Past Comps Topics

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