Category: DASR 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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