Comps, honors papers, and prize-winning works of the Sociology and Anthropology Department are featured here. All works have been self-submitted by the student authors. Descriptive information about each work is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of the works is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about how to submit your work and how to request access to the full text of works.
In addition to this digital archive, physical copies of past Sociology and Anthropology comps are available for browsing in the Sociology and Anthropology office (Leighton Hall 226).
Submissions from 2024
Audrey BadjouenDzouabet, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, “Even the Loudest Black Girls are Silenced in Schools”: Black Girlhood, The School-to-Confinement Pathway, & Reimagining Education
Eve Butler, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, "Is there anything else I can do for you?": Investigating Gender Scripts in Heterosex among College-Aged Women in Monogamous Relationships
Sonya Davidson, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, “With Women in Every Way”: Minnesotan Nurse-Midwives’ Identities and Perceptions as Abortion Providers
Anna Frankel, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, To Endure Pain Without Proof: The Invalidation and Erasure of Women’s Chronic Pain Conditions
Isabel Rameker, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, Filipino American Food Persists: The Power of Food Traditions and Identity in the Filipino American Diaspora
Marycruz S. Valdivia Acosta, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, Amor Eterno en el Autismo; Autistic Upbringing, the Self, and the Prioritization of Love/Care
Jackson Walker, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, United States of Karate-do: Building Inclusive Communities in the Martial Arts
Submissions from 2023
Zoe Bonnell, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, From Gratitude to Grief: Conceptions of Identity and Belonging Among Chinese American Transracial Adoptees
Marte Borgmann, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, Labors of the Heart: Experiences of Refugee Resettlement Organization Workers
Cristina Camarillo, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, Maintaining and Creating Relationships with Rural Homeland Communities: An Ethnographic Study of Regalitos Being Exchanged between México and Texas
Emma Chin, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, (In)Visibility: Analyzing Media Coverage of Anti-Asian Hate Crimes in the Wake of COVID-19
Annabel Cohen, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, Keeping the Faith: Being Jewish in Officially Christian Academic Spheres
Aisha Dem, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, Navigating Space on The Cultural Identity Spectrum: How Second Generation Gambians Form and Express Identity in Minnesota
Lillian Horne, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, "Wonder is Wonderful": How Children Give Us License to See Nature Differently
Amber Lozoya, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, Hidden Failures: Mass Incarceration, U.S. Prisons, and its Effect on Reentry and Recidivism
Kalju Maegi, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, Negotiating Worlds: The Reconstruction of Racial Identity in the Twin Cities' Somali Diasporic Community
Jason Min, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, Modernity as a Moral Experience: Articulation of Mingyun in a Chinese County
Joe Radinsky, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, Getting Off: Uses and Expectations of Pornography Among LGBTQ+ College Students
Submissions from 2022
Jakob Boeye, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2022, Compromise and Possibility: Tabletop Role-playing Games as a Utopian Interaction Ritual Chain
Emma Dubinsky, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2022, “Always Remember That Population Risk Is Not Individual Risk”: Providers’ Perspectives on Barriers to PrEP Care in Women
Maddie Fry, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2022, “Bringing a Friend Along”: Experiences of Philanthropy and Community Life Among the Donors of a Rural Non-profit
Clarissa Guzman, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2022, First-Generation Mexican-American & Latine Students Creating Belonging in Predominantly White Institutions
Win Wen Ooi, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2022, “We Believe in Intercultural rather than Multicultural”: Negotiating Place-based, National, and Global Cultural Imaginations
Allegra Pihlaja, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2022, "Special Water": Water as Community in Wisconsin's Chequamegon Bay
Zoe Poolos, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2022, Existing Somewhere in Between: Examining Experiences of Non-Binary Athletes on Collegiate Sports Teams
Cas Roland, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2022, Hear Hoofbeats, See Zebras: The Role of Disability, Scrutiny, and Community in the Construction of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Abbey Stockwell, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2022, “Why am I Still Being Punished?”: The Ear Hustle Podcast and Understanding Success, Barriers, and Life after Prison
Submissions from 2021
Katherine Babbit, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, Black on Duty: A Study of Black Police Officers Navigating the Era of Black Lives Matter
Izzy B. Bascom-Anderson Ms., Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, “We laugh more than we cry”: Interviews with older adults during the Covid-19 pandemic
Melanie Bullock, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, Bridging California’s Digital Divide: How Bay Area Stakeholder’s Reactions to Unequal Internet Access Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic Display Their Capital
Brittany Dominguez, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, From the Classroom to the Kitchen: COVID-19, Social and Cultural Capital, and Schooling
Ricardo Garcia, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, Información y Desinformación: The Latine Understanding of Charter Schools in Southern Texas
Anli Gerbino, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, Kimchi and Calamari or Tofu and Pizza?: A Content Analysis of the Asian American Adoptee Experience in Children’s Books
Isabella Hembre Conditt, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, “What Am I Really?”: Narratives of Race, Self, and Authenticity in Genetic Ancestry Test Unboxing YouTube Videos by Black/African American and White American Creators
Emma Korosei, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, Steaks Versus Salads: Gender, Humor, and Culture in a Restaurant Kitchen
Alex Kucich, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, Relating to the River: Fish, Fishers and the Politics of Assemblage in the Cannon River
Alec Morrissey, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, Altered Bodies, Shifting Masculinities: Men, Aesthetic Surgery, and the Neoliberal Image
Chyna Sanders, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, "I Wish I Could Be Seen for the Choice I Make Today" Examination of the Challenge of Reintergration After Incarceration
Myranda Sloo, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, Healthcare Provider Perspectives on Social Determinants of Health: Maternal Substance Abuse in the U.S. Healthcare System
Jayla Williams, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, "Kung Flu": The Harmful Spread of SARS Narratives Towards the Chinese and Chinese American Populations
Submissions from 2020
Liam Bidwell, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, Green and Red: Losing Meat and Keeping Men
Ruthie Boyd, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, Imagining a Sense of Place in the Mist of Old and New: The Role of Timeless Nostalgia in Monte Verde's Changing Landscape
Caroline Carty, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, Unsettling Enclosures
Rachel Freeman-Cook, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, "I just go cry in the car if I have to...it's just one of those things:" Prison Doulas, Emotional Labor, and the Personal Costs of Care
Katerina Katakalides, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, Navigating Global Beauty Standards: Natural Hair and National Representation
Danielle Lewis, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, You Can Make Money Too: The Audience and Messages of Personal Finance Books
Grace Liao, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, “We Are Not Secondary Citizens”: Conceiving a Parallel Social World Outside the Secondary Food Economy
Eve Liu, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, Symbols of Differentiation: Configuring Chineseness in Haute Cuisine and Couture
Ross Matican, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, The Buyback Boom: New York Times Coverage of Stock Repurchasing Programs in the New Economy
Adela Mu, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, In-Between Worlds: International Faculty at Minnesotan Liberal Arts Colleges
Morgan Whyte, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, “We can only do our very best”: Physicians’ Perspectives on Social Determinants of Childhood Asthma in the Emergency Department
Submissions from 2019
Anne Guttridge, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2019, “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up”: Exploring the Narratives of Female Documentary Filmmakers
Apoorva Handigol, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2019, BROWN & BLACK: South Asian American AntiBlackness & Brown-Black Solidarity in Chicago
Makala Hieshima, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2019, Don't Just "Wikipedia This Sh**": Kanaka Maoli Perspectives on Hapa Identity
Camille Jonlin, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2019, Time in Loops and Lines: The Social Construction of Time
Melanie Kane, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2019, "I Have the Utmost Respect for Women": A Content Analysis of the Celebrity Sexual Misconduct Response Statement
Randa Larsen, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2019, “A Strong Nation is a Healthy Nation”: The Significance of Food Sovereignty in Community Development and Cross-Cultural Relationship Building
Sarah Rost, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2019, When Ramps Aren't Enough: Carleton Students' Perceptions of Disability
Dan Sullivan, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2019, An Economy of Belonging: Transnational Exchange within the Cameroonian Diaspora
Submissions from 2018
Naomi Borowsky, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2018, Transcending Wilderness-Out-There
Emily Culver, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2018, “Every now and then I have to Google community organizing. I mean…am I doing that?”: Unpacking the Process of Social Capital Development in a Local Non-Profit Organization
Rachel Cantrell Gallagher, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2018, "Hopes, Dreams, but No Plans": Aging Parents of Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Margot Saranna Radding, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2018, Pawns of a Public Health System: Actors and Authority in North Indian Prenatal Care
Flora S. Richey, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2018, Paradox in Akademia: Senses of Place in the Cowling Arboretum
Molly Bimao Steinberg, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2018, The Untold Stories of Chinese Adoptees: Experiencing Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in the United States
Submissions from 2017
Margaret Mary Carragher, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2017, My Big, Fat, (Expensive) American Wedding: Insights from wedding industry content
Lydia Chu, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2017, I am Taiwanese, not Chinese: A comparative study on how second-generation Taiwanese-Americans and Taiwanese-South Africans conceptualize their Taiwanese identity
Shayna Gleason, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2017, "It's Late but Everything Comes Next": Creative Aging in Modern America
Emma Leah Grisanzio, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2017, La Familia es la Fundación: Children, Change and the Reproduction of the House and Family among the Kaqchikel Maya
Ingrid Leonore Hofeldt, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2017, Conflicting Legal Consciousness in Partner Abuse and Rape Crisis Legal Advocates
Sarah P. Trachtenberg, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2017, “Carving out space to envision a future of shared liberation”: Community-Building and World-Making Around Gender and Sexuality in the Twin Cities
Submissions from 2016
Libby Ferris, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2016, Philanthropy and the Great Recession: A Study of Three Generations
Hannah Jean Nayowith, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2016, Being Palestinian, It's a Curse: Non-Activist Women's Perspectives on Palestinian National Liberation
Annie Adele Sinner, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2016, Navigating the Liminally-Classed Self: First Generation, Low-Income Carleton College Students' Reflections on the Impact of Class
Rui Su, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2016, Striking the Impossible Balance: How College Students Imagine Juggling Career, Marriage, and Parenthood in the Future
Submissions from 2015
Katherine Anne Shaffer, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2015, Informed but Not Consenting: The Construction and Negotiation of Embodied Knowledge Among Vaccine Refusers in Minnesota
Submissions from 2014
Anschel Kaufman Burk, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2014, Breaking the Silence: A Critique of the Union Organizing Model by Migrant Farmworkers in North Carolina
Simon Thomas Ginet, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2014, From Habit to Practice: Exploring the Mind-Body Habitus of the Student
Katherine Brooks Goodyear, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2014, What Does "Home" Mean? A comparative study of the undergraduate experiences of transitioning and repatriating Third Culture Kids
Truc Anh Thi Kieu, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2014, I Don't Feel Old: Negotiating Multiple Meanings of Aging through Feminist Oral Histories of Older Women in the Twin Cities
Emily Margaret Lamberty, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2014, All He Knows is Coca: Decolonization and Indigeneity in Post-Neoliberal Bolivia--Interplays Between Policy and Culture
Amelia Piazza, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2014, The Light Gets Brighter: Millennialism, Bureaucracy, and Rationalism in Jehovah's Witness Devotion
Eli Nathaniel Robiner, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2014, Within and Apart: Experiences of Home, Community, and Belonging in Retirement Institutions
Nina Jay Shapiro, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2014, We are the "Hach Winik:" Politics of Representation and the "True" Lacandon People
Andrew William Shulman, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2014, It Takes More Than Just a Handshake: An Examination of Socio-Cultural Institutions within an Intentional Sustainable Tree House Community in Costa Rica
Pachee Vang, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2014, Perception of Hmong Identity: From Rural Hmong Village (Tharn Thong) to the City of Chiang Mai
Mo Vue, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2014, The Land of Opportunity: An Exploration of Recent Refugees' Educational Experiences in Minnesota
Submissions from 2013
Cara Raye Coren, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, Feeling and Thinking About Genocide: Primary and Secondary Photographic Representations of the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide
Leah Ross Eby, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, You Don't See It How We See It: Somali Women's Perceptions of Pregnancy and Childbirth in Faribault, Minnesota
Rafadi Hakim, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, Countless Ramayanas: Language and Cosmopolitan Belonging in a South Asian Epic
Anna Morrison, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, Mapping Black Identity: An Examination of the African American Cultural Landscape in Detroit
Raymond Ngu, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, Looking Forward to Looking Back: The Future of Anthropology as Presented in Introductory College Textbooks Past and Present
Annie Riggs Steiner, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, Contemporary College Students' Usage of the Word "Slut" in Relation to the Sexual Double Standard
Vaishali Umrikar, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, Representations of the Indian Diaspora in Bollywood Films (1995-2012)
Submissions from 2012
Viviane M. Clement, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Ticket to Social Participation: The Marketing of Beauty Products to African American Women, 1955-Â2001
Alpha Oumar Diallo, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Les Jeunes Diabétiques de Bamako, Mali: An examination of Self-conception and its Relationship to Social Change
Beserat Berhe Kelati, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Political Polarization in the Eritrean Diaspora
Alexander Samuel Korsunsky, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Lo autentico y lo moderno y me encantan los dos: Tourism as Tradition in Highland Peru
Raymond R. Nelson, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Dominant Ideologies of the Puerto Rican Nation: Locating blackness and racism on the island
Gwendolyn Marie Neumeister, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Hozho Nahasdlii: Beauty Has Come Again--An Examination of Dine Cultural Knowledge and Definitions of Preservation on the Navajo Nation Today
