The Humanities Center and Ethical Inquiry at Carleton (EthIC) are pleased to announce the recipients of winter break Student Research Partnership awards. Congratulations to all!
Barbara Allen (Political Science), Aaron Bronstone ’24 (Computer Science), Dylan Fox-Arnold ’25 (Political Science), Serafin Patino ’24 (Computer Science), Efram Stewart ’26 (undeclared) and Matthew Vincent ’26 (undeclared) will archive the content-analysis data from the Carleton Election Study for the years 2000, 2004, 2008 & 2016, and will also conduct news analysis of the coverage of the George Floyd murder, the Derek Chauvin trial, and transgender rights. Students are co-authors on two papers presented at the 2023 Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties Conference of the Political Studies Association. Students will also be co-authors on contributions to an edited book project.
Funded by the EthIC Joan Hanson Fund.
Cecilia Cornejo (Cinema and Media Studies), and Valentina Guerrero Chala ’24 (Computer Science and SOAN) will develop an interactive, digital replica of the Red Wing Community Quilt which is a tapestry currently under construction. The quilt features 60 embroidered phrases gleaned from audio testimonials recorded by Red Wing and Prairie Island residents in2022 through my multimodal project, The Wandering House. The digital replica will be accessible to the public through this website and also via touchscreen technology when presented in museum and gallery settings.
Chris Geisler (Linguistics), Margie Claus ’24 (Linguistics) and Jyothi Nellakra ’25 (Physics) will work on assembling a literature review article that will survey the range of options researchers have followed in analyzing and interpreting Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA) data.
Shaohua Guo (Asian Languages & Literatures), Taaja Foster ’24 (Chinese) and Kamaal Somji ’26 (undeclared) will examine the pivotal role played by live streaming platforms in orchestrating the ebb and flow of user attention, the commercialization of the performative space, and the initiation of novel forms of online social interaction. This work is part of a larger book-length exploration of digital culture in China provisionally titled “Streaming China in Times of Uncertainty.”
Alex Knodell (Classics), Ellie Simon ’26 (undeclared), and Charlie Solomon ’25 (History) will carry out GIS and remote sensing analysis on lidar data obtained for the Cyclades, Greece. The project is related to the broader program of research in the Cyclades with the Small Cycladic Islands Project (SCIP), which involves fieldwalking and lidar-based remote sensing surveys of numerous small, currently uninhabited islands.
Brooke McCorkle Okazaki (Music) and Ben More ’24 (Spanish) will craft an abstract proposal and a video presentation about music for the game Wario Land 4 for submission to the North American Conference on Video Game Music to be held at Michigan State University March 16–17, 2025. This abstract and presentation will also serve as a template for future MUSC 313 students’ research projects and presentations.
Tim Raylor (English) and Drew Rodriguez-Michel ’25 (English) will work on Raylor’s edition of Thomas Hobbes’ De Corpore, and in particular on producing printable versions of the diagrams drawn by Hobbes and his scribes for the geometrical chapters of the text. This will require examining facsimiles of manuscript diagrams alongside the edited transcriptions and translations.
Juliane Schicker (German) and Celia Vander Ploeg Fallon ’25 (German) will gather and evaluate academic material pertaining to practical preschool immersion education to build a bibliography. This bibliography will be used to provide training and resources for educators as well as easily accessible material for parents and caregivers about the process of language acquisition in the immersion environment in connection with social-emotional development.
Victoria Thorstensson (Russian) and Stephanie Baranov ’26 (undeclared) will work on a project to create a database of oral history interviews of Russian immigrants to Minnesota and a series of events, aimed at bringing attention to this part of Minnesota’s history, as well as putting a spotlight on the Russian-speaking community in Minnesota.