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Hanna Holborn Gray Summer Research Presentations

September 24, 2015

The Hanna Holborn Gray Undergraduate Research Fellowship presentations will be on Wednesday, Sept. 30, and Thursday, Oct. 1, at 4:30 p.m. in Dalton 300.

The presentations are open to the Bi-Co community.

The Hanna Holborn Gray Undergraduate Research Fellowship program awards up to 15 students $4500 each to undertake an independent summer project in the humanities or social sciences.
 
See the full schedule below.  Refreshments will be served.

Panel 1, 4:30-5:45 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 30

  • Eliana Chavkin ’16 (History) – The Evolution of an Idea: Woodrow Wilson, Minority Rights, and Paradoxes
  • Brittani Ivan ’16 (English) – Across the Wall: The Limitations Placed on Heroism and Creativity by Setting in Garth Nix’s ‘Old Kingdom’ Books
  • Elizabeth Erikson ‘16 (Greek) – “It has come into existence”: The History of the Platonist Interpretation of Verbs of Becoming in the Timaeus, with Emphasis on John Philoponus’ Against Proclus on the Eternity of the World
  • Kristin (K.C.) McConnell ’16 (Religion) –“Nobody Can Touch Us:” Narratives of Jain Sadhvis and the Complexities of Gendered Empowerment

5:45:-6 p.m. Break

Panel 2, 6:00-7:15 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 30

  • Alexandra Nae ’16 (Growth and Structure of Cities) – Urban Transformation in Center City Bucharest:   A public space-public life study of the Revolution Square
  • Xuenan Ni ’16 (Growth and Structure of Cities) – How Should Beijing Construct Subways? Lessons from Hong Kong’s TODs and R+P
  • Chanel Williams ’16 (Growth and Structure of Cities) – Looking Beyond the King Assassination Riots: Reinterpreting the Decline of Shaw Washington, D.C.
  • Leah Kahler ’16 (Anthropology) – (Grounds)keepers of Heritage:  Historical Narrative and Monticello’s Garden Workers

Panel 3, 4:30-5:45 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 1

  • Minh Tran ’16 (Growth and Structure of Cities) – Land Consolidation in Peri-urban Hanoi, Vietnam
  • Julia Tanenbaum ’17 (History) – To Destroy Domination in All Its Forms: Anarcha-feminist Theory, Organization, and Action 1970-1978
  • Julie Benton ’16 (Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Classical Languages) – Cuncta Feminae Oboediebant: Imperial Portraiture and the Public Perception of Agrippina the Elder and Agrippina the Younger
  • Erin Saladin ’16 (English & French) – Dishonest Abe: Lincoln, Martyrdom, and Surrogation in Kindred and “The Trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire”

5:45:-6:00  Break

Panel 4, 6:00-7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 1

  • Yitan (Coco) Wang ’16 (Philosophy) – Civil Society in a Non-Democratic Context:  The Study of Contemporary Chinese Civil Society under the Regime of Communism Party
  • Ava Hawkinson ’16 (Creative Writing) – Cultural Destruction and Assimilation During Japanese American Internment
  • Nicole Barker ’16 (Anthropology) – “What Will You Gain When You Lose?”: Defining Disability Gain Towards a Rhetoric of Constructivity & Positivity in the Disabled Life Experience

Moderators:  HHG Program Graduate Student Mentors: Carrie Young (Graduate School of Social Work), Abbe Walker (Greek, Latin and Classical Studies);Isabelle Barker, Assistant Dean


 

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