Dean's Award for Summer Research

Image credit to Joan E. Biren, ‘From Eye To Eye’, 1979. As I work towards the final draft of my…

If not reading for this project, I have been reading many of my own personal selections just for myself this…

I’m beginning to think deeper about the academic trend of ‘queering’ in which queer is made into a radical adjective…

When I think of “Biotech” the first that comes to mind is CRISPR. Yes, biotech includes genetic manipulation, DNA cloning,…

In digging deeper into my research about Guam and its colonial history, I have been able to solidify the main…

The most deceptively simple but essential art in comics is lettering: or, the speech bubbles. Lettering, sometimes called bubbling, is…

In the past 2 months, I have tumbled, erased, and drafted my way through the Gallatin Africa House Research Grant…

Throughout the summer I questioned whether the study of Shishkin, Savrasov and Levitan was a good topic for research, as…

The beginning of the school year is somehow swiftly approaching and as I’m drafting my research paper, I’m taking stock…

I left my previous blog post discussing and confronting the dualities and complications of the term “Universal” in relation to…

There’s a moment after digging through dozens of articles, going down rabbit holes of literature online, reading abstracts, yelling at…

At this point I’ve gathered and read through most of the primary sources and scholarly articles for the historical side…

   I have spent a great deal of time towards the end of my research on the question of openness in…

It has been about a week since I submitted my final research paper. I have finally settled emotionally about it…

As the summer comes closer to an end, I am considering the next steps as I work on turning my…

Through a lot of snowballing and reaching out, I was able to conduct my final interviews, and started working on…

The past few weeks have continued to be invigorating and exhausting. Coupling this work with engagement in the uprisings is…

The invisible microbial world of bacteria hosts a large range of functions that are vital for all life forms, yet…

The cover of vol, 2 issue 3 of ‘Momazons’, a newsletter for lesbian mothers. September 1993. This past month I…

To adapt to my new research focus, the past few weeks I have set out to get to know potential…

I decided to write another abstract to help center me back at the core of my research. With all the…

Ahead of Liberation Day on Guam, I came across this article featuring a list of war memorials which encourages Guam…

On the one year anniversary of my first return back home to Nigeria in over a decade, I reminisced on…

One of the things that has shocked me about this process is the fact that contributors have basically been falling…

I don’t think I have ever read a cookbook cover to cover, but Senegalese chef Pierre Thiam’s The Fonio Cookbook:…

After a month, I’m now 21 pages into my graphic novel. Hopefully, the prologue and first dozen-something pages will have…

Looking through the artist’s biographies, identifying who they spoke with and seeing which aspects of other artist’s works came into…

In this next chapter of my research I have been studying Foucault’s writings on the care of the self, which…

I’m getting into the second stage of my research, crossing from premodern sources to roughly early modern ones. The 1602…

The third encounter with the director of Elinga Theatre Jose Mena Abrantes happened this afternoon. In the hour before the…

I am in a messy place with my research. As I am continuing to read and watch and search, I…

Transcribing is a LONG process. That’s the whole blog post. In reality, I’ve been avoiding transcribing interviews and have done…

The last half month has been overwhelming to say the least. I have spent most all of the days at…

This past month of conducting my research, I’ve been focusing on analyzing my data that I acquired from my experimental…

Having experimented with some basic means of controlling addressable LEDs via Arduinos and experimenting with the projection of oscillator synthesized…

After a few more slow weeks, I finally managed to organize a some interviews and get the surveys out and…

            I have come across an interesting work about the religious markets in China by Fenggang Yang, and I wish…

Content warning: This post contains discussion of sexual violence and police brutality. “I saw a demon on my shoulder, it’s…

“The pottery class exists so the clay can draw the poison out of the students’ fingers.” David Kidd Alex Kerr,…

In most instances, before LGBTQ+ folks can ‘come out’ to the world or even to a larger queer community, they…

This phase of my research has me delving into the completely novel world of Arduinos, elementary electrical engineering, and C+…

Admittedly, my research has not been progressing as swiftly or smoothly as I’d like it to. It has been difficult…

What can fermentation tell us about microbial communities? What does Kefir a fermented food product made up of yeasts, acetic…

I like to think that my desk is reflective of the state of our planet, with uprisings, rage, and love…

A Classic of Mountains and seas (山海经) is a central foundation for my research project. For all of its influence…

To begin my research this summer, I conducted a literature review of the experimental methods being used by scientists to…

My research this summer serves to support my MA thesis which focuses on the contributions of Chicago-based dancer, choreographer, artistic…

Halfway, Oregon. Photo by JH Moyer, Shared using Creative Commons License Initially, my plan for this summer was to travel…