Darci Biswell

A Floristic Survey of Lichens in Protected Forests of Greene County, Ohio

Lichens are sensitive bioindicators of forest condition and air quality, yet comprehensive floristic inventories of lichen remain lacking across much of the Midwest.

Rosabella Hernandez

Showcasing the “Other”: How Museums Can Make Or Break Opportunities for Cultural Representation

An art installation that includes unconscious drawings I have created over time, arranged as visual autoethnographic data from my lived experience.

Sutton Perez

Sheltered: A Story of Two Siblings

Sheltered: A Story of Two Siblings tells the story of two siblings placed in foster care within a devout, patriarchal religious cult in Galveston, Texas. Being a light novel, it combines both written and visual storytelling elements with both written passages and comic-inspired illustrations.

Chloe Harvey

A Dendrochronological Study of Two Invasive Lianas in Southwestern Ohio

This study investigates the growth ecology of two invasive lianas. Effective control of
these invasive lianas requires understanding their growth patterns and how this changes with age after they begin vertical growth habits after tree attachment. This study addresses that gap in the
literature.

Jessie Tejera-Fabian

Quién eres tú?

An invitation to engage in internal dialogue as a means of self discovery. Created with foraged, donated, and lightly purchased materials, this ogling tapestry was inspired from my own struggle to identify with my latina origins.

LARK ORBE

Gesture as Communication and Relationship Building for Social Transformation

What if people spoke a non-verbal language, a universal language? My work proposes making movement and gesture we already use to express ourselves central to our consciousness in communication.

Rei Baldemor

ENTERTAINMENT!

A surrealist short film inspired by the horrifying nature of current domestic U.S. politics. Particularly the deployment of I.C.E en masse against both undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizens. The film explores overt cruelty and sadism akin to what is practiced and accepted by our current federal administration through the lens of those who are subject to their authority.

Ella Norris

Rethinking Food Service: Power Structures in the Workplace and Social Reproduction

A series of essays that explore themes about how the food industry is central to capitalist critique, understanding how capitalism reproduces itself, and what we could imagine otherwise.

Ada Xie

Dreamy Bejeweled Crown of a certain Sunny, Sugarrush, Princess Magical Girl~💖

A story of my own about a magical girl who thinks she is getting too old to be one, when in reality she is still considered very young (twenties or thirties).

Colin Ross

Benefits and Drawbacks of Positive Reinforcement

This research review synthesizes current literature on the application of Positive Reinforcement (R+) within modern behavioral training protocols.

Yuri Whitley

Clear Water, Clouded Truth: A Microplastic Survey of SW Ohio's Surface Waterssue 5

This research surveyed local surface water samples for microplastics, identified potential sources, and summarized peer-reviewed literature to understand the mechanisms by which microplastics affect water quality, aquatic life, and public health.

Valeria Navarro

Our Bodies, Our Experiences: A Field Guide to Culturally Responsive Menstrual Health Educationssue 5

Heron Schleeter

Rhizomatic Relations: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Commons within the Little Miami River Valley

Rhizomatic Relations is an ethnographic exploration of how the Commons may already persist within the socioecological networks of the Little Miami River Valley.

Ismael Ramirez

Seeing the Unseen: A Speculative Fiction of Eden, Exile, and the Colonized Mental Landscape

A creative autoethnographic Colloquia project inspired by the research foundation of my capstone. Drawing from my capstone’s use of testimony, visual art, unconscious drawing, and autoethnography, this project transforms research into an immersive symbolic display.

Sunni Greene

"Still Carrying It": An Autoethnographic Podcast as Global Engagement Practice

What does Global Studies and Engagement actually feel like? Not in theory, but in life? This project answers that question through story. Growing up in a multicultural military community, the world felt like one place. Then it didn’t.

Heather Cain

Speculative Ethnography of Community Care: ""Self-Care Sundays"" and the “Hocking Hills Retreat” as Sites of Modern Anthropological Repair

This is an ethnographic engagement with two concepts integral to the field of anthropology: care and community. The study is grounded by two sites of analysis, “Self-Care Sundays"" and “Hocking Hills Retreat”, which were grassroots student-led events for the mental and physical benefit of college students at Antioch College.

Latawyna Edick

Food Deserts: Reimagining Food Access

This project examines the relationship between the global food supply, world hunger, and food deserts while exploring how alternative farming methods and policy interventions may help improve food accessibility and sustainability.

El Mele

Cook for Your Life: A Cookbook for those Coping with Mental Illness (I'm workshopping the title)

Mental illness in the United States has reached all time highs. Regardless of whether this is reflective of a true increase in rates or patients actually seeking diagnosis, the fact that rates haven't been stabilized despite increase in treatment access and options demonstrates the need for other treatment options. This cookbook adds to the collection of literature that attempts to address mental illnesses through healthy cooking.

Colloquia

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