Gould Library Digitally Archived Student Comps Papers

Carleton has instituted a college-wide policy to create an electronic archive of all comps. Access to the full text of works is limited to the original author of the work, current faculty, and faculty-approved Carleton students and staff. Learn more about how to submit work and request access.

2025

Monarch Kelly

A League of Legends of their Own: The Politics of Gender Representation in Video Games post Gamergate

Location: PAPER


Karina Morales-Pineda

The Brown Berets in the Chicano Movement and Gloria Arellanes – ¿Feminist and Chicanas, Dónde Estamos?

Location: PAPER


*Annanya Sinha

Beyond Hijra: Politics of Respectability, Identity and Mythmaking in Kolkata’s Transgender Communities

Location: PAPER & ONLINE

2024

*T’airra Champliss

Cultivating Healing Within: Spirituality, Self-Love, and Personal Empowerment for Black Women, Femmes, and Non-Binary Folks

Location: PAPER & ONLINE


*Arthur Onwumere

Believe, Advocate, and Uplift: The Black Maternal Health Crisis in Minnesota’s Hennepin and Ramsey Counties

Location: PAPER & ONLINE

2023

*Abby Banks-Hehenberger

Juicy Girls and Crocodile Tears: The Emergence of Anti-Trafficking Rhetoric in South Korea and its Impact on the Domestic Sex Industry from 2002 to 2018

Location: PAPER


Tess Barton

The Effects of Reproductive Governance and Anti-Genderist Discourses on Women on Web (WoW) in Germany, Indonesia, Japan, and Sri Lanka

Location: PAPER


Lillian Berets

Sharing Our Roots: A Radical Economy of Community Carework

Location: PAPER & ONLINE


Anna Halladay

Negotiation of Sexist Norms in the Music of the Lunachicks: A Musicological Approach 

Location: PAPER & ONLINE


*Hannah Klein

Uncensored Trans Desire: Overt Sexuality and Trans Identities in Contemporary Music

Location: PAPER & ONLINE


Dhamar Magdaleno Urquieta

(In)Visible Lovers: A look into Lesbian Representation in Horror Films 

Location: PAPER


Eko Manson

Collaging Queerness: Approaches to Visualizing and Verbalizing Gender

Location: PAPER


Binny Onabolu

From the Margins to the Center: How Black Feminist Thought Corrects Critical White Pedagogy 

Location: PAPER


*Mikhalina Solakhava

Wives and Witches of the Thrice-Tenth Kingdom: Translation Politics and Gender Discourses in Belarusian Fairytales

Location: PAPER & ONLINE

2022

*Ale Cota

The Ghosts of M/otherhood: How the Monster Figure Imagines Queer Futures Against the Wreckage of War in On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Location: PAPER


Ash Mei

Encrypted: A Study on Reactions to Anti-Asian Sentiment

Location: PAPER & ONLINE

2021

No comps due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2020

*Emma Gautier

Nowness: A Space for the Unfolding of Queer Politics

Location: PAPER & ONLINE

2019

*Evie Odden

Politicizing Pedagogy: Student Anti-Rape Activism at Carleton College, 1986-1992

Location: PAPER & ONLINE

2018

Taylor Gaines

Black Boys in Moonlight: Questions of Representation and the Invisibility of the Black Queer Subject in Contemporary Media

Location: N/A


*Chue Lor

From the Sky, Orphans will Come: Writing on Hmong Subjectivity

Location: PAPER


*Naomi Price-Lazarus

Resisting Precarity: How “At-Risk” Youth Embody, Perform, and Contest their Ascribed Identities

Location: PAPER & ONLINE


Jake Woodward

When Impossibility is the Only Possibility: Art and an Embrace of Invisibility

Location: PAPER

2017

Sky Perlman

“I Am the Flag of Islam”: Identity Negotiation Among Somali Muslim Women in Minnesota

Location: PAPER & ONLINE


*Claire Rostov 

Sacred Love, Dangerous Desire and the Child: Reinforcing and Subverting Gender Norms in Contemporary Children’s Bibles

Location: PAPER


*Alice Welna

Gender Expression and Transphobia: Cisgender Reactions to Gender Nonconformity Among Transgender Women and Men

Location: PAPER


*Danmei (Melanie) Xu

Of Exigencies and Erasure: Becoming Lala in Queer Urban China

Location: PAPER

2016

Clare Hiyama

Kinship Across the Color Line: Conceptions of Race, Racial Identity, and Racial Socialization in Interracial Mother-Daughter Relationships

Location: PAPER & ONLINE

2015

*Rachel Clark 

Feminist Theories & Dance Histories: In Collective Search of Female Subjectivity 

Location: PAPER & ONLINE


*Victoria Sánchez

Sex, Respectability, and Candy: The New Limits of Normativity in Queer El Paso, Texas

Location: PAPER & ONLINE