Category: Research

On Friday, October 21, several Humanities Center Research Assistants presented the results of their summer research collaborations at the annual Student Research Symposium and Celebration held at the Weitz Center.

Congratulations to Elizabeth Budd ’19, Briannon Carlsen ’17, Madison Chambers ’18, Jackie Culotta ’19, Shayna Gleason ’17, Lauren Kempton ’18, Mairead Koehler ’17, Julia Miller ’18, and Bard Swallow ’18.

Summer Research Assistant Awards – Summer 2016

On Friday, October 23, several Humanities Center Research Assistants presented the results of their summer research collaborations at the annual Student Research Symposium and Celebration held at the Weitz Center.

Congratulations to Jillian Banner ’17, Camille Braun ’16, Alexandra Chang ’16, Abby Easton’16, Carolyn Friedhoff ‘17, Noah Scheer ’18, Tyler Spaeth ‘16 and Florence Wong ’16!

The Humanities Center is pleased to announce the faculty fellows for the academic year 2015-2016.

Serena Zabin, Associate Professor of History, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship for 2015-2016 to finish her book on the Boston Massacre, Occupying Boston: An Intimate History of the Boston Massacre.

Common Time, 12-1 p.m., Thurs., Feb 6, Weitz Center 236 (Larson Meeting Room).

Michael McNally (Religion), Andy Flory (Music), Adrienne Falcon (Academic Civic Engagement/Sociology), Eva Posfay (French and Francophone Studies).  Sponsors: Humanities Center, LTC. Contact Susannah Ottaway. Sponsored by the Humanities Center and LTC, includes Common Time lunch.

Everyone welcome – open to the public!

See the event listing for full details.

In December 2013, Professor Tun Myint (Political Science) and his Student Research Assistant Jackson Bahn ’16 traveled to Myanmar (Burma) for 20 days in order to begin research on a public memory project on the era of student protests and unrest in the 1980s.

In summer 2012 Mari Ortiz ’13 and professor Adriana Estill collaborated on a research project that examined how Hollywood and the American press influenced perceptions of Latina beauty in the ’20s and ’30s

Our new video about the Boston Massacre research project is now highlighted on the newly launched Carleton Academics site (scroll down to the Academic News section) – or you can go directly to the story/video page!