2014

Roundtable: Asking Before Implementing: How Studying Communities Builds Effective Policies

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

Roundtable Recording

Roundtable: Through the Back Door: Insider perspectives on the Global Economy

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

Roundtable Recording

Roundtable: Social & Political Transformation: Collective Mobilization and the State in North AFrica, Argentina, and the UNited States

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

Roundtable Recording

Roundtable: Narratives of Identity

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

Roundtable Recording

Roundtable: Crafting a Social Narrative in the Digital Age | winner of the Synergy Award

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

Roundtable Recording

Roundtable: Justifying Cultural Logic

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

Roundtable Recording

Roundtable: Lessons from Language: Education, Preservation, and Reflection

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

Roundtable Recording

Roundtable: Mirror or Mirage: Race and National Identity in the Media

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

Roundtable Recording

Agitate and Activate: Leading Communities from Understanding to Social Action

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

Roundtable Recording

Roundtable: Exploring the Human Response to Music and Dance

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

Roundtable Recording

Roundtable: Rape, Pleasure, Reproduction and Justice

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

Roundtable: Navigating Brown

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

Roundtable: From Public to Publics: The Challenges of Communicating Science Across Different Audiences in the 21st Century

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

Roundtable: Putting the Patient in Patient-Centered Care: Communicating Across Differences in Prisons, Refugee Healthcare, and the nICU

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

Roundtable Recording

Poster Session

Rountable Presenters

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

Poster Presenters

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