COLLOQUIA 2020 by Antioch College

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COLLOQUIA Catalog Designer: Hannah Priscilla Craig ‘17 COLLOQUIA Coordinators: Jennifer Wenker, MFA, Creative Director of the Herndon Gallery Michael Casselli ‘87, Assistant Professor of Sculpture and Installation & Faculty Trustee Proofreading: Brooke Bryan and Mary Ann Davis Printing: Oregon Printing, Dayton, OH Photo by Jennifer Wenker

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 pedagogical insight that separation of classroom learning from the world

of work is artificial—a philosophy that has produced Nobel Laureates, Fulbright and Rhodes scholars, and notables in the arts, government, business, and education. The words of Loren Pope, former education editor of The New York Times and author of Colleges That Change Lives, speak to Antioch’s unique capability: “Antioch is in a class by itself. There is no college or university in the country that makes a more profound difference in a young person’s life, or that creates more effective adults. None of the Ivies, big or small, can match Antioch’s ability to produce outstanding thinkers and doers.” Antioch College is located in beautiful Yellow Springs, Ohio, in the heart of the Miami Valley. Learn more at www.antiochcollege.edu and on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

COLLOQUIA (to gather in conversation)

The founder of Colloquia at Antioch College, Jennifer Wenker, held that there is something truly beautiful about how an applied liberal arts education cultivates and encourages the cross-pollination of ideas through interconnected ways of seeing across the disciplines. 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 who are ready and prepared to make a difference in the world. It is in this spirit that we present COLLOQUIA 2020, the fourth annual Antioch College Senior Capstone showcase. The COLLOQUIA 2020 catalog highlights the accomplishments of our seniors who negotiated their final capstone requirements under the shifting realities of the global COVID-19 pandemic— many of whom experienced displacement from their campus community and loss in their families and home communities. The COLLOQUIA 2020 catalog highlights the voices of our seniors who chose a college committed to winning victories for humanity, and who graduate into the world in the midst of an unprecedented uprising of awareness and unrest around the racial violence and injustice experienced by black and brown bodies in the United States at the hands of police officers and as experienced in predominantly white institutions. We dedicate COLLOQUIA to these students— students whose work at the College has created better policies, better practices, better ways of understanding the ongoing work that must be done. We dedicate COLLOQUIA to these students, graduates who enter the world as a force in their own right, who will step up to dismantle the scaffolding that supports institutionalized inequities throughout the world just as they have stepped up to rebuild Antioch College. The world is surely a better place on account of their victories. Colloquia was founded by Jennifer Wenker, Creative Director of the Herndon Gallery, who is currently on furlough during the COVID-19 pandemic. With this catalgue we carry forward her visionary work. Left: The Antioch student band, Lori, performs on Weston Balcony.

Welcome to Colloquia 2020, the annual presentation and catalog of the capstone work of the Antioch College’s graduating students. I am excited to introduce such varied and dynamic work, captured so beautifully in this digital catalog. Let us applaud the accomplishments of our very talented students. At Antioch College, we ask students to own their education, an act which requires ongoing self-direction and responsibility that is 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 solutionseekers within a complex of difficult choices, interpreting and making meaning, and assessing their efforts and outcomes reflectively and critically. We ask our students to be honest and imaginative, open and rigorous, active and concerted, 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 and work. Colloquia 2020 is made possible by many at Antioch, not least the exceptional faculty who have worked with dedication and love to support these students. It is nothing if not a testimony to the 170-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 present and alert to listen and see, to ponder and question, and perhaps to exchange new or different perspectives on what we experience. In all cases, we hope speaking together will lead us to explore questions and expand new knowledge and understanding. That is what we celebrate in Colloquia 2020 and why we are exceedingly grateful to everyone, especially our students, who have given us the opportunity to speak, listen, exchange views, and ultimately, discover an even richer world together. Most warmly, Tom Manley President, Antioch College

Dear Members of the Class of 2020, Congratulations! This Colloquia booklet presents brief descriptions of your senior projects, and helps other readers learn something about you and the members of the faculty who have worked with you during your time at Antioch. You will see that the descriptions of your senior projects illustrate the interdisciplinary, experiential learning vision of Antioch’s SelfDesigned Major curriculum. For over fifty years the Senior Project has been a culminating activity for graduating seniors at Antioch. It gives students an opportunity to explore, in depth, a topic of interest to them. For students, senior projects serve as evidence of your mastery of a topic, and can often be used as part of portfolios for employment or for graduate school applications. For Antioch and the academy more broadly, in some cases your senior projects are contributing new knowledge to your field, a core purpose of scholarly work in higher education. The purpose of Colloquia as an event, and of this booklet chronicling your work, is to celebrate your work and your achievements as you graduate and move on to the next chapter in your life. As a historical document, in addition to providing readers with this information, this booklet also provides a glimpse of the community that you worked to build, in and outside of the classroom during your time at Antioch. Thank you so much for your hard work and congratulations again on your accomplishments and good luck. Sincerely, Kevin McGruder, M.B.A., Ph.D. Vice President for Academic Affairs & Associate Professor of History

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 Antioch’s Glen Helen Ecology Institute; the Wellness Center; the Antioch Farm; The Antioch Review; the Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom; and 91.3 WYSO, our renowned NPR-affiliate radio station.

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. Artwork by conceptual drawing foundations student, instructed by Jennifer Wenker on mapping/place/relationships (2012).

DESIGN YOUR OWN DEGREE Why Design Your Own Degree? The answer is simple: there is no better way for the students of today to become the change-makers of tomorrow. Antioch College is a platform where students launch themselves down a path of selfdirected study, engaging a core topic through a range of academic disciplines and real-world experiences. Resolving today’s complex social and ecological problems requires adopting perspectives that are as unique as our students’ backgrounds, interests, and aspirations. Through transdiscplinary and self-directed study, Antioch College’s Self-Designed Major positions students to Win Victories for Humanity in the twentyfirst century.

Illustration by Delaney Schlesinger-Devlin ’22 in collaboration with Jennifer Wenker.

Designing Your Own Degree may seem like a daunting task. But Antioch students are supported through signature courses that guide them in the creation of their Self-Designed Majors. During their first quarter on campus, students enroll in ANTC101: Antioch Commons, where they are introduced to our faculty, their areas of expertise, and the educational experiences available to them through our co-op program and campus Learning Assets. After taking courses in academic areas of interest and going on their first co-op, students return to campus in their second year ready to embark on their Self-Designed Major.

In ANTC 200: Design Your Degree, students identify the topical areas that will form the base of their SelfDesigned Major, select a faculty advising committee, and write a Statement of Inquiry that outlines their path of self-directed study. Through their second and third years, Antioch students take topically-focused courses in multiple disciplines, giving them both the analytic depth and breadth of knowledge that only Self-Designed Majors can provide. Indeed, the Antioch classroom is unique in allowing students the freedom to explore their interests through research projects, creative practices, and artistic works within a structured environment anchored by faculty committed to student-centered teaching and learning. After two more co-op adventures, Antioch students enter their final year prepared to launch the dynamic Senior Capstone Projects depicted in this catalog.

Illustration by Delaney Schlesinger-Devlin ’22 in collaboration with Jennifer Wenker.

Ultimately, Antioch College graduates students who are capable of undertaking and completing long-term projects while making connections across multiple disciplines and real-world experiences. Most importantly, the Antioch education shapes lifelong learners motivated by the pursuit of social and environmental justice at the core of our College’s mission. Humanity’s future may be full of uncertainties. What is certain is that Antioch graduates will be shaping that future for the betterment of all.

Illustration by Delaney Schlesinger-Devlin ’22 in collaboration with Jennifer Wenker.

CELEBRATING 2020 SENIORS

Athina Dionysia Hunter Peterson

Critical Race and Economic Justice Academic Advisor: Sean Payne Co-op Advisor: Beth Bridgeman Co-ops:Various Positions at Panera Bread in Grove City, OH Additional Campus Involvement: Coretta Scott King Center Language: Spanish apeterson@antiochcollege.edu “Hoops You Have to Jump Through”: The Experience of Marginalized Students at Antioch College This study aims to develop a better understanding of the lives of marginalized college students through semi-structured, peer-to-peer interviews through a community-based participatory research (CBPR) framework. In this paper, I report the findings of five interviews with women-identified Black, POC, and Native students at Antioch College, a small liberal arts college in Ohio, aiming to develop an “effective translational practice” that will help marginalized students have agency and access in their college experience. Themes surfaced that show the positives and negative aspects of Antioch College such as, but not limited to, concerns around the accessibility of financial aid, transparency of program offerings leaving students feeling taken advantage of and abandoned, “feeling trapped” by the quarter system, and a sense of detachment from their Administrators. Students value their social connections with peers, faculty and staff, the opportunity to develop social capital, and that the institution seems to care for their well-being. It is my hope that this research will improve the recruitment and retention of marginalized students and lead to a diverse campus community and a sense of belonging.

Thomas Amrhein

Audio Production In Collaborative Arts Academic Advisors: Michael Casselli, Catalina Jordan Alvarez, Didier Franco, David Kammler Co-op Advisor: Richard Kraince Co-ops: Miller Fellow at WYSO; Community Radio Construction Intern at International Media Action; Self-Designed Recording Artist and Album Producer; Immigration Advocate at Clínica Esperanza Additional Campus Involvement: Anti-Watt student radio station Language: Spanish Yellow Springs | tamrhein@antiochcollege.edu | http://antiwatt.org Anti-Watt Anti-Watt existed as a student-operated radio station prior to Antioch’s closing in 2008. Although its physical infrastructure disappeared during the hiatus, the intentions driving the station persevered with the rebirth of the college in 2011. Through the process of physically reconstructing Anti-Watt, Amrhein engages concepts of institutional memory, communications infrastructure, and interdisciplinary collaboration. This project is an ongoing effort between various alum, staff, students, faculty, and Yellow Springs community members. Thomas Amrhein ‘20 first began work in radio at 91.3 WYSO before enrolling at Antioch. Amrhein later studied with Antioch alum Pete Tridish of International Media Action, constructing low power FM radio stations across the country.

Caitlyn Killen-Bove

Critical Pedagogy and the Arts Academic Advisors: Mary Ann Davis, Forest Bright, Jennifer Grubbs Co-op Advisors: Beth Bridgeman; Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Paraeducator at Crotched Mountain School in Greenfield, NH; Education Archivist at Critical Exploration Press in Boston, MA; Math Tutor at Yellow Springs High School in Yellow Springs, OH Additional Campus Involvement: Various positions at the Wellness Center and in Birch Kitchen Language: Spanish Los Angeles, CA | caitlynekbove@gmail.com While Feeling Brave Taking the time to reflect upon the last few months inside, Caitlyn Bove wrote a little book of poems, a chapbook -- exploring their memories of people, places, and things. This is an attempt to process the current moment as well as bring them back to their expressive roots in poetry. Bove began writing inside their bedroom at their parents’ house in the San Fernando Valley. They sit there now, writing from quarantine, completing their time at Antioch in the very place they began to dream about it. While Feeling Brave is a sweet little thing, a collection of poems about a very confusing Spring.

Michelle DeLeon

Self-Design: Methodologies in Migration Studies Academic Advisors: Jennifer Grubbs, Kevin McGruder, Brooke Bryan, Richard Kraince Co-op Advisors: Richard Kraince; Luisa Bieri, Brooke Bryan Co-ops: Migrant Rights Advocate at Voces MesoamericanasAcción con Pueblos Migrantes in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México; Archivist at North Star Fund in New York, NY; Paralegal Assistant at the Law Office of Phillip Brigham in Chicago, IL; Au Pair and Migration Researcher in Rome, Italy Additional Campus Involvement: Oral History in the Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Fellow Language: Spanish Los Angeles, CA | mdeleon@antiochcollege.edu Office Dynamics: The Space Between Culture Shock, Personal Conflict, Work Ethic and Everyday Crisis There are many methodologies used in Migratory Disciplines such as Oral History, Digital Archiving, and Autoethnography. This project is an autoethnographic working document that excerpts some of Michelle De León’s reflections tying the relevance of previous work experience as an Oral History in the Liberal Arts Fellow ( Rome, Italy 2017) and their fieldwork conducted during a six month internship at Voces Mesoamericanas Acción con Pueblos Migrantes in San Cristóbal de las casas, Chiapas, México (August 2019-February 2020. Through personal reflections on work ethic, social identity, and critical engagement, De León invites an audience to question their conditional placement in this world during a time of everyday crisis.

Mary Evans

Truth Garrett

ReEntry Stories ReEntry Stories features conversations between people who were once in prison. When they return to the community, they often have trouble finding jobs, housing, education and mental health services. All of the people in the series have taken part in either Sinclair Community College’s Advanced Job Training program or the X Factor Initiative, part of the Dayton Collaboratory, which helps re-entering citizens get jobs and life skills, and helps them find peer mentors. Produced in collaboration with WYSO, Sinclair Community College and the Dayton Collaboratory, funding support comes from Sinclair and the Eichelberger Center for Community Voices. The most recent episode of ReEntry Stories covers the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Incarcerated and Returned Citizen communities. Mary Evans, who was incarcerated at Dayton Correctional Institute, has produced ReEntry Stories as her own way reclaiming a passion after incarceration.

Truth Flowing With Facts Garrett’s senior capstone project is a digital project showcasing teaching techniques and discussions around the pedagogy of Hip-Hop Education. The second part of his senior capstone project is an oral history podcast about the Antioch College Afro-American Studies Institute (AASI). Over the duration of his time as a student at Antioch College, Truth took independent study classes which gave him a chance to research and interview alumni of AASI to obtain a better perspective on the historical experiences of these students and how their time at Antioch College may have shaped their lives afterward. The podcast features highlights of the interviews, and will be shared on the website of the Oral History in the Liberal Arts (OHLA) once completed. Garrett’s overall goal with this two-part capstone is to develop the findings of his research and practice into a business model for Hip-Hop education.

Business of Interdisciplinary Media Arts Academic Advisors: Forest Bright and Mary Ann Davis Co-op Advisor: Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Miller Fellow at WYSO 91.3 FM in Yellow Springs, OH; Digital Archivist with Oral History in the Liberal Arts (OHLA); Self-Designed co-op to create and produce the original radio podcast, ReEntry Stories at WYSO Additional Campus Involvement: Served As ComCil Events Coordinator Language: Spanish Yellow Springs, OH | mevans@antiochcollege.edu maryevans623.wordpress.com

Hip Hop Education Academic Advisors: Michael Casselli, Kevin McGruder, David Kammler, Cary Cambell Co-op Advisor: Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Teaching Assistant at Your Time To Shine and Tech Assistant at the Bijou Theatre in Bridgeport, CT; Miller Fellow with Yellow Springs Schools Additional Campus Involvement: Student Coordinator, Prison Justice Library, Oral History in the Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Fellow Language: Spanish Indianapolis, IN by way of The Woodlands, TX | truthshabazz@gmail.com TruFlowingWithFacts.com

Adam Green

Environmental Science and Ecological Economics Academic Advisors: Sean Payne, Kim Landsbergen, Didier Franco Co-op Advisor: Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Farm Hand at the Antioch Farm in Yellow Springs, OH; Research Intern at Nisqually Reach Nature Center in Olympia, WA; Paralegal at the Law Office of Philip Brigham in Chicago, IL; Land Steward at Agraria Center for Regenerative Practice in Yellow Springs, OH Additional Campus Involvement: ComCil President, Oral History in the Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Fellow Language: Spanish Columbus, OH | agreen@antiocollege.edu Economic Inequality, Racial Segregation, and Environmental Degradation: an analysis of environmental hazards in Ohio communities Environmental Justice (EJ) research in the past 40 years has consistently shown that minority communities in the US are at a significantly higher risk of exposure to hazardous substances from nearby factories and waste facilities. A prominent political economy hypothesis posits that social and economic inequality causes environmental degradation. In a society with high inequality, the people who live near the pollution and bear the costs of environmental degradation are going to have less power to prevent or limit the degrading activity relative to the ones who profit from the degradation. In this relationship, we would expect higher inequality to lead to greater environmental degradation. In this paper, we test these relationships at the Census tract and metropolitan levels in Ohio. This study employs a combination of GIS, logistic regression, and multilevel logistic regression to examine the relationship of demographic data (race, education, age, income, etc.), inequality, and segregation using the American Community Survey data from the Census Bureau and the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) from the EPA.

Carlos Mendez

Biomedical Sciences Academic Advisors: David Kammler, Brian Kot Co-op Advisor: Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Health Promoter at El Centro, Inc., Kansas City, KS; physician shadowing at Mercy Health, Oberlin, OH Additional Campus Involvement: ComCil Treasurer, Math Tutor, Resident Assistant, Data Manager: Campus Greenhouse Gas Inventory Language: Spanish Oberlin, OH | cmendez@antiochcollege.edu Potential New Scheme For Segmenting and Electromyogram Signals for Prosthesis Development

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The history of prosthetic use dates back thousands of years. The earliest known prosthetic device was discovered on a mummified corpse from 950 BC (Tung et al., 2012). Need for prosthetic devices has always existed due to illness, injuries encountered at war, and severe accidents. However, in the past century, the development of prosthetic hardware and software has enabled the quick progression of artificial limb capabilities. The use of 3D printed prosthetics caused a price reduction in prosthetics and an overall greater availability for amputees but they were functionally limited. My project provides a comprehensive literature review of 3D printed prosthetics technology and develops an improved design concept that uses surface electromyograms along with advanced decomposition algorithms and schemes that are able to interpret electrical neural signals intended for movement. Applications and next-steps toward a prototype are discussed.

Nadia Mulhall

Art and Community Academic Advisor: Forest Bright Co-op Advisors: Richard Kraince, Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Teaching Assistant at Paz Montessori School in Oaxaca, Mexico; Assistant Kindergarten Teacher at Mills Lawn Elementary School in Yellow Springs, OH; Student Teacher at the Newtowne School in Boston, MA Additional Campus Involvement: Antioch Farm Language: Spanish Yellow Springs, OH | nmulhall@antiochcollege.edu To hold When the stay-at-home-order began, I started working at the Antioch Farm, caring for the chickens, ducks, and geese. I was surprised at the size of the goose eggs and their delicate, lightly textured surface. Each egg is perfect and unique, a slightly different size and shape. I brought one home and my mother showed me how to blow out the egg by making two small holes on either side. Eggs are rich in symbolism, they are vessels for transformation, signs of spring and life. There are myths about the earth being born out of an egg. With the hollow egg in my hand I thought of the texture of grass in early spring and laying in a field with friends in the first warm sun. I thought of my childhood bedroom window, and of the fabric of a coat I wore as a teenager. These small details that make up memories often become bigger than the memories themselves. The right now that has stretched into months is an edge, a moment of ending and beginning. In my time at home in Yellow Springs the past few months, painting eggs has become a way to capture both this moment and my memories of this place which holds almost all of my life so far.

Seamus O’Flaherty

Science Writing Academic Advisor: Brian Kot Co-op Advisor: Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Scientific Writer and Quality Control Assistant at Chroma, Inc. Language: Spanish Delaware, OH | soflaherty@antiochcollege.edu Dimming the Lights: Practical Photophoretic Geoengineering On a Budget Increasing global temperatures threaten global climate and the ecosystem that depends on it. This project involved a comprehensive literature review and the conceptual development of a novel silica nanoparticle, with an eccentric ferrous core and an internal Mie-scattering void, to be used as a long-term solar reflector in Earth’s upper atmosphere. Techniques learned as a part of this study included the use of ultrasonic vibration as a chemical catalyst, surfactant application in monodisperse solutions, practical engineering principles involving passive medium interaction and photic properties, and the communication of resulting data. A successful prototype of this particle could be used as a stopgap measure to reduce the amount of sunlight converted into heat at Earth’s surface at comparatively low cost. Similar photophoretic particle models demonstrate applications with targeted pharmaceutical delivery, and as emulsifying and heating mechanisms using an alternating magnetic field.

Zoë Ritzhaupt

Judas Rose

Population: 20,000 Population: 20,000 is a documentary looking into my hometown of Piqua, OH. This film investigates the reasons why Piqua’s denizens have stayed, returned, or left the town. A traditionally blue collar and conservative city, Piqua’s population number has stayed the same for over 30 years. Is Piqua home or is it something to escape from?

cruel summer A figurative illustration series of intimacy and nature. Primarily mediums are acrylic, watercolor pencils and handmade pigments on cold pressed paper. Figures in these studies embody acts of intimacy, both sensual/sexual and not. Vibrant botanicals meld with the bodies in harmony. Obscuring and revealing, these illustrations celebrate collective growth/pleasure in Spring/Summer.

Video Production Academic Advisors: Forest Bright, Catalina Jordan Alvarez Co-op Advisors: Beth Bridgeman, Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Theater Production Assistant at The Foundry Theater in Yellow Springs, OH; Assistant Teacher at Buen Dia Family School in San Francisco, CA; Videographer at The Antioch School in Yellow Springs, OH; Self Design Freelance Photographer Additional Campus Involvement: Month of Sex coordinator, C-Shop, Yearbook Language: French Piqua, OH | zritzhaupt@gmail.com www.zoeritzhaupt.pb.studio

Interdisciplinary Study of Gender, Race and Art Academic Advisors: Mary Ann Davis, Forest Bright, Michael Casselli, Didier Franco Co-op Advisor: Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Baker at The Emporium Wines and Underdog Café in Yellow Springs, OH (two co-ops); Self-design Artist and Artistic Production in San Francisco, CA; Farm to Table Assistant at the Antioch Farm and Antioch Kitchens in Yellow Springs, OH Additional Campus Involvement: Queer Center, Month of Sex, C-shop Language: Spanish Detroit, MI | lrose@antiochcollege.edu

Alexander Schlosser

Deconstructing the Self Academic Advisors: Mary Ann Davis, Michael Casselli, Forest Bright, Cary Campbell Co-op Advisor: Richard Kraince Co-ops: Arts Liaison at Creative Time in New York, NY; Video Production Specialist with Antioch Media Arts Program in Yellow Springs, OH; Research Assistant at Moonstone Arts in Philadelphia, PA; Gallery Assistant at Crowne Pointe Press in San Francisco, CA; Bartender at the Meadowlark Restaurant in dayton, OH (transfer co-op) Additional Campus Involvement: Antioch Media Services Language: French Dayton, OH | aschlosser@antiochcollege.edu Dirty Laundry A sculptural installation to explore love and intimacy. Asking friends to sleep on white cotton sheets for one month. Extracting bodily fluids from the sheets by ‘washing’ them in a dye bath to create a paint. Using this paint, which would not exist without my participants intimate contributions, to explore trauma through a written narrative. Because the narrative is written in a single line, people in the space will begin reading wherever they are in the space, allowing the story to feel fractured and obnoxious in the way the information is gathered. The sheets are left to dry on lines throughout the space for people to interact with.

Christopher Welter

Environmental Journalism Academic Advisors: Cary Campbell, Brian Kot Co-op Advisors: Luisa Bieri, Brooke Bryan Co-ops: Community Organizer at Southeast Michigan Stewardship Coalition; Paralegal at the Law Office of Phillip Brigham; Legal Assistant at the Regional Bankruptcy Center of Southeastern Pennsylvania; Land Legalities Steward at Tecumseh Land Trust Additional Campus Involvement: Leadership in the Environment at Antioch Fellow (LEAF), Chair of the Record Advisory Board, Resident Advisor, Editor of The Record, WYSO Community Voices Program Graduate Language: French Yellow Springs, OH | cwelter@wyso.org christopherwelter.com Proposed Limestone Quarrying in Mad River Township, Ohio: A Selected Review of Legal and Environmental Permitting Processes Chris Welter’s interest in environmental stewardship and the law led to his boots-on-the-ground conservation work and policy research on land-use issues in southwest Ohio with the Tecumseh Land Trust. His capstone explores the ways in which sand, gravel, and limestone mining products provide valuable raw construction materials for a wide variety of infrastructure development and maintenance yet, despite this value, mining processes can have harmful anthropogenic effects on the environment. The paper includes an overview of U.S. mining permit processes and focuses on a local case review involving Enon Sand & Gravel, LLC (ES&G), the largest sand and gravel producer in Clark County, Ohio.

Ben Zitsman

American Studies Academic Advisors: Bob Fogarty, Mary Ann Davis, Cary Campbell Co-op Advisor: Rick Kraince Co-ops: Writer for Blue Light Media in Washington D.C.; Social Media Assistant for Antioch College Admissions; Self-Designed Researcher at the Global Center for Advanced Studies International Research Center in Maribor, Slovenia; Digital Media/Communications Director for Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton’s Reelection Campaign Additional Campus Involvement: Co-Editor, The Record, ComCil, The Antioch Review reader Language: French, English (intermittent) Yellow Springs, OH https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dog_variations Bad Books about Big Ideas: Literary realism and the liberal tradition Ben’s senior project is a very long and poorly timed paper in which he examines how political liberalism and literary realism have influenced one another and vociferously defends both, almost as if he’s some kind of idiot or something.

Right: Students bee-keeping as part of Antioch’s experiential curriculum.

FACULTY

Catalina Jordan Alvarez, MFA, Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Arts grew up in rural Tennessee with a Colombian mother and an American father. After majoring in experimental theater at NYU, she moved to Berlin and became involved in feminist, queer and anti-capitalist movements. She studied filmmaking in German at the self-organized film school, filmArche, and later received her Master of Fine Arts from Temple University in Philadelphia. Her narratives exploring the cultural and composed movements of bodies across boundaries have screened at 100 festivals and venues, including the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, the Museum of the Moving Image and Arclight Hollywood. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Flaherty Seminar, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Flux Factory and the Wexner Center for the Arts. She has taught Media Arts at Antioch College since 2018. www.catalinaalvarez.com

Beth Bridgeman, MA, Assistant Professor of Cooperative Education, teaches a series of Reskilling and Resilience courses, exploring seed-resilience, plant medicine, regenerative agriculture, and commensality. Her pedagogy embraces democratic education and includes peer-to-peer teaching. In her Co-op role, she leads Cooperative Education partnerships in sustainability, environmental science, biomedical science, and alternative education, and is Co-op liaison to the Science Division and the Japanese language and culture program. A recipient of a faculty excellence award from the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education, she is also a 2019-2020 OHLA Faculty Fellow, receiving funding for her project “Re-establishing a Seed Commons through Oral History Methodology” and recipient of an NEH-funded GLCA Japan travel grant for her research project, “Pedagogies of Nature: Shinto, Spiritual Ecology and Traditional Ecological Knowledge”.

Left: Antioch College faculty on the steps of Antioch Hall, circa 1908. Photo courtesy Antiochiana.

Forest Bright, MFA, Visiting Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, makes images, mostly drawings, that develop into larger, often social, projects. His work has been exhibited at Cothenius Gallery in Berlin, the Beijing American Center, The Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, 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 New School of Social Research. Forest also works as an illustrator and designer, most recently designing the cover for Flight, a book of flash fiction written by Robin Littell and published by Paper Nautilus. Forest’s teaching is centered around project-based learning. In 2016, Forest and former media professor Charles Fairbanks produced, with a group of students, a short documentary entitled Seriously Not Funny, filmed at the carnivalesque Republican National Convention in Cleveland. @forestbright • forestmbright.com

Brooke Bryan, Philosophy, Aesthetics, Art Theory A.B.D., Assistant Professor of Writing Brooke is an aesthetic philosopher and oral historian who composes work in narrative, media and textiles. At Antioch, she teaches writing from a phenomenological and hermeneutic perspective that asks students to engage in active inquiry through a commitment to public scholarship. A practitioner of critical and digital pedagogies, she supports students in self-design majors that engage philosophy, media, oral history, critical community studies, and contemporary art practice. Brooke chairs Antioch College’s Writing Program, convenes the Creativity and Story area of practice, and directs Oral History in the Liberal Arts (OHLA) for the Great Lakes Colleges Association and Global Liberal Arts Alliance. She is a recipient of a faculty excellence award from SOCHE, a post-secondary teaching award from the Oral History Association, and two in-depth reporting awards from the Ohio Newspaper Association. She can often be found interviewing people or making in her textile studios, where students are welcome to join.

Dr. Cary Campbell, Assistant Professor of French Language and Culture, has a passion for integrating French-speaking African cultures in his language and culture classes. With a background in linguistics and language pedagogy, Cary is excited to be a part of Antioch’s innovative proficiency-based languages program. Dr. Campbell’s 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, Chair of the Arts Division, Assistant Professor of Sculpture and Installation Michael is a 1987 alumnus of Antioch College and received his MFA in 1990 from the Rhode Island School of Design. Michael returned to Antioch in 2007 and moved back to Yellow Springs to work with NonStop to help support the college after the closure. Michael started teaching Media Arts before becoming an Assistant Professor in Sculpture and Installation in 2015. Michael began his career in NYC working as an artist, coordinator and performer within the “Downtown” scene, collaborating with a diverse group of artists including Reza Abdoh, Meredith Monk, and Grisha Coleman. His work scrutinizes the connections between installation, performance, and new media, believing that art is most exhilarating when collisions are valued as an essential part of the process. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally, most recently in Berlin at KW Center for Contemporary Art. Michael has received a Bessie Award in Scenic Design for Elizabeth Streb (1996), an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award (2013), and a SOCHE Faculty Excellence Award (2016). Michaeldcassellijr.com • @michaelcasselli

Mila Cooper, M.A., MDiv., Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion and Executive Director of the Coretta Scott King Center is in her fifth year at Antioch. Mila has worked in higher education for 30 years, including Director of Community Outreach & ServiceLearning, Assistant Dean of Students, and adjunct faculty. She has taught Urban Community Engagement at Antioch as well as courses in the philosophy of Kingian Nonviolence Reconciliation as a Level III trainer. Mila has a Bachelor of Science in Communications, an Master of Arts in Higher Education Administration, a Master of Divinity degree, and a graduate certificate in nonprofit management and leadership. She is currently pursuing the doctor of ministry degree with a focus in community development.

Dr. Mary Ann Davis, M.F.A., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Literature Poet, lyrical essayist, and scholar of erotic power. Two book projects: Sublunary (poetry) and Between the Monstrous and the Mundane: Thinking Erotic Power in the West, 1845-2015 (scholarship). Favorite classes: Queer Reading, Women Write the Erotic, Introduction to Poetry, and Creative Writing. Favorite shoes: red cowboy boots. Awards: 2018 SOCHE Faculty Excellence Award for Service; 2018 MLK, Jr. Drum Major for Justice Award

Dr. Téofilo Espada-Brignoni, MA, PhD, Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology earned an M.A. in Social-Community Psychology in 2012 and a Ph.D. in Psychology in 2015 at the University of Puerto Rico. He has published articles about Charles Darwin, the Social Psychology of Autobiographies, jazz and his experience in the aftermath of hurricane María, among other topics. His main research interests are the autobiographies of musicians, the social psychology of boredom, and the history of psychology. Currently, he has several works about psychology and music under review. He enjoys teaching advanced psychology courses in a workshop format that allows students to develop their research projects, like his class in the psychological study of autobiographies (Winter 2019). Espada-Brignoni also plays saxophone with a local band in Yellow Springs and sometimes can be found under a tree, practicing scales and jazz standards. He is looking forward to collaborating with students in a couple of research projects that are currently in their first stages.

Didier Franco, Assistant Professor of Spanish Language and Culture, immigrated from Cali, Colombia, and settled in Chicago, IL. Didier earned a MA in Latin American Literature and Culture (2014) from Northeastern Illinois University. Before joining Antioch College, Didier taught both Spanish and literature at the City Colleges of Chicago. Didier has a passion for sharing his culture and language with others. “I find beauty in diversity, and in the sharing of 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 today.”

Dr. Jennifer Grubbs, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, M.A., Ph.D., earned her doctorate from American University in Washington, D.C., in Anthropology, specializing in Race, Gender, and Social Justice, where her work examined the creative and confrontational ways in which activists co-create identities of resistance within neoliberal capitalism to dismantle ecological and species hierarchies through the spectacle of protest. She holds an M.A. is Communication, and an M.A. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Grubbs has conducted ethnographic work with environmental and animal advocacy movements based in North America, immigration-support communities and those residing in physical and metaphorical borderlands, and with Holocaust survivors residing in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her main research interests center around intersectional activism, such as racial justice, prison abolition, queer liberation, and animal liberation. She is particularly passionate about taking Antioch students inside of Dayton Correctional Institution through the Inside Out Prison Exchange Program.

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 quite enamored with the interdisciplinary modes of inquiry found within liberal arts and cooperative education colleges, and has taught classes in chemistry, biomedical science, health services administration, science of cooking, chemistry and art, and fresh water chemistry, all of which included healthy doses of art, astronomy, history, philosophy, and hands-on learning. According to sources that could just possibly be reliable, he continues to have a sense of humor, and still finds writing his own biographical sketches rather odd. Dr. Kammler 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; and is most assuredly a foodie.

Dr. Brian Kot, Assistant Professor of Biology and Environmental Science, is a comparative vertebrate zoologist with a dual background in applied engineering and biology.

Richard Kraince is Associate Professor of Cooperative Education as well as the Dean of Cooperative, Experiential, and International Education at Antioch College.

Brian often develops experimental research technology that involves design and fabrication assistance from motivated undergraduate students.

His research is focused on student activism and the impact of transnational social movements on higher education policy internationally.

Dr. Kot’s research interests are multidisciplinary, with hypothesisdriven questions often involving vertebrate locomotion performance (e.g., biomechanics and energetics) and sensory capabilities, predator-prey interactions, and carnivore foraging ecology.

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 Certified Senior Ecologist, specializing in invasive plant biology, climate change impacts on forests, soil carbon dynamics, and urban ecosystems. She teaches a range of courses such as: Botany, Intro to Environmental Science, Ecology, Climate Change, Soils, Ecological Agriculture, Ecosystem Ecology, and more. In 2017, Kim was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Southeastern Ohio Council for Higher Education. She is active in developing environmental policy solutions in Ohio, and also collaborates and makes art as socially engaged practice and science communication. Kim holds a courtesy research appointment in the department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, and the STEAM Factory, both at The Ohio State University. She is a STARS Technical Advisor with the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), and volunteers as a Tree Commissioner in Upper Arlington, Ohio. She has published more than 25 peer-reviewed science articles and received numerous local, state and federal research grants to support projects at Antioch College. @treebiology • kimlandsbergen.com

Dr. Kevin McGruder, Vice for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of History teaches classes on U.S. History. His research interests include Urban History, African American History, and LGBTQ 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 Philip Payton: Father of Black Harlem will be published by Columbia University Press in 2021. Dr. McGruder is the Recipient of the SOCHE Excellence Award for Research and the 2016 Antioch College Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award from the Coretta Scott King Center at Antioch College.

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 and mentors sciences students in biomedical research for professional presentation and publication.

Dr. Lara Mitias, Associate Professor of Philosophy, teaches classes in a wide range of philosophies, including comparative philosophy and Asian philosophies, as well as critical thinking and logic. Dr. Mitias also teaches 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. She is currently writing a chapter on “Mindfulness and Memory” for an East Asian Buddhist anthology, along with conference papers in Chinese and Japanese philosophies. Dr. Mitias received an NEH grant in 2018 to study Buddhist East Asia.

Toyoko Miwa-Osborne, (三輪豊子), Instructor of Japanese, Toyoko (MiwaSensei) was born in Nagoya, in the central region of Japan. She taught English for four years in Japan. She moved to the United States and received a Masters of Arts in applied linguistics, specializing TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), from American University in Washington, D.C. She has been teaching college-level Japanese language for 15 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, Library Director, assists students, staff and faculty to find research information through the resources of Antioch College’s Olive Kettering Library. In his position as director, he oversees the daily operations of the library, coordinates the library spaces, and maintains the print collection and catalog. Additionally, 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 advisor to the awesome campus newspaper (The Record), and playing guitar in the allfaculty band, Pringle.

Dr. Rahul Nair, Associate Professor of History, teaches classes on Mahatma Gandhi, Gender Expression and Sexual Orientation: a Global History, Local and Global Food Issues, 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 The Rise and Decline of India’s Population Problem in the Twentieth Century: Debating Demography. Dr. Nair is the recipient of a SOCHE Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award and of the Coretta Scott King Center’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drum Major for Justice Award in 2019.

Amy Osborne, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Prior to joining Antioch College Amy Osborne was the director for the Institute for Learning Differences at Thomas More College. She has also held appointments at the University of Cincinnati, Southern New Hampshire University, and Pikeville College. Amy has had a variety of teaching experiences working with college students in the areas of mathematics, statistics, and quantitative research methods for the education and social sciences. Presently pursuing a PhD in Psychology, she is interested in cognitive and affective variables and their relationship to learning, particularly college mathematics. Additionally, she has used her passion for teaching to teach students of all ages interested in areas such as glass-blowing and the ecology of pollinators, such as honey bees. At present she is completing a grant cycle to fund Pollination Stations in and around the south-central Ohio region. When not teaching she can be found spending time with her family, cooking, and working in the apiary.

Dr. Sean Payne, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, regularly teaches courses in environmental policy, urban political economy, and American Government. A feature of his teaching is innovative, service-oriented seminars which engage students in campus and local issues and solutions. He has led seminars in developing expanded participatory governance systems at Antioch and in the rebuilding of student space on campus. Sean’s work is inspired by global movements for governance reform and justice and as well as research on civic engagement and participatory governance. In 2017, Sean received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the the Southeastern Ohio Council for Higher Education. Sean’s current research is on community-based strategies for addressing inequalities and rebuilding the commons.

Luisa Bieri Rios, MA, Assistant Professor of Cooperative Education, joined the faculty of Antioch College in 2015 in the Cooperative Education Department. She also teaches Performance, Antioch Community Action, and Dialogue Across Difference. Luisa’s research and teaching engages art as social practice, community action research, intercultural engagement and transnational feminisms. As a teaching artist, Luisa aspires towards embodied, experiential, and liberatory pedagogies and practices. As a writer, director, and performer, Luisa explores intersections of human rights, feminist thought, countermemory, ritual, and placemaking. Luisa was a founding member of Baltimore’s Theater Action Group and an Open Society Institute Community Fellow. In 2018, she presented her one-woman performance “Rites” at the national gathering of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life in Chicago and at the Community Theater for Social Justice Action Conference at the Civil Rights Heritage Center in South Bend. Her current project, #pleasureisthepractice, is a daily meditation on joy. luisabieri.wixsite.com/home/

Louise Smith, MSEd, Associate Professor of Performance is a performer, educator, 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. Louise’s solo performance works have been presented at LaMama, Dixon Place, PS 122, St. Mark’s Danspace, and Dance Theater Workshop in NYC; as well as at Actors’ Theater, Louisville, and Illusion Theater, Minneapolis. She is the recipient of two Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Excellence Awards, a National Endowment for the Arts Collaborative Artists’ Fellowship, and a Jerome Fellowship. She believes art can be transformative.

Dr. Dean Snyder, Assistant Professor of Political Economy, teaches courses in international relations, the politics of global capitalism, and political ecology. He’s especially interested in the rise of digital powerhouses like Amazon, Google, and Facebook, and the ways in which the industrial food system creates a rift between human beings and the natural world. One of his favorite teaching experiences was collaborating with three Antioch students to design a course on the politics of our communications systems. The course put Antioch students in dialog with media and internet activists and provided them with a platform to launch their own projects to democratize our digital landscape. In 2018, he was honored with the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education’s Excellence in Teaching Award. Dr. Snyder’s research has been published in the journal New Political Science and he was the recipient of the New Political Science Dissertation Award in 2016. He also played a role in organizing the American Political Science Association’s 2019 national conference. A native of Bethlehem, PA, Dr. Snyder is an avid Philly sports fan and enjoys running, weight lifting, and playing tennis in his spare time.

Dr. Lewis Trelawny-Cassity, Associate Professor of Philosophy. Book project: On Wine, Education, and the Law in Plato’s Laws. Philosophy of Eating and Cooking (Hegel and Vietnamese Steamed Buns). Dr. Trelawny-Cassity was awarded a SOCHE Excellence Award for Service. He has been published in Polis and Epoche. He also wants to claim a titles as the undisputed campus champion in ping-pong and basketball. In collaboration with Antioch Kitchens chefs and the Antioch Farm staff, he taught philosophy on eating and held his classes on the farm in the summer of 2017.

ARTS Students in the Arts at Antioch are makers! From foundations to senior projects, they are engaged in creating works in media arts, visual arts (2D, 3D and 4D) and performance which are provocative and innovative. Students also actively engage in making change. They see 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 practitionerscholars, active in their fields. They recognize the complex ways that artistic mediums and discourse converge and complement each other. The lines between disciplines blur as students create multi-media installations, animations made from drawings and sculptures that are performed.

Left: Sean Allen (class of 2017) doing experimental performance art work.

In addition to studios and classrooms, the Arts Division takes full advantage of the curricular resources available on campus and off. Students have had prestigious coop opportunities at Creative Time, Flux Factory and The Kitchen in NYC; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the San Francisco Mime Troupe, mural arts with 67 Sueños, and Children After School Arts Program in San Francisco; Ken Burns’s documentary studio, Chicago Public Radio, Denver Open Media, Galerie Maeght in Paris and Mujeres de Artes Tomar in Buenos Aires. On the Antioch campus, students are fortunate to have access to 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.

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. 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 researchbased 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; magical realism fiction; the history of Rebecca Pennell and Pennell House at Antioch; and a comparative study of Hannah Arendt, Saul Alinsky, and Aristotle. Left: Students, faculty, and staff on a trip to Selma, Alabama.

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. Humanities students’ co-op experiences--like studying at the Zen Center in Colorado, teaching at the Arthur Morgan School in North Carolina, studying language and writing in Japan, 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.

SCIENCES Antioch Science programs have a longstanding tradition of excellence. Antioch Science students learn the tools of the trade of the sciences, how to: develop hypothesis-driven questions, make systematic observations, investigate and critique relevant literature, write research project proposals, and complete a wide variety of projects using on- and offcampus resources. 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 their major as a Bachelor of Sciences (B.S.) program that incorporates 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 to design a less constrained Bachelor of Arts in Science (B.A.) with fewer required courses. There are many creative ways to blend Science into academic programs that reflect unique blends of disciplines, such as: Environmental Political Economy; Environmental Justice; Science Media and Communications; Ecofeminist Literature; ArtScience; and Art Conservation.

Left: Students in canoe on field trip.

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, ecosystem restoration field work in Australia, 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. Many of our faculty 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, geography, international relations, political economy, 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.

Left: Students & faculty in the Olive Kettering Library.

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.

LANGUAGES At Antioch College, language and culture education is about opening up to one’s others, connecting to communities, and experientially developing skills to engage with a variety of global cultures. The Language and Culture Program provides proficiencybased instruction leading to capstone immersion experiences in international co-op placements. Students in our program are able to productively navigate a professional environment in another culture, and return to share original field-specific research completed in an international setting.

Language and Culture instruction at Antioch is “openarchitecture,” and customizable to the individual interests of students in their self design majors or in pursuit of social justice activism. Students benefit from innovative pedagogical practices, frequent foreign film screenings, task-based and project-based learning experiences, and connections with broader language communities. We are Antioch’s global citizen engine.

Since culture is integrated into instruction, even those who opt for the minimum requirement leave with communication skills, external certificates of proficiency, and with nuanced intercultural awareness to navigate future experiences.

Thomas Amhrein Clínica Esperanza and Latin-American Immigrants in Provenance, Rhode Island

2020 Language Capstones:

Adam Green Catolicismo anarquista (The Catholic Worker Movement) Chris Welter Technocracy versus Participatory Democracy in the AntiNuclear Movement in France

Left: Students & language faculty in on a language & culture field trip.

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 explore meaningful professional pathways across the US and abroad.

Left: Ducks on the Antioch College farm.

By linking the life of the mind with the practical experience of co-op, students form part of diverse communities, experiment with solution-oriented approaches to contemporary challenges, and mobilize efforts towards social impact in ways that have earned Antioch students an international reputation as innovative leaders and courageous change-makers.

THANK YOU! COLLOQUIA 2020 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 Antioch College. The Janet Wheeler Fund for the Arts supports the Herndon Gallery, attracts talented visiting arts faculty, funds rich visual arts and cultural programming on campus, and ensures funding for COLLOQUIA— Antioch’s all-campus senior project capstone showcase and print catalog.

On a campus that boasts no team mascots, no official sports, and no varsity jackets, the infamous “Antioch Radicals” varsity jacket, was ironically created by students and has been ceremoniously passed down from president to president since the incredible re-opening of Antioch College. Other unofficial mascots which have their fans and detractors include Kale, Garlic and a whole slew of random student’s dogs, all of which are named, “Antioch Joe.”