Amherst Explorations
A Celebration of Student Research and Creative Work
Friendly Periodicals Reading Room, Frost Library
Friday, April 21, 2017
| 10 AM | Opening Remarks | Catherine Epstein, Dean of the Faculty | |
| Lightning Talks |
Sophie Delfeus ’17 | The Endless Sentence: The Criminalization of Black Women in a Law and Order Society | |
| Elaine Vilorio ’17 | Who Gets to Go to College? A Study of Dominican Students | ||
| Panel |
Annika Ariel ’19 | The Invisibility of Disability at Amherst Moderated by Olivia Pinney ’17 |
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| Joshua Ferrer ’18E | |||
| Mariana Lehoucq ’19 | |||
| Logan Seymour ’19E | |||
| 11 AM | Lightning Talks |
Noah Tager ’18 Jake Vitale ’17 |
The LEFTOVERS App |
| Katarina Cruz ’17 | The Physicality of the Internet | ||
| Mindy Kim ’17 | How Can We Decrease Aggression in Children? Examining the Role of Moderators in Reducing Physical and Relational Aggression | ||
| Noor Qasim ’18 Jack Malague ’19 |
America’s Death Penalty | ||
| Video |
Alexis Ligon ’17 | Black Musicians in a White Field: Why African Americans and Classical Music are Often at Odds | |
| Noon | Panel | Darya Bor ’18 Rachel Boyette ’17 Noely Mendoza ’17 Noah Morton ’17 Chloe Tausk ’19E |
The Lane Fellowship Moderated by Sara Smith, Arts and Humanities Librarian |
| Lightning Talks |
Tomal Hossain ’17 | Structuring The Benedictine Liturgy and Monastic Lifestyle Through Vocal Diversity | |
| Laura Noerdlinger ’17 | The Glory of Bordeaux, the Glory of France: The 1855 Classification of the Wines of the Gironde and the Formation of Bordeaux Within the French Nation | ||
| Reading | Amir Hall ’17 | Who Love You? | |
| 1 PM | Performance | Elliot Kuan ’18 Matthew Chow ’18 Brian Min ’18 Judy Lee ’18 Jeff Lancaster ’18 |
Johannes Brahms’ String Quintet No. 1 in F major, op. 88, movement II: Grave ed appassionato |
| Lightning Talks |
Shatoyia B. Jones ’19 | Born to Be Unique (in Christ) | |
| JoDeanne Francis ’17 | Matters of Identity: The Question of Reconciliation of Feminism and Protestantism | ||
| Panel | Media, Law, and Literature in Asian America Moderated by Ha Ram Hwang '17 |
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| Sophie Chung ’17 | “Broadcast Yourself”: Cultural Politics of Asian American YouTube | ||
| Libby Kao MHC’17 | In but Not of the Model Minority: Myth and Discipline in Asian American Literature | ||
| Phillip Pang ’17 | We Won’t Go Bakke: Asian American Silence and Higher Education | ||
| 2 PM | Panel | The Jewish Experience at Amherst College Moderated by Professor Wendy Bergoffen |
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| Delancey King ’18 | Muscular Amherst: The Experiences of Jewish Student Athletes during the “Golden Age of Sport” | ||
| Mikayla Gordon Wexler ’19 | Chapel Calls: Religious Culture at Amherst in the Postwar Period | ||
| Jacob Nabatoff ’17 | The 100% Rushing Rule: A Progressive Step Forward in the Postwar Period | ||
| Gabby Rose ’19 | Shaping a Jewish Community: Hillel's Changing Role in Jewish Life at Amherst | ||
| Lightning Talks |
Yvonne Green ’17 | Citizenship and National Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire | |
| Christin Washington ’17 | Dare to Remember: A Digital Memorial of Black Brooklyn | ||
| Performance | Joshua Ferrer ’18E Alura Chung-Mehdi ’18 Jean Choi ’18E Faith Wen ’20 |
David Popper’s Requiem for Three Cellos and Piano Op. 66 | |
| 3 PM | Panel | Nathan Needham ’18E Mariana Lehoucq ’19 Sunna Juhn ’18 Noah Tager ’18 Evelyn Ting ’17 Will Lonnquist ’20 Yrenly Yuan ’19 Bonnie Lin ’19 Julia Pfatteicher ’19 Saharsha Karki ’18 |
Health Care Transportation and Community Arts Partnerships: Projects of the First Design Thinking Challenge Moderated by Megan Lyster, Assistant Director of Innovation and Experiential Learning |
| Panel | Alternative Subjectivities in the Latin American Baroque Moderated by Paul Schroeder Rodriguez, Professor of Spanish |
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| Bailey Plaman ’18 | The Subversion of Heteronormativity in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Love Poetry | ||
| Hannah Herrera ’17 | Sor Juana: El Arquetipo de “La Mujer Salvaje” | ||
| Caitlin Vanderberg ’17 | Resilient Religion? Examining La Virgen de Potosí as Syncretic Art | ||