The Anti-Violence and Comics Project

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

The project presents a strategy to address the question of how to best support marginalized survivors. Through translating academic and practical knowledge into a visual resource, “(in)difference to survivors”. It brings marginalized voices up front without putting them at risk. It is the ultimate hope that the project influences policy makers, Title IX professionals, applied anthropologists, and survivor support organizations. This is a project by and for survivors of sexualized violence.

The Art of Script: Humanity's Creative Abilities to Give Sound and Thought a Body

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Script is an overlooked art form in our society today. This project puts a spotlight on the creative bandwidth humanity has had in developing script. Along with the work done to revive forms of script and the language it takes shape from. Script extends throughout human time. Shifts from the realm of the sacred to that of mundane. Script gains its shape from the culture that develops it. At the end the viewers concepts of; what script is, how it functions, and what it can be, should be shifted. As well as causing for a reevaluation of how script is looked at by our society.

The Baby Stress Paradigm: A Preliminary Analysis of Stress Responses to Baby Doll Crying

Enza Zeppegno-Mendonca, Psychology Undergraduate Student

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Stress-inducing paradigms in research allow for a comprehensive understanding of the physiological and psychological effects of stress. Research consistently shows that infant crying triggers negative emotional responses, including heightened stress and negative affect in parents and women. Thus, we seek to develop a stress-inducing paradigm that uses baby crying sounds (with or without baby doll cues) to elicit both stress and cortisol responses in a broader population. To support this framework, we conduct a preliminary analysis comparing the self-report perceived stress responses before and after expose to a baby doll crying.

The Battle of Chavez Ravine

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

The topic that I have chosen for paper is The Battle of Chavez Ravine. The Battle of Chavez Ravine refers to the events that took place in Los Angeles, CA between 1951-1961. The focus of my paper is on the families living in Chavez Ravine and what their experience was like getting forcibly thrown out of their homes, as well as how the events separated families and friendships that previously held close bonds. The eviction of the Mexican-American community lead to the installment of Dodger Stadium,which was another component of a new suburban culture that was made to favor white middle class suburban consumers. My argument is when the residents lost their homes they also lost their memories.

The Benefits of Smiling & Laughing

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

There were many different ideas that popped into my head when I first heard the idea of Ideafest, the idea that made me the most excited was the Benefits of Smiling and Laughing. I believe that this is a good Ideafest contribution for two reasons, one being that we are two years into a worldwide pandemic, where we have had to cover out beautiful smiles, and it has removed the normalization of smiling with one another, and secondly we are all adults and college students who tend be stressed out and forget to take a second for ourselves. There were many articles that I used to do the research for my poster and the pictures I used were to make me people smile while they are reading my poster.

The Best Parts of KCACTF 2024

Aly Greaver, Dance, Music, & Theatre Undergraduate Student

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

From February 18th-23rd, students from the Humboldt Theater Program attended KCACTF, this poster depicts the top 5 events this year.

The Bigfoot Fraternity

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

The United States Census estimates that 20.9% surveyed in Humboldt qualify as impoverished. Poverty is experienced in a multitude of severity-homeless individuals often bare the greatest physical and psychological burdens. In a 2016 preliminary study, Jennifer Maguire of HSU found that over 15% of student participants experienced housing insecurity. The Bigfoot Fraternity is a research project I've developed in order to alleviate some of the hardships homeless students experience and alter perceptions of homelessness through participation, action and reflection. TBF criticizes dependency on socioeconomic norms and highlights the benefits of an "alternative housing movement" in Humboldt Co.

The Biocultural Trauma Feedback Loop

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Trauma is repeated throughout a victim’s life, but the biological mechanisms of its recurrence (revictimization), even though understood biologically, are not accepted or discussed in all disciplines. To understand these issues, I conducted a synthesis of existing scientific research on revictimization. Sociological research revealed that initial trauma and revictimization are in a positive feedback loop, with incidences of one increasing the other. In biology, however, this loop has been acknowledged but has not been integrated into these disciplines. Recognizing the existence of this biological feedback loop has the potential to mitigate the damage of past, present, and future trauma.

The Choctaw Tribe and the Nanih Waiya

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

The land feature known as the Nanih Waiya mound is central to the religious beliefs and cultural identity of the Choctaw Tribe of Native Americans. The function and creation of this mound differs depending upon the perspective of the Choctaw Tribal divisions, but it is mostly classified as a human-made earthwork that dates back to the Middle Woodland period (c. 0-300 CE) with naturally occurring features. Choctaw tribal members were separated from their original land and the Nanih Waiya after European contact and forced evacuations which began with the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The mound is present in most Choctaw origin stories and is a source of identity and community for the Tribe.

The Counter-Narratives of British and American High Schools Within Television

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

This ongoing research project investigates the counter-narrative of high schools within American and British culture within films and tv shows. 90210 and many other American shows shows high school as “the greatest time of your life” while Skins, a British-based series, shows that high school is just something that you want to get out of. Sex Education, which is the main focus, combines the two cultures to combat the negative connotation of the stereotypical British high school. I also explore how as technology improves, rhetoric changes its form (television) to fit with what society needs to get their message across a large audience.