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Summer Research Group in History – Taking the Middle Ages Global

22 January 2024

Our team, led by Professor Victoria Morse and consisting of six Student Research Partners (Alex Wilson ‘24, Evan Orjala ‘24, Nicholas Spezia-Shwiff ‘24, Abdullah Ansar ‘25, Griffin Momsen-Hudson ‘25, and Hope Yu ‘26) worked during our five week assignment to help construct a new Carleton course: “Global Middle Ages.”

Student Research Partnership in Digital Arts & the Humanities: The Viking Longship Project

10 January 2024

This past summer, I embarked on a journey into the past, joining the Virtual Viking Longship Project, a collaborative initiative between Carleton College and Grinnell College, overseen by Austin Mason,…

Student Research Partnership in English – Hobbesian Geometry

25 October 2023

My summer research position with Professor Tim Raylor entailed interpreting and analyzing Hobbesian Geometric Proofs. In order to do this, I began by reading a book on Hobbes that served…

Student Research Partnership in English – Visiting the Heroine’s Grave: Charlotte Temple and The Coquette

20 October 2023

During the summer of 2023 Ruby Mead and I worked with Professor Jessica Leiman on her book project “Novel Pursuits: Fictionality, Reading, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel,” which explores eighteenth-century readers’…

Summer Research Partnership in History – Political Engagement in the New Republic

18 October 2023

This summer, we worked with Professor Serena Zabin from the History department on a new project organizing and analyzing a database of petitions from eighteenth and nineteenth-century Virginia. The opportunity…

Student Research Partnership in Archaeology – Fieldwork in Greece

13 October 2023

In the summer of 2023, a team of student researchers accompanied Carleton Classics Professor Jake Morton and University of Pennsylvania Professor Emerita of Classical Studies Cynthia Damon to the mountainous…

Summer Research Partnership in Archaeology – Pompeii 1.14

11 October 2023

In the summer of 2023, I traveled to Italy to work with Dr. Jordan Rogers on the archaeological project Pompeii 1.14. The project’s title refers to our dig location, an…

Student Research Partnership in Spanish – Comparison of Translated Sources

6 October 2023

My work with Silvia explored the use of artificial intelligence for linguistic translation. Machine-assisted translation has been in development for decades, with the debut of the first significant tool, Google…

Summer Research Partnership in Cinema and Media Studies: The Wandering House ~ Sonic Archive

6 October 2023

8am: Wake up, shower, brush teeth, make bed. 9am: Get breakfast–either PB&J or McDonald’s (probably McDonalds this time, since LDC is closed). 10am: Get to the Weitz, sit down in…

Student Research Partnership in Linguistics: Indonesian Syntax and Ellipses

4 October 2023

This summer break I worked with Professor Cati Fortin on her ongoing research project in linguistics. Our research focused on comparative deletion in Indonesian, a type of ellipsis. This is…