October 5, 2018
Panels will run for 90 minutes, with each presentation lasting no more than 15 minutes for 4-person panels and 12 minutes for 5-person panels. The remaining 30 minutes will be dedicated to conversation between the chair, panelists, and the audience.
Understanding and Studying Development – 1:00pm AXINN 219 (chair: James Davis)
Bob McCleery Professor, Graduate School of International Policy and Management
Governance and Development: Knowns, Known Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns
Beryl Levinger Distinguished Professor and Chair, Development Practice and Policy Program
Protecting Children: a comparative analysis of 175 countries and 50 US states
Amanda G. Gregg Assistant Professor of Economics
Financing Industrialization in Imperial Russia: Insights from Newly Collected Firm-Level Data
Julia Berazneva and Tanya Byker Assistant Professors, Economics
Impacts of environmental degradation: Forest loss, malaria, and child outcomes in Nigeria
Advocacy and Research – 1:00pm AXINN 232 (chair: Baishakhi Taylor)
Matthew Taylor Assistant Professor of Music
An African American Experience depicted in Prayer Service for Earnestine
Gloria Estela González Zenteno Professor of Spanish
A Bullhorn for First Nations: The Artist as Messenger of a Fragile World’s Survival
Carly Thomsen Assistant Professor, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Abortion as Gender Transgression: Reproductive Justice, Queer Theory, and Anti-Crisis Pregnancy Center Activism
Daniel Chiu Suarez Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies
Biologists of the World Unite!
Rhetoric and Inclusion – 1:00pm AXINN 103 (chair: Christopher Star)
Lisa Leopold Associate Professor, English for Academic and Professional Purposes
Analyzing private and public apologies
Erik Bleich Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science
What is Hate Speech?
Shawna Shapiro Associate Professor, Writing & Rhetoric Program/ Linguistics Program
“I can’t define it, but I know what it feels like”: Student Conceptions of Inclusivity at Middlebury
2:30 Coffee Break
Innovations in Pedagogy – 2:45pm Axinn 232 (chair: Sarah Stroup)
Jason Martel Associate Professor, TESOL/TFL
Exploring the influence of ACTFL’s Integrated Performance Assessment on teaching in an intensive summer language program
Steve Abbott and Cheryl Faraone Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Theatre
Science as Art in Contemporary Theater
Michael Linderman Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Where do genomicists come from? Leveraging personal genomes to enhance genomics education
Peter Hamlin Christian A. Johnson Professor of Music
Music in Virtual Space
Fabiola Stein Assistant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Group work collaborative activities: tracing learning trajectories throughout the accomplishment of pedagogical tasks
Novel Research Methodologies – 2:45pm Axinn 229 (chair: Anne Goodsell)
Paul Hess Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics
Building a crystal atom by atom using levitated atomic ions
Sayaka Abe Assistant Professor, Department of Japanese Studies
Indescribable emotions in Japanese: Where meaning and context meet
Michael J. Kramer Assistant Professor of the Practice, Digital History/Humanities/Acting Director, Digital Liberal Arts Initiative
“‘A Foreign Sound To Your Ear”: Digital Image Sonification for Historical Interpretation
John R. Schmitt Professor, Mathematics
Distinct Partial Sums in Cyclic Groups
Stefano Mula Professor of Italian
Literature and Truth in Medieval Literature
Labor and Intersections with Class and Race – 2:45pm Axinn 219 (chair: Amanda Gregg)
Shalini Gopalkrishnan Visiting professor MBA GSIPM
Entrepreneurship and Minorities- An empirical analysis in USA
Jennifer D. Ortegren Assistant Professor of Religion
“Fasting is Fun Because We Do It Together!” Religion, Class, and Couples in Urban India
Erin Wolcott Assistant Professor of Economics
Employment Inequality: Why do the Low-Skilled Work Less Now
Martin Abel Assistant Professor of Economics
How to follow through on your intentions? Experimental evidence from job seekers in South Africa
4:15 Coffee Break
Earth, Environment, and Ecology – 4:30pm AXINN 219 (chair: Matt Kimble)
Kristina Walowski Assistant Professor, Geology
Investigating Earth’s Interior with Magma Chemistry
Erin Eggleston Assistant Professor of Biology
How can Microbial Metagenomics Inform Wetland Management Decisions?
Matthew Dickerson Professor, CSCI
‘Flung Like A Net Over The Hill’: Reflections from Glacier National Park Residency
Michael Sheridan Associate Professor of Anthropology, SOAN
Ethnobotany and power across the African Atlantic
Migration and Changing Borders – 4:30pm AXINN 229 (chair: Erin Wolcott)
George Henson Assistant Professor of Spanish Translation
Translating Cuba(nidad)
William Arrocha Associate Professor, Graduate School of International Policy and Management
Expanding the Legal and Political Boundaries of “Sanctuary” Through Practices of Compassionate Migration
Kristina Sargent Assistant Professor, Economics
International Migration and Integrated Labor Markets
David Stoll Professor, SOAN
Women and Children at the U.S. Border: Asylees or Labor Migrants?
Pieter Broucke Professor, History of Art and Architecture
Institutional (Art) History at Monterey: The “Spanish Lady” Painting and the Fight against Communism
Research with Policy Change Implications – 4:30pm AXINN 232 (chair: Amy Morsman)
Molly S. Costanza-Robinson Professor of Environmental Chemistry
Testing for lead in Addison Central School District drinking water
Mark Spritzer Associate Professor, Chair, Department of Biology
Testing the effects of testosterone replacement on spatial memory in a rat model of the aged male
Caitlin Myers Associate Professor of Economics
Did Parental Involvement Laws Grow Teeth? The Effects of State Restrictions on Minors’ Access to Abortion
Pat Manley Professor, Geology and Director of Sciences
Seismic Triggered Lacustrine Landslides and Lake Tsunamis in Lake Champlain
Exhibits:
John McLeod AS/Habitat for Humanity collaborative project on low-income housing
Peter Hamlin Electronic music studio VR station
Richard Saunders Display of recent museum publications and images & texts of student programs, such as Museum Ambassadors Program and summer internship program MuseumWorks