2022: Meet the Presenters

Aïcha Soukab

Independent Concentration: Transnational Indigenous Memory, A.B.

Capstone: audioAtlas

Advisor: Mark Cladis (IC)

Alexander John Wicks Kamper

Independent Concentration: Geography, A.B.

Capstone: The Space of Sex and Scrap Metal: Bordering Sex as Waste at Allens Ave.

Advisor: Kevin Mwenda (IC, Capstone)

Anya Semizhonova

Independent Concentration: Visual Communication, A.B.

Capstone: Telling Folk Tales through Picture and Word

Advisor: Evelyn Lincoln (IC, Capstone)

Carlos Perez-Ruiz

Independent Concentration: Game Design and Development

Capstone: The Making of a Video Game

Advisor: James Tompkin (IC, Capstone)

Charisa Shin

Independent Concentration: Human-Centered Design, A.B.

Capstone: An Engaged Approach to Design Education

Advisor: Jeff Huang (IC); Jinying Li (Capstone)

David Onabanjo

IC:  Communication and Social Influence

Capstone:  Slow & Reverb: A Quiet Black Sssound

Advisor: Kate Schapira (IC, Capstone)

Diego Rodríguez Langevin

Independent Concentration: Philosophical Inquiry Through Creative Forms, A.B.

Thesis: Language, Madness and Politics: A Theory of Plurality and Subversive Illegibility Through the Writing of Rita Indiana, Francisco Matos Paoli and his Psychiatrists

Advisor: Thomas Schestag (IC, Thesis); Leela Gandhi and Paget Henry (Thesis)

Evan Dǒng

Independent Concentration: Sustainability, Institutions, and Organizations, A.B.

Capstone: Data Development in Social Change Organizations

Advisor: Rachel Wetts (IC); Andrew Schrank (Capstone)

Laila Rodenbeck

Independent Concentration: Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, A.B.

Thesis: ‘Partial Liberalization:’ Crony Capitalism in Egypt and India

Advisor: Mark Blyth (IC, Thesis); Patrick Heller (Thesis); Arvind Subramanian (Thesis)

Lily Louis

IC: Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

Capstone:

Advisor: John Tomasi (IC); Daniel D'Amico (Capstone)

Ilia Giokaris

Independent Concentration: Human- Centered Design, A.B.

Capstone: Redesigning the LapSnap

Advisor: Leslie Bostrom, Sarah Skeels (IC); Christopher Bull (Capstone)

Maisy Meyer

Independent Concentration: Human Biological & Medical Illustration, A.B.

Capstone: Increasing Accessibility to Health Information for Women in Need: A Series of Illustrations, Brochures and Handouts to Improve Education on Women’s Health Issues at the Clinica Esperanza/Hope Clinic in Providence, RI

Advisor: Dr. John Stein (IC); Dr. Francois Luks (Capstone)

Muskaan Garg

Independent Concentration: Political Psychology and Behavior, A.B.

Thesis: Social-Epistemic Motivation and Perceptions of Algorithmic Fairness in Content Moderation on Social Media

Advisor: C. Malik Boykin (IC, Thesis); Steven Sloman (Thesis);  Paul Testa (Thesis) 

Neha Mukherjee

IC: Journalism

Capstone: The Ivermectin Story: Covid Misinformation and Media Ecosystems

Advisors: Jonathan Readey (IC); Stefanie Friedhoff (Capstone)

Sydney Lauren Scott

Independent Concentration: Entrepreneurship and Music Innovation, A.B.

Capstone: NextUp Venture: A Music Streaming Platform for Artists

Advisor: Professor Todd Winkler (IC, Capstone)

Thomas Manuel Summe

Independent Concentration: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Sc.B.

Thesis: Modeling The Cognitive Process of Evidence-Accumulation for Hierarchical Decision-making in a 4-choice Task Paradigm

Advisor: Michael Frank (IC, Thesis); Matthew Nassar, Alexander Fengler (Thesis)