WHEATON COLLEGE
33rd Annual
Sociology and Anthropology
Senior Research Symposium
January 28th and 29th 2015
Woolley Room, Mary Lyon Hall
Symposium and Keynote Address
Open to Public
33rd Annual Sociology and Anthropology Senior Symposium
January 28th and 29th, 2015
Wednesday January 28th, 2015
Activisms
Discussant and Moderator: Kersti Yllö
2:00 pm-3:15 pm
3:15 pm
Anna Viragh
Resisting Injustice: Deploying Art for Social Change in South Africa
Spiridoula Giokas
Same-Sex Marriage and Its Impact on Activism
Sarah Karpati
What We Talk About When We're Talking about Fracking
Nicolle Moore
Sustainable Eating in Vermont and New Hampshire: Exploring a Social Movement
Break
Language and Representation
Discussant and Moderator: Bruce Owen
3:30 pm-4:30 pm
Kimberly Hurst
Selling Oz: Gender, Ethnicity and Symbolism in Australian Tourism Advertising.
Emily Riley
Reality Television Writing Our Sexual Scripts: an Exploratory Content Analysis
Clancy Connolly
Code Switching in Context: Language Choices of First Generation American born
Chinese.
33rd Annual Sociology and Anthropology Senior Symposium
January 28th and 29th, 2015
Thursday January 29th, 2015
Families and Social Transitions
Discussant and Moderator: Karen McCormack
9:30 am-10:45 am
10:45 am
Emily Bryer
Growing a Family Farm: Negotiating Interpersonal Dynamics on New England Soil.
Dylan Hurley
Digital Adults: Redefining Adulthood through Social Networking Sites
Melanie Sharick
Social Support and Success Among Teen Mothers
Zach Horton
Sibling Relationships Across the Lifespan
Break
Social Expressions of Inequality
Discussant and Moderator: Hyun Kim
Haley Breen
Riding the A-Circuit: Negotiating Status in Equestrian Competitions.
Kristen Clark-Cole
Poverty, Race and Neighborhood: A Comparison of a Brazilian Favela and the
South Bronx
Arlinda Hasandjekaj
Transforming Education: Western Influence on Teaching and Learning Styles in
the Bhutanese Classroom
Stefan Swaintek
Media Depictions of Labor Unions and Trends in Public Opinion, 1960-2010
Nana Asare
Surviving Violence: Effects of Apartheid on a Post- Apartheid Life
11:00 pm-12:30 pm
12:30 pm-2:00 pm
Lunch Break
Gender
Discussant and Moderator: Kersti Yllö
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Lydia Hill
“This is Going to Sound Stupid”: Performing Gender through Language Choices
in College Classrooms.
Margaret Yurgielewicz DTF: Hooking up and Fooling Around with Gender in the Liminal space of College.
Melissa Victor
3:00 pm-3:15 pm
Break
Gangsta's Paradise?: An Exploratory Study of Female Rap Artists
33rd Annual Sociology and Anthropology Senior Symposium
January 28th and 29th, 2015
Thursday January 29th, 2015
Illness and Medicine in Sociocultural Context Part 1
Discussant and Moderator: Gabriela Torres
Naomi Muskovin
Mothers and Midwives: Embodying Aspirations of Motherhood through
Homebirth
Shirley Ngai
Negotiating Identity and Medical Choices: Asian American Perspectives on
Biomedicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine
Alfonse Femino
An Exploratory Study of Stigma and the Treatment of the Mentally Disabled
3:15 pm-4:15 pm
4:15 pm-4:30 pm
Break
Illness and Medicine in Sociocultural Context Part II
Discussant and Moderator: Gabriela Torres
Cecilia Kruger
Who has the Right to Healthcare? Swedish Perceptions on the Right to Healthcare in
the Context of Demographic Change.
Victoria Walker
Growing up with HIV/AIDS: Understanding the Lived Experience of Orphaned
South African Children.
Ana Brenes-Coto
Living with HIV/AIDS: An Exploratory Study of South African Women's
Experiences
4:30 pm-5:30 pm
5:30 pm-6:00 pm
Reception, Weil Lounge, Faculty/Staff Dining Room.
6:00 pm-6:45 pm
Dinner, Faculty/Staff Dining Room, Emerson
Keynote Lecture
“Dynamic Social Worlds: A Reflection on Human Relationships and Social Scientific Research in
Jamaica.”
6:45 pm-7:15 pm
Dr. Anne M. Galvin is a graduate of the Wheaton College Anthropology Department. She earned her
Ph.D. in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research. Her teaching and research interests
include the anthropology of globalization; colonialism; popular culture; urban anthropology; anthropology
of the state; political economy; race and gender studies; the Caribbean; and the African diaspora. She
currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the NEAA Bulletin, a peer reviewed publication of the Northeastern
Anthropological Association. Recent publications have appeared in the Anthropological Quarterly, NEAA
Bulletin, and The Applied Anthropologist. Her ethnography, Sounds of the Citizens: Dancehall and
Community in Jamaica, is available through Vanderbilt University Press.