Category: DASR 2018
Nic Runnels: Teaching Native America
The direction of my investigation has shifted significantly since my last post, adapting to circumstance, and I think for the…
Hallam Potts: Marxism and Form
As my research is mainly based in Marxist theory, a lot of it has to do with considering the ways…
Anais Kessler: Interviews!
My last blog post addressed writing my IRB application for this project and the long approval process. Luckily, the IRB…
Blair Simmons: Computer-Generated Dialogue, In Progress
Charles O. Hartman, in his book Virtual Muse, insists of computer-generated poetry, “The question isn’t exactly whether a poet or a computer…
Joseph Taecker-Wyss: Assisting and Reimagining: How Can We Address Underserved Communities?
“Our conclusion should include some sort of recommendations for assisting the Brentwood community, right?” I ask my research partner, Raven…
Sadie Mlika: On the Gorki Theatre #2
Since writing my last blog post, I have reached significant advances as well as confronted a few setbacks in conducting…
Aurela Berila: Memory In Things, Memory As a ‘thing’
At this time in my research process I have inverted the scope of my field of view with regard to…
Donna Gary: A Time To Read
The last time I wrote a post I was thinking about the research paper and how the “theory and practice,”…
Jonathan Marty: Uptown Occupation: Resistance Against Inwood’s Rezoning
(A map of the Inwood Rezoning Area. Source: New York City Economic Decelopment Corporation) For the second segment of my…
Jonathan Ji: The Queer City Built the Queer Church
This summer I visited San Francisco to seek out “queer” churches to illustrate that queer spaces do exist within a…
LaTasha Barnes: The Reality of Auto-ethnographic research…
When last I wrote I was excited about the new resource that had presented itself, full of knowledge regarding a…
Ingrid Apgar: Adaptable Bodies in Circus Training
My focus this summer is the circus community at Circus Warehouse in Long Island City, Queens. For the last few…
Hallam Potts: Utopia and its Discontents
My summer research has been on the contemporary Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six volume autobiographical novel cycle, My Struggle….
Raven Quesenberry: What Gives People a Chance?
Much of our work this summer has focused on barriers to access within the community. What enables, or fails to…
Kelsey Murphy: Down the research hole
While I’m not nearly done (turns out transcribing and coding qualitative research takes an incredible amount of time), some themes…
Shanti Escalante: The Presence of Non-Profit Farms
I guess it shouldn’t be surprising how many non-profit farms are flourishing in the Hampton’s. Here we have an insane…
Jun Lei Lee: Physical/Geographical/Spatial History
My project explores the history and present use of the site of Kamp Vught, which was an SS HQ-controlled concentration…
Annie Felix: .GIFs as a Site of Digital Puppetry
In thinking with and of the .gif, I’ve started to conjugate it, and thus my research work has become the…
Stasia de Tilly: UFo, OMEN, Ostgut xt al.
Electronic music, being non-lyrical, has the ability to penetrate geographic barriers. It reaches a primal part of the human essence…
Blair Simmons: A Search for Computer-generated Literature
Hello! Welcome to the world of computer-generated literature. I have been spending my summer searching far and wide for instances…
Jonathan Marty: The Calm Before the Rezoning: East New York in 2018
The East New York Community Rezoning Plan. Source: NYC Department of City Planning. In setting out to research New York…
Sadie Mlika On the Gorki Theatre: Reinterpreting the Relationship between Art and the Political
Hallo! Ich bin Sadie, and I’m writing on my experience working with the Maxim Gorki Theater here in Berlin, Germany…
Annie Felix: The Resurrectionary History of the .GIF
My research is an investigation and re-appropriation of Heideggerian philosophy for critical race and new media theory. I am thinking…
Nic Runnels: Researching the Teaching of Native American Hard History
Spurred a recent Southern Poverty Law Center report entitled “Teaching Hard History: American Slavery,” I’m researching how and to what extent…
Joseph Taecker-Wyss: Research Methods as an Outsider
For my Dean’s Award for Summer Research project, I am researching the economic mobility of the Salvadoran community in Long…
Donna Gary: Disability Poetics at the Library of Congress
More To The Story I spent too much time reading poems in my academic career that were upheld within the…
LaTasha Barnes: Blackness in Social Dance and Intergenerational Transference…
Initial Project Summary: This ethnochoreological and phenomenological study is intended to serve as an investigation into the lived experiences of…
Kelsey Murphy: Photography and Social Justice
The participants departed last week and in their absence I’m left with more than fifteen hours of recordings that need…
Anaïs Kessler: research for research
While it may be much more fun to hit the ground running, it’s important to do necessary research before starting…
Aurela Berila: Object Referents and Historical Materialism in the Execution of “The Ethnography of Things”
When I started this research project I set out with a clear intention of uncovering what I preliminarily envisioned to…
Raven Quesenberry: Pupusas Pair With Research
Over the past month, my research partner Joseph and I have been furiously reviewing the existing literature on the Salvadoran…
Ingrid Apgar: Life at the Circus
Though many err on the side of caution when it comes to our body’s extreme limits, I have noticed a…
Jun Lei Lee: Intruding on Collective Memory
There’s a inevitable sense of discomfort in studying a history that doesn’t belong to you. Removed from the immediacy of…
Shanti Escalante-De Mattei: Farming in the Hamptons
I started this project hoping I would be able to uncover an epistemic (knowledge) culture amongst farmers oriented towards the…
Jonathan Ji: A Church for the People
“Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner.” This token statement is used by Christianity to create the illusion that queerness (I…
Welcome to the 2018 DASR Blog!
Welcome to the blog for the 2018 winners of the Dean’s Award for Summer Research (DASR). It’s time for another…