A generous contribution from Alison von Klemperer ’82 in honor of Diet Prowe allowed us to fund many more projects than we otherwise would have been able to afford, and allowed us to pilot a new kind of faculty-student collaboration (see story on Tun Myint and Jackson Bahn ’16)

Cherlon Ussery (Linguistics) and Edward Malnar ’15 (Linguistics, PolSc/IR, EUST) (60 hours) will be documenting and analyzing a portion of the syntax and morphology of Icelandic (looking particularly at speaker variation regarding the forms of words in sentences with direct objects in the nominative case).  They will be collaborating with a researcher based at the University of Iceland.

Audrey Russek (American Studies) and Katharine Noakes ’14 (French/Francophone St) (60 hours) – will look at the history of small, independent restaurants in the early to mid-twentieth century through dining guidebooks/directories, as part of an article and revision to Audrey’s doctoral dissertation.

Daniel Moore (Classics) and Natalie Whitsett ’17 (undeclared) (60 hours) will pursue research and writing to determine approximate dates and origins for each artifact in the Carleton Classics Department’s possession and reorganize and improve labels for the department’s public display.

Timothy Raylor (English) and Gordon Loery ’15 (CS) (60 hours) will prepare a prototype for an electronic edition of a contemporary English translation of Thomas Hobbes’s poem “De mirabilibus pecci” (1678) that would allow a reader clearly to follow the tour recounted in the text on a map of the region, with annotations, illustrations, and links to tourist information for those of the Wonders that accept visitors

Constance Walker (English) will work with Erin Winter ’15 (CS, English) (40 hours) to complete a database on British women’s poems responding to works of art, adding to scholars’ understanding of women poets’ appreciation for art and affiliative networks between women artists.

John Schott (Cinema and Media Studies) and Haley Ryan ’15 (Studio Art, CAMS) (60 hours) will work together to pursue research on the topic “Memory and Media,” specifically looking at the state of existing research that brings together humanities perspectives in the form of “memory studies” as they are modulated in visual media.

Tun Myint (Political Science) and Jackson Bahn ’16 (undeclared) will travel together to Burma to begin work on a public memory project on the unrecorded history of oppression during the time of the military-led socialist era and the military governments from 1962 to 2010. They will begin gathering data and physical evidence, locate private archives collected by individuals in Burma, and record testimony from both military and police figures and their victims from the 1960s.