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Perry Gregory: Butch / Femme Media

Posted on 24 August, 202015 September, 2020 by Perry Gregory

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

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Sam Cheng: On Teranga

Posted on 22 August, 202015 September, 2020 by Sam Cheng

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

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Kai Sundermann: “Queering” and The Academy

Posted on 20 August, 202015 September, 2020 by Kai Sean Sundermann

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

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Annick Saralegui: What even is Biotech? – Traditional Wisdom of Fermentation

Posted on 17 August, 202020 August, 2020 by Annick Saralegui

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

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Meagen Tajalle: Guam on Screen

Posted on 16 August, 202020 August, 2020 by Meagen Tajalle

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

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Jules Talbot: Bubble, Bubble . . .

Posted on 16 August, 202020 August, 2020 by Jules Talbot

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

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Zoe Vongtau: Lightbulbs and Webs

Posted on 16 August, 202020 August, 2020 by Zoe Vongtau

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

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Nika Dzeban: Looking to Other Exhibits for an Inspiration

Posted on 16 August, 202020 August, 2020 by Nika Dzeban

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

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Caroline Shadle: Archives, Interviews, and a Cemetery Trip

Posted on 15 August, 202020 August, 2020 by Caroline Shadle

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

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Asia Lo Savio: The Space In Between.

Posted on 15 August, 202020 August, 2020 by Asia Lo Savio

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

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Joel Lee: Henry Jenkins, my king.

Posted on 15 August, 202020 August, 2020 by Joel Lee

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

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Illia Zheng: Cross-Cultural and Bilingual Research

Posted on 14 August, 202020 August, 2020 by Illia Zheng

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

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Miriam Ambrosino: The ‘Problem and Promise’ of Interdisciplinary Research

Posted on 13 August, 202020 August, 2020 by Miriam Ambrosino

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

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Boheng Zhang-Some Post Research Thoughts

Posted on 13 August, 202020 August, 2020 by Hugh Zhang

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

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Neva Luthria: Next steps for my research

Posted on 11 August, 202020 August, 2020 by Neva Luthria

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

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Melchior Tamisier-Fayard: Final interviews

Posted on 11 August, 202020 August, 2020 by Melchior Tamisier-Fayard

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

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Sophie Jones: interviews of zad visitors

Posted on 11 August, 202020 August, 2020 by Sophie Jones

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

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Annick Saralegui: Opportunities in Microbial Pigmentation

Posted on 6 August, 202020 August, 2020 by Annick Saralegui

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

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Perry Gregory: Conceptualizing Community

Posted on 6 August, 202020 August, 2020 by Perry Gregory

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

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Jay Simpson: Mapping a multispecies approach to human-canid relationships

Posted on 3 August, 202020 August, 2020 by Jay Simpson

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

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Joel Lee

Joel Lee: A refreshed abstract! & update.

Posted on 25 July, 202020 August, 2020 by Joel Lee

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

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Meagen Tajalle – July Blog: Reflections on Self-Guidance

Posted on 20 July, 202020 July, 2020 by Meagen Tajalle

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

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Zoe Vongtau: The Bodymind at Home

Posted on 20 July, 20204 August, 2020 by Zoe Vongtau

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

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Ugochi Egonu: On broadening the narrative

Posted on 17 July, 202020 July, 2020 by Ugochi Egonu

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

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Sam Cheng: Peanut vs Fonio

Posted on 16 July, 202020 July, 2020 by Sam Cheng

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

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Jules Talbot: Prologue

Posted on 16 July, 202020 July, 2020 by Jules Talbot

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

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Nika Dzeban: Shishkin and the Beautiful Subtleties

Posted on 15 July, 202020 July, 2020 by Nika Dzeban

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

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Miriam Ambrosino: Care of The Self

Posted on 15 July, 202020 July, 2020 by Miriam Ambrosino

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

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Illia Zheng: the Matteo Ricci Map

Posted on 15 July, 202020 July, 2020 by Illia Zheng

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

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Asia Lo Savio: The Global Map of Angolan Theatre

Posted on 15 July, 202015 August, 2020 by Asia Lo Savio

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

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Caroline Shadle: Research Threads and Potential Interpretations

Posted on 15 July, 202020 July, 2020 by Caroline Shadle

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

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Joel Lee: Transcripts! Literature! Yaoi! & Lil Miquela.

Posted on 15 July, 202020 July, 2020 by Joel Lee

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

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Sophie Jones: Learning from the Zad Amidst a City on Fire

Posted on 13 July, 202020 July, 2020 by Sophie Jones

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

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Neva Luthria: Quantifying the results of an electrocatalysis experiment

Posted on 12 July, 202020 July, 2020 by Neva Luthria

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

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Kai Sundermann: Light Performances

Posted on 11 July, 202020 July, 2020 by Kai Sean Sundermann

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

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Melchior Tamisier-Fayard: Convenience, Harmony, and Isolation

Posted on 8 July, 202020 July, 2020 by Melchior Tamisier-Fayard

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

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Boheng Zhang: The Tripartite Religious Market Model

Posted on 3 July, 202020 July, 2020 by Hugh Zhang

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

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Ugochi Egonu: Before We Become Ancestors

Posted on 26 June, 202020 July, 2020 by Ugochi Egonu

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

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Nika Dzeban: A Key to 19th Century Russian Landscapes – Japan Studies?

Posted on 19 June, 202020 July, 2020 by Nika Dzeban

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

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Perry Gregory: Invisibility and Isolation In Flux

Posted on 19 June, 20205 August, 2020 by Perry Gregory

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

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Asia Lo Savio: Puzzling the Puzzle

Posted on 18 June, 202020 July, 2020 by Asia Lo Savio

As I discover the elements, dynamics and conditions that describe Angolan’s modern history, the country presents a confluence of cultures…

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Kai Sundermann: A Repertoire of Shimmers; The Queer Practice of Light-Percussion

Posted on 18 June, 202020 July, 2020 by Kai Sean Sundermann

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

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Sam Cheng: (sub)Urban Gardens and Seeding Joy

Posted on 17 June, 202017 June, 2020 by Sam Cheng

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

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Annick Saralegui – What can fermentation tell us about microbial communities?

Posted on 16 June, 202016 June, 2020 by Annick Saralegui

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

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Zoe Vongtau: Holding Space & Directing Energy

Posted on 16 June, 202016 June, 2020 by Zoe Vongtau

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

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Jules Talbot: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Graphic Novelization

Posted on 16 June, 202016 June, 2020 by Jules Talbot

My project is a graphic novel called I Am Dead Horatio: an adaptation of Hamlet retold from the point of…

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Illia Zheng: Getting into the Classic of Mountains and Seas

Posted on 14 June, 202015 June, 2020 by Illia Zheng

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

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Neva Luthria: Nanotechnology and Electrocatalysis for CO2

Posted on 14 June, 202015 June, 2020 by Neva Luthria

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

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Caroline Shadle: Considering Dance’s Socio-Political Role

Posted on 14 June, 202015 June, 2020 by Caroline Shadle

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

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Halfway, Oregon by JH Moyer, Shared using Creative Commons License

Jay Simpson: A Multispecies Approach to Human-Canid Relationships

Posted on 14 June, 202016 June, 2020 by Jay Simpson

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

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