
Research
Work in Progress
Beautiful Resistance: Analyzing Central Florida BIPOC & LGBT+ Online Grassroots Organization, Mutual Aid, Zine Production and Other Resistance Rituals in the Wake of Trump's New Era
senior thesis

Cosmetic Reflections of Race in the DR
ANT 306 Medicine and Culture
Dr. Shan Estelle Brown
Spring 2025
What does it mean when every day hair care rituals become vessels for racialized affect, cosmetic citizenship, and diffused eugenics?

who is denise? an autoethnography on place, memory, & selfhood
ANT 395 Place, Memory, Selfhood
Dr. Andres Romero
Spring 2025
10 schools, 6 cities, 1 Denise–what does this render? This project aims to understand my unique life trajectory by navigating my multiple identities.

Mormon Latinos:
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as a Conduit For Assimilation Among Immigrant Origin Latinos in Utah
HIST 395 Religion in Latin America
Dr. Madeleine Olson
Spring '24

AP Capstone Project:
Analyzing the Presence of Political and Racial Residential Self-Segregation in North Brevard County, FL
AP RESEARCH
Aug 2022-May 2023
An original, self-conducted study that explores the intricate links between residential self-segregation and political polarization

Winter Park Library:
An Observational Study On Recreational Spaces Following Recent Renovation
ANT 312 Ethnographic Methods
Dr. Shan Estelle Brown
Spring '24
A pioneering group study analyzing the efficacy of the new library's event spaces, following redesign by coveted National African American Museum of History and Culture architect, David Adjaye

Spiritual Citizenship:
Synthesizing themes on the sacred, Afro-Caribbean spirituality, & Ontology
ANT 395 Latin American Ethnography
Dr. Andres Romero
Spring 2024
A final course project analyzing works by N. Fadeke Castor and Laurie Denyer Willis


Other Relevant Coursework
Following suit with my liberal arts education, here are a few other related courses that I have taken, with the ultimate goal to carefully synthesize a holistic and interdisciplinary curriculum in Anthropology and beyond.
Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Sociology
Rollins Foundation in the Liberal Arts & Beyond
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Latin American & Caribbean Society
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Latin American History: Readings and Film
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Violence & Security in Latin America
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Latin American Literature: Race, Class, Gender
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Topics: Latin American Comics
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The Sociological Perspective
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Sociology of Pop Culture
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Sociology Emotions
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Social Movements
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Statistics & Data Analysis for Social Sciences
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Extremes of Religion
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Fashion and the Body
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Psychology of Human Adjustment
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Introduction to International Studies
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Advertising
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Internship in Anthropology
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Studies in Print Making
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Righting Wrongs
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