JHU Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium
2022
Aurora Paget (2022): “Lost in Translation: A look into Multilingualism’s Effect on Personality and Identity”
Connor (Zishi) Ding (2022): “Scar Siblings”
Julia Barrera (2022): “Breaking Binaries: a Zine on Gender Non-Conforming Experience”
Kaitlyn Soto (2022): “Unsafe Passage: A Generational Story of Vietnamese ‘Boat People'”
Kat Yuen (2022): “‘DO YOU LIKE SEX?’: Exploring Queer Theory with the Personal as Asexual Creative”
Marie-Fleur Borac (2022): “The Orthoverse Unpack”
Sarah Hamm (2022): “Preventing and Healing Domestic Abuse: A Policy Investigation of Meditation in Public”
2021
Amelia Rodriguez (2021): “Becoming the Woe-Bringer: The Monstrousness of Heroism in Headley’s Beowulf and The Mere Wife”
Katherine Swartz (2021): “Twenty Years Too Many: The Evolution of Practices and Purposes in the War in Afghanistan”
Lukas Aeschlimann (2021): “Larry-Made: The Life and Death of Larry Aeschlimann, and the Lessons Found Therein”
Nickita Gupta (2021): “Stories Untold: Immigrant Perspectives of the American Dream”
Rebecca Bogdanovic (2021): “The Lady Who Came With Me: An Investigation into the Americanized Rhetoric of Immigration”
Samantha Abajian (2021): “Curling Back to Your Roots: Profiles of Curly Hair Journeys”
Vivian Walman-Randall (2021): “An Ocean Apart: A Novel about Women on the Sea”
2020
Melody Roth (2020): Mixed Emotions: “An Introspective Study on Modern Mixed-Race Liminality”
Hannah Mok (2020): “The Cupertino Bubble: Technological, Ethnic, and Societal Influences on Student Attitudes Toward Education”
CCCC (Undergraduate Research Poster Session)
Elaina Smolin (2023): The Limits of Creative Nonfiction: An Investigation of Genre Constraints in Collegiate Writing Classes
Leila Katibah (2023): Hyperreality in a Globalized and Digital World
Robbin May Balagtas (2023): The Rhetoric of Belonging at UCSB
Sydney Fry (2023): Minority Languages and the Survival of Cultural Identity
Kaitlyn Soto (2022): Unsafe Passage: A Generational Story of Vietnamese “Boat People”
Amelia Rodriguez (2021): Screeving Queens: Polari, Performance, and Concealment
Vivian Waldman-Randall (2021): Her Nature: Exploring Modes of Nature Writing through the Female Perspective
URCA CONFERENCE (UCSB)
2022
Kiyan Atrian (2022): A “Chosen” Ministry: Drag Performance and Queer Religious Trauma
Luis Garcia (2022): Gaucho Survival Guide to Covid-19
Aurora Paget (2022): Lost in Translation: A look into Multilingualism’s Effect on Personality and Identity
Charlie Prindle (2022): The Eidolons
Luc Le (2022): The Kids Aren’t Alright: Depictions of Teenage Depression and Anxiety in Popular Fiction
Kaitlyn Soto (2022): Unsafe Passage: A Generational Story of Vietnamese “Boat People”
Kat Yuen (2022): The Ace-B-Cs: An Open Syllabus on Asexualities
URCA DIGITAL COLLOQUIUM (UCSB)
2022
Grace Wilken (2022): Days and Nights: An Anti Manic Pixie Dream Girl Film
Kenny Moody (2022): The Sound of Queerness In Tap Dance
Connor (Zishi) Ding (2022): Scar Siblings
Sarah Hamm (2022): Meditation in Public Schools for Preventing and Healing Domestic Abuse
Charlie Prindle (2022): The Grimm Manor
2020
Jack Holbrook (2020): Screenplay Adaptation: Richard Brautigan’s A Confederate General from Big Sur
Hannah Mok (2020): The Cupertino Bubble: Technological, Ethnic, and Societal Influences on Student Attitudes Toward Education
Melody Roth (2020): Mixed Emotions: An Introspective Study on Modern Mixed-Race Liminality
