2024 Schedule and list of undergraduate researchers

Thursday, Apr 18, 2024

 

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM      Faculty Panel

Location: Parlor Room, First Floor, Phillips Brooks House (Harvard Yard, 1, Cambridge, MA 02138)

Speakers:

  • J.T. Roane, PhD, Assistant Professor and Andrew W. Mellon chair in Global Racial Justice in the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, Rutgers University
  • Teona Williams, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
  • Fushcia-Ann Hoover, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
  • Moderator: George Aumoithe, PhD, Harvard University

 

Friday, Apr 19, 2024

 

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM     Breakfast and Networking

Location: Penthouse Floor Lobby, Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH)

 

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Welcome and Keynote, Marcos Luna, PhD

Location: Performance Hall, Penthouse, Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH)

Speaker: Marcos Luna, PhD, Professor Geography & Sustainability, Salem State University

 

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Concurrent Panels: Student Panels A & B

Safety, Security and Justice

Respondent: Teona Williams, PhD

  • “Pipeline to Prostitution” A Study of Sex Culture and Taboo Conversations within the California Child Welfare System
    • Mellony Palma, University of California-Berkeley
  • Marginalization, Medical Mistrust, and Resistance: Korean Immigrant Women’s Experiences Living with Chronic Pain in the United States
    • Hannah Lee, Princeton University
  • The Food Distribution Paradox: Neoliberalism, Responsibilization, and Food Sovereignty Practices in New York City's Food Distribution System
    • Ramatoulaye Diarra, The City College of New York
  • Community v. North Carolina: The Persisting War between Medical Racism and Reproductive Justice
    • Maite McPherson, Duke University

 

Global Impressions

Respondent: Americo Mendoza-Mori, PhD

  • Exploring Healthcare Barriers and Collective Healing Practices Among Rural Women in Pakistan
    • Urooj Ahmed, Georgetown University
  • Not a Burden: Community Self-help through Entrepreneurship among Ukrainian Refugees in Poland
    • Anna Rygielska, New York University-Abu Dhabi
  • Ancient Cures to Modern Diseases: The Role of Traditional South Indian Medical Knowledge in the COVID-19 Pandemic
    • Shruthi Kumar, Harvard College
  • Institutionalizing Migrant Reception: Exploring the Transformation of Low and Middle-Income Countries’ Inclusive Citizenship Regimes
    • Juan Carlos Venancio, Harvard University

 

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM LUNCH & POSTER REVIEW

Location: Penthouse Lounge

 

Lunch will not be provided for non-speakers/presenters. Please plan to bring your own.

Physical Posters will be on display during lunch and recorded presentations will be played on a TV screen. Presentations will also be viewable online.

  • Who’s the Man: Decoding Black Precariat Masculinity in Reagan Era Gangsta Rap
    • Jay Nelson, Hunter College
  • Casteist Ideology Hidden by the Ruse of Decolonization: Ex-Colonial Language as a Possible Tool of Dalit Liberation
    • Abisha Joyce, Simmons University
  • What’s the Effect of Service?: A Multidimensional Assessment of the Relationships Between Merrimack Students’ Service Learning Participation and Comprehension of Social Justice Curriculum
    • Clare Bowen, Anthony Clapp, Kyle Donahue, Rori Donaldson, Emma Festa, Lucas Gammal, Marissa Kobelski, Maddie Lorenz, Rebecca Rau, William Saunders, Jasmine Syriac, Ariam Tavarez, Taiya Wohr (Merrimack College)
  • Miss the Motherland? Mix the Music! How Jamaican Selectahs, alongside Greater West-Indian Audio Mixers and Disc Jockeys, Transformed the Urban Geography of Brooklyn (1960s to 2010)
    • Anique Edward, Barnard College
  • “Love at First Card”: Analyzing Quezon City's Right to Care Card through a Social Justice Lens
    • Riona Bianca S. Basco, Jerhode Erceil Dandan, and Jericho Angelo Navarro (Ateneo de Manila University)
  • An Intersectional Approach to Experiences of Belonging & its Influence on Wellbeing for AAPI in the LGBT+ Community
    • Rachel Zhou, Harvard College
  • Muslims’ Experiences with the Healthcare System in Massachusetts
    • Leila Aydibi, Simmons University
  • Erasing the 'Jerusalem of the Balkans': Assault in Jewish Life in Interwar Thessaloniki
    • Julia Tellides, Harvard College

 

 

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM    Concurrent Panels: Student Panels C, D, & E

Location: Penthouse Classrooms, SOCH

Narratives & Images

Respondent: Alta Mauro, PhD

 

  • Trafficker or Trafficked? Introducing a Typology of Women Indicted for Sex Trafficking Crimes
    • Sarah Elizabeth Sowell & Ava Kamden, Rice University
  • The Girl with the Medusa Tattoo: Sexuality, Radical Resistance, and Dis-Respectability at Spelman College
    • Kourtney Payne, Spelman College
  • The Stolen Spaces of Pop Culture: How Feminist Narratives of Afro-Latinidad and the Migration of Blackness Reshape Understandings of Misogynoir in Pop Culture
    • Simone Jacque, Spelman College*
  • Imperial Ink: Tracing the “Devilish Child” Motif in American Media Representations of Filipinos, 1898-1902
    • Ryan Doan Nguyen, Harvard College

 

Sustainability and Resilience in Black Communities

Respondent: Marcos Luna, PhD

 

  • Growing Subversion; Black Queer Kinship and Chocolate
    • Victoria Harwell, Washington University
  • Consuming Chocolate and Blackness: Reparative Imagery and Policy to Address Racial Injustice in the Chocolate Industry
    • Ebony Smith, Harvard College
  • Ridin’ Clean: Equity for Black Americans in Access to Electric Vehicle Technology
    • Brady Dye, Howard University
  • ’This Is A Place of Healing:’ A Study of Sustainable Food Justice in Northeast Ohio through the Radical Interior of Black Women Farmers
    • Kai Vera Menafee, Oberlin College

 

Mental Health, Education and Resistance

Respondent: JT Roane, PhD

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    • Where the Streets are Made of Music: A Visual Exploration of Music Therapy's Impact Between Socioeconomic Groups in New York City
      • Gabriel McDerment, New York University
    • Subsidizing Sickness: State Subsidies, Environmental Degradation, and Community Well-being in Louisiana
      • Charles Milne-Home, Wagner College
    • The Dilemma of Educational Inequity in the United States
      • Emily Muniz, New York University; Dominic Woods, University of Pennsylvania
    • From Marginalization to Empowerment: Resisting Epistemic Injustice in the Mental Health Narratives of Our Daily Lives
      • Serenity Chavez, University of California-San Bernadino

 

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM      Reflection & Closing

Location: SOCH Performance Hall

Speaker: Habiba Braimah
SENIOR DIRECTOR, HARVARD FOUNDATION FOR INTERCULTURAL AND RACE RELATIONS