Academic Departments, Programs, and SIPs: Recent submissions
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The Relationship between Guanine Quadruplexes and Molecular Components Present in the hpkd1 Gene and Effect On Onset of Autosomal Polycystic Kidney Disease
(Kalamazoo College, 2019-11-01)The Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is characterized as a genetic disorder. ADPKD is one of the most prominent kidney diseases across the world and has no known cure as of now. The disease is understood ... -
Jerusalem of the Midwest : An Ethnography on Jewish Summer Camp
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2020-11-01)My senior individualized project is an embodied ethnography of camp counselors at OSRUI (Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute), a Reform Jewish summer camp in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. OSRUI (formerly “Union Institute”) was established ... -
Fandom : a Third Space for Self-Expression and Community
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2020-11-01)In this paper, I will describe how fandoms serve as third spaces that exist outside of academic and religious spaces. These spaces simultaneously provide participants with similar resources and benefits that more traditional ... -
Hoop House Proposal
(Kalamazoo College, 2017)The food system that Kalamazoo College participates in has consequences not only for the health of our campus community, but for the health and well-being of those who work within every level of the food system. We seek ... -
History of Food and Farming Justice at Kalamazoo College
(Kalamazoo College, 2020-08)This history documentation of food and farming justice at Kalamazoo College serves to understand where this work has taken the campus community over time in order to better engage with food justice and its complexities. ... -
What Are the Regional and Personal, Economic and Moral, Effects of US Immigration Policy and Procedures at the US-Mexico Border? A Study on the (Economic and Moral) Impact of Recent U.S. Immigration Policy
(2020-11-23)The border that divides the United States and Mexico has had a long and complicated history. U.S. Immigration law is even more complex and confusing as to how it works. As a country that prides itself on being a country ... -
Instagram and the Male Gaze : How Male Viewership Affects the Content Women Post and View
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2020-11-01)The purpose of this study was to understand how heterosexual women’s content on Instagram is posted with male viewership in mind, but situated within a framework of bodily autonomy, perhaps to make it more politically ... -
Denmark, Displacement, and the Dark Continent : A Legal Examination of Refugee Migration in Denmark
(2020-06-01)The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between Denmark's and Africa. Specifically spanning from the historical background involving its role in the transatlantic slave trade through the post trade era ... -
From Servicemen to Revolutionaries : Gold Coast Ex-Servicemen & The Post WWII Independence Movement
(2020-06-01)The institution of Colonialism plagued the continent of Africa for the greater part of the 19th through the 20th century. In this project I will be focusing on the Gold Coast and their independence movement. But, more ... -
Bobs, Boys, Brains, and the Bomb : Postwar Teenage Girls Speak Through Seventeen
(2020-06-01)Using Seventeen magazine as a case study, the goal of this project is not dissimilar to that of Helen Valentine's in "Seventeen Says Hello": to gain a greater understanding of postwar American teenage girls and their ... -
Civil War in '34 : Lessons of the Minneapolis Teamster Union Strikes
(2020-06-01)For labor in America, and in the world as a whole, 1934 was a climactic year. Adolf Hitler had just taken power as chancellor in Germany the year before; the Empire of Japan was solidifying its control over Manchuria and ... -
A Look into Football Development in China
(2020-06-01)The following paper is a guide through the history of football in China. It examines the origin of football, since its earliest form found in Chinese ‘cuju,’ its disappearance and unconvincing recognition as a birthplace ... -
Reciprocal Relationship Building as a Way of Resistance and Resiliency
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2020-02-01)Capitalistic, individualistic and colonial society has caused great disconnects between the people and the land. Today, many people view the earth as a given, as something that can be freely bought, sold, developed and ... -
Queering the “x” in Latinx : A Queer, Feminist Theorization of Latinidad
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2020-03-16)This essay uses the queerifying Latinx to theorize a new formation of latinidad: a queer, feminist, intersectional latinidad. Queer, feminist, intersectional theory is utilized to argue that Latinx can be a site of decolonial ... -
“Strange Power of Speech”: A Metaliterary Analysis of “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
(2012)The author places Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s two poems in the context of her own experience of vision and storytelling. Coleridge’s narrators, she writes, “are unable to convey their experiences, I will argue, not because ... -
The Modern Politics of Ancient History : 2013 Archaeological Excavations at Santa Maria de Zamartze & Ancient Vasco-Roman Interactions and the Dialectic with Modern Nationalism
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2014)This paper is inspired by, and based on, my experience working at a Roman archaeological site at the church of Santa Marfa de Zamartze (Zamartze) in Navarra, located in the Basque Country of Northern Spain. The paper is ... -
"A Mere Matter of Marching” : A Look at The War of 1812 in the Old Northwest
(2020-03-01)When one thinks of the War of 1812 they generally think of the burning of the Canadian Parliament and White House or the Star-Spangled Banner, but rarely does one think of the frontier. The frontier in the War of 1812 was ... -
Bande Dessinée et Identité Nationale Pendant la Guerre Froide aux États-Unis et en France
(2020-03-01)L'après-guerre est généralement considérée par les Américains comme une guerre froide entre l'URSS et les États-Unis. Cependant, ce point de vue est insuffisant, car il ne tient pas compte du fait que la période a également ... -
Deformities and Monsters : Complicating Images of the Other in Early Modern Europe
(2020-02-01)Monsters have always lurked in the recesses of humankind's imagination, populating the darkness of caves and the corners of maps. They embody the unknown and the unexplainable while simultaneously reflecting these anxieties ... -
The Winter of Our Disability : Understanding Disability in Film through Richard III
(2020-04-01)This paper combines Shakespeare scholarship and film study. Given that Richard III still holds massive influence in our collective consciousness, we cannot simply ignore it, but also given our current relationship with ...