Listed below are the Capstone research projects completed by MA in Cultural Studies students to date. The projects are organized by capstone year and then alphabeticallly by last name.
2012 Capstone Research Projects
2011 Capstone Research Projects
2010 Capstone Research Projects
2012 Capstone Research Projects
Heath Davis
Think, Feel, Touch, Do: Zines and the Archive of the "Living" Dead
Capstone Advisor: Joe Milutis
Second Reader: Susan Harewood
Portfolio Advisor: Ben Gardner
2012
Lauren Dun
Existing in an “In-Between” State: An Autoethnographic Search for Belonging in Hawaii
Capstone Advisor: Crispin Thurlow
Portfolio Advisor: Ben Gardner
2012
Katie Grainger
Tracing the Discourse of the Femme Fatale: A Literature Review
Capstone Advisor: Crispin Thurlow
Portfolio Advisor: Ron Krabill
2012
Shana Hirsch
Farming for a New Nation? Reframing the role of the crofter for an independent Scotland
Capstone Advisor: Ben Gardner
Portfolio Advisor: S. Charusheela
2012
Ken Matsudaira
Sansei Facing the Rising Sun: Negotiating Japanese imperialism in Nikkei archives
Capstone Advisor: Susan Harewood
Portfolio Advisor: Leslie Ashbaugh
2012
Ariel Roy
Profound Cognitive Disability, Subjectivity, and Presentation
Capstone Advisor: Eric Stewart
Portfolio Advisor: Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren
2012
Nancy Li Will
Contemporary Workplace Racism towards White Collar Chinese Immigrants in the Seattle Area
Capstone Advisor: Susan Harewood
Portfolio Advisor: Leslie Ashbaugh
2012
Steve Will
The International College Experience: East Asian Students in a Setting of Higher Education
Capstone Advisor: Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
Portfolio Advisor: Ron Krabill
2012
2011 Capstone Research Projects
Debbie Brown
Rock Stars and Pissing Contests: How the white male rock stars of development have bogarted the camera
Capstone Advisor: Ben Gardner
Second Readers: Karen Rosenberg and Leslie Ashbaugh
Portfolio Advisor: Susan Harewood
2011
Jill Dewald
What is this Place? An Auto/ethnographic look at small town life, representation, and experience
Capstone Advisor: Jeanne Heuving
Portfolio Advisor: Bruce Burgett
2011
Pei-Chia Fan
Being a Taiwanese in Postmodern Times: How Taiwanese Think About Their Identity
Capstone Advisor: Ron Krabill
Portfolio Advisor: Elizabeth Thomas
2011
Caroline Fors
Voices of Afghan Women Leaders
Capstone Advisor: Elizabeth Thomas
Portfolio Advisor: Bruce Burgett
2011
Priya Frank
Mapping Our Own World: Explorations of human agency within an exoticized world music market
Capstone Advisor: Susan Harewood
Portfolio Advisor: Bruce Burgett
2011
Peter Freeman
Urban Plunge and Homelessness: A Discourse of Difference
Capstone Advisor: Ron Krabill
Second Reader: Amoshaun Toft
Portfolio Advisor: Eric Stewart
2011
Ruth Gregory
The Historiography of Cinema History
Capstone Advisor: Ron Krabill
Portfolio Advisor: Kari Lerum
2011
Mona Halcomb
Boarding Schools: “Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”
Capstone Advisor: Linda Watts
Second Reader: Elizabeth A. West
Portfolio Advisor: Ben Gardner
2011
Paul Johnson
Neo-Colonialism and College $ports Today
Capstone Advisor: Susan Harewood
Second Reader: Leslie Ashbaugh
Portfolio Advisor: Elizabeth Thomas
2011
Theryn Kigvamasud’vashti
A Lynching in the Family: Storytelling, Racial Lessons, and Protection
Capstone Advisor: Susan Harewood
Portfolio Advisor: Eric Stewart
2011
Martha Levenson
Making Museums Matter: Performance, Outreach, and Evaluation
Capstone Advisor: Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren
Second Reader: Brad Portin
Portfolio Advisor: Bruce Burgett
2011
Salem Lévêsque
Understanding Self: Existentialism & Cultural Studies
Capstone Advisor: Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
Second Reader: Georgia Roberts
Portfolio Advisor: Eric Stewart
2011
Jennifer Lockett
Cinema and embodied experience: the relationship between spectator and film
Capstone Advisor: Jeanne Heuving
Portfolio Advisor: Bruce Burgett
2011
Amanda Martin Sandino
the usual head/ache
Capstone Advisor: Jeanne Heuving
Portfolio Advisor: Bruce Burgett
2011
Marilyn Peterson-Richter
Deconstruction of Gender Myths – A Discourse on the Dissemination of Constructed Gender Identities Through a Semiotic Lens
Capstone Advisor: Jeanette Sanchez
Portfolio Advisor: Elizabeth Thomas
2011
David Ryder
Race, Space and Photojournalism - Intervening into the Inscription of Whiteness
Capstone Advisor: Susan Harewood
Portfolio Advisor: Bruce Burgett
2011
Ryan Sackman
Resistance to Prescribed Privilege: Navigating Masculine Power Structures through Divorce and Custody
Capstone Advisor: Eric Stewart
Portfolio Advisor: Susan Harewood
2011
Diane Venberg
Happy but Still Dead: the Hidden Costs of “Happy Meat”
Capstone Advisor: Maria Elena Garcia
Portfolio Advisor: Elizabeth Thomas
2011
Shuai Wang
Heavy Metal Culture: A Cultural Study of Chinese and American Heavy Metal
Capstone Advisor: Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren
Portfolio Advisor: Eric Stewart
2011
Luke Ware
The Invisible Web Project
Capstone Advisor: Ron Krabill
Portfolio Advisor: Ben Gardner
2011
Holly Johanna Winters
La vida no tiene subtítutlos (Life doesn't have subtitles): Building Spanish/English bilingualism through cultural studies
Capstone Advisor: Ron Krabill
Portfolio Advisor: Ben Gardner
2011
2010 Capstone Research Projects
Trina Ballard
Environmentalism On Board - Becoming a Citizen Surfer Scientist
Capstone Advisor: Benjamin Gardner
Second Reader: Sean Schmidt
Portfolio Advisor: Elizabeth Thomas
2010
Randi Courtmanch
The Black Heart and Other Works – Meaning Making in Art Practices
Capstone Advisor: Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren
Portfolio Advisor: Susan Harewood
2010
salena farris
OutWrite Identities
Capstone Advisor: Jeanne Heuving
Second Reader: Aimee Beth Leggett
Portfolio Advisor: Kari Lerum
2010
Ann Ferreira
Recontextualizing Hakani
Capstone Advisor: Ron Krabill
Second Reader: Bruce Burgett
Portfolio Advisor: Jeanne Heuving
2010
Joshua Heim
In an Adda Space and Time?
Capstone Advisor: Benjamin Gardner
Second Reader: Manish Chalana
Portfolio Advisor: Bruce Burgett
2010
Valerie Heuschkel
Private Pleasure
Capstone Advisor: Kari Lerum
Second Reader: Jeanne Heuving
Portfolio Advisor: Eric Stewart
2010
Angelica Macklin
Scholarly Activism Through the Documentary Process
Capstone Advisors: Ron Krabill and Jonathan Warren
Second Reader: Greg Mullins
Portfolio Advisor: Susan Harewood
2010
Joy MacTavish-Unten
Mixed-Race LGBTQ Families: Identities, Strategies and Support Systems
Capstone Advisor: Kari Lerum
Second Reader: Rebecca Aanerud
Portfolio Advisor: Bruce Burgett
2010
Christine Nelson
Becoming a Diversity Worker
Capstone Advisor: Jeanne Heuving
Second Reader: Susan Harewood
Portfolio Advisor: Elizabeth Thomas
2010
Tyler Pratt
Re:Sounding Community: Soundscapes and the Performance of Community Meaning
Capstone Advisor: Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren
Portfolio Advisor: Ben Gardner
2010
Jeremy Richards
Nietzsche! The Musical
Capstone Advisor: Joe Milutis
Second Reader: Constantin Behler
Portfolio Advisor: Jeanne Heuving
2010
Faith Simonelli
Cultural Identity in Children within Shifting Cultural Boundaries
Capstone Advisor: Elizabeth Thomas
Second Reader: Leslie Ashbaugh
Portfolio Advisor: Eric Stewart
2010
Jayne Swift
Hot for Teacher: Sex Work and Academic Spaces
Capstone Advisor: Kari Lerum
Portfolio Advisor: Eric Stewart
2010
Myrella Thompson
The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Knowledge and Understanding
Capstone Advisor: Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren
Portfolio Advisor: Elizabeth Thomas
2010
Alan Williams
"Mormon" and "Queer" at Crossroads
Capstone Advisor: Susan Harewood
Portfolio Advisor: Jeanne Heuving
2010