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DASR Fall 2016 Conference!

Posted on November 28, 2016June 7, 2017 by Rae Georges-Navarro
Posted in 2016 Conference, DASR 2016
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Louisa Nolte: Passive Aggressive Architecture and Rethinking the Existing

Posted on August 24, 2016September 6, 2016 by Louisa Charlotte Emily Nolte

A few months ago a friend and I were having a late night conversation coming up with silly  ideas of…

Posted in DASR 2016
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Morgan Noll: Reflections on Misconceptions and Inequality in Colombia

Posted on August 22, 2016September 6, 2016 by Morgan Noll

As I reflect on my trip to the coffee farm in Colombia and my tracing of one specialty coffee chain…

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Hannah Treasure: Bilingual education, poetry, and free speech

Posted on August 18, 2016September 6, 2016 by Hannah Treasure

For July, I moved away from mainland and spent most of my time in Hong Kong to observe differences between…

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Max Smith: The Problems with Sovereignty

Posted on August 18, 2016September 6, 2016 by Maxwell AK Smith

Most of my attempts to understand the issues of sovereignty and refugees have devolved into irresolvable questions of definition. I…

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Perry Kurker-Mraz: Opening the Engine; Engaging With What is Hidden

Posted on August 17, 2016September 6, 2016 by Perry K Kurker Mraz

As my project continues, and I work through the various systems of the motorcycle, I’ve been thinking of the nature…

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William Kammler: Blindness in the South: Looking to the past and ignoring the present

Posted on August 16, 2016September 6, 2016 by wmk231

I just returned to DC after spending two weeks in New Orleans working on a project for a different Gallatin…

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Daniel McElroy: Political intricacies of the Mexico-U.S. border

Posted on August 14, 2016September 6, 2016 by Daniel McElroy

Immigration in the United States is about as multifaceted of an issue as one could imagine. I knew this going…

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Giovanni Rodriguez Pino: A Sustainable and Irreversible Cuba

Posted on August 12, 2016September 6, 2016 by Giovanni Rodriguez

Hey Everyone! In this post, I wanted to share with you all a bigger picture of the Cuban economy and…

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Evan Neuhausen: The Politics of the Apolitical

Posted on August 11, 2016September 6, 2016 by Evan C Neuhausen

A recurring narrative in the media coverage of John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics…

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Francesco Zenati: Interviews, Texts, and Inspiration

Posted on August 11, 2016September 6, 2016 by Francesco A Zenati

This past week I returned from Italy to the US. I downloaded footage that I shot in Italy. Attached are…

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Emily Robinson: Seeing the Archive Take Shape

Posted on August 11, 2016September 6, 2016 by Emily F Robinson

As the end of August quickly approaches (yikes), I have had to make a lot of changes to the project…

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Gwen Hornig: War: The Human Experience (How do we listen? How do we tell stories?)

Posted on August 10, 2016September 6, 2016 by Gwendoline E Hornig

Hello! Since my first introductory post, I have focused my time on thoroughly processing the experiences I have had, the…

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Sumathy Kumar: Understanding Vedanta

Posted on August 9, 2016September 6, 2016 by Sumathy Kumar

Hello! For this post, I’ll try an explain a little about what Vedanta, the branch of Hindu spirituality that I…

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Dominic McCaffrey: The 1990s: Conservatives and their Battle for the Law and Politics

Posted on August 9, 2016September 6, 2016 by dam653

Hey guys! Since my visit to the George W. Bush Presidential Library Archives at the end of May, I have…

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Austen Wigglesworth: Science Fiction and the Future of Comics

Posted on August 6, 2016September 6, 2016 by Austen Wigglesworth

As my summer research has progressed, my interest has shifted from trying to understand how comics have interacted with the…

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Kylie Dayton: A Hierarchy before High and Low

Posted on August 3, 2016September 6, 2016 by Kylie Dayton

Hello! It’s Kylie Dayton coming to you from LA again. I’ve been spending a lot of time this summer thinking…

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Morgan Noll: Coffee from Colombia to New York

Posted on August 3, 2016September 6, 2016 by Morgan Noll

As a barista for the last year and a half and an obsessive coffee drinker, the coffee industry has fascinated…

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Daniel McElroy: The triumphs and pitfalls of arranging a month-long research trip

Posted on August 2, 2016September 6, 2016 by Daniel McElroy

The bulk of my research begins later this week, as I embark on a three-week and four thousand-mile journey driving…

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William Kammler: The Past is Never Dead

Posted on July 29, 2016September 6, 2016 by wmk231

For the past two weeks I have been in Mississippi, attempting to come to a closer understanding of my family,…

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Celine Gruenberg: Industrial Hemp for construction/textiles

Posted on July 27, 2016February 16, 2017 by Celine Rose Gruenberg

In this post I’ll write a bit about why industrial hemp with its wide range of usages and abundant properties has…

Posted in DASR 2016
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Hannah Treasure: Creative Writing in China

Posted on July 27, 2016September 6, 2016 by Hannah Treasure

Hey everyone! My name is Hannah Treasure, and I’m a rising Gallatin senior concentrating in education, creative writing and social…

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Olivia Ellis: Understanding Native Visibility

Posted on July 25, 2016September 6, 2016 by Olivia A Ellis

My research trip officially ended at the beginning of this month, but I’ve hardly stopped thinking about it since. When…

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Derek Wang: Focusing on Depression

Posted on July 25, 2016September 6, 2016 by Derek J Wang

Hello everyone, In my last blog post I gave an introduction to my project and said that I would hopefully…

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Dominic McCaffrey: Lies, Liberals, and the Law: David Souter and the United States Supreme Court

Posted on July 24, 2016September 6, 2016 by dam653

Hey guys! At the end of May, I boarded a flight and headed for “Aggieland”, otherwise known as College Station,…

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Rose Gilroy: Constructing “French Feminism.”

Posted on July 22, 2016September 6, 2016 by Rose H Gilroy

Since I returned from France in June I’ve spent a lot of time reading about the construction of “French feminism”…

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Adam Klaus: Tales from the Sound Booth

Posted on July 22, 2016September 6, 2016 by Adam J Klaus

As the summer has progressed, so has my project. Again, the big questions I am looking to shed light on through…

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Gwen Hornig: War: The Human Experience (an introduction)

Posted on July 20, 2016September 6, 2016 by Gwendoline E Hornig

Hello! My name is Gwen Hornig and I am a rising senior in Gallatin developing a concentration (currently) titled Theatre…

Posted in DASR 2016
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Max Smith: Sovereignty and Refugees

Posted on July 19, 2016September 6, 2016 by Maxwell AK Smith

I began my research planning to focus primarily on the philosophy of Levinas. His philosophy, in which he asserts the…

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Sumathy Kumar: Ashram Life: Hindu Spirituality and Social Justice

Posted on July 15, 2016September 6, 2016 by Sumathy Kumar

Hi all! For the past month or so, I’ve been in the Poconos, in Pennsylvania studying how Hindu philosophy can…

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Perry Kurker-Mraz: Working With Sheet Metal

Posted on July 15, 2016September 6, 2016 by Perry K Kurker Mraz

I set out to explore the role of craftsmanship in the academic and artistic worlds. I have been working on…

Posted in DASR 2016
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Austen Wigglesworth: The Language of Comics

Posted on July 12, 2016September 6, 2016 by Austen Wigglesworth

Hello everyone! For my summer research, I am looking at the medium of comics and trying to understand if they…

Posted in DASR 2016
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Francesco Zenati: Social Media and the Cleanse

Posted on July 11, 2016September 6, 2016 by Francesco A Zenati

In this study, I will look at the intimate impact of social media on the psyches of two people/friends. These…

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Evan Neuhausen: Representations of Black Power Solidarity in the Global South//A History Without A Past

Posted on July 9, 2016September 6, 2016 by Evan C Neuhausen

I am researching how the Mexico City media represented and contextualized John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s protest at the 1968 Mexico…

Posted in DASR 2016
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Giovanni Rodriguez Pino: Propaganda in Revolution

Posted on July 5, 2016September 6, 2016 by Giovanni Rodriguez

Hi all! My name is Gio Rodriguez – Pino and I’m a rising senior in Gallatin, concentrating my studies on…

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Emily Robinson: Anti-Gentrification Art and Community Projects

Posted on July 5, 2016September 6, 2016 by Emily F Robinson

Hello, my name is Emily Robinson and I’m working on constructing a digital archive of art in the five boroughs…

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Kylie Dayton: What We Mean When We Say “Highbrow”

Posted on July 1, 2016September 6, 2016 by Kylie Dayton

Hello! Kylie Dayton here. The question weighing on my mind in these first few weeks of research has been one…

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Derek Wang: Exploring film and Mental illness

Posted on June 30, 2016September 6, 2016 by Derek J Wang

Hello everyone, My name is Derek Wang and my concentration is Neuroethics and philosophy. For my summer project I am…

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Celine Gruenberg: Industrial Hemp in Colorado

Posted on June 29, 2016February 16, 2017 by Celine Rose Gruenberg

Hemp has been cultivated for over 10,000 years worldwide and is currently used in over 25,000 products. While over 30…

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Louisa Nolte: Living the Green Dream: Ten Days in Copenhagen

Posted on June 29, 2016September 6, 2016 by Louisa Charlotte Emily Nolte

I traveled to Copenhagen for ten days earlier this month to research sustainable urban planning, including the interaction of the…

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Daniel McElroy: Invisible realities of immigration detention

Posted on June 28, 2016September 6, 2016 by Daniel McElroy

Family detention centers are terrible places. They are also almost invisible in the media’s portrayal of immigration and the public’s…

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Adam Klaus: The “Trials and Tribulations” of Clinical Research

Posted on June 27, 2016September 6, 2016 by Adam J Klaus

For my project, I have been working on conducting a research study investigating the effects of auditory perception on a person’s speech or…

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Olivia Ellis: Discovering Native American Identities

Posted on June 25, 2016September 6, 2016 by Olivia A Ellis

When people ask me what the purpose of this research project is, I tell them I’m studying “the long-term effects…

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Rose Gilroy: What Exactly Is “French Feminism?” (Still trying to figure that out.)

Posted on June 22, 2016September 6, 2016 by Rose H Gilroy

Hello fellow summer researchers! I’m Rosie Vacanti Gilroy, and my concentration intertwines women’s studies, long-form journalism, and French. This summer…

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Welcome to the 2016 DASR Blog!

Posted on June 22, 2016July 26, 2016 by Rae Georges-Navarro

Welcome to the blog for the 2016 winners of the Dean’s Award for Summer Research (DASR). It’s time for another…

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Recent Posts

  • 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
  • Kira Williams: Final Steps and Reflections
  • Sammy Tavassoli: How Movement Shapes Our Perception of Ourselves and the World Around Us
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