Hey guys! At the end of May, I boarded a flight and headed for “Aggieland”, otherwise known as College Station,…
Rose Gilroy: Constructing “French Feminism.”
Since I returned from France in June I’ve spent a lot of time reading about the construction of “French feminism”…
Adam Klaus: Tales from the Sound Booth
As the summer has progressed, so has my project. Again, the big questions I am looking to shed light on through…
Gwen Hornig: War: The Human Experience (an introduction)
Hello! My name is Gwen Hornig and I am a rising senior in Gallatin developing a concentration (currently) titled Theatre…
Max Smith: Sovereignty and Refugees
I began my research planning to focus primarily on the philosophy of Levinas. His philosophy, in which he asserts the…
Sumathy Kumar: Ashram Life: Hindu Spirituality and Social Justice
Hi all! For the past month or so, I’ve been in the Poconos, in Pennsylvania studying how Hindu philosophy can…
Perry Kurker-Mraz: Working With Sheet Metal
I set out to explore the role of craftsmanship in the academic and artistic worlds. I have been working on…
Austen Wigglesworth: The Language of Comics
Hello everyone! For my summer research, I am looking at the medium of comics and trying to understand if they…
Francesco Zenati: Social Media and the Cleanse
In this study, I will look at the intimate impact of social media on the psyches of two people/friends. These…
Evan Neuhausen: Representations of Black Power Solidarity in the Global South//A History Without A Past
I am researching how the Mexico City media represented and contextualized John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s protest at the 1968 Mexico…
Giovanni Rodriguez Pino: Propaganda in Revolution
Hi all! My name is Gio Rodriguez – Pino and I’m a rising senior in Gallatin, concentrating my studies on…
Emily Robinson: Anti-Gentrification Art and Community Projects
Hello, my name is Emily Robinson and I’m working on constructing a digital archive of art in the five boroughs…
Kylie Dayton: What We Mean When We Say “Highbrow”
Hello! Kylie Dayton here. The question weighing on my mind in these first few weeks of research has been one…
Derek Wang: Exploring film and Mental illness
Hello everyone, My name is Derek Wang and my concentration is Neuroethics and philosophy. For my summer project I am…
Celine Gruenberg: Industrial Hemp in Colorado
Hemp has been cultivated for over 10,000 years worldwide and is currently used in over 25,000 products. While over 30…
Louisa Nolte: Living the Green Dream: Ten Days in Copenhagen
I traveled to Copenhagen for ten days earlier this month to research sustainable urban planning, including the interaction of the…
Daniel McElroy: Invisible realities of immigration detention
Family detention centers are terrible places. They are also almost invisible in the media’s portrayal of immigration and the public’s…
Adam Klaus: The “Trials and Tribulations” of Clinical Research
For my project, I have been working on conducting a research study investigating the effects of auditory perception on a person’s speech or…
Olivia Ellis: Discovering Native American Identities
When people ask me what the purpose of this research project is, I tell them I’m studying “the long-term effects…
Rose Gilroy: What Exactly Is “French Feminism?” (Still trying to figure that out.)
Hello fellow summer researchers! I’m Rosie Vacanti Gilroy, and my concentration intertwines women’s studies, long-form journalism, and French. This summer…
Welcome to the 2016 DASR Blog!
Welcome to the blog for the 2016 winners of the Dean’s Award for Summer Research (DASR). It’s time for another…
2015 Conference Panel 4: Music and Dance
Music & Dance Panel Check out Panel 4 on Music and Dance featuring the evolution of ballroom dancers’s physicality, electronic…
2015 Conference Panel 3: Photography and Film
Photography & Film Panel Check out Panel 3 on Photography and Film featuring documentary work on New York City, an…
2015 Conference Panel 2: History, Politics & Society
History, Politics & Society Panel Check out Panel 2 on History, Politics & Society featuring post-Communist and post-Soviet historical memory, Walter…
2015 Conference Panel 1: Culture, Race, & National Identity
Culture, Race, & National Identity Panel Check out Panel 1 on Culture, Race, & National Identity, Featuring ethnic food communities, the political…
DASR Update: Preserving the Histories of Young Chinese-Vietnamese Americans
Francesca Huynh participated in the Dean’s Award for Summer Research in 2014 and her research was profiled on NBC…
Dancers in Sacred Spaces – #openskyopenroad
The Dean’s Award for Summer Research conference was last Friday. It was incredible to see the work that everyone has…
Tiergarten
I arrived at the Tiergarten by bicycle, after having journeyed through Potsdamer Platz and its strange, steely, empty newness. The…
The Sidekick
From reading journals from the last years of Bearden’s life, it becomes very clear to me that his main focus…
00:00, Aftermath
Hello everyone! At this point in time I’ve shot the documentary (filming was in the afternoon of August 7th), and…
Cutting, Copying, Changing: Editing my film!
Hey all! As I wrote in my post before, I’m currently in the post-production phase for my short film Heavy Feathers….
The Anatomy of History
The history of a city desires to be discovered, excavated, uncovered. The flâneur travels by imaginary roads, streets that no longer exist,…
Production vs Performance in the Abandoned City of Iron
Two hours Southwest of Berlin lies the vacant East German mining monument Ferropolis, a ‘city of iron’…
The Journey of Anti-Racism and Community-Based Theater
Hi everyone, this is Alex Hansen. As a quick recap, I last wrote about how I spent the beginning of…
The Ensemble in The Everday
Hey there everyone! Hope you’re all having beautiful summers. I am sadly done with the program in Ithaca, New York….
Art as Offering
Hi everyone! I am now writing from New York, having returned from Bali just a few days ago. Since my…
The Other Tiny House People
Brendan Ward The Tiny House road trip continues: Luna, my research partner, and I arrived in Portland in the last…
Oaxaca in Review…
Hi there, this is Kitania and I apologize for the late post but I wanted to include some of my developed…
What It Means To Be An Effective Photograph
I’m now back working and researching in New York after my trip to Paris. Paris is an important city to…
The “Nitty Gritty”
My second and final blog post on the black genealogy study will be a bit of an update on the…
History as Rumor, Economics as Fact?
Hi everyone! Throughout July I have continued work on my project, but it has taken an interesting turn in terms…
Political Partnering
When I chose to pursue this whole ballroom thing, it was easy enough to say, “Well, it’s just so political,”…
#openskyopenroad – Em Watson
Hello! My name is Em Watson, and I’m a rising senior. My concentration is called something like “Mapping the Body…
Cultural Distinctiveness, Similarities Through Food
We’re often taught that identity is inextricably tied to place and practice, and people are unalike based on where they’re…
Art and an Imagined History
How does one promote a legacy? That question, I think, is the core of my summer research project, and something…
Berlin’s Electronic Music Scene: Countering the Effects of Urbanization… or at least talking about it
I spent a majority of my last post talking about the undergrounded-ness/overgrounded-ness of the brooklyn warehouse scene. I would like…
Shooting a short film: Heavy Feathers
Hey all! Since this is my first blog post, I’ll tell you a little bit about myself before going into…
00:00, A Tale of Pre-Production
Hello, everyone! My name is Isabel and I’m a rising senior at Gallatin, concentrating in film and cultural anthropology with…
Human Rights in North Korea, Phase 2: A Vlog in 3 Parts!
Hi everyone! I decided to do a vlog for today’s update, for both fun and pragmatic reasons (as I explain)….