Symposium Participants
ACM colleges nominated students to participate in the 2010 Student Symposium on Off-Campus Study and give presentations about their experiences. The colleges' delegations to the Symposium include faculty members and administrators.
See video clips of the students' presentations!
Links below are to video clips and abstracts of the students' presentations and information about the participants.
Beloit College
- Anna Bryan - Engaging the Social Commentary Advertisements in the Moscow Metro: Modern-Day Propaganda?
- Phillip Thomas - Why Don't Men Study Abroad? Beloit College as a Case Study
- Donna Oliver, Professor of Russian
Carleton College
- Erin Anderson - Reconsiderations in the Wake of Development
- Khant Khant Kyaw - Women Economic Empowerment and Development: Definitions and Ways of Achieving Success and Empowerment through the Portraits and Voices of Women in Kenya
- Stacy Beckwith, Associate Professor of Hebrew, Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern Languages, and Director of Judaic Studies
- Bereket Haileab, Associate Professor of Geology
- Humberto Huergo, Professor of Spanish
Coe College
Colorado College
- Trevor Thomas - A Boy from the United States Looking for His Family
- Rakhi Voria - Entrepreneurship & Innovation: An Exploration of the Lessons I Learned from Creating My Own Business
- Charlotte Blessing, Director of International Programs
Cornell College
- Sam Arnold - Beyond the Clay
- Sarah McNutt - Post-Apartheid Language Policy in South Africa and Namibia
- Rocio Ayard-Ochoa, Assistant Director Of Intercultural Life
GRINNELL COLLEGE
- Addy Najera - Limitations and Possibilities: Cultural Awareness in India and Iowa
Knox College
- Ana Lucia Marquez - Exploring the Issues of Asylum and Migration in a European Context
- Emily Oliver - Poetry in Buenos Aires
- Annette Zak - The Journalist, Lost in Translation
- Robin Ragan, Associate Professor of Spanish, Co-Director of the Center for Global Studies
Lake Forest College
- Victoria Henson - Adventures of the Italian Tooth Mouse and the Baffling Qualities of Gravy: Culture in Dialogue
- Kathleen O'Mary - Cliché but True: How Italy Changed My Life
- Emilie Vrbancic - Understanding Ways to Empowerment in Microfinance: A Case Study of Women's Finance House Botswana
- Lynn Westley, Assistant Professor of Biology
Lawrence University
- Caitlyn Genovese - Better Homes and Gardens: St. Petersburg Edition
- Ana Kennedy - People Have the Power: Reflections on Coversations about Art and the Art of Conversation
- Patricia Vilches, Associate Professor of Spanish and Italian
Luther College
Macalester College
- Jamila Humphrie - El derecho para decir "Sí, quiero": El matrimonio como estrategia en el movimiento gay en Buenos Aires (The Right to Say "I do": Marriage as strategy in the gay movement of Buenos Aires)
- Pål Robson - Neoliberalism and Social Response: A Preliminary Study of the Peasantry in Alfaro Ruiz, Costa Rica
- Joo Ree Richards, Study Abroad Advisor
Monmouth College
- Robert Grafsgaard - Images from Italy
- Noelle Templeton - Playing Charades at the Opera: How Florence Taught Me to Make Fun, Friends, and Art in the Most Unexpected Places
- Kristin Larson, Associate Professor of Psychology
Ripon College
- Bill Blomfelt - Spells, Firebombing, and Unification: Things One Can Learn While Studying Abroad in Germany
- Heather Nennig - The Ocean as My Laboratory: The Buffering Effects of Atoll Islands on Ocean Acidification in the Equatorial Pacific
- Jerry Seaman, Vice President and Dean of the Faculty
St. Olaf College
- Eric Monek Anderson - The American City as Global Classroom: Chicago's Bid for the 2016 Olympics and Human Rights
- Ellyn Arevalo - Initiative Against Sexual Trafficking: Using Your Education to Meet Today's Pressing Issues
- Madeline Horan - Harmony in Japan
- Steve Soderlind, Professor of Economics