Abstracts

Decolonizing Feminism (MGC 245)

Labor, Gender, and Social Movements (MGC 3-5)

Mahienour El Massry: Workers and the Law: The Legislative Foundation of Sisi’s Regime

Anri Hiramatsu: Improving Quality of Urban Transport and Empowerment of Women in Cities: Case of San Salvador, El Salvador

Eduardo Albrecht: Alter-Globalization in Southern Europe: Anatomy of a Social Movement

“Direct Action Gets the Goods”: Protest, Theory, Practice (MGC 203-205)

Scott Ross: Anthropology at the Barricades

Chloe Ahmann: ”It’s Exhausting to Create an Event Out of Nothing”: Slow Violence and the Manipulation of Time

Jenna Latour-Nichols: “No (Online) Platform for Nazis!”: Direct Action in the Age of the Internet

Siobhan McGuirk: What are We Writing for?

Orisanmi Burton: Discussant

Gentrification, Homelessness, and Urban Space (MGC 245)

Mary Maisel: Understanding and Expanding the Use of Osteobiography in Biological and Biocultural Anthropology

Manissa Maharawal: The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and Oral History for Social Justice

Aaron Howe: Roofs, Roots, and Resistance: First Steps to an Archaeology of Homelessness in Washington D.C.

Building Indigenous Resistance (MGC 247)

Alexandra Eaton: Building Gardens: Indigenous Connectivity and Activism in Guatemala

Kong Cheong: To Drink Is to Resist: Maya Identity and Resistance During the Spanish Colonial Period

Valerie Fendt: Paradigm Shift: The Standing Rock Sioux and the Struggle of Our Time

Challenges & Opportunities of Inclusion & Accessibility in International Development (MGC 3-5)

Christie Ecker, Olufemi Ige, and Habtamu Bauli

Inclusion for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Scholars (MGC 203-205)

MJ Jones and Britton Auman

Youth, Education, and Activism (MGC 245)

Tissa Thomas: Conceptions of Radical Education and Spatial Theory as Voyages of Discovery on UMBC’s Campus

Woohee Kim: Scholarship as a Site of Activism: Using Scholar-Activism Lens to Frame Research on Korean Youth Activism

Zoltan Gluck: Contradictions of Garissa: Activism, Education, and Counterterrorism in Northeastern Kenya

Structures of Power (MGC 247)

Karisa Harris-Cleary: “If Blessing Comes”: True-Crime Versus Literary Activism in Toni Cade Bambara’s “Those Bones Are Not My Child”

Maya Kearney: Shifting Ideologies: The Clinton Administration and the Legacy of the War on Drugs

Shereen Abdel-Nabi: Anthropology of the Elite as an Act of Resistance During the Age of Trump

Organizing Resistance (MGC 203-205)

Ibalu Dwan: Direct Action as Philosophy and Method: Cultural Production within Anti-Authoritarian Networks of the Bay Area, CA

Geniro Dingle: “Not a Moment, but a Movement”: An Investigation of the Movement for Black Lives

Intolerance in the Age of Trump (MGC 245)

Nathaniel Harrison

Reclaiming Black Agriculture Beyond Food Security in Washington D.C. (MGC 247)

Sade Anderson and Xavier Brown

Communication Through New Media (MGC 203-205)

Alexandria Anderson: Black Vegans: An Intersectional Coalition Striving for Collective Health and Wellness

Chelsi Slotten: Influencing the Conversation: Podcasts as a Medium for Archaeological Communication

Michael Roman: Kiribati and Climate Change, the Untold Story

Immigration and Activism (MGC 245)

Jeanne Hanna: Understanding Racism Among the UK Independence Party Supporters

Gabriela Galvez: Somos Semillas: Understanding the Societal Impacts of Latinx DACAmented College Students

Terilee Edwards: Anthropology in the Community: The Immigrant Alexandria Oral History Project

Let Us Return! A Strategy Session to Assist the Chagos Refugees (MGC 247)

Ali Beydoun, David Vine, UNROW Human Rights Impact Litigation Clinic

Rebranding Public Anthropology: Engaging Students with Applied Research (MGC 3-5)

Rene Herrera and Spencer Bockover

Scholarship Toward a Revolution in U.S. Healthcare (MGC 203-205)

Adrienne Pine, Shereen Abdel-Nabi, Bethany Zaiman, April Harrison

Art & Activism: Building Asset Based Community Partnerships (MGC 245)

Naliyah Kaya, Lamontre Randall, Audra Buck-Coleman

Resistance Movements in the LGBTQ+ Community (MGC 247)

Aline Magnoni: At Least They Are No Longer Throwing Fruit at Us: Advocacy, Resistance, and Human Rights of Sexual and Gender Minorities in Latin America

Trevor Rose: Sin Marrones, Sin Gays: Experiences of Stigma Among Gay Latino Men in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Region

Kyohei Itakura: Resistance No Longer Necessary? Sexual Minority Movements in Japan

Ideology and Identity Construction (MGC 203-205)

Kami Yamamoto: Japanese Transnationalism: The Yama Village of Brainbridge Island

Molly Maddra-Santiago: Pandora’s Box: An Examination of Feminist Hegemony in the Age of White Supremacist Global Patriarchy

Hulya Dogan: What is the Role of Religion in Construction Identity and Social Networks: Meskhetian Turks in the United States?

Lily Escalona: On the Right Side of Beauty: A Linguistic Analysis of Beauty Vloggers as Ideological State Apparatuses

Photogrammetry: A Skills Workshop (MGC 245)

Chelsi Slotten

Shaping Collective Memory and Community Resistance Over Time (MGC 247)

Amelia Tseng and Olivia Cadaval

Storytelling as Scholarship: Resisting the Whitewashing of Multiracial Narratives (MGC 3-5)

Naliyah Kaya and Natasha Chapman

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