Please join the American Studies community for our annual celebration of the fantastic research and writing conducted by UC Berkeley’s American Studies majors this year!
The 2nd Annual American Studies Senior Thesis Showcase will feature short presentations from 11 senior thesis students and an afternoon Q&A roundtable with presenters, who will share more about their senior thesis experience and their advice for future thesis students. The day will end with a reception for all attendees in Ishi Court from 3–4 pm.
Join us to see a range of what’s possible in a thesis, learn more about the process, get advice, and most of all congratulate our American Studies majors and minors. Whether you are a major, a minor, an alumnus, or are just curious about the senior thesis process, come learn and celebrate! This event is free and open to the UC Berkeley public.
Please RSVP for the Showcase using this online form (deadline to RSVP is Monday April 29)
Schedule:
12:00, Doors open
12:10, Welcome and Opening Remarks, American Studies faculty
12:20, First Session
Lauren Batza / Guilt Trope: Constructing the Epistolary Angel of the American Northeast from 1850 to 1899
Scott Underwood / From Jim Crow to Hee Haw: a History of the Banjo
Val Machado / Critical Interrogations of America: Funk and the Black Arts Movement
Roman O’Neill / Rockin’ Against Reagan
Adrian Davis / What it Means to be “For the People:” The Importance of Athlete Foundations
Brandon Dale Fellows / Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Incarceration: The Answer or the Problem?
1:20, Break
1:30, Second Session
Cat Stoehr / Dancer as Worker: Histories of Labor in Modern American Ballet
Alex Clark / Surrealist Animation of Max Fleischer
Junyoung Kim / American Orientalism and Speculative Fiction: Examining The Matrix and After Yang
Diana Choi / Limits of the Body: Pathology as Metric and Discipline in the American Horror Genre
Mia Scher / When Culture Clashes with the Law: The restitution journey of the Grunbaum Collection
2:20, Break
2:30, Q&A Roundtable with Presenters
3:00, Reception in Ishi Court