We hope you'll join us for the spring 2019 HSOC Undergraduate Research Symposium on Wednesday, April 17th from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Hall Building, Room 102. If you'd like to join us, PLEASE RSVP.
SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS
9:00 — 9:05 AM Welcoming Remarks, Dr. Laura Bier
9:05 — 9:20 AM Haley Phillips- “Real Men Can’t Be Vegetarians: The Gendering of Meat Consumption in the United States, 1999 - 2019”
9:20 — 9:35 AM Shembari Phillips- “Food Security in Chad, 2008 to the Present”
9:35 — 9:50 AM Kayla McManus-Viana- “Meating in the Middle? Environmental Policy and Cattle Ranching in the Brazilian Amazon, 1960 - Present”
9:50 — 10:05 AM Hannah Corpe- “And That’s the Tea: The Social and Environmental Impacts of Tea in Modern India”
10:05 — 10:15 AM Coffee Break
10:15 — 10:30 AM Davis Schultz- “Neoliberalism and NAFTA: Undermining Labor Protections in California’s Agricultural Industry, 1994 - 2010”
10:30 — 10:45 AM Yonatan Weinberg- “From Backyard Hobby to Global Prominence: The Origins of the Hass Avocado That Rose to Dominate the California Market in the Early 20th Century"
10:45 — 11:00 AM Meredith Wood- “Organic Farming and the Rise of Avocado Production in California and Mexico”
11:00 — 11:15 AM Isabella Vear- “Got (Alternative) Milk?: Why American Consumers Quit Dairy, 1970 - 2019”
11:15 — 11:30 AM Lucy Groves- “Overcompensating: Crash Diets and the Degradation of Western Diets”
11:30 — 11:45 AM Keely Mruk- “Thinking Outside the Bun: A Critical History of Taco Bell”
11:45 AM — 12:00 PM Rachel Dekom- “‘We are as Gods:’ How Postwar Technology and 1960s Activists Shaped American Environmentalism”
12:00 — 12:15 PM Kaylan Pugh- “Cointelpro: The FBI’S Intense Focus on Black Nationalist Groups”
12:15 PM Lunch