Barbara Allen (Political Science) will work with Ruiqi Geng (’16 Classics/Physics) and Mara Daly (’16 Political Science) on the transcription, translation, and subtitling of filmed interviews with Mandarin and Spanish speaking scholars of commons governance.
Palmar Alvarez-Blanco (Spanish) and Camille Braun (’16 Spanish) will work together on a research and archiving tool called Artivism: XXIst Century.
Cecilia Cornejo (Cinema and Media Studies) will work together with Jillian Banner (’17 CAMS) and Aaron Sala (’16 CAMS) on her newest non-fiction film. The project involves archival work in Northfield and the transformation of research materials into cinematic formats.
Dev Gupta (Political Science) and Abha Laddha (’17 Computer Science) will work on bibliographic research for a comparative study of less-understood social movements and their dynamics, such as movements from the Global South, as well as movements originating out of right-wing political ideologies.
Jessica Keating (Art History) and Noah Scheer (’18) will work on the preparation of a book manuscript on German clock automata in the early modern period.
**Austin Mason (Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities) and Maureen Kalowski-Farrand (’17 History) will work in Norfolk, England photographing and digitally scanning artifacts at the archaeology collection at Norwich Castle Museum.
Michael McNally (Religion) and Laura Levitt (’17 SOAN) will work on the preparation of five cases for Omeka based exhibits for the Global Religions In Minnesota web project.
Anna Moltchanova (Philosophy) and Alexandra Chang (’16 Philosophy) will pursue research on the idea of collective self-awareness by reading and discussing together literature in psychology, cognitive studies, and neuroscience.
Victoria Morse (History) and Tyler Spaeth (’15 History) will work on the research and writing for an exhibition called “Mediterranean Rivers, Chained and Unchained” that will go up in the Perlman Teaching Museum Fall 2015.
Annette Nierobisz (SOAN) and JordiKay Watanabe-Inouye (’17 Computer Science) will work on the transcription and discussion of over 70 interviews that probe into the contemporary experiences of workers age 50+, who have lost employment in a period marked by a severe economic recession, a subsequent long-term jobless recovery, decline of longstanding institutional protections for workers, and a dramatic inversion of the population age demographic.
Bill North (History) and Lindsay Brandt (’17 History /MERS) will work on revising and annotating the translated draft of George of Hungary’s account of the rise of the Ottomans and the reasons for their success (On the customs, conditions, and iniquities of the Turks), as well as collaborating on the writing of the introduction to the volume.
**Susannah Ottaway (History) will work with Florence Wong (’16 Studio Art) and Graham Earley (’17 Math) on documenting the experience of living in the English workhouse over the long eighteenth century. They will travel to England to do archival work and to take digital images of workhouses and their furnishings at various sites.
Kim Smith (ENTS/Political Science) and Florence Wong (’16 Studio Art) will work on developing the Friends of Prairie Creek website and digital archive.
Kevin Wolfe (African/African American Studies and Religion) and Carolyn Friedhoff (’17) can the jeremiad inspire change that corrects racial inequality.
These awards are made possible by generous gifts from Alison von Klemperer ’82 and an anonymous parent donor.
** Additional summer travel funds provided by the Dean of the College.