Recent Senior Project Titles

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”

Autumn 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”