Past Issues

Spring 2025

The Undergraduate Journal of Humanistic Studies is pleased to publish our seventeenth issue, presenting three papers that close-read a variety of creative literature, from plays to novels, to challenge traditional understandings of human nature and history. By reinvigorating the importance of literary texts in scholarly work, these authors travel through time and space, from Ancient Greece and the English Renaissance to Partition-era India, to demonstrate the importance of rethinking whose narratives are centered in intellectual conversations, and how we interpret them.
Winter 2025

The Undergraduate Journal of Humanistic Studies is pleased to publish our sixteenth issue, presenting four papers that center field and original research to critically examine and challenge traditional dominant narratives. Discussing subjects ranging from voter behavioral patterns in southern Norway to the literary presentation of sociopolitical issues in central Canada, this issue’s authors contest conventional understandings of political attitudes and advocate for innovative approaches to political life. Similarly, our authors bring us from Cape Town, South Africa to Wisconsin, USA to problematize understandings of indigeneity and introduce how, through plants or sports, indigenous communities across the world are resisting colonial trends.
Winter 2024

The Undergraduate Journal of Humanistic Studies is pleased to publish our fifteenth issue, presenting two papers that explore the meaning of place and its interactions with the people who construct it, physically and socially. These works cover a broad range of geographical experiences, from the crowded streets of Dublin and London to Northern New York, where the natural and the human meet in interesting ways.
Spring 2023

The Undergraduate Journal of Humanistic Studies is pleased to publish our fourteenth issue, presenting two papers that demonstrate the power of field research and place-based study. The following papers consider the construction of identities under varying conditions in a multitude of ways, and cover a broad range of geographical experiences; from creating conceptions of fate in modernizing China to identities of place in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Winter 2023

The Undergraduate Journal of Humanistic Studies is pleased to publish its thirteenth issue, presenting two papers which demonstrate the excellent work being done by undergraduate students in the humanities. The following research focuses on the migrant experience and the art (and science) of cooking, taking readers from present-day Oslo to nineteenth-century America. At its core, each paper engages in the expansion of existing theory, facilitating discourse between previously distinct ideas in order to construct a thorough investigation of the authors’ niche interests within their respective disciplines. Though the Winter 2023 issue may be small, it features two outstanding works of scholarship selected from this cycle’s impressive pool of submissions.
Winter 2022

In this twelfth issue of Carleton’s Undergraduate Journal of Humanistic Studies, we are very pleased to present the following four papers that explore art, politics, and media influences. Spanning disciplines from Cultural Studies to Legal Studies, these innovative undergraduate research pleased to present the following four papers that explore art, politics, and media influences. These innovative undergraduate research papers provide us with new angles from which we think about our relationship with history and society.
Spring 2021

In the eleventh issue of the Undergraduate Journal of Humanistic Studies, we are pleased to present the following three papers, which consider identity and community formation, definition, and exploration. These excellent undergraduate research papers, though written in very different disciplines, are all concerned with how people in communities construct group identities, and what it means to be a member of a community.
Winter 2021

In this tenth issue of Carleton’s Undergraduate Journal of Humanistic Studies, we are very pleased to present the following four papers that explore identity, heritage, and empowerment. Spanning disciplines from Theater to International Relations, these innovative undergraduate research papers challenge the ways we construct identities for ourselves and for the people around us and invite us to think from new perspectives.
Spring 2020

We are pleased to present the ninth issue of Carleton’s Undergraduate Journal of Humanistic Studies. In keeping with the mission of the Journal, the scholarship presented in this issue innovate in interdisciplinary and methodological approaches in the fields of environmental studies, media studies, Black studies, musicology, history, and sociology.
Winter 2020

Welcome to the eighth issue of Carleton’s Undergraduate Journal of Humanistic Studies. In keeping with the mission of the Journal, the scholarship presented in this issue challenges common narratives in the fields of philosophy, education, media studies, political science, and religious studies.
Spring 2019

We are pleased to present the seventh issue of Carleton’s Undergraduate Journal of Humanistic Studies. There is excellent work in the humanities and social sciences being done at the undergraduate level and it is our hope that we can play a small part in getting such work out into the world and read. Though this spring issue is slightly smaller than usual, we have selected three superb papers for publication.
Spring 2018

We are pleased to present the sixth issue of Carleton’s Undergraduate Journal of Humanistic Studies. In keeping with the mission of the Journal, the work presented here makes movements to re-think, re-define, and re-imagine common narratives in the fields of history, literature, political science, and religious studies. It is our firm belief that there is excellent work in the humanities and social sciences being done at the undergraduate level and our aspiration that we might play some small part in helping to get some such work read and wrestled with.
Spring 2017

In this fifth issue of Carleton’s Undergraduate Journal of Humanistic Studies, we are pleased to present five papers that tackle a range of pertinent issues from both past and present. Though written from varying disciplinary standpoints, this collection of papers petitions us to read sources — philosophical, religious, ethnographic, historical — more critically and to become more capacious thinkers. In keeping with the mission of the journal, these papers exemplify creative thinking characteristic of the liberal arts and probe common assumptions marking our present.
Winter 2017

In this fourth issue, the Undergraduate Journal of Humanistic Studies continues in its aim to uproot entrenched narratives and highlight fresh points of view. Tackling a wide range of topics from popular to unfamiliar, each of the works featured in this issue exemplifies the finest in undergraduate creativity, curiosity, and commitment to truth. We are excited to present this collection of papers, written by five unique voices from five disciplinary standpoints.
Spring 2016

This issue, like those past, illuminates the passions and preoccupations of Carleton students who venture into uncharted intellectual territory. These pieces address relevant and unexplored topics, igniting intellectual debate and sparking curiosity while speaking across disciplines. Bound by the journal, seemingly disparate ideas coalesce and collide to refine our understanding of humanity and the world we live in.
Winter 2016

The Undergraduate Journal of Humanistic Studies aims to challenge conventional thought and popular assumptions. The papers in this issue do exactly that. The authors featured chose not to shy away from the taboo and politically charged, and their papers are thought provoking and innovative as a result.
Spring 2015

Welcome to the first issue of the Undergraduate Journal of Humanistic Studies. We are very proud of this collection of work, which we believe represents some of the highest-quality research and writing in the humanities and social sciences at Carleton College.