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Summer 2004 Research Projects
Kendra Kappan
History : Following attendance at the Leadership Alliance's Program at Stanford University, Kendra Kappan flew to South Africa, where she worked in the archives of the University of Witwatersrand to study primary materials related to the conflicts and struggles out of which the South African black working class was formed
Kaity Trinidad
History/Statistical Analysis : Trained in statistics, with an interest in the history of immigration, Kaity Trinidad devoted the summer to studying the changing ways in which Dominican women with breast cancer, who are now living in Washington Heights, adapted to the health care available to them in New York City in the final two decades of the twentieth century.
Gina Di Tolla
Philosophy : A philosophy major with a specialty in aesthetics, who spent the spring term at Reid Hall in Paris, Gina Di Tolla examined the works of Frederick Nietzsche to determine how his views about truth are represented in his writing style.
Anil Foreman
English/Ethnomusicology: Following a year of study at the University of London, Anil Foreman conducted research for a critique of the prevailing view that British popular music has become less political in the past decade.
Hayley-Anne Holness
French Language and Culture : After a spring term spent at Reid Hall in Paris, Hayley-Anne Holness devoted the summer to an examination of the principles underlying the opposition in France to the wearing of religious symbols in the public schools.
Angeli Leal
Spanish/Comparative Literature : After attending the Harvard Summer Program in Cuzco, Peru, Angeli Leal devoted the summer to a close reading of the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and William Faulkner for her senior thesis, which will compare concepts of nationality and the importance of being able to tell one's own story in the work of these two writers.
Alexandria Wright
American Studies : After attending summer school at the University of California, Berkeley to study rhetoric, Alexandria Wright conducted research in preparation for her senior thesis on the influence of Martin Heidegger on concepts of space in domestic architecture.
Carol Lee Kim
Art History : Following a semester of study at Reid Hall in Paris, Carol Lee Kim spent the summer conducting research for a project in art history in which she is asking how Elsa Schiaparelli, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, and Claude Cahun worked within the symbolic framework of "masculinity," in Paris between World War I and World War II, to revolutionize the way women dress. |
