Dean's Award for Summer Research

Although it seems strange to be blogging again retrospectively rather than from the field, a month of distance from my…

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…

When last I wrote I was excited about the new resource that had presented itself, full of knowledge regarding a…

My focus this summer is the circus community at Circus Warehouse in Long Island City, Queens. For the last few…

My summer research has been on the contemporary Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six volume autobiographical novel cycle, My Struggle….

Much of our work this summer has focused on barriers to access within the community. What enables, or fails to…

While I’m not nearly done (turns out transcribing and coding qualitative research takes an incredible amount of time), some themes…

I guess it shouldn’t be surprising how many non-profit farms are flourishing in the Hampton’s. Here we have an insane…

My project explores the history and present use of the site of Kamp Vught, which was an SS HQ-controlled concentration…

In thinking with and of the .gif, I’ve started to conjugate it, and thus my research work has become the…

  Electronic music, being non-lyrical, has the ability to penetrate geographic barriers. It reaches a primal part of the human…

  Hello! Welcome to the world of computer-generated literature. I have been spending my summer searching far and wide for…

The East New York Community Rezoning Plan. Source: NYC Department of City Planning. In setting out to research New York…

Hallo! Ich bin Sadie, and I’m writing on my experience working with the Maxim Gorki Theater here in Berlin, Germany…

My research is an investigation and re-appropriation of Heideggerian philosophy for critical race and new media theory. I am thinking…

Spurred a recent Southern Poverty Law Center report entitled “Teaching Hard History: American Slavery,” I’m researching how and to what extent…

For my Dean’s Award for Summer Research project, I am researching the economic mobility of the Salvadoran community in Long…

Greetings from rainy Kampala, Uganda where I’ve been posted up for the past six weeks thanks to the International Institute…

More To The Story I spent too much time reading poems in my academic career that were upheld within the…

Initial Project Summary: This ethnochoreological and phenomenological study is intended to serve as an investigation into the lived experiences of…

The participants departed last week and in their absence I’m left with more than fifteen hours of recordings that need…

While it may be much more fun to hit the ground running, it’s important to do necessary research before starting…

When I started this research project I set out with a clear intention of uncovering what I preliminarily envisioned to…

Over the past month, my research partner Joseph and I have been furiously reviewing the existing literature on the Salvadoran…

Though many err on the side of caution when it comes to our body’s extreme limits, I have noticed a…

There’s a inevitable sense of discomfort in studying a history that doesn’t belong to you. Removed from the immediacy of…

I started this project hoping I would be able to uncover an epistemic (knowledge) culture amongst farmers oriented towards the…

“Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner.” This token statement is used by Christianity to create the illusion that queerness (I…

Welcome to the blog for the 2018 winners of the Dean’s Award for Summer Research (DASR). It’s time for another…

August 23rd, 2017 I’m sitting in Delhi airport after the first leg of my trip, which involved filming and interviewing…

Christopher Street Day! (Berlin Pride) So wild that I happened to be in town for this, but I wish I…

With the filming now behind me, I have started to edit. For September 1st I intend to submit 3-5 ten…

Completing all of our surveys was an incredible feeling for our entire research team. We filled nearly 500 patient surveys…

« There’s going to be a change of dancers because we’re all ageing somehow, so we have to have new dancers…

In the aftermath of the protests and counter-protests that happened this weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia brought the subject of my…

Tucked away in SoHo, just before arriving in Chinatown, visitors and residents of New York alike can find an inspired…

The past month I’ve continued transcribing, looking at what I have so far and thinking about who I want to…

The train departs from the station at five in the morning, after the merchandise, suitcases, covert bags of khat, and…

I just received a text message from a friend I made while I was living in Detroit with a photo…