HSS Student Expo - 2022
The HSS Student Expo will showcase the work of our outstanding School of Humanities and Social Sciences students. It will bring together in a single forum all of our longstanding HSS department and program end-of-year student events, and expand to highlight student work in programs and departments that will generate student-centered events for the first time. We are looking forward to celebrating all that our students’ have been able to achieve academically in the midst of the pandemic. We greatly appreciate your time and effort in supporting this student-centered event.
Monday, April 25, 2022
9:15–10:45 a.m. History—Oral Histories of Life in a Pandemic: HIST 1101H
Virtual Event Only.
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Hosted by Professor Philip Napoli
Professor Napoli's HIST 1101 students have collected at least 2 oral histories with BC students about the events of the past two years: how it has affected us, how we made it through, and what we think these two years will mean in the long term.
Participating Students
- Adrian Artsisheuskiy
- Eva Cohen
- Maya Darwish
- Sunny Fang
- Maria Farag
- Lung Fu
- Anisha Jetoo
- Kiara Lindo
- Phoebe Marbid
- Mara Matos
- Bryanna Mendez
- Alexander Radu
- Asma Sadia
- Alae Saket
- Nelly Zhang
12:30–2 p.m. English—Undergraduate Research Conference
Gold Room, Student Center and Virtual.
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Hosted by Professor Marie Rutkoski.
Students who have written exemplary research essays and who have been selected by the department will present their work and respond to questions.
Participating Students
- Brigid Drake
- Jake Mooney
- Mariyah Rajshahiwala
2:15–3:30 p.m. History—Brooklyn College Student Experiences, Activism, and Post-Graduation Lives
Gold Room, Student Center, and Virtual.
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Hosted by Professor Jocelyn Wills
Brooklyn College students have a long history of activism on and beyond campus, but we still know far too little about the experiences and postgraduation lives of the vast majority of our students, particularly in the years following the introduction of tuition in 1976. This panel of students will share what they have learned from some of those student activists, from Occupy to COVID-19. Undertaking research into the events that shaped the Brooklyn College experience, student panelists will also interview alumni about what drew them to activism on campus, if and how Brooklyn College transformed their lives, what lessons current students might draw from their experiences, and the ways in which their BC experiences helped to shape their postgraduation lives and careers.
Participating Students
- Kelly Carrion, “Undocumented Students and the Struggle for ISSO at Brooklyn College”
- Ryan Houssein, “Our Time Was Now”
- Kinga Szlachcic, “Family in the American Imagination”
2:15–3:30 p.m. American Studies—Asian American Pacific Islander Studies Project
Virtual Event Only.
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Hosted by Professor Cherry Lou Sy
Our team of students will be presenting our ongoing project from the Asian American Pacific Islander Project. We will present our documentary that our team did as well as a partial clip of an interview from our current podcasting project.
Participating Students
- Jean Chen
- Annie Ho
- Rhema Mills
- Jason Richter
- Bridget Robshaw
3:45–5 p.m. Communication Arts, Sciences & Disorders—Undergraduate and Graduate Research
Gold Room, Student Center and Virtual.
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Hosted by Professor Akiko Fuse
Outstanding research work by graduate students in the Speech-Language Pathology Program in the Communication Arts, Sciences, and Disorders.
Participating Students
- Ryan Cole – “A laryngeal model”
- Caroline Dougherty – “Pride in the Classroom”
- Nick Philpott – “Social & Behavioral Relationship Quality Among Adolescent & Adult Siblings with Autism: A Systematic Review”
7–8 p.m. History and Philosophy—Student Research Projects
Virtual Event Only.
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Hosted by Professor Philip Napoli
- The Department of History in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Judaic Studies are excited to highlight extraordinary undergraduate research conducted in 2021–2022.
Participating Students
- Adia Atherley
- Emily Beregovich
- Nick Khmerick
- Alyssa Rodes
- Micah Sander
- Levi Satter
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
9:15–10 a.m. Communication Arts, Sciences and Disorders—Undergraduate and Graduate Research
Gold Room, Student Center and Virtual.
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Hosted by Professor Akiko Fuse
Outstanding research work by graduate students in the Speech-Language Pathology Program in the Communication Arts, Sciences, and Disorders.
Participating Students
- Rawan Hanini – “Childhood Language Exposure: Does Early Experience Affect Sound Perception and Production in Speakers with Early Interrupted Exposure?”
- Pheobe Law – “Multicultural Counseling in the Field of Communication Sciences and Disorders”
- Noha Revivo- “A laryngeal model”
10–10:45 a.m. History—Questions about Historical Religious Experience with HSS History and Religion Students
1112 Boylan Hall
Hosted by Professor Lauren Mancia
Join these History and Religion majors, all upper-level seminar students, in talking through theoretical and historical issues pertaining to the question of religious experience. Do religious objects have their own agency, or is their worth and meaning inscribed by the users of these objects? Does religious experience “really” happen, or is it simply a product of psychological issues? Can religious experience be rationally analyzed, or do you instead just “have to be there?” We’ll have the questions, and you can help us work out the answers (or even more questions).
Participating Students
- Anwar Ahmed
- Daniel Altman
- Fatima Arif
- Olga Boguska
- Janai Butler
- Shea Eugene
- Jonathan Garcia
- Joseph Grippi
- Roy Holder
- Christopher Huth
- Elizabeth Kushner
- Ahmad Major
- Alexis Marin
- Jonathan Rakhamimov
- Rihao Zhang
11 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Sociology—2022 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) Research
Virtual Event Only.
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Hosted by Professor Tamara Mose
Three MMUF fellows from the Honors Academy will present their latest research. The MMUF program at Brooklyn College prepares undergraduate students from underrepresented groups for the rigors of a Ph.D. program over the course of two years.
Participating Students
- Jean-Michel Mutore – “Organizing Amazon: Possibilities for Labor Power in the Fourth Industrial Age”
- Ehime Oratokhai – “Benin Bronzes: Repatriation of Spirit”
- Nazinga Collier Steel – “The Power of Oral Traditions: From Africa and Beyond”
12:30–2 p.m. Urban Sustainability Program—Urban Sustainability Student Research and Celebration
Gold Room, Student Center and Virtual.
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Hosted by Professor Rebecca Boger, Urban Sustainability Director
This will be a celebration of the Urban Sustainability students and their remarkable accomplishments in research, education, and community involvement. We will highlight students who will be graduating and connect with alumni, family, and friends. We will reflect on the past year or two and look to the future.
Participating Students TBA
2:15–3:30 p.m. Women’s and Gender Studies—Learning to Become Mothers: Motherhood Across Generations in Immigrant Families
Virtual Event Only.
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Hosted by Professor Bernardita Llanos
Three students from WGST 1001 will be presenting interview-based papers on the ways the women in their family experienced motherhood navigating multiple cultures and the impact of the US on their beliefs and practices.
Participating Students
- Zuha Amhed, “The Weight of Culture and Religion in the Rules of Marriage within Pakistani Society”
- Kellie-Anne Blanc, “Motherhood and Women’s Roles”
- Samatha Liggieri, “The Negativity of Domesticity”
3:45–5 p.m. Communication Arts, Sciences and Disorders—The Mission of BCNSSLHA
Virtual Event Only.
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Hosted by Professor Jennifer Sass-Brown, Co-host Bex Merker
Members of the Brooklyn College chapter of the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association discuss their mission and present information about NSSLHA itself, examples of previous events, and why being in the club is so beneficial to Communication Sciences and Disorders students.
Participating Students
- Bex Merker and Sharah Gaffoor jointly presenting on “The Mission of BCNSSLHA”
3:45–5 p.m. Political Science and Africana Studies—Migration and the State
Virtual Event Only.
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Hosted by Professor Immanuel Ness and Professor Prudence Cumberbatch
The panel will examine the costs and benefits of migration to states and communities. Panelists will discuss and examine case studies of migration from origin countries and regions in developing countries to destinations in affluent regions in North America, Europe, and beyond. The research projects will examine the consequences of migration for those who depart and those that are left behind. On a structural level, panelists will examine migration from the perspective of state economic and political development.
Participating Students
- Elijah Acosta
- Moustafa Aly
- Yasmin Asad
- Dmitri Kaganovsky
- Ruthann Simpson
