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Celebrating Collaboration

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

2010 Program

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African Studies

Ashley Brickhouse 11, Chrislene Dejean 11, Sabine Jean 11 and Jewels Rhode 11
Springs of Hope in Kibera, Kenya: Community Engagement Within a Global Context
PowerPoint presentation deriving from Interterm volunteer project with Katwiwa Mule, associate professor of comparative literature

American Studies

Kimberly Probolus 11
Motivation, Meritocracy, and the Model Minority Myth: Representations of Asian-Americans in Spelling Bees
paper presentation deriving from thesis with Floyd Cheung, associate professor of English language and literature

Géraldine Babin GR
The Representation of American Suffragettes in the Media: Entering Politics As Caricatures in the 1900-1920s
PowerPoint presentation deriving from special studies with Jennifer Guglielmo, associate professor of history
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Anthropology

Ariel Gregory 11
More Than a Fez: In Search of Heritage and Identity in the Spaces and Places of Fas, Morocco
PowerPoint presentation deriving from thesis with Elliot Fratkin, professor of anthropology
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Archives Concentration

Stefania Gawron 11
Making History Public: LGBT Activism at Smith and Nationally
Exhibit deriving from classwork with Susan Van Dyne, professor of the study of women and gender
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Olivia Mandica-Hart 11
Coming Out: Unearthing Queer Histories from Smith's Archives
PowerPoint presentation deriving from classwork with Susan Van Dyne, professor of the study of women and gender
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Allison Pilatsky 12
Taking the Archives Public: Feminist Theology Materials in the Classroom
PowerPoint presentation deriving from classwork with Susan Van Dyne, professor of the study of women and gender
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Joanna Johnson 12
A Silent Man No More: Bringing Calvin Coolidge out of Northampton's Archives
PowerPoint presentation deriving from classwork with Susan Van Dyne, professor of the study of women and gender
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Anna Eisen 11
Niche Narratives: Student Life at Smith Through Scrapbooks
PowerPoint presentation deriving from classwork with Susan Van Dyne, professor of the study of women and gender

Gwen Gethner 11
The Ladies of Grécourt: Smith and the First World War
PowerPoint presentation deriving from classwork with Susan Van Dyne, professor of the study of women and gender

Alix Korn 11
Body to Body: A Selected Archive of MFA Dance History at Smith
PowerPoint presentation deriving from classwork with Susan Van Dyne, professor of the study of women and gender

Lori E. Harris AC11
Maintaining a Culture of Liberal Conservatism: The 1970 Smith Student Strike!
PowerPoint presentation deriving from classwork with Susan Van Dyne, professor of the study of women and gender
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Hilary Buxton 11
Revealing the Obscure in American Journalism: Women War Correspondents and the German Fraternization Problem
PowerPoint presentation deriving from classwork with Susan Van Dyne, professor of the study of women and gender
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Kayla Ginsburg 13 and Margaret Barthel 13
Lost in the Archives: A Two-Year Adventure
PowerPoint presentation deriving from classwork with Susan Van Dyne, professor of the study of women and gender
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Olivia Mandica-Hart 11 and Amanda Lineweber 11
"This Revolution Has Been Archived": The Creation of a Queer Archival Exhibit
PowerPoint presentation deriving from classwork with Susan Van Dyne, professor of the study of women and gender
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Art

Danielle Covatta 11
African Art at the Smith College Museum of Art: Exhibition Design Proposals
art presentation deriving from special studies with James Middlebrook, assistant professor of art

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