{"id":922,"date":"2015-04-03T10:21:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T14:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/?p=922"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:05:07","slug":"sociology-thesis-students-present-at-mt-david-summit-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/2015\/04\/03\/sociology-thesis-students-present-at-mt-david-summit-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociology Thesis Students Present at Mt. David Summit 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mount David Summit is an annual celebration of student research, artistic work, and community-based scholarship at Bates College.<\/p>\n<p>Each year at the end of the winter semester, students from all classes present their work to each other and to faculty, staff, families and community members in a symposium format. The Summit spotlights the rich and varied academic activities of Bates students across the disciplines, and honors the vibrant intellectual life of the college. Named for the landmark &#8220;mountain&#8221; on the campus, the Summit is guided by the motto of the college &#8212; <em>Amore ac Studio<\/em> &#8212; loosely translated, With Love and Zeal, With Ardor and Devotion: devotion to scholarship, creativity, and the life of the mind.<\/p>\n<p>This year, students presented a panel &#8220;Understand Self and Society: Sociology Thesis Research&#8221; moderated by Heidi Taylor, Chair and Professor of Sociology.\u00a0 The various topics presented were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\"><strong>Quincy Snellings &#8217;15<\/strong>: Is Whiteness Privileged? A Study of Bates Students&#8217; Racial Awareness<\/li>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\"><strong>Michelle Pham &#8217;15<\/strong>: Deconstructing Lingerie: Under the Garments<\/li>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\"><strong>Elena Jay &#8217;15<\/strong>: The Great Fire of Valpara\u00edso, Chile: A Case Study of a Socially-Produced Disaster<\/li>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\"><strong>Hiu Man Wong &#8217;15<\/strong>: Transcending the Discourse of Hero and Victim: Overseas Filipina Domestic Workers&#8217; Experiences in the Global Care Chain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mount David Summit is an annual celebration of student research, artistic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}