Regina Delgado Acevedo
Derived from mapu (land) and che (people), the term Mapuche translates to “people of the land.” The language spoken by the Mapuche people of south-central Chile, Mapudungun, can be translated as “the speech of the land.”” This shared semantic foundation underscores the central role that mapu plays in Mapuche cultural frameworks. With this premise in mind, this project examines Mapuche sacred landscapes by investigating ritual practice and space-making techniques. The project integrates ethnographic research, linguistic analysis, and archaeological survey in collaboration with a community centered around one of the region’s […]
Channie Hong
Marketers frequently use price partitioning, where a product’s price is presented as separate components: a base price and a surcharge. For example, a movie theater might offer a ticket-and-popcorn bundle for $15, but instead present it as a $10 ticket with an additional $5 for popcorn. Research shows that consumers respond differently to partitioned prices compared to a single combined price, and several cognitive mechanisms have been proposed to explain this effect. Despite these findings, relatively little attention has been paid to how consumers interpret the structure of partitioned prices, […]
Nicholas Taplitz
Accelerating environmental change across the Arctic is altering decisions about infrastructure, safety, and long-term adaptation. While climate adaptation policies in Greenland and Nunavut often reference different forms of knowledge—scientific, Indigenous, and local—they vary in how directly these forms of knowledge are linked to decision-making. My project analyzes the language of policy documents from Greenland and Nunavut and draws on observations from scientific briefings, community presentations, and policy talks in Greenland and the Canadian Arctic to examine how different forms of expertise come to carry authority in Arctic climate policy. More […]
Shaquori McCoy
My project asks how experiences of early responsibility in childhood shape mental health later in life among Black adults. Specifically, I examine adultification, when children take on caregiving, emotional, or household responsibilities earlier than expected. I also examine adultification bias, when Black children are perceived as older, less innocent, and less deserving of protection than their peers. While research has shown these experiences can affect Black youth, much less is known about how Black adults reflect on these experiences over time or how they may influence well-being in adulthood. Through […]
Tasmia Puspita
This project examines how the Bangladeshi government suppressed the July–August 2024 quota movement and why these actions have faced little legal accountability. While existing scholarship documents a long pattern of state violence—including extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances—there is limited analysis of how recent events violate both domestic and international law. My research focuses on specific cases, such as the use of live ammunition against protestors, the detention of minors, and warrantless searches, to evaluate whether these actions breach legal standards Bangladesh has formally agreed to uphold. Drawing on verified open-source […]
Kiran Waraich
College students are at a critical risk period for the emergence of a substance use disorder (SUD), showing the highest rates of alcohol and cannabis consumption of any age group. Standard prevention efforts by researchers often assert that negative consequences from substance use will deter students from further use; however, not all students interpret these consequences as equally negative. An understudied aspect of this equation is the evaluation of anticipated outcomes as positive or negative occurrences at different intersections of identity, which may shape substance-related decisions and outcomes. Thus, this […]
Priyanka Samant
A highly debated phenomenon within the phonetics-phonology interface is why consonant intrinsic fundamental frequency (CF0) differs based on voicing, or whether a sound theoretically involves vocal fold vibration. Cross-linguistically, voiced sounds (such as /b/, /d/, and /g/) have a low CF0, while voiceless sounds (such as /p/, /t/, and /k/) have a high CF0. Two theories drive this debate: a physiological account arguing that variation in anatomical muscle positioning accounts for this difference, and a phonological account arguing that mental abstractions of sounds are more crucial. Little work has been […]
Mars Redmon
Theory on development has its roots in organization among the Caribbean Left, especially in Jamaica. Kingston developed into an intellectual center with UWI Mona and a center of worker’s activity in the city. This development saw the emergence of a unique, Caribbean, Jamaican specific, political system in response to a theorized global system of centers and peripheries, which was crystallized by radical black activists. Despite Walter Rodney’s brief tenure in the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica, from January to October of 1968, his time and the ban […]
Toyon Kang
This project investigates how Noke Koĩ, an endangered Indigenous Amazonian language of the Panoan family spoken in Acre, Brazil, marks and tracks participants in discourse. While English uses a subject–object system, Noke Koĩ follows an ergative-absolutive system, in which agents of transitive verbs are marked differently from both affected participants and intransitive subjects. Ergative systems are relatively rare, found in about 17% of the world’s languages, and remain less studied than subject–object systems. In addition to ergativity, this project examines the presence of other grammatical systems, such as split or […]
Elsa Ying
During the 19th century, Chinese Americans’ claims of birthright citizenship when traveling to and from the United States were frequently challenged by immigration officials and the general public. In 1898, the U.S. Supreme Court formally upheld the principle of birthright citizenship through the landmark case United States v. Wong Kim Ark, wherein the citizenship of U.S.-born Chinese American Wong Kim Ark was recognized under the 14th Amendment. My project investigates how and why the Wong Kim Ark case in particular became the case that affirmed birthright citizenship on the national […]