Ten Humanities Undergrads Awarded Research Funding for Fall 2023
By Karen Marsh Schaeffer
Undergraduate students, supported by a faculty member, submit a research proposal to the Office of Undergraduate Research and if selected receive a stipend for 120 hours of research work. Ten humanities students were selected for the fall 2023 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program and the college looks forward to seeing their research come to fruition.
Britta Bolander (Mentor: Aniello De Santo, linguistics) - Models, Evidence, and the Epistemology of Machine Learning
Z Chodos (Mentor: Aaron Kaplan, linguistics) - An Optimality Theoretic Analysis of Context-Specific Exceptions to Gemination in Japanese
Caleb Curtis (Mentor: Alexis Christensen, world languages and cultures) - A Mycenean Environment
Pierce Dirkis (Mentor: Matt Haber, philosophy) - The Intersection of Pediatric Autonomy and Conscientious Objection: New Perspectives
Kalista Leggitt (Mentor: Matt Haber, philosophy) - The Intersection of Pediatric Autonomy and Conscientious Objection: New Perspectives
Eliana Massey (Mentor: Maile Arvin, history) - E Mālama Nā Lei Poina ʻOle (Care for the Children Not Forgotten): Constructing a Community-Engaged Digital Database for Accessing and Interpreting Histories of Child Institutionalization in Hawaiʻi
Savannah McDaniel (Mentor: Elizabeth Swanstrom, English) - Creature Comforts: Domesticity and Domestication in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) and Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Mel Palmer (Mentor: Elizabeth Clement, history) - The History of Drag in Utah: Developing a New Collection in the Archives
Lex Putnam (Mentor: Aniello De Santo, linguistics) - An Evaluation of Novel Slur Formation through Textual Media Analysis of "Transgender"
George West (Mentor: Mira Green, history) - An Examination of the Role of Popular Politics in the Late Roman Republic