Div III Committee Work

Hampshire College Division Three/Senior Thesis Committee Students (Since 2004)

  • Nataly Arroyo, “Quien es María? The Sites of Tension in the Latinidad Axis and its Manifestations in the U.S. Cultural Landscape”
  • Damian Ashton, “From the Hoods to the Suburbs: The Configuration of the Hip Hop Clothing Aesthetic and the Quest to Keep it Real”
  • Benjamin Barson, “The Revolution will not be Transcribed: Black Radicalism, Free Jazz, and the Meaning of the ‘New Thing’ in 1960s America”
  • Aryenish Birdie, “From Someone to Something: S/Cites of Speciesism in Language and Power”
  • Genia Blaser, “Aqui Estamos y Aqui Quedamos: Puerto Rican Agency in Hartford, CT and Holyoke, MA”
  • Cleome Bova, “Free the Music: Cuban Hip Hop, Social Critique, and Song Writing”
  • Noah Brau, “Not American Enough: Colonialism, Belonging and the Marginalization of the Puerto Rican Experience in the Holyoke Public School System”
  • Sherri Brown, “Embodied Silence: Khmer-American Refugees and the Struggle to Find Home”
  • William Cabret, “The Puerto Rican Perception of the United States: 1947-1963”
  • Manuel Castro, “Cultural Citizenship in Transnational Spaces”
  • Alima Catellacci, “(De)Colonizing Education in Hawai’i: Assimilation and the Cultural Resistance of Native Hawaiians in Public Education”
  • Colby Colodner, “Framing the Narratives of Post-9/11 Media”
  • Tenisha DeWindt, “Pa’ Que Sepa: Ideals of Beauty and Identity in the Dominican Republic”
  • Gia Del Pino, “In Search of Malinche”
  • Diana Diaz Muñoz, “Cultura, Ciudadania y Salud: How Latinas Promote Well-being through Cultural Citizenship”
  • Divad Durant, “A Bronx Tale: Locating Agency in a Gentrified Revitalization New York”
  • Yasmine Farhang, “Strange Tongues: Language and the Politics of Assimilation”
  • Edward Fermoso, “City of No Pity: Race, Space and Agency in Chicago Street Gang Subcultures”
  • Elizabeth Figarella, “Understanding Entertainment on Cable News”
  • Jillian Fishman, “Beyond Barriers: Power, Risk, and HIV Prevention”
  • David Flores, “Diasporic Imaginaries and the Aesthetics of Resistance”
  • Suanny Garcia, “Reaching Connectivity Through Fashion and Journalism”
  • Rachel Gimbel, “Revitalization Dialogues in Holyoke, MA”
  • Morgan Greenstreet, “Contexts for Ghanaian and other West African Music: Study, Performance, Written Representation and Creative Transformation”
  • Brittni Hayes, “Lovelines”
  • Mika Hernandez, “Food Justice Initiatives in Oakland, California”
  • Payne Hiraldo, “Mod-ifyin’ Latin@ Identities: Identity-Based Housing at Hampshire College”
  • Emily Homonoff, “‘Stay Off the Walls’: Evolving Meaning and Usage of American Graffiti”
  • Zoe Komarin, “A Walking Museum: Finding the Art in Fashion”
  • Rachel Linstead, “United We Watch? Negotiating National Identity through Television”
  • Julia Lippman, “Analyses of Musical Taste: An Audience Research Study”
  • Emelia Martinez Brumbaugh, “Moving and Mistranslating Everything”
  • Eric Marshall, “Connecting the Histories and Voices of Hurricane Katrina”
  • Twyla Mount, “Rethinking the Civil Rights Movement Era”
  • Jessica Nepomiachi, “Crisis and Exile in Argentina”
  • Josh Nickell, “The Chav’s and the Goths: Subculture and the Dynamics of Class”
  • Lauren Odynocki, “Riot Grrrls: Reconceptualizing Feminism from the Punk Rock Underground”
  • Urantia Ramirez, “A-Broke-n-Silence”
  • Marty Savell, “You Can Do Anything!: A Critical Analysis of Girl Empowerment Messages through Qualitative Research”
  • Allison Schweitzer, “Musical Communities and Gentrification in Washington, DC”
  • Lucia Sekoff, “The Patient at the Center: The Origins and Impact of Family Medicine”
  • Katie Sellers, “If We All Shovel Together: Community Revitalization and the Arts in Cambridge, Maryland”
  • Phoebe Smolin, “La Canción de Boyle Heights: How an East Los Angeles Neighborhood Uses Music to Resist the Silencing of its Histories”
  • Dafna Steinberg, “Our Tainted Blood: Jewish Stereotype Versus Jewish Identity in US Popular Culture”
  • Morgan Supiro-Berg, “Complicating Reggae Narratives”
  • Sophia Velez, “Women in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico”
  • Timothy Wilcox, “Cultivating Authenticity: The Marketing of Agricultural Products in Italy”