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. COLLOQUIA Catalog Designer: Hannah Priscilla Craig ‘17 Photography Editor: Ryn McCall ‘22 COLLOQUIA Chair and Coordinator: Jennifer Wenker, MFA, Creative Director of the Herndon Gallery Proofreading: Christine Reedy, Communications Specialist Printing: Oregon Printing, Dayton, OH Photo by Jennifer Wenker
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)
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 2019, the third 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 2019 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 2019 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 Photo by Catalina Cielo La Mers-Noble ’18
It is my distinct pleasure to welcome you to Colloquia 2019: a showcase of senior capstone presentations by the Antioch College Class of 2019. 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 2019-—presented brilliantly by our curator 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 169-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 2019 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 2019! The publication you hold in your hands--and the curation of your senior projects through the Colloquia 2019 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 inter- Another hallmark of our curriculum is its emphasis sectional, and that many disciplines and skills will on the Areas of Practice: need to be blended in creating solutions. 1) Environmental Sustainability; 2)Deliberative DeIn the College’s new curriculum, students own mocracy, Diversity, and Social Justice; 3) Creativitheir education by designing their own pathways ty and Story; 4) Wellbeing; and 5) Work, World, to Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science de- and Resilient Community. grees. In their second year, Antioch students enroll in a Design Your Degree course, which helps These areas define domains of creative and critithem articulate their program vision, goals, and cal praxis in which faculty, staff, and students are course lists. Student degree plans can be focused already engaged. Beyond Co-op, this means the around a single theme, or be as multi-disciplinary new curriculum will honor educational experiences as our courses and our faculty. All Antioch students through Antioch’s Glen Helen Ecology Institute; the continue to participate in the College’s signature Wellness Center; the Antioch Farm; The Antioch Co-op program, which includes periods of full-time Review; the Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural work, research, or other off-campus experiential and Intellectual Freedom; and 91.3 WYSO, our renowned NPR-affiliate radio station. opportunities. 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 self-directed 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. By taking charge of their learning and engaging in interdisciplinary study, Antioch’s Self-Designed Major positions students to Win Victories for Humanity in the twenty-first 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 through the creation of their Self-Designed Majors. During their first quarter on campus, students enroll in ANTC 101: 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 Self-Designed Major, select a faculty advising committee, and write a Statement of Inquiry that outlines their path of self-directed study. Students then take topically-focused courses in multiple disciplines to expand the depth and breadth of their knowledge. Guided by faculty committed to student-centered teaching, students explore their interests through research projects, social engagement initiatives, and creative practices while gaining autonomous
learning skills. After two more co-op adventures, Antioch students enter their final year prepared to launch the dynamic Senior Capstone Projects depicted in this catalog. Ultimately, Antioch College shapes students who are capable of undertaking and completing longterm projects while making connections across multiple disciplines and real-world experiences. Motivated by the pursuit of social and environmental justice at the core of our College’s mission, today’s Antioch graduates will play a key role in crafting a present and future for the betterment of all.
Illustration by Delaney Schlesinger-Devlin ’22 in collaboration with Jennifer Wenker
Amanda Akers
Self-Design: Advanced Creative Writing with a Focus in Magical Realism Academic Advisors: Dr. Mary Ann Davis, Dr. Julia Schiavone-Camacho, Toyoko Miwa-Osborne Co-op Advisor: Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Yamasa Institute and Kyoto Seika University (Kyoto, Japan). Additional Campus Involvement: Short story “Star Eater” was published in Flights Literary Journal (2017), and advanced as a finalist in the League for Innovation National Student Literary Competition and published in the League For Innovation in the Community College National Student Literary Competition 2016-2017 anthology. Language: Japanese Dayton, Ohio doubleawrites@gmail.com | flightsscc.wordpress.com Astro/Saga: An Exploration of Magical Realism Seeking to push the boundaries of Magical Realism, my senior project takes the form of a creative work of fiction: A novel entitled Astro/Saga. Inspired by the idea that people are made of stardust, Astro/Saga follows the two eponymous protagonists as they come to terms with the reality that, in death, human beings are the stars themselves. Ranging beyond Earth, but remaining within the Milky Way, the setting utilizes both well-known and less familiar aspects of our universe. Astro/Saga explores and interrogates human mortality and what it means to die as an individual against the immense backdrop of the cosmos. An engaging, in-person reading of excerpts from the novel during the Colloquia will serve to introduce my creative writing to a larger audience while I aspire for an opportunity for eventual publication.
Hollyn Bermond
Self-Design: Ecoperformance Academic Advisors: Louise Smith, Luisa Bieri Co-op Advisors: Dr. Richard Kraince, Luisa Bieri Co-ops: The Antioch School (Yellow Springs, OH); Tacotal La Ecovilla Punta Mona (Costa Rica); Riversong Sanctuary Kauai Nature School (Kauai, Hawaii); Heartbeat Learning Gardens Nature Connect Ohio (Yellow Springs). Additional Campus Involvement: Wellness Center (Playwell Program Facilitator); Yoga Teacher Training (through Antioch curriculum); Miller Fellow Tecumseh Land Trust; Alumni Relations (Videography, Communications); Reunion 2018: Featured Speaker and Panelist; Reunion 2017: Performance with Kevin Mulhall and Matthew Human of the Human Revolution; Antioch College-Admitted Student Weekend-Host; Farm & Kitchens Volunteer. Language: Spanish Denver, CO bbermond@antiochcollege.edu | embodiedbee.wordpress.com En Route: Searching for the Root This (eco)performance implores regenerative movement in an intimate and immediate ecological context. Hollyn is uprooting hidden layers within the personal and the ecological unconscious as she travels through inner and outer landscapes. She moves within a cyclical realm of dreams, memories, and grief/joy in tandem. Her inquiry centers silence breaking through to resilient and resonating soundscapes. As she becomes silenced by suppressive internal and external forces, what must be confronted or cultivated? In addition to this performance, Hollyn designed and facilitated a three hour intensive workshop at the Wellness Center at Antioch College entitled The Embodied Voice, sharing methodologies she has been practicing throughout her adventures at Antioch—both locally and internationally— within earth-centered circles.
Kyna Burke
Environmental Science Academic Advisors: Dr. Kim Landsbergen Co-op Advisor: Luisa Bieri, Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Miller Fellow, Yellow Springs Home, Inc. (Yellow Springs, OH); To Shin-Do Coach and Administrative Assistant, Dayton Quest Center (Centerville, OH). Additional Campus Involvement: Botany Teaching Assistant Language: Japanese Portland, OR & Miamisburg, OH | kburke@antiochcollege.edu The Antioch Tree Team: Creating the Antioch College Urban Tree Inventory One of the most obvious and beautiful features of Antioch College’s campus is the abundance of trees present. Trees are vital to urban communities like Antioch College because they provide shade and habitats for animals and undergo a process called carbon sequestration to remove carbon dioxide from the air, as well as many other benefits. The goal of this project was to create an urban tree inventory of the Antioch College campus; to document tree health, size, and species biodiversity; and ecological and economic value. I worked alongside the Antioch Tree Team to collect data on a majority of the trees on Antioch College’s main campus. Using i-Tree, a free program from the United States Forest Service, the campus tree data were analyzed to estimate the carbon sequestration rates and the economic impacts of the forest canopy. The outcomes of this project were a campus tree map, an inventory of the trees (species, size, health), the i-Tree report, and a policy memo about Arbor Day Tree Campus participation. Another positive outcome was an update on the declining health of the campus sugar maples and a request to stop tapping them for sap. This service project provides the campus with very important resources to manage our college forest canopy and will be available for future students to use as well.
Tyler Clapsaddle
Major (with self-design title) Academic Advisor: Co-op Advisor: Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Agricultural Assistant, Lopez Island (Port Townsend, Washington); Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault (Kansas City, Kansas);Teaching Assistant, Arthur Morgan School (Burnsville, North Carolina); Oral History in the Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Independent Researcher (Tahiti). Additional Campus Involvement: Former Antioch College Student Space-Committee Chair, ComCil, Antioch Childcare Taskforce Language: French Yellow Springs, OH tclapsaddle@antiochcollege.edu POURA Ty Clapsaddle’s senior project is an experimental film that tells the story of their grandmother being relocated to the United States from her birthplace of Tahiti. Concurrently, the film reaches for some knowledge of the narrative lost to the violence of colonization, the story of their great-grandmother, Ahuura.
Daniel James Cox
Self-Design: Crafting Preservation Academic Advisor: Michael Casselli Co-op Advisors: Brooke Bryan, Dr. Richard Kraince, Luisa Bieri, Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Production Assistant, Mutual Adoration (Detroit, MI); Documentary filmmaker (Western United States); Laborer, Justin Moore Contracting (New Orleans, LA); Deckhand, DI Tall Ships (Drummond Island, MI). Additional Campus Involvement: ComCil member, Bike Shop organizer, Musician Language: Spanish danieljamescox@protonmail.com | danieljamescox.me Nothing Left to Burn Bugs show me an idea that we in western society forcefully push against as if it is something to conquer, as if it is something to transcend. Death & What happens when we die? Running away from our own death only makes it come closer. Looking at the practices of a growth economy, the creation of new, new, new before the old has even been buried, we pile trash and undesirables as far away as we can without linking actions to consequences.
Jocelyne Cruz
Psychology Academic Advisor: Dr. Teófilo Espada-Brignoni Co-op Advisor: Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Teacher Assistant, Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center (Greenfield, NH); Community Organizer and Canvasser, The Blue Bench (Denver, CO); Miller Fellow, Antioch College Cooperative Department; Community Muralist and Program Assistant, 67 Sueños (San Francisco, CA). Additional Campus Involvement: Resident Assistant (RA), Miller Fellowships, Wellness Center Staff, Board of Trustees-Student Representative, Community Council Student Representative, Antioch Farm Staff, Intramural Volleyball, Southern Ohio Adult Soccer Association, Yellow Springs Rec Softball League Language: Spanish Amherst, Massachusetts alejocie23@gmail.com Identity in the Negative Space: Exploring Boundaries of Social Identity Theory In this paper, I examine the dynamics of social identity theory proposed by Tajfel which states groups to which we belong are elevated due to the pride and high self-esteem they bring; these are our motivating factors. I explain the cognitive processes that lead to unconscious and impulsive categorization of our environments, including our identities. This is beneficial in understanding stereotypes and self-schemas through learned behavior in our environments to support the understanding of humans as social beings. Due, then, to the exclusionary aspects these processes, this paper will analyze how the fluidity of identity challenges the embedded idea of unity especially in regard to the effects it has on immigrants.
Allison Cummings
Psychology Academic Advisor: Dr. Teófilo Espada-Brignoni Co-op Advisor: Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Housing Tech, Coleman Professional Services (Lima, OH); Sales Associate, Circle K (Lima, OH) Language: Spanish Lima, Ohio acummings@antiochcollege.edu Art and the Ethnographic Looking at the interdisciplinary combination of the Arts and Social Sciences fields, this project aims to evaluate the legitimacy of translating ethnographic practice into an artistic framework and vice versa. Through visual and performative arts, valuable alternatives to the traditional ethnography can offer new forms of representation and insight into the relationships between individual and society. With the application of an Arts-based education in the Social Science field, a more intensive methodology can be curated, with concepts such as identity, privilege, and cultural representativeness expanded on for deeper comprehension. To emphasize this, I will be using an interpretive ethnographic approach when creating and analyzing visual landscape representations of my home city of Lima, Ohio.
Moumita Dam
Biomedical Science Academic Advisor: Dr. Scott Millen Co-op Advisor: Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Therapy Assistant, Integrity House Alliance of Abilities (Santa Ana, CA); Paraprofessional Educator, Crotched Mountain (Greenfield, NH); Research Assistant, North Shore Medical Center (Evanston, IL); Quality Control Inspector, Chroma Corporation (Bellows Falls, VT); Recovery Health Assistant, RIA Health (San Francisco, CA). Additional Campus Involvement: Resident Assistant, Dean’s List (Fall ‘15, Winter + Fall ‘16. Spring ‘17, Winter ‘18, Winter ‘19) Languages: Bengali, Hindi, Sanskrit, English, Entry-level Spanish Graduate Program Forensic Toxicology and Analytical Genetics, University of Kentucky (August 2019) | moumitadam96@gmail.com A Review of the Human Cardiovascular System: Design, Functions, and Diseases The human cardiovascular system is connected to other physiological systems in the body. The main function of this system is to transport oxygen, nutrients, hormones, and cellular waste product throughout the body. With a healthy heart, this process functions normally; however, with a cardiovascular-system-affiliated-disease, the heart might fail to meet the body’s physiological demands. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States, and it is often the result of a poor lifestyle, although a very small percentage of cardiovascular disease is caused by genetics. Variability in prevalence among the different types of CVD is exemplified by cardiac arrest, hypertension, and heart failure. Cardiac arrest is a medical condition in which the heart unexpectedly stops beating and can result in sudden death. Heart-failure occurs when the heart fails to meet the need of the body.
Lanique Dawson
Environmental Science Academic Advisor: Dr. Kim Landsbergen Co-op Advisor: Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Assistant Cross Data analyst, Bourbon Springs (NYC); Science Educator, The Paraclete (Boston); Lab Technical Assistant, Oregon State University; Data Assistant, Glen Helen Nature Preserve. Additional Campus Involvement: LEAF (Leader of Environmental Science at Antioch College Fellow): EPA P3 project; Miller Fellowship Language: Spanish Bronx, New York | laniquedawson@gmail.com A review of nutrient-driven plankton dynamics and harmful algal blooms within the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland | The objective of this review paper is to summarize the literature about mixotrophic plankton species, with a focus on carbon uptake and nutrient impacts within the anthropogenically-impacted Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. As a result of wetland loss, species loss, as well as coastal habitat changes, the development of dramatic eutrophication events has encouraged harmful algal blooms (HABs) to repeatedly occur in the Chesapeake Bay. HABs are the result of rapidly growing populations of toxic microorganisms that thrive when exposed to excessive nutrients in bodies of water (C, N, and P), leading to the release of toxic compounds and excess detritus. Within the bay, there are over 1000 species of plankton which exhibit different feeding mechanisms (autotrophy, mixotrophy, and heterotrophy), and this trophic diversity supports the ability to compete and support such diverse blooms. This paper also reviews analytic methods used to identify functional types and trophic food webs within these nutrient-driven planktonic communities. The subjects addressed in this paper are important because of the economic, ecological, and political implications of HABs in the Chesapeake Bay and similar estuaries around the world.
Mallory Drover
Tabitha Drover
The Stories We Have to Tell This project explores the power of perspective, narration, and storytelling through artistic practice. As human beings, our individual and collective perceptions of who we are and how we understand the world around us is born from the process by which we narrate our lived experiences. I have found that storytelling is one of the most effective methods to expand a person’s mind, whether that person be the artist or the audience. As a multidisciplinary art major I have free range of creative practice to engage with any number of artistic methods and genres. This project gives me the opportunity to expand upon works that began at Antioch to create four stories, each unique in theme and told through a different artistic medium, that can grow from the roots of projects that I have loved in the past four years.
Rebecca Pennell: An Exploration into the Person and the Professor While the Antioch College and Yellow Springs community are familiar with Pennell House on the College campus, few know anything about the woman after whom it is named. Rebecca Pennell was a pioneer in women’s higher education and an advocate of educational reform, who made history as the first full-time female professor in the United States to be paid equally to her male faculty colleagues. It is a historical milestone whose relevance has not diminished even today. Engaging in a project of biographical recovery, utilizing archival and non-archival sources, I delve into her childhood upbringing, trace her educational trajectory, detail her experience and challenges as an Antioch faculty member, and shed light on her career and life beyond Antioch. My public history exhibition and accompanying lecture thereby explores the woman behind the name and achievement.
Self Design: Multidisciplinary Arts Academic Advisor: Michael Casselli Co-op Advisor: Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Teaching Assistant, Yellow Springs Children’s Center (Yellow Springs, OH); Assistant Curator, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA); Self-Design art researcher (Homer, AK); Art Teacher, Homer Art and Frame Company (Homer, AK). Additional Campus Involvement: Miller Fellow, Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center; Art Studio Monitor Homer, Alaska mdrover@antiochcollege.edu
History Academic Advisor: Dr. Kevin McGruder Co-op Advisor: Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Glacier D Restaurant (Homer, AK); Office assistant, Yellow Springs Senior Center x3 Additional Campus Involvement: Miller Fellow, Yellow Springs Senior Center; PlayWell Attendant at the Wellness Center at Antioch College for 3 years. Language: French Homer, AK tdrover@antiochcollege.edu
Sam Eagleburger
Self-Design: Organizing and Performing Counter-Hegemony Academic Advisors: Dr. Dean Snyder, Dr. Jennifer Grubbs Co-op Advisor: Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Community Organizer, Blue Bench (Denver, CO); Political Blogger, The Colorado Times Recorder (Denver, CO); Cooperatives and Cultural Exchange Organizer, Centro para la Justicia Global (Guanajuato, Mexico); To Shin Do coach, Raleigh Quest Martial Arts (Raleigh, NC). Additional Campus Involvement: ComCil President, To-Shin Do CTI team, farm assistant Language: Spanish Denver, CO seagleburger@antiochcollege.edu Liberatory Community Defense: A Natural History In my project, I examine how revolutionary and oppressed communities can organize for collective self-defense. I argue that it is both politically necessary and ethically justifiable for communities to engage in extralegal defense formations, particularly when the state is the primary source of violence. Using the methodological framework of dialectical naturalism, I examine historical and contemporary cases to interpret both tactically sound and liberatory structures and strategies of community self-defense. My project is formatted primarily as a zine to facilitate wider audiences and engage revolutionary and oppressed communities.
Stephanie Harman
Self-Design: Historical Ecology with Spanish language focus Academic Advisor: Dr. Kim Landsbergen Co-op Advisor: Dr. Richard Kraince Co-ops: Retail Assistant, Thorsen’s Greenhouse (Delaware, OH); Private House Renovation, Laborer (New Orleans, LA); Self-design Landscape Assistant, Botanical Gardens and Barn Owl Store Clerk (Miramar, FL); Self-designed Co-op: Cooking, Markets, and Community (San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico). Additional Campus Involvement: Antioch College Tree Team, Spanish Tutor Language: Spanish Columbus, OH & Miami, FL | stephharman1@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/stephanie-harman-2a30a854 The Historical Ecology of Antioch College’s Urban Forest Canopy: From the 19th Century to the Present This project explored the history of the urban forest canopy at Antioch College, not just to understand what it is today, but how it came to be. Using historical data resources - both natural resources and human historical evidence - this research compiled qualitative and quantitative documentation of forest growth and change. A timeline approach was used to organize the forest history project, focusing on key historic events at the College, such as instances of site abandonment and invasive species impacts. Key results reveal patterns of tree planting and removal, building construction and forest removal, suggesting that the forest canopy extent and condition ebbs and flows in correlation to changes in college occupancy and status. Antioch has always been a precarious institution, but the forest canopy has endured to tell its story. Ecologically, this mature, biodiverse forest provides habitat, carbon sequestration, promotes biodiversity, and is a living lab for our current and future community. This study provides a platform for creating reverence and respect for our campus forest resources while identifying its ecological importance.
Ian Henriques
Psychology Academic Advisor: Dr. Teófilo Espada-Brignoni Co-op Advisors: Brooke Bryan, Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Community Care Assistant, Camp Hill (Kimberton, PA); Program Assistant, Gould Farm Therapeutic Community (Monterey, MA); Teaching Assistant, Buen Dia Family School (San Francisco, CA); Clinical Practice Intern, Sam Kohlenberg, LPC (Denver, CO) Language: Spanish IHenriques@antiochcollege.edu A Meta-Analysis of Social Stigma Surrounding Bipolar Disorder Social stigma surrounding mental illnesses has many negative impacts on the lives of people suffering from these conditions. These include alienation from others, mistreatment in various aspects of daily life, unjust persecution, among others. In order to better understand this phenomenon, and hopefully gain a better insight in how it can be mitigated or prevented, my project is an intensive review of the literature surrounding mental health stigma, with a special focus on bipolar disorder. This project examines the research of the phenomena of stigma itself, how it affects people with mental illnesses, and how that can factor into treatment, as well as how the negative aspects can be avoided. My project will also focus on areas in which research on the social stigma of bipolar disorder can be expanded.
Rachel Rose Isaacson
Political Economy Academic Advisor: Dr. Dean Snyder Co-op advisor: Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Media Specialist, Communications Consortium (Washington, D.C.); Intern, City Hall (Columbus, OH); Constituent Liaison, Ohio House of Representatives (Columbus, OH); Teaching Assistant, Yellow Springs Schools (Yellow Springs, OH); Radio Production Assistant, WYSO (Yellow Springs, OH). Additional campus involvement: Miller Fellow: Glen Helen Nature Preserve, NPR Affiliate WYSO Public Radio Station, and the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions; Communications for Antioch College’s Nonprofit Leadership Institute for Community Action, Coursework on Heart Embodied Leadership. Dean’s list recipient during all academic quarters. Language: Spanish RachelRIsaacson@gmail.com | co-op.antiochcollege.edu/author/rachelisaacson/, co-op.antiochcollege.edu/student-spotlight-rachel-isaacson-19/, www.wyso.org/programs/antioch-word The Political Economy of Public School Lunches: A Call for a Cultural Shift Towards Healthy and Local Food Rachel Isaacson is advocating for healthy food in public schools. Rachel is attempting to work with Yellow Springs schools to conduct an assessment of Mills Lawn Elementary’s current food policies and helping to determine the next steps towards improving the quality and ecological sustainability of its lunch program. Rachel contextualizes her assessment of Mills Lawn Elementary’s food policies with a critical analysis of public school lunches and food education, along with a political-economic analysis of the U.S. agro-food system. She believes that we need to change our food culture, starting with our youngest populations, in order to develop new and better food systems for the future.
Ethan Marcus
Self-Design: Understanding Human Beings Academic Advisor: Dr. Teófilo Espada-Brignoni Co-op Advisor: Dr. Richard Kraince Co-ops: Nutrition Assistant, Natural Grocers (Denver, CO); Phone Banker, Campaign to Protect Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA); Dishwasher, Bushwick Social Bar (Brooklyn, NY); Food Service Assistant, Robin Food (Haifa, Israel). Additional Campus Involvement: Antioch Kitchens Assistant, College Planning and Finance Committee, Resident Assistant-Resident Life Team, Thursday Volleyball Languages: Spanish, Japanese Los Angeles, CA emarcus24@gmail.com Building a Tiny Home In this project, I will plan for and construct a temporary housing structure with insulated walls, roofing, and flooring that I will live in for a week. Through this, I will learn about design, construction, and the various positive benefits that accompany being able to provide for myself. By making this, I will renew a sense of confidence in my ability to create my dreams and make an inviting, kind place that I want to and will live in, and learn ways to subvert the common capitalist chain of work -> buy -> die since I am laboring myself on a non-alienating project where my mental skills are tested and prized.
Emma Metty
Self-Design: Culture as a Historical Process Academic Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Grubbs Co-op Advisor: Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Sustainability Assistant, The Quarry Farm (Pandora, OH); Digital Archives Coordinator, Oral History in the Liberal Arts (OHLA) (Yellow Springs, OH (3x)) Additional Campus Involvement: Emma photographed an alumni event in the Herndon Gallery as part of the 2018 Antioch Reunion. They also worked alongside Brooke Bryan for Oral History in the Liberal Arts from January 2017- August 2018 as the Digital Archives Coordinator then as the Project Manager and Digital Developer. Emma traveled to Kenyon College in July 2018 to discuss their time as the Digital Archives Coordinator at the Oral History Institute for OHLA. Language: Japanese Centerville, OH | ecmetty@gmail.com or emetty@antiochcollege.edu Uncovering Encounters in the Great Lakes Region My project examines the literature on cultural interactions of European and Indigenous peoples in the Great Lakes region of the United States before 1820, focusing on the area around present day Ohio. I conducted this literature review to look more in depth at how interactions between these groups of people changed their cultural practices and feelings towards each other over time. For this review I have drawn on literature discussing such interactions from the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and history. Presently much of the current literature on cultural interactions focuses on the Great Lakes region as a whole, so this project distinguishes itself by creating an Ohio-specific discourse.
Alyssa Navarrette
Self-Design: Ethnological Arts (Anthropology and Arts) Academic Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Grubbs Co-op Advisor: Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Digital Archives Coordinator, Oral History in the Liberal Arts (Yellow Springs, OH); Community Organizer and Canvasser, The Blue Bench (Denver, CO); The Global Justice Center & TOSMA: San Miguel De Allende (Guanajuato, Mexico); Wolfdale’s Cuisine Unique: Prep & Line Cook (Tahoe City, CA); Mujeres De Artes Tomar (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Additional Campus Involvement: Mellon Scholar in Residence at Muhlenberg College with faculty mentor Brooke Bryan--workshop leader, “Oral History & Social Justice on College Campuses” to the Muhlenberg Black Student Association; Resident Assistant & Lead RA position in Residence Life; Antioch College Kitchens Assistant; People of Color Group; La Raza the Latinx Group; Athens Democracy Conference Student Representative in Greece. Language: Spanish El Paso, TX alyssa.nicolle.navarrette@gmail.com | alyssanicollenavar.wixsite.com/culturapolitica, @lamujerpiensa on Instagram | ohla.info/interviews-with-color/ Malas Palabras: A Reclaiming of Words & Their Power // Palabras Malas My senior project aims for the empowerment of mujeres and feminine people. There is a never ending list of terms used to degrade and belittle women. The conditioning of women is something that I consider a man-made condition to which we can and should dismantle. I would like to give my two cents on this by redefining six words and creating intimate, somewhat sacrilegious, and empowering installations for each word.
Shelby Glee Pratt
Self-Design: Holistic Healing Practices Academic Advisor: Dr. Richard Kraince Co-op Advisors: Beth Bridgeman, Dr. Richard Kraince Co-ops: Teaching Assistant, The Antioch School (Yellow Springs, OH); Teaching Assistant, Play Mountain Place (Los Angeles, CA); Kitchen Assistant, Antioch College (Yellow Springs, OH); Kitchen Assistant, Tremont 647 (Boston, MA). Language: French spratt@antiochcollege.edu The Local Yolkal: An Intentional Community Food Startup Exploring Psychological and Philosophical Relationships to the Natural World The Local Yolkal is a startup which strives to educate, inspire, and bring to life the characteristics of our relationship to food by creating a food operating system sourced by locally grown produce and ingredients. Through a partnership with local farmers, the Local Yolkal will operate a food stand which crafts and sells intentional meals at farmers’ markets, and will provide informational guides to the produce and the sources of ingredients. This will be a curation and collaboration of the different types of food commerce within a local radius with the goal of bridging the gap between humans and the natural world through the means of food and food sources.
Hassanatou (Anna) Samake
Self-Design: Transnational Environmental Science and Political Economy Academic Advisors: Dr. Brian Kot and Dr. Dean Snyder Co-op Advisors: Luisa Bieri, Richard Kraince Co-ops: Program Assistant at Cultural Services of the French Embassy (NYC); Immigrants Rights Advocate and Executive Intern at the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (NYC), Youth Empowerment and Project Coordinator with Your Time To Shine (Bridgeport, CT); Storytelling Intern with the Tandana Foundation (Otavalo, Ecuador); Division Intern with the Compagnie Malienne du Développement des Textiles (Bamako, Mali). Undergraduate Research Fellow-Oral History in the Liberal Arts Additional Campus Involvement: ComCil President and Student Representative, Senior Leadership Team Diversity and Inclusion group, Task force on Diversity, People of Color Coordinator, Coretta Scott King Center Miller Fellow, Admissions Assistant, Antioch Kitchens. Languages: Bambara, French, English, and Spanish Bamako, Mali and New York City | hsamake@antiochcollege.edu Political-Economic and Environmental Drivers of Migration and the Global Refugee Crisis: A Case Study of the Middle East and Sub Saharan Africa Migration—the movement of humans within and across economic, geographic, and political borders—has increased in the 20th and 21st centuries in reaction to many political-economic and environmental factors. The ongoing global refugee crisis has provoked a tense debate in the United States, becoming an even more controversial political issues in both the U.S.and Europe since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The paper reviews two main factors driving migration and the refugee crisis: U.S. foreign economic policy and global climate change. The project concludes by assessing the current political climate around migration and how it is affecting immigrants and refugees living in the U.S.
Katie Sherman
Self-Design: The Environment and the Anthropocene (B.S.) Academic Advisor: Dr. Brian Kot, Beth Bridgeman Co-op Advisor: Luisa Bieri Co-ops: Consultant and Restoration Intern at Practical Ecology (Melbourne, Australia); Arete Project Participant (Celo, NC); Outdoors Community Builder and Lifeguard at Antioch College (Yellow Springs, OH); Ski Instructor at Montage Mountain (Scranton, PA); Whitewater Rafting Guide at Whitewater Challengers (White Haven, PA). Additional Campus Involvement: Outdoor Club President, Antioch Farm worker, Miller Fellow, Kitchen Assistant, and Science/Math Tutor Language: Spanish ksherm849@gmail.com Action Project: Outdoor Backpacking Orientation Humans are increasingly disconnected from the natural environment. Spending time in the wilderness through different adventure programs has shown a multitude of benefits to both physiological and psychological health. In the case of colleges and universities, offering wilderness/adventure programming has shown increased retention and student success. This action project created a 5-day backpacking orientation program at the Lake Vesuvius Recreation Area of the Wayne National Forest for incoming first-year students. It is suggested that this program be continued to conduct a longitudinal study on its impact on creating a more positive community and increasing retention at Antioch College.
Mari Smith
Self-Design: Interpersonal Communication and Journalism in the Media Arts Academic Advisors: Catalina Jordan Alvarez, Brooke Bryan Co-op Advisor: Dr. Richard Kraince Co-ops: Production Assistant, WYSO 91.3FM (Yellow Springs, OH); Media Assistant, Denver Open Media (Denver, CO); Research Assistant, International Christian University (Tokyo, Japan); Digital Archives Coordinator, Oral History in the Liberal Arts (Yellow Springs, OH). Additional Campus Involvement: Office of Admission-student ambassador, Community Solutions Miller Fellow, Japanese language Tutor Language: Japanese Columbus, Tokyo, Philadelphia msmtih@antiochcollege.edu A Study in Argumentative Performance My senior project is a film capturing what I have coined to be an “argumentative performance.” In my film, the two subjects, Sam Eagleburger ‘19 and Basim Blunt of WYSO, will argue with each other over the topics of pacifism vs. aggression as used in modern society. As the experiment progresses, I will integrate elements of painting, journaling, and performance to their environments. Utilizing elements of improv and performance, the subjects will allow the additional visual and auditory stimulus to inform each other’s perspectives (outside of just verbal). The idea is that they will be looking into each other’s intellectual and emotional worlds. It is my hope that the two subjects arguing will be able to achieve a greater understanding of one another through the use of non-verbal communication and performance. The goal of the project was not for them to change each other’s minds, but to help each other understand one another’s point of view through an exercise in empathy and cooperation.
Julien Stainback
Psychology Academic Advisor: Dr. Sean Payne Co-op Advisor: Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Teaching Assistant, Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center (Greenfield, NH); Teaching Assistant, Buen Dia Family School (San Francisco, CA); Program Specialist, Baltimore Black Mental Health Alliance (Baltimore, MD); Health Assistant, Ria Health (San Francisco, CA). Additional Campus Involvement: Volleyball, Previous Project Manager of C-shop Language: Spanish Silver Spring, MD jstainback@antiochcollege.edu | communitysolution.org Addiction and Treatment: Analysis and Review My Senior Project is a literature review on the treatments of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and the closely related Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS). In this project, I examine alcoholism and opioid dependencies/addictions while trying to connect the dots regarding effective, multi-faceted treatment options and the neuroscience taking place for those impacted. A central drug type I am examining are the opioid antagonists, namely naltrexone. Alongside other treatment it has been seen to be extremely effective in preventing relapses and keeping patients from becoming overly sensitive to the substance once the drug’s use has been discontinued if administered properly.
Waricha Thoechanthuck
Self-Design: Art and Design Academic Advisors: Forest Bright, Michael Casselli Co-op Advisor: Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Assistant Manager, Vida’s Thai Food and Bunnell Street Art Center (Homer, AK); Manager and Coffee Roaster, Reza’s Roast (Dayton, OH). Languages: Thai Bangkok, Thailand; Homer, AK; Yellow Springs, OH waricha.tct@gmail.com Waricha: Born from Water A series of paintings created from handmade natural pigments inspired by modern and traditional Thai culture. They are metaphors of my most vivid memories, both good and bad, that helped me become emotionally stronger.
Noah Yasgur
Self-Design: Communal Studies Academic Advisor: Dr. Mary Ann Davis Co-op Advisor: Beth Bridgeman Co-ops: Farming Assistant, Urban Adamah (Berkeley, CA) and Director of Jewish Innovation and Engagement, Mayerson Foundation (Cincinnati, OH); Sustainability Intern, Solar Living Institute (Hopland, CA); OHLA self-design, “An Exploration of Communal Living in Israel (Haifa, Israel); Land Management Assistant, Community Solutions (Yellow Springs, OH). Additional Campus Involvement: Chess Club, Math/French Tutor, Miller Fellow at Community Solutions Languages: French, Hebrew Cincinnati, OH & Yellow Springs, OH | nyasgur@gmail.com An Exploration of Communal Living in Israel My interests lay in the varying narratives of what ‘community’ is. Where are their points of intersection and divergence? In what manner are they communicated - what is their modality? And how does the individual’s place in this ‘community’, their point of view, affect their telling of its story? These questions planted the seed for my senior project, An Exploration of Communal Living in Israel. My analysis of how the historic Kibbutzim functioned, which key factors (sociological, political-economic, etc.) contributed to the large-scale changes we’ve seen throughout their development, and how they function lead me to the present day. Our world is different, Israel is certainly a dramatically different country then it was 80 years ago, but vestiges of communal living - whether an older kibbutz adapted to the times or an entirely different template - still remain strong today. The oral histories I gathered in addition to secondary source material on Kibbutzim can ideally provide us with an origin story for the newly emerging forms of communal living present in the country today.
Band practice on Weston balcony with members of the student band, Lori, made up of: Maddie Green ‘20, Tom Amrhein ‘20, Michelle De León ‘19, and Katie Sherman ‘19. Long winters in Yellow Springs evoke a patience for personal and political growth. Dozing in and out of a mid-quarter crisis, entertaining the haze of rust belt humidity, Lori started playing together in the same basement Rod Serling wrote scripts for the Twilight Zone.
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.
Transnational Environmental Science and Political Economy major, Hassantou (Anna) Samake ‘19 earned both a French and Spanish language focus at Antioch, seen here tutoring school children during her Spanish language immersion co-op with the Tandana Foundation in Otavalo, Ecuador.
LANGUAGE CAPSTONES Stephanie Harman (Spanish) Language Capstone Advisor: Didier Franco Healthcare in the United States and Spain with an emphasis on prenatal and postpartum care This project used various information from organizations such as the World Health Organization to assess the quality, accessibility, and manifestations of health care in countries with juxtaposing systems.
Alyssa Navarrette (Spanish) Language Capstone Advisor: Didier Franco Les ~Gays~ En Buenos Aires (The ~Gays~ In Buenos Aires) Through participant observer research I was able to conduct anthropological studies on the gay community in Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires is considered the Gay Capital of South America, and is seen as a more progressive city. Throughout my time there I made observations and came to conclusions about what makes the city so Gay and great for gays.
Anna Samake (Spanish) Language Capstone Advisor: Didier Franco La sastrería y las mujeres indígenas de la parroquia de Quichinche (Tailoring and the Indigenous women of the Quichinche Parish) Many of the indigenous women of the Quichinche parish are tailors. They make adapted traditional clothes, sheets, sweaters, hats, pillow cases and other accessories. In my project, I interviewed some of the Indigenous women from Panecillo and Quichinche to explore the history behind tailoring and why it is popular with women in those areas.
Anna Samake (French) Language Capstone Advisor: Cary Campbell La Gestion des emballages vides de pesticides par la Compagnie Malienne pour le Développement des Textiles (The management of empty pesticides containers by the Malian Company for the Development of Textiles) This project is an exploration of the management of empty pesticide packaging, an initiative created and led by the Malian Company for the Development of Textiles in Mali. The management of empty pesticides containers is an important environmental protection initiative. To demonstrate this thesis, I studied the following questions: what is the empty pesticide container project? In what capacities does it constitute an environmental protection initiative? What is the importance of this project for the cotton producing zones of Mali?
FACULTY Catalina Jordan Alvarez, MFA, Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Arts Catalina grew up in rural Tennessee with a Colombian mother and an American father and in her early career studied experimental theater in New York City and film directing in Berlin. Her narratives explore the cultural and composed movements of bodies across social boundaries. Ranging in genre from “Bergfilm” to science fiction and deriving from literature, community research, and gender studies, her films have screened at over 40 film festivals, including Slamdance, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Palm Springs and at venues including The Museum of the Moving Image, the San Diego Art Institute, and ArcLight Hollywood. Her publication, “Towards Another Cinema” (Cinephile, issue 11.3, 2017) analyzes the creative strategies for portraying non-western characters to a western audience, employed by filmmakers Ulrike Ottinger and Kidlat Tahimik, in their fantasy ethnographies, Joan of Arc of Mongolia and Perfumed Nightmare. Catalina was recently a Fellow at the 2018 Flaherty Film Seminar and a Resident Artist at Flux Factory in Queens. www.catalinaalvarez.com Left: Antioch College faculty on the steps of Antioch Hall, circa 1908. Photo courtesy Antiochiana
Beth Bridgeman, MA, Assistant Professor of Cooperative Education, teaches a series of Reskilling and Resilience courses, exploring seedresilience, 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 received 2019 GLCA OHLA funding for her project “Re-establishing a Seed Commons through Oral History Methodology.” Accepted presentations in 2019 include: the Society for Ethnobiology, the Association for the Study of Food & Society, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, the Environmental Education Council of Ohio, the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association, The Ohio State University, and School of the Alternative.
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. During the summer of 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. Follow Forest on Instagram @forestbright and his website: forestmbright.com
Brooke Bryan, Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Literacy, teaches expository and critical writing, journalism, and creative nonfiction from a phenomenological and hermeneutic perspective at the fringe of philosophical aesthetics. She is chair of Antioch College’s writing program, and directs Oral History in the Liberal Arts (OHLA) for the Great Lakes Colleges Association and Global Liberal Arts Alliance. Brooke 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.Through OHLA, she stewards grant funds to GLCA faculty for pedagogical experimentation and to undergraduates (including Antioch students on Co-op) for facultymentored fieldwork and research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences, creating a digital repository and resource hub at www.ohla.info. Her research explores the idea of the trace in heritage objects like the antique quilt after the metaphysics of presence. She can often be found interviewing people or making in her expansive textile studios, where students are welcome to join.
Dr. Julia Schiavone Camacho, Assistant Professor of Latin American History, teaches Latin American and Asian American history, U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, and the Construction of Race and Ethnicity as well as expository and creative writing. Julia’s first book, Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2012. She recently completed a historical fiction manuscript, Across the Pacific: A Novel. Her short fiction appears in The Florida Review and The Hopper and is forthcoming in The Coachella Review Blog.
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, 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, being fortunate to have collaborated with a diverse group of artist including Reza Abdoh, Lori Carlos, Meredith Monk, Grisha Coleman, and Ann Bogart. Michael was the recipient of a Bessie Award in Scenic Design for Elizabeth Streb. Michael’s work has been exhibited nationally in NYC, Portland Oregon, Seattle Washington, LA, Cleveland, Ohio and internationally in Paris, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt, and Granada. 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. Follow Michael on Instagram @ michaelcasselli and Facebook #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 & Service-Learning, 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 B.S. in Communications, an M.A. in Higher Education Administration, a Master of Divinity degree and a graduate certificate in non-profit management and leadership. She is currently pursuing the doctor of ministry degree with a focus in community development.
Dr. Mary Ann Davis is Assistant Professor of Literature at Antioch College. 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.
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 (www. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108 0/17494060.2018.1492243), and his experience in the aftermath of hurricane María (www.tandfonline. com/doi/abs/10.1080/03007766.2 018.1463937), 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, is an envirofeminist anthropologist. Dr. Grubbs 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. Dr. Grubbs has conducted ethnographic work with environmental and animal advocacy movements based in North America, immigration-support communities in rural Virginia, and with Holocaust survivors residing in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her current research bridges feminist anthropology, environmental communication, and queer studies, through an examination of representations of race, gender, and sexuality as it connects to species in the U.S. Dr. Grubbs is interested in deconstructing the interconnected hierarchies that are used to naturalize and perpetuate systems of violence through a critical media lens. Her courses foster a unique experience by incorporating a range of technologies and voices that encourage critical thinking through discussion.
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 scentific 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. Brian often develops experimental research technology that involves design and fabrication assistance from motivated undergraduate students. 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.
Richard Kraince is an Associate Professor of Cooperative Education as well as the Dean of Cooperative, Experiential, and International Education at Antioch College. His research is focused on student activism and the impact of transnational social movements on higher education policy internationally. He conducted field research on Islamic student activism in Indonesia, 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 who specializes in invasive plant biology, climate change impacts on forests, and soil carbon dynamics. Kim works with many Antioch students pursuing independent scientific research projects in ecology and sustainability areas. She is active in developing environmental policy solutions in Ohio, and also collaborates with artists as socially engaged practice and science communication. She teaches a range of courses such as: Intro to Environmental Science, Botany, Ecology, Climate Change, Soils, Ecological Agriculture, Ecosystem Ecology and more. She received a 2017 SOCHE Teaching Excellence Award. Her research practice focuses on Ohio ecosystems ranging from urban landscapes to natural areas. 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 research grants to support projects at Antioch College. kimlandsbergen.com
Dr. Kevin McGruder, Associate 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. 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. 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, moved to the United States and has been teaching college-level Japanese language 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, 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, Assistant 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 in 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
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 clases 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 practitioner-scholars, 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. 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
Co-op 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.
Student-organized band, Scary Balance, performs a special set outdoors at the Antioch amphitheater. In response to community racial justice tensions, student organizers, artists, and musicians, together with Antioch’s newly reformed student radio station, Anti-Watt, presented: “trying times @ 1 Morgan Place” live. Pictured are Antioch arts students, who make up the band, Scary Balance: Ty Clapsaddle ’19, Ciana Ayenu ‘17, Toni Jonas-Silver ‘18, and Sam Salazar ‘18.
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 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; magical realism fiction; the history of Rebecca Pennell and Pennell
House at Antioch; and a comparative study of Hannah Arendt, Saul Alinsky, and Aristotle. 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.
Ryn McCall, ‘21 finds a quiet space of solace to prepare for final exams on the ground floor of Weston. They rely on the apothecary upstairs to keep their pre-test anxiety at bay and indulge themselves in a moment to ponder their readings before returning to the late night grind of an end-of-year study session.
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, Environmental Justice, Ecofeminist 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 U.S. 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. Many of our faculty work with students to offer Independent Studies (SCI 299) and Independent Research courses (SCI 297/397), so students can work to pursue topics in greater depth. We have outstanding assets used by faculty and 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 wellsupplied laboratory, field equipment, and computer labs.
Christopher Welter ‘19, Self-Designed Major: Environmental Law and Policy, on co-op with the Huron River Watershed Council conducting a stream-side turbidity experiment with middle school youth in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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 dia-
logue, 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.
Photo by Julien Stainback ‘19. Antioch students, across disciplines self-organize a multitude of on and off-campus activities among friends, here pausing to commemorate with an Instagram shot, before an all-day canoe trip on the nearby Little Miami River.
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 U.S. and abroad. By linking the life of the mind with the practical experience of Co-op, students form part of diverse commu-
nities, 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. 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 purposeful futures beyond Antioch.
THANK YOU! COLLOQUIA 2019 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 2019 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 its first year 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 2019 publication.
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.”
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