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Category: DASR 2017

Dean's Award for Summer Research Conference info

Come to the 2017 DASR Conference!

Posted on October 11, 2017October 11, 2017 by Rae Georges-Navarro
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Tsering Bista: Ebi et Watashi Ni, Post 2

Posted on August 29, 2017August 29, 2017 by Tsering Bista

August 23rd, 2017 I’m sitting in Delhi airport after the first leg of my trip, which involved filming and interviewing…

Posted in DASR 2017
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Léah Miller: Queer Identity Within Gendered German, pt.2

Posted on August 19, 2017August 21, 2017 by Leah Anita Rachelle Miller

Christopher Street Day! (Berlin Pride) So wild that I happened to be in town for this, but I wish I…

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Lili Dekker: Realisations

Posted on August 18, 2017August 21, 2017 by Lili Dekker

With the filming now behind me, I have started to edit. For September 1st I intend to submit 3-5 ten…

Posted in DASR 2017
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Shayna Feuer: Community Visits and Data Entry

Posted on August 18, 2017August 22, 2017 by Shayna Feuer

Completing all of our surveys was an incredible feeling for our entire research team. We filled nearly 500 patient surveys…

Posted in DASR 2017
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Alice Lambert: The Rite of Spring (and the Right way to dance it?)

Posted on August 18, 2017August 21, 2017 by Alice Lambert

« There’s going to be a change of dancers because we’re all ageing somehow, so we have to have new dancers…

Posted in DASR 2017
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Emily Hockett: Charlottesville as Terrorism?

Posted on August 15, 2017August 16, 2017 by Emily Hockett

In the aftermath of the protests and counter-protests that happened this weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia brought the subject of my…

Posted in DASR 2017
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Connor Borden: Visiting the Museum of Chinese in America

Posted on August 10, 2017August 15, 2017 by Connor Borden

Tucked away in SoHo, just before arriving in Chinatown, visitors and residents of New York alike can find an inspired…

Posted in DASR 2017
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Sophie Walker: More transcribing, many stories

Posted on August 7, 2017August 8, 2017 by Sophie Walker

The past month I’ve continued transcribing, looking at what I have so far and thinking about who I want to…

Posted in DASR 20172 Comments on Sophie Walker: More transcribing, many stories
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Grace Easterly: The railway’s emotional histories, uncertain futures

Posted on August 6, 2017August 6, 2017 by Grace K Easterly

The train departs from the station at five in the morning, after the merchandise, suitcases, covert bags of khat, and…

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Kendra Prat: The Life and Afterlife of Community-Engaged Performance

Posted on August 6, 2017August 8, 2017 by Kendra Prat

I just received a text message from a friend I made while I was living in Detroit with a photo…

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Tsering Bista: Ebi et Watashi Ni

Posted on August 2, 2017August 2, 2017 by Tsering Bista

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

Posted in DASR 20171 Comment on Tsering Bista: Ebi et Watashi Ni
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Nyelah Sawyer: The Archdiocese of New Orleans–Where the Histories of Church and State Cannot be Separated

Posted on July 30, 2017July 31, 2017 by Nyelah Sawyer

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

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Maame Boatemaa: Adesua ne Nk)so) (Education and Development)

Posted on July 28, 2017July 31, 2017 by Maame Boatemaa

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

Posted in DASR 2017
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Léah Miller: Queer Identity Within Gendered German

Posted on July 19, 2017July 20, 2017 by Leah Anita Rachelle Miller

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

Posted in DASR 20172 Comments on Léah Miller: Queer Identity Within Gendered German
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Lindsay Karchin: Social Responsibility: An Intersectional Analysis (Part 2)

Posted on July 19, 2017July 19, 2017 by Lindsay Karchin

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

Posted in DASR 2017
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Madeline McCormack: Vibrational Temporalities and Generative Repetition

Posted on July 18, 2017July 30, 2017 by Madeline McCormack

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

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Lili Dekker: Living with Dementia

Posted on July 18, 2017July 19, 2017 by Lili Dekker

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

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Shayna Feuer: Mental Health Research In Jarabacoa

Posted on July 13, 2017August 22, 2017 by Shayna Feuer

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

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Rachel Gilman: The Mary D Fund

Posted on July 11, 2017July 12, 2017 by Rachel Gilman

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

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Connor Borden: A/P/A Health in the Development of Manhattan’s Lower East Side/Chinatown

Posted on July 11, 2017July 12, 2017 by Connor Borden

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

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Emily Hockett: Questions (and a few thoughts) on hate crimes law

Posted on July 9, 2017July 12, 2017 by Emily Hockett

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

Posted in DASR 20172 Comments on Emily Hockett: Questions (and a few thoughts) on hate crimes law
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Sophie Walker: Thoughts on Conversations about Sex

Posted on July 9, 2017July 9, 2017 by Sophie Walker

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

Posted in DASR 2017
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Grace Easterly: The Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway

Posted on July 8, 2017July 10, 2017 by Grace K Easterly

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

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Alice Lambert: Berlin Dances

Posted on July 6, 2017July 7, 2017 by Alice Lambert

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

Posted in DASR 20174 Comments on Alice Lambert: Berlin Dances
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Kendra Prat: Oh, Everybody’s Talking About The Rebellion…

Posted on July 2, 2017July 5, 2017 by Kendra Prat

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

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Nyelah Sawyer: Landscapes of Preservation

Posted on June 24, 2017June 26, 2017 by Nyelah Sawyer

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

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Madeline McCormack: Towards An Affective Rhythmanalysis

Posted on June 22, 2017June 22, 2017 by Madeline McCormack

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

Posted in DASR 20173 Comments on Madeline McCormack: Towards An Affective Rhythmanalysis
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Maame Boatemaa on the Ghanaian Educational System: Akwaaba

Posted on June 22, 2017June 22, 2017 by Maame Boatemaa

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

Posted in DASR 2017
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Lindsay Karchin: Social Responsibility: An Intersectional Analysis

Posted on June 20, 2017June 21, 2017 by Lindsay Karchin

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

Posted in DASR 20172 Comments on Lindsay Karchin: Social Responsibility: An Intersectional Analysis
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Rachel Gilman: The Dames of Dodge Street

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Rachel Gilman

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

Posted in DASR 2017
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Welcome to the Dean’s Award for Summer Research Blog-2017!

Posted on June 5, 2017June 7, 2017 by Benjamin Brooks

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

Posted in DASR 2017

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