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The Oberlin College Research Fellows (OCRF) and the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows (MMUF) are listed below, along with their expected years of graduation, their mentors, and the working titles of their research projects. Each year, juniors present their findings to the College community in the fall, while seniors present their research findings in the spring. Please check the calendar page for each semester's talks, which take place in Wilder Hall, room 101.

Oheneba Amponsah

(MMUF, OC ‘09)

Gillian Johns, English

The Passage of Africana Boys Toward Manhood: Feelings, Thoughts and Reflections Through the Lenses of Black Men

Tiffany Beason

(OCRF, OC ‘09)

AG Miller, Religion

Iconography in the Black Church and Its Social Implications

Alma Castro

(MMUF, OC ‘10)

Eric Estes, Comparative American Studies

Political and Economic Contributions of the Mexican American Communities in the Midwest

Alyssa Clark

(MMUF, OC ‘09)

Carol Lasser, History

Oberlin's Herstory: The History of African-American Women Graduates

Ellen Cohan

(OCRF, OC ‘10)

Nancy Darling, Psychology

Resilient Children: Ordinary or Extraordinary?

Natasha Davis

(OCRF, OC ‘09)

John Harwood, Art

Urban Reclamation: The Role of Politicized Street Art in Berlin

Andrew Flachs

(OCRF, OC ‘10)

Baron Pineda, Anthropology

Female Genital Cutting, the Veil and Democracy: Navigating Cultural Politics in Human Rights Discourse

Ondrea Keith

(OCRF, OC ‘10)

Sarah Schuster, Art

Catherine McCormick, Biology

The Authority of the Body: Human Dissection in the Renaissance

Marissa Kennedy

(OCRF, OC ‘10)

Yolanda Cruz, Biology

Sperm-Pairing in the Laboratory Opossum, Monodelphis Domestica

Cherelle Lewis

(OCRF, OC ‘09)

Jonathan Lipow, Economics

Black People Don't Go Skiing: Why Black People Participate Less in High Risk Investments

Pablo McConnie-Saad

(MMUF, OC ‘10)

James Millette, African American Studies

Mobutu's Zaire: Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation

Tuyet Ngo

(MMUF, OC ‘10)

Pawan Dhingra, Sociology

Exploring Vietnamese Entrepreneurship and the Exponential Growth of Vietnamese-owned Nail Salons

Asishana Osho

(OCRF, OC ‘10)

Elizabeth Murphy, French

L ‘humour dans la guerre (Humor in War)

Yujean Park

(OCRF, OC ‘10)

Shelley Lee, History

(Re)presenting Revolutionary Asian America: The History and Struggle of I Wor Kuen, 1969-1978

Tenisha Phipps

(OCRF, OC ‘09)

Meredith Gadsby, African American Studies

De Lawd, ‘E duh my sheppud: Gullah Culture and Religion

Kendell Pinkney

(MMUF, OC ‘09)

Abe Socher, Religion

Judaic Exegesis and Messianisms at the Start of the Common Era

Ria Richardson

(OCRF, OC ‘09)

Yolanda Cruz, Biology

Identifying Primordial Germ Cells in the Monodelphis Domestica

Kira Rivera

(OCRF, OC ‘09)

Cindy Frantz, Psychology

Race as a Moderator of Stereotypes for and Against Working and Stay-at-Home Mothers

Aminah Roberts

(OCRF, OC ‘10)

Nancy Darling, Psychology

The Impact of Marriage and Divorce on Parent-Adolescent-Conflict

Lauren Salazar

(MMUF, OC ‘09)

Pablo Mitchell, History

Identity Formation in 1950s Lima: Migration and Marginalization of “Los Invasores”

Sergi

o Sanchez

(OCRF, OC ‘10)

Michael Parkin, Politics

Media and Politics: How Much Do Viewers Learn From Candidate Appearances on Late Night Shows?

L. David Scortt

(OCRF, OC ‘10)

Nancy Darling, Psychology

Parent-Child Interactions and the Observer Effect

Alicia Smith

(MMUF, OC ‘10)

Gordon Gill, African American Studies

An Examination of the History of Black and White Relationships in Northern Ohio, 1830-1893

Elizabeth Thompson

(MMUF, OC ‘10)

Clovis White, Sociology

The Effects of U.S. Census Racial Classifications on Mulattoes during the Civil War Era

Amanda Van Allen

(MMUF, OC ‘09)

Caroline Jackson Smith, African American Studies

Power to the People: Exploring the Misrepresentations of the Mainstream Media Toward the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, from 1966 to the Present

Victoria Werner

(OCRF, OC ‘10)

Susan Kane, Archeology

Seeing Through the Rust: Assessing the Small Finds of the Sangro Valley Project

Andrew Yoon

(OCRF, OC ‘09)

Qiusha Ma, East Asian Studies

Growing Pains: Environmental Crisis in China

 



 

 

 
       
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