Facilitator: Shane Lloyd, Assistant Director for First & Second Year Programs at the Third World Center
Alvina Pillai, The Role of School Resource officers in the School to Prison Pipeline: An Analysis of School Resource Officer Effectiveness
Amanda Chew, Text Rhode Island: Texting, Homelessness, and Empowerment
Ashlyn Koga, Where Should Grandpa Go? Aging in Place in Rhode Island
Audrey Davis, Rhode Island’s Urban Fiscal Crisis: Finance, Politics, and Bankruptcy
Facilitator: Jim Amspacher, Career Advisor at the CareerLAB
Youbin Kang, Manual Intervention: A Path-dependency Analysis of the Influence of Values in Three Private Voluntary Initiatives
Elizabeth Castner, The price of cheap chicken: hidden environmental and social costs of industrial poultry production
Justin Crist Lee, Challenging the Relationship between Institutions and Economic Integration: The Path to Cross-Strait Commerce
David Adler, Bureaucracy After Liberalization: The Delhi Development Authority & the World-Class City
Facilitator: Maura Pavalow ‘11, Graduate Intern at the Third World Center
Jesse Olivia Hyde McGleughlin, Performing Citizenship: Fannie Lou Hamer and the 1964 Freedom Vote
Felice Feit, Impact Beyond the Law: The State and Women in Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco
Sean Luna McAdams, The Marriage of Rights Discourses and Sexuality: An Argentine Story
Facilitator: Shane Lloyd, Assistant Director for First & Second Year Programs at the Third World Center
Alice Preminger, Narratives and Adaptation
Kimberly Takahata, The Literary Subject: Representations of Grace in New England Puritan Poetry
Melanie Fineman, Exploring Faith-Based Communities on College Hill
Facilitator: Janet Isserlis, Program Manager at the Swearer Center for Public Service
Christine Pappas, One’story: Exploring Narrative Produce & Production
Marc Briz, The Practice and Future of Digital Nonfiction
Sylvia Tomayko-Peters, A [Mouse] Work in Process
Facilitator: Catherine Axe ‘87, Director of Student and Employee Accessibility Support Services
Grier Stockman, Waxing Woman, Waning Empire: Imperial Decline National Identity in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
Sam Rosen, Stuck in Race-Neutral: The Rise and Reign of Reactionary Colorblindness
Christina Sun, Scottish Independence: The Question of National Identity
Facilitator: Kisa Takesue, Director of Leadership Programs in the Office of Continuing Education
Brian Kundinger, Autonomy, Learning, and the University
Daphne Xu, Shanghainese: The Plight of a Local Language in a Global City
Tori Wilson, Language in Motion: Early Education at the Rhode Island School for the Deaf
Facilitator: Peggy Chang, Director of the Curricular Resource Center
Takeru Nagayoshi, Mediating Response: Victimhood, Media, and Humanitarian Response to Disaster
Devon Reynolds, Images of Black Women in Brazilian Music Videos
Facilitator: Kelly Garrett, Program Director at the LGBTQ Center
Stephanie Median and Mariela Martinez, Organize! A Labor of Love
Saudi Garcia and Rexy Josh Dorado, The Second Generation Diaspora Model: Theory and Practice
Facilitator: Janet Isserlis, Program Manager at the Swearer Center for Public Service
Jamie Fried and Bryn Bliska, Music Cognition
Cameron Donald, Researching the Parkinsonian Experience of Dance
Emma Brandt, Balinese Dance in Transition: Tourism, Global Influence, and the Ganging Nature of Religion
Facilitator: Gail Cohee, Director of the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center
Juhee Kwon, Asian American Reproductive Justice Oral History Project
Lucy Felman, The Roots and (Future) Ruin of the American Rape Culture
Darcy Pinkerton, Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Sexual Consent in the Female Sexuality Workshop (FemSex)
Roundtable Slides | Roundtable Recording
Facilitator: Tim Shiner, Director of the Student Activities Office
Kayla Rosin, Sana Majid, Ted Burke, and Raghava Kamalesh, Curricular Theory into Daily Practice: The Meiklejohn Peer Advision Program
Gwendolyn Rogers, Enriched Perspectives: How Brown Undergraduates Navigate Campus Culture Based on Their Social Class
Jenny Li and Becca Wolinsky, Converge for Change: Navigating Social Justice in Proficence, Brown, and Beyond?
Roundtable Slides | Roundtable Recording
Facilitator: Joseph Browne, New Scientist Program Coordinator
Jessica Brodsky, From Sub-Atomic to Cosmic: Visually Communicating Extreme Scale in Science Communication
Gina Roberti, A Closer Look: Presentation of Audio Field Guides created about Geologic Sites in Rhode Island
Jacqueline Ho, Achieving Disagreement: Competing Epistemologies of Climate Change Strategies in the “Death of Environmentalism” Debates
Roundtable Slides | Roundtable Recording
Facilitator: Joshua Segui, Assistant Director for Co-Curricular Initiatives at the Third World Center
Becca Wolinsky, Biomedicine and Refugee Health Programming in Historical Context
Kathryn Hawrot, Methods to Improve Test Distribution at the RI Adult Correctional Institute (ACI)
Natalie Posever, Transitioning from the NICU to Home: Experiences of Spanish-Speaking Parents with Medicaid Infants
Anamta Farook, Dhruv Rawat, and Mohsan Elahi, Sign Me Up
Dara Illowsky, Long-Term Planning for Habitat Management for the Endangered Blunt-Nosed Leopard Lizard
Nathaniel Wardwell, Monopolizing Reading: An Analysis of Scholastic Book Clubs’ Place in American Education and Commerce
Maxwell A. Sherman, Applying Mathematics to Study Human Brain Dynamics: Theory and Application
Doron Shiffer Sebba, The Root of the Barrier’s Route: Influential Assumptions in Israeli Policy
Sahil Luthra, Speaker Information in Spoken Word Recognition: An Investigation Using False Memories
Elizabeth Kinnard, Estimating the True Prevalence of Hepatitis C in Rhode Island
Jane Luise Furey, Geographic Patterns of Fertility Behavior in Cameroon
Alexandria Macmadu, Prescription Opioid Overdose in Southern West Virginia: An Etiology and Review of Recommendations
Luis Campos, Warriors of Spectacle
Andrew Silverman, Altered Thalamocortical Rhythms due to Chronic and Acute Pain
Jessica Fields, The Intersection of Human, Animal, and Environmental Health: Case Studies for the High School Educator
Maggie Tennis, An Exploration of Discourses Regarding “Surzhyk”: In Literature, in the Cloud, and on the Ground in Ukraine
Sophie Soloway, Handheld electronics and the dynamics of urban social space
Sarah Durney, Prevalence and Predictors of Incapacitated Rape: a Prospective Study of First-Year College Women
Alvina Pillai
Alvina Pillai is a Senior at Brown concentrating in Public Policy and Economics.
Advisor: Ross Cheit, Public Policy
Amanda Chew
Amanda Chew ’14 feels ignited by the intersection of technology, social change and emerging markets. She is a senior from Singapore pursuing Mathematics-Computer Science and wants to use technology for social change to empower people who lack the resources to do so. She is most passionate about harnessing global communities’ spirit of innovation with mobile technology.
Ashlyn Koga
Ashlyn is a Sociology and Biology double concentrator from Mililani Town, Hawai’i. Her thesis inspiration came from her grandfather’s end of life experience.
Advisor: John Logan, Sociology
Audrey Davis
Audrey is a Sociology concentrator whose studies focus on city politics, urban spaces, and the interaction between people and environments.
Advisor: Hilary Silver, Urban Studies/Sociology/Public Policy
Youbin Kang
Youbin Kang is a 5th year student at Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design studying International Relations and Textiles.
Advisor: Richard Locke, International Relations
Elizabeth Castner
Izzy is an environmental science concentrator from Piscataway, New Jersey. She is interested in sustainable farming and the impacts of agriculture on the environment.
Justin Crist Lee
Justin is a senior concentrating in Economics and International Relations. He has spent the past three summers in Taiwan and is excited to share his research on cross-Strait entrepreneurs.
Advisor: Edward Steinfeld, Political Science/ Watson Institute
David Adler
David Adler is a Development Studies concentrator from Los Angeles, CA. Upon graduation, David will conduct research in Mexico City as a Fulbright scholar.
Advisor: Patrick Heller, Sociology/The Watson Institute
Jessa Olivie Hyde McGleughlin
Jesse McGleughlin is an Africana Studies concentrator with an interest in urban education work, performance, and creative non-fiction writing. Jesse coordinated the Brown Refugee Youth Tutoring and Enrichment Program (BRYTE) and Summer Camp and worked on homelessness issues during her time at Brown.
Advisor: Matthew Guterl, Africana Studies/American Studies
Felice Feit
Felice is graduating with a degree in International Relations, with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa. She studied abroad in Tunisia during her Junior year, and has traveled to Morocco twice for research since then.
Advisor: Nina Tannenwald, Political Science / Watson Institute
Sean Luna McAdams
Sean is a Political Science and Caribbean and Latin American Studies concentrator from South Florida.
Advisor: Richard Snyder, Political Science
Alice Preminger
Alice Preminger is a senior doing an independent concentration in Narratology. She loves stories and storytelling.
Advisor: Thalia Field, Literary Arts
Kimberly Takahata
Kimberly Takahata is a senior English concentrator with a focus in colonial American literature. She appreciates Oxford commas, Oxford shoes, and the Oxford English Dictionary.
Advisor: Jim Egan, English
Melanie Fineman
Melanie Fineman is a senior concentrating in History with a focus on Modern American Religious, Social, and Political History from Newton, Massachusetts. She is fascinated by the intersection amongst religion, politics, and social justice. Melanie also enjoys running, drinking coffee, and using Twitter.
Christine Pappas
Christine designed an Independent Concentration in Narrative Studies, which explores the way we use storytelling as an effective and affective tool for interpersonal connection. Her belief that narrative is one of the best ways to facilitate self-expression and self-advocacy has led her to pursue work in the fields of education and community development.
Advisor: Elizabeth Taylor, English
Marc Briz
Marc is a History and Middle East Studies concentrator with an interest in the intersections of storytelling, media, and human rights. He is the founder of Recess Journal and the GISP facilitator for a seminar-workshop on nonfiction coverage of the Middle East.
Advisor: Naoko Shibusawa, History
Sylvia Tomayko-Peters
Sylvia Tomayko-Peters is a writer and new media artist, graduating from Brown this May with a BA in Literary Arts and in Modern Culture and Media. She is very interested by our contemporary transition from the page to the screen.
Advisor: John Cayley, Literary Arts
Grier Stockman
Advisor: Stephen Foley, English
Sam Rosen
Sam Rosen is a senior concentrating in Africana Studies and a Senior Editor at the College Hill Independent.
Advisor: Tricia Rose, Africana Studies/Director of CSREA
Christina Sun
I am a pop culture enthusiast concentrating in anthropology. I am currently completing an honors thesis titled “The Artistic Dispositif” examining discursive power hierarchies and the formation of social histories and knowledge surrounding local economic development.
Advisor: David Kertzer, Anthropology
Brian Kundinger
Brian Kundinger is concentrating in History and Africana Studies, and has spent his time at Brown working at the Third World Center, Curricular Resource Center, and supporting a farmworker justice collective called the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.
Daphne Xu
Daphne Xu is a Senior concentrating in Anthropology from Toronto, Canada.
Advisor: Evelyn Hu-DeHart, History
Tori Wilson
Tori Wilson is an independent concentrator in Deaf and Disability Studies from Newton, MA. When she isn’t working with children, she is dancing with Attitude and imPulse Dance Companies!
Advisors: Dennis Hogan, Population Studies and Sociology; Sarah Everhart Skeels, Community Health
Takeru Nagayoshi
Takeru is a Watson Institute Undergraduate Fellow concentrating in international relations.
Advisor: Carrie Spearin, Sociology
Devon Reynolds
Devon Reynolds grew up mostly in many parts of the United States and sometimes in a few parts of Brazil. She will be returning to Brazil after graduation to complete a Fulbright research project on environmental justice movements in the Amazon.
Advisor: Anani Dzidzienyo, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Stephanie Medina
Stephanie Medina is a History and Africana Studies concentrator from Los Angeles, CA and has worked in labor and national student organizing. She’s a proud mother of two poodles, Charley and Molly.
Saudi Garcia
Saudi Garcia is an Anthropology concentrator at Brown whose research is centered on the inclusion of the second generation in conventional diaspora identity theoretical models.
Advisor: Kay Warren, Anthropology
Rexy Josh Dorado
Rexy Josh Dorado is one of the founding members of the Kaya Collaborative, an organization which funds youth in the Filipino diaspora to participate in long-term impact projects in the Philippines.
Jamie Fried
Jamie Fried is 4th year concentrating in Neuroscience. He is also a drummer, percussionist, and composer who has performed with the Brown University Jazz Band, Wind Symphony, Percussion Ensemble, Band, Klezmer ensemble, Jazz combo, and a wide range of student groups.
Advisor: Monica Linden, Neuroscience
Bryn Bliska
Advisor: Monica Linden, Neuroscience
Cameron Donald
Cameron Donald ’14 studies Health and Human Biology, and aspires to be a primary care physician. Outside the classroom, he is a member of Fusion Dance Company and Dance Extension.
Advisor: Julie Strandberg, Theater Arts and Performance Studies
Emma Brandt
Emma Brandt is a sociology concentrator who studied abroad in Indonesia her junior spring. Outside of class she is the chair of Shakespeare on the Green, a site-specific theatre organization.
Advisor: Michael Kennedy, Sociology
Juhee Kwon
Juhee Kwon is a transnational Asian American from Minnesota, concentrating in Biology and Ethnic Studies. Through the Royce Fellowship, Juhee conducted interviews with Asian American reproductive justice activists in the summer of 2013, and the collection has been archived at Smith College’s Sophia Smith College.
Advisor: Robert Lee, American Studies
Lucy Feldman
Lucy Feldman is an English – Nonfiction concentrator from Portland, Oregon. Her senior honors thesis examines and challenges the aspects of American culture that perpetuate rape and its acceptance.
Advisor: Elizabeth Taylor, English
Darcy Pinkerson
Darcy is graduating as an Africana Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies double concentrator. She spent three years in the leadership of the feminist sex education workshop (FemSex), on which her thesis focuses. This is her third year coordinating the Theories in Action Conference, but her first year presenting!
Advisor: Gail Cohee, Sarah Doyle Women’s Center
Kayla Rosen
I am a senior Education Studies and History double-concentrator from Piedmont, CA.
Advisor: Ann Gaylin, Dean of the College Office
Sana Majid
Ted Burke
Advisor: Ann Gaylin, Dean of the College Office
Raghava Kamalesh
Advisor: Ann Gaylin, Dean of the College Office
Gwendolyn Rogers
Wendy Rogers, a senior concentrating in Sociology and Education Studies from Pawtucket, RI plans to spend a fifth year at Brown earning her Masters of Arts in Teaching, and ultimately hopes to become a history/social studies teacher. She spends a lot of time thinking up fun facts about herself, but always forgets them when the time comes to share.
Advisors: Josh Pacewicz, Sociology; Michael Kennedy, Sociology
Jenny Li
Jenny Li is a senior with roots in Queens, NY but has grown to love Providence. She is concentrating in Africana Studies and Environmental Studies and hopes to teach high school students some day.
Becca Wolinsky
Becca Wolinsky is an Africana Studies and Community Health double concentrator. She was one of the co-organizers of “Converge for Change” 2014, and is committed to working towards movements to achieve humanism and justice.
Advisors: Lundy Braun, Africana Studies and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Francoise Hamlin, Africana Studies and History
Jessica Brodsky
Jessica is concentrating in Science and Society with a focus in Science Communication. Outside of classes, she runs Science Underground, a bimonthly science cafe in Providence.
Advisor: Kathy Takayama, Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning
Gina Roberti
Gina Roberti is an inquisitive person who likes to bake without measuring cups, play cello outside and cross-country ski across campus (weather permitting). She is completing an undergraduate concentration in Geology-Biology at Brown University and for the past four years has, through a variety of interdisciplinary manners, pursued her passion for science communication, education and outreach. Her latest project combines creative communication and research in a public education piece grounded in her love of geology and natural history. An avid gardener, she often leaves her room without shoes and spends an inordinate amount of time rolling down hills and collecting rocks.
Advisor: Jan Tullis, Geology
Jacqueline Ho
Jackie’s thesis was a way for her to come to terms with her complicated relationship with climate change activism. Keystone XL? Divestment? Cap-and-trade? She thinks that returning to first principles and a culture of respectful listening are essential for debating the volatile question of what on earth the climate movement should do about climate change.
Advisor: M. Dawn King , Environmental Studies
Katherine Hawrot
I am graduating with expected honors in Health and Human Biology and am particularly interested in infectious disease and health access. I became interested in prison health after interning with the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights and developed this project with Dr. Clarke who works in prisoner and reproductive health at Memorial Hospital and the ACI.
Advisor: Jennifer Clarke, Medicine
Natalie Posever
Natalie Posever ‘14.5 is an Anthropology concentrator from Amherst, MA. She has volunteered as an advocate for Health Leads at Hasbro Children’s Hospital since the fall of her freshman year.
Advisor: Sherine Hamdy, Anthropology
Anamta Farook
Anamta Farook is a senior who proudly claims to have three undergraduate “concentrations”. She has spent her time at Brown working at the intersection of Education Studies and Computer Science. Before Brown, Anamta was in design school for a year pursuing a degree in Multimedia Design.
Advisor: Tom Doeppner, Computer Science
Dhruv Rawat
Dhruv Rawat is a Computer Science (CS) concentrator from New Delhi, India, and at Brown, he has been involved with the CS department’s UTA program since sophomore year. He interned with Microsoft as a Program Manager last summer and will be working at RetailMeNot as a Software Engineer this fall.
Advisor: Tom Doeppner, Computer Science
Mohsan Elahi
Advisor: Tom Doeppner, Computer Science
Dara Illowsky
Dara Illowsky is originally from Ossining, NY and has enjoyed immensely the last 4 years pursuing an Sc.B. in Environmental Science. She does not yet know what she will be doing next year, but she hopes to one day save all the animals.
Advisor: Dov Sax, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology/Center for Environmental Studies
Nathaniel Wardwell
Nathaniel Wardwell is a senior from Wellesley, MA double concentrating in American Studies and Economics. He’s focused much of his academic and extracurricular work on education, and will be teaching next year in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Advisor: Laura Snyder, Education
Luyu Zhang
Luyu Zhang concentrates in Public Health and Education Studies. Her research focuses on mental health in Asian Americans, specifically the role dispositional, experiential, and environmental factors may have on psycho-social outcomes.
Advisor: Don Operario, Public Health
Maxwell A. Sherman
Maxwell Sherman concentrated in Applied Math-Biology. His research involved using mathematics to create realistic computer models of the human brain for the purpose of investigating the mechanisms underlying brain processes and brain diseases.
Advisor: Stephanie Jones, Neuroscience
Doron Shiffer Sebba
Originally from Jerusalem, Doron is a Political Science and East Asian Studies concentrator interested in land ownership structures and the political and social effects of communal space design. His interest in the Israel-West Bank Barrier grew out of assisting a Brown professor in her research on the Green Line, and interning at Ir-Amim, a Jerusalem-based NGO for a peaceful solution in Jerusalem.
Advisor: Jordan Branch, Political Science
Sahil Lutra
Sahil is a Cognitive Neuroscience concentrator who enjoys studying brains and also eating them. (Seriously, fried goat brains are delicious.)
Advisor: Sheila Blumstein, CLPS
Elizabeth Kinnard
Lizzy is a currently a senior in Public Health at Brown, and she will be returning next year to earn her Master’s Degree in Behavioral & Social Sciences Intervention. She envisions going into the fields of epidemiology and harm reduction after graduating from the program to promote the health of people who use drugs.
Advisor: Brandon Marshall, Epidemiology, School of Public Health
Jane Luise Furey
I am a point-fiver concentrating in Social Analysis and Research. Since transferring to Brown in 2012, I have been involved in BOLT, Brown Storytellers and the Partnership in Adult Learning.
Advisors: Michael White, Sociology; Rachel Franklin, S4
Alexandria Macmadu
Alexandria is a senior Independent Concentrator in Ethics who is interested in the epidemiology of opioid overdose and intervention design. She will pursue her Master’s in Behavioral and Social Sciences Intervention (BSSI) at the Brown University School of Public Health next fall.
Advisor: Nick Zaller, Public Health
Luis Campus
Luis Campos is a concentrator in Classics and former masked luchador.
Advisor: John Cherry, Classics
Andrew Silverman
Advisor: Carl Saab, Neurosurgery/Neuroscience
Jessica Fields
Jessica Fields is a senior at Brown University studying Health and Human Biology. She is interested in the intersections of environmental and social determinants of health and has a passion for education and curriculum design.
Advisor: Katherine Smith, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Maggie Tennis
Maggie Tennis is a double concentrator in Anthropology and Slavic Studies, and a non-native Russian speaker. She has studied and traveled in Russia and Ukraine, including the tumultuous Crimea region.
Advisor: Paja Faudree, Anthropology
Sophie Soloway
Sophie Soloway has enjoyed thinking about politics and sustainability as an Urban Studies concentrator. At Brown in general, she loves Watermyn Co-op, the UEL garden, The Science Center, and Sacred Harp singing.
Advisor: Sandy Zipp, Urban Studies/American Civilization
Sarah Durney
Sarah Durney is a senior at Brown University concentrating in Community Health and Biology, and hoping to pursue a career in medicine and public health after graduation.
Advisor: Kate Carey, Behavioral and Social Sciences and Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies