COLLOQUIA Catalog Designer: Hannah Priscilla Craig ‘17 Photo Editor and Student Content Editor: Odette Chavez-Mayo ‘18 COLLOQUIA Grant Writer, Artistic Director and COLLOQUIA Coordinator: Jennifer Wenker, MFA, Creative Director of the Herndon Gallery Additional catalog support: Jane Foreman ’17, Jeanne Kay ’10, and Christine Reedy. Printing: Oregon Printing, Dayton, OH
ANTIOCH COLLEGE Antioch College is a new kind of American college: 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 Cooperative Education (Co-op), work placements with national and international organizations. Students have agency in charting their own unique path by owning their education. Grounded in shared humanity and with experiential learning at its very core, Antioch College prepares students for personal responsibility in advancing positive change in our communities and in the world. 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 Co-op program reflects Antioch’s critical peda-
gogical 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.
COLLOQUIA (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 semi-permeable 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 2018 | The second 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 2018, that by gathering and sharing freely what we have learned 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 an shared arts series to an all-campus public-facing senior capstone showcase and to collaborate and coordinate so many beautiful interplaying parts and people of Antioch College to make COLLOQUIA 2018 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
It is my distinct pleasure to welcome you to Colloquia 2018: a showcase of senior capstone presentations by the Antioch College Class of 2018. I am excited to introduce to you the varied and dynamic work captured so beautifully in this catalog, and to applaud the accomplishments of our very talented students. At Antioch College, we ask students to own their education, which requires a deep reciprocity of responsibility, uncommon in higher education. To own their education, Antioch students must take great personal agency in setting their educational purpose, collaborating in the planning and claiming of their learning, pursuing energetically their curiosities and passions, becoming solution-seekers within a complex of difficult choices, interpreting and making meaning, and assessing their efforts and outcomes reflectively. We ask our students to be honest and imaginative, open and rigorous, active and collaborative, consequent and accountable. At Antioch, we believe learning works best when it is participatory, creative, experientially grounded, holistically conceived, and always integrated into an intellectually demanding and balanced program of study. Colloquia 2018--presented brilliantly by our curators and made possible by many, not least the exceptional faculty who have worked with dedication and love to support these students--is nothing if not a testimony to the 168-year old legacy of Antioch College as a place where human enlightenment finds its highest purpose in human freedom and empowerment. The root word for colloquia, colloquy, means “to speak together. � Speaking together (not at the same time, of course) requires 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 our sharing of knowledge. That is what we celebrate in Colloquia 2018 and why we are exceedingly grateful to everyone and especially our students, who have given us the opportunity to speak, listen, exchange views, and ultimately, explore this rich world together. Most warmly, Tom Manley President, Antioch College
Congratulations Class of 2018! The publication you hold in your hands--and the curation of your senior projects through the Colloquia 2018 showcase events-serve as a wonderful finale and reminder of all you have accomplished through your experiences at Antioch College. Senior projects represent a culmination and the integration of critical aspects of your educational experience--inside and outside the classroom--as you have mapped your journey through Antioch. While this catalog is a testament to the ways you have owned your education, it is also important to recognize that achievements are shepherded by many. A multitude of individuals and experiences have fueled, empowered, supported and facilitated your education at Antioch College. You know better than anyone how our dynamic and amazingly dedicated faculty, from the Foundations to Senior Project, inform, influence and challenge your thoughts, direction, and views of the world through different orientations and perspectives. Co-op faculty, employer placements, and colleagues of practice across the campus create and inspire opportunities to apply knowledge and skills through direct practice and work with practitioners in a multitude of spaces. Work on the Farm, in the Kitchens, at WYSO and the Herndon Gallery, among other opportunities to lead, govern or create experiences or projects, have permeated your days and nights. These experiences have helped you find your place, your people, and the communities of practice that resonate with your own Antioch engagement. Students and Faculty, this catalog is a beautiful and tangible publication that serves to contextualize the accomplishments of talented students, and amazing faculty and staff who have mentored and supported them. The information, essays, images and the details shared in these pages reflect what is achieved when a community of practice inspires and supports one another. It documents what would otherwise be accessible to only a few, lost as time and 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. Warmest congratulations! Lori Collins-Hall Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs
OWN YOUR EDUCATION Antioch College recognizes that the future is intersectional, and that many disciplines and skills will need to be blended in creating solutions. In the College’s new curriculum, students own their education by designing their own pathways to Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees. In their second year, Antioch students enroll in a Design Your Degree course, which helps them articulate their program vision, goals, and course lists. Student degree plans can be focused around a single theme, or be as multi-disciplinary as our courses and our faculty. All Antioch students continue to participate in the College’s signature Co-op program, which includes periods of full-time work, research, or other off-campus experiential opportunities.
Another hallmark of our curriculum is its emphasis on the Areas of Practice: 1) Environmental Sustainability; 2)Deliberative Democracy, Diversity, and Social Justice; 3) Creativity and Story; 4) Wellbeing; and 5) Work, World, and Resilient Community. These areas define domains of creative and critical praxis in which faculty, staff, and students are already engaged. Beyond Co-op, this means the new curriculum will honor educational experiences through 91.3 WYSO, Antioch’s NPR-affiliate radio station; Antioch’s Glen Helen Ecology Institute; the Wellness Center; the Antioch Farm; The Antioch Review; and the Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom.
Students focus their degrees either disciplinarily or interdisciplinary around an area of inquiry and choose the specific courses they will take to meet their individual academic interests and needs. Left: Artwork by conceptual drawing foundations student, instructed by Jennifer Wenker on mapping/place/relationships (2012)
Ella Arnold
Lucas Bautista
Skill-Learn in Garment Making / This capstone project is an exploration of my fiber art practice as it relates to garment making. Over the course of the past several months, I have investigated various skills pertaining to sewing and tailoring, such as sewing from premade patterns, self-patterning, learning finishing techniques, and experimenting with alteration processes. I have gathered knowledge from textual resources, and have worked closely with and learned from my faculty mentor, Brooke Bryan. The presented work is the physical documentation of this gathering of knowledge, and it consists of patterns, swatches, and finished and unfinished garments that I’ve created. I designed this project as a way to facilitate the development of my fiber practice, and I hope to continue building upon this work in the future.
Modeling and Designing for Sustainable Living: Constructing a Biodigester / My project consists of building a biodigester in which anaerobic digestion breaks down organic matter. This biodigester will create useful byproducts such as fertilizer and methane for cooking that will be used to help create a system meant to reimagine our relationship with waste. This along with the practical application of other sustainable living techniques will be used to show how biogas has the potential to be applied at larger scales as well as fulfill certain energy demands. It also has the potential to solve many waste issues that contribute to environmental degradation. The modeling component of the project uses differential equations to study the kinetics of biogas production which informs the economic calculations of the project.
Visual Arts Advisors: Michael Casselli, Brooke Bryan Co-ops: Intern, Heartbeat Learning Gardens (Yellow Springs); Digital Archives Coordinator, Oral History in the Liberal Arts (Yellow Springs, OH); Hostess, Motor Bar & Restaurant at the Harley Davidson Museum (Milwaukee, WI); Volunteer, Christian Community Youth Trip; Paralegal Intern, Sperling Law Offices LLC (Milwaukee, WI) Additional Campus Involvement: Resident Assistant - Residence Life at Antioch College; Student worker and member of Admissions Committee Antioch College Admissions; Farm Assistant - Antioch Farm Languages: Spanish Chicago | earnold@antiochcollege.edu | ellaeileenarnold.wordpress.com
Math and Praxis of Political Economy Advisors: Dr. Barbara Sanborn, Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Tech. Engineer and Communications Specialist, Club de Reparadores/Repair Club (Buenos Aires, Argentina); International Program Development Assistant, Community Solutions, (Yellow Springs & Cuba); Research Assistant, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (Guanajuato, México); Sustainable Energy Advocate/Miller Fellow, Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions (Yellow Springs) Additional Campus Involvement: ComCil, Curriculum Committee, Sustainability Committee, Resident Assistant Languages: Spanish Chicago | lucasbfbautista@gmail.com
Valerie Benedict
Biomedical Science Advisors: Dr. David Kammler, Dr. Scott Millen, Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Medical Assistant, Fidelity Health Partners (Dayton, OH); Research Assistant, Northshore University Health System - Dr. Timothy Sanborn (Evanston, IL); Agroecology Educator, Makauwahi Cave Reserve (Kauai, HI); Therapist/Acupuncturist, Independently Licensed in Cranial Sacral Therapy and Acupuncture (Ann Arbor, MI) Additional Campus Involvement: Science Tutor for physics and chemistry, Science Saturday STEM outreach Languages: Spanish, fluent German Ann Arbor, MI| vbenedict@antiochcollege.edu Proposed evaluation of a gene target virulence factors in Escherichia coli 268 impacts on fidelity of epithelial lining in a model of neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis / Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) remains one of the leading causes of mortality among extremely low birth weight preterm infants. In the instance of positive treatment outcomes patients suffer long term complications such as growth failure and neurodevelopmental disabilities. Despite is prevalence, high fatality rate and long term complications the pathogenicity of this disease is ill understood. Genes targets that are associated with virulence factors in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli have been identified through the comparison of a non-pathogenic bacterium genome (nissle) and escherichia coli 268’s genome. This study proposes an evaluation of the previously identified virulence factor through the generation of mutants bacterium’s and use of a model of neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis that will allow for the visualization of the virulence factors impacts on the epithelial lining of a model of neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis.
Malka Berro
Psychology Advisors: Dr. Sharon Flicker, Dr. Richard Kraince Co-ops: Policy Advocate, Fundacion Sindrome de West (Madrid); Policy Analyst, National Council for Behavioral Health (D.C.); Miller Fellow: International Program Development Assistant, Community Solutions (Yellow Springs and Cuba); Congressional Intern, Office of U.S. Congressman Mike Turner (D.C.); Care Support Associate, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital Mental Health Services (D.C.) Additional Campus Involvement: ComCil Representative, Resident Assistant, People of Color Group, Tutor Languages: Spanish Language Focus Washington, D.C.| malka.berro@gmail.com A Critical Examination of the Privatization of Mental Health Services in the United States / This literature review explores the benefits and drawbacks to the privatization of mental health care in the United States. To provide context, the paper begins by outlining the history of mental health care in the United States, drawing the link between deinstitutionalization and the subsequent privatization of services. Case studies of Massachusetts’ and North Carolina’s mental health systems are then used to illustrate both positive and negative outcomes of privatized care. The rationale for privatization of care includes revenue saving, management, and flexibility concerns, while downsides to a private mental health system include competition, quality of care, and quantification of social services. The paper concludes with an analysis of gaps and inconsistencies in the literature and recommendations for future research, policy, and practices.
Jennifer Bish
Visual Arts Advisors: Forest Bright, Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Teaching Assistant, Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center; Art, Social Justice, and Self-expression Teaching Assistant, Children’s After School Arts Program/CASA (San Francisco); Teaching Assistant, Bay Head School (NJ); Teaching Assistant, The Paraclete (Boston) Additional Campus Involvement: Wellness Center, Antioch Kitchens, Glen Helen, Student Gallery Languages: Spanish Toms River, NJ | Jbish@antiochcollege.edu Fluid / My artwork explores line and space. In my work, I attempt to embody memory as well as my current experiences in life. My inspiration derives mostly from people in my life as they are often the center of my works. Previously, my goal for my artwork was to make people think. I used to believe a piece was successful when it sparked a reaction from the audience. Now, I just like making things that I find interesting to look at, in hopes that my audience will as well. I want my work to be relatable to the audience while still being meaningful to me and my life. This project is a fluid acrylic installation. Through exploration of the medium over the past year, I have worked to transform space and create a submersive “fluid” room. The room includes a covered floor, walls, furniture, and a process video.
David Blakeslee
Media Arts Advisors: Charles Fairbanks, Brooke Bryan Co-ops: Language and Research, Yamasa Institute (Aichi, Japan); Self-employed, Documentary Filmmaker (Washington); Nutrition Educator, Natural Grocers (Denver); Digital Marketing Intern, Seattle International Film Festival (Washington) Additional Campus Involvement: Olive Kettering Library, Antioch Farm, Media Services Language: French dblakeslee@antiochcollege.edu Souvenir / Souvenir is an experimental documentary video installation. Through archive video of the Japanese surrender and my own footage of Japan, Souvenir explores the connections between myself as an American tourist in Japan and my grandfather as part of the occupying American forces. Centered around the journey of a centuries-old sword my grandfather took back with him to the states, this project begs questions of history and memory and documentation.
Lindsay Browne
Conrad (Connie) Brunson
Attachment and Satisfaction in Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationships / Consensually Nonmonogamous (CNM) relationships are relationships in which there is an agreement that allows for romantic and/or sexual relationships to occur outside of the dyadic relationship. Despite an increasing number of people aware of CNM relationships, there is still a shortage of research on CNM relationships. To address this gap in the literature, this quasi-experimental study examines differences in relationship satisfaction and attachment styles across individuals in monogamous and CNM relationships analyzing how attachment styles might relate to satisfaction differently between monogamous and CNM relationships. Using online surveys, 154 participants recruited from Reddit and Meetup groups reported their attachment styles and relationship satisfaction for each partner. In my presentation, I discuss these findings as well as how future research can be used to address remaining gaps in the literature.
Preventing Bird Window-strikes on Campus at Antioch College / I am providing a solution to the campus issue of bird window-strikes through the use of artistic vinyl decals implemented on high-strike area windows. The final project is accompanied by a personal animation essay-film. Birds can’t see glass because of its transparency, and an estimated billion birds die in collisions with glass yearly in the United States alone. From personal experience of collecting the remains of birds that have hit windows around campus, I can state with confidence that we greatly contribute to the deaths of local wildlife species. My solution is to implement student-designed vinyl decals to the windows of room 218 of the Arts and Science Building, which is where most window-strikes happen on campus. These cheap, removable, and customizable designs will be implemented and then monitored for effectiveness in reducing window-strikes prior to moving towards a campus-wide solution.
Psychology Advisors: Dr. Sharon Flicker, Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Assistant Manager, Linda Bean’s Perfect Maine (Maine); Coffee Roasting and Marketing Assistant, Reza’s Roast (Dayton); Student Publications Miller Fellow (YS High School); Paraprofessional Educator, Crotched Mountain School and Rehabilitation Center (New Hampshire) Additional Campus Involvement: C-Shop, States of Incarceration national humanities collaborative project researcher, Miller Fellow Languages: French Vandalia, OH | Lindsay.jordan442@gmail.com
Media Arts Advisors: Kelly Gallagher, MFA; Dr. Richard Kranice Co-ops: Ornithologist Assistant in bird banding, National Aviary (Pittsburgh); Creating and maintaining online Etsy store, Business Birds Studios (Pittsburgh); Costume Developer, Costume Specialists (Columbus) Additional Campus Involvement: Former head of Queer Center, Resident Assistant Languages: English, Some French, Japanese, and German Fairborn, OH | cbrunson@antiochcollege.edu
Ellie Burck
Media Arts Advisors: Charles Fairbanks, Kelly Gallagher, Brooke Bryan Co-ops: OHLA Undergrad Research Fellow / Sweetwater Filmmaker (MI, WI, IN, IL, OH); Production Assistant, Ace and Sons Moving Picture Company / The Works Catering (NYC); Live-Scribing Specialist, The Ink Factory (Chicago); Radio Production Specialist Miller Fellow, WYSO (Yellow Springs) Additional Campus Involvement: ComCil, Student Space Coordinator, Events Committee, WYSO, visual note-taker at FACT Week, The Antioch Record, Student Union Languages: Spanish Chicago & Philadelphia | ellieburck@gmail.com Web: vimeo.com/whoopstring and LinkedIn Sweetwater / This project is about the ties of people to fish, fish to water, and water to all, in the form of a short documentary film. Using oral history methodologies to learn about my interviewees’ fishing practices and lives, I made this film to put a magnifying glass to the beauty of fish guts, hooks, waiting, and the thinking that encapsulates fishing in the Great Lakes Region. As I learned more about this culture, I discovered it is always shifting with the fish. As the fish adapt to new waters impacted by climate change and pollution, the people who are fishing reflect the changes in the environment they themselves are altering as they search for their game. This is more than a film about the environment, it is a watery portraiture of what it was, how it was, when I saw it.
Renée Burkenmeier
Visual Arts Advisors: Forest Bright, Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Intern at K12 Gallery & TEJAS (Dayton, OH); Re-Painting a Family Home, including an interior mural (Georgetown, OH); Self-Directed Illustrator (CA), and Writer (CA,OH) Additional Campus Involvement: Foundry Theater technician, Antioch Kitchen assistant and dishwasher, Intern with The Antioch Review Languages: French Dayton & Cincinnati | bmeierren@gmail.com Web: rapidren.wordpress.com Painting with Light / Someone once told me that photography is “painting with light.” This opened up a whole new world in photography for me, which is a medium I already love. I began taking photos with the intention of making richly layered images. Someone could look through my SD cards at any given point and find highly saturated, perhaps desaturated, zoomed in, textured and/or blurry images all over the place. Many of them are of nonsense. And from these potentially undesired images I make something beautiful. This process has trained me to see the world in new ways. Seeing shapes, textures, and colors—reflections of light—as possibility.
Odette Chavez-Mayo
Media Arts (Photography) Advisors: James Luckett, Charles Fairbanks, Kelly Gallagher, Luisa Bieri, Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Artist-in-Residence, Yellow Springs Artist Residencies; Photographer (Mexico City); Assistant, Fraenkel Gallery and Jim Goldberg Photography (San Francisco) ; Artist Liaison / Marketing & Communications Intern, Creative Time (NYC) Additional Campus Involvement: Herndon Gallery Docent, ComCil, People of Colors Group, Women Empowering Women-Volunteer Group at Dayton Correctional Center, The Antioch Record Photographer, Social Justice Organizer, Student Space Coordinator, Student Union, Antioch Women of Color, WIG Photographer Languages: Spanish (native), French CDMX | TX | NYC | ochavez-mayo@antiochcollege.edu | revveries@ gmail.com Web: odettechavezmayo.com | Instagram: odettechavezmayo We are Enough: Portraits from Dayton Correctional Institution / My senior project is a collaborative portrait series of incarcerated women serving life sentences at Dayton Correctional Institution. In windows of 2 hours, I have set up a 4x5 camera, two lights, and a black cloth in the prison’s visiting room to take the portraits. Allowing the women to have as much agency as possible in the process has been important, as well as fostering a space where freedom, curiosity, and play could occur despite the constraints of a being somewhere meant for punishment and dehumanization. My intent is to create images that combat oversimplified and harmful narratives of prisoners and to focus on their humanity, above all else.
Rowan Coburn-Griffis
Environmental Sciences Advisors: Dr. Brian Kot, Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Sled-Dog Handler, Points Unknown (Hovland, MN); Miller Fellow Stable Hand, The Riding Centre / Darkstar Books and Comics (Yellow Springs); Lab Assistant, Florida Institute of Technology Marine Lab (Vero Beach, FL); Assistant Sled Dog Trainer, Nature’s Kennel: Sled Dog Racing & Adventures (Michigan) Additional Campus Involvement: Riding Centre Miller Fellow, Resident Assistant Languages: Japanese Pandora & Logan, OH | rcoburn-griffis@antiochcollege.edu Sled Dogs Running on Photovoltaics / Dogs have been used by humans for thousands of years, commonly deemed “humanity’s best friend.” They perform many tasks for us: from guard to herding to companion animal to transportation. They have been used in northern regions of the globe as modes for transportation, pulling sleds, people, and equipment. Now, with our changing climate, exploration into how humans can use high-energy dogs accustomed to warmer regions could be a small-scale answer to alternative transportation. In this project, I designed a photovoltaic system that utilizes three 10-watt solar panels to charge or supply direct energy to a battery or load; in this case it charges a small 12-volt battery which in turn powers lights for night-runs, which are ideal in warm regions. Two other designs were drawn up for a bicycle and a regular dog sled. This project is intended to give instruction and guidance for those who wish to build their own small systems.
Julia Dwight
Samuel Edwards
Creating a Mentoring Culture on Campus: Early Developmental Mentoring for Retention and Completion / The developmental model of mentoring is inclusive, holistic, and practiced by seasoned professional mentors, especially those following the internationally recognized NACADA model of student advising. Such mentors serve diligently as teachers, sponsors, guides, exemplars, advisors, adjunct-counselors, supporters, role models, facilitators, protectors, friends and even future collaborators. Nearly two decades of peer-reviewed research has unequivocally demonstrated that undergraduate engagement developmental mentoring relationships with faculty members and peers results in increased retention and completion rates, especially among first-generation, female, minority group, and non-binary gender identifying students. This research project focused on the data-driven evaluation of current mentoring definitions and undertakings with the intention of suggesting improvements to the Antioch College campus mentoring culture for heightened retention and completion rates.
Democratic Practice in Research and Business / Since the 1920’s, Antioch College operated, in one form or another, a coffee shop. Up until the College’s most recent closure, C-Shop (CS) operated out of the Student Union building. However, since the College’s reopening, CS has yet to be successfully revived to full, operational capacity. CS existed in short form again during 2016 and 2017. Since May of 2017, I have managed the project and worked with a team to bring it to operational capacity. My work with this project has been to put qualitative social scientific methods to work and action: to document the re-development of CS, through Participatory Action Research and cooperative business practices, as a student-operated cooperative coffee and food service.
Biomedical Science Advisors: Dr. David Kammler, Dr. Joseph Lennox, Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Wild Horse Advocate and Trainer, Wild Horse Sanctuary (CA); Student Technical Assistant, Oregon State University College of Earth: Oceanography Research Lab, Dr. Angelicque White (Corvallis, OR); EMT, Miami Township Fire & Rescue (Yellow Springs) Additional Campus Involvement: Volunteer EMT-Miami Township Fire Rescue, Level I Firefighter certification, Rope Rescue Operator, Medic Driver, and Explorer Post Advisor; General Chemistry II and Organic Chemistry I Peer tutor, Supplemental Instructor Mentor (SIM) for General Chemistry I and Organic Chemistry II. Katonah, New York | jdwight@antiochcollege.edu
Political Economy Advisors: Dr. Sean Payne, Dr. Caitlin Meagher, Beth Bridgeman, Dr. Richard Kraince Co-ops: Lloyd Fellow, Independent Research: co-op start-up coffee/food service business (Cincinnati, OH); Corporate Social Responsibility Intern, Chroma Technology Corp. (Vermont); Teaching Assistant, The Paraclete (Boston); Electric Motorcycle Assembler, Current Motors - Electric Vehicle Company, (Ann Arbor, MI) Additional Campus Involvement: Assistant, Antioch Kitchens, STARS sustainability reporting for Antioch College, Resident Assistant for 3 years; helped hire the dean, assistant director, and residence life coordinator; Wrote and performed three independent studies on neoliberalism, cooperatives, and the anthropology of work sbedwards2100@gmail.com
Todd Ennis
Self Design: Identity, Aesthetics, and Discursive Practice Advisors: Michael Casselli, Dr. Gabrielle Civil, Louise Smith, Brooke Bryan Co-ops: Artist-in-Residence: Experimental Web Publishing (Eugene, OR & Brooklyn, NY); Podcast Production (Eugene, OR); Curatorial Assistant/ Digital Archivist, The Kitchen (NYC); Intern-Crown Point Press (San Francisco) Additional Campus Involvement: Herndon Gallery Assistant, OKL Circulation Assistant, Yearbook Editor Languages: French Portland, OR | tennis@antiochcollege.edu Instagram: @tiredsupermodel dinnerparty / dinnerparty is a process-oriented sculpture that uses the mise-en-scène of an intimate supper as a framework to acknowledge our propulsion through time. Inspired by the object translation of Tracy Emin’s My Bed (1998) and the performative domesticity of The Real Housewives franchise, this work is located around the mutable site of the dinner table and its composition as the surrounding context shifts, as event becomes memory, as object becomes document.
Aj Fouts
Political Economy, Japanese Focus Advisors: Dr. Sean Payne, Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Therapy Assistant, Suisen Fukushikai Social Welfare (Osaka, Japan); Legal Case Assistant, Scholl-Ashodian Regional Bankruptcy Center of SE Pennsylvania (Philadelphia); Paralegal Assistant, Outten & Golden LLP, Advocates for Workplace Fairness (NYC); Teaching Assistant, Detroit Achievement Academy (Michigan) Additional Campus Involvement: ComCil A Treasurer, Yellow Springs Home, Inc. Miller Fellow, Antioch College Finance Office Assistant, Democratic Party volunteer. Languages: Japanese Detroit, MI | afouts@antiochcollege.edu Web: linkedin.com/in/aj-fouts-748403b7 History of Land Use Policy and Attitudes in Yellow Springs, Ohio: Postwar to Present / There are many measures a municipality can utilize if they want to manage growth, many of which the Village of Yellow Springs actively explored or implemented in the latter half of the 20th century, such as infill development and controlled annexation. This push to control development in and around the Village happened in response to the rapid suburbanization of the nearby city of Dayton, whose MSA increased in population by 221% from 1940 to 1970. The primary aim of this study is to compile and chronologize events and decisions in Yellow Springs relating to its land use via primary sources, in the form of official governmental reports, and secondary sources, primarily consisting of local news articles. Having a nuanced view of the history of land policy in the Village may help to inform future decisions on the matter in Yellow Springs, as well as other small towns under similar circumstances.
Michelle Fujii
Self Design: Interdisciplinary Studies in Ecology, Culture, and Politics Advisors: Dr. Emily Steinmetz, Dr. Kim Landsbergen, Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Urban Green Space community organizer and researcher, OHLA / Un Arbol para mi Vereda (Buenos Aires); Foreign Affairs Aide, University of Nagasaki Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (Nagasaki, Japan); Paralegal Assistant, Phillip Brigham (Chicago); Paralegal Assistant, Outten & Golden LLP, Advocates for Workplace Fairness (NYC) Additional Campus Involvement: Community Council President, The Record Editor, Women Empowering Women Group Member at Dayton Correctional Institution, Women of Color Group Coordinator Languages: Spanish and Japanese Language Focus Kobe, Kyoto, Olympia, NY / D.C. | mfujii@antiochcollege.edu, Web: OHLA Interview Project: http://ohla.info/greening-a-city-stories-ofenvironmental-work-and-activism-in-buenos-aires-michelle-fujii/ Greening Spaces and World-views: Ecological Work in Buenos Aires, Argentina / Buenos Aires has very little green space per person, half of what the World Health Organization recommends. From July to December 2017, I lived in Buenos Aires and worked as a volunteer for the non-profit organization Un Arbol Para Mi Vereda (A Tree for My Sidewalk), one of many organizations working to increase greenery in the city. During those six months, I conducted an oral history project, interviewing my colleagues and other individuals working for environmental organizations and for the city Environmental Protection Agency. Through my research, I learned that many of the people working to increase green spaces in Buenos Aires were not only transforming physical spaces but were also working to change beliefs about our relationship to “nature� and our environment. My senior thesis explores this connection between the physical work to transform urban spaces and the transformation of world-views.
Coco Gagnet
Philosophy Advisors: Dr. Lewis Cassity, Dr. Corine Tachtiris, Brooke Bryan, Luisa Bieri, Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Sustainability Assistant, Lopez Island Land Trust (Washington); Baker, The Smile / Wine Distributors (NYC); Artist and Administrative Liaison, International Studio Curatorial Program / Bourbon Springs restaurant (NYC); Copy Editor, Microcosm Publishing (Portland, OR) Additional Campus Involvement: Space Coordinator, ComCil B Community Representative, Assistant Food Coordinator, and The Record horoscope writer Dayton, OH | cgagnet@antiochcollege.edu Hospitality, Erotic Interruption, and Salons as Experiential Philosophy: Welcoming the Strangeness of Ourselves / This project proposes feminist hospitality, a theory which values inclusion, care, and playfulness, as a necessary practice for knowing ourselves and others. Hospitality manifests as experiential philosophy by building on the legacy of 18th-century salons as spaces of exchange and growth, while reimagining that space as being newly accessible, vulnerable, and sensual. With the introduction of a meal, guest and host reconcile with the shared human precarity revealed through eating. I develop the concept of erotic interruption, which explores the permeability of our psychic and material edges, and desires to fully elucidate the transformation that can occur at the borders of what we know. The erotic interruption that happens in the co-created, ephemeral space of the salon serves as a thoughtful practice in which we might hope to catch a glimpse of one another, and ourselves, to have both a private and shared experience of joy, renewing our faith in possibility.
Timothy Grant
Media Arts (Political Economy, Media, and Technology) Advisors: Charles Fairbanks, Dr. Sean Payne, Luisa Bieri Co-ops: IT Specialist, IT and Media Services (Antioch College); IT Intern, The Tandana Foundation (Otavalo, Ecuador); Studio Assistant, Crown Point Press (San Francisco); Miller Fellow, Yellow Springs Performing Arts Alliance Languages: Spanish Language Focus Brooklyn, NY & Xenia, OH | Timothygrant347@gmail.com Web: linkedin.com/in/timothy-grant-333426aa/ Barriers to Entry / Barriers to entry elucidates the various barriers to entry into 5 different sections of the US economy: banking, technology, media, education, and food. I focus on the strategies that larger companies/corporations use to attain and maintain dominance in their market. This senior project is an audio-visual experience where people can step into a barrier made of information about the different sectors of the U.S. economy and hear interviews from local small organizations about their experiences operating their businesses under these conditions. My passions for IT and finance in conjunction with my interest in business led me to pursue this project to uncover the information that has deliberately been hidden from the majority of the population.
Alana Guth
Psychology Advisors: Dr. Sharon Flicker, Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Development Assistant, Antioch College Advancement Office; Program Assistant, PACE Center for Girls (Broward, FL); Community Resource Advocate, Center for Ethical Living and Social Justice Renewal (New Orleans); Executive Assistant, Easter Seals Michigan - Disability Services (Detroit, MI) Additional Campus Involvement: Resident Assistant, Alumni Relations Associate, Event Coordinator Language: Spanish Language Focus Louisville, KY | aguth@antiochcollege.edu Web: co-op.antiochcollege.edu/author/alana-guth/ Psychology of Giving: The state of the Literature and Implications for Practice / This literature review explores the psychology behind what makes consumers give money, time, labor, or items to charitable organizations. Drawing on theory and previous empirical research, this paper explores the current state of the literature on the three main components of the giving decision-making process: What makes people initially decide to donate, what makes people increase their donation amount, and how people select where to give their donation. The review of the literature is then translated into guidelines that can inform nonprofits of best practices in establishing giving campaigns within their organization. These guidelines include understanding the target audience, presenting an individual case in a giving appeal, and having donors pre-commit to their donation.
Rose Hardesty
Javis Heberling
Ecology in Children’s Literature / Children’s literature has historically been used to teach practical and ethical lessons about the world, as well as engage children’s imagination, creativity, and empathy. In this project, I will analyze children’s literature that explores themes of environmental justice, ecology, bioregionalism, and a sense of place, collective organizing, and community stewardship. My project is literature-focused, but inherently interdisciplinary, and will be grounded in the theories of ecocriticism, ecofeminism, and critical ecopedagogy. The work is rooted in ecocriticism because it will focus on the relationships between humans and their environment, and the treatment of nature in literature. It is rooted in ecofeminism as a lens through which to consider underrepresented experiences of gender, race, and class in environmental children’s literature. Finally, it is rooted in critical ecopedagogy as praxis to move forward the conversation on inclusive and participatory environmental education.
Early excerpt from Halo: Omega / Halo: Omega is an ongoing work in progress; a series of short animated films based in the universe of the popular video game Halo, which played a large role in inspiring me to become a storyteller, filmmaker, and animator. The series takes place in the waning years of a decades-long, losing conflict between humanity and an alien alliance, following a small group of soldiers as they embark on classified high-risk missions in the hopes of turning the tide. With this team consisting of soldiers, government spies, and abducted children-turned super-soldiers, the series will explore humanity; from finding it in the most alien sources, to finding it lacking in figures of authority, to striving to understand what it is amidst the realities of war.
Literature Advisors: Dr. Corine Tachtiris Co-ops: Sustainability Advocate, Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions (Yellow Springs); Environmental Education and Data Collection Assistant, Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program/BEMP (Albuquerque, NM) Additional Campus Involvement: States of Incarceration Exhibit, Miller Fellow, Writing Tutor Languages: Italian, Latin Alameda, CA | rhardesty@antiochcollege.edu
Media Arts Advisors: Charles Fairbanks, Kelly Gallagher, Beth Bridgeman, Brooke Bryan Co-ops: Therapy Assistant, Suisen Fukushikai Social Welfare (Osaka, Japan); Media Production Fellow, Antioch College Cooperative Education Program; Small Business Assistant, Desert Glass Gallery (Pheonix, AZ); Post-Production Documentary Intern, ZAP Zoetrope Aubry Productions (San Francisco) Additional Campus Involvement: Editing work with WYSO and the Dayton Metro Public Library in their interview series, Senior Voices; Film work with fellow Antioch student Aidan Soguero Languages: Japanese Language Focus Beavercreek, Ohio | jheberling@antiochcollege.edu
Toni Jonas-Silver
Self Design: Art Practice as Prefigurative Politics Advisors: Dr. Emily Steinmetz, Michael Casselli, Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Independent Painting Project (Olympia, WA); Olympia School District — McKinney-Vento Program (Olympia, WA); Math & Art tutor, Yellow Springs High School Languages: Spanish Boston, MA, Olympia, WA | tjonas-silver@antiochcollege.edu Instagram: __t0enail__ Art and Interstitial Theory | Living and Making in the Cracks of Capitalism / This project comes from a need to know why I want to do art. I sometimes derive a special kind of joy and indescribable satisfaction from doing art. The realization that this joy and satisfaction is actually a result of social interactions that are inseparable from the art and its making led me to understand in a new way how art can be political -- how it can act as a tool for opening space for special ways of relating. Interstitial theory understands the space that art opens up as being in opposition to capitalism, a space where the cultural logic of capitalism is replaced by a new logic that is created by the art. I now understand the “indescribable satisfaction” as being the experience of temporarily overcoming our oppressive system, of existing, not after, or outside of, but between capitalism, in the cracks.
Laura Kokernot
Literature Advisors: Robin Littell, Dr. Mary Ann Davis, Brooke Bryan Co-ops: Production and Distribution Specialist, Collective Eye Films (Portland, OR); Editorial Assistant, River Styx Magazine (St. Louis, MO); Editorial Intern, Offbeat Magazine (New Orleans); Paraprofessional Educator, Switzer Learning Center (Torrance, CA) Additional Campus Involvement: Miller Fellow-YS Senior Center, course research for States of Incarceration project, writing for The Record Languages: Spanish Web: linkedin.com/in/laura-kokernot-16607163 Columbus, OH | lkokernot@antiochcollege.edu Stories from the Service Industry: What is it Like to Work in a Bar? / This project is based on interviews with bartenders and servers in the Ohio area. Although it is considered to be a rather ordinary profession, working in a bar actually puts the employee in quite the unique spot. Bartending and serving force one into close proximity with other people. This closeness, coupled with the effects of alcohol, naturally creates an environment that allows for intimacy between strangers, and puts the bartender at a vantage point where they are able to learn about people and their lives. It is an environment ripe with stories. My project explores the stories employees have collected on the job, what they have learned from the work, if anything, and their general thoughts and feelings about this type of work. The project is at its heart a piece of creative nonfiction; its focus is to capture the beauty and uniqueness of the lives of people that might normally be considered entirely ordinary.
Catalina Cielo La Mers-Noble
Political Economy Advisors: Dr. Emily Steinmetz, Dr. Sean Payne, Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Political Aide/Policy Researcher, Irvine Congressional District Office for Congressman John Garamendi (Davis, CA); Advocacy Intern, The Advocacy Project (D.C.); Community Resource Advocate, Center for Ethical Living and Social Justice Renewal (New Orleans, LA); PADI Divemaster, Cozumel Dive Academy (Mexico) Additional Campus Involvement: ComCil B Student Representative, Yoga Teacher Training, Campus Tour Guide Languages: Passed Oral Proficiency Interview in Spanish, basic French Guam, California, Yellow Springs, Rome | clamers-noble@antiochcollege. edu Web: www.linkedin.com/in/catalina-cielo Parole in the United States: What’s Next? / Parole processes in the United States vary widely from state to state and, even within states, there are often inconsistencies with the Parole Board’s decision-making. Limited literature about risk assessment procedures is available for individual states. This literature review explores the current status of adult parole in the United States, beginning with its creation. Historically, the implementation of parole began with “good conduct” credits reducing time left to serve by one month a year. Next, this review examines risk assessment during parole hearings, and how it may be linked to a transition from “good conduct” style review and release by internal review boards to a review board external to the specific prison where the incarcerated person is serving time. Finally, this review highlights current parole reform proposals, both federally and locally in Ohio.
Amelia Fay la Plante Horne
Self Design: Ecological Praxis in Healing Advisor: Dr. Emily Steinmetz, Luisa Bieri Co-ops: OHLA Research Fellow, Dayton Correctional Institution (Dayton); Agroecology Program Assistant, United World College (Montezuma, NM); Floral Ecology Educator/Eco-restoration Specialist, Makauwahi Cave Reserve (Kalaheo, HI); Nutrition Health Educator, Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (Denver) Additional Campus Involvement: Women Empowering Women at Dayton Correctional Institution (Dayton, OH), Antioch Kitchens, Antioch Garden & Apothecary Co-Founder and Facilitator, Yoga Teacher Training, States Of Incarceration exhibit researcher. Languages: Spanish Las Vegas, NM | alaplantehorne@antiochcollege.edu Web: ohla.info/incarcerated-motherhood-experiences-of-women-in-a-21st-century-ohio-prison | statesofincarceration.org/states/ ohio-death-penalty-installment-plan Incarcerated Motherhood: Experiences of Women in a 21st Century Ohio Prison / This project is intended to give a public-facing platform to otherwise silenced experiences, educate the public, and to provide a framework to encourage institutional change. “Incarcerated Motherhood” is a composite project, which has a home in the archives of the Great Lakes College Association’s Oral History in the Liberal Arts webpage. Rather than focusing on those affected by incarceration on the “outside,” this project deliberately focuses solely on the experiences of navigating motherhood while incarcerated. Comprised of the voices of 9 women who are incarcerated at Dayton Correctional Institution, the interviews serve as a foundation to a recommendation to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections on ways they can better support mother-child relationships in their facilities.
Taylor Jean Larson
Sophia Christina Lausmann
The Political Economy of Public Homeplace: A Case Study of the Underdog Café / Among many other things, the Underdog is a café in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The business was purchased in 2002 by a former employee of the café who offered the space a mission statement, which includes the assertion, “We are committed to always act in a manner that reflects the world we wish to create...” Through auto-ethnography, this project investigates the vision through which the Underdog Café was born, so to understand its capacity to bear visions in us—dreams of community, of resistance, of home in a community of resistance—as well as how the space might better materialize these visions. Theories of feminist political economy and liberation psychologies inform my analysis of the café as a public homeplace that embodies a living text, a text that must be re-read through the material and psychic realities of women workers’ lives as they practice and engender the homeplace daily.
Dance Therapy: A Dance Lesson with Focus, Mood, and Behavior / This literature review focuses on the historical development of dance therapy and what is currently known about its effectiveness. The review starts out with the roots of dance therapy and how the idea of using dance as a coping mechanism led to studies profiting the patient’s health, both physical and psychological. The combination of music and movement is key to this therapy as it allows the patient to comprehend their bodies and establish a relationship with oneself. Examples that can occur from partaking in these exercises are expressing emotions or improving motor skills. The empirical evidence regarding the effectiveness of dance therapy as treatment for specific disorders, such as ADHD, dementia, depression, autism, trauma, and psychological aspect of cancer, will show change in behavior, mood, and focus. Future studies should concentrate on these areas which could provide insight on the style as well as the longevity of participating in therapy and possibly even discover more benefits.
Political Economy Advisors: Dr. Dean Snyder, Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Lloyd Fellow and Legal Assistant for Immigration/Asylum Cases, Attorney Ethan Friedman (Montreal, Canada); Researcher, Self-Designed Psychology Project (Yellow Springs); Archive Assistant, Antiochiana (Yellow Springs); Editor/Research Assistant, The Record and Immigration Studies Working Group (Yellow Springs); Immigrant Community Advocate, El Rescate: Immigrant Rights Advocacy (Los Angeles) Languages: Spanish Yellow Springs, OH | tlarson@antiochcollege.edu
Psychology Advisor: Dr. Sharon Flicker Co-ops: Antioch School-Teacher’s assistant (Yellow Springs), The Coffee Island, Center that offers workshops to the mentally disabled to establish daily routines (Regensburg, Germany); Expediter, Ellie’s Restaurant (Yellow Springs) Languages: Spanish, fluent in French and German Regensburg, Germany | slausmann@antiochcollege.edu, sophia.lausmann@yahoo.com
Ian McClung
Media Arts Advisors: Kelly Gallagher, Charles Fairbanks, Brooke Bryan Co-ops: Intern, Scholl Ashodian Law (Philadelphia), Marketing Intern, Arts Place (Portland, IN); Marketing Assistant, Glen Helen (Yellow Springs); Video Assistant, Datteltäter (Berlin, Germany) Languages: German, Japanese Portland, IN | imcclung@antiochcollege.edu Scraps / This project--a video collage--is edited together with respect to the creative process itself. Using new and old footage, animation, and scraps from the cutting room floor, it is both a memento for the ideas that never got realized and a celebration of that final moment of project completion. It seeks to explore process and motivation, as well as cast a casual gaze at what holds our fascination with media.
Elizabeth Milem
Self Design: Art, Science, and Art Conservation Advisors: Dr. David Kammler, Michael Casselli, Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Art Conservation Assistant, Artex Fine Art Services (D.C.); Art Provenance Researcher, Holocaust Art Restitution Project (D.C.); Assistant Exhibit Curator, Henri Matisse Show, Museum of Fine Art (Boston); Arts Program Assistant, Cole Art Center & Stephen F. Austin State University Music Preparatory Division(Nacogdoches, TX) Additional Campus Involvement: Solar Electric (Photovoltaic) Certified Languages: Japanese, French Nacogdoches, TX | gracie.milem@gmail.com Fourier Transform Infrared Methods for Art Conservation / This project aimed to find a reproducible and reliable Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) method with greater ease in verifying paint composition, with minimal sample preparation, time for scan analyses, and destruction levels to the source material for art conservators. This study also examined the possibility of cross-examining conservators’ spectral results with established spectral libraries for further verification of chemical classifications for unknown sample analyses. This utilized three FTIR analysis methods for comparison in these aspects: Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR), Diffuse-reflectance (DRIFTS), and the KBr pellet method with several prepared paint samples with known chemical formulas of varying types.
Jebetu Matta Moiwai
Self Design: Liberation Studies Advisors: Dr. Kevin McGruder, Dr. Richard Kraince, Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Arts in Action Fellow, Betty’s Daughters Arts Collective (NYC); Dance Student/ Server, West African Dance Studio/ The Palace (Durham, NC); Community Advocate, Causa Justa, (Oakland & San Francisco); Front of House Team Member, Vimala’s Curryblossom Café (Carreboro, NC) Additional Campus Involvement: Co-led Antioch People of Color Group, co-led Antioch Women of Color Group, Student worker at Glen Helen Languages: Spanish Durham, NC | jmoiwai@antiochcollege.edu Grandmamas Back | stories of war and resilience / Grandmamas Back explores the effect the blood diamond war had on my family through the body, space, and time. Never in her day did my grandmama think she would be forced to leave the land our people inhabited for generations. This work includes the voices of my father and eldest brother who survived the war. Grandmamas Back serves to illuminate questions of ancestral trauma and ancestral wisdom. How do we move trauma for our daughters and for those who came before? How do we preserve the stories, wisdom, and gifts of our ancestors? Storytelling is a tradition that runs deep within my bloodline. It is a tool that has the power to weave a collective thread of understanding through an instance. This work is personal, therefore collective; collective, therefore personal. Welcome to my Grandmamas Back. Within each line, mark, rib, and vertebrae lies a story aching to be told.
Scott Montgomery
Political Economy Advisors: Dr. Dean Snyder, Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Web design-Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions; Real estate asset-pricing model-M&M Remodeling; RIA Health (SF) Additional Campus Involvement: Analytical modeling, Sustainability Committee (Environmental Dashboard and STARS reporting) Languages: Spanish Chicago | montgoso@hotmail.com The Antioch College Student Strike of 1973: A Crisis of Student Activism or Failure of Leadership? / This project investigates the Antioch College Student Strike of 1973 – an inflection point in Antioch’s history altering its path of development for decades to come. Employing critical discourse analysis, I examine the overarching narratives describing the strike propagated through mainstream and alternative (student-run) media outlets. I find the discourse surrounding the strike in mainstream outlets portrayed the strike as violent and embarrassing. This narrative ignores the growing inaccessibility of college education and rollbacks to shared governance by an increasingly corporate Antioch – arguments that were clearly articulated by students in their media circulations. Understanding the strike in the context of broader changes to the U.S. political economy and cultural formation, the cause of Antioch’s decline was tied to the increasing corporate nature of the institution, the failure of those business ventures, and rollbacks to shared governance – which holds important lessons for Antioch College’s survival in the twenty-first century.
Angel Nalubega
History Advisors: Dr. Kevin McGruder, Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Paralegal Aide, Scholl-Ashodian LLC (Philadelphia); Legal Assistant, Law Office of Phillip Brigham, LLC, (Chicago); Program Assistant, North Star Fund (NYC); Miller Fellow, Affordable Housing Associate Yellow Springs Home Inc. Additional Campus Involvement: ComCil Student Representative, Resident Assistant, Reunion Volunteer/Organizer, and Community Organizer Philadelphia | nalubegaangela@gmail.com Saint Sabina: A History of Faith-Based Community Organizing in a Neighborhood Church / This paper explores the political and material importance of faith communities to working class Black people in the urban environment. It is a case study on The Faith Community of Saint Sabina, a Catholic Church on the South Side of Chicago. This case study analyzes the Church’s place in a legacy of Black community organizing. Through this paper, I seek to illustrate the nuanced ways in which a church interacts, supports, and anchors a neighborhood in the urban environment. Ultimately, I argue that churches are effective spaces for revolutionary practice and sustained change in and for oppressed communities.
Leandre Niyokwizera
Biomedical Sciences Advisors: Dr. Joseph Lennox, Dr. Richard Kraince Co-ops: Educator, L’hopital Philippe Maguilene Senghor (Love Volunteers) (Dakar, Senegal); Production Assistant, Antioch College Foundry Theater; Medical Scribe, Eureka Pediatrics (Eureka, CA); Intern, 3D Classroom Design (Chicago) Additional Campus Involvement: Intramural Basketball, Chess Club, and OKL Front Desk Circulation. Languages: Kirundi, French, Kinyarwanda, English Yellow Springs, OH | lniyokwizera@antiochcollege.edu Web: co-op.antiochcollege.edu/author/leandre-niyokwizera/ Recent Advances in Antimalarial Drug Resistance and Novel Therapeutic Approaches / Malaria is one of the major human health risks in most parts of the world, especially in less developed countries. Malaria parasites cause millions of clinical illnesses and have increased mortality rate in children around the globe, including years after antimalarial treatments have been introduced. Controlling and eliminating malaria once and for all requires a thorough investigation on potential new targets in response to the ACTs and other antimalarials resistance. The review explores recent advances in antimalarial drug resistance and potential novel drug targets that could act as a revertant which would have major implication for malaria control. Malaria infection is one of the most disregarded diseases that threaten the livelihood of children in developing countries.
Charlotte Norman
Media Arts Advisors: Charles Fairbanks, Kelly Gallagher, Brooke Bryan Co-ops: Artist in Residency Assistant, Fundación Valparaiso (Mojácar, Spain); Landscaper, Chris Powers Landscaping (Nantucket, MA); SelfEmployed Filmmaker (Cambridge, NY); ESL Teacher/Digital Case Studies Developer, Mitraniketan (Kerala, India); Biotecture Apprentice, Earthship Biotecture Academy (Tres Piedras, NM) Additional Campus Involvement: DVAC The Cline Show — exhibiting artist, student-faculty documentary team that produced Seriously Not Funny (RNC) that screened at Indie Grits and ICDOCS national film festivals, Miller Fellow-Home, Inc., and Antioch Facilities crew. Cambridge, England & New York | charlotte.e.norman@gmail.com Too to Sigh A short movie written and directed by myself about a mother-daughter relationship. There are only the two characters, no dialogue. All within walls of hanging latex. Daily routine is repeated: morning and evening, morning and evening Daughter feeding mother, sitting with mother, smoking her cigarettes and drinking her tea. Starting slowly, altering their routine in both meaning and affect Daughter comes more and more under the spell of the acts themselves - her role in something bigger a bigger performance || a bigger body || a bigger image
Meli Osanya
Literature Advisor: Dr. Corine Tachtiris, Beth Bridgeman, Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Development Manager Assistant, Literary Arts (Portland, OR); Program Assistant, Coretta Scott King Center; Antioch College Advancement Office; Miller Fellow: Diversity Programming Assistant, Coretta Scott King Center; Development Assistant and Education Intern, Scattergood School (Iowa) Additional Campus Involvement: ComCil President, Resident Assistant, Events Coordinator, People Of Color Group Coordinator Languages: French Ames, IA | Duluth, MN | meliosanya@gmail.com The World Is Yours / The World Is Yours is the creation of a person: a broken, black, queer woman living in a world that is falling apart around her. In her neurodivergence, the world’s smoke and flames are just a reflection of her state of being. An original retelling of Cinderella as a science fiction anti-novel, I seek to invite the greater audience to have a visceral intake of being as they are transported into the eclectic, ever-shifting mind of a vulnerable stranger. A clean 100 pages of selected works with an accompanying analysis of mental health, queer identity, and blackness in science fiction and pop culture. I hope you will make my world, yours.
Jamie Ramsey
Environmental Science Advisors: Dr. Brian Kot, Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Field Technician, International Arctic Research Center (Fairbanks, AK); Research Intern, Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium (Sarasota, FL); Land Intern, The Land Institute: Natural Systems Agriculture (Salina, KS); Assistant Sled Dog Trainer/Spring Guide, Nature’s Kennel (McMillan, MI) Additional Campus Involvement: Biology Tutor Languages: Japanese Moline, IL | jramsey@antiochcollege.edu Stable Isotope Analysis of Freshwater Mussels as a Proxy for Nutrient Concentrations / Nutrient loading and resulting eutrophication is considered to be one of the biggest threats to aquatic ecosystems. Part of saving aquatic ecosystems and preserving water quality is monitoring the water and keeping long-term records of water quality data. This study aims to model the nutrient loading for the Little Miami River watershed where the Kidney Shell mussels were collected using nitrogen analysis. Samples were taken from shells collected in 1982, and sections were cut out from the year one, year 4/5, and year 9+ of life based on growth rings and sent to Cornell to analyze the percentage of Nitrogen in each sample. Preliminary results suggest that the shells of mussels can be used as proxy data for nutrient loading.
Angelina Rodriguez
Literature Advisors: Dr.Mary Ann Davis, Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Farm Assistant Crew Leader, Harvest Coordinator, and Asst. Food Service Coordinator, Antioch Farm to Table Program; Farm Manager, Blue Butterfly Farm (TX); Agricultural Production and Goat/Poultry Management Intern, Eight Owls Farmstead (NC) Language: Spanish Clarksburg, WV | arodriguez@antiochcollege.edu Approaching Anorexia: A Disordered Body of Work / This body of work engages Julia Kristeva’s essay, “Approaching Abjection” from Powers of Horror to investigate the human intimacies of eating and feeding disorders. The lens of abjection offers profound insights that move beyond the realms of church, the clinic, or the big screen. I will utilise Kristeva’s points regarding mortality, the body, relationship to the mother and father, narcissism, self identity, and the symbolic to re-frame Anorexia and Bulimia. “Approaching Abjection” begins to uncover the emotions, drives, and religiosity of restrictive eating practice. This essay pushes against common narratives of Anorexia and asks how these narratives shape the stories of the disordered. Anorexia is not merely a weight-loss regimen or a fad diet, but a deeply complex and varied culturally and historically significant psychic phenomenon. My writing style pushes against convention by evoking an uncertainty that is proper to the abject and the ever changing, impermanence of the disordered body. The essay plays with the revolting and enticing qualities of the abject like Julia Kristeva’s post-structuralist style does. It offers both linguistic deconstruction and creation.
Jen Ruud
Isabelle Segadelli
A Case Study in Urban Community Gardening in Dayton, Ohio: Cross Over Community Development / This project worked with the Daytonbased non-profit Cross Over Community Development (COCD) in the creation of their first community garden. COCD was founded to assist immigrants and refugees in their integration into the Dayton community. COCD aims to do this by increasing the development of community and support networks, increasing food security, and teaching marketable job skills. My approach to this project was to research what worked in other community gardens, to study the soils and site to understand how they could impact crop production, and to work with the community and similar organizations to connect people with common goals. My role in this action project was to assemble practical resources including: a detailed garden plan, a planting guide that is location and climate specific, but also reflects the desired crops of the COCD gardeners, and comprehensive gardening information that could be used as a foundation for future grants.
Necrotizing Enterocolitis and the Premature Infant Gut Flora: A Systematic Review / Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in preterm infants is caused by bowel colonization of Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC). The gut of an infant is considered sterile in the womb. This allows for noncompetitive colonization of the intestinal epithelial mucosa by UPEC. The human gut plays host to a number of microbes, strains of harmless UPEC found in an adult acts like commensal E. coli. One of the current interventions for premature infants diagnosed with NEC is probiotic therapy. Probiotic intervention is supposed to enable beneficial gut bacteria to be introduced to the premature infant’s intestinal system to proliferate in order to outcompete UPEC and regain homeostasis. Along with Nissle, Saccharomyces and Bifidobacterium are also probiotics used in treatment. Knowledge about probiotic treatment is important for interventions concerning preterm infants diagnosed with necrotizing enterocolitis.
Environmental Science Advisors: Dr. Kim Landsbergen, Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Field Technician, Elkhorn Slough (Watsonville, CA); Ecological and Bushfire Risk Assistant, Practical Ecology (Preston, Australia); Marine Ecology Educator, Forfar Field Station, International Field Studies (Andros Island, Bahamas); Restoration Program Assistant, Makauwahi Cave Reserve (Kalaheo, HI) Additional Campus Involvement: Antioch Farm worker-3 years, ComCil, Admissions tour guide Languages: Spanish, introductory Japanese Detroit | jennifer.ruud@gmail.com
Biomedical Science Advisors: Dr. David Kammler, Dr. Scott Millen, Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Medical Surgical Unit Volunteer, Sibley Memorial Hospital (D.C.); Community Engagement and Administrative Support Volunteer, Sibley Memorial Hospital (D.C.); Wellness Intern, Kokolulu Farm and Cancer Retreats (Hawi, HI); Assistant Sled Dog Trainer / Spring Guide, Nature’s Kennel (McMillan, MI) Additional Campus Involvement: Antioch Farm Assistant, Science Division Lab Assistant Washington, D.C. | isegadelli@antiochcollege.edu Web: isegadelli.weebly.com
Jumana Snow
Visual Arts Advisors: Forest Bright, Michael Casselli, Brooke Bryan Co-ops: Teaching Assistant/Student Lead Teacher, Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center; Cake Decorator, The Cakery (Troy, OH); Herndon Gallery Assistant / Olive Kettering Library (Yellow Springs); Planning and Coordination Co-op (Miller Fellow), Yellow Springs Arts Council Additional Campus Involvement: Antioch Farm volunteer, Mills Park Hotel Expo/Front Desk, Soccer Head Coach, and self-curated “Jordanian Experience” exhibition. Languages: Arabic and intermediate Spanish Troy, OH | arabianjemm@gmail.com Instagram: @arabianjemm UNDEFINED / My work defines who I am as an artist within the space. Art is a passion and I tend to create work with meaning, a message, and diligence. The idea behind UNDEFINED was originally from my piece, Evince and so forth. It is, in fact, a much larger scaled installation in regards to how our bodies process/experience different feelings and emotions on the inside. The side that only we can feel and understand, it is not visible to either me or you. Therefore, I want to visually and emotionally construct a piece that allows the audience to get a better perspective and sense of how our bodies react; the emotions include love, anxiety, and depression.
Aidan M. Soguero
Self Design: Film & Literary Craft Advisors: Charles Fairbanks, Brooke Bryan Co-ops: Production Assistant and Film Editor, Sharp Productions (Los Angeles & Mexico); Online Writer and Editing Assistant, Offbeat Magazine (New Orleans); Social Media Intern & Teaching Assistant, Eagle Rock School (Estes Park, CO); Production Assistant, A24 Films (Los Angeles) Additional Campus Involvement: Created and hosted the Antioch Film Festival (2 yrs), Media Arts and Antioch Kitchens on campus work, Miller Fellow at Tecumseh Land Trust-creating a documentary about their founding. Languages: French Email: Aidan@trippy.pics Web: www.Trippy.Pics Feature Film Pre -Production: The Great Unwashed / For my Senior Project I wanted to embark on a project that was not only challenging, but helped launch me into the career path I ultimately wish to pursue. The Great Unwashed is an original screenplay I wrote and am producing. For this project I have done all the logistical pre-production for the film such as writing a budget, creating a business plan, pitching to investors, and incorporating my production company, Trippy PIctures. What is special about the production of this film is that it subverts the current mode of Hollywood filmmaking in which labor is exploited, money rules all, and barriers to entry prevent diverse and creative stories from being made by creating a an ultra-low budget film which puts an emphasis on ethical business practice.
Soleil Sykes
Political Economy Advisors: Dr. Dean Snyder, Dr. Richard Kraince Co-ops: Political Section Intern, US Mission to NATO (Brussels); Intern, Government Relations, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (Washington, D.C.); Co-Editor, The Antioch Record, Miller Fellow, Glen Helen Ecology Institute (YS); Intern, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (DC) Additional Campus Involvement: Community Council B Chair, Record Editor, Athens Democracy Forum GLAA Student Delegate, Koch Policy Fellow, New Leadership Ohio Participant Language: French Language Focus Washington, D.C. | sykes.soleil@gmail.com Web: www.linkedin.com/in/soleil-sykes Beyond the Fence: Examining Ideation and Institutions in Domestic Civilian-Base Community Relations During Expansion and Contestation / This project examines U.S. civilian—base community relations. Drawing on civil–military relations and grassroots organization literature, I construct and apply a conceptual framework to understand how grassroots organizations mobilize to support or oppose base expansions. Specifically, I examine efforts to station the F-35 training mission at Luke Air Force Base. The study notes the value of existing relationships between civilian—base communities for grassroots mobilization during periods of expansion and contestation, as well as the power of economic and political discourse for maintaining coherence between institutions. With over 400 military bases across the U.S., this study highlights the importance of sustained political, economic, and social engagement between bases and surrounding communities and addresses a research gap in studies of U.S. civil-military relations.
Catherine Elizabeth Tish
Media Arts Advisors: Charles Fairbanks, Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Adult Service Worker, Holmes County Training Center & Self-employed Documentary Filmmaker (Millersburg, Ohio); Paraprofessional Educator, Crotched Mountain School and Rehabilitation Center (Greenfield, NH); Programming Specialist (Miller Fellow), Yellow Springs Senior Center Languages: French Yellow Springs, OH | athenaliza@gmail.com Holy Cross / Holy Cross is part animation, part essay film, and part installation. I used a small segment of an interview I conducted in 2016 to experiment with animating paper cutouts in after effects. This interview is part of a longer documentation of the rise and fall of an Orthodox Christian church that was formed in my hometown by my parents and some other core members. Through this piece, I am attempting to explore narrative through animation but also through sensory experience. By showing the foibles of humanity within a space meant to emulate the feeling of entering the church, I hope to highlight the smallness of humanity against our idea of the divine.
Marcell Vanarsdale
Self Design: Experiential Communication through Organizational Leadership Advisors: Louise Smith, Dr. Kevin McGruder, Brooke Bryan Co-ops: Miller Fellow, Yellow Springs Community Foundation; Territory Manager, Cutco Cutlery and Vector Marketing (Chicago); District Sales Manager, CutCo Cutlery (Mokena, IL) Additional Campus Involvement: Former ComCil President, Events Committee Co-chair, Antioch Creative Collective Co-Founder Languages: French Chicago | mvanarsdale@antiochcollege.edu Web: www.facebook.com/AntiochCreativeCollective/ Innovative Consulting: Creating Impact and Social Good / Through creating the Antioch Creative Collective, hosting and developing music festivals, restructuring Antioch College’s governance system, and having experience with organizational leadership and business marketing, I have formed a business model that offers innovative consulting services. Based on this model, I have provided a mix of digital storytelling, event coordination, and marketing, which have created impact on relational and organizational levels. My senior project is to create a business plan for this model. The business will provide services to develop town/gown relations, program development, organizational leadership, and strategic planning.
Esmé Westerlund
Self Design: A Humanistic Exploration of Visual and Embodied Storytelling Advisors: Dr. Deanne Bell, Kelly Gallagher, Michael Casselli, Luisa Bieri, Brooke Brian Co-ops: Teachers Aide, The Antioch School (Yellow Springs); Teaching Assistant, Brighton Academy (Chicago); Writer, Self Design: The Pale Eyelash, portraits and transcribed interviews (Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica); Kindergarten Teaching Assistant, Lighthouse Schools (Nantucket, MA) Additional Campus Involvement: Exhibition projects-Unexpectations (2015), We Don’t Live Here (2016), Reflect (2017), Temporary Occupants (2017) Email: ewesterlund@antiochcollege.edu Instagram: @saltedrosewater Grandmothers / For a long time, my work has almost entirely been concerned with self portraiture, my body as a metaphor. I am interested in the roles story and conversation play within interactive installations, and how this influences our connections with other people. In some senses, Grandmothers could be taken as a form of self-portraiture. My more recent work has focused on creative and interactive storytelling as a form of personal and participatory expression, located in a deep exploration of empathy and affective listening. Grandmothers focuses on the production of artwork with a person-centered perspective, exploring active and/or absent roles grandmothers have played within their family’s lives. Through this work, I hope to inspire empathic connections between the viewer and teller, which can foster therapeutic relationships and create space possible healing. These connections can build trust, which often leads to openness and a desire to learn from shared knowledge and experience.
language capstones Michelle Fujii (Spanish) Greening a City: Environmental Work & Activism in Buenos Aires Soleil Sykes (French) “The Battlefield of Europe”: Examining the evolution of Belgium from Europe’s military to political battlefield Alana Guth (Spanish) The History of DACA - the past, the present, and the future Malka Berro (Spanish) Contigo sí que podemos: My Time in Spain Lucas Bautista (Spanish) Sustainable Organizations in Argentina AJ Fouts (Japanese) “Womenomics” Leandre Niyokwizera (French) Health Care in Senegal: A study on Development Tim Grant (Spanish) The Indigenous Culture of Otavalo, Ecuador Javis Heberling (Japanese) “Food Culture in Osaka, Japan” Aidan Soguero (French) A Narrative History of Film in France
faculty Luisa Bieri, MFA, Instructor of Cooperative Education, has a background in performance, international education, and gender studies. She has designed co-op courses in art as social practice, community action research, and placebased learning. Luisa’s work as a teaching artist, writer and performer explores intersections of human rights, feminist thought, ritual and place making. Prior to joining the co-op faculty, Luisa served as Assistant Director of Antioch Education Abroad. She leads cooperative education partnerships in the arts and therapeutic communities and co-ops in Latin America. Beth Bridgeman, MIA, Instructor of Cooperative Education, is interested in democratic education, co-constructed and community-engaged learning.Her work and practice examines the theme of sustainability and “ thrivalism” in the Anthropocene, exploring multiple reskilling and resilience tools as a cultural conduit for community connection. A former Ohio State University Extension Educator, Beth has a background in experiential and community-based education. She directs cooperative partnership development in New England, California, Colorado, the Southwest, and Japan. Forest Bright, MFA, Visiting Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, makes images, mostly drawings, as a practice of sanity. His work has been exhibited at Cothenius Gallery in Berlin, the Beijing American Center, The Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, The
Dayton Society of Artists, and The Emporium in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Most recently his drawing, collaboratively produced with a group of women serving life sentences at Dayton Correctional Institution, has been included as part of nationally traveling exhibition States of Incarceration organized by The Humanities Action Lab. Follow Forest on Instagram @forestbright Brooke Bryan, MA, is Instructor of Cooperative Education, as well as Interim Director of the Writing Institute and Co-Director of Oral History in the Liberal Arts, GLCA. She helps students intensely engage with social and philosophical questions through interview-based fieldwork, creating digital exhibits and storytelling projects as public scholarship. She leads the Oral History in the Liberal Arts initiative across the Great Lakes Colleges Association and is the interim director of the Writing Institute, teaching writing, journalism, and co-op courses exploring phenomenologies of place, sound theory, and oral history fieldwork. Dr. 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.
Left: Antioch College faculty on the steps of Antioch Hall, circa 1908. Photo courtesy Antiochiana
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, and his teaching often brings scholarship and analysis on processes of racial, ethnic, gendered, religious and postcolonial othering into discussion. Michael Casselli, MFA, 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. Dr. 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, Women Write the Erotic, and Creative Writing. Favorite shoes: red cowboy boots. Charles Fairbanks, MFA, Assistant Professor of Media Art, has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, MacDowell Colony, and the Wexner Art Center.
His films have shown on POV and at Anthology Film Archives, Slamdance, CPH:DOX, Visions du Réel, Art of the Real, and over 100 other festivals across five continents. His first feature-length documentary The Modern Jungle was made in collaboration with Saul Kak, an ethnically Zoque painter from rural Chiapas, Mexico; it is distributed in North America by The Cinema Guild. Dr. Sharon M. Flicker, Associate Professor of Psychology, teaches clinical and social psychology classes, including Basic 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. Didier Franco, MA, Instructor of Spanish, of Cali, Colombia, immigrated to Chicago, in high school and later earned an MA in Latin American Literature and Culture (2014) from Northeastern Illinois University. Before joining Antioch College, Didier taught Spanish and literature at the City Colleges of Chicago. He has a passion for sharing his culture and language with others. “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.” Kelly Gallagher, MFA, 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.
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 grants and patents; has received three distinguished teaching awards since his teaching career began in 1992. Dr. 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. Dr. Richard Kraince is Associate Professor of Cooperative Education and Dean of Cooperative, Experiential, and International Education. 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, Malaysia, and southern Thailand 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 Research Professor and Academic Coordinator with the Center for Asian and African Studies at the College of Mexico in Mexico City. 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. Dr. Joseph Lennox, Visiting Assistant Professor of 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. Robin Littell, MFA, Writing Instructor and former Coordinator of the Writing Institute, taught English and literature courses through 2018, including 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. Dr. Kevin McGruder, Assistant Professor of History, teaches classes on U.S. History, Urban History, and African American History. Kevin’s most recent book is Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920 (Columbia University Press, 2015). His current book project is To Make the Color Line Costly: The Life and Times of Philip A. Payton, Jr., Founder of the Afro-American Realty Company; Recipient of the SOCHE Excellence Award for Research and the 2016 Antioch College Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award. Dr. 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. Lara Mitias, Associate 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. Toyoko Miwa-Osborne (三輪豊子), MA, Instructor of Japanese, 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.” Kevin Mulhall, MFA, MLIS, Library Director assists students and faculty to find information through the resources of the Olive Kettering Library. He oversees the daily operations of the library, coordinates the library spaces, and maintains the print collection and catalog. Kevin has music degrees from Wright State University and the Purchase College Conservatory (SUNY). He loves having fun by running the Chess Club, being an adviser to the campus newspaper (The Record), and playing guitar in the all-faculty band, Pringle. Dr. 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. 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. Flavia Sancier, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, is an applied mathematician who specializes in probability, statistics, and stochastic processes. She is interested in interdisciplinary collaborations and modeling random phenomena in areas that include finance, social dynamics, and games. Flavia teaches statistics, math, and computational courses. Dr. 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. Louise Smith, MSEd, 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.
Dr. Dean Snyder, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, teaches courses in global political economy, political-economic theory, the politics of media and communication, 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. Dr. Emily Steinmetz, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, has research, teaching, and activist interests in U.S. prison and economic justice issues. She works with Antioch students and women who are imprisoned in Dayton on a variety of projects, including a garden and a prison newspaper called the Symbolic Interruption. She believes that theory activated can change lives and hopes to inspire in students a love of ideas, learning, and thoughtful engagement. Dr. Lewis Trelawny-Cassity, Associate Professor of Philosophy, is working on a book project titled: On Wine, Education, and the Law in Plato’s Laws. His notable campus achievements include teaching Philosophy of Eating and Cooking (Hegel and Vietnamese Steamed Buns) and Philosophy on the Farm, receiving the SOCHE Excellence Award for Service, and publishing articles in Polis and Epoché. He is the undisputed campus champion in pingpong and basketball.
arts
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 in San Francisco, Ken Burns’s documentary studio, 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 affiliate 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.
Left: Students celebrate the launch of Dr. Gabrielle Civil’s book, Swallow the Fish. Dr. Civil was Associate Professor of Performance and is the 2018 Commencement Speaker.
humanities The Humanities Area 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.
While the Humanities emphasize 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.
The Humanities Area 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, 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.
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.
Left: Ten students participated in the Coretta Scott King Center (CSKC) 2015 Civil Rights Tour led by Dr. Mila Cooper and Dr. Kevin McGruder. Here, they are pictured arriving in Selma, Alabama.
Sciences students are engaged in hands-on field research — here, they are pictured seine-fishing in a local waterway.
sciences Students can engage with the Sciences in a variety of ways and intensities. Antioch Sciences students learn the tools of the trade of the sciences: how to make systematic observations, develop hypothesis-driven questions, investigate and critique relevant literature, write research project proposals, and complete a wide variety of projects using on- and off-campus resources. Every student at Antioch will take one Sciences division course and a Math course as part of their General Education core.Our course areas focus on Biology, Environmental Science, Chemistry, and Mathematics. Students wishing to pursue graduate school, biomedical programs, and other science-focused jobs may elect to design a Bachelor of Sciences (B.S.) program that will incorporate a core of Mathematics courses and a range of intermediate and upper-level courses that align with the course requirement list in their preferred graduate program. Other students may elect a Bachelor of Arts in Science (B.A.) with fewer required courses. Some students develop academic programs that reflect unique blends of disciplines, such as: Environmental Political Economy; Ecofeminst Literature; ArtScience; and Art Conservation. The Sciences 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 sciences co-op experiences can accelerate student success in transformative ways. Sciences 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 at the Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs at the US State Department, 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.
social sciences Broad or deeply-focused study within the Social Sciences area empowers students to understand how human beings navigate a world characterized by rapid technological and environmental change, complex cultural conflicts, increasingly fractured interpersonal relationships, and growing geopolitical rivalries. In the classroom, social science students study key works in a wide range of academic disciplines, including anthropology, communications, economics, geography, political science, psychology, and sociology.
Students apply this knowledge, in the real world, through experiential learning opportunities and through U.S. and international co-op placements in government, business, and nonprofit settings. In keeping with Antioch’s mission and vision, the social science major prepares students for a life of active citizenship through its commitment to open and democratic dialogue, innovative and empowering pedagogy, and the merger of theory and practice.
Recent Social Science focused co-ops include: 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.
Left: Social Sciences students in Dr. Emily Steinmetz’s Critical Prison Studies course completed research as collaborative partners for the national traveling exhibition States of Incarceration: A National Dialogue of Local Histories. The interdisciplinary project involved collaboration with Arts faculty, the Herndon Gallery, Antioch College alumni volunteers, and women serving life sentences at Dayton Correctional Institution.
co-op 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.
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.
By linking the life of the mind with the practical experience of co-op, 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.
Left: Jamie Ramsey, third from left, on co-op as a Field Technician at the International Arctic Research Center in Fairbanks, Alaska.
languages 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 “open-architecture”, and therefore customizable to the 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 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.
Left: At Antioch, all students are required to meet proficiency standards in a language other than English. Additionally, students may choose to continue in the program and complete a co-op and capstone project in their studied language.
thank you! COLLOQUIA 2018 Foundation, Grants and Funding Support The Janet Wheeler Fund for the Arts at Antioch College Through a transformative legacy gift generously made before her passing, artist and alumna Janet “Jamie” Wheeler ‘59, created a strong foundation and springboard for the arts to flourish at the newly independent Antioch College. The Janet Wheeler Fund for the Arts ensures funding for the Arts at Antioch College through support for Herndon Gallery curation and coordination of the Arts at Antioch, attracting and supporting talented visiting arts faculty, funding rich visual arts and cultural programing on campus, and ensuring ongoing funding for COLLOQUIA--Antioch’s all-campus senior project capstone showcase and print catalog. The Andrew Mellon Foundation The Presidential FACT Fund And, through additional funding of the Andrew Mellon Foundation and donations to the Presidential FACT Fund, the COLLOQUIA 2018 all-campus public-facing showcase of senior capstones was able to be fully realized again. The COLLOQUIA vision and project was awarded full grant funding in 2017 with additional support in 2018 to ensure a comprehensive and collaborative interdisciplinary senior capstone presentation series, professional networking receptions for seniors and their communities of practice, and this beautifully designed COLLOQUIA 2018 publication.
Students celebrate in front of Main Hall. Photo by Erin Cole, 2016.
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