Washington and Lee University
The following students presented papers at the Annual Meeting of the Virginia Social Science Association in 2008: Chun Yi Sum ('08), "The 1911 'Revolution' and the Rise of Modern Chinese Nationalism;" George Hunter ('08), "The Chinese Communist Revolution: The Case for a Non-Marxist Interpretation;" Erica Carson ('09), "The Iranian Revolution of 1979;" Christopher Rucker ('09), "Revolutionary Black Nationalism within the Ideology of the Nation of Islam;" and Kate Shellnut ('08), "PostSecret as an Online Confessional."
Emily Coyle ('10) presented her paper "Towards More Intelligent Play: Barbie in a Multi-Ethnic Society" in the session "Beauty and the Body" (which she also chaired) at the Southern Anthropological Society 2008 Meeting in Staunton, Virginia.
Abigail Gage ('08) and Anna Pendley ('09) gave papers at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference in 2008. Abigail Gage discussed "Six Inches Under: Monongahela Burials from the Phillips site." Anna Pendley presented "Geomorphology of the New Deal-excavated Fort Hill Monongahela Village Site and Its Surroundings."
Jennifer Sproul ('08) and Leslie Cintron (Assistant Professor of Sociology) presented their co-authored paper "Examining Attitudes of 'Generation Y' College Students toward Work and Family" at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in New York City in 2008.
Abbie Jackson ('07) won the 2007 Archaeological Society of Virginia's student paper competition. Abbie's paper, "A Second Look at Representation Issues at Washington and Lee University," critically analyzes how the school’s history and archaeology were represented by the University administration. Abbie is currently working towards her Masters in Applied Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park.