27th ANNUAL SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY SENIOR MAJORS RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
January 29, 2009
9:30-10:15 SOCIAL REPRODUCTION
Hannah Potler "Young at Art: Building Cultural Capital in a Community Arts Center"
Iyar Mazar "Change is Possible: Students' Understandings of Agency and Structural Constraint"
Kelly Grant "Socioeconomic Status and Parental Involvement in Schools"
FACULTY DISCUSSANT: Karen McCormack
10:15-11:00 SEXUALITY AND HEALTH
Brecken MacDougall "Liberation and Constraint in Women's Readings of Pornography"
Emelie MacPherson "Re-examining Discourse in Women's Health"
Katie Holleran "Have It Their Way: The Impact of Junk Food Marketing on Childrens' Preferences and Intake"
FACULTY DISCUSSANT: Kersti Yllo
Break 11:00-11:15
11:15-12:30 DEVIANCE AND MARGINALITY
Lea Goldstein "'You have a lot of time to think in here': Expectations of incarcerated males for the future"
Courtney Welch "Why Women Become Involved in Relationships with Men who are Incarcerated"
Michele LeMaire "A Pirate's Life for Me: Rebels Against the State in the Mediterranean and the Caribbean"
Stephanie Redfield "Explain Yourself: How Individuals Account for Deviant Acts"
FACULTY DISCUSSANT: Javier Trevino
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:45 SOCIAL CHANGE ON THE GLOBAL PERIPHERY
Chelsey Taylor "Multiple Truths in Museum Representation"
Erin Boyd "The Heightened Galapagos Ecotourism Experience"
Kelly Maby "Tales from the Trash Can: An Analysis of the Informal Waste Management Circuits of Buenos Aires, Bangalore, and Beijing"
Coco O'Connor "For Work and Wear: Ghanaian and Tanzanian Women's Labor in the Second-Hand Clothing Markets
FACULTY DISCUSSANT: John Grady
2:45-3:20 CREATING AND RE-CREATING KINSHIP
Aarika DuPlissie "Constructing Identity Through International Adoption"
Megan Tibbs "The Evolution of Madagascar's Famadihana (Reburial of the Dead) in Madagascar"
FACULTY DISCUSSANT: Donna Kerner
3:20-3:45 Break
3:45-5:00 COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY: REAL AND VIRTUAL
Rose Cicarelli "Gay Men Throw Good Parties: A Sociological Analysis of An Intentional Community"
Annie Laurie Malarkey "Always Connected or Connectable: Social Competence, Patience and Digital Communication Technologies"
Brittany Hastings "On-line Identity in an Artistic Community"
Lily Mulcahy "The Efficacy of Young Cancer Support"
FACULTY DISCUSSANT: Gabriela Torres
5:00-5:45 Reception (Weil Lounge, Faculty Staff Dining Room, Emerson)
5:45-6:15 Dinner (Faculty/Staff Dining Room, Emerson)
6:30 Keynote Address: by Adeline Masquelier
(Free of Charge and Open to the Public)
Adeline Masquelier received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1993 and is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University.
Professor Masquelier has spent the past fifteen years conducting research in rural Niger, West Africa on subjects ranging from Bori spirit possession to reformist Islam. Her book, Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power and Identity in an Islamic Town in Niger, was published in 2001 by Duke University Press. She is currently working on an edited book on nudity and dirt in cross-cultural perspective.