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Nine Lafayette students are presenting original work at the Eighth Annual Undergraduate Women’s Studies Conference Saturday at DeSales University, Center Valley, Pa.
Focusing this year on the theme “Our Brave New World: Currents in Women’s Studies,” the conference is sponsored by the Women’s Studies Coalition of the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges. Contributions may include papers, presentations, performances, videos, artwork, or original literature.
Lafayette’s Debbie Byrd, associate professor of English, and Liz McMahon, professor of mathematics, are among the LVAIC Women’s Studies Coalition representatives.
The following are the Lafayette students with their class years, majors, home towns, and presentation titles:
Jennifer Carty ’04, English major, Egg Harbor Township, N.J., “When She Told Me,” a creative writing personal narrative;
Sylvia Anserian ’04, anthropology and sociology, River Edge, N.J., and part-time student Lori Catanzaro-Vitko, “Rockin’ Brianna in the Singing Blues: Promoting Body Self- Esteem in Elementary School Children,” a puppet show implemented at March Elementary School;
Amanda Roth ’04, double major in philosophy and gender & racial issues, Easton, Pa., and Catharine Auch ’03, American Studies, Greenwich, Conn., “Menstruation: Cultural and Familial Variations”;
Caitlyn Kelleher ’03, American Studies, Springfield, Va., “Working in the Best Interest of the Child: Expanding Stepparents’ Rights to Custody”;
Sarah Allyn Stocker ’03, government and law, Harrison, N.Y., “Victim Abuse in Domestic Homicide”;
Kimberly Rubenfeld ’03, psychology, Somerset, N.J., “Gender-Typing’s Effect on Communication Styles: Variations in Giving and Receiving support”;
Jessica Weisslitz ’02, English, Millburn, N.J., “Happy Hour,” creative writing on Tourette syndrome.
Sylvia Anserian ’04 (left) and Lori Vitko (right) were inspired by Women’s Studies class of Deborah Byrd, associate professor of English, to do a puppet-show on positive body image for elementary school students.