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