Events from 2017
The Vagrant: Where the Soviet Love of Bollywood Began, Sarah Chatta
Judaism Despite Modernity: Schoenberg and the German Tradition, Maurice Cohn
“Urban Provincianos”: La Música Chicha and Cultural Identity in 1970s and 1980s Lima, Perú, Julian Cranberg
Musical Translation: The Translation and Transformation of an Eighteenth-Century German Play into a Modern Opera, Serena Creary
Imagine Trees Like These — A Virtual Reality Narrative Concerning Forests, Futurity, and Ephemerality, Andres Cuervo
Ninety Seconds in Charleston: How Historical Memory and Myth Sustain Racial Inequality in America, Kaia Diringer
Thomas Paine's (Un)Common Sense and the Politics of Disagreement, Jordan Ecker
Rethinking Redevelopment: New Urbanism, Neoliberalism, and Sustainable Urban Design Initiatives in Cleveland, Ohio, Julian Geltman
The Underground Soviet: Shaping Soviet Culture in the Leningrad Metro, Ian Gilchrist
Consider the Mantis Shrimp: Semiotics and Authorship in Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler, Zoe Ginsberg
Structure and Randomness in Iannis Xenakis' Analogique A, Sam Goree
Towards a Relative-Pitch Neural Network System for Chorale Composition and Harmonization, Sam Goree
Mapping Mikt’sqaq Angayuk: A GIS Analysis of a Nineteenth-Century Sod House, Maggie Gossiaux
Inadvertent Naturalists: Turgenev, Aksakov, and Russia's New Ornithology, Walker Griggs
Collaborative Resource Sharing Between the Prospect Elementary School Library and the Oberlin Public Library, Natalie Hartog
Investigating Allomorphy in a Coordinating Conjunction: A Corpus Study of Hiaki (Yaqui) Into(k(o)), Olivia Hay and Mattea Scheiber Koon
The Problem of Genre in Opera and Musical Theater, Lily Johnson
The Impact of Music Education on Language Development, Gabrielle Kaufman
Shock Therapy: Horror Aesthetics in German Modernism, Sean Lambert
By Any Genes Necessary: Enlightened Self-Interest in Soren Kierkegaard’s Works of Love, Noah Last
Nurturing a Community of Trust and Resilience: Coalition Building and Faith-Based Organizing at El Centro, Rachel Leader
"A Wilderness of Mirrors": Reality TV, Fake News, and Surveillance in the Trump Era, Elizabeth Levinson
Bird Chatter as an Indicator of Safety: To What Extent Do Eastern Gray Squirrels Rely on Public Information?, Marie Lilly
Whipped Cream, Whiskey, and Weight Loss: Exploring the Versatility of E-cigarette Use in Adolescents and Adults, Alexa L'Insalata and Meghan E. Morean
Depth of Field: Giovanni di Paolo's Landscapes in Fifteenth-Century Siena, Noah Margulis
A Journey Through the Forest: The Evolution of Concept Albums and Song Cycles, Perry Maybrown
It’s a Boys’ Club, Isn’t It?: One Dimensionality in Portrayals of the Female Rocker, Kristin McFadden
Who Is “The Scholar"? or, Looking for Truth with Emerson, Liam McMillin
Barbershop Quartets and American Popular Music, Samuel Mellman
Transformation through Installation: Portraying Ovidian Metamorphoses via Multimedia, Jackie Milestone
To Make You Feel Something: Analyzing Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon, Anthony Moaton
Oberlin College Hoops: Sport and Diversity in Higher Education, Zach Moo Young
Dignity and Dining Halls: Relations of Power in Oberlin Labor, Jeeva Muhil
Between and Beyond the Binary: Gender Pronouns and Community Support, Al Nadeau-Rifkind
The Sonification of Money: Applying Creative Innovation in the Music Industry, Grover Neville
Who is Neotraditional?: Visualizing Postcolonial Identities in J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere's Hairstyles Photographs, Alexandra Nicome
The Endangerment Turn: Tracking the Transition of Vegetarian Discourse in Contemporary China, Brendan Nuse
Experiential Composition: An Exploration of Virtual-Environmental Music, Isaac Pearl
Experimental Biomechanics on Trinucleid Fringe Pits (trilobita), Kirk Pearson
Codeswitching in Hiaki Conversational Discourse: An Evaluation of Myers-Scotton's Matrix Language Frame Model, Sophie Pierson
"And There in the Postwar Silence": Olga Berggolts and Postwar Soviet Subjectivity, 1945-1954, Lillian Posner
Granary C113 from Karanis: A Case of Misidentification, Shelby Raynor
Community-Based Social Marketing Research: Sustainable Behavior Change in Oberlin, Lauren Rhodes and Abigail Carlstad
Articulations of Mestizaje in Early Twentieth-Century Mexican Art, Juan Omar Rodriguez
Voices from the Forge: Work, Space, and Communication in Early Cistercian Monasticism, Jacob Roosa
Flight, Musical Expression and Virtuosity, Christiana Rose
Poetry by Langston: Lessons Taught and Learned Through Writers-in-the-Schools (WITS), Nick Rowan Bassman
The Role of Millet in Pre-Roman Italy, Scott Russell
Fearless Foreign Women: Exploring Tamar And Ruth As Characters Within A Post-Exilic Debate on Intermarriage, Rachel Sacks
Optimization of Emulsion PCR for Aptamer Selection, Naviya Schuster-Little
Lessons in Resilience: From Biological Systems to Human Food Systems, Liv Scott
Symphonies of Horror: Musical Experimentation in Howard Shore’s Work with David Cronenberg, Vikram Shankar
"We Need Not Weep Alone": Evelyn C. White's Vision of a World Where Black Women are Free, Natalia Shevin
Infrared and Thermal-Desorption Spectroscopy of Hydrogen in Metal-Organic Frameworks, Kai Shinbrough
Goddess Killing: The Combat Myth and Politics in the Revelation of John, Emma Snape
"This is a Closed Space for Queer Identifying Folx": Queer Spaces on Campus, Tory Sparks
What's In A Neanderthal: A Comparative Analysis, Taylorlyn Stephan
Grooves on the Mind: The Call for Music Therapy Practices Applicable to Communities of Color, Khalid Taylor
Pathways In & Out of STEM: An Exploration of School Structure and Its Effects on Underrepresented Minorities at Oberlin College, Xavier Tirado
Including Interstellar Scattering Effects in Pulsar Timing, Jacob Turner
Reading' the Tracking Shot in Nadja and Marienbad, Eleanor H. Van Buren
Violence in the Feed: Accelerated Productions and Circulations of Police Brutality Videos, Natalie Ventura Villasana
Synthetic Melanin Filtration Agents, Alejandro Vera
Georges Bataille: A Body in Motion, Daniel West
Responsible Songwriting: Ethical Challenges in Collaborative Autoethnographic Composition, Alexandra Wilder
Gustavo Gutiérrez's Liberation Theology: A Hermeneutic of Utopian Hope, Hunter Zepeda
Events from 2016
Breaking Down “Development”: A Music Theoretical Approach to Understanding Journey in Music, Henry Aberle
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: How the Demolition of the Chicago Housing Projects Affected Gun Violence, Jasmine Adams
Boston's Villa Victoria: A Space Produced, Madeleine Aquilina
Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Towards Transgender People: The Role of Demographic and Psychosocial Variables, Stephanie Atwood
Luteinizing Hormone and the Brain: A Role for Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor, Nathaniel Bohm-Levine
Spiritual Approaches to Type 2 Diabetes Management, Zoe Braunstein
Contested Land, Contested Representations: Re-visiting the Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine, Gabriel Brown
Contextualizing Affordable Housing Resistance and Exclusion, Yvette Chen
Clades Variana: The Literary Shadows of Teutoburg in Tacitus' Annals, Timothy Chung
Playing Porteño: Translating History Across Cultural Stages, Rebecca Cohen
Black and Still Gold: Africana Cultural Approaches to Knowledge and Formal Education, Alexandria Cunningham
Quantifying Land Use and Erosion in Southwest China, Megan Curiel and Zanna Doak
Exact Pattern Containment in Restricted Growth Functions, Robert Dorward
Critical Pedagogy and Arts-integrated Curriculum in K-12 Schools, Miriam DuVall
Analyzing Geomorphic Impact of Early Agriculture on the Tibetan Plateau, Dominic Fiallo
Demonic Bodies Under Construction, Miriam Finkelman
The Los Angeles Beat Scene: Using MIDI Tracing as a Framework for Transcription, Analysis, and Creation, Alex Frank
To Come Alive in Our Experience: The Sounds of Listening in Sigurd F. Olson, Allison Fulton
The Effects of the Munich Visiting Program on German-Jewish Memory of the Holocaust, 1960-1972, Jesse Gamoran
“Music-making in a Joyous Sense”: Community and the Dangers of Modernity at Benjamin Britten's Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, Daniel Hautzinger
Post-structural Sounds: Listening to the Relationship Between Post-structuralism and Music in Debussy, Mann, and Joyce, Flora Hollifield
Twelve Syllables and Counting: Translating Racine's Andromaque (1667) in Alexandrines, Manon Hume
Managing Racist Pasts: The Black Justice League’s Demand for Inclusion and Its Challenge to the Promise of Diversity, Tomoyo Joshi
Architecture and Connectedness to Nature, Sarah Kahl
Entomopathic Nematodes Found in a Population of Emerald Ash Borers from Connecticut, Alexandra Kahn
Women in Resistance: Impacts on Land, Life, and Community, Zia Kandler
On the Approximability of DAG Edge Deletion, Nathan Klein
Ethel Merman: The Effect of "Belt" on the Broadway Musical, Eve Kummer-Landau
To Sound Jewish: An Exploration of Faith in the Music of Felix Mendelssohn, Lisa Learman
Do Squirrels Let Birds Do Their Work for Them?, Emma Lucore
Soundscaping: The Art and Theory of Audio Engineering, Cole Lumpkin
Analyzing Hunch-based Decision-making, William Lynch
