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Blog for students involved in the Gallatin Summer Research Program

Category: DASR 2020

2020 Gallatin Student Research Conference

Posted on February 26, 2021April 26, 2021 by Rae Georges-Navarro

Friday, October 30, 2020  Watch the 2020 virtual conference video Featuring selected student research projects from the Dean’s Award for…

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Illia Zheng

Illia Zheng: Charting Mythology: Socio-political Metageography in Chinese Myths

Posted on February 9, 2021April 26, 2021 by Illia Zheng

Watch Presentation Video Charting Mythology: Socio-political Metageography in Chinese Myths My project explores the intersection between mythology, geography, and media…

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Boheng Zhang

Boheng (Hugh) Zhang: The Nonexistent Religion, the Unimaginable Religious Freedom A Study of Religious Freedom Politics and An Imagination of the Post-secular Futurity

Posted on February 9, 2021April 26, 2021 by Hugh Zhang

Watch Presentation Video The Nonexistent Religion, the Unimaginable Religious Freedom A Study of Religious Freedom Politics and An Imagination of…

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Zoe Vongtau

Zoe Vongtau: Decolonial Feminist [Abolitionist] Community Psychology: On The Healing Capacity of Radical Justice in Postcolonial Nigeria

Posted on February 9, 2021April 26, 2021 by Zoe Vongtau

Watch Presentation Video Decolonial Feminist [Abolitionist] Community Psychology: On The Healing Capacity of Radical Justice in Postcolonial Nigeria I spent…

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Melchior Tamisier-Fayard

Melchior Tamisier-Fayard: Technology as a Lens for Investigating Social and Cultural Norms in Japan

Posted on February 9, 2021April 26, 2021 by Melchior Tamisier-Fayard

Watch Presentation Video Technology as a Lens for Investigating Social and Cultural Norms in Japan What can artifacts and technologies…

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Jules Talbot

Jules Talbot: I Am Dead, Horatio

Posted on February 9, 2021June 8, 2021 by Jules Talbot

Watch Presentation Video: https://stream.nyu.edu/media/Jules+TalbotA+I+Am+Dead%2C+Horatio/1_3foyd5zu I Am Dead, Horatio My project is a graphic novel adaptation of Hamlet called I Am…

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Meagen Tajalle

Meagen Tajalle: The Fences that Mark the Boundaries: Expanding the Decolonial Imagination on Guam

Posted on February 9, 2021April 26, 2021 by Meagen Tajalle

Watch Presentation Video The Fences that Mark the Boundaries: Expanding the Decolonial Imagination on Guam This project focuses on American…

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Jay Simpson

Jay Simpson: Emergent Naturecultures: Coyotes in NYC

Posted on February 9, 2021June 10, 2021 by Jay Simpson

Watch Presentation Video: https://stream.nyu.edu/media/Emergent+NatureculturesA+Coyotes+in+NYC/1_3loemmup Emergent Naturecultures: Coyotes in NYC Since 1995, coyotes have been known to reside in New York…

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Caroline Shadle

Caroline Shadle: Ruth Page’s “La Guiablesse” (1933): Collaboration, Boundary-Crossing, and Social Imagining in 1930s Chicago

Posted on February 9, 2021June 14, 2021 by Caroline Shadle

Watch Presentation Video Ruth Page’s “La Guiablesse” (1933): Collaboration, Boundary-Crossing, and Social Imagining in 1930s Chicago My summer research, which…

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Annick Saralegui

Annick Saralegui: Leveraging the Power of Microbes in Cultivating Regenerative Futures

Posted on February 9, 2021June 10, 2021 by Annick Saralegui

Watch Presentation Video: https://stream.nyu.edu/media/Saralegui%2C%20Annick%20Video/1_xxidte8i Leveraging the Power of Microbes in Cultivating Regenerative Futures What can we learn from microbes? How…

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Neva Luthria: Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide With Copper Selenide Nanoparticles

Posted on February 9, 2021April 26, 2021 by Neva Luthria

Watch Presentation Video Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide With Copper Selenide Nanoparticles I have been working on using copper selenide nanoparticles…

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Asia Lo Savio

Asia Lo Savio: Angola on The World Stage

Posted on February 9, 2021September 10, 2021 by Asia Lo Savio

Watch Presentation Video Angola on The World Stage Elinga Teatro, a theater founded in Angola by Jose Mena Abrantes in…

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Joel Lee

Joel Lee: Locating the Histories and Definitions of Bara Art & Fan Subjectivities

Posted on February 9, 2021April 26, 2021 by Joel Lee

Watch Presentation Video Locating the Histories and Definitions of Bara Art & Fan Subjectivities My research project is an inquiry…

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Sophie Jones

Sophie Jones: Learning from the ZAD: Anarchism in the Capitalocene

Posted on February 9, 2021April 26, 2021 by Sophie Jones

Watch Presentation Video Learning from the ZAD: Anarchism in the Capitalocene Amidst increasing global disaster, I analyze the anarchistic elements…

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Perry Augusta Gregory

Perry Gregory: Lesbian Periodicals Now & Then: How Media Informs Community

Posted on February 9, 2021April 26, 2021 by Perry Gregory

Watch Presentation Video Lesbian Periodicals Now & Then: How Media Informs Community I noticed similarities between a subsection of lesbian…

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Ugochi Egonu

Ugochi Egonu: Before We Become Ancestors

Posted on February 9, 2021April 26, 2021 by Ugochi Egonu

Watch Presentation Video Before We Become Ancestors Before We Become Ancestors is an anthology of writing and artwork by Nigerian…

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Nika Dzeban

Nika Dzeban: Savrasov, Shishkin and Levitan: Russian Landscape Heroes

Posted on February 9, 2021April 26, 2021 by Nika Dzeban

Watch Presentation Video Savrasov, Shishkin and Levitan: Russian Landscape Heroes My study focused on the interaction of realism with landscape…

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Sarah Daoui

Sarah Daoui: Algeria: Archives, Memory, and Visual Culture

Posted on February 9, 2021April 26, 2021 by Sarah Daoui

Watch Presentation Video Algeria: Archives, Memory, and Visual Culture In my research, I use Algeria’s archive as a means to…

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Sam Cheng

Sam Cheng: Growing Resistance: Reimagining Urban Agriculture As a Practice of Everyday Citymaking in Dakar, Senegal

Posted on February 9, 2021April 26, 2021 by Sam Cheng

Watch Presentation Video Growing Resistance: Reimagining Urban Agriculture As a Practice of Everyday Citymaking in Dakar, Senegal This project aims…

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Miriam Ambrosino: Reading Old Texts in New Ways: Employing ‘Outmoded’ Thought in Enacting a Living Phenomenology

Posted on February 9, 2021April 26, 2021 by Miriam Ambrosino

Watch Presentation Video Reading Old Texts in New Ways: Employing ‘Outmoded’ Thought in Enacting a Living Phenomenology This paper amplifies…

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Perry Gregory: Butch / Femme Media

Posted on August 24, 2020September 15, 2020 by Perry Gregory

Image credit to Joan E. Biren, ‘From Eye To Eye’, 1979. As I work towards the final draft of my…

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Sam Cheng: On Teranga

Posted on August 22, 2020September 15, 2020 by Sam Cheng

If not reading for this project, I have been reading many of my own personal selections just for myself this…

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Kai Sundermann: “Queering” and The Academy

Posted on August 20, 2020September 15, 2020 by Kai Sean Sundermann

I’m beginning to think deeper about the academic trend of ‘queering’ in which queer is made into a radical adjective…

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Annick Saralegui: What even is Biotech? – Traditional Wisdom of Fermentation

Posted on August 17, 2020August 20, 2020 by Annick Saralegui

When I think of “Biotech” the first that comes to mind is CRISPR. Yes, biotech includes genetic manipulation, DNA cloning,…

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Meagen Tajalle: Guam on Screen

Posted on August 16, 2020August 20, 2020 by Meagen Tajalle

In digging deeper into my research about Guam and its colonial history, I have been able to solidify the main…

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Jules Talbot: Bubble, Bubble . . .

Posted on August 16, 2020August 20, 2020 by Jules Talbot

The most deceptively simple but essential art in comics is lettering: or, the speech bubbles. Lettering, sometimes called bubbling, is…

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Zoe Vongtau: Lightbulbs and Webs

Posted on August 16, 2020August 20, 2020 by Zoe Vongtau

In the past 2 months, I have tumbled, erased, and drafted my way through the Gallatin Africa House Research Grant…

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Nika Dzeban: Looking to Other Exhibits for an Inspiration

Posted on August 16, 2020August 20, 2020 by Nika Dzeban

Throughout the summer I questioned whether the study of Shishkin, Savrasov and Levitan was a good topic for research, as…

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Caroline Shadle: Archives, Interviews, and a Cemetery Trip

Posted on August 15, 2020August 20, 2020 by Caroline Shadle

The beginning of the school year is somehow swiftly approaching and as I’m drafting my research paper, I’m taking stock…

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Asia Lo Savio: The Space In Between.

Posted on August 15, 2020August 20, 2020 by Asia Lo Savio

I left my previous blog post discussing and confronting the dualities and complications of the term “Universal” in relation to…

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Joel Lee: Henry Jenkins, my king.

Posted on August 15, 2020August 20, 2020 by Joel Lee

There’s a moment after digging through dozens of articles, going down rabbit holes of literature online, reading abstracts, yelling at…

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Illia Zheng: Cross-Cultural and Bilingual Research

Posted on August 14, 2020August 20, 2020 by Illia Zheng

At this point I’ve gathered and read through most of the primary sources and scholarly articles for the historical side…

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Miriam Ambrosino: The ‘Problem and Promise’ of Interdisciplinary Research

Posted on August 13, 2020August 20, 2020 by Miriam Ambrosino

   I have spent a great deal of time towards the end of my research on the question of openness in…

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Boheng Zhang-Some Post Research Thoughts

Posted on August 13, 2020August 20, 2020 by Hugh Zhang

It has been about a week since I submitted my final research paper. I have finally settled emotionally about it…

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Neva Luthria: Next steps for my research

Posted on August 11, 2020August 20, 2020 by Neva Luthria

As the summer comes closer to an end, I am considering the next steps as I work on turning my…

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Melchior Tamisier-Fayard: Final interviews

Posted on August 11, 2020August 20, 2020 by Melchior Tamisier-Fayard

Through a lot of snowballing and reaching out, I was able to conduct my final interviews, and started working on…

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Sophie Jones: interviews of zad visitors

Posted on August 11, 2020August 20, 2020 by Sophie Jones

The past few weeks have continued to be invigorating and exhausting. Coupling this work with engagement in the uprisings is…

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Annick Saralegui: Opportunities in Microbial Pigmentation

Posted on August 6, 2020August 20, 2020 by Annick Saralegui

The invisible microbial world of bacteria hosts a large range of functions that are vital for all life forms, yet…

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Perry Gregory: Conceptualizing Community

Posted on August 6, 2020August 20, 2020 by Perry Gregory

The cover of vol, 2 issue 3 of ‘Momazons’, a newsletter for lesbian mothers. September 1993. This past month I…

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Jay Simpson: Mapping a multispecies approach to human-canid relationships

Posted on August 3, 2020August 20, 2020 by Jay Simpson

To adapt to my new research focus, the past few weeks I have set out to get to know potential…

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Joel Lee

Joel Lee: A refreshed abstract! & update.

Posted on July 25, 2020August 20, 2020 by Joel Lee

I decided to write another abstract to help center me back at the core of my research. With all the…

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Meagen Tajalle – July Blog: Reflections on Self-Guidance

Posted on July 20, 2020July 20, 2020 by Meagen Tajalle

Ahead of Liberation Day on Guam, I came across this article featuring a list of war memorials which encourages Guam…

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Zoe Vongtau: The Bodymind at Home

Posted on July 20, 2020August 4, 2020 by Zoe Vongtau

On the one year anniversary of my first return back home to Nigeria in over a decade, I reminisced on…

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Ugochi Egonu: On broadening the narrative

Posted on July 17, 2020July 20, 2020 by Ugochi Egonu

One of the things that has shocked me about this process is the fact that contributors have basically been falling…

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Sam Cheng: Peanut vs Fonio

Posted on July 16, 2020July 20, 2020 by Sam Cheng

I don’t think I have ever read a cookbook cover to cover, but Senegalese chef Pierre Thiam’s The Fonio Cookbook:…

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Jules Talbot: Prologue

Posted on July 16, 2020July 20, 2020 by Jules Talbot

After a month, I’m now 21 pages into my graphic novel. Hopefully, the prologue and first dozen-something pages will have…

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Nika Dzeban: Shishkin and the Beautiful Subtleties

Posted on July 15, 2020July 20, 2020 by Nika Dzeban

Looking through the artist’s biographies, identifying who they spoke with and seeing which aspects of other artist’s works came into…

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Miriam Ambrosino: Care of The Self

Posted on July 15, 2020July 20, 2020 by Miriam Ambrosino

In this next chapter of my research I have been studying Foucault’s writings on the care of the self, which…

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Illia Zheng: the Matteo Ricci Map

Posted on July 15, 2020July 20, 2020 by Illia Zheng

I’m getting into the second stage of my research, crossing from premodern sources to roughly early modern ones. The 1602…

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Asia Lo Savio: The Global Map of Angolan Theatre

Posted on July 15, 2020August 15, 2020 by Asia Lo Savio

The third encounter with the director of Elinga Theatre Jose Mena Abrantes happened this afternoon. In the hour before the…

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