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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

Religion

Lucy White 11
Wife, Seductress, and Goddess: Women and Wisdom Literature of the Hebrew Bible
paper presentation deriving from classwork with Lois Dubin, professor of religion

Natalie Carroll Sargent 12
The Stanbrook Abbey Press: A Century of Nuns Making Books
PowerPoint presentation deriving from Mellon grant research with Carol Zaleski, Professor of World Religions (Religion)
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Hunter King 13J
Feminism and the Jewish Renewal Movement
paper presentation deriving from classwork with Lois Dubin, professor of religion

Megan Kearney 11
The Unseen World: Newman, Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Romanticism of "The Vision Which Haunted Me"
paper presentation deriving from special studies with Carol Zaleski, Professor of World Religions (Religion)

Russian Language and Literature

Lauren Young 12
Father, Friend, Tsar: The Popular Legacy of Nicholas II
paper presentation deriving from special studies with Alexander Woronzoff-Dashkoff, professor of Russian language and literature
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Smith Studies

Natasha Zuniga 13
The Emergence of UNITY at Smith
PowerPoint presentation deriving from STRIDE research with Carol Christ, Smith College president and professor of English language and literature, and Nanci Young, college archivist
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Natalie Carroll Sargent 12
"A Vast Amount of Personal Effort": President Herbert Davis and the British Refugee Children at Smith College, 1940-43
PowerPoint presentation deriving from STRIDE research with Carol Christ, Smith College president and professor of English language and literature
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Kaitlin Hovanes 12
Smithipedia
PowerPoint presentation deriving from STRIDE research with Carol Christ, Smith College president and professor of English language and literature, and Nanci Young, college archivist

Amanda Lineweber 11
From Northampton to Florence: The Legacy of Ruth and Clarence Kennedy
PowerPoint presentation deriving from work with Nanci Young, college archivist

Sociology

Joanna Goldfarb 11, Morgan Brescia 11 and Rebecca Rosen 12
The Effect of College Ranking System on Students in Elite Institutions
PowerPoint presentation deriving from classwork with Tina Wildhagen, assistant professor of sociology
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Michele Lee 12, Adriana Chalas 12, Kalia Wright 11 and Emily Huesman 12
More Than a Number: The Repercussions of College Rankings on Students at Smith and Amherst College
PowerPoint presentation deriving from seminar with Tina Wildhagen, assistant professor of sociology
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Spanish and Portuguese

Kathryn Dhillon 11
Understanding and Translating Myself through Digital Storytelling: To Spain and Back
film presentation deriving from special studies with Molly Falsetti-Yu, lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese

Hannah Sultan 12
Owls in the Daytime: Volunteering on an Organic Farm in the Brazilian Cerrado
PowerPoint presentation deriving from interterm volunteer work with Malcolm McNee, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese

Joelle Labrecque 11 and Grace Kim 11
Modern Mexican Matriarchy: Myth or Reality?
PowerPoint presentation deriving from special studies with Nancy Sternbach, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Paola Ferrario, Harnish Visiting Artist
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Study of Women and Gender

Alix Korn 11
Memory, Mortality, and Making History: Narrating the AIDS Epidemic in the Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout
PowerPoint presentation deriving from Quigley Fellowship with Marilyn Schuster, provost and dean of the faculty
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Elizabeth Mincer 13 and Annum Khan 11
Honor Crimes: Current Law and Policy Affecting Women around the World
poster presentation deriving from STRIDE research, special studies, and Mellon summer research grant with Elisabeth Armstrong, associate professor of the study of women and gender

Theatre

Mia Terkowitz 11, Alexandra Futty HC, Samuel Blake Congdon HC, Kellye Rowland AC, Emma Jimerson 13J, Meaghan Lydon 12, Emily Wiest 12J, Amy Yun 11, Samia Mousa 11 and Amy Yee 11
Hang Gliding
theatrical performance deriving from special studies with Leonard Berkman and Anne Hesseltine Hoyt, Professor of Theatre

Katherine Starer 11 and Aliyah Bilal Gore 11
The Socially Interactive Garment
video and garment  presentation deriving from special study and thesis with Catherine Smith, professor of theatre, and Eitan Mendelowitz, assistant professor of computer science
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Julie Bomba 11
Shells of Culture: Outerwear and Art of the 20th Century
exhibit deriving from special studies with Catherine Smith, professor of theatre

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