Palmar Álvarez Blanco (Spanish) and Christina Tarazzi ’18 (Spanish) and Alex Wachino ’18 (History) will work on the blog 21st Century Artivism, adding new entries and translating new materials.

Kristin Bloomer (Religion) and Sharan Ganjam Seshachallam ’20 (undeclared) will interview Tamil Hindus living in Minnesota about their kula tēvam (family tutelary deity) worship and associated trips back to India.

Charisse Burden-Stelly (Africana Studies) and Jorge (Guapo) Banuelos ’20 (undeclared) will gather information for an Epistemologies of Blackness book manuscript, exploring the way academics “know” and study Blackness in Africana Studies and its related fields.

Cecilia Cornejo (Cinema and Media Studies) and Fernando Saldivia Yanez ’20 (undeclared) will review, select, and transcribe the interviews already filmed for “Ways of Being Home,” a documentary film that examines marginalization and belonging from the perspective of Mexican immigrants living in Northfield, MN.

Jason Decker (Philosophy) and Soren Schlassa ’18 (Philosophy) will work on a project concerned with the (in)validity of the inference form modus ponens for English indicative conditionals.

Gao Hong (Music) and Peycun Ouyang ’20 (undeclared) will work on a multimedia project using animation, video and music to depict the Chu-Han Chinese war story from 206 BCE, bringing this classic story to life in a new and contemporary way.

Catherine Licata (Cinema and Media Studies) and Jessie Baskauf ’20 (undeclared) will work on a non-fiction podcast, “Significant Others,” identifying and interviewing subjects for each episode covering one couple’s romantic relationship–the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Anna Moltchanova (Philosophy) and Chris Padilla ’20 (undeclared) will investigate how a theory of collective awareness relates to several competing approaches to what constitutes individual awareness.

Megan Sarno (Music) and Cecilia Kryzda ’20 (undeclared) will conduct research that will lay the groundwork for a narrative about Claire Croiza’s social network and how her relationships with composers reflected her power.

Meera Sehgal (Women’s and Gender Studies) and Juliette Bobrow ’19 (History) will work on a book manuscript titled, Feminist Visions of Peace, Security & Justice: The Case of Sangat, a feminist network in South Asia.

Thabiti Willis (History) and Jen Chan ’19 (History and Political Science) will explore the relationship of both the slave trade and its abolition to British banking and insurance industries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

*All awards made possible by a generous gift from Alison von Klemperer ’82.