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Senior Theses, Undergraduate Research, and Conference Presentations

• Lauren Arruza, Amanda Berry, Katie Sue Campbell, Latausha Forney, Ulana Holtz, Marla Sutherland, FACADE: An Interactive DIY-Inspired Art Installation and Workshop
• Jacob Barker, Adam Cable, Lee Doyle, and Caroline Wilson, "Let's Do the Time Warp Again":  Que[e]rying Time Through Multimedia
• Precious Barksdale, An Analysis of Black Women in Hip Hop Music Videos
• Amanda Berry, Burlesque: Identity and Community
• Gaia Boyd, Women and the Negotiation of Self-Care
• Hannah Burgwyn, Memory Keepers and Matriarchs: An Ethnographic Look at Female Agency among Italian-Americans
• Melanie Camp, Social Capital in Lord of the Rings Online 
• Kate Cubbler, Elizabeth Doane, Allison Gaines, Arthur Gelly, and Willa Smith, Integrating Service Learning and Undergraduate Research in Restorative Justice Work, (presented at the UNCA Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium, November 2010)
• Tiffani Goss, Holly Newton, and Beth Schuurmans, The Silenced Queer Body
• Garth Grimball, Body Language: The Vocabulary and Communication of the Dancer's Body 
• Stephen Greenslade, Evidence of the Instability of Heterosexist Bias in Adolscent Discourse
• Julia Held, A Cup of Companionship: An Ethnography of Starbucks
• Minori Hinds, Serious Word Play: Notes on Words Heard on the Asheville Transit System
• Natalie Little de Gorter, Dreadful Locks: Stigma and the Privilege of Choice
• Sharon Lloyd, Jump in the Fire: A look at Masculinity in Firefighter Identity
• Jack Manning, Place, Community, and Belonging among Immigrants in Emma, North Carolina
• Nicholas Marshall, One Hand Washing the Other: Asheville's Pushcart Food Vendors at the Crossroads of Community 
• Elliot Mauer, The Sociology of Money
• Anna Oblinger, Narratives of Resistance: Displacement and Emplacement in the Burton Street Community
• Melody Rood and Natalka Wiszcur, Mail Seeking Mail:  A Portrayal of LBGT Creativity from the Tranzmission Prison Books Project
• Allison Schad, The Bicycle Sets Me Free: Transportation Choices of Women in Amsterdam
• Janet Schafer, Jobs Engendered: How Women Experience Gender in a Male-Dominated Job
• Leah Smith, How Memory Affects Sense of Self: Stories of Traumatic Brain Injury
• Mollie Stauss, Feminist Practices of Caseworkers: Creating Agency in an Alternative Sentencing Program Setting
• Charlotte Taylor, Religiosity and College: A Study of the Possible Effects of Secondary Education on Religiosity
• Julie Williams, Faith as Self-Ascription: Contemporary Identity as Seen Through a Small Baptist Church
• Natalka Wiszcur, Integrating Activism and Academia through a Queer Lens
• Ridley Zook, Women and Sexuality in the Mass Media in 1960 and 2010

FACADE -- An Interactive DIY-Inspired Art Installation done by Sociology and WGSS students and faculty, and exhibited at UNCA's Queer Studies Conference, the Southeastern Women's Studies Conference in Atlanta, and at the Center for Participatory Change in Waynesville, NC.  Creators: Lauren Arruza, Amanda Berry, Katie Sue Campbell, Latausha Forney, Ulana Holtz, Marla Sutherland, Amy Lanou, and Karin Peterson