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9:00 a.m. - 2:40 p.m.
9:40 a.m.-11:05 a.m.
Registration ........................................................
Student Paper Sessions:
Lobby, James Union Building
McNair Scholars Panel ...................................................................................................
Hazlewood
Organizer: Nick Mackie, MTSU
Moderator: Brian Hinote
Presenters:
Adrian N. Mackie, “The Double Edged Sword of Terrorism: The Battle for Perception”
Johnathan Gilliam, “How World War I Affected Poor Tennesseans and Their Experiences
Overseas”
Shaun Guffey, “Blowing Up the Ballot Box: The Political Violence of the Election Cycle”
Chris Young, “The Internal and External Causes of Democratization”
2. Health and Culture ..............................................................................................
Organizer: Ida Fadzillah, MTSU
Moderator: Kristina Walling
Dining Room C-1
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Presenters:
Crystal VanDalsem, “Outside the Body and Into the Woods: An Exploration of Environment and
Health”
Monique Richard, “Eating Behavior Related to Type II Diabetes in College Students”
Rosalie Howell, “Folk Views on the Nutritional Values of Acai”
Lucy Miller, “Environmental, Economic, and Health Aspects of the Brazilian Acai Palm Fruit”
Immigration to the American South ………………….……………………… Dining Room C-2
Organizer: William Leggett, MTSU
Moderator: Casey Gaddis
Presenters:
David Conner, “Lost in the Field: Conducting Local Fieldwork”
Sarah Visocky, “Southeast Asian Immigrants: Food in the Home Country, Food in the US”
Megan O’Connell, “Becoming Lao: Finding Cultural Identity through Religion”
Andrew D. Currey, “Health Lifestyles of African Immigrants”
Emily Johnson, “Haitian Immigration in Middle Tennessee: A Family’s Struggle for Haitian
Identity”
11:10a.m.
Student Paper Competition Awards ......................................
Tennessee Room
11:30a.m-12:45 p.m. Thematic Panel Discussion …………………………………..
Tennessee Room

“What’s on your Plate? Health and the Culture of Food.”
Panel participants: Andrea Cain , RN, BSN, Health Coordinator for
Murfreesboro City Schools; Mark Anshel , Professor, Dept. of Health and
Human Performance, MTSU; Tracy Noerper , MS, RD, LDN, from Southeast
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Participants:
United Dairy Industry Association; Shavaun Evans , M. Ed. from Food Security
Partners. The panel will be moderated by Jordan Dawdy , Doctoral Student in
Rural Sociology at the University of Missouri.
1:00-2:25 p.m.
1:00-2:25 p.m
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Lunch with Panel participants ……………………………….
JUB Dining Hall
Student Paper Sessions:
Issues of Race I
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Hazlewood
Organizer and Moderator: Shelley Brown, Tennessee Tech. University
Jerrica Thompson (TTU), "Hate Groups"
Keisha Kennedy (TTU), "Double Bind of Minority Women"
Allison Wheeler (TTU), "Religion in the South"
Gender and Sexuality ...........................................................................................
Organizer: Ida Fadzillah, MTSU
Moderator: Kristina Walling
Dining Room C-1
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Presenters:
Lydia Njoroge, “Attitudes of the Medical Profession towards Intersexuality”
Megan O’Connell, “Camouflaged Gender: Hiding in the Military”
Shayna Taylor, “Human Sex Trafficking in Islamic Nations”
Poster Session: The Archaeology of Death I ......................................................
Tennessee Room
Organizer: Shannon Hodge, MTSU
2:40-3:55 p.m.
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Student Paper Sessions:
Issues of Race II ……………...........................................................................................
Hazlewood
Organizer and Moderator: Shelley Brown, Tennessee Tech. University
Presenters:
Luc Robinson (TTU), "Transnational Aspects of Identity Formation"
Miguel Carpizo (TTU), “Religious Bigotry”
Brandon Michael (TTU), “Social Implications within the Wizarding World”
Poster Session: The Archaeology of Death II …………………………….…....
Tennessee Room
Organizer: Shannon Hodge, MTSU
Presenters:
Brady Davis, “Middle Archaic Benton Mortuary Complex”
Poster Session: History and Culture
Organizer:
Presenters:
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Jaclyn Elrod "Children of the Holocaust"
Tennessee Room
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Simon Hurst-Dodd “Acai in Brazil”
4:00-5:45 p.m. Documentary Film “Food Inc” ……………. ………............. Tennessee Room
6:00 -7:30 p.m. Keynote Address by Mark Bittman ………….……....……..
“Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating”
Tennessee Room
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8:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Registration Continues ......................................................................
JUB Lobby
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9:10-10:05 a.m.
10. Pop Culture
Student Paper Sessions:
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Organizer and Moderator: William Leggett, MTSU
Hazlewood
Presenters:
Stephanie Steed
John Polny, “From Under the Bridge to the Front of Your Shirt: Modern Graffiti’s Role in Pop
Culture”
Gabrielle Thompson, “Sex Tourism: The Truth behind Fantasy”
Felicia Brown, “Belly Dancing as a Reflection of Gender Roles and Economy in the Middle East”
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Student Involvement Session
Projects in Archaeology
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Organizer: Ida Fadzillah, MTSU
Dining Room C-1
Dining Room C-2
Moderator: Kevin E. Smith
Presenters:
Jolene Keen, “Mapping Castalian Springs Archaeological Sites Using Global Positioning Systems and Geographic Information Systems”
Ali Jordan, “Tomb of the Unknown Soldier: Anthropological Analysis of Skeletal Remains
Uncovered in Williamson County”
Brady Davis, “Fernvale: Mobility and Activity Patterns, a Preliminary Study”
Jaimie Ide, “Testing a Metric Sex Determination Method on Archaic Burial Collections by Canine
Root Measurements”
10:20-11:15 a.m.
13. Garbology
Student Paper Sessions:
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Organizer and Moderator: Tanya Peres, MTSU
Hazlewood
14. Archaeological Topics …………………………………………....….…….…… Dining Room C-1
Organizer and Moderator: Shannon Hodge, MTSU
Men and Masculinities in the Media
Presenters:
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Organizer and Moderator: Jackie Eller, MTSU
Dining Room C-2
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Lauren Norman
Zak Craft, “Foiled Masculinity in the World of Wes Craven”
Jennifer Duncan
Michael O’Flinn
11:30-12:25 Senior Scholar Lecture by Dr. Paula England .............….....
“Gender Equality: What’s changing? What’s not?”
Tennessee Room
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12:40-2:05 p.m.
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Student Paper Sessions:
Classical Theoretical Perspectives on Contemporary Prisons ……….….………..… Hazlewood
Organizer: Vicky M. MacLean, MTSU
Moderator: Teresa Smith
Kamryn Warren, "The Theories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman Applied to Women in Prison"
Michelle Noles, "WE.B. Du Bois and the Veil: Applied to the US Prison System"
Tressie Van Hooser, "Emile Durkheim and Suicide in Prison Systems"
Kathryn Ailes, "The Rationalization of Confinement: Class Inequalities in the Penal System"
Race and Society …………………......................................................................
Organizer and Moderator: Shelley Brown, Tennessee Tech University
Dining Room C-1
Presenters:
Brittany Steele (TTU), “Discriminatory Sanction”
Brandon Griffin (TTU), "Anti-Semitism in European History"
Carmen Fuentes (TTU), "Biracial Relationships"
Kadir Bedir (TTU), “Multiculturalism Research in Academia and its Reflections on Racism in the
US”
Graduate Student Panel
Moderator: Meredith Dye
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Organizer: Amanda Watson, MTSU
Dining Room C-2
Presenters:
Amanda Watson, “Contact Theory in Context: Community Composition, Characteristics of
Residential Segregation and Racial/Ethnic Prejudice in the US”
Michael O’Flinn, “Easy Come, Easy Go: A Narrative Analysis of Experiences of Using and
Exiting Methamphetamine by Two Casual Users”
Luther Hutchenson, “Maniac or Martyr? Assessing Attitudes toward Suicide Terrorism”
Kristina Walling, “Preliminary Findings on Hispanic Family Health Research”
2:20 – 3:45 p.m. Student Paper Sessions:
19 . The Local/Global .………………………………………………………….………….
Hazlewood
Organizer: Ida Fadzillah, MTSU
Moderator: Kristina Walling
Presenters:
Sarah Visocky and David Conner, “The Changing Demographics of Middle Tennessee”
Joshua Fryer, "Self-determination: Constructing Sovereignty in the United Nations"
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Amber Hampton, “Los Desaparecidos: The Forgotten Youth of El Salvador”
Sociological Theory and the Medicalization of Society
Organizer: Vicky M. MacLean, MTSU
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Dining Room C-1
Moderator: Michael O'Flinn
Presenters:
Daniel Bridges, “How G.H. Mead's Generalized Other Shapes the Practice of Medicine”
Mike Cannon, "The Medicalization of Racial Inequality: Du Bois and Scientific Racism"
Margaret Hoffman, "Mental Illness: A Social Work of Fiction"
Christina Norwood, "Marx and Medicalization"
Ana Maria Rivas-Looney, "Durkheim Applied to ADHD"
21. Sociological Perspectives on Body Image
Organizer: Vicky M. MacLean, MTSU
…………….….…………………… Dining Room C-2
Moderator: Tara Perrin
Presenters:
Kara Potts, "A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Understanding Body Image"
Jenny Siniard, "Maybe we are Made of Money: A Marxist Interpretation of Body Image"
Michelle Piedrahita, "Woman's Reflection: An Application of Charlotte Gilman on Body Image"
Grady Lowery, "The Gingerbread Man: A Weberian Approach to Body Image"
Agnes Thomas, W.E.B. Dubois, Body Image and Social Inequality
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