2018 Academic Festival Program

6 10:30 – 11:50 AM: SESSION 2 1. Capstone Research in Sociology: Senior Majors Explore Racial Residential Segregation, Immigrant Identities, Religious Conversion, and Class Mobility in China. Tisch 203 Faculty Sponsor: John Brueggemann, Sociology Presenters: Abigail Gramaglia ‘18, Ana Sosa ‘18, Keara Sternberg ‘18, Ruby Thompson ‘18, Tongtian Xiao ‘18 Keara Sternberg ‘18, “Birds of a Feather Succeed Together? Racial Residential Segregation and Educational Attainment” Abigail Gramaglia ‘18, “There's No Place Like Home? Understanding the Relationship Between Racial Residential Segregation and Self-Reported Health” Ana Sosa ‘18, “Identity Crisis: Effect of Immigrant Replenishment on Spanish Language Use Among US-born Mexican Descendants” Ruby Thompson ‘18, “Religious Mobility in the United States: The Effects of Income and Economic Mobility on Religious Conversion” Tongtian Xiao ‘18, “Party, Class, and Mobility: An Empirical Investigation of Parents' Chinese Communist Party Membership's Effects on Children's Social Class in Contemporary China” 2. American Studies Honors Theses Palamountain 201 Faculty Sponsor: Daniel A. Nathan, American Studies Presenters: Miller Fina ‘18, Magden Gipe ‘18, Laila Morgan ‘18, Jack Spiegelman ‘18 Jack Spiegelman ‘18, “Love & Haight in the 1960s” No decade in American history has been defined by greater societal tumult and agitation to disrupt the status quo more than the 1960s. San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood during this period offered a bold attempt to think and behave differently, questioning the mainstream and disrupting a society historically resistant to change. This podcast will present some of the stories, sounds, and voices that shaped the Haight and would help to define generations to come. Miller Fina ‘18, “Bad Apples Win: Gender, Race, and the State of Exception on post- 9/11 Television” My Honors Thesis is about how, in the post-9/11 world, television serials such as 24 , Homeland , and the Hawaii Five-0 reboot are informed by and perpetuate trauma culture and the state of exception. I argue that these shows glorify hyper-masculinity, violent nationalism, and discrimination against the racialized Other. They also leave viewers suspicious of evil in their own backyards and in their government.