Professor of Government, and Rosetta Cohen, Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor (Education and Child Study)
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