• Sex and The State: The Impact of State Policy on Sexual Expression in China 

  Loftis, Emma (2018)

  China’s Cultural Revolution (1966—1976) was a time of strict sexual repression wherein the state, led by Mao Zedong, made efforts both explicitly and implicitly to construct a largely asexual nation. However, in the forty ...

• Converted Christian and Islamic Architecture: A Path to Understanding 

  Hoffman, Serena (2018)

  I became strongly aware of how different religions, especially Islam and Christianity, view each other when a Muslim girl from Afghanistan joined my high school class. As I became closer with her, I started to notice the ...

• Whiteness, Man: Whiteness and King of the Hill 

  Hardy, Maddie (2018)

  I wrote this paper for my Race and Media course, where we were tasked with analyzing the racial imagery in a piece of media of our choosing. Immediately, I knew that I wanted to write about King of the Hill, an underrated ...

• Interactions & Environmental Attitudes: A Statistical Analysis of How Experiences Determine Outlook Towards Goucher’s Woods 

  Grosso, Rachel (2018)

  This analytical essay sprung from a classwide project during the Fall of 2017. Along with several other Environmental Studies majors, I conducted an online survey of Goucher College students regarding their attitudes towards ...

• TCK Beyond the Anglosphere: a Case Study in a Rabat International School 

  Geller, Adam (2018)

  Third Culture Kids are a group raised in multiple cultures, whose common worldview as a result of repeated cultural change becomes a “Third Culture” in and of itself. Third culture is frequently characterized as an example ...

• Exploring the History of Subliminal Racism in Ivory Soap Commercials 

  Bloomfield, Anna (2018)

  I got the idea for the paper after exploring the archives for a previous research paper and finding a children’s magazine from 1926. I discovered that P&G would buy a page every month in the magazine to create an ongoing ...

• The Empathetic Author in the Internet Age: The Victorian Serialized Novel and the Internet Serial as Social Experience 

  Krasnansky, Alyssa (2018)

  Serialized fiction was the norm in the 19th century, and now, in the 21st, it’s making a comeback. This paper explores the differences between serialization then and now, paying special attention to the impacts of author-reader ...

• Structural Violence in The Baltimore Sun’s Coverage of 1910 McCulloh Street 

  Vajda, Kathryn (2018)

  Housing in Baltimore has had a long and complicated history of racist, exclusionary policies and practices. From intense racial segregation to redlining and blockbusting, both legal and social pressures have enforced a ...

• Amid clouds of change, “The Sun comes out every day” 

  Symmes, Clara (2018)

  Amid clouds of change, ‘The Sun comes out every day'” is a feature story written for a class with Dan Rodricks, a reporter at the Baltimore Sun who taught at Goucher in Spring 2017. Everyone in the class was asked to write ...

• Visual, Auditory, and Olfactory Sexual Selection Methods in Birds Inform Mate Choice by Serving as Indicators for Mate Quality 

  Parris-Bacon, Madison (2018)

  I wrote “Visual, Auditory, and Olfactory Sexual Selection Methods in Birds Inform Mate Choice by Serving as Indicators for Mate Quality” in Fall of 2017 while taking a class entitled Ecology and Evolution. My professor, ...

• The Political is Personal: Examining the Role of Personal Connection to a Disease as an Access Point for Singledisease Interest Groups 

  Mills, Lindsey (2018)

  Approximately 133 million Americans live with a chronic illness (“The Power of Prevention”). Government funding through the National Institutes of Health and other programs are an important source of research funding for ...

• Tennis et distinction sociale en France 

  Hodges, Jack (2018-01)

  I have a deeply-rooted passion for tennis. The game, the physicality, the mental aspect and the players. It is in this latter group that this paper finds its genesis. In the immediate aftermath of my placement in the ‘Paris ...

• Bare Life, Bare Architecture: Deconstructing the Violence of Architecture in Al-Khalil, Palestine 

  Sugino, Yuka (Goucher College, 2018-01)

  The political philosopher Giorgio Agamben theorizes on the role, structure, and establishment of the state, and the way in which state power controls and dominates in the current era. He builds on Michel Foucault’s biopower ...

• “Quaring” the Scene: Negotiating Black Queer Identity in the Punk Community 

  adams, Quinci (Goucher College, 2018-01)

  Over the course of my four years at Goucher I developed ties to Baltimore’s DIY punk scene. As do most punks who are not cisgender heterosexual white men, I had a complicated relationship with the scene: I loved going to ...

• “It Goes Both Ways”: Negotiating Passing, Identities of Liminality, and Everything In-Between 

  Adams, Quinci (Goucher College, 2018-01)

  This paper on “passing” was of a particularly personal nature to me. As a student at Goucher, I explored and was exposed to critical theories and experiences of race both inside the classroom and out. But as a non-black ...

• Finding Procedural Justice in Baltimore’s Department of Public Works 

  Stunes, Maren (Goucher College, 2018-01)

  This paper emerged from my desire to bring attention to local environmental injustices occurring in our Greater Baltimore community. For months preceding my research, headlining cases of environmental injustice, like the ...

• Why Does the Tigress Roar? Exploring the Role of Female Suicide Bombers in the LTTE 

  Mills, Lindsey (Goucher College, 2018-01)

  Why did women join the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and why did they then become suicide bombers?” There is no single psychological profile of a terrorist. Terrorism is a political action, not a disease or mental ...

• La identidad sexual: la sociedad, el individuo, y la pérdida de la virginidad 

  Pearman, Ashley (Goucher College, 2018-01)

  As a controversial and popular issue within many, if not all, cultures, sexual intercourse is an intriguing topic to examine. While reading Almudena Grandes’s novel Malena es un nombre de tango for a Spanish seminar, I was ...

• Breeding from biotechnology: a look at the infrastructures behind the production of flood-resistant rice in India and Bangladesh 

  Lieberman-Barnard, Aliza (Goucher College, 2018-01)

  This paper was written for professor Marko Salvaggio’s Environmental Sociology seminar. The assignment follows an unconventional format, exploring the material, cultural, and environmental infrastructures that contribute ...

• Alicia Garza: Situated Analysis and Practicing Being Free 

  Jones, Abigail (Goucher College, 2018-01)

  This paper explores the tension between remaining situated in the context of the current socio-political moment and looking ahead to how the world could be different when practicing activism or working towards social ...

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