Image credit to Joan E. Biren, ‘From Eye To Eye’, 1979. As I work towards the final draft of my…
Sam Cheng: On Teranga
If not reading for this project, I have been reading many of my own personal selections just for myself this…
Kai Sundermann: “Queering” and The Academy
I’m beginning to think deeper about the academic trend of ‘queering’ in which queer is made into a radical adjective…
Annick Saralegui: What even is Biotech? – Traditional Wisdom of Fermentation
When I think of “Biotech” the first that comes to mind is CRISPR. Yes, biotech includes genetic manipulation, DNA cloning,…
Meagen Tajalle: Guam on Screen
In digging deeper into my research about Guam and its colonial history, I have been able to solidify the main…
Jules Talbot: Bubble, Bubble . . .
The most deceptively simple but essential art in comics is lettering: or, the speech bubbles. Lettering, sometimes called bubbling, is…
Zoe Vongtau: Lightbulbs and Webs
In the past 2 months, I have tumbled, erased, and drafted my way through the Gallatin Africa House Research Grant…
Nika Dzeban: Looking to Other Exhibits for an Inspiration
Throughout the summer I questioned whether the study of Shishkin, Savrasov and Levitan was a good topic for research, as…
Caroline Shadle: Archives, Interviews, and a Cemetery Trip
The beginning of the school year is somehow swiftly approaching and as I’m drafting my research paper, I’m taking stock…
Asia Lo Savio: The Space In Between.
I left my previous blog post discussing and confronting the dualities and complications of the term “Universal” in relation to…
Joel Lee: Henry Jenkins, my king.
There’s a moment after digging through dozens of articles, going down rabbit holes of literature online, reading abstracts, yelling at…
Illia Zheng: Cross-Cultural and Bilingual Research
At this point I’ve gathered and read through most of the primary sources and scholarly articles for the historical side…
Miriam Ambrosino: The ‘Problem and Promise’ of Interdisciplinary Research
I have spent a great deal of time towards the end of my research on the question of openness in…
Boheng Zhang-Some Post Research Thoughts
It has been about a week since I submitted my final research paper. I have finally settled emotionally about it…
Neva Luthria: Next steps for my research
As the summer comes closer to an end, I am considering the next steps as I work on turning my…
Melchior Tamisier-Fayard: Final interviews
Through a lot of snowballing and reaching out, I was able to conduct my final interviews, and started working on…
Sophie Jones: interviews of zad visitors
The past few weeks have continued to be invigorating and exhausting. Coupling this work with engagement in the uprisings is…
Annick Saralegui: Opportunities in Microbial Pigmentation
The invisible microbial world of bacteria hosts a large range of functions that are vital for all life forms, yet…
Perry Gregory: Conceptualizing Community
The cover of vol, 2 issue 3 of ‘Momazons’, a newsletter for lesbian mothers. September 1993. This past month I…
Jay Simpson: Mapping a multispecies approach to human-canid relationships
To adapt to my new research focus, the past few weeks I have set out to get to know potential…
Joel Lee: A refreshed abstract! & update.
I decided to write another abstract to help center me back at the core of my research. With all the…
Meagen Tajalle – July Blog: Reflections on Self-Guidance
Ahead of Liberation Day on Guam, I came across this article featuring a list of war memorials which encourages Guam…
Zoe Vongtau: The Bodymind at Home
On the one year anniversary of my first return back home to Nigeria in over a decade, I reminisced on…
Ugochi Egonu: On broadening the narrative
One of the things that has shocked me about this process is the fact that contributors have basically been falling…
Sam Cheng: Peanut vs Fonio
I don’t think I have ever read a cookbook cover to cover, but Senegalese chef Pierre Thiam’s The Fonio Cookbook:…
Jules Talbot: Prologue
After a month, I’m now 21 pages into my graphic novel. Hopefully, the prologue and first dozen-something pages will have…
Nika Dzeban: Shishkin and the Beautiful Subtleties
Looking through the artist’s biographies, identifying who they spoke with and seeing which aspects of other artist’s works came into…
Miriam Ambrosino: Care of The Self
In this next chapter of my research I have been studying Foucault’s writings on the care of the self, which…
Illia Zheng: the Matteo Ricci Map
I’m getting into the second stage of my research, crossing from premodern sources to roughly early modern ones. The 1602…
Asia Lo Savio: The Global Map of Angolan Theatre
The third encounter with the director of Elinga Theatre Jose Mena Abrantes happened this afternoon. In the hour before the…
Caroline Shadle: Research Threads and Potential Interpretations
I am in a messy place with my research. As I am continuing to read and watch and search, I…
Joel Lee: Transcripts! Literature! Yaoi! & Lil Miquela.
Transcribing is a LONG process. That’s the whole blog post. In reality, I’ve been avoiding transcribing interviews and have done…
Sophie Jones: Learning from the Zad Amidst a City on Fire
The last half month has been overwhelming to say the least. I have spent most all of the days at…
Neva Luthria: Quantifying the results of an electrocatalysis experiment
This past month of conducting my research, I’ve been focusing on analyzing my data that I acquired from my experimental…
Kai Sundermann: Light Performances
Having experimented with some basic means of controlling addressable LEDs via Arduinos and experimenting with the projection of oscillator synthesized…
Melchior Tamisier-Fayard: Convenience, Harmony, and Isolation
After a few more slow weeks, I finally managed to organize a some interviews and get the surveys out and…
Boheng Zhang: The Tripartite Religious Market Model
I have come across an interesting work about the religious markets in China by Fenggang Yang, and I wish…
Ugochi Egonu: Before We Become Ancestors
Content warning: This post contains discussion of sexual violence and police brutality. “I saw a demon on my shoulder, it’s…
Nika Dzeban: A Key to 19th Century Russian Landscapes – Japan Studies?
“The pottery class exists so the clay can draw the poison out of the students’ fingers.” David Kidd Alex Kerr,…
Perry Gregory: Invisibility and Isolation In Flux
In most instances, before LGBTQ+ folks can ‘come out’ to the world or even to a larger queer community, they…
Asia Lo Savio: Puzzling the Puzzle
As I discover the elements, dynamics and conditions that describe Angolan’s modern history, the country presents a confluence of cultures…
Kai Sundermann: A Repertoire of Shimmers; The Queer Practice of Light-Percussion
This phase of my research has me delving into the completely novel world of Arduinos, elementary electrical engineering, and C+…
Sam Cheng: (sub)Urban Gardens and Seeding Joy
Admittedly, my research has not been progressing as swiftly or smoothly as I’d like it to. It has been difficult…
Annick Saralegui – What can fermentation tell us about microbial communities?
What can fermentation tell us about microbial communities? What does Kefir a fermented food product made up of yeasts, acetic…
Zoe Vongtau: Holding Space & Directing Energy
I like to think that my desk is reflective of the state of our planet, with uprisings, rage, and love…
Jules Talbot: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Graphic Novelization
My project is a graphic novel called I Am Dead Horatio: an adaptation of Hamlet retold from the point of…
Illia Zheng: Getting into the Classic of Mountains and Seas
A Classic of Mountains and seas (山海经) is a central foundation for my research project. For all of its influence…
Neva Luthria: Nanotechnology and Electrocatalysis for CO2
To begin my research this summer, I conducted a literature review of the experimental methods being used by scientists to…
Caroline Shadle: Considering Dance’s Socio-Political Role
My research this summer serves to support my MA thesis which focuses on the contributions of Chicago-based dancer, choreographer, artistic…
Jay Simpson: A Multispecies Approach to Human-Canid Relationships
Halfway, Oregon. Photo by JH Moyer, Shared using Creative Commons License Initially, my plan for this summer was to travel…