This year’s Graduate Liberal Studies Student Showcase will be held on Thursday, May 1, 6:00 – 8:00 PM in the auditorium at The Center for Documentary Studies. The opening reception will take place in the Lindhurst Building. The ceremony will proceed to the downstairs auditorium. Please view parking information here.
The annual Student Showcase is funded by proceeds from a generous bequest to GLS from our alumna Lottie Applewhite (1924-2017; MALS ’97). Set every spring during graduation week, the Showcase offers an opportunity to highlight student work through both master’s projects and other research and educational activities funded with support from the program’s Applewhite Award Grants.
Reception by My Croft Kitchen at 6:00 PM
Introduction by Dr. Anne Whisnant at 6:30 PM
Quiana Tyson, “Weaving the Tapestry of Lost Connections: The Power of Family History”
Xike Zhou, “Marketing Virtual Queerness in China: Navigating Representation and Reception in Otome Game Culture through Narukami Arashi”
Zach Moore, “Football: An Instrument in French Identity Politics and Colonial Legacy”
Okoma Atani Matengula, “Intersectional Medical Mistrust: Addressing Knowledge Gaps in Healthcare Research”
Ashley Unruh McKinstry, “The Universe Was Once the Size of You or Me”
Samantha Post, “Coal Mining Mothers: The Cruel Science of Reproductive Health Research in the Coalfields, 1970-1995”
Kalamakaleimahoehoe Porter, “The Storied Environment of Bennett Place”
Susen Shi, “Anti-?”
Grace Mingyu Baucom, “Farmers’ Markets as Community Gathering Places: Evidence from the Literature”
Michael Cory Strickland, “I Know Propaganda When I See it: A Discussion of American War Cinema from 1970 to the Present”
Lauren Ballejos, Pete Crispell and Andrea Ryan, “Hidden Histories of Central and Southeastern Virginia”
