The Humanities Center is pleased to announce the recipients of winter break Student Research Partnerships awards.* Congratulations to all!
Palmar Álvarez-Blanco (Spanish) and Henry Brown’22 (Spanish and Religion) will be editing videos for “Constellation of the Commons,” an audio-visual anarchive of interviews with leaders of collective movements. They will transcribe in Spanish and create English subtitles for each video.
Nancy Cho (English) and Anne Hackman’19 (English) will examine articles written by Hisaye Yamamoto, a Japanese American writer, in The Poston Chronicle newspaper (1942-45), tackling the complicated topic of the incarceration camp as the site of Yamamoto’s coming-of-age as a writer.
Kelly Connole (Art and Art History) and Irene Stoutland’21 (Undeclared) will finish several series of ceramic pieces for upcoming exhibitions, research references to sins and virtues in various cultures, and edit a cohesive artist statement about the work. These projects explore the contradictions and complexities of being human.
Cecilia Cornejo (Cinema and Media Studies) and Fernando Saldivia Yanez’2020 (Cinema and Media Studies) and Alan Zheng’2020 (Psychology) will do final edits, transcriptions, translations, subtitles, and preliminary color corrections on selected interviews for “Ways of Being Home,” a documentary film that examines marginalization and belonging from the perspective of Mexican immigrants living in Northfield, MN.
Andrew Flory (Music) and Nicholas Ford’21 (Undeclared) will sort and catalog CDs and other material about Marvin Gaye, for use in a planned 2-book study on Gaye’s musical career. It will focus on the full range of Gaye’s creativity, including released and unreleased recordings, live performances, and television and film appearances.
Dev Gupta (Political Science) and Ishmael Maxwell’21 (Undeclared) and Zoe Pharo’21 (Undeclared) will schedule, conduct, transcribe, and analyze interviews of people on the official Register of Tartans, as part of a project on the invention of tradition in the context of nation building.
Andrea Mazzariello (Music) and Jack Hardwick’19 (Music) will write software that will “perform” a composition for use in a collaboration with Northfield Union of Youth (The Key). They will develop systems for editing, cutting, and organizing documented audio, building in ways to interact with it in the performance environment.
Elena McGrath (History) and Jean La Fontaine’19 (Latin American Studies) will be creating a database of clean, readable transcriptions of court cases in both Spanish and English that can be easily cited in the manuscript Devil’s Bargains: Workers, Indians, and Citizens at the Limits of the Bolivian National Revolution (1930-1989), and used to create a map of neighborhood locales that became hotspots for racial and gendered disputes in those decades.
William North (History) and Read Wilder’20 (History and Classics) will finalize the full translation of De Miraculis (On Miracles) by Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny, developing annotations, maps to support the text, and preparing a scholarly introduction to the work, which will be co-authored.
Megan Sarno (Music) and Margot Shaya’21 (Undeclared) will conduct research for a book that offers the concept of mystery as a frame for much of the motivation to compose music in twentieth-century France. They will also explore the theme of concert attendance as religious experience.
George Vrtis (History and ENTS) and Jenni Rogan’19 (Biology, History minor) will review MPR’s Tim Nelson’s Twitter feed on the “MPR Racoon,” retrieving and organizing the data into a chronological format, and analyzing it for use in a co-edited book on the eco-social relationships connecting the Twin Cities and rural Minnesota.
*Awards made possible by the generous gifts of Alison von Klemperer ’82, P’16, and Anthony Tancredi ‘85.