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Category: DASR 2019

Madeline Hoak: Searching for the Ephemeral in Circus

Posted on August 23, 2019August 26, 2019 by Madeline Hoak

I rode an elephant the day before yesterday at the Circus World museum in Baraboo, WI. Tracey was one of…

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Tianmo Wang: Creative “mis-reading” of subversive philosophical texts

Posted on August 21, 2019August 21, 2019 by Tianmo Wang

At this point of my research, I’m thinking about the creative “mis-reading” of subversive philosophical texts in places outside France,…

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Nunnapat Ratanavanh: Collecting and Creating Scores for Chairs

Posted on August 20, 2019August 21, 2019 by Spencer Ratanavanh

I have spent the past month investigating different ways of using scores as a way to ‘source’ designs from existing…

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Aine Nakamura: wordings and translation: my thought in the midst of the summer research

Posted on August 20, 2019August 20, 2019 by Aine Nakamura

In this mid-August, Japan is still very hot. Every summer, I experience summer becoming hotter and hotter because of the…

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Natalie Sharpe: NALIP Media Summit and the Urgency of Representation

Posted on August 18, 2019August 18, 2019 by Natalie Sharpe

At the Paley Center for Media, I was fortunate to meet the library supervisor who gave me a series of…

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Tia Glista: Decision-Making, Labour, and Reassessing Goals

Posted on August 13, 2019August 14, 2019 by Tia Glista

Hi all! My tendonitis is terrible this week and so typing is quite painful… I’ve done a recording instead (see…

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Anna Ezzy: Defining Urban Agriculture Policy in NYC

Posted on August 13, 2019August 13, 2019 by Anna Ezzy

The broad question “what are policy supports and barriers for urban gardeners to obtain healthy soils?” led me this summer…

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Ayaka Fujii: body, space, and inbetween

Posted on August 13, 2019August 13, 2019 by Ayaka Fujii

I am writing from Suzhou, China, a city I lived in for a long time. The familiar comforts of home,…

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28th Anniversary of the Landing of the Vlora in Bari

Posted on August 9, 2019August 10, 2019 by Efton Thomas

By 1990, Albania’s economy was in ruins, following the end of Communist rule. Social and political unrest was reaching dangerous…

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_Structures for Gathering _ Sort of a table design project Part II

Posted on August 9, 2019August 15, 2019 by Sophia Isidore

Starting work in the studio this past month, this “sort of a table design project” took a turn towards a…

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Lizzy Cheshire: “An instrument for collecting plunder”: Linguistic Practices in Manhattan Arraignment Court

Posted on August 6, 2019August 7, 2019 by Lizzy Cheshire

       Though the summer is coming to an end, I cannot help but feel that my research is…

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Cecilia Bien: Closing thoughts on Chinese-Italian fashion, textiles, and material culture as a lens for identity, diaspora, and social formation.

Posted on August 5, 2019August 6, 2019 by Cecilia Bien

Well, a lot has happened (of course) since my last post way back when in June. But I suppose I…

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Madeline Hoak: Circus Travels

Posted on July 27, 2019July 30, 2019 by Madeline Hoak

Hello DASR blog! My name is Madeline Hoak, and I am studying the exchange of cultural knowledge between American audiences…

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Kevin Weiskirch — The Impact of Digital Technology on Democratic Capitalism

Posted on July 27, 2019July 30, 2019 by Kevin W Weiskirch

As I’ve been doing my research, I’ve constantly been questioning the fact that I am continually relying on digital technology…

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Nunnapat Ratanavanh: Reflections on the Bartlett Summer Studio / An Extended Warm Up

Posted on July 26, 2019July 26, 2019 by Spencer Ratanavanh

I have just completed three weeks in London at a Summer Studio at The Bartlett School of Architecture. Although not…

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Cade Richmond: A History of the Family

Posted on July 25, 2019July 25, 2019 by Cade Richmond

Families have offered a nexus of care and resources to offspring throughout modern history. Looking into how family structures have…

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Natalie Sharpe: Looking at Latinx Representations on the Margins and in the Mainstream

Posted on July 24, 2019July 24, 2019 by Natalie Sharpe

I am conducting research in Los Angeles to gain context for, through the combination of archival research and selected scholarly…

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Boheng Zhang: Three days into the real world: a tentative introduction to the research

Posted on July 21, 2019July 23, 2019 by Hugh Zhang

This is the third day of my travel for the research. I am currently in Xining, trying to observe and…

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Sophia Gallagher: Media Narratives on US Intervention

Posted on July 19, 2019July 21, 2019 by Sophia Gallagher

As I continue working on my research, I’ve been thinking about what the connections are between coverage of Panama and…

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Aine Nakamura: Orality in Music, Art about Nature

Posted on July 19, 2019July 19, 2019 by Aine Nakamura

Japan is in Tsuyu (rainy) season right now, and right before an election. It is humid, and is a transition…

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Ayaka Fujii: Meandering Kyoto

Posted on July 19, 2019July 19, 2019 by Ayaka Fujii

It has been two weeks of meandering and walking about in Kyoto’s neighborhoods. Within this time frame, I have stayed…

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Anna Ezzy: Soil Ecology and NYC Urban Garden Policy

Posted on July 13, 2019July 13, 2019 by Anna Ezzy

This summer I am studying soil ecology at The Earth Institute at Columbia University and developing research on the connections…

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Saint Michael's Cathedral in Belgrade, Serbia

Boheng Zhang: Some observation strategies developed in church visits

Posted on July 9, 2019July 10, 2019 by Hugh Zhang

Unfortunately, right upon finishing up a summer program in Berlin, it is still not yet time for me to visit…

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Tianmo Wang: May’68 and French philosophy

Posted on July 8, 2019July 8, 2019 by Tianmo Wang

My project centers on the tension between philosophy and political actions. My major field of study is French philosopher Gilles…

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William Beaudoin: Very Long Update

Posted on July 7, 2019July 8, 2019 by William Beaudoin

Learned that the co-op has its genesis in the Cooper Square Committee’s (CSC) “Alternate Plan,” a critical reformulation of a…

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Two open books - one is "Feelings," an art book with works and interviews by dozens of contemporary artists/musicians/influencers/etc, and lying on top of it is "Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Culture" on an essay by Audre Lorde

Tia Glista: What’s a Self-Portrait?

Posted on July 7, 2019July 7, 2019 by Tia Glista

My project is investigating the use of self portraiture in feminist art. I have always been interested in gendered paradigms…

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Lizzy Cheshire: Language in Manhattan Arraignment Court

Posted on July 2, 2019July 8, 2019 by Lizzy Cheshire

My study examines the linguistic aspects of arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court. I am particularly interested in the use of…

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Efton Jiles: Migration Report from Italy

Posted on July 2, 2019July 25, 2019 by Efton Thomas

Cover of the Italian glamor magazine Panorama, March 27, 2019.   Headline:  “Immigration: Permission to be drug dealers. Repeat offenders,…

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A cartoon depicting the stereotypical nuclear family. It is interesting to think not only about the nuclear family's patriarchal roots, but also its discriminatory racialized origins.

Cade Richmond: First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage, and Then Comes Discrimination

Posted on June 27, 2019June 27, 2019 by Cade Richmond

Webster’s dictionary defines the term “family” as “a group of people who are related to each other” and the term…

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Stack of library books

Kevin Weiskirch: The Impacts of Digital Technology on Democratic Capitalism

Posted on June 26, 2019June 27, 2019 by Kevin W Weiskirch

My studies are centered around ways of understanding how digital technology has impacted democratic-capitalism. I want to explore the ways…

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The florid Gucci museum in Florence.

Cecilia Bien: Mao’s Fashion Mafia

Posted on June 24, 2019June 25, 2019 by Cecilia Bien

My study is centered around at understanding migration in the era of late capitalism through the lens of the Chinese…

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Sophia Isidore: _Structures for gathering _Sort of a table design project

Posted on June 20, 2019June 24, 2019 by Sophia Isidore

I sat around a communal market table here in Mexico City yesterday.   The group of tables, each roughly six…

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Aid Truck destroyed in Venezuela

Sophia Gallagher: Media Narratives on U.S. Intervention: Venezuela and Panama

Posted on June 18, 2019June 19, 2019 by Sophia Gallagher

When outlining my research plans for the summer, I intended to first spend time building a theoretical and methodological framework…

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Basket of Padlocks

William Beaudoin: Co-op, Trying Out Some Research Questions

Posted on June 17, 2019June 19, 2019 by William Beaudoin

The website for the 4th st food co-op—on the ‘about us’ page, under the ‘ethics’ heading (which, like, who wrote…

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Washington Square Park

Welcome to the 2019 DASR Blog!

Posted on June 13, 2019 by Rae Georges-Navarro

Welcome to the blog for the 2019 winners of the Dean’s Award for Summer Research (DASR). It’s time for another…

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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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