Major and Classification Broadcast Journalism Faculty Mentor Sarah Banet Weiser, Ph.D. Department Communication McNair Project “From Black and White to Color: Racial Representation in Children’s Animated Television” This study analyzes racial representation in children’s animated programs on cable television. It is based on content analysis of the cast of programs on Disney and Nickelodeon that target children. Data was gathered …
Kimberly White
Major and Classification Psychology Faculty Mentor Brian Lickel, Ph.D. Department Psychology McNair Project “Colorism: How Skin Tone Affects African American Women” The focus of this study is on how colorism may affect self-image. Colorism is a bias or preference for light skin. This study used interviews and surveys to explore the how skin tone and colorism affects the self-image of …
Theresa Rodriguez
Major and Classification American Studies and Ethnicity Faculty Mentor Terry Seip, Ph.D. Department History McNair Project “Leisure and Slavery: Surviving Life as an African American Slave in Mississipp” While African American slaves endured a miserable existence at the bottom of antebellum society, constantly suffering exploitation, punishment, humiliation, and substandard material conditions, they still had some leisure time. By discovering and …
Guadalupe Ramirez
Major and Classification Political Science Faculty Mentor Frederick Moten, Ph.D. Department History McNair Project “The Postwar Subject: I-dentity Development of Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala” Environment and situation are essential to the development of identity, but what is the role of the individual? Under the Garcia and Montt presidencies (1978-1983) in the mountainous Northern Region of El Quiche, Guatemala, the indigenous …
Crystal Perl
Major and Classification Religion Faculty Mentor David Sloane, Ph.D. Department Policy, Planning, and Development McNair Project “Interviewing Stones: A Field Survey of Gravestone Styles, Los Angeles County 1850-1900” Until now, analysis of 19th century gravestone trends in Los Angeles was impossible. Studies on the material culture of death, including gravestones, cemeteries, and cadavers, in the United States were almost exclusively …
Joella’ Ann McKenzie
Major and Classification International Relations Faculty Mentor Todd Sandler, Ph.D. Department International Relations McNair Project “Increasing Cooperation in Counterterrorism Using Game Theoretic Analysis” Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the international community has spent tens of billions of dollars on the formation and implementation of counterterrorism policies. However, economic analysis has concluded that cooperation within the international community …
Wendy Mata
Major and Classification Astronomy Faculty Mentor Edward Rhodes, Ph.D. Department Physics McNair Project Temporal Dependence of the Solar P-Mode Oscillation Frequencies to Changes in Solar Activity Previous studies using the so-called “ring diagram” method of local helioseismology have shown that the sensitivity of the solar p-mode oscillation frequencies to changes in solar activity may change as a function of time …
Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Major and Classification Comparative Literature Faculty Mentor Moshe Lazar, Ph.D. Department Comparative Literature McNair Project “Two Writers from One Americas: Mirroring the Works of William Faulkner and Juan Carlos Onetti” This exploration tackled a comparative study in the area of culture studies on two short stories, “A Rose for Emily” and “The Purloined Bride,” written by William Faulkner and Juan …
Jose Martinez
Major and Classification Political Science Faculty Mentor Ricardo Ramirez, Ph.D. Department Political Science McNair Project “Cultural to Substantive: The Evolvement of Spanish-language Television Advertisements by the Republican and Democratic Presidential Campaigns of 2000 and 2004” This study asked in what ways did the Spanish-language television advertisements by the Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns of 2004 differ from the Spanish-language television …
Michael Younger
Major and Classification Public Policy, Management and Planning Faculty Mentor LaVonna Lewis, Ph.D. Department Policy, Planning, and Development McNair Project “Investigating the Phenomenon: The Increasing College Enrollment of Low-Income African American Students but the Failure to Obtain College Degrees” Numerous reports have stated that each year increasing numbers of low-income African American students graduate from high school academically prepared to …
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