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The HSS Student Expo will showcase the work of our outstanding School of Humanities and Social Sciences students. It will bring together in a single forum all of our longstanding HSS department and program end-of-year student events, and expand to highlight student work in programs and departments that will generate student-centered events for the first time. We are looking forward to celebrating all that our students have been able to achieve academically in the midst of the pandemic. We greatly appreciate your time and effort in supporting this student-centered event.
Two students from ENGL 3177—Theories and Practice of Composition will explore fruitful intersections of theory and practice, synthesizing their learning about composition theory with explorations of their own creative making processes. On the one hand, Stephanie Soltanova will argue for applications of creative writing in expressing academic arguments, while, on the other, Finley Miller will apply composition theory to her process of drawing a comic.
Participating Students
Hosted by Lecturer Sophia Bamert.
The urban sustainability program at Brooklyn College prioritizes community engagement, experiential learning, and independent research focused on the ways that the ecological crisis, including climate change, impacts New York City. This panel highlights some of the work that our urban sustainability majors are currently engaged in as part of their internship experiences or as part of their independent student-faculty research collaborations.
Hosted by Professor Kenneth Gould.
Ukrainian culture through the Cyrillic alphabet, a menu of food and wine from Sicily, a memoir of exile and emigration from Guatemala, a traditional Korean game, and conversation all around. Four students and four professors from the Modern Languages and Literatures Department will present and talk about some special recent projects that reflect the different ways students and teachers in the department explore cultural identity and heritage in language and literature courses.
Hosted by Kristina Cordero and Filippa Modesto.
From a discussion on the historical erasure of queer women’s identities, experiences, and existence in the Dominican Republic, to an interrogation of the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement in the Dominican Republic, to a literary analysis of the figurative and literal movement of African American people through metaphorical language in poetry, presenters highlight the voices and experiences of the subaltern, those at the margins, but also address the rich legacies of resistance and transformation that persists.
Hosted by Assistant Professor Aleah Ranjitsingh.
Communication continues to be one of the most sought-after skills in professional settings. Presenters explore the role communication plays within various workplaces, including minimum wage positions, doctor/patient interactions, and politicians’ communication.
Hosted by Lecturer Anastacia Kurylo.
Drawing upon the rich resources of the Brooklyn College Archives & Special Collections, this exhibit focuses on Brooklyn College female faculty members from 1930 to 1980, their contributions to the study of the pre-modern world, their teaching legacies, their service to the college, and the lasting institutional structures dedicated to the study of the humanities and the premodern that they helped create—namely, the women’s and gender studies program, the Latin/Greek Institute, the Brooklyn College Core Curriculum, and the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities. Tour will meet in the Gold Room at 1 p.m. or 3 p.m., and then will proceed to the first floor of the library, where the exhibit is displayed.
Tours will be given by student exhibit researchers Fatima Arif (History), Kyai Belton (History), Reeba Butt (Classics), Brittany Lugo (History) and Micah Sander (History), and exhibit co-curators Assistant Dean of Academic Programs and Director of the Latin/Greek Institute Lucas Rubin and Associate Professor of History Lauren Mancia.
Hosted by Associate Professor Lauren Mancia.
CUNY Graduate Center audiology doctoral students will present on the field of audiology, an important and growing health care field. This session will give an overview of careers in audiology and discuss the need for increased racial, ethnic, and linguistically diverse professionals to serve patients across the lifespan.
Hosted by Associate Professor Dorothy DiToro.
The session addresses the political, social, moral, and psychological aspects of access to health care and the physician-patient relationship. Students will explore the implications of challenges to accessing care as well as the moral dilemmas inherent in difficult clinical conversations between physicians and patients.
Hosted by Professor Daniel Campos and Associate Professor Anna Gotlib.
Conversational breakdowns, or disruptions in conversation, can be used to identify the linguistic and nonlinguistic factors that compromise children’s effectiveness as communicators. Graduate students in the master’s program in speech-language pathology will present their preliminary research findings from a study that examines use of a coding method for classifying conversational breakdowns in language samples collected from preschool children.
Hosted by Associate Professor Baila Epstein.
Graduate students in the speech-language pathology program in the Department of Communication Arts, Sciences, and Disorders will discuss two research projects: ethical issues in a research setting, and a systematic review study on clinical supervision frameworks in speech-language pathology.
Hosted by Associate Professor Akiko Fuse.
A discussion of research papers on the philosophy of science, including such topics as the nature of science, scientific knowledge, explanation, and prediction.
Hosted by Professor Daniel Campos and Mentoring Professor Robert Lurz.
Advanced undergraduate history majors will present research projects conducted in academic year 2022–23.
Hosted by Associate Professor Philip Napoli.
A select group of undergraduates will present and then discuss research papers chosen for their excellence.
Hosted by Lecturer Marie Rutkowski.
Hunter College is one of the few CUNY schools with an Asian American Studies Center and an Asian American Studies minor. How did they get there? Xiaoen Liang will present on the history of Hunter College’s student and faculty activism, while Rhema Mills will present a little bit on Brooklyn College’s student and faculty activism as well as showcase the podcast series that some Brooklyn College students have done that highlights interviews of the Asian diaspora in North America.
Hosted by Lecturer Cherry Lou Sy.
Students will present on key issues of global migration, ranging from global South poverty, climate migration, development and migration in states of origin, and the rising intolerance toward migrants in destination states in North America and Western Europe. The presentations will focus on the structural causes of migration and the paradox that while migrants are necessary for societal development, growing populism, discrimination, and xenophobia have created higher levels of animosity. Students will discuss the causes and consequences of migration from a range of countries and regions.
Hosted by Professor Immanuel Ness.
