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The following list includes current and historic, individual student research projects; public presentations from conferences; symposia and exhibitions; and peer-reviewed publications.

For abstracts on each project see Students as Scholars. For the Africana studies research guide, see Africana Studies: Choosing a Topic.

Students can get a list of their projects by going to CLIQ in the Gateway.  Under the CLIQ menu, go to Profiles and then My ePortfolio.    If you are an alum and would like a copy of your projects, please submit a research project request form.

“Supported by” on Student Conference Presentation records indicates the entity or funding mechanism that supported the student’s participation in the conference, e.g., travel expenses, poster costs. For on-campus conferences, the supporting entity is usually the academic department sponsoring the event.

“Supported by” on Student Research Project records indicates the entity or funding mechanism that supported the student’s research costs, e.g., supplies, materials, equipment, stipends and local or international research travel.


2022

Student Name Project Title Faculty Mentor Event Name Year
Petia Nimley

The Queering of (Black) Parenthood: A Literary Analysis of Danniel Black's Perfect Peace and Don't Cry for Me

Lynn Johnson

Africana Studies and Latin American, Latinx & Caribbean Studies Senior Symposium

2022

Deanna Findlay

Relationship between Participating in Urban Agricultural Initiatives and Having Positive Health Outcomes in NY during COVID-19

Lynn Johnson

Africana Studies and Latin American, Latinx & Caribbean Studies Senior Symposium

2022

Jena Blair

What You Call an Icon Living?: Understanding the Influence of the Public on Icon Formation

Lynn Johnson

Africana Studies and Latin American, Latinx & Caribbean Studies Senior Symposium

2022

Destiny McFalls

Reimagining Black Student Identity: The Power of Black Student Advocacy at Dickinson in the 1960's and 1970's

Nadia Alahmed

Presentation: 2022 Africana Studies Archives and Special Collections

2022

 


2021

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Jesler M LinoWhy do Black Male Youth Join Gangs?
Conference: Africana Studies Senior Research Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Nadia Alahmed
Krystal A RamirezThe Black Panther Party and How FBI Repression Affected Individual Panthers
Conference: Africana Studies Senior Research Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Nadia Alahmed
Karim Jacques WilliamsRethinking Stigmatization of Drug Dependent Black Women and Mothers
Conference: Africana Studies Senior Research Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Nadia Alahmed

2020

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Sakinah Aminah Hobbs-JonesBlack Doulas Sustaining Traditional Practices on Instagram
Conference: Africana Studies Senior Presentations
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson
Isoke Izgebe Senghor"One Man Can't Satisfy Her": An Exploration of the Triangulated Relationship between Jamaican Sex Workers, their Families, and the Jamaican Government
Conference: Africana Studies Senior Presentations
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson
Myriam Elizabeth SmithTricks of the Mind or Metabolic Dysperceptions?:(Dis)Figuring Fantasies of Black Male (Corpo)reality
Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant
Number of Weeks: 26
Lynn Johnson
Taeya Jade ViruetThe New York Young Lords and Puerto Rican Identity Construction
Conference: Africana Studies Senior Presentations
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson

2019

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Janaiya BanksBeyond Scared Straight, Shucking and Jiving in a New Age
Conference: Africana Studies Senior Presentations
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson
Keson Torell Bullock-BrownMo' Money, Mo' Problems: Examining Rhetoric of Liberation in Contemporary Black Capitalism Movements
Conference: Africana Studies Senior Presentations
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson
Quadrese GlassKeep Up the Signifyin(g): Black Boys' Revision, Repetition, and Response to Censored Speech
Conference: Africana Studies Senior Presentations
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson
Rachel Gross"Tomatoes & Taxi Ranks"
Conference: U.S. and African Foodscapes AFST-220
Supported by: Food Studies Department
Jane Battersby
Kennedy Brescha LewisDirectors Cut: The (De)construction of Black Torture Porn in Filmic Adaptations of Slave Narratives
Conference: Africana Studies Senior Presentations
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson
Naji Nazima ThompsonThrough Shadows and Shallows: 19th Century Free Black Authors Construction of Black American Citizenship and in-between Spaces in Fiction
Conference: Africana Studies Senior Presentations
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson

2018

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Emoni AndersonIndependent Filmmakers (re)scripting the Lives of Black Women with Mental Illness
Conference: 2018 Africana Studies Senior Research Presentations
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy
Melissa Luiga AneseWho Says Fat Can't Move?: Exploring how Black Women Reshaped the Plus-size Industry
Conference: 2018 Africana Studies Senior Research Presentations
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy
Markiah E BakerWhose Lives Really Matter? The Disabled Black Woman and Why She Can't Say #MeToo
Conference: 2018 Africana Studies Senior Research Presentations
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy
Kaila Santa Burke-Ozuna"Ethnoracial Identity Formation in Evelio Grillo's Black Cuban, Black American and Piri Thomas' Down These Mean Streets"
Conference: 2018 Central Pennsylvania Consortium Annual Africana Studies Conference
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Trent Masiki
Asazina CooperMaking Reality Television Real: Representations of Black Queer Men on "Love & Hip Hop"
Conference: 2018 Africana Studies Senior Research Presentations
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy
Hyla Ehrenberg JacobsonCrossing the Black Mediterranean: Migration from Africa to Italy
Conference: The Central Pennsylvania Consortium (CPC) Annual Africana Studies Conference: Migration, Displacement, and Reintegration in Africa and the African Diaspora
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Susan Rose
Sara JohnsonCrossing the Black Mediterranean: Migration from Africa to Italy
Conference: The Central Pennsylvania Consortium (CPC) Annual Africana Studies Conference: Migration, Displacement, and Reintegration in Africa and the African Diaspora
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Susan Rose
Madigan Behrens KayCrossing the Black Mediterranean: Migration from Africa to Italy
Conference: The Central Pennsylvania Consortium (CPC) Annual Africana Studies Conference: Migration, Displacement, and Reintegration in Africa and the African Diaspora
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Susan Rose
Karem Emmanuel Mathiang"The Epic Trickster": Dave Chappelle, African Resistance, and Oral Tradition in a Tricky World
Conference: 2018 Africana Studies Senior Research Presentations
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy
Manuel A OcampoGifted and Uplifted: Black and Brown Sonic Spaces in L.A. and the Role of Hip Hop
Conference: 2018 Africana Studies Senior Research Presentations
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy
Sofina Kolanya OderoReclaiming the Mind, Body and Soul: Black Womxnhood and Self-Care at Predominantly White Institution
Conference: 2018 Africana Studies Senior Research Presentations
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy
Jessica Louise SmithCrossing the Black Mediterranean: Migration from Africa to Italy
Conference: The Central Pennsylvania Consortium (CPC) Annual Africana Studies Conference: Migration, Displacement, and Reintegration in Africa and the African Diaspora
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Susan Rose
Taeya Jade Viruet"African-American Oral Culture, Yoruba Spirituality, and Stages of Afro-Latino Identity Formation in Black Cuban, Black American: A Memoir, and Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina"
Conference: The Central Pennsylvania Consortium (CPC) Annual Africana Studies Conference: Migration, Displacement, and Reintegration in Africa and the African Diaspora
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Trent Masiki
Mergitu Shinka YadetoSongs for our Healing: Analysis of "A Seat at the Table" and Black Healing Spaces
Conference: 2018 Africana Studies Senior Research Presentations
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy

2017

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Brandi Noel Hunter"Simultaneously Brilliant and Beyond Bearing: The Socially Constructed Image of the Smart Black Girl"
Conference: Africana Studies and Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies Senior Research Presentations
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson
Naji Nazima ThompsonPsychodietetics and the Anxieties of Wellness in the African American Literary Imagination
Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant
Number of Weeks: 13
Lynn Johnson

2016

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Sarah Rachel Kleine"Enough of the White Boys and Dogs! African American Young Literature and the Politics of Access"
Conference: 2016 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy

2015

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Dominique Charmian BrownWhose Choice?: Reproductive Coercion and Black Women's Fight for Medical Justice
Conference: 2015 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson
Reiva Joyce Kibbee"Our Task is to Make Ourselves the Architects of the Future": From Independence to Vision 2030, Where is Kenya Now?
Conference: 2015 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy
Megan Baker O'NeillThe Influence of South African Music on the Black Community in the Anti-Apartheid Movement
Conference: 2015 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson
Frank Henry WilliamsMothering a Movement: An Examination of Black Mothers' Participation in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
Conference: 2015 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy

2014

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Danielle Lynn ClausnitzerThe Power of Parallel Belief: Re-Establishing Literary Syncretism in Toni Morrison's Beloved, Song of Solomon, and Sula
Conference: 2014 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson
Reginald James GlossonNo Vote, No Freedom: The Black Existential Problematization of Voter ID Laws
Conference: 2014 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson
Jessica Anne ShaffnerThe Postmodern Integrated-Masculine: A Literary Breakdown of the Masculine-Masculine and Masculine-Feminine Fracture
Conference: 2014 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson

2013

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Alexandra Uka Amaka AgiligaReclaiming and Asserting Sexual Agency: Black Women In Sadomasochism
Conference: 2013 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Megan Glick
Andrew Gavin HillThe Emancipation of LeBron James: Re-Defining the Slave Narrative of the NBA Through the Histories of the Athlete
Conference: 2013 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson

2012

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Barbara CrentsilIndigeneity and Nationalism
Conference: 2012 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy
Eric Sohan JosephExpressing Gender in Cultural Production
Conference: 2012 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy
Christina Kay MullenPolitics of Representation
Conference: 2012 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy
Elizabeth Anne StuhrReframing Philosophies and Practice
Conference: 2012 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy

2011

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Benjamin James Hanbury-AggsTrading Places: Is the 21st Century African/Tribal Art Market Ethical?
Conference: 2011 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson
Corinthia Kenya JacobsReviving and Revising: The History of Dickinson College from an Africanist Perspective
Conference: 2011 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson
Tarra Kathryn MaxwellThe Resiliency of Women: Surviving the Rwandan Genocide
Conference: 2011 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson
Rockyatu Dakuan Otoo"Don't Make a Black Woman Take off her Earrings": Undressing Madea and the Impersonation of Black Womanhood
Conference: 2011 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson
Grace PerryResisting the Machine: Toward a Theory of Transnational Feminist Anti-Capitalism
Conference: 2011 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson

2010

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
A Atandi AnyonaSong, Dance, and Resistance in South Africa during the Apartheid Regime
Conference: 2010 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Lynn Johnson
Quinnelle Lilian GomezCaribbean Media Representations
Conference: 2010 Africana Studies Senior Symposium
Supported by: Africana Studies Department
Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy
Quinnelle Lilian GomezCaribbean Media Representations
Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant
Number of Weeks: 13
Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy