Student Research Partnerships Summer 2013
Kelly Connole (Studio Art) and Ellen Kwan ’15 will pursue research on contemporary ceramic artists who address issues of sexual politics and expressions of sexuality in their work.
Stephanie Cox (French) and Nayely Martinez ’16 will create a website for Stephanie’s ibook, which is an interactive Spanish intermediate reader for young adults and independent learners. This graphic novel tells the story of Finita Delgado, a Cuban American who lives in Florida and decides to go back to Cuba to find her father.
Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg (Sociology/Anthropology) and Emily Scotto ’14 are going to collect and analyze bibliographic materials on Prof. Feldman-Savelsberg’s ongoing work about the reproductive practices and communities of Cameroonian immigrants in Germany, Professor
Bill North (History), William Schedl ’14, and Emma Burd ’15 will work on the translation and annotation of two early fifteenth-century Franciscan writers on the Ottomans and develop web pages on exchanges between Ottomans, Westerners, and Byzantine Greeks to serve as a resource for scholars outside of Carleton as well.
Liz Raleigh (Sociology) will work with Mo Vue ’14 to analyze oral interviews and other sources on the racialization and commodification of the private adoption process.
Shana Sippy (Religion), Izzy Zeits-Moskin and Hannah Telegen ’14 will develop the public presence of the Religious Diversity in MN, Global Religions website project, to ensure that the extensive student and faculty civic engagement research becomes polished public scholarship.
Constance Walker (English) and Erin Winter ’15 will create and analyze a database of references to women artists within the work of women writers of the Regency period.
Harry Williams and Jay Shen ’15 are creating an annotated bibliography that consists of books and articles related to the Cultural Revolution
Thabiti Willis (History) and Peter Franco ’14 will create a video documentary about the Egungun masquerade in Nigeria.
Serena Zabin (History) and Jordan Stevens ’14 are traveling to the Boston Public Library to gather materials for Prof. Zabin’s project on the Boston Massacre.