Selected Senior Projects Presentation Programs (2019-2025)
Autumn 2025
Panel 1 Stories of Bodies and Science
- “Empiricism and Enchantment: Re-Mystifying Scientific Inquiry through Magical Realism”
- “Build Your Own Queer Identity: Remaking Myth in the Modern Day”
- “Mad Women on the Rag: Interrogating Constructions of PMDD through Fiction”
Panel 2 Screening Culture
- “The Modern Memento Mori: How Television Influences Anglo-American Ideologies of Death, Mortality, and Remembrance”
“Expanding the Spectrum of Representation: Autism in Children’s Animated Television” - “Looking with the Female Gays: How the Male Gaze Influences Representations of Queer Women on Screen”
Panel 3 Affect and Desire Across Border
- “Dressing the Other: Subverting the Imperial Eroticization of Filipina Bodies”
- “The Stories We Weave: Craft, Community, and the Ethics of Creation in the Pacific Northwest”
- “The Affective Economies of Language: Shame, Heritage Language Learning, And Liberatory Practice”
- “Scenes of Waiting: Eritrea and the Grammar of Anticipation “
Panel 4 Politics and Poetics
- “A Crisis of Anomic Leadership: Christian Evangelicals and the Weaponization of Moral Decay”
- “Disrupting Logics of Dispossession: Applied Narrative as Phenomenological Analysis of Housing Law and Legislation”
- “Poetry as Written Resistance: The Struggle to Abolish Unfreedom
Winter 2025
Panel 1 Neoliberalism and its Discontents
- “Neoliberalist Universities as Warmongers: Where Should Battles Be Waged?”
- “Communal Expression: Making a Marx in Fashion”
“Despoiled Enlightenment: Aphorisms on Sundered Life”
Panel 2 Storytelling Across Communities
- “‘Disruption’ and Discourse: An Oral History of Muslim Students in the UW Liberated Zone”
“Windows: A Story of More-Than-Human Entanglements, Disability, and the Transformative Vision(s) of Youth”
“Thank Me For What? An Interrogation of ‘Honoring Veterans’ Service’"
Panel 3 Liberating Spaces of Education
- “Reading to Remember: How Children’s Literature Complicates 9/11 Narratives”
“Fear of the Working-Class Student: The Erasure of Labor and Radical Struggle in Public Education”
“From Workforce to Wasteland: Port Automation is Annihilation”
“Indigenous Survivance: Lessons from Okinawan History and Diaspora”
Panel 4 (4:15-5:00): Toward Decolonial Geographies
- “Potato Dialectics: Lessons for Living Under an Industrialized Agricultural Regime”
“Unconcealed Agencies: Soil Stories of the Duwamish River”
“What Comes Next: Reciprocity, Repertoire, and Decolonial Desires Beyond Study Abroad”
Winter 2024
Panel 1 Reimagining Identities Through Storytelling
“Tell Me Who You Are: A Multimedia Inquiry of Gender Binaries and Queer Potentials”
“Golem: Remoulding Modern Jewish Identity”
“Obit: A play about how middle school is hell, and everyone should know about it”
Panel 2 Violence and the Work of Memory
“The Dark Tourist’s Guide to Memory: A Study of Villa Grimaldi Peace Park”
“The Construction of Heathens: Spanish Conquistadors’ Distortion of Mexica Human Sacrifice”
“Labor as Planetary Praxis in the Age of Climate Crisis”
Panel 3 (3:30-4:20): Cultures of Embodiment and Resistance
“Human Eyes, Demon Dicks, and the Victorian Soul: Nailing Down Heteronormative Imagery, Ambiguous Consent, and Personal Autonomy in a Queer Erotic Webcomic”
“Tradition With Innovation: Urban Indigenous Music and The Battle Against Colonialism”
“Aging With Joy: Lessons From Elder Dance Therapy”
Autum 2024
Panel 1 Health, Power, and Bio-justice
“Feeding the Future with Alternative Food Systems”
"Determining the Price of Life: Legal Settlements and Corporate Ethics in the Wake of the Opioid Crisis"
“Forgotten Histories and Modern Mysteries: Undiscussed Stories of Contraception”
Panel 2 Reading Against, Reading With, Reading Otherwise
“Renegade Reading in Trying Times: Using Comics to Teach Cultural Studies in the High School”
“"The N.C.A.A., or the Nationalistic Capitalistic Athletic Association”
“Silent Suffering: Remediation of my Family Archive”
Panel 3 Questioning Normativity in Queer Spaces and Beyond
“Stories Told vs. Stories Sold: Queer Narratives Contending with Commercial Industry in Slash Fanfiction”
“‘Does this make me look queer?’: A Critical Ethnography of Seattle's Queer Fashion Scene”
“Queer History Off the Tracks: Rat City Roller Derby and Community Memory”
Panel 4 Rewriting Scripts of Power and Knowledge
“Tides of Memory and Migration: A Screenplay on the Pasifika Diaspora Experience in 1990s Bay Area, California”
“The President: A Machiavellian Guide for College Presidents in the Age of the Neoliberal University”
“Immersive, Not Extractive: Rethinking Orientations to Study Abroad in Spain”
Panel 5 Mediation, Constraint, Possibility
“‘To be a Woman is to Perform’: Social Media’s Effect on Gender Performance and Identity Formation in Young Women”
“Rally on the Airwaves: Nationalism, Sound, and Saying/Singing No”
Winter 2023
Panel 1 Ambivalences of Language, Art, and Identity
- “Disrupting Convention: Applying Cecilia Vicuña and Rammellzee’s Artistic Philosophies to Conceptualize New Spaces for Art”
“The Ambiguities of (my) Polish Relations, and Existing In-Between”
“Living within the Hyphen: Exploring Hyphenated Existences in Identity”
Panel 2 Politics of Culture / Cultures of Politics
- “Why are there no fat princesses? Exploring the Portrayal of Different Body Types in Animated Films Marketed Towards Young Girls”
“True Crime Television: One Viewer and the Question of Change”
“The Battle for Meaning: BookTok and the Commodification of Reading”
Panel 3 Liberatory Pedagogies and Theologies
“Reimagining the Business School: An Ethnographic Exploration of Pedagogy in Management Education”
“Prophets and Revolutionaries: A Discussion Between Judaism and Leftism”
Winter 2022
Panel 1 Creativity, Cultural Production, and Community
- “Stains Upon Existence”
“We watch, therefore I am: Identity and Film Festivals”
“The Figure of the Mathematical ‘Genius’”
“Live Music and the Human Experience”
Panel 2 Technology, Communication, and the Politics of Media
- “’War on COVID-19’: History, Trends, and Implications of Metaphors in Pandemic Mass Media”
“’Us vs. Them’: Racialization in Virtual Communities”
“Perspective Formation and Variation: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare”
“Controlling My Name: The Real NIL Experience”
Winter 2021
Panel 1 Communities, Health, Resilience, and Resistance
“COVID-19 vs. the Latino Community”
“Diabetes and the Systemic Barriers to Health: A Traditionalist Approach”
“Dionysus in the City and Hegel in the Academy”
“Food Politics: What the Academy Can Learn from the Resilience of Migrant-Farmworker Communities
Panel 2 Situating Global Legacies of Violence
“Tolerating the Intolerable: Psychic-numbing and Survival in a Capitalist Context”
“Feeding the Soul”
“This Is (my) America”
“Hello, World: Letters from The Mentally Ill Student”
“Material Legacies of American Imperialism: A Photographic Inquiry in the Methow Valley”
Panel 3 The Politics of Information, Materiality, and the Body
“Tech + Craft: Addressing Culture in Technological and Digital Objects"
“The Politics of Sustainable Fashion”
“Attention, Affect and Agency: Reciprocal Healing and the Ecological Self”
“The Idea Network: Societal Benefits from Accessible Collaborative Intelligence“
“The Politics of Care During Climate Change: Anti-Fatness Within Veganism”
Panel 4 Reframing Cultural Representation
“Reading Female Monstrosity from Screen to Body”
“Retracing My Native Ancestry: Remembering as Resurgence and as a Healing Method”
“Translating Counterculture In Artifacts of Japanese Pop-Culture”
“Black Mirror: A Look at Disability Through Our Media”
“Bacteria-Man: An almost-based-on real-life exploration of working in higher education”
Winter 2020
Panel 1 Orientations, Technologies, and the Objects of Knowledge Production
- “Surface area & the cognitive subject: Where big data meets its mediation”
“Are We On Our Phones Too Much?”
“Insidious Science: Towards a Critique of Developmental Trans Psychology and the (Re)Invention of the Transgender Child”
Panel 2 Performing the Subject: Artistic Expression, Discipline, and Liberation
- “Juice WRLD: Lyrics Viewed Differently”
“Genderqueer Production and Performance in Seattle’s Informal Music Industry”
“Performing Liberation: Embodied Praxis as Theory”
“RuPaul's Sellout Race: Neoliberalism and Mainstream Drag”
Panel 3 Fabricating Technologies: Remaking Clothing and Education
“Wear It Proudly”
“Shifted Embroidery: An Interview with Embroidery and Telecommunications”
“Language Acquisition in the Digital Age: Reframed and Redesigned”
“Education for Liberation: Implications for Educators Through the Microcosm of NOVA High School”
Panel 4 Envisioning Other Futures: Selves, Species, Worlds
- “Lens to the Anthropocene: A Scavenging for Multi-Species Meaning Through Visual and Literary Poetics”
“#puberty: Normalizing the Reality of Sex Education Online”
“Wondering about Water: Speculative World Building in the Anthropocene”
“Not Just Junkies: How Classism Shapes Our Understandings of Drug Paraphernalia"
“Vignettes of Art Therapy”
Winter 2019
Panel 1 Activism, Advocacy, and Allyship
“Allies In and Out of the Boat: Disability, Adaptive Rowing, and Allyship in the Pacific Northwest”
“Women, Winemaking, and Reckoning with Gender Disparities”
“An Auto-ethnography of Animal Activism: Disrupting the Rationality of Animal Rights”
Panel 2 Displacement, Memory, and the Power of Language
“Gentrification, Displacement, and the Question of Responsibility”
“Memory as Diasporic Inheritance: Second Generation Vietnamese Negotiations of the Past”
“Postcolonial Poetics: Anxiety, Diasporic Identity, and Resistance”
Panel 3 From Style to Space to Speech Acts
“Infrastructure is Racist: Marginalized Populations, Disposable Bodies, and the Dilemmas of Spatial Design”
“Political Media in a Bipartisan Age: Understanding the News”
“Fashioning Hip Hop: Race, Class, and Identity in Men’s Fashion”
Panel 4 Repurposing Education for Radical Possibilities
“The Grammar of Poetry: Promoting Agency and Creativity in the Education of English Language Learners”
“Social and Emotional Education in Urban Elementary Schools: Creating a Climate of Inclusion in a Rapidly Globalizing World”
“Loneliness and the Others Inside”
Spring 2019
Panel 1 Reframing Cultural, Political, and Pedagogical Perceptions (10:00-11:00)
“Agree to Disagree: A Model for Effective Political Discourse in Divisive Times”
Carolina Robles, “I Do [Not]: Generational Shifts in the Perception of Marriage Among Immigrant Latino Catholics in the United States”
“Rewiring the Books: Physics You Can Play”
“‘Ain’t nothin new’: How to Break the Cycle of Gang and Gun Violence Within Inner Cities”
Panel 2 Liberating Knowledge Production
“Inclusive Education for Preschool Children”
“Representations of Mental Illness in TV Shows and Film”
“The Green Halfway Home: An Initiative to Support Formerly Incarcerated People Through Farming”