American Studies Senior Thesis Showcase – Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 11 am-3 pm, 370 Dwinelle/Ishi Court

11:10 am | Welcome and introductions

11:20 am | First Session

Jack Guan, Mediated Urbanscapes: Social Divisions in the American Built Environment

Dory Miller, Rising from the Ashes: Imagining Ecofeminist Futures Beyond Authoritarian Dystopian Destruction in Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes

Martha Tibballs, An Oral History of the Rainbow Grocery Worker Collective

Jules Vesper Zamoyski, Growing Self-Compassionate Autistic Kids: How Supports for Autistic Children Promote or Undermine Self- Compassion of Clients Julia Garcia, Race and Undocumented Americans in 1990s United States

12:10 pm | Break

12:25 pm | Second Session

Riley Keany, Leisure for Sale: Modern Living and the Myth of Palm Springs

Megan Lee, “‘What Will I Be When There is Nothing Left but Hunger and Feeding?’”: Black Vampires, Love, and Humanism in Late 20th– Century America

Martin Kang, American Evangelicalism vs. Hip-Hop: Lecrae in the Intersection of Evangelicalism, Racialization, and Hip-Hop

Sam Houser, Celestial Uplines: Mormons and the Eternal Promise of Multi Level Marketing

Andoe Ellen Glaser, Representations of Gender and Fatherhood on ABC’s Home Improvement

1:15 pm | Break

1:30 pm | Q&A Roundtable with Presenters

2:00 pm | Reception (Ishi Court)