• Slow Boats to China 

  Jia, Jixin (2021)

  Slow Boat to China is a film about diasporic body and diasporic consciousness. I casted myself and my friend, Margin Zheng, to together capture a sense of solitude and rootlessness that are entangled with both dream and ...
• Recognition, Realization, and Reflection: Understanding the Relationship Between Privilege, Service Learning, and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex at Puentes de Salud 

  Juriansz, Chloe (2021)

  Puentes de Salud is a non-profit migrant health organization that addresses structural violence surrounding access to health, education, and social services for the immigrant community in South Philadelphia. This project ...
• Thoughts on the Sense of Belonging in Granada: The Alhambra and the Ayuntamiento as Sites of Belonging 

  Mora, Natalia (2021)

  The reign of the Muslim empire of Al-Andalus in the Iberian Peninsula, which started in 711, ended in 1492 with the Reconquista ofthe city of Granada by the Catholic Monarchs. Today Granada's tourism is central to its ...
• skating pretty: contradiction and community in the queer & girl skate scene 

  Zavala-Arbelaez, Valentina (2021)

  In this project, I use autoethnography to explore contradiction and community emergent in the queer and girl skate scene from 2017 to 2021. With a focus on my experiences in skate meet-ups, and perceptions of media and ...
• WHAT CAN BLOOM? AN ABOLITIONIST STUDY OF POLICING AT HAVERFORD COLLEGE 

  Condon, Frances (2021)

  This thesis investigates the history and impacts of policing at Haverford College, focusing on the institutional security force known as Campus Safety. Taking an abolitionist anthropological approach (Shange 2019) heavily ...
• The Embodiment of Football: Women Football Players' Perceptions of the FIFA Hijab Ban and the 2016 U17 FIFA Women's World Cup 

  Eifrig, Saede C. A. (2021)

  The close temporal proximity of the FIFA hijab ban and 2016 U17 Women's World Cup in Jordan played a significant, but under-researched role in the development of women's football in Jordan. The 2016 World Cup was both the ...
• Chasing the American Dream: How PCDC Provides Aid to Chinese-American Immigrants 

  Hu, Brian (2021)

  Philadelphia's Chinatown began when Lee Fong built the first Chinese-owned laundromat in Philadelphia. Once a bachelor society for families trying to flee anti-Chinese sentiment in the West, Philadelphia's Chinatown consisted ...
• ¿Majestad Negra? Understanding Puerto Rican Racial Politics in Philadelphia through Diasporic Performances of Bomba 

  Spir Rechani, Joseph (2020)

  This project looks at the intersection between race, national identity, and music within my film, BOMPLÉ​, and a récit stemming from an ethnographic encounter during the production process of ​BOMPLÉ​. The film shows the ...
• YSA, WHY I STAY: AN EXPLORATION OF BELIEF, RITUAL, PRACTICE, and POLICY in the CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS 

  Walton, Paige (2020)

  In this thesis I provide historical contextualization of contemporary Church doctrine and official statements, as well as explore the transitional moments in the church's history as shown by General Conference talks and ...
• SANA SANA: HEALING MODALITIES, COMMUNITY POWER, AND HEALTH DISPARITIES 

  Urquiza, Rosa (2020)

  Western medicine often invalidates and marginalizes the knowledge and health practices that come from low-income communities of color. This invalidation is dangerous as it negates the power of these communities and does ...
• Addressing Maternal Health in 21st Century America: An Exploration of Risk, Motherhood, and Reclamati​o​n 

  Thomas, Barbara Denise (2020)

  African Americans' experiences of racial and gender-related stress and discrimination negatively impact their behaviours and emotions related to their health care during pregnancy 6 that is deeply rooted in the United ...
• "Si Dios Quiere" Instability, Sustainability, and Wellness in a Vermont Migrant Worker Health Clinic 

  Smith, Kelsey R. (2020)

  Vermont is the only state in the United States that relies heavily upon a singular export, dairy, for agricultural revenue, a dependency that has left the state and its small-scale farmers fatally vulnerable in the past ...
• FOLLOWING MY MIGRANT LEGACY: TOWARD AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK THAT REIMAGINES THE TRANSITION TO COLLEGE AS A MIGRATION 

  Luqueño, Leslie Patricia (2020)

  In this thesis, I use an autoethnographic approach to demonstrate how the transition to college can be viewed as a migratory process, particularly for second-generation migrants. I leverage my lived experience as the eldest ...
• Witchy Business: Witchcraft and Economic Transformation in Salem, Massachusetts 

  McClain, Lia (2020)

  Salem, Massachusetts is perhaps best known for the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, in which dozens of residents of Essex county were accused of witchcraft, and nineteen were executed. For several centuries after these tragic ...
• Constricting Asylum Law to Progress Political Power: Making A Case for Legal Precedent as a Vehicle for Social Change 

  Leiferman, Katie (2020)

  Legal precedent is an integral, yet often overlooked, factor in producing social change. Through an interdisciplinary approach, I utilize a legal textual analysis of the asylum case ​Matter of A-B-​ in order to make visible ...
• in the Talented Tenth we trust?: achieving aspiration(s), bridging the gap, and setting the table 

  Grant, Travis (2020)

  Within the past twenty-five years, especially as it pertains to the workforce landscape, there has been increasing discourse on the value of a liberal arts education. As a demographic, Black students—in comparison to their ...
• "When All the Graves Were Full": Anthropological Confrontations at The Triumph of Death of Pisa 

  Kline, Rachel (2020)

  This thesis will aim to consider the social processes and sociocultural environment central to viewing imagery of dead and dying bodies in Late Medieval Italy. Specifically, I will investigate The Triumph of Death (Il ...
• Beyond the Body: A Disruption of Mainstream Conceptions of Eating Disorders 

  Guild, Kaitlyn (2020)

  Mainstream conceptions of eating disorders tend to be centered around images of the emaciated body, highlighting and bringing attention to the physical manifestations of a single narrative and experience of the mental ...
• Love is a Two-Way Street: The Power of Archives and Re-remembering Black Women at Haverford College 

  Robinson, Brittany (2020)

  Haverford College was founded in 1833 by a group of Quakers. In 1980, one hundred and forty-seven years later, Haverford officially became a coeducational institution. This year, 2020, marks 40 years since the first admitted ...
• Building a Community of Comfort: An Ethnographic Investigation of One Nonprofit's Engagement with Private Individual Donors 

  Klose, Lina (2020)

  When thinking about the various components of a nonprofit, it is likely that their direct service programs or advocacy programs will be the first components an individual imagines. However, there is another component ...

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