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Category: DASR 2018

Dean's Award For Summer Research Conference 2018

DASR Conference 2018!

Posted on October 15, 2018October 15, 2018 by Rae Georges-Navarro
Posted in 2018 Conference, DASR 2018
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Nic Runnels: Teaching Native America

Posted on August 29, 2018August 29, 2018 by Nic Runnels

The direction of my investigation has shifted significantly since my last post, adapting to circumstance, and I think for the…

Posted in DASR 2018
Ship replica in building

Hallam Potts: Marxism and Form

Posted on August 23, 2018August 30, 2018 by Hallam Potts

As my research is mainly based in Marxist theory, a lot of it has to do with considering the ways…

Posted in DASR 2018
paper with diagram and words about language acquisition

Anais Kessler: Interviews!

Posted on August 14, 2018August 21, 2018 by Anais Kessler

My last blog post addressed writing my IRB application for this project and the long approval process. Luckily, the IRB…

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Blair Simmons: Computer-Generated Dialogue, In Progress

Posted on August 13, 2018August 21, 2018 by Blair I Simmons

Charles O. Hartman, in his book Virtual Muse, insists of computer-generated poetry, “The question isn’t exactly whether a poet or a computer…

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Joseph Taecker-Wyss: Assisting and Reimagining: How Can We Address Underserved Communities?

Posted on August 13, 2018August 13, 2018 by Joseph Taecker-Wyss

“Our conclusion should include some sort of recommendations for assisting the Brentwood community, right?” I ask my research partner, Raven…

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Sadie Mlika: On the Gorki Theatre #2

Posted on August 13, 2018August 13, 2018 by Sadie Mlika

Since writing my last blog post, I have reached significant advances as well as confronted a few setbacks in conducting…

Posted in DASR 2018
open spiral notebook with notes on toxic animacres and inanimate affections

Aurela Berila: Memory In Things, Memory As a ‘thing’

Posted on August 10, 2018August 13, 2018 by Aurela Berila

At this time in my research process I have inverted the scope of my field of view with regard to…

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Donna Gary: A Time To Read

Posted on August 10, 2018November 27, 2018 by Donna Gary

The last time I wrote a post I was thinking about the research paper and how the “theory and practice,”…

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Jonathan Marty: Uptown Occupation: Resistance Against Inwood’s Rezoning

Posted on August 7, 2018August 13, 2018 by Jonathan Marty

(A map of the Inwood Rezoning Area. Source: New York City Economic Decelopment Corporation) For the second segment of my…

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Castro Theatre in San Francisco

Jonathan Ji: The Queer City Built the Queer Church

Posted on August 6, 2018August 13, 2018 by Jonathan Ji

This summer I visited San Francisco to seek out “queer” churches to illustrate that queer spaces do exist within a…

Posted in DASR 2018
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LaTasha Barnes: The Reality of Auto-ethnographic research…

Posted on August 6, 2018August 6, 2018 by LaTasha Barnes

When last I wrote I was excited about the new resource that had presented itself, full of knowledge regarding a…

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Ingrid Apgar: Adaptable Bodies in Circus Training

Posted on August 3, 2018August 13, 2018 by Ingrid Apgar

My focus this summer is the circus community at Circus Warehouse in Long Island City, Queens. For the last few…

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Hallam Potts: Utopia and its Discontents

Posted on August 1, 2018August 6, 2018 by Hallam Potts

My summer research has been on the contemporary Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six volume autobiographical novel cycle, My Struggle….

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mural with sun, trees, people, and "Re-imagining Brentwood"

Raven Quesenberry: What Gives People a Chance?

Posted on July 31, 2018July 31, 2018 by Raven Quesenberry

Much of our work this summer has focused on barriers to access within the community. What enables, or fails to…

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Kelsey Murphy: Down the research hole

Posted on July 30, 2018August 7, 2018 by Kelsey Murphy

While I’m not nearly done (turns out transcribing and coding qualitative research takes an incredible amount of time), some themes…

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Shanti Escalante: The Presence of Non-Profit Farms

Posted on July 28, 2018August 1, 2018 by Shanti Escalante

I guess it shouldn’t be surprising how many non-profit farms are flourishing in the Hampton’s. Here we have an insane…

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Jun Lei Lee: Physical/Geographical/Spatial History

Posted on July 25, 2018 by Jun Lei Lee

My project explores the history and present use of the site of Kamp Vught, which was an SS HQ-controlled concentration…

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Annie Felix: .GIFs as a Site of Digital Puppetry

Posted on July 24, 2018July 26, 2018 by Annie Felix

In thinking with and of the .gif, I’ve started to conjugate it, and thus my research work has become the…

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Stasia de Tilly: UFo, OMEN, Ostgut xt al.

Posted on July 21, 2018July 24, 2018 by Stasia

Electronic music, being non-lyrical, has the ability to penetrate geographic barriers. It reaches a primal part of the human essence…

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Blair Simmons: A Search for Computer-generated Literature

Posted on July 19, 2018July 19, 2018 by Blair I Simmons

Hello! Welcome to the world of computer-generated literature. I have been spending my summer searching far and wide for instances…

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Jonathan Marty: The Calm Before the Rezoning: East New York in 2018

Posted on July 18, 2018July 19, 2018 by Jonathan Marty

The East New York Community Rezoning Plan. Source: NYC Department of City Planning. In setting out to research New York…

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Sadie Mlika On the Gorki Theatre: Reinterpreting the Relationship between Art and the Political

Posted on July 16, 2018July 16, 2018 by Sadie Mlika

Hallo! Ich bin Sadie, and I’m writing on my experience working with the Maxim Gorki Theater here in Berlin, Germany…

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Annie Felix: The Resurrectionary History of the .GIF

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Annie Felix

My research is an investigation and re-appropriation of Heideggerian philosophy for critical race and new media theory. I am thinking…

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Nic Runnels: Researching the Teaching of Native American Hard History

Posted on July 11, 2018July 12, 2018 by Nic Runnels

Spurred a recent Southern Poverty Law Center report entitled “Teaching Hard History: American Slavery,” I’m researching how and to what extent…

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B&W map of Long Island

Joseph Taecker-Wyss: Research Methods as an Outsider

Posted on July 11, 2018August 1, 2018 by Joseph Taecker-Wyss

For my Dean’s Award for Summer Research project, I am researching the economic mobility of the Salvadoran community in Long…

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Donna Gary: Disability Poetics at the Library of Congress

Posted on July 10, 2018July 11, 2018 by Donna Gary

More To The Story I spent too much time reading poems in my academic career that were upheld within the…

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LaTasha Barnes: Blackness in Social Dance and Intergenerational Transference…

Posted on July 9, 2018July 9, 2018 by LaTasha Barnes

Initial Project Summary: This ethnochoreological and phenomenological study is intended to serve as an investigation into the lived experiences of…

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Kelsey Murphy: Photography and Social Justice

Posted on July 9, 2018July 9, 2018 by Kelsey Murphy

The participants departed last week and in their absence I’m left with more than fifteen hours of recordings that need…

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Anaïs Kessler: research for research

Posted on July 5, 2018July 17, 2018 by Anais Kessler

While it may be much more fun to hit the ground running, it’s important to do necessary research before starting…

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Aurela Berila: Object Referents and Historical Materialism in the Execution of “The Ethnography of Things”

Posted on July 4, 2018July 9, 2018 by Aurela Berila

When I started this research project I set out with a clear intention of uncovering what I preliminarily envisioned to…

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Raven Quesenberry: Pupusas Pair With Research

Posted on July 3, 2018July 31, 2018 by Raven Quesenberry

Over the past month, my research partner Joseph and I have been furiously reviewing the existing literature on the Salvadoran…

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Ingrid Apgar: Life at the Circus

Posted on July 2, 2018August 22, 2018 by Ingrid Apgar

Though many err on the side of caution when it comes to our body’s extreme limits, I have noticed a…

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Jun Lei Lee: Intruding on Collective Memory

Posted on July 1, 2018July 1, 2018 by Jun Lei Lee

There’s a inevitable sense of discomfort in studying a history that doesn’t belong to you. Removed from the immediacy of…

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Shanti Escalante-De Mattei: Farming in the Hamptons

Posted on July 1, 2018July 9, 2018 by Shanti Escalante

I started this project hoping I would be able to uncover an epistemic (knowledge) culture amongst farmers oriented towards the…

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Jonathan Ji: A Church for the People

Posted on June 21, 2018June 22, 2018 by Jonathan Ji

“Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner.” This token statement is used by Christianity to create the illusion that queerness (I…

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Welcome to the 2018 DASR Blog!

Posted on June 21, 2018June 21, 2018 by Rae Georges-Navarro

Welcome to the blog for the 2018 winners of the Dean’s Award for Summer Research (DASR). It’s time for another…

Posted in DASR 2018

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
  • Valeria Cuervo: The Fight Over the Viking Legacy

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