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Alexis Colbert

Class of 2019
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About 

Hey everyone! My name is Alexis Colbert and I'm a '19, a senior, with a major in Anthropology and a minor in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies. I am a Senior Admissions Fellow and the Undergraduate Advisor (UGA) for the Gender Equity Program floor the 2018/19 school year. I have spent three terms abroad throughout my Dartmouth career and worked on a reflective project. In my free time I love to read, drink coffee, work with kids, and explore the arts.

Academic Program 

Anthropology

Favorite Thing Right Now 

Black Coffee

Hometown 

St. Louis, MO

Pronouns 

She/Her

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Alexis' D-Plan

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    • FallOn Campus

      Favorite Class: ANTH 01: Introduction to Anthropology

      Introduction to Anthropology is a course meant to show students the basics of anthropology along with the core theories. The focus is around the ability to evaluate differences in terms of similarities and vice versa. I took this course the fall of my freshman year with professor Watanabe and absolutely loved it, it's actually what got me to switch over to an anthropology major.

    • WinterOn Campus

      Favorite Class: SOCY 58: Education & Inequality

      Education and Inequality is a course that explores the effects of schools on society and vice versa, along with inequality within schools and how that can affect people's lives in the long term. This focuses on how race, gender, and socioeconomic class shape, and are shaped, by education. Taking this course, I had never taken a sociology class before, but I loved it. I had already been working with kids back home at this point and coming from a low income, single parent household I had lived some of the situations that we explored in the course.

    • SpringOn Campus

      Favorite Class: COLT 42.04: Forbidden Romance on the Global Stage

      Forbidden Romance was a chance for me to take a course just because it sounded interesting and I knew the professor. Though she is no longer at Dartmouth, I took this class with Prof. Choi who was an astoundingly sweet woman. Over the course of the term we talked about different types of romance that are considered taboo and "forbidden", why they are considered so, and how romantic taboos can vary from region to region. I had never imagined that I would give a presentation on Fifty Shades of Grey in college...but I did.

    • FallOn Campus

      Favorite Class: WGSS 43.03: Women and the Bible

      Women and the Bible was an exciting course for me because I was also using it as a way to have more input on a topic that I had been thinking about quite a lot: what is the place of women in the bible. The course talks about the representation and treatment of women in the bible, as well as how women interact with the bible and different feminist takes on passages. I think it's a really interesting course whether you're religious or not.

    • WinterOn Campus

      Favorite Class: GEOG 8: Life in the Anthropocene

      Life in the Anthropocene is a course starts off by asking the questions: what is the Anthropocene and are we indeed in it. From there, the course works to identity the geological and societal consequences of this. Not only did we talk about climate change, but we also talked about how climate change effects groups and how groups can also cause climate change. If this course sounds interesting to you, I also suggest you read the Great Derangement.

    • SpringOn Campus

      Favorite Class: SART 15: Drawing I

      In high school I became really interested in art, but when I first came to Dartmouth my freshman year I really lost that. So taking Drawing I was more than getting rid of a distributive requirement for me. It gave me a chance to be in a real studio and pour myself into my artwork. It required a lot of time in the studio, but I think it was definitely worth it!

    • SummerOn Campus

      Favorite Class: FLIP 76: Dartfit

      DartFit was amazing! I took this gym class my sophomore summer, and yes, it was intense, it's a Dartmouth version of CrossFit, but my instructor was amazing. We called her Mad Maddie and she has her own website for personal training. I had taken Insanity with her two terms before. And the coolest part? Professor Hickox, the West House (best house) professor was taking the course as well. I literally worked out with my house professor three times a week.

    • FallSalmiya, Kuwait

      Favorite Class: American University of Kuwait Internship

      This was my off term. I took this time to find an internship and that ended up taking me all the way to Kuwait. I worked full time at the American University of Kuwait in the Marketing office, the Office of Student Life, and the Writing Center. For ten weeks I walked to and from work, tutored students, planned events for the university, wrote articles for the website, and transferred digital archives. Being able to see the Middle East from a perspective other than what is covered in Western television was priceless.

    • WinterAuckland, New Zealand

      Favorite Class: ANTH 51: Colonialism and its Legacies

      Colonialism is not an event, it is a process. For the winter, I decided to escape the Hanover cold and go to New Zealand where it was summer for the anthropology foreign study program (FSP). The course taught by a Dartmouth professor was my favorite by far. Professor Sienna Craig taught the course Colonialism and its Legacies, we also had a teacher's assistant named Grant that attended every lecture, and brought forth readings that I didn't know I needed in my life. Over the course of ten weeks you discuss the lasting effects of colonialism on communities, the prospect of decolonization and what that could mean or look like, and study the colonization of New Zealand.

    • SpringBarcelona, Spain

      Favorite Class: SPAN 5: History & Culture

      For the spring I went to Barcelona on the Spanish language study abroad (LSA). During my time there I took a course called History and Culture taught by a faculty member at the University of Barcelona. This course was my favorite because we spent a lot of time talking about art and how it relates to the social and political context of the artist. My favorite artist is Goya, he was a Spanish painter and during this class we spent over a week talking about him in lectures and also saw some of his most famous pieces in person while visiting Madrid.

    • FallOn Campus

      Favorite Class: WGSS 80: Seminar in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

      To complete the major or minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies it is required to take a senior seminar in the department. The themes change based on the professor, this fall our theme was Futurisms, but our professor allowed our research projects to be on any topic and range from essays to fiction to art projects. At the end of the term, I had produced a two part project on Black women in young adult vampire novels in the form of a research paper and accompanying multimedia painting. Who said research isn’t fun?

    • WinterOn Campus

      Favorite Class: SART 25: Painting 1

      Painting 1 was my second course in the Studio Art Department, the first being Drawing 1. Working with oil paint, we completed a range of paintings over the term geared to teach us about color, edges, and composition, among other things. Professor Enrico Riley was an amazing artist to learn from and often shared with us his philosophy around art, painting, and the relationships between colors. Whether or not I produced exclusively paintings that I felt were aesthetically pleasing, I learned about the theory and process of art making and the influence colors have on one another.

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Weekend in Hanover

Hanover is full of fun activities, and great people to spend your time with. It can often be hard to choose how to spend your time outside of classes. Here are just a few things I did this weekend. 

  1. No. 1

    PRIDE

    PRIDE

    PRIDE week here at Dartmouth kicked off on Friday. We had nice weather and even nicer PRIDE stickers. To kick everything off PRIDE prom was that night. It was my very first PRIDE prom and I had a blast. It was heartwarming to see so many queer folks getting together and being themselves- pridefully. Each year, different student artists are asked to submit designed to the PRIDE logo based on the theme for the week. This year we are really focusing on intersectionality and the logo submission that was chosen (pictured above) looks amazing. 

  2. No. 2

    Bands!

    Bands

    There are multiple organizations on campus that bring in bands and performers to treat us here in Hanover. One of my favorites is in One Wheelock, a study space in the Collis Student Center, just about every Saturday in the spring term they bring a different artist to perform. Oh, and there's free pizza too. So on Saturday after a long day of babysitting and studying, I went over to watch Andrew Leahey and the Homestead perform songs from their new album. 

  3. No. 3

    Sunday Brunch-day

    brunch

    I love to cook, but I don't do it as often now that I'm in college. My friend Depy and I couldn't think of a better way to kick start our Sunday than making brunch together. Pictured above are stellar gluten-free pancakes, a Greek-style omelet, and dark roast coffee. After chowing down, we got to work completing readings and homework for class on Monday so that she could introduce me to the world of  Game of Thrones later. 

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