Summer 2016 Humanities Center SRA awards
Palmar Álvarez Blanco (Spanish) and Lauren Kempton ’18 (Und.) will work on uploading new entries and images to the blog Artivism, which is an open, reflexive, plural and interdisciplinary space for the study of contemporary Spanish culture.
Fred Hagstrom (Studio Art) will work with Mairead Koehler ’17 (Theater Arts) on the printing of a book project on the 1954 Bravo nuclear test in the Marshall Islands and its tragic legacy for the islanders who lived in the radiation contaminated areas.
Gao Hong (Music) will work with Brian Gordon ‘17 (Studio Arts/Cinema and Media Studies) in creating and shooting video-clips for Chinglish, a multi-media production of Gao Hong’s true stories of the mixing and clashing of English and Chinese.
Adeeb Khalid (History) and Sasha Mayn ’18 (Und.) will work through Turkestanskii Sbornik, a large archive of Tsarist-era Russian publications that has recently been digitized, to locate and analyze material for the project “Russian Settlers in Central Asia 1865-1920.”
**Alex Knodell (Classics/Archaeology) will work with Julia Miller ’18 (‘Und. ), and an international team of students and faculty, in the Mazi Archaeological Project in Northwest Attica, Greece. Julia will be conducting archaeological field surveys, as well as doing lab work and data analysis on site.
Michael McNally (Religion) and Shanna Sippy (Religion) will work with Gus Leinbach ’17 (Religion) to bring online fifteen curated multimedia Omeka-based case studies that were initially drafted by Carleton students in the classes “Global Religions in Minnesota” and “Native American Religious Freedom.”
Victoria Morse (History) and Ruth Swallow ’18 (Undecided/Medieval & Renaissance Studies) will be analyzing the vocabulary of space in Roman authors, whose works were widely read in the fourteenth century, in order to understand the ways in which medieval authors were influenced by ancient sources, particularly Livy.
Diane Nemec Ignashev (Russian) will work with Camille Jonlin ’19 (Und.) and Soren Smallwood ’17 (Russian) on a project on the cinematic novels of Aleksandr Sokurov using the software platform Scalar to standardize and import media clips for the project.
Annette Nierobisz (Sociology/Anthropology) will work with Quinn Schiller ’19 (Und.) coding interviews and analyzing the full data set for her project on older workers living in Minnesota who experienced job loss between 2008 and 2014.
Constanza Ocampo-Raeder (Soc./Anth.) will work with Shayna Gleason ’17 (Soc/Anth/Ed. Studies) on qualitative data analysis and on developing visual representations of the data gathered during several years of ethnographic fieldwork in Perú.
Susannah Ottaway (History) and Madison Chambers ’18 (Und.) will examine archival material that will will allow them to better understand the earlier history of the poor relief for Gressenhall. Madison will spend three weeks at the Norfolk Record Office digitizing images and checking original sources.
Juliane Schicker (German) will work with Briannon Carlsen ’17 (German/Political Science/IR) on the the transcription, translation, and subtitling of interviews with conductor Kurt Mauser. The project is part of Juliane Schicker’s research project on the cultural politics of music in Leipzig during the years of the German Democratic Republic.
Thabiti Willis (History) will work with Jackie Culotta ’19 (Und.) on GIS data analysis for the ongoing digital humanities project “Mapping Masks and Their Histories in a Nigerian Town.”
*Awards are made possible by generous gifts from Alison von Klemperer ’82.
**Additional summer travel funds provided by the Dean of the College.