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2015 Honors Capstone Research Conference on Wednesday, April 8, in MGC 4 &5
Best Presentations in the Arts and Humanities
Julia Irion Martins (CAS: Literature)
“All the Silent Ladies: Women's Attempted Catharsis in Fernando Meirelles' and Katía Lund's City of
God, Juan José Campanella's The Secret in Their Eyes, and Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden”
Advisor: Lindsey Green-Simms, Literature
Luke Ramsey (CAS: Studio Art)
“Creative Sangha: Community in Collaboration”
Advisor: Sangja Chun, Studio Art
Honorable Mention:
Katrina (Kat) Lukes (CAS: Art History)
“Chronology and Chromatics: Experiments in Orphic Poetry with Sonia Delaunay and Blaise Cendrars
in La Prose du Transsiberien et la Petite Jehanne de France”
Advisor: Juliet Bellow, Art History
Best Presentations in Business, Communication, and Strategy
Danage Norwood- Pearson (SOC: Public Communication)
“Race, Sports and Image Restoration: An Analysis of the Richard Sherman and Donald Sterling Crises”
Advisor: Corrine Hoare, School of Communication
Henry Schneider (SPA: Political Science)
“The Gulf Invasions in the Regional Press: A Content Analysis of Regional Newspaper Coverage of the
Gulf and Iraq Wars”
Advisor: W. Joseph Campbell, Communication Studies
Honorable Mention:
Casey Brown (KSB: Business Administration and SIS: International Studies)
“Localizing the Disney Theme Park Experience in International Markets”
Advisor: Richard Linowes, Management
Best Presentations in the Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Danielle Beard (CAS: Mathematics)
“The Radon Transform and Network Tomography”
Advisor: Stephen Casey, Mathematics and Statistics
Benjamin Derby (CAS: Physics)
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“Raman Characterization of Graphene and 2D TMD Heterostructures”
Advisor: Phil Johnson, Physics
Honorable Mention:
Emma Zaballos (CAS: Mathematics and SPA: Political Science)
“Connecting the Dots: Explaining the Riemann Uniformization Theorem”
Advisor: Stephen Casey, Mathematics and Statistics
Best Presentations in the Social Sciences
Kathleen Calcerano (CAS: Psychology)
“Effects of Production and Perception Training in Acquisition of Chinese Phonemes”
Advisor: Robin Barr, World Languages and Cultures
Gabe Menchaca (SPA: Political Science)
“Publick Stews and Private Homes: The Political Thought of Mandeville and Montaigne”
Advisor: Alan Levine, Government; Kimberly Cowell-Meyers, Government
Honorable Mention:
Stephanie Pettit (SIS: International Studies and CAS: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)
“Margines urbaines à la marocaine: The bidonville as postcolonial third space in Moroccan state
discourse”
Advisor: Randolph Persaud, International Studies