This Year's Seniors:

In the fall of 2007, Macalester welcomed 485 students in the Class of 2011. Sixty-eight percent of those students were in the top 10 percent of their graduating class and 41 were National Merit Scholars. They represented 45 states.

Award Winners

• Morgan Sleeper '11 and Keren Yohannes '11 have been awarded Thomas J. Watson Fellowships
• Fulbrights
• Julia Smith Receives Fulbright Award to Mexico
• Ruth Conkling Receives Fulbright Award to Germany
• Jamila Humphrie Receives Fulbright Award to Brazil
• Emily Christie Receives Honorable Mention by the Law and Society Association in the Association’s 2011 Undergraduate Student Prize Competition
• Senior Sociology Majors Evelyn Daugherty, Jenny Evgenia Grinblo, and Morgen Chang Won the Top Three Prizes at the 48th Annual Midwest Sociological Society Student Paper Competition.

Honors Projects

• What is the effect of trade on the gender wage gap in the Mexican manufacturing sector?, jimerson j. asencio ferrufino
• “Since the War They Are All Bad” – Biopolitics, State Racism, and the (De)Legitimizing Discourses of Violence in U.S. – Dakota Relations, Stefan Aune
• Being Seen: An Art Historical and Statistical Analysis of Feminized Worship in Early Modern Rome, Olivia J. Belote
• Grassroots Gypsies, Roma Representatives: Political Disjuncture and Ethnicity in Romania, Margaretha Blignaut
• Building an Asia-Pacific Security Community: A Role for Australia?, Jonathan K. Chen
• Bidding (Fair)well to Due Process: The Need for a Fairer Final Stage in Special Education Dispute Resolution, Calanthe Cope-Kasten
• DeBrazza’s Monkeys (Cercopithecus neglectus) in a Mixed-Taxa Zoo Exhibit: Effects on the Behavior of a Breeding Group of DeBrazza’s Monkeys After the Birth of an Infant, Rachel Diamond
• New Silhouettes of African Women: How Women in Botswana Juggle Work and Home-Based Roles, Joanna Dobson
• Look on Our Works: Ethnography and Aesthetics at the Musée du Quai Branly, Andrew Goodhouse
• Le Langage des jeunes : l’utopie des jeunes de Parc 18, Julia F. Hechler
• Joy Home, Jeffrey C. Henebury
• El derecho para decir “sí, quiero”: el movimiento LGBTQ en los EE.UU., España, y la Argentina, Jamila A. Humphrie
• How Does Light Rail Transit Affect Urban Land Use?, Needham B. Hurst
• The Epistulae of Marcus Aurelius and Fronto: A Study and Commentary, Christopher W. Larabee
• Can We Laugh? Jewish American Comedy's Expression of Anxiety in a Time of Change, 1965-1973, Emily Schorr Lesnick
• Mythological History, Identity Formation, and the Many Faces of Alexander the Great, James Mayer
• Tokyo's "Human Accidents": Jinshin Jiko and the Social Meaning of Train Suicide, Mark Saldaña
• El Rol Esencial de La Educación y La Salud en la Estrategia Microfinanciera: Un Comentario Sobre El Neoliberalismo Contemporáneo, Julia Smith
• How Do 100% Smoke-Free Bans Affect Smoking Behavior?, Elizabeth K. Vermann
• How Does Average Protein Consumption Affect Happiness?, Nina Wellander
• A War Within World War II: Racialized Masculinity and Citizenship of Japanese Americans and Korean Colonial Subjects, Jeffrey Yamashita