A couple of weeks ago I traveled to Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden) to interview professors, activists, festival directors, and reenactors,…
Category: 2022 Summer Research
Charli Fritzner: Following from afar
With only three weeks to go before the plebiscite on the new proposed Chilean Constitution and with both campaigns ramping…
Micaela Suminski: House The People
Last week I returned from spending 8 days in Kansas City, MO filming with KC Tenants. I was blown away…
Joseph Redmond: Seeing Art Everywhere (everywhere I can)
The last time I wrote my blog post, I had just finished attending the ISEA2022 conference, the Sónar music festival,…
Quan Le: so much information but no organization
Since the last blog post, I have been diving deep into the rabbit hole of Deleuze-influenced literature in order to…
Naomi, Thompkins: Co-op Strategies
This month I focused on learning more about the Central Brooklyn Food Co-op and food justice movements in New York…
Valeria Cuervo: The fight over the Viking Past: How to take back the Viking legacy from white supremacists
Over the last couple of weeks, I have interviewed professors, activists, festival directors, and even cosplayers. They have all come…
Conny Zhao: Attending Naadam on the Eastern Steppe
Much has happened in the past month, especially since arriving in Ulaanbaatar on June 29th. These past two weeks, I…
Fion Fong: The Everyday
As I continued into the summer with my research, I was hoping to land on a clearer direction and in…
Charli Fritzner: The campaign for the new Constitution takes shape
Since my arrival in Chile six weeks ago, the final version of the new proposed constitution has been released and…
Sarika Doppalapudi: Natural Dyes, Quilt Tops, and Interviews
Over the past month, I have completed the construction of all of my mini quilt tops which use a fairly…
Ama Sarpomaa: There are more human beings than words
Throughout my research this summer, I have prioritized the people who have been driven out of their homes by forces…
Abney Turner: Ceta-Ethics: The Symbol of the Whale and Its Ethical History
Last week, I traveled to Massachusetts to begin researching the history of whaling in America. For the past week and…
Jenna Al Sharkawy: European Preeminence in Cairene Academe
It was by no means unheard of to me that proximity to European intellectual tradition is the metric by which…
Jun Zhou: Avatars, Extended Reality, And Synthetic Media: Forming The New Identity Update
Since the last post, I have been reading different materials to prepare myself for the lit review part of the…
Ellington Bland: A Research Trip to the Palace of Versailles
HI! I am checking in from my research site of Paris, France. Since my last blog post on our forum,…
Cresto, Ben: Materiality, Agency, and Magnitude of the (In)Visible
Something that has come up in my research over the course of the past month that has been largely influential…
Jenna Al Sharkawy- Egypt and the (Contrived) Dispossession of Africanité
I have recently become motivated to define a profile of Egyptian exceptionalism through the appendages of Western Empire. With this…
Sammy Tavassoli: Understanding the Mind Through the Body
When most people picture scientific research projects on cognition or how the mind works, they immediately jump to research about…
Karina Gamez: Preparing for Research in El Salvador’s State of Exception
I began this project with the intention to travel to El Salvador to undertake a “cultural translation,” as Judith Butler…
Micaela Suminski: Pivoting the Campaign
I’m getting to a point in my research where I’m feeling really excited (antsy!) to get to Kansas City and…
Thompkins, Naomi: Historical Research and Preliminary Readings
My research this summer addresses the ways in which food insecurity in Black communities relates to environmental justice and how…
Redmond, Joseph: A Traveling Investigation of New Media Arts
My project is a look into the effects of technology on society through the lens of contemporary art. I started…
Neciferia Hernandez: blog post #1
My thesis offers an unexplored perspective of the relationship slavery had on Black homes and their relationship to architecture and…
Sarika Doppalapudi: Preliminary Research and Preparations
My project centers around textile arts as a space for meaning-making, and often resilience. Over the course of my project,…
Charli Fritzner: Climate justice, constitutions, and Chile
Santiago is flanked by the towering Cordilleras, a mountain range that can be seen on non-smoggy days from everywhere in…
Ellington Bland: Louis XIV, The Sun King of France — Preliminary Observations
This summer, my research focuses on the historical foundations to contemporary star making– centering on Louis XIV, the Sun King…
Ama Sarpomaa: How to approach Africa-centered research
My research this summer hones in on Environmentally-induced displacement in the Northern region of Ghana. Approaching research from an anti-colonial…
Ben Cresto: Light — Too Much of a Good Thing
After receiving feedback from various Gallatin faculty and guidance from Irene, my project has shifted direction a bit. I am…
Kira Williams: Beginning Participant Interviews
After a couple initial conversations, with two participants and one mentor, a key part of my research process has been…
Alex Smythe First Step, NYC Cemetery History
Visit to Green-Wood Cemetery Over the past few weeks, I began my initial research for my Seneca Village Cemetery project…
Valeria Cuervo: How white supremacists have appropriated Vikings and how we can take it back
My project is about why people misconstrue history and how we can protect legacies by looking at how people are…
Quan Le: Self-perception , Social Media, and, Society.
My research is on the question of self-perception and the flow of embodiment. I want to understand how technological advances…
Abney Turner: Ceta-Ethics: The Symbol of the Whale and Its Ethical History
This summer, I am conducting a study on the history of speciesist and anthropocentric thought by exploring the history of…
Conny Zhao: Songs of the Steppe-Preliminary Research and Preparations
For the past month, I’ve mostly been preparing for my trip to Mongolia which will begin on June 29th. I’m…
Fion Fong: Food Courts and the Other In-Between Places of Flushing, Queens
I made the trip out from Manhattan to Flushing mid-May. It was the first time I’d seen the neighbourhood in…
Sammy Tavassoli: The Importance of Human Interactions for Meaningful Thought
For the past few weeks, I’ve been conducting a cognitive science research project that attempts to explore the question of…
Jun Zhou: Avatars, Extended Reality, and Neo-Public Space: Forming the New Identity
My project is about the identity issue in the post-modern and technology-relied world that we are living in. I’m still…
Micaela Suminski: Reflections on Documenting and Researching Social Housing
As I embark on a documentary project with Kansas City Tenants, I am exploring themes that include: social housing in…