Posts tagged with “Research & Scholarship” (All posts)
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Expemplified as it’s Taught: A Discussion on Public Scholarship in Artistry with Fred Hagstrom
11 November 2018In two years, when Fred Hagstrom retires, he’s “throwing all of it away.” Not his career or legacy—based on the smiling anecdotes I hear whenever I mention Fred’s classes and…
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Faculty Spotlight: Pierre Hecker
2 November 2018Pierre Hecker explores the different ways Carleton faculty can incorporate Civic Engagement into their academic work. In his ACE course, Drama, Film, and Society, Pierre’s students analyze unique pieces of theater and probe such questions as: who is theater for and what is theater meant to be doing?
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Attending Global Conference at UChicago
29 October 2018Anesu shares his experience attending a global conference at UChicago hosted by Bill Clinton. The conference brings together individuals from across the globe to discuss challenges people face around the world.
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2Fik Talks about Identity
24 October 2018“Who are you?” is a question that 2Fik believes is a question that everyone can connect to. At some point, every person has been asked, “Who are you? Where are you from?” and has to think about their own identity.
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The Broom Public Scholarship Project provides grants to Carleton professors engaged in public scholarship projects, aiming to support and foster broader dialogue surrounding this type of academic work. Two faculty members — Anita Chikkatur of Educational Studies, and Yansi Pérez of Spanish and Latin American Studies — were recently awarded grants for projects in line with this ideal.
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Public Scholarship Comps: An Interview with Emily Culver ’18
25 September 2018Before Emily Culver embarked on her Sociology/Anthropology Comps project, she knew that she wanted to do research that would reach beyond academia and be of use to a broader community. She had interned at Growing Up Healthy the summer before, so when she reached out to the coordinator about the possibility of volunteering alongside them while doing research for her Comps, they were happy to have her.
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Public Scholarship Comps: Examining Food Insecurity, Deconstructing Exclusive Wilderness, and Engaging with Natural Spaces
19 September 2018The Senior Comprehensive Exercise provides an opportunity for students at Carleton to engage deeply with a topic of their choice by conducting their own research and sharing their process and the results of their work with their peers and professors. While all Comps projects are inevitably shared with the broader Carleton community, some students choose to make their work even more public, often by working with non-profit or other community organizations or sharing their project and findings with communities beyond Carleton. Natalie Jacobson, an American Studies major; Naomi Borowski; and Flora Richey, both Sociology/Anthropology majors, all chose to engage in this type of research.
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On Thursday, March 29, the Broom Fellow co-sponsored an event with Student Advocates for Reproductive Choice (SARC). In line with the Broom Fellow’s focus on social inequality, Erica Gerrity, Program Director and founder of the Minnesota Prison Doula Project, Raelene Baker, Program Coordinator for the organization, and Mariah, a woman who has been incarcerated in Minnesota, were invited to campus to discuss reproductive justice for incarcerated women.
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Dakota Linguistics Project
20 April 2018Professors Jeff Ondich of Computer Science and Mike Flynn of Linguistics have collaborated on a project to build a pedagogical grammar for the Dakota language.
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Jeff Snyder is an Assistant Professor of Educational Studies at Carleton. His research examines the history of education in the broader context of American culture and intellectual history. He is the author of the book Making Black History: The Color Line, Culture and Race in the Age of Jim Crow.