In the aftermath of the protests and counter-protests that happened this weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia brought the subject of my…
Connor Borden: Visiting the Museum of Chinese in America
Tucked away in SoHo, just before arriving in Chinatown, visitors and residents of New York alike can find an inspired…
Sophie Walker: More transcribing, many stories
The past month I’ve continued transcribing, looking at what I have so far and thinking about who I want to…
Grace Easterly: The railway’s emotional histories, uncertain futures
The train departs from the station at five in the morning, after the merchandise, suitcases, covert bags of khat, and…
Kendra Prat: The Life and Afterlife of Community-Engaged Performance
I just received a text message from a friend I made while I was living in Detroit with a photo…
Tsering Bista: Ebi et Watashi Ni
To be completely transparent, I don’t have a compelling update on the progression of my project, especially considering that my first…
Nyelah Sawyer: The Archdiocese of New Orleans–Where the Histories of Church and State Cannot be Separated
In my last blog post, I spoke about studying different methods of preservation. I spoke about religious preservation, and the…
Maame Boatemaa: Adesua ne Nk)so) (Education and Development)
I’m spending my last few days in Ghana remorseful of the fact that I have no clear idea of when…
Léah Miller: Queer Identity Within Gendered German
I had a layover in Dublin and I enjoyed this rainbow walkway. Too on-the-nose? Hi everyone! I arrived in Berlin…
Lindsay Karchin: Social Responsibility: An Intersectional Analysis (Part 2)
Since my last post, I have been continuing my research through analyzing texts, attending events throughout NYC and conducting exciting…
Madeline McCormack: Vibrational Temporalities and Generative Repetition
In my previous post I attempted to lay out some of the areas of theory that I would be delving…
Lili Dekker: Living with Dementia
I am currently in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, at my grandparents’ house, where I have been filming them since the 13th…
Shayna Feuer: Mental Health Research In Jarabacoa
It has been almost a week since I arrived in Jarabacoa Dominican Republic. Since I arrived I have been getting…
Rachel Gilman: The Mary D Fund
I’ve been back on the mainland for about a month now, preparing to return to Block Island right before the…
Connor Borden: A/P/A Health in the Development of Manhattan’s Lower East Side/Chinatown
The impetus for this research project and the questions surrounding it came from many conversations with my friends over the…
Emily Hockett: Questions (and a few thoughts) on hate crimes law
As I finish up the first month of my research, I am amazed at how much my topic has evolved….
Sophie Walker: Thoughts on Conversations about Sex
Last year I created an audio piece for the Gallatin Arts Festival called Relative Sex, comprised of a series of…
Grace Easterly: The Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway
When you look at a map of the newly inaugurated Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway, it looks relatively straightforward: from Point A…
Alice Lambert: Berlin Dances
It has now been a week since I arrived in Berlin. B12, the new contemporary dance festival, began here on…
Kendra Prat: Oh, Everybody’s Talking About The Rebellion…
In my first few weeks in Detroit, I walked into Source Booksellers, on Cass Avenue, a smart, non-fiction bookstore. When…
Nyelah Sawyer: Landscapes of Preservation
Since arriving in New Orleans, I’ve been jolted into déjà vu brought on by the buildings I pass in the…
Madeline McCormack: Towards An Affective Rhythmanalysis
In my research this summer I seek to theorize the ontology and affective aspects of Berlin’s techno and house music…
Maame Boatemaa on the Ghanaian Educational System: Akwaaba
Everything is different yet nothing has changed. The roads in my old neighborhood are still untarred but there is a…
Lindsay Karchin: Social Responsibility: An Intersectional Analysis
Hi everyone! This summer, I am exploring the intersection of marketing, Corporate Social Responsibility and gender. Through a multi-faceted approach,…
Rachel Gilman: The Dames of Dodge Street
I am a rising senior at Gallatin studying creative writing and gender studies — particularly, the importance of female narratives….
Welcome to the Dean’s Award for Summer Research Blog-2017!
Welcome to the blog for the 2017 winners of the Dean’s Award for Summer Research (DASR). It’s time for another…
Louisa Nolte: Passive Aggressive Architecture and Rethinking the Existing
A few months ago a friend and I were having a late night conversation coming up with silly ideas of…
Morgan Noll: Reflections on Misconceptions and Inequality in Colombia
As I reflect on my trip to the coffee farm in Colombia and my tracing of one specialty coffee chain…
Hannah Treasure: Bilingual education, poetry, and free speech
For July, I moved away from mainland and spent most of my time in Hong Kong to observe differences between…
Max Smith: The Problems with Sovereignty
Most of my attempts to understand the issues of sovereignty and refugees have devolved into irresolvable questions of definition. I…
Perry Kurker-Mraz: Opening the Engine; Engaging With What is Hidden
As my project continues, and I work through the various systems of the motorcycle, I’ve been thinking of the nature…
William Kammler: Blindness in the South: Looking to the past and ignoring the present
I just returned to DC after spending two weeks in New Orleans working on a project for a different Gallatin…
Daniel McElroy: Political intricacies of the Mexico-U.S. border
Immigration in the United States is about as multifaceted of an issue as one could imagine. I knew this going…
Giovanni Rodriguez Pino: A Sustainable and Irreversible Cuba
Hey Everyone! In this post, I wanted to share with you all a bigger picture of the Cuban economy and…
Evan Neuhausen: The Politics of the Apolitical
A recurring narrative in the media coverage of John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics…
Francesco Zenati: Interviews, Texts, and Inspiration
This past week I returned from Italy to the US. I downloaded footage that I shot in Italy. Attached are…
Emily Robinson: Seeing the Archive Take Shape
As the end of August quickly approaches (yikes), I have had to make a lot of changes to the project…
Gwen Hornig: War: The Human Experience (How do we listen? How do we tell stories?)
Hello! Since my first introductory post, I have focused my time on thoroughly processing the experiences I have had, the…
Sumathy Kumar: Understanding Vedanta
Hello! For this post, I’ll try an explain a little about what Vedanta, the branch of Hindu spirituality that I…
Dominic McCaffrey: The 1990s: Conservatives and their Battle for the Law and Politics
Hey guys! Since my visit to the George W. Bush Presidential Library Archives at the end of May, I have…
Austen Wigglesworth: Science Fiction and the Future of Comics
As my summer research has progressed, my interest has shifted from trying to understand how comics have interacted with the…
Kylie Dayton: A Hierarchy before High and Low
Hello! It’s Kylie Dayton coming to you from LA again. I’ve been spending a lot of time this summer thinking…
Morgan Noll: Coffee from Colombia to New York
As a barista for the last year and a half and an obsessive coffee drinker, the coffee industry has fascinated…
Daniel McElroy: The triumphs and pitfalls of arranging a month-long research trip
The bulk of my research begins later this week, as I embark on a three-week and four thousand-mile journey driving…
William Kammler: The Past is Never Dead
For the past two weeks I have been in Mississippi, attempting to come to a closer understanding of my family,…
Celine Gruenberg: Industrial Hemp for construction/textiles
In this post I’ll write a bit about why industrial hemp with its wide range of usages and abundant properties has…
Hannah Treasure: Creative Writing in China
Hey everyone! My name is Hannah Treasure, and I’m a rising Gallatin senior concentrating in education, creative writing and social…
Olivia Ellis: Understanding Native Visibility
My research trip officially ended at the beginning of this month, but I’ve hardly stopped thinking about it since. When…
Derek Wang: Focusing on Depression
Hello everyone, In my last blog post I gave an introduction to my project and said that I would hopefully…