Category: DASR 2017

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…

To be completely transparent, I don’t have a compelling update on the progression of my project, especially considering that my first…

In my last blog post, I spoke about studying different methods of preservation. I spoke about religious preservation, and the…

I’m spending my last few days in Ghana remorseful of the fact that I have no clear idea of when…

I had a layover in Dublin and I enjoyed this rainbow walkway. Too on-the-nose? Hi everyone! I arrived in Berlin…

Since my last post, I have been continuing my research through analyzing texts, attending events throughout NYC and conducting exciting…

In my previous post I attempted to lay out some of the areas of theory that I would be delving…

I am currently in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, at my grandparents’ house, where I have been filming them since the 13th…

It has been almost a week since I arrived in Jarabacoa Dominican Republic. Since I arrived I have been getting…

I’ve been back on the mainland for about a month now, preparing to return to Block Island right before the…

The impetus for this research project and the questions surrounding it came from many conversations with my friends over the…

As I finish up the first month of my research, I am amazed at how much my topic has evolved….

Last year I created an audio piece for the Gallatin Arts Festival called Relative Sex, comprised of a series of…

When you look at a map of the newly inaugurated Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway, it looks relatively straightforward: from Point A…

It has now been a week since I arrived in Berlin. B12, the new contemporary dance festival, began here on…

In my first few weeks in Detroit, I walked into Source Booksellers, on Cass Avenue, a smart, non-fiction bookstore. When…

Since arriving in New Orleans, I’ve been jolted into déjà vu brought on by the buildings I pass in the…

In my research this summer I seek to theorize the ontology and affective aspects of Berlin’s techno and house music…

Everything is different yet nothing has changed. The roads in my old neighborhood are still untarred but there is a…

Hi everyone! This summer, I am exploring the intersection of marketing, Corporate Social Responsibility and gender. Through a multi-faceted approach,…

I am a rising senior at Gallatin studying creative writing and gender studies — particularly, the importance of female narratives….

Welcome to the blog for the 2017 winners of the Dean’s Award for Summer Research (DASR). It’s time for another…