CCS Students at Undergraduate Research Symposium 2025

Posted by Katrina Maggiulli on May 5, 2025

CCS is celebrating the 15 Comparative Cultural Studies students who presented at the 2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium held on April 25! Below are photos of all our fantastic students with their posters or oral presentations as they present their original research.

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Ronit Patel and Miles McCoy (Advisor: Dr. Gioia Woods): “1966’s Star Trek and American Counterculture”
student in tie and glasses smiles in front of a poster
Henry Magill (Advisor: Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulacsi): “EARLY EXPEDITIONARY PHOTOGRAPHY: The Building of the Lo Archive of the Dunhuang Caves”
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Shaelyn Fett (Advisor: Dr. Becky Pratt-Sturges): “The Divided City of Walls and Bridges: Mapping Identity in Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland”
two students smiling in front of a poster and laptop
Laura Barclay and Ben Osborn (Advisor: Dr. Becky Pratt-Sturges): “Through the Lens: Repeat Photography of the Southwest”

 

 

 

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Gracie Price (Advisor: Dr. Jason BeDuhn): “Soteriology & Christhood Endowed in the ‘Gospel of Truth'”
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Kailey Cooper (Advisor: Dr. Diana Coleman): “Mapping Religious and Spiritual Communities in Flagstaff and Bringing it into the Classroom”
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Rogelio Apodaca Zenil, Helen Louise Smith, & Alexandria Amari Ponce (Advisors: Björn Krondorfer & Pedro Gonzalez Corona): “Power of Blood: Mexico’s Casta Painting Exhibition”
student in glasses smiles in front of their poster
Grace Roberts (Advisor: Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulacsi): “Recovering the Iconographic Context of an Early Chinese Buddhist Statue (8th – 13th centuries CE)”
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Bear Bennion (Advisor: Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulacsi): “Reidentifying a Curious Bronze Statue from Han Dynasty China”
student in a vest presents their poster
Chenyue Deng (Advisor: Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulacsi): “Mid-20th Century Innovation of Chinese Art: Xu Beihong (1895-1953) and His Eastern-Western Perspectives”
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Michelle Tang, represented by Grace Roberts (Advisor: Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulacsi): “MIND, MACHINE, CANVAS: Technology Driven Painting Reflecting Intersections of Insomnia between Humans and Machine in Contemporary Chinese Art”
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Alex Williams (Advisor: Dr. Katrina Maggiulli): “A Product of Place: Arts & Crafts Architecture on the Colorado Plateau”

 

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