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Changing Clothes: The Handmaid's Uniform as a Symbol of Protest
- Heather RumseyEnglishUndergraduate Student
The bright red cloak and fearsome white bonnet featured in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood has been internationally recognized as a symbol for protest. Bruce Miller’s Hulu adaptation of the novel propelled this new wave of activism. I argue that the costume functions as a metonym, reacting to larger issues concerning women’s rights. This study examines whether the uniform is a viable protest image or is it being co-opted to get people to buy into a certain social and political system?
Charity Over Corrections
- Patrick MarzettPolitical ScienceUndergraduate Student
Youth programs like the Boys and Girls Club of America are important institutions that help the communities youth more rather than Governor Brown's proposal to increase the spending across the state’s youth correctional system.
Chinese Governmentality: Emerging Greenhouses on Rural Tibetan Landscapes
- Lucas ReyesGeographyUndergraduate Student
This study explores changing agricultural conditions and practices on the Tibetan Plateau. Through textual discourse supported by field observations, agricultural practices are assessed. I explore the works of Goldstein, Paltridge and past HSU field research to argue that the Chinese government addresses this nourishment problem through policy, an intricate display of governmentality. The rural Tibetan livelihood is marginalized and degraded through Chinese policies noted by Goldstein designed to bring the Tibetan population into a market-driven economy. While rural farmer adopt green revolution technologies and weigh the economic benefit of grain subsides I see greenhouses on the horizon.
Climate, Grasslands, and Policies; The Changing Livelihood of Tibetan Nomads
- Maria TonnGeographyUndergraduate Student
The research interviews with nomads have shown that climate, grasslands and policies are changing the livelihood of Tibetan nomads. Tibetan nomads have established a way to graze their livestock and keep the grasslands healthy by moving based on the seasons. Climate change will decrease the grassland quality results in unhealthy livestock and decreases their resistance to winter storms. Herders express that policies that encourage or demand a sedentary livelihood have restricted mobility, decreased livestock conditions, and resulted in an increase in livestock loss. Today, Tibetan nomads are stuck between their traditional ways and the way the government has established for them.
Closing the Perinatal Residential Gap
- Sophia AraneoMasters of Social WorkGraduate Student
Humboldt County's Housing and Substance Use crises have intensified in recent years, leaving too few treatment and transitional living opportunities for families in recovery. This project seeks to document the urgency of the gap in services for Tribal and non-Tribal people, and streamline existing referral and resource channels under the new Drug Medi-Cal Organized Delivery System. Long term goals include a comprehensive continuum of integrated dual recovery support and safe housing for parents. Further inquiry and collaboration with county government, NCHIIN, UIHS, Healthy Moms, and Yurok Family Wellness Court are recommended.
Co-Occurring Curriculum in the Criminal Justice System
- Kevin McGeochSocial WorkGraduate Student
The curriculum will be developed for current inmates at the local county jail experiencing co-occurring disorders. Culminating healthier approaches to communication and stress management as well as developing systems of support in regards to personal relationships may provide foundations for increasing overall functioning and wellbeing. The curriculum will be guided by the empowerment process, based on an individual’s right to self-determination; valuing personal perspective, acknowledging difficulties and encouraging self-regulated personal growth. The project will attempt to address current problematic and maladaptive thinking and behavior for current inmates with co-occurring disorders.
Cohort Effectiveness Amongst Criminology and Sociology Freshman
- Samantha SilverSociologyGraduate Student
Research presenting the effectiveness of cohorts as a means for improving freshman retention and academic performance amongst Sociology and Criminology courses.
Collections Room Project using Past Perfect 5.0
- Samantha MurphyAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
- Cori BrennanAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
The Collections Room Project is dedicated to digitizing and organizing the information for the various artifact collections housed in BSS 139. The parameters include using the Past Perfect 5.0 software in order to catalog the data for each individual artifact and create a database in which all the information can be housed and viewed. The final product will include information such as measurements, potential use, and physical characteristics for each artifact; attributes which may be searched, using the query field. The primary use for the compiled database is to allow for a convenient search of artifacts within the collection in order to aid in student and faculty research and study.
College Corps: Big Brothers Big Sisters College CORP Experience
Ivory Browning, Religious Studies Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social SciencesAn in depth description of what it means to be a Big for Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS), a local youth mentoring non profit. Connected to BBBS by the College CORP program, Fellows Ivory Rose, Kai Jones, and Emily Martin share their experiences. They each explain how their relationships with their Littles' have impacted their lives.
College Corps: Senior Voices
Katie-Hope Hennessy, Other Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social SciencesSenior Voices is a book project where the residents of SilverCrest, Eureka share their life stories in a book. You’re invited to learn more about how this project unfolded.