Posts tagged with “Undergraduate Research” (All posts)

Student Research Partnership in German: Environmental Fantasies: German Film History for the Anthropocene

18 October 2021

In the summer of 2021 Esme Krohn ’24 worked with Assistant Professor Seth Peabody on his book project Environmental Fantasies: German Film History for the Anthropocene. Esme shared her experience…

poster from film Metropolis

Student Research Partnership in Sociology: Dear Birthmother

7 October 2021

In the summer on 2021 Zoe Poolos ’22 worked with Associate Professor Liz Raleigh on the Dear Birthmother project. Zoe shared her experience as an SRP with the Humanities Center…

screenshot of Happy Families Through Adoption website

Student Research Partnership in Chinese: Chinese Popular Culture: Constructing a Self Online Amid Urban-Rural Divides, Consumerism, and Social Upheavals

4 October 2021

In the summer of 2021 David Ahrens ’22 and Marianne Gunnarsson ’22 worked with Associate Professor Shaohua Guo on a research project which investigates the questions “What is popular culture?”…

drawing of a blue teardrop

Bringing the Past to (Virtual) Life through Digital History Research and Pedagogy

7 December 2020

The Mitford and Launditch Hundred House of Industry, now the Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Museum, presents the historian with major opportunities for (re)imagining the past. Our digital modelling necessitated pulling off the mask it currently wears as a museum, stripping away the residue of its time as a twentieth-century Old Age Home, and uncovering the architectural and functional changes that turned it into a Union Workhouse of the New Poor Law period, after 1834.

Digital 3D model of the 1777 Gressenhall House of Industry produced by the authors and their student collaborators and rendered in Unity 3D.