Paper and Panel Presentations 2011
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Diversity and Unity Among Men of Color on College Campuses
April 12, 20111:00-1:25 p.m. 1960 Room, New Yellow Parlor, Balfour-Hood. How many different forms of diversity exist among male students of color at predominantly White institutions? More » -
Doing Business with Beauty: Vietnamese Nail Salons and Emotional Labor
April 12, 201112:30-12:55 p.m. New Yellow Parlor, Balfour-Hood. Why have so many Vietnamese immigrants decide to make nail services their chosen profession in the United States? More » -
Justin Bieber in the Himalayas: Preservation of Bhutan's Traditional Music
April 12, 201112:30-1:00 p.m. Media Center, Balfour-Hood. As a member of the first group of Wheaton students to study abroad in Bhutan, the author spent his last semester at Royal Thimphu College. More » -
Literacy Autobiographies
April 12, 201112:30-1:45 p.m. 1960 Room, Balfour-Hood. To investigate the journey readers and writers take as they grow-up and learn about how their experiences shape the way they communicate, the presenters will share their own literacy autobiographies. More » -
Generational Differences in Bhutan: A Pilot Study of Three Generations of Women
April 12, 20111:00-1:30 p.m. Media Center, Balfour-Hood. In the fall 2010 semester, the author studied abroad in Bhutan. For one of her courses, she wrote a research paper on the generation gap in Bhutan resulting from the rapid development of the country in the last few decades. More » -
A Study of South Asian American Greek Life: Influence, Culture, and Conflict Redefined
April 12, 20111:30-1:55 p.m. New Yellow Parlor, Balfour-Hood. This study examines the participation of South Asian American men in multicultural fraternities, seeking to find what influenced South Asian men to join Greek Life Organizations. More » -
Violence and the Social Movement: Hamas and Hizballah
April 12, 20111:40-2:10 p.m. Media Center, Balfour-Hood. After 9/11, the United States and other Western powers have been quick to apply the label of ‘terrorist’ and ‘terrorism,’ specifically in regards to Middle Eastern non-state actors. More » -
Eliot Adapted
April 12, 20111:55-2:25 p.m. 1960 Room, Balfour-Hood. Critics have struggled for over a century with the sexual politics of Eliot’s fiction, wondering how a woman, possessed of extraordinary powers of observation, empathy, and expression, who lived openly with a married man and who dared to have a vocation of her own, could so consistently glorify submission to a patriarchal imperative. More » -
Gender in Outdoor Recreation: AMC Hut Croos and Outdoor Education as Alternatively Gendered Spaces
April 12, 20112:00-2:25 p.m. New Yellow Parlor, Balfour-Hood. This research challenges the idea that the spaces inhabited by outdoor adventurers are ‘natural’ spaces that are relatively free of gender norms. More » -
Judging and Being Judged: Rehabilitating Moral Evaluation in the Comparative Ethics of Globalization
April 12, 20112:15-2:45 p.m. Media Center, Balfour-Hood. Scholars of comparative ethics—who inquire into a cross-cultural span of moral systems, both religious and secular—typically take a “neutral” approach that tries, through careful exercise of empathy, to get at accurate representations of others’ moral beliefs and practices. More » -
The Mormon Culture of Community and Recruitment
April 12, 20112:30-2:55 p.m. New Yellow Parlor, Balfour-Hood. This research explores the culture of community and recruitment in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). More » -
Perceived Mathematics Self-Efficacy in Introductory Physics
April 12, 20112:30-2:55 p.m. 1960 Room, Balfour-Hood. Since the 1960’s self-efficacy has been a topic of much research within the psychology and education fields. More » -
The Implications of the Rosewood, Florida Reparations as a Public Policy Model for Sundown Towns in the United States
April 12, 20112:50-3:20 p.m. Media Center, Balfour-Hood. Primarily from 1890 to 1930, at least several hundred towns in the United States forced their black residents to leave through a range of official policies and private actions. More » -
Wavelength Dependence of Avoidance Behavior in Zebrafish
April 12, 20113:00-3:30 p.m. 1960 Room, Balfour-Hood. Over the last three decades, zebrafish Danio rerio have gained increasing popularity for use in research settings. Zebrafish are small, easy to keep and breed, and are physiologically homologous to humans. More » -
Wheaton at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
April 12, 20113:00-3:50 p.m. New Yellow Parlor, Balfour-Hood. A panel presentation on the experiences of Wheaton anthropology students at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, held in New Orleans this past fall. More »
