
Test
Facilitator: Dr. Scott Sherer
The artwork in the Art category is from the 37th Annual Juried Student Art Competition hosted by the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. The 37th Annual Juried Student Exhibition was held in conjunction with the 21st Annual COLFA Spring Research Conference. Details on and winners of the competition are available on http://art.utsa.edu/37th-annual-juried-student-exhibition.
Kriss Addison | Untitled (wooden sculpture) | |
FIRST PLACE | Xandr Arquin | Part of the Package: Pride |
Audrey LeGalley | Girlhood Object, Chair | |
Hudson Ingram | Cat, Bedside | |
Eden Lopez | Bushfire | |
THIRD PLACE | Melissa Maschke | AAH – you were, Art Activating Hope |
SECOND PLACE | Kaye Rogers | A Colored Mayor, Stand Tall, Boy! |
BEST IN SHOW | Hugo Santana | UNCERTAIN LOT 002, Tales from the Line |
Maren Maxwell | Untitled Sphere* | |
Jeffrey Jackson | Content | |
Tommy Alt | MLK, Frida, Father | |
Derrick Wall | Animation.EXE has stopped working | |
Marissa Vasquez | Body/House | |
SECOND PLACE | Anthony Figueroa | Carbon Footprint |
Steffany Chadick | Neo pre-Columbian Vessel, True North Star Love | |
Ruby Coker | Missed-Step with Flowers | |
John Saenz | Self-Portrait with Cup | |
Emma Garcia | Untitled | |
Madeline Frazier | In Over My Head | |
FIRST PLACE | Abigail Frost | Morning Coffee |
Gus Diaz | “Dusk” Hello There | |
Lena Haifa | September | |
Lauren Harper | Drag King, Easy Money | |
Madeline Herrera | Careful to not be lead astray”, “Among the thorns" | |
Bailey Hill | Deconstruction, Amalgamation, Child’s Mind | |
Danielle Moore | I Can’t Hear Myself | |
Ilene Ibara | Modern Renaissance | |
Ramon Arredondo | Indigo Night, Medusoan Sisters | |
Andrea Izaguirre | Venus in Gold | |
Katherine Jaimez | No Opinions Allowed | |
Joe Vega | Desolate | |
Joseph Schell | There is a violence | |
Brittany Shipman | Majestic Animals | |
THIRD PLACE | Monae Sims | The Dimension Inside Me, The Disturbance |
Laurel Westphal | Streetlights | |
Itzel Vilches | Disinfect | |
Abel Duran | What I See Pt.1 | |
Hannah Wool | Still Life |
Facilitators: Dr. Sue Hum, Prof. Susan Gelb
FIRST PLACE | Robin Johnson | Transitions |
SECOND PLACE | Abby Mangel | The Knight-Errant of Scottsdale, Arizona |
Cameron Purifoy | Acknowledging African American Women |
Facilitators: Dr. James McDonald, Prof. Charles Wright
SECOND PLACE | Melissa Maschke | Laundry Perspectives: Art activating hope |
FIRST PLACE | Madison Troutz | Radical Women Project |
THIRD PLACE | Jessica Smith | Masculinity Exchange |
China Whitby | Gender and Sexuality |
FIRST PLACE | Monae Sims | The Disturbance (Within my thoughts) |
Facilitator: Dr. Melissa Wallace
SECOND PLACE | María Luisa Montealvo Rojas | Los pasos de Alitzel |
FIRST PLACE | Génesis Hernández | Instinto animal |
Facilitator: Dr. Kasandra Keeling
FIRST PLACE | Diana Maldonado de Santiago | French Composer Mel Bonis |
SECOND PLACE | Daniel Flores | Solo De Concours |
Facilitators: Dr. Marcus Hamilton, Dr. Isaura Contreras, Prof. Andrea Aleman
FIRST PLACE | Michelle Carpenter | Inferring Population Dynamics throughout the Early Agriculture Period from Radiocarbon Dates |
SECOND PLACE | Alexandra Sheldon | Learning from Captive Gibbons |
FIRST PLACE | Jeffrey DeMario | A Petrographic Analysis of Ceramics from the Prehistoric Maya Site of Hun Tun in Northwestern Belize |
Facilitators: Dr. Kathryn Brown, Dr. Anne Hardgrove, Dr. Marita Nummikoski, Prof. Deborah Moon Wagner
Ph.D.
SECOND PLACE | Robin Johnson |
Addiction Metaphors: God-like and War Metaphors in Natalie Diaz’s When My Brother Was an Aztec Reduce Stigma and Improve Narrative Medicine |
FIRST PLACE | Alessandra Villarreal |
Middle Preclassic Ceramic Distribution in Western Belize: A Comparative Study from Early Xunantunich |
Master’s
FIRST PLACE | Meghan McCarthy | Chicanx Power vs. Gerrymandering: How the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project and Willie Velasquez Fought Racial Gerrymandering in San Antonio |
THIRD PLACE | Katherine Deck-Portillo |
Radical Acceptance: Inducting Patssi Valdez and Regina Vater into the Art Canon |
SECOND PLACE | Nicole L. Poole | Yvonne Koolmatrie: Practicing Culture |
Samantha Fisher | Monstrous: Grotesqueness, Abjection, and the Monstrous Feminine in Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘The Husband Stitch.’ | |
Elizabeth Reichman | Daisy Bates: Mother of Nine | |
Megan Michalec | Women in Early Twentieth-Century St. Elizabeths Hospital for the Insane | |
Janine Williams | Fumbling the Pandemic: ESPN and Bleacher Report Coverage of COVID-19 in the NFL | |
Kathryn Fischer | What About Vlad(imir)? Frameworks and Applications for Navigating the Crimean Crisis in a “Geopolitical” World | |
Laura Narvaez | Women Behind the Scenes: Female Filmmakers of The Silent Era |
Undergraduate
FIRST PLACE | Jalen Toney |
The Male Gaze: How Societies’ Wide Acceptance of Objectification has Negatively Impacted Young Women |
THIRD PLACE | Kathryn Wilson | Non-Territorial Nationalism: a Palestinian Case Study |
Lynette Bester |
Fall and Decline of Complex Society: The Decline of Irish Society due to the Potato Blight and The Great Famine
|
|
SECOND PLACE | Kayla Valadez | Latinx Representation in Popular Media: A Look into Gentefied |
Sia Paulsen | Independent Thought, Cohesive Unit: Women’s Suffrage | |
Brittney Coelho | Ancient and Modern Views of Κιρκη, The Evolution of the Humors of the Body | |
Samantha Boothby | A Woman’s Image: The Conflicting Propaganda in Woman Suffrage | |
Sara Torrentera | Mary Church Terrell’s Activism and Upbringing |
COLFA Conference Committee Members
Graduate Advisors
Dr. Bridget Drinka—ENG
Dr. Catherin Clinton—HIS
Dr. Drew Stephen—MUS
Dr. Isaura Contreras—MLL
Dr. James McDonald—COM
Dr. Jamon Halvaksz-ANT
Dr. Joshua Thurow—PHI
Dr. Kasandra Keeling—MUS
Dr. Kathryn Brown—ANT
Dr. Scott Sherer—AAH
Prof. Andrea Aleman—POL
Undergraduate Advisors and Facilitators
Dr. Anne Hardgrove—HIS
Dr. Marita Nummikoski—MLL
Dr. Mark Brill – MUS
Dr. Melissa Wallace—MLL
Dr. Sue Hum—ENG
Prof. Andrea Aleman—POL
Prof. Charles Wright—COM
Prof. Deborah Moon Wagner—ANT
Prof. Elaine Turney—HIS
Prof. Jayne Lawrence—AAH
Prof. Susan Gelb—PHI
Faculty Sponsors
Dr. Anne Hardgrove
Dr. Boyka Stefanova
Dr. Bridget Drinka
Dr. Catherine Clinton
Dr. David Ray Vance
Dr. Drew Stephen
Dr. Isaura Contreras Rios
Dr. Kasandra Keeling
Dr. Matthias Hofferberth
Dr. Miriam Sobre
Dr. Paul Ardoin
Dr. Robert Hard
Dr. Scott Sherer
Dr. Shamshad Khan
Dr. Thad Q. Bartlett
Dr. Teresa Eckmann
Prof. Anna Boyer-Chadwick
Prof. Brad Chandler
Prof. Buster Graybill
Prof. Chad McFadon
Prof. Eleanor Ingram
Prof. Eleanor McPherson
Prof. Elizabeth Rowe
Prof. Estefania Casper
Prof. Garry "Buster" Graybill
Prof. Greg Elliott
Prof. H. Jennings Sheffield
Prof. Houston Fryer
Prof. Jaylon Wilson
Prof. Jodi Peterson
Prof. Julie Fisher
Prof. Kenneth Walker
Prof. Libby Rowe
Prof. Marisol Mandujano
Prof. Mark McCoin
Prof. Miranda Swain
Prof. Ovidio Giberga
Prof. Richard Armendariz
Prof. Sarah Lasley
Prof. Shannon Rios
Prof. Verena Gaudy
This year marks the 21st anniversary of the COLFA Spring Research Conference! This past year has brought forth unprecedented changes as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The COLFA Spring Research Conference presents the opportunity for students to critically examine this pivotal moment in history by advancing scholarship and research in the humanities. With an overarching theme of “creativity, human values, social justice, diversity, and civilization,” the 21st annual Spring Research Conference will serve as a virtual forum for COLFA graduate and undergraduate students to present their original work. Submission topics are not limited to the conference theme. Students are welcome to submit all other topics to the conference.
Students will collaborate with faculty members to develop research presentations, scholarly projects, performances, and other creative works that will be submitted through a competition for awards and recognition. These scholarly accomplishments are critical for obtaining letters of recommendation for future applications for employment and graduate school. By forming synergistic relationships with faculty, students are mentored on developing marketable expertise, engaging in critical problem solving, strengthening communication skills, and enhancing their intercultural awareness. Participants of the Conference benefit by building their resume, curriculum vitae, or academic portfolio by using Co-Curricular Transcript (CCT). CCT helps students track their co-curricular involvement, leadership engagements, and other learning experiences that take place outside of the classroom.
Additionally, by participating in the conference, students are automatically inducted into the COLFA Academy of Undergraduate Research Associates (AURA). AURA gives COLFA and faculty sponsors the opportunity to formally recognize students’ engagement in the production of research and scholarly works at UTSA. In addition to receiving a membership pin, students can list this prestigious UTSA organization on their resume or curriculum vitae.
Identify and talk with your faculty sponsor about submitting and potentially publishing your paper in UTSA’s peer-reviewed Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Works.
Presentations can be submitted in English or Spanish for all categories.
Even if you do not present as part of the conference, consider attending to support and learn about your discipline and the excellent projects COLFA students and faculty are working on! Also, this is a great opportunity to learn how students in your discipline present their research and scholarly works.
Creative Writing: Essays and stories (double-spaced, up to 15-20 pages excluding title and references)
Research Paper: Complete papers with data analysis (double-spaced, 10 pages at maximum excluding title, references, tables, figures, and appendices)
Poster: Complete papers in the form of digital poster format
Español: Essays, stories, or research papers in Spanish (double-spaced, 10 pages at maximum excluding title, references, tables, figures, and appendices)
Digital Media: Video, website, augmented reality, virtual reality media works (on average 3-7 minutes in length)
Art: Artworks (Submissions are in affiliation with the COLFA Art Festival coordinated by Dr. Scott Sherer. Please send questions and submit your artworks by emailing Dr. Sherer at scott.sherer@utsa.edu by the deadline, Friday February 12, 2021, 5:00 p.m.)
Music: Musicological works
October 2020 – February 2021: Conference promotion
** Friday, February 12, 2021, 5 p.m.: Submit your work and video presentation to the Art category
** Monday, March 1, 2021, 5 p.m.: Submit your work and video presentation to all other categories: 1) Creative Writing, 2) Research Paper, 3) Poster, 4) Español, 5) Digital Media, and 6) Music
Indicate category and submission level (Undergraduate, Master’s or Doctoral) on cover page.
Submit to https://utsa.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d6As2MO3BbvYN7f .
Friday, April 16, 2021, 5 p.m.: Judges finish review and select winners
Thursday, May 6, 2021, 2-3:30 p.m.: Virtual award ceremony
May – July 2021: Cash award distribution. Students will receive cash awards deposited to their bank accounts. Students will need to provide bank transfer information to Annie Herrera, COLFA Financial Manager by contacting her at annie.herrera@utsa.edu.
Awards are given to top students in each category. Presentations can be submitted in English or Spanish for all categories.
Wonder what makes for a good research project or how you can put forth your best effort? Click on the graphic below to see more tips and guidelines based on the category of project.
For any question about the conference, please contact Seok Kang (seok.kang@utsa.edu), Jenna Gonzales (jenna.gonzales@utsa.edu), or Tricia Schwennesen (tricia.schwennesen@utsa.edu).
The 2021 Research Conference and Competition will be held virtually and the timeline for the event is as follows:
Friday, February 12, 2021, 5 p.m.: Submit your work and video presentation to the Art category
Monday, March 1, 2021, 5 p.m.: Submit your work and video presentation to all other categories: 1) Creative Writing, 2) Research Paper, 3) Poster, 4) Español, 5) Digital Media, and 6) Music
Indicate category and submission level (Undergraduate, Master’s or Doctoral) on cover page.
Submit to https://utsa.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d6As2MO3BbvYN7f .
Friday, April 16, 2021, 5 p.m.: Judges finish review and select winners
Thursday, May 6, 2021, 2-3:30 p.m.: Virtual award ceremony
May – July 2021: Cash award distribution. Students will receive cash awards deposited to their bank accounts. Students will need to provide bank transfer information to Annie Herrera, COLFA Financial Manager by contacting her at annie.herrera@utsa.edu.
Note: Previous winning entries cannot be considered.
For any question about the conference, please contact Seok Kang (seok.kang@utsa.edu), Jenna Gonzales (jenna.gonzales@utsa.edu), or Tricia Schwennesen (tricia.schwennesen@utsa.edu).
For information on Art submissions, please contact Scott Sherer – 210-458-4402.
For information on Music submissions, please contact Dr. Drew Stephen — 210-458-5154.
Winning projects will judged based on a combination of the originality of the research on a significant subject, primary and secondary materials appropriate to the area of study, clarity of composition skills, and superior style. To enter the competition, students must complete the following:
All students who want to enter a presentation in the Music Competition are required to complete the COLFA conference application form. Completion of the form will serve as an indicator of the student’s intention to submit a presentation, and will specify the student name, project title, and name of the faculty sponsor.
WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS? Each participant has 15 minutes for their presentation which must include a lecture about their topic and a live performance. Visual aids such as power point may be used, but must be requested in advance on the equipment request form. Students must also be prepared for questions from the audience on their presentation.
WHO IS THE MUSIC CONTACT PERSON? Dr. Kasandra Keeling in ARTS 3.02.28; Kasandra.keeling@utsa.edu or (210) 458-5323.
All students who want to enter the work of art competition should submit the COLFA conference application form (https://rowdylink.utsa.edu/actioncenter/organization/colfa/forms/Form/355773/528278/projectbuilderpage/page/1512034). Completion of the form will serve as an indicator of your intention to present a poster, and will allow your name/title of your project/name of your faculty sponsor to be printed in the program. The faculty member who is supervising your research poster must also sign this form.
The 36th Annual Student Art Exhibition is a juried competition featuring recent work by UTSA undergraduate and graduate students. The selected works represent the full range of materials, methods, and techniques, ranging from traditional processes to contemporary digital photography and video. Themes range from representations of the human figure, to cultural commentary, and exploration of conceptual concerns.
Eligibility: All enrolled Graduate and Undergraduate students are eligible to participate. Art majors are encouraged! All mediums and sizes are eligible.
Awards: Cash awards for 1st, 2nd, & 3rd places for both Undergraduate and Graduate levels are awarded from COLFA, and one Best of Show Award from the Wai Ching Lam Art Prize. Awards will be announced at the opening reception on March 25, 2020. However, all award winners MUST attend the COLFA Research Conference Award Ceremony at 3 p.m. on March 26, 2020 in the Art Building Recital Hall 2.03.02.
Entry Rules: Entry fee is $10 to enter two pieces, and $5 for each additional piece. Works must be ready to hang: no wet paint, no unframed drawings, photos, or prints allowed. Please use plexiglas in frames -- no glass will be accepted. Please bring all necessary appropriate hardware (no nails, thumbtacks, or pushpins). Sculptural artists must provide their own pedestals, and artists presenting digital media or videos must provide their own monitors or projectors. Plan ahead and solve your framing/hanging/display issues ahead of time!! The deadline to submit a work of art is March 3.
Exhibitions are free and open to the public.
Further details to follow, including submission deadlines. Details will be posted online as part of the 36th Annual Juried Student Exhibition.
For information on the Work of Art submission, please contact Scott Sherer at 210-458-4402 or email atscott.sherer@utsa.edu
RESEARCH PAPERS
Graduate Students
The Politics of Domination: Inequality and Division in San Antonio
Changing Course: Environmental Migration and the 1927 Mississippi River Flood
Undergraduate Students
An Ethnography of Clothing and Kawaii Subculture in South Texas
Spanish Paper
CREATIVE WRITING
Graduate
Undergraduate
DIGITAL MEDIA
Undergraduate
Tamales Animales-Runway En La Calle-Spring 2019 Collection
WORK OF ART
Graduate
Undergraduate
MUSIC
Graduate
Understanding the Lorelei: A Gendered, Comparative Analysis of Settings by Clara Schumann and Franz Liszt
Undergraduate
How Music Nearly Saved Us All: Idealism and Mysticism in Late Imperial Russian Music
RESEARCH POSTERS
PhD
Co-authors: Brian A. Moore; Willie J. Hale, PhD; Erin Stone; Ashley Welsh; Sandra Morissette, PhD
Evaluation of an Activity-based Approach to Training Psychological Hardiness
Co-authors: Asheley Roberts; Martin Gallegos, PhD; James H. Bray, PhD
A reexamination of Gateway Hypothesis with detachment and peer pressure
Co-authors: Rebecca Kilgore; Brigid Wheeler; Savannah Hanson
Longitudinal Associations Between PTSD and Catastrophic Thinking
Master’s
Co-author: Candice Villarreal
Self-Compassion as a Moderator for the Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Self-Harm
General Intelligence (g), ACT Scores, and Theory of Mind: Not Much More Than g
Co-authors: Dylan O'Hara; Sierra Rodriguez
Forced Uprooting: The Intersection of Space and Power
Co-authors: Brigid Wheeler; Savannah Hanson; Brian A. Moore
Evaluating different versions of the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure: Application of modern psychometric strategies
Undergraduate
Co-author: Cynthia Farias
Religious Coping and Severity of Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms
Liminality and Conservation: Human-NonHuman Animal Interaction in Changing Climates
RESEARCH PAPERS
Graduate Students
The Architecture of Performance: Monumentality, Kingship and Ritual Displays at Early Xunantunich, Belize
The Lost of Devine Birthrights of Indigenous rulers in Africa: A Case Study of Indirect Rule and Direct rule and its impact in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Chiefs in Ghana and Senegal
¡Yo no se! Deafness Defined by Subtitles of Non-English Language Films
Saudade in Literature of the Lusophone Diaspora: A Comparative Analysis of Brazilian American and Portuguese American Authors
Defeating the Skeptical Hypothesis: An Application of Bertrand Russell’s Theory of Time
Undergraduate Students
Narratives of Decision Making in Traditional Chinese Medicine Users
Language as Varied by Gender and Status in Mad Men
The Unarticulated Line: Human-Animal Interactions and Culture- Nature Theory
Ritual Reuse of Historic Places in the Ancient Maya World: An Example from Xunantunich, Belize
Charlotte and Emily Brontë: New Wave Evangelicals
CREATIVE WRITING
Graduate
Songs Hidden within the Shell
Searching for a Different Truth, No Way Out, Trigger #1, The Fear of Returning Home, One Day, Crossing Borders
So did my Soul, that Still was Fleeing Onward
Undergraduate
Analuz Shrugged
The Girl in White
DIGITAL MEDIA
Undergraduate
A Word With an Artist
Date Night
WORK OF ART
Graduate
Undergraduate
MUSIC
Graduate
Stylistic Development in the Art Song of Amy Beach
Brahms's Encore: The Cyclical Nature of His Op. 120 No. 1, Movement 1
Undergraduate
Musical Roots of the Mayan Culture in Akil, Yucatán
Mathematics and Music
RESEARCH POSTERS
PhD
Discounting of Sexual Behavior: Psychometric Properties of a New Measure
The Evolution of Body Size in Strepsirhini Primates
Traveling Down the Drainage Road at Wari Camp, Belize
Master’s
Home and Away: College Transitions
The Influence of Machismo and Risky Sexual Cognitions and Behaviors among Latino College Men
Effects of Collectivism on Social Discounting
Undergraduate
Data Collection Methods and Social Discounting
Navigating the Virtual World: the Effects of Identity Conflict on Facebook Stress
The Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on the Mental Health of Low Income Community Women
RESEARCH PAPERS
Master’s
World War I and African-American Expectations from Martial Citizenship
Monstrous Marvels: Cultural Frankenstein and Rhetorical Lobotomy as Medical Ethics
Authorship and Publication of Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A Study of Lexical and Phonological Patterns
Undergraduate
Roosh V’s Gender Traditionalism: A Discourse Analysis of a Leading Men’s Rights Activist
Exiling the Fallen Woman in Jane Austen
Celtic Imagery
No Mail, Low Morale: The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion During World War II
Spanish
El Intérprete como Mediador Intercultural e Interlingüístico con SLIFEs
CREATIVE WRITING
Graduate
To You: Ten Poems to Previous Selves
3 Poems
Undergraduate
The Affliction
DIGITAL MEDIA
Undergraduate
Photograph
The Beginning
Hunter
WORK OF ART
Graduate
Undergraduate
MUSIC
Graduate
Modern Composition Pedagogy
The Pedagogical Piano Music of Elie Siegmeister
RESEARCH POSTERS
PhD
Social Discounting and Condom Use in College Students
Traditional gender roles and the stress-alcohol use relationship among Latina/os
Psychological Flexibility Influences Illicit Substance Use Among Individuals
Master’s
The Materialistic and Authentic Motivations of Academic Commitment
Factors Associated with Success in an Undergraduate Academic Setting
The Effects of Misconceptions on Students’ Perceptions of Applied Behavior Analysis as a Treatment for Autism
Undergraduate
The Six Dimensions of Wellness” of Survivors of Domestic Violence: An Assessment
RESEARCH PAPERS
Graduate PhD
1. Victoria Ingalls (ANT), Social Memory in Maya Hinterland Communities: Recent Excavations at San Lorenzo, Belize
2. Zoe Rawski (ANT), Power and Performance: Investigations of an Ancient Maya Monumental Platform
Graduate Master’s
1. Kat Weigle (ENG), Countering Rhetorical Disability: The Visual Rhetoric of Project Semicolon
2.Vincent Martinez (PHI), The Virtue Underlying Magnanimity: Reconceiving Aristotle's Crowning Virtue
3. Marissa Del Toro (ART), Contesting Categories: The Multidimensional Identity and Universal Themes in the Art of Peruvian Japanese artist, Tilsa Tsuchiya and Mexican Zapotec artist, Francisco Toledo
Undergraduate
1. Heather Rodriguez (HIS), Islam in Early America
2. Michael McDonald (HIS), World War II Comic Books: Popular Culture, Propaganda, and Racism
3. Estefania Lopez (COM), The immigration debate across Hispanic social networks. The case of Jorge Ramos and his political advocacy on behalf of the undocumented migrants.
CREATIVE WRITING
Graduate
1. Christopher Guzman (ENG), Like Listening to Harvest
2. Rachel Sengele, 11th & Congress
3. Eva Duran, Crossing Borders
Undergraduate
1. Sonie Johnson, Boyright
MULTIMEDIA
Undergraduate
1. Vianney Lopez (ART), “ Meat ”
2. Jordan Mkwanazi (COM), UTSA Black Lives Matter Cypher
WORK OF ART
Graduate
1. Verena Gaudy, Zeitgeist
2. Hiromi Stringer, Umeyama’s Report: The Sacred Red and White AND Drawing of Labels of Umeyama’s Report : The Sacred Red and White (Diptych)
3. John Atkins, Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Undergraduate
1. Elyse Grams, What Is//What Could Be
2. Katherine Cadena, One Day You’ll See
3. Sharon Gilpin, The human Eggsample
MUSIC
Graduate
1. Anna Mullinaux
2. Victoria Folks
RESEARCH POSTERS
PhD
1. Megan Crabtree, Just Me, My Selfies and I: Development of a Measure of Self-Presentation Strategies in the Context of Social Media
2. Tiffany Berzins, Comparing the influence of social networks and social media on personal attitudes toward Flu vaccines
3. Janet Bennett, Comfort or Affiliation? Behavioral Preferences Following Pain, Failure, Thwarted Belongingness
Master’s
1. Lisa Oakes, Promiscuity or Positive Traits? Investigating Effects of a Visible Tattoo on Impressions of Women
2. Emma Altgelt, Effects of Alcohol and Fertility on Women's Sexual Decision Making
3. Danny Wang, Effects of gender and generational status on cortisol awakening
Undergraduate
1. Brittany Edwards (PSY), Perceptions of Attractiveness and Body Image Among College-Aged Black American Women
2. Arthur Hutchinson (PSY), Differences between smokers and non-smokers on mental health
3. Tania Siddiqi (ANT), The Migration of Muslim Women from India to Pakistan during Partition
RESEARCH PAPERS
Graduate
1. Erica Valle (HIS), “‘This Man Is Your Friend:’ Chinese Media Portrayals during WWII”
2. Megan E. Nieto (ENG), The Americanization of the Latina/o Diet
3. Matt Arendt (HIS), “The Advancing Hosts of Liberty”: Origins of the Republican Party
Undergraduate
1. Lizandra Santillan (ENG), Paper Tongues: Metafiction as a New Language in Postcolonial Literature
2. Devon Johnson (ENG), Langston Hughes: The Transnational Poet
3. Brandon Trevino (AM STUDIES), The Paradox of Hernandez v. Texas: A Critical Race Theory Analysis
CREATIVE WRITING
Graduate
1. Trudi Carter (ENG), The Burn Pit
2. Sarah Fox (ART), Surviving the Promise of Medicine: An Embodied History
3. Christopher Guzman (ENG), The Lovely, Stationary Life of Tracy Sloacum
Undergraduate
1. Sandra Torrez Bruce (ENG - CW), Could Have Been
2. Jordan Smith (ENG), Time will Tell
3. Kendall Casas (ENG), Life at the Mountain
MULTIMEDIA
Undergraduate
1. Vianney Lopez (ART), Human
2. Kendall Casas (ENG), Information Man
3. Travis Fowler (COM), The Last Woman on Earth
WORK OF ART
Graduate
1. Alyssa Danna, Destined, but Never Meant to Last
2. Kallie Pfeiffer, Carving to Zen
3. Jason Eric Gonzales, (Tsk) Mira, It’s a Space Ship
Undergraduate
1. Mary Wuest, It’s Fate
2. Alan Serna, Santiago y los Tastoanes
3. Mariah Acevedo, Glare
MUSIC
Graduate
1. Heather Stagg, Chopin's Ballade Op. 23 - The Invisible Narrative
2. Pamela Fischer, Robert Muczynski’s Six Preludes, Pedagogical or Advanced Pieces
3. Rachel Hicks, Feminine Sound?: An Exploration of Lori Laitman’s The Sunflowers
Undergraduate
1. Stefan Greenfield-Casas, Through the Woods: a contextual analysis of Bozza’s En Forêt
2. Ashley Lucero, Beede Lane
RESEARCH POSTERS
Ph.D.
1. Emily Lloyd (ANT), Cheek pouch use in wild Sanje mangabeys, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania
2. Willie Hale (PSY), Self-monitoring and Authenticity: A more complex relationship than previously thought
3. Lydia E. O. Light (ANT), Flowers or figs: Dietary choices in wild white-handed gibbons
M.S.
1. Jessica Perrotte (PSY), Gender, Depression, Language Preference, and Risky Behavior in Mexican/Mexican-Americans
2. Joshua Brunsman (PSY), The Effect of Context in a Focal Prospective Memory Task
3. Randi Wooding (M. in MUS), Perception of Non-Vibrato Sung Tones
Undergraduate
1. Nigelle Cochran (ENG), Acoustic Analysis of Vowels in Cape Girardeau, Missouri: A Case Study
2. Bryan Dimler (PSY), Reinforcement Schedule Effects on Craving during a Contingency Management Trial
3. Danielle Chapa (PSY), Body Ideals Among Mexican-American and Anglo-American College Aged Men and Women
Spring Research Conference → 2014 Awardees
Sara Flores
2nd Place
A Means to an End: Using Propaganda Rhetoric for Pedagogical Development
View work →
Ariana Trevino
2nd Place
Workplace Friendships and its Effects on Use of Informal Communication
View work →
Stefan Greenfield-Casas
2nd Place
Wagner’s Call to the Horn
Jennifer Torpie-Sweterlitsch
3rd Place
Impact of Zoo Education Program on Visitor
Knowledge and Behaviors
Lisa R. Oakes
2nd Place
Drawing on Tattoos: Effect of a Visible Tattoo on Impression Formation of a Female Target
Ana Isabel Cantú
2nd Place
Cut Cut
Christina Misite
1st Place
Familiar Intersections
Joseph Conroy
2nd Place
Poems
John P. Buentello
3rd Place
The Chrysalis Collective
Catherine Hauer
1st Place
Collection of Poems
Elaine Wong
1st Place
Promoting English as an International Language in the Composition Class
Juan Martinez
2nd Place
Beyond Absolute Closure: Applying Brubaker’s Notions to the U.S.-Mexico Border Fence
Naomi Craven
3rd Place
Behind the Gilded Frame: Women and Art in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Mary Riedel
4th Place
Is Busing the Answer?: Desegregation in Nashville, TN, in the 1970s
Greg Bradley
5th Place
Choctaw Identity and Sovereignty: Forging a Future in 1970’s Oklahoma
Angela White
1st Place
The Influence of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Assertiveness on Condom Negotiations
Jessica Craig
2nd Place
Ritual Justification in the Order of the Alamo’s Coronation Ceremony
Jessica Junquiera
3rd Place
Seeing, Knowing, and Loving: Neo-Platonism in Till We Have Faces
Steven Thomas
1st Place
The Role of Television in the Downfall of Senator McCarthy
Jessica Campros
2nd Place
Words that Dance: Exploring the Cultural Complexities of Caribbean Literatures
Jesus Gachupin
1st Place
Programmatic Aspects of Leo Brouwer’s De Cameron Negro
Aurelia Rocha
2nd Place
"The Tango"- History and Form as seen in Astor Piazolla’s Oblivion
Gilberta Turner
3rd Place
"La Jota" and the Feminine Segovian Folk Costume
Nicholas May
1st Place
Early Vocal Music of Sergei Rachmaninov
Bryan Silvia
2nd Place
Performance Options in Baroque Sonatas
Johnny Mendoza
3rd Place
A Look Behind the Labyrinth
Josie Vasquez
1st Place
Sexual Risk Behavior among Latinas
Mike Matamoros
2nd Place
Influences of Romantic Relationships on Expectations for Opposite-Sex Friendships
Kurt Attaway
1st Place
Coaching Impact on Game Flow through Utilization
of the Timeout
Shawna Mowrer
2nd Place
Self Ratings of Sexual Intent Behaviors in Mixed Sex Dyads
JoAnn Nocito
2nd Place
Self-Enrichment in Killer Whales, Belugas, and Pacific White-Sided Dolphins
Rawan Arar
1st Place
The Westernization of Women in Jordan
Carlos Donjuan
1st Place
Fridas
Roberta Buckles
2nd Place
Soomin Jung
3rd Place
Michael Stoltz
1st Place
Inga de Jamaer
2nd Place
Linda Arredondo
3rd Place
Amber Duncan
1st Place
Viewcollector
Christina Garza
2nd Place
Genre: Creative Writing
Elaine Wong
3rd Place
Mother. Language.
David Martinez
1st Place
Culminating Emptiness
Brian Slaughter
2nd Place
Barbacoa Blues
Jodi Lynne lerien
3rd Place
The Handsome Man
Debra Peña
1st Place
The "She" Pronouncements in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
Lynn Kim
2nd Place
Strategies Unveiled: Political Economy of the Tiwanaku State and Inka Empire in the Charazeni Region
Naomi Craven
3rd Place
His Survival Weapon was History: Scheherazade, Storytelling, & Survival in Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip
Corina Stout
4th Place
The Making of Boy’s Town: Nuevo Laredo’s Sex Industry, 1916-1973
Jennifer Holt Dille
4th Place
Remember the Tlatelolco Massacre: How the 1968
Student Movement Changed Mexican Identity
Michael Lee Gardin
5th Place
Exploring Gender in the Narrator of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, or, the Royal Slave
S. Regina Cantu
1st Place
Gender Differences in Students’ Ratings of their College Professors
Alejandro Bocanegra
2nd Place
Characteristics Associated with Self Reported Dementia in Elder Mexican Americans
Christopher Johnson
3rd Place
Conversations with Madame Parker: An Ethnographic Narrative on Cancer, Anxiety, and end-of-life Communication
Shawna Mowrer
1st Place
Gender Differences in Non-verbal and Verbal Approach Behavior and Sexual and Friendliness Intentions
Connie Isenhour, Angelica Guerra, Megan Swisher
1st Place
An Evaluation of Beginner Chamber Music Instructional Materials
Michael Cohen
2nd Place
Elements of Morrish Folksong in Manuel Ponce’s 24th Prelude, Chant Populaire Espagnol
Lisa Shaddock Tellez
1st Place
Oral History of Gustav A. Pantzer
Kim Smith, Shruthi Subramayam
1st Place
Julie Bland
2nd Place
Joshua Lopez
3rd Place
Rachel Finn
1st Place
Nicole Alabi, Tamami Norizuki
2nd Place
Lavelda Bradley
3rd Place
Carlos Don Juan
1st Place
Jessica Ramirez
2nd Place
Esteban Delgado
3rd Place
Alfonso Espronceda
1st Place
Sandra Hernandez
2nd Place
Jung Mun
3rd Place
Paul Noonan
1st Place
Various
Michelle Grajeda
2nd Place
Naked Lola
JJ Chen Henderson
3rd Place
There Will be Judges
Christopher Guzman
1st Place
Beastly Tales of Cowardice
Karen Moon
2nd Place
Broken Horses
Jodi Lynne lerien
3rd Place
Life, Now and Then
Diana Lyn Roberts
1st Place
Gesture and Theatricality in The Works of Egon Schiele
Margaret Cantú
2nd Place
The Women of Jovita Gonzalez’s Caballero: Agents of Feminism or Post-Subaltern Subjects?
Roberta Hurtado
3rd Place
Staging Race: Aphra Behn and the Production of Colonial Motifs
Rebecca Smith
4th Place
Mythologizing Learned Women and Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victory
Christina Guiterrez
5th Place
Audre Lorde’s ‘army of one-breasted women’: Recontextualizing Metaphors of War in The Cancer Journals
Kathryn R. Dunlap
1st Place
Levels of Processing and False Memories
Christine Hardwick
2nd Place
Angels on the Head of a Pin: Understanding Health Disparities
Michael Ruiz
3rd Place
The Border as Geopolitical and Economic Trope in the Novels of Benjamin Alire Sáenz and Ana Castillo
Karen L. Moon
1st Place
From ‘Fair Kei’ to Foul: The Debasement of Kei in Arthurian Legend
Rachel Finn
2nd Place
Mainstream American Ideologies of Race, Ethnicity, and Ethnic Health Disparities
Anna Marie Davis
1st Place
Alberto Ginastera: Musical Codes of Nationalism
Laura Estrada
2nd Place
Society’s Influence in Bach’s Coffee Cantata
Aaron Carter-Cohn
3rd Place
Echoes of French Classics in Pinkham’s ”The Book of Hours”
Dorothy Yan
1st Place
Size Matters: Small Hands at the Piano
Saul Iruegas
2nd Place
"Escenas Románticas III: Lento con Extasis"
Michael Cohen
3rd Place
Organ performance
Emily Lloyd
1st Place
Analyzing Zanje Mangabey (Cercocebus Sanjei) Foraging Patterns Using ArcGIS
Shruthi Vale
2nd Place
Ideal Traits of Romantic Partners and Friends
Kimberly Smith
3rd Place
Comparing Attachment Across Relationship Domains: Measure of Attachment for Romantic Partners, Same-Sex Friends, and Opposite Sex Friends
Glenn P. Malone
1st Place
Media Effects: Interpersonal Trust and Changing Mobile Lifestyles
Bonnie Dillon, Nicole Wright
2nd Place
Differential Behavior Patterns across Relationship Types
Destiny Dallmann
3rd Place
Child Abuse History and Alcohol's Effects on Adult Sexual Risk–Taking
Marco Gamboa
1st Place
Miscellaneous Poems
Carlos Don Juan
1st Place
Sasha Nochovka
2nd Place
Gissett Padilla
3rd Place
Inga de Jamaer / Sessara
1st Place
Daniel Armstrong
2nd Place
Alyosha Burkey
3rd Place
Spring Research Conference → 2010 Awardees
All copies of student work included below are protected under copyright. © 2010 All rights reserved
Elaine Wong
1st Place
Nicole Provencher
2nd Place
Grisel Y. Acosta
3rd Place
Veronica Castañeda
1st Place
Jodi L. Ierien
2nd Place
Kacee Belcher
3rd Place
Elizabeth Pople
1st Place
Gabriela B. Scott
2nd Place
Jason B. Treviño
3rd Place
Adriane Niedorf-Pierson
4th Place
Grisel Y. Acosta
5th Place
William J. Robertson
1st Place
Sarah Christman
2nd Place
Michael Ruiz
3rd Place
Austin M. Clow
4th Place
Jennifer Ojeda
5th Place
Suzanne Rocha
1st Place
Anna Marie Isenhower
2nd Place
William E. Reich III
3rd Place
Dorothy Yan
1st Place
Ashley Emmerich, Jennifer Umphres, Monica Yndo
1st Place
Deborah Persyn
2nd Place
Jarryd Willis, Meghan A. Crabtree, Stephanie Tercero
3rd Place
Robert Vargas
1st Place
Mark Sifuentes
2nd Place
Agustin Maggio
3rd Place
Alisa Yike, Micah Wright
1st Place
Marco Gamboa
2nd Place
Rebecca Gomez, Katharine Scherff
3rd Place
Mark Muñiz
1st Place
Sophia DiGonis
2nd Place
Esteban Delgado
1st Place
Gayle Janzow
2nd Place
Kinley Ledeaux
1st Place
Lyn Dusenbury
2nd Place
Juan de Dios Mora
3rd Place
Spring Research Conference → 2011 Awardees
All copies of student work included below are protected under copyright. © 2011 All rights reserved
Michelle Neumann
1st Place
Melissa Sue Whitney
2nd Place
Rod S. Sachs
1st Place
Jodi L. Ierien
2nd Place
Elaine Wong
1st Place
Kiani Pierce
2nd Place
Lauren Norwood
3rd Place
Jarryd Willis
4th Place
Gabriela B. Scott
5th Place
Jana Cobb
1st Place
Melanie Robinson
2nd Place
Allison Tinn
3rd Place
Jason Martinez
4th Place
Elizabeth Moseley
5th Place
Jordan Copeland
1st Place
Dorothy Yan
1st Place
Laura Estrada
2nd Place
Edna Alejandra Longoria
1st Place
Jase Brown
2nd Place
Danny Rodriguez
3rd Place
Aaron Carter-Cohn
1st Place
Greg Garrett
1st Place
Elizabeth Moseley
2nd Place
Glenn P. Malone
1st Place
Anissa Snyder
2nd Place
Megan Hainstock
3rd Place
Vasiliki Kiageri
1st Place
Irving Arevalo /
Amanda Torralba
2nd Place
Adolph Delgado
3rd Place
Vianca Baron
1st Place
Courtney Smyth
2nd Place
Keely Carnahan
3rd Place
Ivan Salcido
1st Place
Tsun-Chuan Ling
2nd Place
Lee Michael Peterson
3rd Place
Spring Research Conference → 2012 Awardees
All copies of student work included below are protected under copyright. © 2012 All rights reserved
Carla Pezzia
4th Place
Mental Illness and Recovery in the Western Highlands of Guatemala
View work →
Trudi Carter
4th Place
Edward Casabuon: A Multidimensional Antagonist in George Eliot’s Middlemarch
View work →
Bethany Raynes
3rd Place
Zigeunerweisen – The Quintessential Violini Character Piece
Hannah Carnett
2nd Place
Experiencing a Lifetime of Piano Wellness
Krystle Deleon
3rd Place
Women in Music: Overlooked Composers and Performers
Meghan Crabtree, Monica Yndo
3rd Place
Effects of Alcohol on Men’s Risky Sexual Decision Making during Social Interactions in the Laboratory
Andrea Fernandez, Natalia Garcia
4th Place
Effects of Alcohol Consumption and Sexual Assault History on Women’s Self-Reported Assertive Condom Use
Erica Villarreal
1st Place
Configural Analysis of the Multiple Parameters
of Anger in a Forensic Population
Adolfo R. Mora, Yvette Garcia
1st Place
Promoting Wildfire Prevention through PSAs: An EntertainmentEducation Approach
Megan Harrison
2nd Place
Agency in Structure – Drawing
Kara Stevens, Corolina Jimenez
3rd Place
How Sweet the Sound for I was Lost and Now I’m Found – Sculpture
View work →
Spring Research Conference → 2013 Awardees
Kim Manning
1st Place
Carla Pezzia
2nd Place
Ryan Kuhl
3rd Place
Gina Paxton
4th Place
Nauff Zakaria
2nd Place
Rick Mendoza
2nd Place
Stacy Muniz
3rd Place
Roberto Celis
3rd Place
Main Office: MH 4.01.23
University of Texas at San Antonio
College of Liberal and Fine Arts
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249-1644