CONWAY, Ark. (April 18, 2017) – The Hendrix College
Department of Sociology and Anthropology Department recently hosted the annual
Arkansas Sociology and Anthropology Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Presenters included students from Hendrix College, the
University of Central Arkansas, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, the
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and Arkansas Tech University. Papers
were grouped into sessions on Gender Roles & Identities, Social Justice,
Age Cohorts & Community Concerns (including a study of millennials), and
Organizations & Culture.
Hendrix student participants and their presentations include:
- Delaney Farris ’17 “Influence
of Traditional Gender Roles on Male Meat Consumption”
- Stephanie Goldner-Carver ’17
“An Ethnographic Perspective on Study Abroad Programs”
- Anna King ’17 “When
Lemons Are Lived Experience: Lemonade as a Black Feminist Text”
- Ana Poole ’17 “Female
Patient Identities as Shaped by Doctor-Patient Interactions”
- Haley Shefferman ’17 “Learning
and Listening: Promoting Minority Identities in Early Childhood Education”
- Mattie Thacker ’17 “Fighting
Homelessness with Homes: A Proposal for Enabling Autonomy of the Homeless”
The statewide undergraduate symposium was founded at Hendrix
College in 1979 by retired Hendrix sociology professor Dr. Jim Bruce and is
hosted by a different institution each year.
Hendrix sociology professor Dr. Stella Čapek was the
co-organizer, with ASAA President Sherry Skaggs of the University of Central
Arkansas (UCA), of this year’s program.
The program included a session in honor of the late Juanita
Sandford, a sociologist known for her social justice work and who received
an honorary degree from Hendrix in 1991. Sandford passed away last year. The Hendrix
Sociology/Anthropology Department’s Juanita D. Sandford Social Justice Award,
named in her honor, is given annually to an outstanding graduating senior who
has demonstrated the greatest commitment to using sociological/anthropological
knowledge to bring about a more just society.
About
Hendrix College
Hendrix College is a private liberal arts college in Conway,
Arkansas. Founded in 1876 and affiliated with the United Methodist Church since
1884, Hendrix is featured in Colleges
That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges and is
nationally recognized in numerous college guides, lists, and rankings for
academic quality, community, innovation, and value. For more information, visit
www.hendrix.edu.