The 2013 American Studies Senior Research Symposium will be held on Saturday, March 2nd in the Stern Center Great Room.  American Studies seniors will present their research projects.

Panel 1:    9:30 to 10:45am - Gender and Representation
                Ashley Davis:  Cosmopolitan Magazine: The Male Issue
                Alexandra Boorse:  Miss America: Constructing the American Ideal of Womanhood
                Melissa Canu:  From the 'Dream House' to the White House: Barbie, Femininity, and Power in the United States
                Julie Elias:  Radical Laughter?: Bridesmaids and the Limits of Gender Subversion in Film Comedy
                Mary Sullivan:  Tanning Temptations in the United States

Panel 2:    10:45am to 12:00pm - Agency and Action
                 Ivan Gutierrez:  Hegemonic Masculinity: Way of Life or Racial Boundry?
                 Sarah Gray:  Queer Women Artists and the Implications of the Gaze:  Activism, Sexuality, and the Body
                 Samantha Fertel:  Challenging Rape Culture: Can Student Activism Effectively Change a College Campus?
                 Alexis Kuzma:  Empowering or Subjugating?: A Feminist Analysis of the Hot Mom Trend               

Panel 3:   1:00 to 2:00pm - Race, Culture, and Resistance
                Christopher Szymanski:  Forget Fly, I Am Fashion
                Leah Silver:  A Romanticized Reality:  The Fallacy of the American Dream for African Americans in the United States
                Teddy Malley:  Chinese Immigration:  Chinatown in New York and San Francisco in the Early 1900s
                Andrew Hill:  LeBron James & The Infrapolitics of a Working Class Athlete

Panel 4:  2:00 to 3:00pm - Popular Culture and Mass Media
               Laura Garbarino:  Alcoholism and Binge Drinking in Hollywood Films
               Nina Boyd:  Large and Not in Charge:  A Critical Analysis of "The Biggest Loser" and U.S. Ideas of Bodily Citizenship
               Emily Magida:  Sensationalism in Cable Television News: The Blurred Line Between News and Entertainment
               Brian Schwartz:  The Power of the News Media
               Alison Snyder:  Deviant Possession:  Hoarding and its Participation in Unveiling the Processes of Capitalism, Consumerism and Citizenship

Panel 5:  3:00 to 4:00pm - Power, Symbol, and Nation
               Laura Bartell:  Who Are We?: A Critical Analysis of the Family in the Display of Bumper Stickers
               Marcy Isaacson:  Patriotic Fervor and the Symbol of the American Flag in a Post-9/11 America
               Connor Sheehan:  The Use of Mental Illness to Safeguard Consent in the Extended 1950s (1947-1963)
               Molly Welch:  The Dissemination of Fat Discrimination in America