Gould Library Digitally Archived Student Comps Papers
Carleton has instituted a college-wide policy to create an electronic archive of all comps. Access to the full text of works is limited to the original author of the work, current faculty, and faculty-approved Carleton students and staff. This page describes how to submit work and request access.
2023
- Zoë Bonnell – From Gratitude to Grief: Conceptions of Identity and Belonging Among Chinese American Transracial Adoptees
- Marte Borgmann – Labors of the Heart: Experiences of Refugee Resettlement Organization Workers
- Cristina Camarillo – Maintaining and Creating Relationships with Rural Homeland Communities: An Ethnographic Study of Regalitos Being Exchanged between México and Texas
- Emma Chin – (In)Visibility: Analyzing Media Coverage of Anti-Asian Hate Crimes in the Wake of COVID-19
- Annabel Cohen – Keeping the Faith: Being Jewish in Officially Christian Academic Spheres
- Aisha Dem – Navigating Space on The Cultural Spectrum: How Second Generation Gambians Form and Express Identity in Minnesota
- Sergio Gonzalez – Identities, Boundaries, and Positionalities in the Music Industry: A Content Analysis on the Management of Cultural Appropriation in the Music Industry
- Eva Hadjiyanis – Juggling Identities (Literally): Community and Conflict in the U.S. Juggling Social World
- Lily Horne – “Wonder is wonderful”: How Children Give Us License to See Nature Differently
- Naiya Karl – Hemp, Hemp, Hooray!: An Exploration of the Relationship and Impacts of Industrial Hemp Within Indigenous Communities
- Amber Lozoya – Hidden Failures: Mass Incarceration, U.S. Prisons, and its Effect on Reentry and Recidivism
- Yumo Lu – Who am I?: Chinese Artists’ Search for Distinctive Identity in Post-Economic-Reform Artistic Field
- Sophia Maag – Contesting Dualisms: Collective Effervescence and the Self in Ecstatic Dance
- Alisa Makatsaria – Abortion in Russia: Patterns, Culture, and Legacy
- Yicun (Jason) Min – Modernity as a Moral Experience: Articulation of Mingyun in a Chinese County
- Talia Orenstein – Ethnographic Perspectives on the Politics of Abortion: Nuancing Access, Provision, and Activism in a Post-Roe America
- Joe Radinsky – Getting Off: Uses and Expectations of Pornography Among LGBTQ+ College Students
- Alicia Telle – Community Tourism in the Freedom Village: Discrepancies Within the Visions of a Community Tourism Project in Nzulezo, Ghana
- Nectaree Thao – “Our Food Actually Tells Where We’ve Gone, Where We Currently are, and Where We’re Going”: Exploring Foodways of Hmong Mekas (Hmong Americans) to Understand Identity
- Iris Van Eeckhout – From Nature to Humanity: Towards a Global Perspective on Environment
- Alex Widman – Empty Shells: Abalone Poaching and Environmental Justice in South Africa
2022
- Jakob Boeye – Compromise and Possibility: Tabletop Role-playing Games as a Utopian Interaction Ritual Chain
- Emma Dubinsky – “Always Remember That Population Risk Is Not Individual Risk”: Providers’ Perspectives on Barriers to PrEP Care in Women
- Maddie Fry – “Bringing a Friend Along”: Experiences of Philanthropy and Community Life Among the Donors of a Rural Non-profit
- Clarissa Guzman – First-Generation Mexican-American & Latine Students Creating Belonging in Predominantly White Institutions
- Kinga Hope Csikszentmihalyi – “I Should Have Been More Careful”: Analyzing Frames of Blame and Stigma in National News Coverage of Type 2 Diabetes
- Sophie Husseman – Which Nonhuman Animals Should be Categorized Where?: A Comparative Literature Review of Agricultural Nonhuman Animals and Nonhuman Animal Companions within Society
- Kalju Maegi – Negotiating Worlds: The Reconstruction of Racial Identity in the Twin Cities’ Somali Diasporic Community
- Allegra Pihlaja – “Special Water”: Water as Community in Wisconsin’s Chequamegon Bay
- Zoe Poolos – Existing Somewhere in Between: Examining Experiences of Non-Binary Athletes on Collegiate Sports Teams
- Cas Roland – Hear Hoofbeats, See Zebras: The Role of Disability, Scrutiny, and Community in the Construction of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
- Ananya Shah – Through the Voices of Physicians: Experiences, Preparedness, and Comfort with Transgender Patient Care
- Abbey Stockwell – “Why Am I Still Being Punished?”: The Ear Hustle Podcast and Understanding Success, Barriers, and Life after Prison
- Samantha Vera Leyva – Strategically (In)Visible: Towards an Anthropology of Queer Transit Migration
- Ooi Win Wen – “We Believe in Intercultural rather than Multicultural”: Negotiating Place-Based, National, and Global Cultural Imaginations
- Jill Yanai – Unveiling Multipositionalities, of whom and where? A Reflexive Approach to Clinical Fieldwork in South Africa
2021
- Izzy Bascom-Anderson – “We laugh more than we cry”: Interviews with older adults during the Covid-19 pandemic
- Katie Babbit – Black on Duty: A Study of Black Police Officers Navigating the Era of Black Lives Matter
- Melanie Bullock – Bridging California’s Digital Divide: How Bay Area Stakeholder’s Reactions to Unequal Internet Access Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic Display Their Capital
- Brittany Dominguez – From the Kitchen to the Classroom: Covid-19, Social and Cultural Capital, and Schooling
- Isabella Hembre Conditt – “What Am I Really?” Narratives of Race, Self, and Authenticity in Genetic Ancestry Test Unboxing Videos by Black/African American and White American Creators
- Ricardo Garcia – Información y Desinformación: The Latine Understanding of Charter Schools in Southern Texas
- Anli Gerbino – Kimchi and Calamari or Tofu and Pizza?: A Content Analysis of Children’s Books about Asian Adoptees
- Carrie Kisicki – Law, Enforcement, Agency: Strategies of Mitigating Socioeconomic Injustice in a Rural Minnesota Court
- Emma Korosei – Steaks versus Salads: Gender, Humor, and Culture in a Restaurant Kitchen
- Alex Kucich – Relating to the River: Fish, Fishers and the Politics of Assemblage in the Cannon River
- Izzy Link – Sexual Violence Prevention Programming for Men: Reinforcing or Challenging Gender Norms?
- Alec Morrissey – Altered Bodies, Shifting Masculinities: Men, Aesthetic Surgery, and the Neoliberal Image
- Chyna Sanders – “I Wish I Could Be Seen For The Choices I Make Now”: Examining the Challenges of Reintegration after Incarceration
- Maddy Schilling – In it for the Long Haul: A qualitative analysis of long haul truck drivers
- Myranda Sloo – Healthcare Provider Perspectives on Social Determinants of Health: Maternal Substance Abuse in the U.S. Healthcare System
- Natalia Tu – Imagining Asian Fusion Cuisine as a Culinary Category
- Jayla Williams – “Kung Flu”: The Harmful Spread of SARS Narratives Towards the Chinese and Chinese American Populations
2020
- Henry Alexander – Leaning into Disruption: Masculinities, Summer Camp, and the Malleability of ‘Wilderness’
- Ruthie Boyd – Imagining a Sense of Place in the Mist of New and Old: The Role of Timeless Nostalgia in Monte Verde’s Changing Landscape
- Caroline Carty – Unsettling Enclosures
- Brittany DeWeaver – Gender and Capital Sentencing: A Media Analysis of Pre-Death Penalty Narratives
- Rachel Elizabeth Freeman-Cook – “I just go cry in the car if I have to…it’s just one of those things:” Prison Doulas, Emotional Labor, and the Personal Costs of Care
- Liam Holloway-Bidwell – Green and Red: Losing Meat and Keeping Men
- Katerina Katakalides – Navigating Global Beauty Standards: Natural Hair and National Representation
- Courtney Kimmell – Disaster Reporting in US Media: the Construction of Hurricanes as Social Problems and the Reinforcement of Social Boundaries
- Danielle Lewis – You Can Make Money Too: The Audience and Messages of Personal Finance Books
- Grace Liao – “We Are Not Secondary Citizens” Conceiving a Parallel Social World Outside the Secondary Food Economy
- Eve Liu – Symbols of Differentiation: Configuring Chineseness in Haute Cuisine and Couture
- Ross Matican – The Buyback Boom: ‘New York Times’ Coverage of Stock Repurchasing Programs in the New Economy
- Emily Moses – “How to Use the Flame”: Creativity and Gender in the Professional Kitchen
- Adela Mu – In-Between Worlds: International Faculty at Minnesotan Liberal Arts Colleges
- Yadari Núñez-Márquez – Sacrifice and Return: Searching for Social Mobility in Postsecondary School
- Owen Riley – Opportunity or Privilege? How Internships Bridge the Gap Between College and Employment
- Katie Rose Parsons – Representations of Gender and Race in Tram Stop Advertisements in Strasbourg, France
- Natalie Slinger – Curtis Flowers and the Court of Public Opinion: Colorblind Racism, Legal Consciousness, and Individualization in Discussions of the In the Dark Podcast
- Daniel Speakes – “Unreasonable Skepticism”: Media Coverage of Health Care Reform 2010-2011
- Justis Starks – Between Black and White: Biracial in the U.S.
- Morgan Whyte – “We can only do our very best”: Physicians’ Perspectives on Social Determinants of Childhood Asthma in the Emergency Department
2019
- Nick Anaclerio – Uneven Ground: Finding the Architect’s Place in Public Housing Redevelopment
- Hannah Aylward – “I think strangers would probably prefer if I was invisible”: Interpersonal Experiences of People With Physical Disabilities
- JP Beaty – Making Lawyers: Constructing Professional Legal Consciousness In Collegiate Mock Trial
- Gladys Yvonne Cortés – Reconfiguration and Community Endeavors: Exploring the Role of Structural and Relational Components in Public Health
- Mabel Frank – Bringing Us Together, Setting Us Apart: The Role of Food In Jewish Identity Construction
- Anne Guttridge – “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up”: Exploring the Narratives of Female Documentary Filmmakers
- Apoorva Ashok Handigol – BROWN & BLACK: South Asian American AntiBlackness & Brown-Black Solidarity in Chicago
- Makala Hieshima – “Don’t Just Wikipedia This Sh**:” Kanaka Maoli Perspectives on Hapa Identity
- Riley Irish – Social Service Provision during Housing Crisis in Seattle: Resources, Burnout, and Imagination in the Nonprofit Workforce
- Frankie Irvine – “Yo No Soy Cualquiera, Soy de la Cultura.” Shipiba Artists and the Construction of a Cosmopolitan Indigeneity
- Camille Jonlin – Time in Loops and Lines: The Social Construction of Time
- Melanie Kane – “I Have the Utmost Respect for Women”: A Content Analysis of the Celebrity Sexual Misconduct Response Statement
- Maya Kassahun – Transmissions of Belonging: Exploring Second-Generation Ethiopian Daughters’ Relationship with Belonging, Identity, and their Mothers
- Randa Larsen – “A Strong Nation is a Healthy Nation”: The Significance of Food Sovereignty in Community Development and Cross-Cultural Relationship Building
- Sonia (Jiyoung) Lee – Somewhere In-Between: Post Graduation Lives of Korean U.S. College Graduates in Korea
- Sarah Rost – When Ramps Aren’t Enough: Carleton Students’ Perceptions of Disability
- Dan Sullivan – An Economy of Belonging: Transnational Exchanges within the Cameroonian Diaspora
- Pa Yao Vue – Nyob Nruab Hlis – Traditional Hmong Postpartum Practices in St. Paul, Minnesota
- Abby Walker – ‘Loving Each Other Where We’re At’: Identity Construction, Grassroots Organizing, and Memorialization among People Experiencing Homelessness in Seattle, WA
2018
- Raelynne Benjamin – I’m Only Gay at Night: Exploring the Intersections of Queerness and Performativity
- Naomi Borowsky – Transcending Wilderness-Out-There
- Emily Culver – “Every now and then I have to Google community organizing. I mean…am I doing that?”: Unpacking the Process of Social Capital Development in a Local Non-Profit Organization
- Rachel Gallagher – “Hopes, Dreams, but No Plans”: Aging Parents of Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Clara Hazlett-Norman – “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past:” Southern Statues and the Politics of Memory, Place, and Identity
- Jordan Lee – “I don’t expect them to create a new space in which I can belong:” Media Representation and Asian American Racialization
- Madeleine Preiss – Civic Mythbusters: An Examination of Assimilation and Americanness
- Mara Pugh – My Home, My American Dream: Homeownership and Housing Inequality in Portland, Oregon
- Margot Radding – Pawns of a Public Health System: Actors and Authority in North Indian Prenatal Care
- Flora Sol Richey – Paradox in Akademia: Senses of Place in the Cowling Arboretum
- Nicholas Rohm – “Representing Forced Displacement: New York Times Coverage of the Syrian Refugee Crisis”
- Lilian Field Schneyer – “They Can Use Their Words”: Creative Writing and Social Reproduction in an Alternate Learning Context
- Molly Steinberg – The Untold Stories of Chinese Adoptees: Experiencing Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in the United States
- Unknown – A Woman’s Touch: Female Documentary Filmmaking
2017
- Margaret M. Carragher – My Big, Fat (Expensive) American Wedding: Insights from wedding industry content
- Lydia Chu – “I am Taiwanese, not Chinese”: A comparative study of how second-generation
- Nathan Edwards – ‘Mínima-a-Mínima’: How Informal strategies and benign deceit localize missions of International NGOs
- Shayna Gleason – “It’s Late but Everything Comes Next”: Creative Aging in Modern America
- Emma Grisanzio – La Familia es la Fundación: Children, Change, and the Reproduction of the House and Family among the Kaqchikel Maya
- Erin Healy – “We’re All Worn Out”: Women and Animal Rescue Work in the American South
- Noheli Hernández-Hernández – While at Carleton: Safe Space and Identity for Queer students
- Ingrid Hofeldt – Conflicting Legal Consciousness of Partner Abuse and Rape Crisis Center Legal Advocates
- Laura Levitt – An Expansive Vision of Place: Lessons from a Small Urban Garden
- Susana Pérez – Mistrust Underlying Solidarity: Exploring Complex Relationships among Salvadoran Immigrants in Milan
- Winona Rachel – Yogi the Bear Has Stolen My Picnic Basket: Tourism, Gifts, and Commodities on the Appalachian Trail
- Caroline Sheffield – “It was Hell, but I Did It”: Dignity in Precarity at an Alaskan Salmon Cannery
- Sarah Trachtenberg – “Carving out space to envision a future of shared liberation”: Community-Building and World-Making Around Gender and Sexuality in the Twin Cities
- Ankita Verma – The Black Liberation Collective: How Contemporary Racial Inequality Influences Student Demands