• Colorado Comadres of the Chicano Movement: Women, Activism, and Motherhood in Pueblo, Colorado 

  Quintana, Praxedes (2018)

  Most historical accounts of The Chicano Movement, especially those about Southern Colorado, document the movement as having ended in the late 1970s, however el movimiento in Pueblo, Colorado continues on ...
• Women’s Rights and Unborn Life: The Development of Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Activists’ World Views 

  Gamble, Aldis (2018)

  Since the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion in the Unites States, the debate over abortion has been a prominent feature of the American political landscape. While much research ...
• A Testament to Resistance and Radical Care: Nonprofit Sanctuaries for Migrants and Refugees 

  Kennedy, Callie (2018)

  Historically and especially in the past year under the Trump administration, the United States government has advanced anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies that marginalize, fracture, and harm migrant ...
• “I Gotta Figure Out What I’m Gonna Do Next”: Investigating the Decision to Relocate to a Quaker Continuing Care Retirement Community 

  Melso, Mary (2018)

  As the population of older Americans grows worldwide, there is increasing attention given to late-life care living facilities. Continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) are one such option open to ...
• The Challenge of Utopia: Intentional Communities as Tools for Sustainable Living and Social Change 

  Hollander, Ezra (2018)

  The global mass consumption of fossil fuels represents an active threat to humanity’s continued existence on earth. However, while much attention has been paid to international political initiatives to ...
• Busy Work, Bad Blood, Test Scores & Tenure How and Why New York State’s APPR Policy Reform is Found Ineffective by Educators 

  Anderson, Emily (2018)

  In a rural area of Upstate New York, public educators are infuriated with the state of their profession. Many aspects of creative and thoughtful instruction have been abolished through public education ...
• Beauty in Strength: Discourse and Determinants of Body Image among Female Athletes at Haverford College 

  Logan, Kendall (2018)

  Body image, or the mental perception of one’s own body, is shaped by external influences including, but not limited to: media, family and peer pressure, and cultural norms. The interactions between these ...
• Museums and Civic Engagement: Can Museums Atone for What They’ve Done? 

  Nguyen, Nhi (2018)

  Historically museums have been centers of constructed knowledge where one could go and learn about some sort of “other.” At its very beginning, museums were colonialist in their pursuits to learn about the ...
• Visual Essays on the Music Video Archive of Kendrick Lamar 

  Cohen, Reid (2018)

  My thesis project is a pseudo-ethnographic approach to archiving and analyzing four music videos from rapper Kendrick Lamar’s work. Through my analysis, I combine anthropological theory with visual studies ...
• The Imaginary Bridge: How Pearl Street Embodies The Neighborhood Struggle Over Space, Placemaking, and Art’s Work 

  Horwitz, Benjamin (2017)

  At a time of increasingly contested physical, social, and cultural spaces, with global forces of gentrification and economic inequality acting aggressively on a local level across the world, it is crucial to pay attention ...
• Unsettling Spring Health 

  Eckert, Caleb (2017)

  Studying the work of the Springs Stewardship Institute in Northern Arizona, this project considers how springs ecologists work within and against settler colonialism. First, I consider Flagstaff as a settler society, arguing ...
• “Aquí está mi corazón” Learning Race and Performing Citizenship: Narratives of Undocumented Mothers and a Non-Profit Organization 

  Coren, Freda (2017)

  This last year has been filled with nativist and anti-immigrant sentiments that place immigrants, especially undocumented, non-white immigrants, in diametric opposition to the white, male, wealthy American citizen. This ...
• Aiding the Epidemic: The effects of PrEP, PEP, and TasP on the Historical Stigmatization of HIV and AIDS 

  Orta Portillo, Gilbert (2017)

  Since their formal recognition in the 1980’s, both HIV and AIDS have had a global impact on many aspects of life. The unknown nature of HIV led to a social and cultural marginalization of individuals with either condition ...
• Refugees, Radishes, and Relationships: How Urban Gardens Facilitate Social Integration Opportunities for Refugees 

  Greenler, Ellie (2017)

  Refugees who immigrate to the United States face specific and unique challenges to becoming full members of the communities they join. This thesis focuses on how urban farming can provide an opportunity for refugees to ...
• A Transformative Escape: Stories of Black Womanhood Negotiated in the Dance Studio 

  Spencer, Angelique M. (2017)

  For my thesis, I aimed at using stories collected in interviews with four Black American women who have had experience in ballet and maintain their commitment to ballet at varying degrees in nonprofessional and professional ...
• Humans, Plants, and Three Temporalities 

  Miswardi, Gillian Wong (2017)

  If the age of the anthropocene has arrived, then it would seem odd to turn the spotlight away from humans and onto the non-human. Yet this new geologic age suggests that we must rethink our relationships with our surroundings. ...
• Self Making Through Hybridized Cultural Citizenship: Diasporic Korean American College Students and Their Engagement with Korean Popular Media 

  Kang, Jee Soo (2016)

  This thesis examines the experiences of 1.5 and 2nd generation Korean American immigrant college students and the ways that their hybridized Korean American cultural citizenship place them into processes of self-making ...
• Speaking Abortion: Understanding Stigma, Support Networks, and Faith Within the Lives of Abortion Care Providers 

  White, Kaziah (2016)

  Abortion has been a constant of human reproductive life throughout recorded history. Its more recent history in the United States, however, has been extremely contentious. Abortion has turned into a polarizing issue for ...
• Sex: The Critical Truth - Stories of Rejection, Resistance and Self-Discovery 

  Vargas, Joaquin (2016)

  Sexuality. What about it matters so much? Why is it a crucial part of who we are as humans? Why are we defined by it? For this work I set about interviewing people about their sexualities, as well their ideas surrounding ...
• Finding Identity Within Online Communities: A Cyber-Ethnography of FTM YouTubers 

  Figa, Harlow B. (2016)

  This thesis examines FtM (female to male) transgender YouTubers, their relationships with Internet platforms, with each other, with their bodies, and with mass media. Exploring content uploaded by trans YouTubers, as well ...

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