2021-22 Undergraduate Research Showcase

S H O W C A S E

SOCIETY OF FELLOWS

The Seneca Language and Bilingual Road Signs

By Anna Taylor (Honors Linguistics) 2020-21 Undergraduate Fellow

Entering Seneca Nation Territory

Project Overview

The protected status of minority language rights is a critical part of language revitalization. Faced with encroachment by other socially-, economicallyand politically-dominant languages, speakers of heritage languages have embarked on a variety of programs to ensure the survival of their language.

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The Seneca language is the traditional language of the Seneca Nation of Indians and the Tonawanda Band of Seneca — though it currently faces a dwindling fluentspeaker population. This has heightened the urgency of the revitalization programs.

Conceptualizing minority language use as a collective-developmental human right, this project examines how members of the Seneca community use public, bilingual signs to support language- learning efforts.

Undergraduate Research Showcase In November 2021, the Global Arts + Humanities hosted a showcase in Sullivant Hall, which featured an installation of research posters spotlighting the work of our Society of Undergraduate Research Fellows. Their projects were produced in alignment with the 2020-21 annual theme of Human Rights Pasts and Futures. At both the opening reception and Social Justice Showcase, undergraduate fellows spoke with attendees about their projects. The following feature reproduces the posters displayed at the showcase, and each contains a QR code linking to full project information on the Global Arts + Humanities’ website.

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Advocacy or Activism?

A Comparative Analysis of Two Interviews to Inform Anti-Rape Strategies

By Mia Cai Cariello (WGSS) 2020-21 Undergraduate Fellow Project Overview

Anti-rape activism has taken place on Ohio State’s campus since at least the 1970s, and it has been responsible for several campus improvements, like lights and emergency call boxes on the Oval and partnership with SARNCO’s trauma-informed advocates.

However, there is still work to do. Through analyzing and contextualizing the experiences of two alumna with data collected for the Reclaiming Our Histories Project, this project identifies key themes and obstacles to anti-rape activism at Ohio State and beyond.

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Project Overview

Over six-million Brazilian people are domestic workers, performing tasks including maintenance, cleaning, childcare and cooking in the homes of their employers. Due to Brazil’s history of colonization and slavery, the majority of these workers are Black women.

In addition to the discursive mockery of these workers, they often face exploitation, abuse and wage theft. For this project, Brazilian case studies from the past seven years were analyzed. These studies included films, comics, testimonies from domestic workers and news headlines. Spatial constructions — including separate bathrooms, ‘service’ elevators, favelas (‘slums’) and maid’s quarters — were also analyzed.

By Laura Fink (Medical Anthropology) 2020-21 Undergraduate Fellow Project Overview

Transgender people are faced with glaring health disparities. They are more susceptible to discrimination, delayed care and limited access to healthcare or insurance when compared to the cisgender population and other members of the queer community. Staggeringly, 41% of trans adults have attempted suicide, which is 26 times greater than national suicide attempt rates (Safer et al., 2016). The LGBTQ+ community is already susceptible to poor health outcomes, but data indicates that trans people bear the brunt of this burden. This project examines the impact of medicalization and gatekeeping on transgender people seeking healthcare and related healthcare disparities, including gender dysphoria, identity erasure and gender affirmation.

Project Overview

The needs of children are generally not considered in the incarceration process and sentencing, even though they are heavily impacted by the decisions. Academic and scientific analyses invisibilize children of incarcerated parents (COIP) by only talking about them rather than engaging in conversation with them. The reality and impact of having an incarcerated parent is obscured when the voices of the children themselves are ignored.

This project aims to center the voices of children of incarcerated parents by exploring information about their experiences from their own perspectives, particularly regarding experiences of stigmatization, with a focus on identity, concealability and disclosure.

The interplay between concealment and disclosure is innate to this experience, and this project creates visibility around this issue and the COIP identity.

By Alejandra Schwarz (Russian) 2020-21 Undergraduate Fellow

Food Access Reimagined in Response to COVID-19

By Elizabeth Bateman (Political Science) 2020-21 Undergraduate Fellow Project Overview

By conducting interviews and volunteering at a food pantry, this project documents how NGOs like the Near Northside Emergency Material Assistance Program (NNEMAP) — a nonprofit social service agency distributing food and resources to residents of Columbus, Ohio — emphasize holistic wellness rather than just focusing on mitigating hunger, particularly with the added pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Nearly 92% of these workers are women

60%

Of these women, 60% are Black or of African descent

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Food insecure people (as of 2019)

~1.7M Food insecure people in Ohio

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Interviewees provided insight into how important it is to have free, unlimited access to reliable information.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, false or misleading information can be detrimental for the entire health, wellbeing and even the survival of those who are in the country.

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Structural Outcomes of Mass Mass Incarceration Between America & Rwanda

By Patrick Seroogy (Political Science + Economics) 2020-21 Undergraduate Fellow

Project Overview

The United States and Rwanda each have a unique case of “mass incarceration.” For America, this refers to the effect of the country’s punitive criminal justice system, which is informed by a model of retributive justice prioritizing punishment — often disproportionately harsh and racist — over rehabilitation. For Rwanda, the phrase refers to the arrest and prosecution of tens of thousands of individuals alleged to perpetrate genocide crimes during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. This project explored various models of restorative justice as part of a reconciliation process designed to rebuild the country.

Caribbean Dance: Identity, History and Mobility

By Thaliyah Cools-Lartigue (Dance) 2020-21 Undergraduate Fellow Project Overview

Cools-Lartigue’s West Indian Caribbean identity inspired this project, which includes a dance film emphasizing her autoethnographic pespective on heritage and the neccessity for cultural rights.

Caribbean Dance as Survival

Interviews with Caribbean dance artists Kieron Sergeant and Candace ThompsonZachary, along with lectures, webinars and articles helped to recognize Caribbean dance as a survival tactic that exists in the constant shifting of Caribbean identity and among society. It is a decolonial act that thrives in Caribbean atmospheres and in the bodies of Caribbean people as a sense of honor. Cools-Lartigue’s dance film presents this cultural right to Caribbean dance as essential and valuable to dance research and to the Caribbean identity.

Creating Immersion: Pedagogical Practices for Linguistic Integration of Adult Refugees in the United States

By Owen Morrish (Migration Studies and Romance Languages) 2020-21 Undergraduate Fellow

Project Overview

The majority of ESL practices used with adult refugees are informed by research focused on general adult language learners. Current resources have not necessarily been crafted with considerations for students navigating the demands of an immigration context, let along those facing the further challenges posed by forced migration. To support ESL instructors and ensure that students receive the highest-quality language education, more formal and concentrated research efforts in determining and materializing best practices for supporting adult refugees language education could be of great value.

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There are 6.2M Brazilian domestic workers

92%

Nearly 92% of these workers are women

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Of these women, 60% are Black or of African descent

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Food insecure population has doubled since Feb. 2020

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This project explores how Venezuelans access information in an age of statesponsored media censorship. How do they evaluate information derived from social media? With COVID-19, what are the stakes for Venezuelans who cannot access reliable information?

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There are 6.2M Brazilian domestic workers

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By Jaret Waters (Spanish + Economics) 2020-21 Undergraduate Fellow

Transgender Healthcare: A Story of Medicine and Gender

By Gabrielle Frick (Sociology + WGSS) 2020-21 Undergraduate Fellow

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The 21stCentury Slave Quarters: The (de)Construction of Space in Brazil’s Domestic Work Industry

Challenges and Benefits of Social Media in a Censored Nation

The Experiences of Children with Incarcerated Parents

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ELIZABETH BATEMAN Political Science

OWEN MORRISH

Migration Studies + Romance Languages

MIA CAI CARIELLO Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

ALEJANDRA SCHWARZ Russian

THALIYAH COOLS-LARTIGUE

Medical Anthropology

PATRICK SEROOGY

ANNA TAYLOR

Dance

Political Science + Economics

LAURA FINK

Honors Linguistics

GABRIELLE FRICK

Sociology + Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

JARET WATERS

Spanish + Economics

Program Mentors PUJA BATRA-WELLS Program Manager, GAHDT

Puja Batra-Wells has a PhD in Comparative Studies and an MA in Popular Culture. Her areas of expertise include folklore, critical theory, popular culture and food studies. She is the co-editor of a volume on the intersections between folklore and economics, The Folklorist in the Marketplace.

AMY SHUMAN Professor, Department of English

Amy Shuman is an award-winning scholar and teacher who has authored articles and books on conversational narrative, literacy, politics, food customs, feminist theory and critical theory. Her latest book, co-authored with Carol Bohmer, is Political Asylum Deceptions: The Culture of Suspicion.