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Colloquia Catalog Designer: Hannah Priscilla Craig ’17 Student Content Editors: Kathyrn Iris Olson ’17 and Heather Linger ’17 Colloquia Grant Writer, Artistic Director and Coordinator: Jennifer Wenker, Creative Director of the Herndon Gallery Chair, Arts at Antioch Printed by DMS Ink, Yellow Springs, OH
Antioch College Antioch College is a groundbreaking and progressive institution and community, dedicated to winning victories for humanity. Antioch students apply their classroom learning in the world at-large, through extended co-op work placements with national and international organizations. Antioch teaches and lives its commitments to educational innovation, an engaged campus community, and the pursuit of social justice in all its forms. Originally founded in 1850, Antioch has long been an agent of disruptive change, having been the only liberal arts college in the country with a required work component for more than 100 years. The cooperative education program reflects Antioch’s critical pedagogical insight that separation of classroom learning from the world of work is artificial--a philosophy that has produced Nobel Laureates, Fulbright and Rhodes scholars and notables in the arts, government, business and education. The words of Loren Pope, former education editor of The New York Times and author of Colleges That Change Lives, speak to Antioch’s unique capability: “Antioch is in a class by itself. There is no college or university in the country that makes a more profound difference in a young person’s life, or that creates more effective adults. None of the Ivies, big or small, can match Antioch’s ability to produce outstanding thinkers and doers.” Antioch College is located in beautiful Yellow Springs, Ohio, in the heart of the Miami Valley. Learn more at www.antiochcollege.edu and on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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COL-LOQUIA (to gather in conversation)
There is something truly beautiful about a liberal arts education in the way that breadth of thinking is cultivated and encouraged, where cross-pollination of ideas and ways of seeing occur across what otherwise would be a hard divide between disciplines. Instead, the mind is open to explore freely what it finds curious, drawing connections, seeing where patterns emerge, discovering cycles and rhythms and new questions that need asking. It is this semipermeable membrane of a liberal arts education generally, and an Antioch College experiential liberal arts education specifically, that cultivates well-read, big picture thinkers equipped with both depth and breadth, ready and prepared to make a difference in the world. It is also in this spirit, that we are so honored to present COLLOQUIA 2017 | The first annual Antioch College Senior Capstone Showcase to share with you a beautiful glimpse of the variety and complexity of creative journeys that an Antioch College education can take! And, it is our hope with COLLOQUIA 2017, that by gathering and sharing freely what we have learned (through this Chautauqua-like series of events and catalog) with one another, we also expand in our capacity to understand, to be understood, and to refine the questions we need to be asking in order to protect our democracy, our world’s peoples and ecosystems, and win victories for our shared humanity. It has been an absolute joy to serve on behalf of the college to imagine and expand this event from a shared arts series to an allcampus public-facing senior capstone showcase and to collaborate and coordinate so many beautiful interplaying parts and people of Antioch College to make COLLOQUIA 2017 a reality. Antioch College is truly a rare treasure in this world and we welcome you to join us! Jennifer Wenker COLLOQUIA Coordinator Creative Director of the Herndon Gallery
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It is my distinct pleasure to welcome you to Colloquia 2017: a showcase of senior capstone presentations by the Antioch College Class of 2017. For those of you unable to personally attend the Colloquia presentations and receptions on campus, whose only engagement may be through this beautiful catalog, I am confident you will be as impressed as I am with the wide range of questions, problems, intersections, connections, subjects and approaches represented within. Without knowing something about the nature of an Antioch education and the highly-dedicated and talented faculty who have supported and mentored this able group of students, it almost seems impossible that a small college could be the site for such production. At Antioch College, education is embraced as a wholehearted learning enterprise. It is not something regarded primarily as academic training for a credential or as a dry run for life. Rather, in the words of John Dewey, “Education is life” and in that spirit Antioch has long sought to be an engagement in the world instead of a retreat from it. It is for this reason that up to one-third of a student’s time at Antioch College is spent immersed in work-study learning organized through our Cooperative Education and Global Studies Program. The majority of these experiences take place off campus, in other cities and countries, where life and work arrangements provide active learning environments in which students test themselves and their ideas in real time and on real jobs. The process is demanding, introducing as it does, regular intervals of disruption, adaptation and reintegration. But it also delivers remarkable individual growth and real world perspective that is strongly seen and felt when students return to the campus and classroom. It is this interplay between rigorous academics and world-engaged learning that is so vividly demonstrated in the senior work shared and so elegantly documented in Antioch College’s Colloquia 2017. For those of you who will have the pleasure of participating in one or more of the all-campus Colloquia presentations, performances, exhibits or screenings so beautifully captured in this catalog, I would call your attention to the root word for colloquia: colloquy, which has the basic meaning “to speak together. ” Speaking together (not at the same time, of course) requires that we make ourselves open and present to listen and see, to ponder and question, and perhaps to exchange new or different perspectives on matters; but in all cases, we hope speaking together will lead us to explore and expand our shared understanding through this sharing of knowledge. That is what we celebrate in Colloquia 2017 and why we are exceedingly grateful to the hard working seniors, faculty and curators who have given us the opportunity to speak, listen, exchange views and, ultimately, explore the world and our understanding of it, together.
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Congratulations Class of 2017! This publication and the curation of your senior project through the Colloquia 2017 serves as a wonderful finale to your experience at Antioch College. For students, senior projects represent the culmination and integration of critical aspects of their curricular, community and co-op experiences at Antioch. So many individuals and experiences empower, support and facilitate learning over a student’s time at Antioch College. Faculty, from foundations to senior project, inform, influence and challenge their thoughts, direction, and views of the world through different orientations and perspectives. Co-op faculty, employer placements, and curricular assets create and inspire opportunities to apply knowledge and skills through direct practice and work with practitioners in a multitude of spaces; helping students find their place, their people, and communities of practice that resonate with their Antioch engagement. We would like to take this opportunity to recognize co-op and Miller Fellow employers who serve to extend the communities of practice and experience for our students. Community members in all forms support, nurture and encourage our students and each other in their growth. Special thank you to Jennifer Wenker, Hannah Priscilla Craig, faculty and seniors for your contribution to the first Colloquia event and this beautiful catalog. Arts at Antioch worked to support Jennifer in hearing initial thoughts and program ideas, enthusiastically offering feedback, and shepherding an all-arts division exhibition, screening and performance gala and film festival as their Colloquia. The Antioch Co-op team and FACT project funding have made available generous support for the Colloquia, and the four Colloquia professional networking celebrations to help “springboard� our seniors into their communities of practice. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank our alumni for their unwavering and fierce support of this Antioch adventure. Students and Faculty, this catalog is a beautiful and tangible publication that serves to contextualize your senior projects through information, essays, images and the details you share. It documents what would otherwise be un-curated, impermanent, accessible to only a few and lost (even to those) as time and the events pass. Your vision and contribution to creative collaboration and curating student and faculty work has served to bring our experience to new heights and allowed us to share this experience with the world outside Antioch College in new and better ways. Sincerely, Lori Collins-Hall Provost & Vice President of Academic Affairs Antioch College
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Students in the Arts at Antioch are makers! From foundations to senior projects, they are engaged in creating works in media (documentary and animation), visual arts (2D and 3D) and performance (experimental theatre and performance art) which are provocative, relevant, beautiful and innovative. Students also actively engage in making change. They see the potential for art as an important social practice that moves the audience to think differently, feel with others, and find new ways of living. Faculty members in the Arts Division are practitioner/scholars, active in their fields. They recognize the complex ways that artistic mediums and discourses converge, complement and resonate with each other in communities of artistic practice and social activism. The lines between disciplines blur as students create installations that incorporate performance, animations made from drawings, sculptures that are performed, and media that is whimsical as well as real world. In addition to studios and classrooms, the Arts Division takes full advantage of the curricular resources available on campus and off, including prestigious arts co-op opportunities at Creative Time, The Kitchen in NYC, Fraenkel Gallery (San Francisco), Ken Burns documentaries, Chicago Public Radio, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Denver Open Media, Children After School Arts Program, and Mujeres des Artes Tomar in Buenos Aires. On the Antioch campus, students are fortunate to have access to Antioch’s own WYSO--an NPR affiliated radio station renowned for excellent journalism, original programming and community engagement-giving students myriad opportunities for practical professional experience through the Miller Fellowship program, the Community Voices courses and beyond. Additionally, students interact with regional and national artists within the beautiful Herndon Gallery and the Foundry Theater mainstage and experimental theater spaces. Curriculum lives within these spaces where students are encouraged to put their theoretical investigations and personal practice to work. At the end of four years, students design and create a personal culmination of their work here at Antioch; a senior project. These projects are shared with the public and are always interesting and, well‌.amazing! 8
A student adaptation of Charles Mee’s play Bedtime Stories performed in the horseshoe of Antioch’s campus in the summer of 2016. The production was collectively created by Hannah Priscilla Craig ’17, Cole Gentry ’17, Trinica Sampson ’16, Evera Rayne ’16, and Selena Wilkinson ’17.
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Sean C. Allen Performance
Advisor: Juan-Sí Gonzalez Co-ops: Kingdom County Productions, Theater Workshop of Nantucket, Glen Helen, The Theater Offensive, Wellfleet Harbor Actor’s Theater Contact: sallen@antiochcollege.edu My work is stationed in the voice and the physical body, incorporating other live performances. I like to think of my process as an accumulative one, where I am constantly weaving what I learn from others into my own work. I think that longterm dreaming is an essential part to flushing out performance ideas, as well as playing with these ideas in rehearsal. Intentions embedded within my work are linked with the personal and interpersonal. I seek to promote solidarity among different groups of people through the means of using performance as an educational tool. Some of these themes include the exploration of queer and ability related identities, the raising awareness of intersectionality, the creation of a platform for silenced narratives and the use of imagination as a safe space.”
Hannah Priscilla Craig Performance
Advisors: Gabrielle Civil, Louise Smith, Juan-Sí Gonzales Co-ops: Creative Time (NYC), Arte Del Mundo (Ecuador), The SITI Company (NYC), Mujeres de Artes Tomar (Argentina) Website: hannahpriscilla.com I move / through / space. I ask questions that usually don’t have answers. I experiment in the spaces between dance, performance, installation, storytelling, and human interaction. My art is collaborative and multidisciplinary. I am inspired by collective imaginary, memory, dreams, space, and smells. I ask questions about race, family, gender, and ordinary existence. How does my bodily presence affect, intersect, and communicate with the white-supremacist, capitalist, hetero-sexist, patriarchy? How does my body connect with other bodies? How do bodies communicate and inhabit space? Who are our ancestors? Where are we from and where are we going? My performances manifest in many different compositions, usually incorporating immersivity, bodies, lights, sounds, movement, and a transmogrification of space. 10
Frank Adam Fortino Media Arts
Advisor: Charles Fairbanks Co-ops: Videographer for Antioch’s Co-op Department (Yellow Springs), Intern at Florentine Films (Walpole, New Hampshire), Assistant Editor for Rea Tajiri (Philadelphia), Filmed in Ireland while WWOOFing (Claremorris, Co. Mayo, Republic of Ireland) Contact: aabr.ffortino@gmail.com Talking Frankly & Growing Up and Out - By Frank For Frank Talking Frankly is a curated film event with live music, a whimsical host, and dancing. We will watch short films and excerpts of longer ones in the context of showing work that has influenced my own in the amphitheater. The show will close with a premiere screening of my new movie titled Growing Up and Out - By Frank, For Frank. It is a reflective, self- reflexive, and essayistic documentary about my experiences since coming to Antioch, how I have grown as a person both spiritually and intellectually, and what my plans are for the future.
Michael Thomas Cole Gentry Performance
Advisor: Louise Smith Co-ops: Housing Works Catering (Brooklyn), Director Michael Barakiva (Manhattan) Contact: mt.colegentry@gmail.com One Wo(Man) Show ONE WO(MAN) SHOW is where musical theater and performance art collides to tell a story of my journey with gender identity. It starts by going back to my roots in North Carolina and travels to my time here at Antioch College. One Wo(Man) Show looks deeply into the conversation of gender in relation to my own self-expression and how each environment I have found myself in has contributed to or held me back from that expression.
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Spencer Lee Glazer Media Arts
Advisors: Kelly Gallagher and Charles Fairbanks Co-ops: Photogropher and volunteer Laxmi Pratisthan and Himrights (Nepal) Contact: sglazer@antiochcollege.org The Chepangs of Kanda village The Chepangs are one of the oldest, and most impoverished ethnic groups in the Tibetan-Burman region, the majority of the population still lives a semi-nomadic way of life deep in the mountains of Nepal. With the population surge and increasing urbanization of Nepal it is becoming near-to impossible for these people to sustain themselves. Laxmi Pratisthan is a non-profit organization doing great work in the region and these photographs are for them. 100% of all proceeds go to LP to invest in the Kanda Village project, more information and a way to donate directly can be found here (http://www.laxmipratisthan.org/).
Heather Linger Visual Arts
Advisor: Michael Casselli Co-ops: Madisono’s Gelato, Perpich Center for Arts Education (Minneapolis), Natural Grocer’s (Lakewood, Colorado), Lake Isle Press (NYC) James Fuentes Gallery (NYC), Fundación Hampatu (Argentina) Website: heatherlinger.weebly.com Contact: heather.linger@gmail.com My artistic practice intuitively maps the broad and intimate relationships that exist in the world around me through painting, performance, and installation. Memories, dreams, relationships, and emotional reflections are documented to capture clear colors and conversation as well as blurry boundaries surrounding themes of memory, personal history, and one’s notion of home. I am interested in exploring the sensory expectations that exist in the everyday—the way certain sights, smells, sounds, tastes, and touches remind us of a person in a place in a space in a time. My intentions are to create works that liberate emotion, instigate conversation, and connect individuals and ideas.
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Selena Loomis Performance
Advisors: Louise Smith and Juan-Si Gonzalez Co-ops: River Styx Literary Magazine (St. Louis), WIG: The Martin Worman Review of Performance Research at Antioch College (Yellow Springs), Whole House Reuse (Christchurch, New Zealand) Contact: selenaloomis@gmail.com I’m a chronically ill genderqueer femme farmer making installation performances, poetry, and textile art, usually about my/the body in space. My work often centers around domesticity, sentimentality, (re)tracing familial heritage, somatic cycles, and public confession. I was born in a brick house in St. Louis, Missouri and grew up unschooled in the city. I am excited about stillness, subtle movements, and breathing.
Khalil O. Nasar Media Arts
Advisor: Charles Fairbanks Co-ops: ZAP Studios (San Francisco), Gproduction (Paris) Website: imeo.com/khalilnasar Contact: khalil.nasar@gmail.com v Nostalgia: A Visual EP A reminiscence on the past in relation to the present, Nostalgia is a 6-track visual album drawing inspiration from the experience of growing into adulthood. By looking at myself in the mirror, questioning my ideas of love and relationships, identity, mortality, and joy, I’ve created my first body of work that creates parity across original music and visual content. As an active experiment in creativity, the EP is produced through various techniques, sounds, and imagery aiming to be dynamic. Rhythm and melody are at the core of the sound which is heavily influenced alternative, hip-hop, pop, electronica, and latin elements.
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Kathryn Iris Olson Visual Arts
Advisor: Michael Casselli Co-ops: Crown Point Press (San Francisco), Mutual Adoration (Detroit), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Herndon Gallery at Antioch College (Yellow Springs), Yellow Springs Arts Council (Yellow Springs) Website: kathrynolsonart.com Contact: kathrynolsonart@gmail.com 1 in 5 The struggle with my mind and body is all that remains. Displaying a visual representation of my personal experience with rape and sexual assault, 1 in 5 reflects and continues the conversations that I have with myself. My work often showcases the exterior of the human body through the manipulation of the environment or the distortion of the figure itself. Often calling my pieces skins or garments, they cover the figure making the human form altered from its original state. This leads to a partial or complete disguising of the self and brings to question what we hide.
Cristian Perez-Lopez Media Arts
Advisors: Kelly Gallagher & Charles Fairbanks Co-ops: Studebaker Avanti (NYC), International Studio & Curatorial Program (Brooklyn), Actuality Media (Tanzania), Oral History for the Liberal Arts (Yellow Springs, Ohio), The Kitchen (NYC), Zoetrope Aubry Productions (San Francisco) Contact: cristianperezlopez94@gmail.com American Sweethearts In his debut feature-length film, Cristian Perez’s American Sweethearts follows two young men (Lucas Bautista and Cole Gentry) who meet at a gallery reception. After sparking an unexpected connection, the two find themselves spending an entire day with each other before going back to their individual lives thousands of miles apart. Within this character study, American Sweethearts is a depiction of vulnerability and a journey of self-discovery.
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Kelsey “Teddy� Pierson
Communicating the Natural World
Advisors: Michael Casselli and Kim Landsbergen Co-ops: Glen Helen Nature Preserve, Arc of Appalachia Preserve System, Wild Horse Sanctuary, Powdermill Nature Reserve, Aullwood Audubon Center & Farm Website: co-op.antiochcollege.edu/author/ kelsey-pierson/
Contact: kpierson@antiochcollege.edu Green Things: A Friendly Botanical Field Guide to Southwest Ohio & Beyond My artistic and academic interests center on the natural world, with a focus in botany. I am particularly interested in the ways this type of knowledge is made (in)accessible to people. To this end, my senior project is a zine-style botanical field guide featuring original photography, botanical information, and personal ruminations. The guide focuses on plants in the Yellow Springs area which have a special significance to me. By highlighting my relationship with each plant, I hope to foster more inclusive ways of thinking about how we are in community within the ecological spaces we inhabit.
Sam Stewart Visual Arts
Advisor: Michael Casselli Co-ops: Screen Printing Manager (Salt Lake City), Media Service (Yellow Springs), Crown Point Press (San Francisco) Contact: samstew41@gmail.com The driving forces behind my portraits are: an enduring interest in the relationship between the body and cultural experience, self expression, and the impact and ways portraiture shapes our relationships over time. The notion of ephemerality is central in my process; documenting human connections, dialogues and relationships as they morph over time. I am fascinated by the development of an individual, their relations and dependence on others shows a sense of duplicity and the inevitability of a new reality, while each individual has their own unique identity there is a constant change in the ways we choose to express who we are as we experience new conditions.
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The Humanities Division at Antioch values the diversity of histories and stories, ideas and questions. We engage globally and locally, interrogating the boundaries of traditional canons, seeking to engage traditions beyond divisions of North and South, East and West. We cross borders and examine boundaries. We believe that the study of History, Literature, and Philosophy opens us to worlds of human experiences and provides us with a better understanding of ourselves and our world, its past and future, and our place within. The Humanities Division seeks to provide students with a solid grounding in historical knowledge, clear writing, and clear thinking in order to enable students with the means to do the creative and intellectual work they love. Within the Humanities Division, students have done independent research-based and creative projects on a multitude of topics, including Turkish immigrant communities in Dayton; racial discrimination in housing; Chicana feminist literature; rural trans poetry; Books to Prisons projects and the Dayton Correctional Institute; Marxist philosophy; the thought of Walter Benjamin; and a comparative study of Hannah Arendt, Saul Alinsky, and Aristotle.
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While the Humanities Division emphasizes texts and contexts, we also seek to conjoin knowledge and action and to connect ideas and experiences. Examples of this include students leading community reading groups at the public library; classes that link the study of the Yoga Sutras to yoga practice at the Wellness Center; activities that integrate the Antioch Farm into the study of philosophy, history, and literature; and participation in the historic 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Summer in Mississippi. Humanities students’ co-op experiences—like studying at the Zen Center in Colorado, teaching at the Arthur Morgan School in North Carolina, or serving as a researcher for ESL and immigrant issues in the Dayton Public Schools--are deeply linked to the academic projects that they choose to undertake; reciprocally, the coursework that Humanities majors engage with at Antioch makes them articulate, informed, and valuable assets for the organizations that they work for.
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Ciana Ayenu Hisory
Advisor: Kevin McGruder Co-ops: Payne Theological Seminary, Wilberforce, Ohio Contact: cayenu@antiochcollege.edu Marion the Librarian: Connecting and Reimagining Lives My project is about my great-greatgrandmother. She was a librarian from 1897 until 1904, the year she got married. It is also about: me, connectedness, marriage as the end of a career OR the beginning of finding ways to do the same work outside of the career, family history, something like “what it is couldn’t be if what was wasn’t,” remembering and re-imagining, Braille transcription, putting myself and the archivists who have helped me into my historical work, North Dakota, memory, digitization, war work, experiential / experimental sources -- and a history that has little to do with “truth.”
Perin Ellsworth-Heller Philosophy
Advisors: Lara Mitias & Lewis Trelawny-Cassity Contact: pellsworth-heller@antiochcollege.edu A View from the Forest: On Education Towards Freedom A View from the Forest: On Education Towards Freedom”” is a personal exploration into the vast possibilities of education, an attempt to suggest alternatives to commonly held aims and models, and hopefully a start to finding new approaches to the acts of teaching and learning – approaches that resonate in the human life as relevant and joyful. This piece is as overgrown and green as a forest in late spring, but the argument is ever present, unfolding slowly and organically. I will engage with several streams of thought, but my argument primarily draws upon the foundational work of John Dewey, the profound insights of Rudolf Steiner. 18
My work is not perfectly clear in its execution, nor is it meant to be, but it is my hope to begin reconciling radical political approaches to education and learning, with radical spiritual and mental approaches. The arguments I make are meant to be accessible and enjoyable, while raising uncomfortable questions; they are meant to be a starting point for both myself and the reader, to be investigated thoroughly, disagreed with, and diverged from, by all who encounter them.
Mitch Goth Literature
Advisor: Robin Littell Contact: mitchell.goth@yahoo.com Dismantle When forming my plan for my final project at Antioch, I wanted to do something that both related to my personal interests as well as served some important purpose to contemporary society. That desire led to the nearly-finished project I have now, a full-length novel. Currently titled Dismantle, the novel is a psychological thriller with aspects of science fiction and traditional mystery. The plot of the story is directly tied to real world government experiments of the past, particularly those relating to chemical weaponry and the MKULTRA program. While dealing with many incidents from the past, the novel is set in contemporary America, often reflecting on just how much of the past might be present in our future. Out of all the ways to present these ideas, I chose a novel because of the medium’s importance to me. I have been writing novel and novella-length stories since high school, and when I came to Antioch I had eight to my name. One of my more lofty goals for my years at Antioch was to write my twentieth novel before I graduated. And, Dismantle just so happens to be number twenty.
Wren Holden History
Advisor: Rahul Nair Co-ops: McMillan, Michigan, Boulder, Colorado, Philomath, Oregon, Transient European Co-op Contact: wholden@antiochcollege. edu Literary Influence in Cultural History This project is a close look at the rich history of Scotland that has been influenced and shifted by the literary works of Sir Walter Scott. The early 19th century was, for Scotland, an era of rapid change, and shifting political and social opinion. It also represented a sort of cultural renaissance, which is largely attributed to the works of this one man in particular. Through an examination of the facts available to the modern scholar and some of Scott’s more relevant works, we can track the artistic licenses and literary devices that were used to build the modern interpretation of historic Scottish figures. Through this analysis, we might also see how the alteration of perception and history can have extreme political effects that popular culture can leave behind.
Ruth Lane
Communities In Thought and Practice
Advisors: Lewis Trelawny-Cassity, Sean Payne, & Mary Ann Davis Co-ops: Straw Bale Studio, The Arthur Morgan School, Antioch Farm, Southern Exposure Seed Exchange/the Acorn Community. Contact: rlane@antiochcollege.edu THE SEED, Opening up Space for Vitality and Love: an exploration of anarchist pedagogy This project is an exploration of the theory and practice of anarchist education. I reject the traditional mode of engagement in academic writing that is primarily focused with imparting knowledge. Instead, I hope to engage with the reader in a way that sparks a collaborative re-imagining of education. This project
seeks to share the beauty and power of seeds and the love and vitality of anarchy.
Annalisa McFarland Literature
Advisor: Mary Ann Davis Co-ops: Belmont High School (Dayton, OH), Yellow Springs High School (Yellow Springs, OH) Contact: amcfarland@antiochcollege. edu Loud Voices, Quiet Reception: Exploring Hip-Hop as Ignored Oraliture For my Senior Project I will be analyzing hip-hop lyrics through a literary lens and articulating the legitimacy and historical engagement that go into the writing and production of such pieces. The main aspect I will be engaging with will be the suppression of the lyrics and the notion of academia as being the sole arena where these lyrics are or aren’t given validity and value.The paper’s aim is to be argumentative for hip-hop as oraliture (performed literature), but also to create reflection amongst readers as to what it means to suppress and deny a specific type of message from being spoken, especially within the communities it most impacts. Looking specifically at Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “”The Message”” I will break down the lyrics and the beat as they work together to create an argument for hiphop as oraliture through analysis and close-reading. This paper will weave together and illuminate the intricate, and important, historical ties and community-building messages found within “”The Message,”” which is widely considered to be the first conscious hip-hop piece.
Keegan Smith-Nichols History
Advisor: Rahul Nair Co-ops: Moonshadow Farm, Nature’s Kennel, Peace Resource Center, Library of Congress Contact: ksmith-nichols@antiochcollege.edu 19
Eastern Air Lines Advertising and the Commercial Aircraft as Gendered Space, 1930-1954 Using changes in advertising strategies as a lens of inquiry, this paper examines the division of the American commercial aircraft into two gendered spaces and its impact on stewards employed by the Miami-based Eastern Air Lines between 1930 and 1954. From the 1920s to the mid 1930s, airlines emphasised passenger safety in their advertisements, which generally targeted men flying on business. With the advent of larger, safer planes in the mid-1930s, airlines shifted the focus of their marketing to passenger comfort in order to appeal to the wives and children of these businessmen, seeking to present the cabin of the aircraft as analogous to the American living room. Simultaneously, airlines began to transition from hiring men to hiring women to work as flight attendants. While previous scholarship attributes this change in hiring policy to economic motivations, this paper will add an additional focus to cultural factors that contributed to disappearance of stewards. By analysing Eastern Air Lines advertisements and their portrayals of masculine and feminine work in their efforts to sell flying, this paper will demonstrate that the cultural incongruence of men performing women’s work contributed to the demise of the steward.
Wyatt Souers Philosophy
Advisor: Lewis Trelawny-Cassity Co-ops: WYSO Public Radio. Vocalo Public Media, The Initiative: a Vermont Waldorf High School, Oral History in the Liberal Arts Initiative. Contact: wyattsouers@gmail.com Excavating Alternative Temporalities: Remembrance and Dialectical Images in Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy of History My project seeks to bring clarity to Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of History. Benjamin was a German Jewish philos20
opher and literary critic who was closely associated with the Frankfurt School critical theorists. Benjamin’s philosophy of history combined both Judaism and Marxism to present a very unique view of historical time. Benjamin’s philosophical project sought to give a critique of history thought of as a series of causal events progressing through a homogeneous, empty time. Benjamin was a strong opponent of any conception of history that sees humanity as getting progressively better or moving towards some ultimate, inevitable goal. Instead he sees all of human history as one ever-repeating catastrophe in which suffering and oppression are the norm. While Benjamin’s critique of historical time is clear in his writings, his alternative conception of temporality is not. My project attempts to elucidate some of Benjamin’s difficult to understand concepts through a close reading of his short 1940 essay “Theses on the Philosophy of History” and the notes to his incomplete book, The Arcades Project. In particular, I attempt to shed light on Benjamin’s conception of remembrance, redemption, and the dialectical image to piece together a coherent philosophy of history.
Taylor Spratt
Community Transformation: Culture, Education, Theory & Praxes Advisor: Lewis Trelawny-Cassity Co-ops: Dayton Public Schools, Kokrobitey Institute (Ghana), Yellow Springs Home, Inc., The Record (Antioch College) Contact: tspratt@antiochcollege.edu
The 7th Good School: Imagining Schools as Public Homeplaces This work invites the reader to explore the practice of democratic process in high schools, with the aims of fostering the development of voice; a strong, inclusive sense of community; and the experience and value of plurality. Moving away from a narrow focus on individual development as measured by standardization, educational institutions can fos-
ter a community in which students feel cared about, and care about their own development, that of their peers, and their community. “The 7th Good School: Imagining Schools as Public Homeplaces” seeks to propose a new model of character and culture that incorporates Sara Lawrence Lightfoot’s (1983) portraits of goodness in schools. The 7th Good School is an imaginary high school that proposes an inclusive, caring school culture, informed by portraits of Ponitz Career Technology Center, a vocational high school in Dayton. If we agree that the goal of public education is to create empowered subjects who work towards democracy and social change, we are implored to consider the role of schools as the first site of public life in our development. As a public homeplace, the 7th good school intends to nurture the development of voice, an appreciation of plurality, and serve as an incubator for democratic process. Through critical analysis of scholarly literature, alongside portraits of my own schooling and my work at Ponitz Career Technology Center, I invite the reader into a dialogical conception of the possibilities for the imagined 7th good school.
Greta Jean Treistman Social Transformation in the Americas
Co-ops: Fraenkel Gallery (San Francisco), Expanish Spanish School (Buenos Aires), La Llave Escuela Municipal de las Artes (San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina), North Star Fund (New York City), Law Office of Phillip Brigham (Chicago), Student Space Coordinator (Antioch College) Contact: gtreistman@gmail.com Meditation on Space featuring Antioch College Campus and the Outdoor Room This project is a transdisciplinary exploration of physical space, incorporating research, writing, performance art, and construction. It seeks to synthesize a methodology for critiquing institutional and social power in relation to architecture and infrastructure. 21
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The Science Division at Antioch College offers three B.S. majors (Biomedical, Environmental Science, and Self-Design) where students learn foundational concepts of science in a setting that blends experiential learning, intellectual rigor, and transferable technical skills. Our programs feature small classes and newly renovated labs, with lots of faculty interaction and opportunities to investigate new areas of interest. Antioch Science students learn the tools of the trade of Science: how to make systematic observations, develop hypothesisdriven questions, investigate and critique relevant literature, write research project proposals, and complete a wide variety of projects using on- and off-campus resources. The Science experience at Antioch is strengthened by outstanding co-operative education opportunities that allow students to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom to the “real world”, and to bring those co-op experiences back to campus to inform their academic programs. Simply put, well-chosen science co-op experiences can accelerate student success in transformative ways. Science co-op jobs are diverse and interesting opportunities for student learning and growth, for example: interning at the City of Dayton Water Quality Lab, working as a Marine Educator at the ForFar Field Station in the Bahamas, interning in various doctor’s offices and medical colleges, and working as a veterinary assistant rehabilitating injured animals. Our programs encourage students to connect with their passions through independent work that builds on a strong foundation of courses. One hundred percent of our full-time faculty have terminal degrees in their fields, and many of them work with students to offer Independent Studies (SCI 299) and Independent Research courses (SCI 297/397), so that students can work to pursue topics in greater depth. We have outstanding assets used by faculty in students for teaching and research, such as Glen Helen Nature Preserve, The Antioch Farm, renewable energy systems (1 MW solar array and geothermal field), and well-supplied laboratory, field equipment, and computer labs. Senior Science Research Projects reflect the diverse interests and abilities of our students. The Division is committed to supporting student work by providing opportunities to fund student projects. We proudly celebrate the achievements of our Science majors with a public research forum, and encourage sharing project outcomes with the public as well. 22
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Julia Bates Biomedical
Advisor: Dr. David Kammler Co-ops: Teacher’s Aide at Kids Adventures, Antioch College Kitchens, Medical Scribe for Eureka Pediatrics, Teacher’s Aide at Suisen Fukushikai Kaze no ko (Japan) Sex toy material safety: Capacity for microbial growth and implications for disease transmission and reinfection Sex toys, while ubiquitous, are unregulated and understudied in the United States. Potential health issues surrounding sex toys include material toxicity (primarily from phthalate-softened PVC) and disease transmission. Lack of current peer-reviewed evidence on these topics has resulted in consumer reliance on information from the industry and “citizen scientist” bloggers for health knowledge; both sources have significant limitations. In my project, I am generating evidence involving bacterial and fungal growth conditions in sex toys, with a comparison between widely available material types. Previous studies have addressed toxicity; my study will provide valuable public health information to manufacturers, consumers and regulatory bodies on the potential for disease transmission.
Mark Brimmeier
Bio-medical Science Advisor: Dr. David Kammler Co-ops: Northshore University Health System (IL), Kettering Health Network Physical Therapy (OH) Contact: mbrimmeier@antiochcollege. org Design and Use of an Interactive Concussion Education E-module Flyer to Highlight Effectiveness of a Health Resource: An Action Project With 300,000 concussions occurring in US athletics every year, and over half of those going unreported, concussions are a huge and growing problem. There’s no universal prevention, treatment, or management program, but educat24
ing youth and adolescent athletes has shown promise in increasing rates of reporting the injury. This action project’s objective was to educate high school athletes about a free online resource (also known as an e-module). This involved the making of flyers for both athletes and coaches that provide information about the e-module. By promoting this resource, athletes can be more prepared for when a concussion occurs, while coaches can feel safer knowing their athletes are likely to report concussion symptoms to a trainer. After meeting with local coaches, they have received copies of each flyer as well as a detailed explanation on how to access it and why it’s important that they use the e-module to educate their athletes. Safety is the top priority in most high school sports leagues, and we expect coaches or athletes to take the time and get educated on concussions.
Maya Canaztuj
Environmental Science
Advisor: Dr. Kim Landsbergen Co-ops: Cleveland Metroparks (Cleveland), Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center (FL), EPA P3 Grant (Yellow Springs), City of Dayton, Division of Water Supply and Treatment (OH) Contact: mcanaztuj94@gmail.com Urine Composting Toilets and its possible Effects on Harmful Algal Blooms In Freshwater Ecosystems Algae, which is an aquatic plant, can differ in appearance; from microscopic to colonial masses that can cover the surface of water . Some species of this plant are classified as harmful algal blooms also known as cyanobacteria. This paper is a part of a larger project that looks into composting human urine as an alternative to chemical-rich-fertilizers for use on farmland. This study is a focus on the possible reduction of harmful algal blooms with the use of composting toilets to prevent the release of dangerous toxins. Large mats of the thick green bacteria can cause anything from skin irritation to the removal
of oxygen, from a system creating dead zones. Neurotoxins and peptide hepatotoxins pose health threats to humans, animals and ecosystems. Harmful algal blooms, or HABs are a response to excess runoff, that is rich in nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, from farms, lawns and pollution. Urine composting is a new concept that could potentially replace the use of harmful fertilizers on farmland. The technology is still being developed but prototypes have been built, and test runs have been completed to understand the benefits and limitations of this use of human waste.
Tess Haskin Biomedicine
Advisor: Dr. David Kammler Co-ops: Miami Township Fire-Rescue (Yellow Springs), Sheba Medical Center (Israel), Over 500 hours shadowing physicians in the ER, OR, oncology, and nuclear medicine department of several different hospitals (Sheba Medical Center, Soin Medical Center, and Greene Memorial Hospital), Rehab Center (WA) Contact: thaskin@antiochcollege.edu Virulence Factors Responsible for Pathogenicity of Uropathogenic E. coli Strains: The Causative Agent of Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Extremely Preterm Infants Necrotizing enterocolitis is one of the leading causes of extremely premature infant death and is the leading cause of gastrointestinal tract-related mortality in premature neonates. Current treatments for the disease include surgery, stomach decompression, and antibiotics. None of these treatments provide optimal patient outcome. Evidence suggests that these treatments may have adverse health effects on patients. The disease is characterized by failure to maintain the epithelial layer of the small intestine, eventually leading to necrosis, sepsis, and death. Recent evidence suggests that necrotizing enterocolitis is caused by colonization of certain strains of Uropathogenic Eschericia coli
(UPEC) in the neonatal intestine. The purpose of this study will be to identify the virulence factors responsible for the pathogenicity of UPEC that cause the disease in preterm infants. Proteins will be identified through comparison of virulent and probiotic UPEC strains. Identification of virulence factors responsible for necrotizing enterocolitis could lead to increased specificity and efficacy of treatments for the disease.
Richard Edward Hauck Ecology and the Human Environment
Co-ops: Bergefurd Farm Market (OH), Soveren Solar (VT), Reflections Recovery (CA), Glen Helen Trailside Museum & Office (Yellow Springs), Glen Helen Land Management (Yellow Springs), Tandana Foundation (Ecuador) Contact: rhauck1994@msn.com Sustainable Living: Human Excrement Composting All of the water, time, and energy that humans use to flush and clean their bodily excrement are valuable resources that are wasted. The amount of money, energy, water, phosphorus, and nitrogen that is wasted in the process of current excreta management practices is exorbitant. Our global society is in need of a conversion to a more sustainable helpful way of excreta management. Human waste composting is an ecological friendly, inexpensive, and smart way of dealing with the bodily excrement that we produce. The purpose of this study will be to further understand the processes of human waste composting with a focus on urine, construction of a composting toilet, understanding different ways of compost use other than plant application, and sterilization processes. I anticipate that a better understanding of excrement composting will be achieved and more people will become educated about alternative responsible ways of excrement management. It is important that a transition happens to more sustainable living practices especially with the imminent 25
threat of global climate change and the food and water scarcities that will come with it. Human excrement composting will increase productivity of crops, create less dependence on artificial fertilizers, save money and water, and help to save the planet.
Rian Lawerence
Environmental Science
Advisor: Dr. Kim Landsbergen Co-ops: United States Foreign Service, Political and Economics U.S. Embassy, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Jordan River/Farmington Bay Water Quality Council Website: linkedin.com/in/rian-larence-14a4b777 Contact: lawrence.rian@gmail.com A Microcosm Experiment to Assess Atmospheric Deposition Effects on Nitrogen and Phosphorus Retention in Northern Ohio Soils Eutrophication is an excess of nutrients in a water body, causing dense growth of cyanobacteria and aquatic plants often until depletion of oxygen in the water. This process influences the economy, aquatic ecosystem balance, and public health. As the most shallow and biologically active of the five Great Lakes, Lake Erie, bordering northern Ohio, is most affected by eutrophication (Makarewicz and Bertram 1991). One possible contributing factor toward the recent re-eutrophication of Lake Erie is the reduced acidity of regional rainfall. Rainfall pH has steadily increased since the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 in Ohio. The reduced acidity of rainfall may potentially raise the pH of cropland soils and increase the solubility of phosphorus and nitrogen. An agricultural soil microcosm experiment was chosen to test the effect of rainfall pH on the agricultural soil nutrient loads entering surface waters. Test variables in the microcosm experiment include simulated rainfall pH (6.0 and 3.5) and different northern Ohio soil types. To simulate three years of rain events, the experiment ran 30 weeks with two rain26
fall simulations per week. Runoff and leachate water samples were analyzed for nitrogen and phosphorus loads once every five weeks during the experiment.
Elias Pitasky
Environmental Science
Contact: Elipitasky@gmail.com Secondary and tertiary relationships between vertebrates and wildfire Vertebrate wildlife are important contributors toward ecosystem health yet little information exists about how most vertebrate taxa inhabiting fire-prone areas respond to natural fire presence and absence. Some information exists involving how specific vertebrates avoid, tolerate, and use wildfire yet most related knowledge about fire ecology is much broader and involves floral ecosystems. Here I present a review of information involving different relationships between wildfire and vertebrate wildlife. My paper aims to expand upon existing peer-reviewed information focused on primary (immediate) interactions between fire and vertebrates by synthesizing current understanding of secondary and tertiary relationships with fire. My results are intended to provide new information about temporal and spatial aspects of vertebrate wildlife ecology that may be useful in developing new management practices that address the increasing demand for fire management in natural areas.
Melissa Rudie Biomedicine
Advisor: Dr. David Kammler Co-ops: Muddy Fork Farm (Wooster, OH), Hendricks Regional Health (IN), Avian and Exotic Animal Clinic of Indianapolis (IN), Makauwahi Cave in Koloa on the island of Kauai’i, HI., Wright State Boonshoft School of Medicine Skills Assessment and Training Center (Dayton, OH) Contact: mrudie@antiochcollege.edu Genome Guardians at the Crossroads of Aging and Cancer Aging and cancer are nearly universal
features of multicellular organisms. Aging is the time dependent decline in function while cancer is marked by abnormal cell growth and transformation. Hyperplasia and degenerative disease incidences increase with age and have exponential kinetics after the midpoint of the species’ lifespan for susceptible diseases. Both connect at genomic instability, epigenetic alterations, telomere dysfunction, inflammation, stem cell changes, cellular senescence, metabolic dysfunction, and altered cellular communication. Tumor suppressing genes that confer protection in early often act as debilitating agents late in life. One gene in particular, cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor 2A (CDKN2A), has been found to be a biomarker in aging and is commonly deleted or mutated in many cancers. Knowledge of how these tumor suppressing genes promote cancer and aging will lead to a better understanding of age-related disease. Currently, a primary challenge is to identify which genes and pathways are the most relevant in both cancer and aging.
Steven Taylor
avian consumption of invasive fruit (Bartuszevige 2006) as well as native versus invasive fruits (Greensburg 2010). This study compared the color, size, and nutritional quality of red fleshy fruits of five invasive and two native woody plants in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Fruits were collected in autumn 2016, photographed and fruit spectra measured in the lab before being frozen for later nutrient analyses. Lab spectroscopy techniques were used to compare and test for differences in visible light reflectance of native versus invasive red fruits, to determine if there are categorical differences in the red color cues among these fruit types. Laboratory analyses of fleshy fruit nutrition, such as simple carbohydrates, fat, and protein, were used to compare the dietary profiles of native and invasive fruits. This has dietary implications for birds that consume them (Schaefer 2008), including impacting of plumage color (Hudon 2016). This study contributes new findings to the existing literature about plant and avian community consequences of invasive fruits impacting habitats of forest landscapes.
Environmental Science
Advisor: Dr. Kim Landsbergen Co-ops: State of Alaska Department of Transportation, Miami Township Fire Rescue, Makauwahi Cave Reserve Contact: staylor@antiochcollege. edu A Comparative Analysis of Nutritional Content and Color Reflectance in Invasive versus Native Fleshy Fruits Invasive plants have negative consequences on ecosystems by outcompeting and altering native plant biodiversity. One of the most common ways invasive plants compete so successfully is by producing large amounts of seeds and fruit relative to native plants (Sakai 2001). Many invasive shrubs impacting Eastern deciduous forests produce large quantities of red fleshy fruits in the autumn that are dispersed by birds, which forage on both native and invasive red fruits. Previous studies have demonstrated 27
social scien ces
The social sciences at Antioch College encompass three fields of study: cultural anthropology, political economy, and psychology. An energetic teaching faculty invites students to develop critical, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary perspectives on the nature of society, human and animal experience and behavior, interpersonal relationships and power relations. Using a variety of methodologies and modes of inquiry, these fields focus on the interplay between self and other, individual and society, micro and macro levels of analysis, and theory and practice. Social Science majors apply what they learn in the classroom through experiential education opportunities ranging from the highly regarded Prison Justice practicum, to day trips exploring urban development in Cincinnati, to designing, implementing and evaluating campaigns to increase sustainable behavior on campus. Social science students actively practice what they learn in the classroom through rewarding co-op experiences domestically and around the world. Recent co-ops included: The White House, Office of Presidential Correspondence (Washington, D.C.), Casa Juan Diego Immigrant Services (Houston, TX), Paralegal Assistant, Outten and Golden (NYC), Civil Rights paralegal (Chicago), Tea Farm Ethnographer (Wazuka, Japan), Clinical Assistant, Hollywood Detox Center (L.A.), Humanize not Militarize intern, American Friends Service Committee (Chicago), Researcher, GLCA Library of Congress Research Initiative (Washington, D.C.), and Community Development intern, La Isla Foundation (Nicaragua). Through these applied theory experiences, students leave Antioch ready to lead their generation in taking on the major challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century. 28
Anthropology students camped atop Kayford Mountain, West Virginia, where they learned about the environmental and human devastation resulting from mountaintop removal coal mining. The course focused on natural resource conflicts and social movements. Elise Keaton (pictured here), a native West Virginian attorney and activist, points to what was once a beautiful mountain whose diverse ecosystem is lost forever. 29
Marcel Beffort
Political Economy
Contact: mbeffort@antiochcollege.edu (Re)Working Masculinity: Gender Policing, Identity and Labor My paper examines existing literature on the relationship between work and masculinity in the United States, in the context of individuals’ identity and larger socio-economic factors. While many academic studies focus on the gendered disparity in the labor market, I choose to focus specifically on masculinity as a factor of influence because the effects of masculinity on systemic structures in American society are understudied. Masculinity is a facet of identity that was historically expressed through labor. An individual’s work is often the most prominent part—time-wise—of their life. And labor has historically enforced many gendered structures, such as the nuclear family, domestic work versus “public” work, civic identity etc. Borrowing from Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity I analyze labor as a gender policing structure. Masculinity is a nebulous construct per vasive in American society. Lacking any substantial tangible material as proof of the existence masculinity I turn to labor as an indicator for society’s construction of the masculine milieu. My hope is that in internal examination of masculinity will offer insight into contemporary labor and social issues.
Samantha Benac
Intersectional Feminisms in Theory & Praxis
Advisor: Emily Steinmetz Co-ops: Scarleteen (Vashon WA), The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health (Pawtucket RI), Women Empowering Women group at Dayton Correctional Institution (Dayton OH) Contact: sbenac@antiochcollege.edu Building Transformational Educational Spaces Inside Prison Walls: Collaboration as Symbolic Interruption 30
Authors: Emily Steinmetz, Ph.D., Samantha Benac, Amelia Gonzalez, Rachel Humphreys Every Friday afternoon, a small group of students and one faculty member from Antioch College co-facilitate a meeting with incarcerated women at Dayton Correctional Institution in Dayton, Ohio. The group, which participants collectively named Women Empowering Women, has been meeting for about two years and has taken many forms throughout that time. In this paper, we consider our group as an unconventional educational space. More important than the outcomes and objectives are the processes of Women Empowering Women. We strive to open up space inside the prison foregrounding trust, community, creative expression, acceptance, and personal growth. We situate our work in dialogue with feminist and critical pedagogies, liberation psychology, prison pedagogy, Inside-Out prison education models, and critical criminal justice literature. While some of our insights apply specifically to prison-based programming, many are applicable to a wide array of community-based educational spaces. The prison is, by design, antithetical to most of the principles and processes foundational to our group. With this in mind, we aim to symbolically interrupt the suppression inherent to the prison.
Leo Brandon
Global Governance and The Media
Advisors: Charles Fairbanks & Sean Payne Co-ops: Boun Gusto, Brilliant environmental, Ertel publishing, The White House Contact: Goertzen3@yahoo.com When Ratings Trump Truth CBS CEO Leslie Moonves once said “Trump may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS… The money’s rolling in and this is fun.” When Ratings Trump Truth examines the interworking of corporate media and its
role in the 2016 Election. Using the past as a medium to understanding the present situation. Though the documentary is historically grounded, it uses unconventional methods to provide a second layering of information. As the documentary progresses, the Director/Producer Leo Brandon seeks to find ways of bridging the gap between people and news.
Tatiana Dorff Psychology
Advisor: Sharon Flicker Co-ops: Family Resource Center (Lincoln Child Center) (Oakland, CA), Interview transcriber for a PhD student studying Public Health at University of Vienna, Luna Maya Centro de Partos (San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México) Contact: tdorff@antiochcollege.edu Psychology of Whiteness in Education Despite living in a so-called ‘post-racial’ world, whiteness persists to be a dominant identity accompanied with privilege. While whiteness is fluid and adapts to varying sociopolitical contexts, it is maintained and reproduced through various practices and mechanisms, such as color-blind discourse and multiculturalism. This literature review focuses specifically on whiteness as it manifests within education. Additionally, the review looks at the education literature on how multiculturalism perpetuates whiteness as a dominant identity. Much of the literature reviewed uses critical race theory and critical whiteness studies to examine the psychology of teachers, students, and the discourses of educational institutions. Several articles reviewed found that despite institutions’ claims of valuing social justice or embracing multiculturalism, many teachers training within such institutions were unwilling to critically examine their identity as a white person or disengaged with the subject of race. Other emotions in students and teachers seen to be associated with discussion of race
and whiteness were fear, anger, frustration, guilt, and shame. This review concludes with limitations of the current body of research and suggestions for further research on the psychology of whiteness.
Alison Easter Psychology
Advisor: Deanne Bell Co-ops: Enright Urban Ecovillage CSA (Cincinnati, Ohio), Gould Farm Therapeutic Community (Monterey, Massachusetts), Goodwill Art Studio & Gallery (Columbus, Ohio) Contact: aeaster7558@gmail.com Pushing Back on Psychic Numbing In this literature review, I put into conversation texts within the fields of liberation, eco-, and depth psychology, as well as interdisciplinary texts concerned with humanity and emotion. These texts push back against mainstream psychology’s focus on individual pathology by placing emphasis on structural and societal impacts on emotional sufferings. The texts focus on the phenomenon of psychic numbing, and argue that acknowledging and working through the harmful aspects of psychic numbing can provide space to reconnect to the vitality of life. The texts offer new ways of thinking about support and connection through the acknowledgment of the pains of the world and each other, while offering tools to imagine and work towards a better world.
Octavio Escamilla-Sánchez Anthropology
Advisor: Caitlin Meagher Co-ops: New York, NY, Cincinnati, OH, Chicago, IL, Portland, OR Contact: octavio.escamillasanchez@ gmail.com
“Poder”: the role of struct ural violence in declining health outcomes among Mexican immigrants to the U.S. The Latinx population constitutes 17% of the United States’ population (53 million). Studies report a 31
decline in health of Latinxs and widespread literature suggests this decline in health results from longer duration and acculturation in the United States (Abraido-Lanza, Echeverria, and Flórez 2016). Latinx children have the highest rates of obesity and diabetes among all demographics. “Latinx” however, is a broad category that includes various countries of origin and various experiences of immigration and lifestyle assimilation. The present study is limited to immigrants from Mexico, who constitute 64% of the Latinx population or 11% of the US population. This study aims to demonstrate how structural vulnerability and power influence undocumented Mexican immigrants’ declining health outcomes, particularly those resulting from a change in diet. The findings are based on interviews I conducted among Mexican immigrants ≥ 18 years old at a Mexican consulate in Orlando, Florida. The interplay among fragmented access to healthcare, a hostile atmosphere to immigrants including severe immigration policies, and their search for economic prosperity appears to engender unhealthy diets and practices. On the basis of this evidence, I conclude that it is critical to provide appropriate interventions to prevent deleterious consequences.
Jane Foreman
Art Theory, Culture, and Politics
Advisor: Gabrielle Civil Co-ops: Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe, NM), Whole House Reuse (Christchurch, New Zealand), American Friends Service Committee (Chicago, IL), GLCA Library of Congress Research Initiative (Washington D.C.), Self-Directed Project (Prague, Czech Republic) Contact: jforeman@antiochcollege. edu Taming a rising tide: Enclosure and the urban commons in Houston’s Buffalo Bayou Park Using a case study of Houston, Texas’s Buffalo Bayou waterway and recent Buf32
falo Bayou Park project as an entry point, in this paper I examine the literature of the interrelated concepts of enclosure and the commons. With histories of the development of public urban parks in the United States, I extend the discussion about enclosure and the commons to explore entwined processes of management and exclusion of public space and ‘nature’ in the American city. I read between the history of the American urban park and the enclosure literature to better understand the politics of public land today, with particular reference to Houston.
Lauren Gjessing Anthropology
lmgjessing@gmail.com Advisor: Emily Steinmetz Co-ops: University of Cincinnati Department of Environmental Health, The Cincinnati Interfaith Worker Center, The Catholic Worker (NYC), The Land Institute (Salina, Kansas), Tecumseh Land Trust (Yellow Springs, Ohio), Antioch College Farm Concerns and Identity Amongst Care Workers in Southwest Ohio This paper examines the work experiences of care workers (paid and unpaid) in the United States, who provide care for children, people with disabilities, and the elderly. I conducted ten interviews with care workers in Southwest Ohio between December 2016 and February 2017 about their work experiences. This
research shows the diversity of institutions care workers work within, and explores the various challenges and motivations related to their work. This paper reviews the literature on the history of federal and state labor laws as they pertain to care workers. I also examine the changing social contexts and varying working conditions in which care work is performed. Finally, this paper explores the possibilities for more equitable policies for care workers and the actions that people are taking toward that end.
Amelia Gonzalez
Cultural Anthropology
Advisor: Emily Steinmetz Co-ops: Civil Rights Paralegal (Chicago, IL), PR/Communications Intern (Chicago, IL), Research Assistant at Antioch College (Yellow Springs, OH) Contact: ameliargonzalez@gmail.com Building Transformational Educational Spaces Inside Prison Walls Every Friday afternoon, a small group of students and one faculty member from Antioch College co-facilitate a meeting with incarcerated women at Dayton Correctional Institution in Dayton, Ohio. The group, which participants collectively named Women Empowering Women, has been meeting for two years. We read a variety of texts, engage in creative activities, created a blog, zines, and a prison newspaper that communicate relevant issues among incarcerated people. We strive to open up a space inside of the prison that creates trust, community, creative self-expression, accepting people as they come, and personal growth. The prison is, by design, antithetical to most of these principles and processes that are foundational to our group. We consider our group as an unconventional educational space which functions as a symbolic interruption to the suppression of the prison. We situate our work in dialogue with feminist and critical pedagogies, prison pedagogy, liberation psychology, Inside-Out
prison education models, and critical criminal justice literature. We imagine new ways of conceptualizing education as a holistic rather than just intellectual exercise; of bringing together people and institutions that are often separated; of putting community-building and acceptance at the center of personal transformation.
Elizabeth Helminska Psychology
Advisor: Sharon Flicker Co-ops: Fellowship Farm (Pottstown, PA), Arthur Morgan School (Burnsville, NC), Contempra Dance School (Wayne, PA), Churchill School for English Language (Kent, England) Contact: ehelminska@gmail.com Does dance impact body image perception? In this extended literature review I will be exploring the relationship between dancers and perceived body image that they have of themselves. In the paper the term dancer will refer to anyone who engages with any form of formal dance class, this extends to the professional world of dance as well as the casual once a week kind of dancer. This literature review will be broken into five major sections with which I hope to fully flesh out the literature pertaining to dance and body image. The first two sections are dedicated to defining body image and eating disorders. The definitions pulled from the literature are the definition that I will be applying when discussing the two for the rest of the review. Next, I will be examining both the positive and negative influences dancing have had on people who have participated. Finally I will be examining the ways that disordered eating habits can be combatted within the dancing community, while still maintaining a high standard of performance and without losing any of the art.
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Meridian Howes
Health and Social Justice
Advisor: Emily Steinmetz Co-ops: La Isla Foundation (Leon, Nicaragua), Wright State Research Institute (Beavercreek Ohio), Sheba Medical Center (Tel Hashomer, Israel), Suisen Fukushikai (Osaka, Japan) Contact: mhowes@antiochcollege.edu Visions Towards a Postcolonial Public Health Although public health claims to serve marginalized populations and the common good, the evolution of public health is intertwined within a global transition from colonialism to neocolonialism that must be acknowledged, and which still influences health structures. This paper provides an overview of the parallels between public health and colonial transition. Furthermore, it reviews current literature on public health focusing on ethics and dynamics of research between the global North and South. Finally, it explores avenues of decolonizing public health through the development of equitable research relationships and shifting dynamics of power.
Liam Thomas-a-Becket Marin Political Economy
Advisor: Dean Synder Co-ops: Antioch College Kitchens (Yellow Springs, OH), Wild Dog Grille (Douglas, MI), Cooperative Extension Service, University of the Virgin Islands (St. Croix, USVI) Contact: lmarin@antiochcollege.edu
A Food Forage Map of Antioch College My senior capstone is an Action/Service project, where I have created / developed a food forage map of Antioch College’s campus. The purpose of the map is to connect the Antioch Community with knowledge and skills surrounding foraging, food preparation, and consumption as a means of disassociating from the convention food system. The written portion of my project consists of a detailed investigation and critique of the American Agri-food system. Areas of special consideration include a policy analysis of the US Farm Bill as well as an analysis of the food justice literature. I have found that much of the current food justice literature fails to Michael Krotov offer valid alternatives to the convenPsychology tional agro-food systems. In response, Advisor: Sharon Flicker my project also draws upon grassroots FOOD FORAGE MAP OF ANTIOCH COLLEGE Co-ops: Antioch College Farm, movements as a guideline for commuLiam Marin, Bachelor of Art’s Candidate Crotched Mountain School, CircEsnity empowerment through urban food Antioch College teem, Gould Farm reliance that can be applied locally. It Overview is Abstract Contact: mkrotov@antiochcollege.edu within this context that I incorporate aspects of self-reliance into my project, in A Literature Review on order to give Antioch College communiInternet Addiction This literature review investigates the ty members the skills and knowledge to debate regarding the classification of forage food and framing foraged food as an alternative to conventional agro-food Where to Find on Campus: Internet Addiction as a mental disorder. Seasonal Wild Edibles Characteristics of Internet Addiction systems. of the Woods are observed from Chicken a variety of sources, analyzed and synthesized to a rough definition. With these characteristics established, the debate regarding the leMorel Mushrooms gitimacy of Internet Addiction engaged with from both sides of the argument, offering a comprehensive understanding of the debate. Following this understanding, the literature review organizes DO NOT FORAGE the best known methods of treatment Oyster Mushrooms IN THE GLEN! for Internet Addiction. My senior capstone is an action/service project, where I have created a food forage map of Antioch College’s campus. The purpose of the map is to connect the Antioch community with knowledge and skills surrounding foraging, food preparation, and consumption as a means of disassociating from the conventional food system. The written portion of my project consists of a detailed investigation and critique of the American agro-food system. Areas of special consideration include a policy analysis of the US Farm Bill as well as an analysis of the food justice literature. I have found that much of the current food justice literature fails to offer valid alternatives to the conventional agro-food systems. In response, my project also draws upon grassroots movements as a guideline for community empowerment through urban food reliance that can be applied locally. It is within this context that I incorporate aspects of self-reliance into my project, in order to give Antioch College community members the skills and knowledge to forage food and framing foraged food as an alternative to conventional agro-food systems.
The purpose of a food forage map of Antioch College is to educate community members with the kn project aims to assess the viability of wild forage and cultivated edible foods as an alternative to particip system. Community members equipped with this knowledge will be able to save money and reduce thei system. The goal of the map is to serve as a guide and help create a continued interest of foraged foods t Antioch. The literature review introduces concepts of food justice in establishing viable alternatives to a Foraging and community held cultivated edible resources need to be incorporated into the development emphasizes self-reliance and food security. Included in this map are three categories: seasonal wild edib key indicates the locations of the categories, and the descriptions offer information about the different fo
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Cultivated Perennial Herbs Fruit Trees
● Found growing on dead & dying trees in the forest restoration area. ● Have a vibrant orange and yellow color. ● Only harvest if fungus is growing on wood & not out of the ground.
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Addison Nace Anthropology
Advisor: Emily Steinmetz Contact: anace@antiochcollege.edu Weaving Authenticity: Artesanías or the Art of the Textile In Chiapas, Mexico textiles live in different institutions from the market to the museum. In these spaces varying perspectives between tourists, art professionals, and weavers are manifested. I intend to unveil romanticized views of weaving cooperatives by taking a closer look at the global connections of the local cooperatives. Unraveling the hierarchical perspective of textiles as authentic art, folk art, and artesanías (handicrafts/commodities), I show that these boundaries are wrapped up in stereotypical views of indigenous women. Examination of the known history of textile traditions, I analyze new textile designs by weavers in cooperatives to show that innovation turns artesanías into a respected art.
A Spectrum of Asian Identities: Chinese Peruvians and Asian Heritage Month My project explores the fluidity of language, race, and ethnicity in Asia. The Chinese have migrated to countries all over the world, created new communities, and therefore new identities. I focus on Peru and a community of Peruvians of Chinese descent. This group of people is prominent in Peru, and yet somewhat overlooked in history books and everyday conversations. I have explored the existing historical literature about this community as well as conducted interviews with some of its members during my final co-op. In addition to my research on Peruvians of Chinese descent, I am interested in culture, language, and heritage. I have created a series of events at Antioch during the month of May to commemorate Asian Heritage Month. The events served to educate students, faculty, staff, and the Yellow Springs community about Asia and its complex identities. Each eventrepresents a different country, it’s culture, and identity through: history, language, food, and art. Finally, I presented my research with Peruvians of Chinese descent and discussed the intersectional identities between Asia and Latin America to be inclusive to diverse communities.
Monica Perry
Cultural Anthropology
Myriah Neal-McKenzie
Advisor: Emily Steinmetz Co-ops: Green Light (New Orleans), Black Mesa Indigenous Support, Yellow Springs Home, Inc., Integration Acres, Ohio Green Party Contact: mperry@antiochcollege.edu
Advisor: Emily Steinmetz Co-ops: Via Lingua (Arequipa, Peru), Wright State University ( Dayton, Ohio), Chinese Peruvian Community Study, Tecumseh Land Trust, Miller Fellow (Yellow Springs, Ohio), Ruskin Elementary School, (Dayton, Ohio), Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center Contact: mneal-mckenzie@antiochcollege.edu
Rustbelt Perma(Culture): A Case Study of the Collingwood Community Garden This documentary explores the Collingwood Community Garden in the rustbelt city of Toledo, Ohio. The garden was started in 2013 after a group of community members began occupying a city-owned piece of vacant land. The film portrays the deep social relationships built within the garden, the gar-
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den’s role in providing fresh produce to people living in a food desert, the garden as a space of communal gathering and resistance, and the use of permaculture in the garden’s design. Interviews are conducted with a variety of participants including the founders of the garden, neighbors who use the garden as a gathering space, and newcomers to the community sharing their first impressions, and more. The documentary seeks to tell the story of the garden and the people who give it vision, and to inspire others to consider similar projects in their own communities.
Ian Rosenthal
Political Economy
Contact: rosenthalian@gmail.com Race/Object: Writing on the West Bank Wall The purpose of “Race/Object” is to explore two approaches of contemporary academic work that analyze the wall along the West Bank in Israel/Palestine. The first approach focuses on materiality, outlining the wall as a physical/political tool for occupation. The second stresses the wall’s symbolic power and the role it plays in shaping racial subjectivity. By highlighting these two approaches, this paper will demonstrate a methodological separation between two components of social reality unfolding in tandem that must be bridged in order to create a holistic understanding of the wall.
Jessica Steinrueck Political Economy
Advisor: Sean Payne Co-ops: Antioch Farm-to-Table, People Concerned About Chemical Safety and Citizen Action Group (WV); Food not Bombs Freeskool (NM); Senior Project Research Contact: jsteinrueck@antiochcollege. edu What Was the Esau System? The Esau system is wrapped in elusivity, with little written about it and a quickly disappearing living memory. This system took place in the coal fields of West Virginia in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and was designed to provide food for families when the man of the household wasn’t able to work for a few weeks. It seems to have existed in the space between a debt and a welfare system of sorts, and it is unclear whether or not the “loan” of food had to be repaid when the man returned to work. Beyond this, the rest is speculation. One thing is for sure: a system including unnamed paper stubs existed at the Whipple Company Store in Scarbro WV.
Dale Kondracki Image of Culture
Contact: dalekondracki@gmail.com Tradition and Adaptation: An Exploration of Tea Culture in Wazuka, Japan Wazuka, Japan has a rich and long history in tea and tea harvesting, being a prime tea center for Japan for 800 years. Like many small Japanese towns, Wazuka has recently been facing problems of rural to urban migration. Some people fear that as older generations 36
go into retirement, old traditions as well as the town itself will be lost. Local tea farmers, including You and Village (where I conducted research during my co-op) are working to bring traffic back to Wazuka and encourage younger generations to stay. Many of these strategies involve the adaptation of Japanese tea traditions to appeal to a wider, more diverse audience. At the same time, however, these farmers do not want to sacrifice the traditional methods and meanings of tea production and consumption. This senior project explores this negotiation between adaptation and preservation.
marginalize those diagnosed with SUDs, exacerbating their stigmatization. The context of prohibition of certain drugs, as well as the socioeconomic factors at play, are explored in order to frame the current understanding of illicit drugs within the public’s view and in policymakers’ view.
Katherine Schule Psychology
Co-ops: Hollywood Detox Center, The Switzer Learning Center, Boon Lott’s Elephant Sanctuary, Glen Highland Border Collie Rescue Contact: kschule@antiochcollege.edu The stigma associated with the criminalization of drugs for those who use drugs and for other communities: A literature review This literature review explores the effects that stigma has on people diagnosed with substance use disorders (SUDs), particularly injection drug users (IDUs), in a western context. I discuss the potential psychological harm associated with stigma from the general public, healthcare professionals, others who use drugs, and from internalization. Further, I connect this stigma with the criminalization of certain drugs, which utilizes a moral authority to further 37
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Antioch College’s Cooperative Education (Co-op) Program animates a unique liberal arts curriculum that positions students to take action in the world. Not only do Antioch students graduate with an outstanding education, an impressive resume, and compelling stories of co-op adventure in distant locales, they gain entrance to creative networks and discover their unique talents as they apply themselves to problems in the world. By linking the life of the mind with the practical experience of coop, students learn to navigate diverse communities, experiment with solution-oriented approaches to contemporary challenges, and mobilize resources to affect change in ways that have earned Antioch students an international reputation for ingenuity, industriousness, and innovation. With over a thousand co-op placements since the College’s independence, the impact of the Co-op Program is clear: Demonstrated ability to help students gain traction in the world and to communicate the impact of their educational achievements as they prepare themselves for post-baccalaureate life.
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Las Mujeres de Artes Tomar (MAT), a feminist performance collective based in Buenos Aires, Argentina takes to the streets with their artivist action titled FloreSerNos in 2016. Photo taken by Hannah Priscilla Craig ’17 during her six-month immersion co-op with the collective.
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langu ages At Antioch College, language and culture education is about opening up to one’s others, connecting to communities and experientially developing skills to interface with a variety of global cultures. The Languages and Cultures Program provides proficiency-based instruction in view of student immersion in international co-op placements. Students leave our program able to productively navigate a professional environment in another culture, and return to share original field-specific research completed in an international setting. Since culture is integrated from the beginning into instruction, even those who opt for the minimum requirement leave both with communication skills verified by external certificates and with intercultural awareness skills applicable to all of their future experiences with the diversity around them. Language and Culture instruction at Antioch is “openarchitecture”, and therefore customizable to content of individual interests, from the sciences to the performance arts, and also often shapes student direction and interest in pursuit of social justice activism. Students benefit from activities with in-house Fulbright ambassadors from the cultures we target, from innovative pedagogical practices, from online courses over co-op terms, and from frequent foreign film screenings, task-based and project-based learning experiences, and connections with broader area language communities. We are Antioch’s global citizen engine. 40
Addison Nace ‘17, in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico for her co-op, conducting independent research interviews in Spanish for an oral history project that she would later incorporate into her senior project. Here, she speaks with Juana. Addison interviewed a total of 7 indigenous weavers from 5 different municipalities, all of which speak a Mayan language rather than Spanish as their first language. It was a bit of a challenge for both participants in interviews to be working in their second languages, but Spanish language served as a critical bridge to cultural sharing. 41
language capstones Julia Bates: Cross Cultural Child Care: A Comparison Between the U.S. and Japan Nathan Chou: Voltaire’s Candide and it Modern-day Impact Hannah Priscilla Craig: The Body in the Scene: Performance and Politics in Post-Dictatorship Buenos Aires Myrcka del Rio: Muralism in Latino Communities Tatiana Dorff: Humanized Births: Midwifery in Bartolome de Las Casas Tatiana Dorff: Saartjie Baartman and the French “scientific” Exoticization of the Black Female Other Michelle Fujii: Peace Education and Activism among Young People in Nagasaki Lauren Gjessing: Observations from Cincinnati’s Workers Center Richard Hauck: Regions and Plants of Ecuador Kayla Hopple: Education in a bilingual classroom Meridian Howes: (Dis)Ability in Japan: Policy, Law, and Activism Rachel Humphreys: Migrant Museum Dale Kondracki: Wazuka’s Tea and Culture Rian Lawrence: Bolivia’s Water Heather Linger: Street Art: Activating Public Space in Buenos Aires Addison Nace: Textiles from Zinactán Chiapas Khalil Nasar: An Exploration on the Growth of a Spectacle Myriah Neal-Mckenzie: Race Through the Eyes of Chinese-Peruvians Max Pak: Poverty stigmas: Social and Territorial Landscape in Buenos Aires, Argentina Keegan Smith-Nichols: Deserts and Airplanes: French Aviation in the Literature of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Greta Treistman: The 2001 Crisis, Kirchnerism, and Community Organizations in Bariloche
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faculty bios
Arts
Louise Smith, Associate Professor of Performance is a performer, teacher, therapist and writer. For 40 years she has acted, created solos, directed and collaborated with students, communities and fellow artists: Meredith Monk, Ann Hamilton, Ping Chong, Julie Taymor, Talking Band, Lizzie Borden, Ann Bogart, and Carlyle Brown. She believes art can be transformative. Charles Fairbanks, Assistant Professor of Media Art, has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, MacDowell Colony, and the Wexner Art Center. Anthology Film Archives writes “His entertaining and heartfelt films are extremely easy to enjoy and very hard to forget.” Michael Casselli, Assistant Professor of Sculpture and Installation, has worked 30 years as a teaching artist. His transdisciplinary work scrutinizes the connections between installation, performance and new media and he believes that art is most exhilarating when collisions are valued as an essential part of any process. Michael’s professional art career includes more than 15 years working as an artist and designer within the New York City experimental installation, performance and dance world, where he was the recipient of a Bessie Award in
Scenic Design for Elizabeth Streb. Michael earned his MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and is a 1987 alumnus of Antioch College. He was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in 2013. Juan-Si González, Visiting Assistant Professor of Performance, studied at the Higher Institute of the Arts in Havana and was selected to participate in the first and second Havana Biennial. He has lived in Ohio since 2003, during which time he has been awarded three Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards. His work has been exhibited at The Frost Art Museum, Miami Art Museum, Museum of Latin American Art, Museo Carrrillo Gil, Slovenia City Art Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, among others. Kamar Thomas, Visiting Assistant Professor of Visual Art, earned his MFA at the University of Connecticut and his BA from Wesleyan University, where he became interested in how people present themselves, the masks they wear, and the differences between who/what is presented and how people really are. His work was recently featured in a solo exhibition, SCHIZOMAICA, at the Herndon Gallery and in the 2017 Jamaica Biennial.
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Kelly Gallagher is an experimental animator, filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Media Arts. Her short films have screened internationally at venues including: Ann Arbor Film Festival, London ICA Artists’ Biennial, LA Film Forum, and Anthology Film Archives. She is recipient of the Ivan Kaljević Award from Alternative Film/Video Festival Belgrade, the Audience Award from Brazil’s Fronteira Film Festival, and the Jury’s Choice Award from Black Maria Film Festival. Jennifer Wenker, Creative Director of the Herndon Gallery and Chair of Arts at Antioch Committee, finds her passion in the liminal spaces between seemingly disparate ideas and fields of study and finding connection, pattern and meaning. She earned an MFA (Eco-Art) from the renowned DAAP at the University of Cincinnati and was awarded a Wolfstein Travel Fellowship for a self-designed Eco-Art residency at the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology. She is the grant writer, curator and coordinator of the Antioch College COLLOQUIA. Forest Bright currently serves as an Adjunct Professor in Media and Visual Arts, as well as the Arts Studio Coordinator. He uses the practice of drawing to develop into larger, often social projects. His work has been exhibited at Cothenius Gallery in Berlin, the Beijing American Center, The Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, and The Emporium in Yellow Springs. Follow him on instagram @ forestbright
Sciences Dr. David Kammler, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Dean of Academic Affairs is interested in a wide variety of activities, disciplines, and modes of inquiry, especially: astronomy and space exploration, biochemistry, chemistry, cooking, gardening, history, philosophy, running, soccer, and teaching. He is a third-generation Eagle Scout, has written, received, and reviewed scientific
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grants and patents, has received three distinguished teaching awards since his teaching career began in 1992. Dr. Flavia Sancier, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, is an applied mathematician who specializes in probability, statistics, and stochastic processes. She is interested in modeling random phenomena in areas that include finance, population/ecological dynamics, and games. Flavia teaches statistics, math, and computational courses. Dr. Kim Landsbergen, Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Science, is a plant ecologist who specializes in invasive plant biology, climate change impacts on forests, and soil carbon dynamics. She also collaborates with artists as socially engaged practice and science communication. She teaches a range of courses such as: Botany, Ecology, Soils, Field Plant Ecology, Ecological Agriculture, and more. Joseph Lennox, Visiting Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry, is an organic/medicinal chemist whose work in the biopharmaceutical industry culminated in the development of RG7795, a Phase II oral treatment for hepatitis B virus (HBV). Joseph’s interests lay in active learning, novel pedagogical strategies, and fragment-based drug design. Scott Millen, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, is a biochemist who specializes in the interface of pathogenic bacteria with the human immune system. Scott’s most recent works include developing novel therapeutics for the treatment of autoimmune disorders. Scott teaches courses in biology focusing on the cell and molecular level. Dr. Jeff Romig, Visiting Assistant Professor of Human Physiology, instructs classes in General Biology and Human Anatomy and Physiology. He is a retired Emergency Medicine physician and holds an M.D. degree from the Universi-
ty of Toledo, School of Medicine. In addition, he is board certified in Nutrition and has interests in mitochondrial physiology and metabolism. Furthermore, he has developed a human tissue repository to facilitate human anatomy laboratory instruction.
sic Therapeutic Skills, Social Marketing for Sustainability, Cross-Cultural Psychology, and Psychology of Relationships. Her most recent study compares romantic attachment and other aspects of love in arranged and love marriages in Bangladesh.
Barbara Sanborn, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Physics, teaches critical reasoning ability, sustainability awareness and problem solving skills needed in our future, as well as appreciation for mathematics and science in our culture. She especially enjoys teaching renewable energy physics and topics at intersections of physics, mathematics,and biology. Her research focuses on solar cell physics and quantum information theory.
Caitlin Meagher, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, (University of Oxford, United Kingdom: ABD; M.Phil., Social and Cultural Anthropology; M.Sc., Modern Japan Studies) specializes in anthropological theory, although her background and interests are strongly interdisciplinary. Her JSPS-funded (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, under the aegis of the Japanese government) doctoral research concerns shared housing as an alternative lifestyle choice in a changing Japan.
Brian Kot, Assistant Professor of Biology and Environmental Science, is a comparative vertebrate zoologist with a dual background in applied engineering and biology. He often develops experimental research technology that involves design and fabrication assistance from motivated undergraduate students. His research interests are multidisciplinary, with hypothesis-driven questions often involving vertebrate locomotion performance (e.g., biomechanics and energetics) and sensory capabilities, predator-prey interactions, and carnivore foraging ecology. Kelly Hudson, Laboratory Technician, has an assortment of interests including most things living and outdoors. This has led her on a path of education in the sciences, working at an outdoor conservation-aimed zoo, owning a freshwater and marine aquarium store, and smallscale homesteading with much of her time spent hiking and reading.
Social Sciences Dr. Sharon M. Flicker, Associate Professor of Psychology, teaches clinical and social psychology classes, including Ba-
Kathryn L. Kalafut Ph.D., BCBA, Assistant Professor of Psychology, currently has both student and independent research projects in the works at the Cincinnati Zoo. These projects focus on using behavioral science to better understand and, ultimately enhance, captive animal welfare. In the classroom, her favorite TA is her dog, Rory, who often makes appearances in her Learning and Behavior course. Emily Steinmetz, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, has research, teaching, and activist interests in U.S. prison and economic justice issues. Some of her favorite classes are Sex/Gender, Economic Anthropology, and Inside-Out, a class that is comprised half of incarcerated students and half of Antioch students who explore issues of race, gender, and citizenship together inside of a prison. Emily also works with Antioch students and incarcerated women to publish a prison newspaper called the Symbolic Interruption. She believes that theory can change lives and hopes to inspire in students a love of ideas, learning, and thoughtful engagement.
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Dr. Sean Payne, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, teaches classes in American government, environmental policy, and urban affairs. Currently, he is collaborating with students to research and recommend expanded participatory governance structures at Antioch. This work is inspired by global movements for governance reform and justice and is informed by a larger research project on civic engagement and participatory governance. Dr. Dean Snyder, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, teaches courses in global political economy, political-economic theory, and qualitative research methods. His major research projects focus on the historical development of global capitalism and the political economy of the global media and culture industries.
Humanities Julia Schiavone Camacho, Assistant Professor of Latin American History, teaches classes on Latin American history, U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, the Construction of Race and Ethnicity, and Asian American History. Julia’s first book was Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960 (University of North Carolina Press, 2012), and she is currently working on a work of historical fiction, Across the Pacific: A Novel. Mary Ann Davis, Assistant Professor of Literature. Poet, lyrical essayist, and scholar of erotic power. Two book projects: Valedictions (poetry) and Between the Monstrous and the Mundane: Thinking and Representing Erotic Power in the West (critical scholarship). Favorite classes: Queer Reading, Literature Under Totalitarianism, and Creative Writing. Favorite shoes: red cowboy boots. Newest member of the Antioch College OKLibrary Coffee Club.
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Robin Littell, Writing Instructor and Coordinator of the Writing Institute, teaches English and literature courses. She is currently teaching Expository Nature Writing and Introduction to Cinema. She also writes short fiction, which has earned honorable mentions from Glimmer Train and publication in several literary magazines, including Gravel, NoiseMedium, and Literary Mama. Kevin McGruder, Assistant Professor of History. Urban History, African American History. Kevin’s most recent book is Race and Real Estate (Columbia University Press, 2015). Book Project: To Make the Color Line Costly: The Life and Times of Philip A. Payton, Jr. ; Recipient of the SOCHE Excellence Award for Research and the 2016 Antioch College Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award. Lara Mitias, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, is a student of comparative philosophy and teaches Indian, Buddhist, Chinese and Japanese philosophies. She is currently teaching P4C (Philosophy for Children), a program that gives tools for critical thinking and practice developing pedagogical skills to facilitate communities of inquiry in K-12 classrooms. Recent papers include work on the place of the body in phenomenologies of place, Daoist logic, and time in Buddhist philosophies. Rahul Nair, Assistant Professor of History, teaches classes on Mahatma Gandhi, Gender Expression and Sexual Orientation: a Global History, Local and Global Food Issues, and World History, and The World Beyond: Cultural Imagination, Exchanges, and History. Rumor has it that Rahul is planning to offer a class on the life of Mao in the future. Rahul is currently working on a book titled Debating Demography: The Rise and Decline of India’s Population Problem in the Twentieth Century.
Corine Tachtiris, Assistant Professor of Literature, teaches, researches, and translates world literature, especially from postcolonial and non-Western cultures. You might find her teaching a class on climate change fiction, writing about the translation of race, or translating an experimental feminist novella from Czech to English. Lewis-Trelawny-Cassity, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Book project: On Wine, Education, and the Law in Plato’s Laws. Philosophy of Eating and Cooking (Hegel and Vietnamese Steamed Buns). SOCHE Excellence Award for Service. Publications in Polis and Epoche. Undisputed campus champion in ping-pong and basketball. Philosophy on the farm in the summer of ’17.
Languages Dr. Cary Campbell, Instructor of French, has a passion for integrating French-speaking African cultures in his language and culture classes. With a background in linguistics and language pedagogy, he is excited to be a part of Antioch’s innovative proficiency-based program. His research deals in African nationalism and allegory. Toyoko Miwa-Osborne, ( ), Instructor of Japanese, Toyoko (Miwa-Senei) was born in Nagoya, in the central region of Japan. She taught English for 4 years in Japan, moved to the USA and has been teaching college-level Japanese for 11 years. “Humans think and deepen their thoughts in language, and therefore their thoughts are limited within the language they use. Studying a foreign language is one way to expand their minds and thoughts. I feel privileged to work with the students at Antioch College in this sense.” Didier Franco, Instructor of Spanish, of Cali, Colombia (the capital of Salsa), immigrated to Chicago, in high school and earned an MA in Latin American Litera-
ture and Culture (2014) from Northeastern Illinois University. Before joining Antioch College, Didier taught Spanish and literature at the City Colleges of Chicago. “I find beauty in diversity, especially in the sharing of our different languages, cultures and values. Students who study another language are more tolerant and are better able to appreciate and connect with other people, which is especially important in our world.” Rocio Villanueva Nodar, Spanish Fulbright Scholar, 2016-2017 academic year. Noëmie Sollier, French Fulbright Scholar, 2016-2017 academic year.
Co-op Richard Kraince is Associate Professor of Cooperative Education as well as the Dean of Cooperative, Experiential, and International Education at Antioch College. His research is focused on student activism and the impact of transnational social movements on higher education policy internationally. He conducted field research on Islamic student activism in Indonesia for over three years as a Foreign Language and Areas Studies grantee, a Fulbright Dissertation Research Program Fellow and as a Fulbright New Century Scholar. He served previously as a Research Professor and Academic Coordinator with the Center for Asian and African Studies at the College of Mexico. Beth Bridgeman, Instructor of Cooperative Education, is interested in democratic education, co-constructed learning, peer-teaching and community-engaged learning. Beth brought Seed School, Ohayo | Ohio : A Japanese Symposium, Closing the Human-Nutrient Cycle residency (where students built a urine-diverting compost toilet), and a honey-bee friendly neonicotinoid-free policy to Antioch campus. She enjoys traveling with students to Seed-Savers 47
Exchange, OEFFA conferences and to the Land Institute. Her courses include a co-constructed Work Portfolio, Reskilling and Resilience,Agrarian Systems, and Global Seminar on Food, Farming and Resilience. Luisa Bieri, Instructor of Cooperative Education, has a background in international education, women’s and gender studies, and community arts. She has designed co-op courses in art as social practice, community action research, and place-based learning. As former Assistant Director of Antioch Education Abroad, Luisa designed and implemented a semester-long study abroad program in Argentina. Her approach to arts-based community organizing gained recognition as an Open Society Institute Baltimore Community Fellow with Creative Alliance. Luisa’s work as a writer, director and performer explores intersections of human rights, feminist thought, migration, ritual and place making. Brooke Bryan, Instructor of Cooperative Education, specializes in digital humanities, phenomenological oral history, and ‘high impact’ research frameworks. With expertise in community-based and archives-informed learning, she develops cooperative partnerships that scaffold intensive engagement with themes from the humanities through interview-based fieldwork, digital scholarship, community research, and digital storytelling initiatives. Currently leading the Oral History in the Liberal Arts initiative across the Great Lakes Colleges consortium, Brooke leverages external funding to support student digital public-facing oral history projects in locals both near and far.
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partners Grants Antioch College recently began offering a series of planning and startup grants to open up initiative and award seed money to innovative interdisciplinary ideas that build upon our strong heritage, rich assets, and collaboratively co-create Antioch College’s framework for the 21st century. These are the first in a series of resource opportunities to stimulate novel and creative solutions and to fund planning and implementation of FACT initiatives. Through the generous funding of the Andrew Mellon Foundation, donations to the Presidential FACT Fund, and resources offered through the Office of Academic Affairs, the COLLOQUIA 2017 all-campus public-facing showcase of Senior Capstones proposal was able to be fully realized. The vision and project was awarded full grant funding to support a comprehensive and collaborative interdisciplinary senior capstone presentation series, professional networking receptions for seniors and their communities of practice, and this beautifully-designed COLLOQUIA 2017 publication. Media Partners WYSO 91.3 FM (Antioch College’s renowned NPR-affiliate radio station) DMS Ink (Yellow Springs, Ohio-Print media) Professional Networking and Reception Partners Cooperative Education Department at Antioch College provided generous funding support to host the professional networking receptions and celebrations of academic achievement at each of the four COLLOQUIA. Thank you! Thank you also to our local food and wine/beer vendors and merchants for your support!
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