Undergraduate Research Day 2009
English Education student Matthew Cunningham, with Provost Jack Thomas and Professor Emeritus Thomas Helm. Matthew presented "Banning Books: Beneficial or Bad?", mentored by Dr. Bonnie Sonnek. We have more pictures on Flickr.
Eighteen students and five faculty from the Department of English & Journalism participated in the 2009 Thomas E. Helm Undergraduate Research Day.
Congratulations to Kristina M. Pedroni, second place winner in the Podium Presentation category.
Our thanks to all the students and their faculty sponsors.
- American Cleavage: Utopian Fiction, Gender, and Fashion Trends
Ashley Busher and Dawn Cameron with Everett Hamner - An American in Spain: A Documentary of My Study Abroad Experience
Amanda Bollman with Everett Hamner - Banning Books: Beneficial or Bad?
Matt Cunningham with Bonnie Sonnek - Challenges in Supporting an Orphanage in Post-Civil War Sierra Leone
Emily Jackson with Everett Hamner - Consumer Instincts: Impulse Purchases of Popular Women's Magazines
Lauren Finkler with Neil Baird - Describing Life After Cancer: The Truth of the Struggle
Kate Duckworth with Shazia Rahman - Exploitation of Girls: A Study of Explicit and Non-Explicit Modeling
Timothy Kerofsky with Everett Hamner - Exploring Authenticity, Preservation, Westernization and Stereotypes through Native American and Indian Literature
Leslie Dunham and Kayla Maloney with Bonnie Sonnek - The Outsider: Identity and Minority Women’s Literature
Rebecca Eineke with Penny Kelsey - Reader Perception and Its Affects on Texts
Kristina Pedroni with Bonnie Sonnek - The Social Role of the Individual: Religious Pressure and Secular Integrity in Three Novels
Bryan Dietsch with Everett Hamner - A Study of Harlem Renaissance Literature
Neil Lesinski with Bonnie Sonnek - Ultra Political Football in Italy
Matt Mason with Shazia Rahman - Understanding Diverse Cultures Through Reading and Writing
Danielle Thielking, Lydia Loehner, & Abigail Klokkenga with Bonnie Sonnek
