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Category: 2022 Summer Research

Ama Sarpomaa: Political Ecology and the Environmental Distress scale

Posted on October 5, 2022October 5, 2022 by Ama Sarpomaa

The last month of my research project consisted of a series of listening, questioning, and digesting. Is there a foreseeable…

Posted in 2022 Summer Research

Karina Gamez: Authority is not an imposition, it is a gift.

Posted on September 6, 2022September 6, 2022 by Karina Gamez

Authority is not an imposition, it is a gift. Perhaps it was a slogan on the side of a building,…

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Naomi Thompkins: Community Education and Collaboration

Posted on September 1, 2022September 2, 2022 by Naomi Thompkins

This month I wanted to look at different community organizations that are working to alleviate food insecurity in Brooklyn, New…

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Joseph Redmond: Thoughts on the Explorers of the Internet

Posted on August 23, 2022August 29, 2022 by Joseph Redmond

Lately I’ve been trying to hone in my idea of my research. I’ve been fairly scattered about my topics for…

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Ben Cresto: Reflections, and Moving Forward

Posted on August 20, 2022August 20, 2022 by Ben Cresto

As I reflect on this summer’s research, I am amazed with just how circuitous its development has been, how serpentine…

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Conny Zhao: More Naadam festivals, meeting Mongolian celebrities, and the hardest hike of my life

Posted on August 18, 2022August 29, 2022 by Conny Zhao

In my last blog post, I wrote a lot about Naadam week in Mongolia. It turns out I was wrong…

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Sarika Doppalapudi: Embroidery, Quilting, and Binding

Posted on August 17, 2022August 29, 2022 by Sarika Doppalapudi

Over the past month, I have been working on embroidering the pull quotes on my quilt tops, quilting all three…

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Fion Fong: Drawing as Research

Posted on August 17, 2022August 29, 2022 by Fion Fong

In my last post, I mentioned the way George Perec’s writing on the everyday provided a clear direction for my…

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Jun Zhou: Avatars, Extended Reality, and Neo-Public Space: Forming the New Identity- Update 2

Posted on August 16, 2022August 29, 2022 by Jun Zhou

This month I’ve been working on making my paper outline, revising the first 1/2 part, and planning the creative output…

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Ellington B.: Final Reflections

Posted on August 15, 2022August 29, 2022 by Ellington

At this point in my research project, I am synthesizing the information that I have gathered so that I may…

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Abney Turner: Ceta-Ethics: The Symbol of the Whale and Its Ethical History

Posted on August 15, 2022August 19, 2022 by Abney Turner

Since returning from New Bedford, I have been contextualizing my findings within different philosophical, anthropological, and historical frameworks. In my…

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Alex Smythe: Seneca Village August 15th post

Posted on August 15, 2022August 29, 2022 by Alex Smythe

End of Summer Research

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Kira Williams: Final Steps and Reflections

Posted on August 15, 2022August 29, 2022 by kira

I am conducting some final interviews, arranging the photographs for my exhibit, and beginning to analyze interview transcripts. So far,…

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Sammy Tavassoli: How Movement Shapes Our Perception of Ourselves and the World Around Us

Posted on August 15, 2022September 28, 2022 by Sammy Tavassoli

This past month, I focused on analyzing the data that we collected for our main cognitive science experiment on perceptual…

Posted in 2022 Summer ResearchTagged brain, Gallatin, Japan, Mind, Science

Valeria Cuervo: The Fight Over the Viking Legacy

Posted on August 13, 2022August 13, 2022 by Valeria Cuervo

A couple of weeks ago I traveled to Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden) to interview professors, activists, festival directors, and reenactors,…

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Charli Fritzner: Following from afar

Posted on August 13, 2022August 29, 2022 by Charli Fritzner

With only three weeks to go before the plebiscite on the new proposed Chilean Constitution and with both campaigns ramping…

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Micaela Suminski: House The People

Posted on August 12, 2022August 29, 2022 by Micaela Suminski

Last week I returned from spending 8 days in Kansas City, MO filming with KC Tenants. I was blown away…

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Joseph Redmond: Seeing Art Everywhere (everywhere I can)

Posted on August 10, 2022August 10, 2022 by Joseph Redmond

The last time I wrote my blog post, I had just finished attending the ISEA2022 conference, the Sónar music festival,…

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Quan Le: so much information but no organization

Posted on July 24, 2022August 3, 2022 by Quan Le

Since the last blog post, I have been diving deep into the rabbit hole of Deleuze-influenced literature in order to…

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Naomi Thompkins: Co-op Strategies

Posted on July 21, 2022August 20, 2022 by Naomi Thompkins

This month I focused on learning more about the Central Brooklyn Food Co-op and food justice movements in New York…

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Valeria Cuervo: The fight over the Viking Past: How to take back the Viking legacy from white supremacists

Posted on July 20, 2022August 3, 2022 by Valeria Cuervo

Over the last couple of weeks, I have interviewed professors, activists, festival directors, and even cosplayers. They have all come…

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Conny Zhao: Attending Naadam on the Eastern Steppe

Posted on July 18, 2022August 3, 2022 by Conny Zhao

Much has happened in the past month, especially since arriving in Ulaanbaatar on June 29th. These past two weeks, I…

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Fion Fong: The Everyday

Posted on July 17, 2022August 3, 2022 by Fion Fong

As I continued into the summer with my research, I was hoping to land on a clearer direction and in…

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Charli Fritzner: The campaign for the new Constitution takes shape

Posted on July 16, 2022August 3, 2022 by Charli Fritzner

Since my arrival in Chile six weeks ago, the final version of the new proposed constitution has been released and…

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Sarika Doppalapudi: Natural Dyes, Quilt Tops, and Interviews

Posted on July 16, 2022August 3, 2022 by Sarika Doppalapudi

Over the past month, I have completed the construction of all of my mini quilt tops which use a fairly…

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Ama Sarpomaa: There are more human beings than words

Posted on July 15, 2022August 3, 2022 by Ama Sarpomaa

Throughout my research this summer, I have prioritized the people who have been driven out of their homes by forces…

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Abney Turner: Ceta-Ethics: The Symbol of the Whale and Its Ethical History

Posted on July 15, 2022July 15, 2022 by Abney Turner

Last week, I traveled to Massachusetts to begin researching the history of whaling in America. For the past week and…

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Jenna Al Sharkawy: European Preeminence in Cairene Academe

Posted on July 15, 2022August 3, 2022 by Jenna Sharkawy

It was by no means unheard of to me that proximity to European intellectual tradition is the metric by which…

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Jun Zhou: Avatars, Extended Reality, And Synthetic Media: Forming The New Identity Update

Posted on July 15, 2022August 3, 2022 by Jun Zhou

Since the last post, I have been reading different materials to prepare myself for the lit review part of the…

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Ellington B.: A Research Trip to the Palace of Versailles

Posted on July 15, 2022August 23, 2022 by Ellington

HI! I am checking in from my research site of Paris, France. Since my last blog post on our forum,…

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Alex Smythe: Update on Seneca Village Cemeteries

Posted on July 15, 2022August 3, 2022 by Alex Smythe
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Cresto, Ben: Materiality, Agency, and Magnitude of the (In)Visible

Posted on July 15, 2022July 15, 2022 by Ben Cresto

Something that has come up in my research over the course of the past month that has been largely influential…

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Jenna Al Sharkawy- Egypt and the (Contrived) Dispossession of Africanité

Posted on July 13, 2022August 3, 2022 by Jenna Sharkawy

I have recently become motivated to define a profile of Egyptian exceptionalism through the appendages of Western Empire. With this…

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Sammy Tavassoli: Understanding the Mind Through the Body

Posted on July 13, 2022August 3, 2022 by Sammy Tavassoli

When most people picture scientific research projects on cognition or how the mind works, they immediately jump to research about…

Posted in 2022 Summer ResearchTagged brain, Cognition, Japan, Science

Karina Gamez: Preparing for Research in El Salvador’s State of Exception

Posted on July 6, 2022August 3, 2022 by Karina Gamez

I began this project with the intention to travel to El Salvador to undertake a “cultural translation,” as Judith Butler…

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Micaela Suminski: Pivoting the Campaign

Posted on July 5, 2022August 3, 2022 by Micaela Suminski

I’m getting to a point in my research where I’m feeling really excited (antsy!) to get to Kansas City and…

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Naomi Thompkins: Historical Research and Preliminary Readings

Posted on July 1, 2022August 20, 2022 by Naomi Thompkins

My research this summer addresses the ways in which food insecurity in Black communities relates to environmental justice and how…

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Redmond, Joseph: A Traveling Investigation of New Media Arts

Posted on June 23, 2022June 28, 2022 by Joseph Redmond

My project is a look into the effects of technology on society through the lens of contemporary art. I started…

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Neciferia Hernandez: blog post #1

Posted on June 19, 2022June 21, 2022 by neciferia hernandez

My thesis offers an unexplored perspective of the relationship slavery had on Black homes and their relationship to architecture and…

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Sarika Doppalapudi: Preliminary Research and Preparations

Posted on June 19, 2022June 21, 2022 by Sarika Doppalapudi

My project centers around textile arts as a space for meaning-making, and often resilience. Over the course of my project,…

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Charli Fritzner: Climate justice, constitutions, and Chile

Posted on June 16, 2022June 21, 2022 by Charli Fritzner

Santiago is flanked by the towering Cordilleras, a mountain range that can be seen on non-smoggy days from everywhere in…

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Ellington B.: Louis XIV, The Sun King of France — Preliminary Observations

Posted on June 15, 2022August 23, 2022 by Ellington

This summer, my research focuses on the historical foundations to contemporary star making– centering on Louis XIV, the Sun King…

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Ama Sarpomaa: How to approach Africa-centered research

Posted on June 15, 2022June 21, 2022 by Ama Sarpomaa

My research this summer hones in on Environmentally-induced displacement in the Northern region of Ghana. Approaching research from an anti-colonial…

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Ben Cresto: Light — Too Much of a Good Thing

Posted on June 15, 2022June 21, 2022 by Ben Cresto

After receiving feedback from various Gallatin faculty and guidance from Irene, my project has shifted direction a bit. I am…

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Kira Williams: Beginning Participant Interviews

Posted on June 15, 2022June 21, 2022 by kira

After a couple initial conversations, with two participants and one mentor, a key part of my research process has been…

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Alex Smythe First Step, NYC Cemetery History

Posted on June 15, 2022June 21, 2022 by Alex Smythe

Visit to Green-Wood Cemetery Over the past few weeks, I began my initial research for my Seneca Village Cemetery project…

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Valeria Cuervo: How white supremacists have appropriated Vikings and how we can take it back

Posted on June 15, 2022June 21, 2022 by Valeria Cuervo

My project is about why people misconstrue history and how we can protect legacies by looking at how people are…

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Quan Le: Self-perception , Social Media, and, Society.

Posted on June 15, 2022June 21, 2022 by Quan Le

My research is on the question of self-perception and the flow of embodiment. I want to understand how technological advances…

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Abney Turner: Ceta-Ethics: The Symbol of the Whale and Its Ethical History

Posted on June 15, 2022June 15, 2022 by Abney Turner

This summer, I am conducting a study on the history of speciesist and anthropocentric thought by exploring the history of…

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Conny Zhao: Songs of the Steppe-Preliminary Research and Preparations

Posted on June 15, 2022June 21, 2022 by Conny Zhao

For the past month, I’ve mostly been preparing for my trip to Mongolia which will begin on June 29th. I’m…

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  • Ama Sarpomaa: Political Ecology and the Environmental Distress scale
  • Karina Gamez: Authority is not an imposition, it is a gift.
  • Naomi Thompkins: Community Education and Collaboration
  • Joseph Redmond: Thoughts on the Explorers of the Internet
  • Ben Cresto: Reflections, and Moving Forward
  • Conny Zhao: More Naadam festivals, meeting Mongolian celebrities, and the hardest hike of my life
  • Sarika Doppalapudi: Embroidery, Quilting, and Binding
  • Fion Fong: Drawing as Research
  • Jun Zhou: Avatars, Extended Reality, and Neo-Public Space: Forming the New Identity- Update 2
  • Ellington B.: Final Reflections
  • Abney Turner: Ceta-Ethics: The Symbol of the Whale and Its Ethical History
  • Alex Smythe: Seneca Village August 15th post
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  • Sammy Tavassoli: How Movement Shapes Our Perception of Ourselves and the World Around Us
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