Dean's Award for Summer Research

I rode an elephant the day before yesterday at the Circus World museum in Baraboo, WI. Tracey was one of…

At this point of my research, I’m thinking about the creative “mis-reading” of subversive philosophical texts in places outside France,…

I have spent the past month investigating different ways of using scores as a way to ‘source’ designs from existing…

In this mid-August, Japan is still very hot. Every summer, I experience summer becoming hotter and hotter because of the…

At the Paley Center for Media, I was fortunate to meet the library supervisor who gave me a series of…

Hi all! My tendonitis is terrible this week and so typing is quite painful… I’ve done a recording instead (see…

The broad question “what are policy supports and barriers for urban gardeners to obtain healthy soils?” led me this summer…

I am writing from Suzhou, China, a city I lived in for a long time. The familiar comforts of home,…

By 1990, Albania’s economy was in ruins, following the end of Communist rule. Social and political unrest was reaching dangerous…

Starting work in the studio this past month, this “sort of a table design project” took a turn towards a…

       Though the summer is coming to an end, I cannot help but feel that my research is…

Well, a lot has happened (of course) since my last post way back when in June. But I suppose I…

Hello DASR blog! My name is Madeline Hoak, and I am studying the exchange of cultural knowledge between American audiences…

As I’ve been doing my research, I’ve constantly been questioning the fact that I am continually relying on digital technology…

I have just completed three weeks in London at a Summer Studio at The Bartlett School of Architecture. Although not…

Families have offered a nexus of care and resources to offspring throughout modern history. Looking into how family structures have…

I am conducting research in Los Angeles to gain context for, through the combination of archival research and selected scholarly…

This is the third day of my travel for the research. I am currently in Xining, trying to observe and…

As I continue working on my research, I’ve been thinking about what the connections are between coverage of Panama and…

Japan is in Tsuyu (rainy) season right now, and right before an election. It is humid, and is a transition…

It has been two weeks of meandering and walking about in Kyoto’s neighborhoods. Within this time frame, I have stayed…

This summer I am studying soil ecology at The Earth Institute at Columbia University and developing research on the connections…

Unfortunately, right upon finishing up a summer program in Berlin, it is still not yet time for me to visit…

My project centers on the tension between philosophy and political actions. My major field of study is French philosopher Gilles…

Learned that the co-op has its genesis in the Cooper Square Committee’s (CSC) “Alternate Plan,” a critical reformulation of a…

My project is investigating the use of self portraiture in feminist art. I have always been interested in gendered paradigms…

My study examines the linguistic aspects of arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court. I am particularly interested in the use of…

Cover of the Italian glamor magazine Panorama, March 27, 2019.   Headline:  “Immigration: Permission to be drug dealers. Repeat offenders,…

Webster’s dictionary defines the term “family” as “a group of people who are related to each other” and the term…

My studies are centered around ways of understanding how digital technology has impacted democratic-capitalism. I want to explore the ways…

My study is centered around at understanding migration in the era of late capitalism through the lens of the Chinese…

I sat around a communal market table here in Mexico City yesterday.   The group of tables, each roughly six…

Eia mākou i mua kou alo              Here we are before you Na hoa ‘āina ‘imi i ka pono          Friends seeking…

The driving telos of this study is to more deeply interrogate structures of religion through the use of material culture…

When outlining my research plans for the summer, I intended to first spend time building a theoretical and methodological framework…

The website for the 4th st food co-op—on the ‘about us’ page, under the ‘ethics’ heading (which, like, who wrote…

Welcome to the blog for the 2019 winners of the Dean’s Award for Summer Research (DASR). It’s time for another…

The direction of my investigation has shifted significantly since my last post, adapting to circumstance, and I think for the…

As my research is mainly based in Marxist theory, a lot of it has to do with considering the ways…

My last blog post addressed writing my IRB application for this project and the long approval process. Luckily, the IRB…

Charles O. Hartman, in his book Virtual Muse, insists of computer-generated poetry, “The question isn’t exactly whether a poet or a computer…

“Our conclusion should include some sort of recommendations for assisting the Brentwood community, right?” I ask my research partner, Raven…

Since writing my last blog post, I have reached significant advances as well as confronted a few setbacks in conducting…

At this time in my research process I have inverted the scope of my field of view with regard to…

The last time I wrote a post I was thinking about the research paper and how the “theory and practice,”…

(A map of the Inwood Rezoning Area. Source: New York City Economic Decelopment Corporation) For the second segment of my…

This summer I visited San Francisco to seek out “queer” churches to illustrate that queer spaces do exist within a…