Summer 2009 Project Descriptions
Please email your application, along with an unofficial copy of your most recent transcript, to cajarvis@vassar.edu by Wednesday, February 11, 2009.
(Carol Jarvis, Box 15, 437-5844)
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Africana Studies
Collaborative Research and Course Design: Gender and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States
Lisa Collins (Africana Studies)
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Anthropology and American Culture
“Hello Fellow Brooklynites”: Community, Gentrification and History in the Clinton Hill/Fort Greene Blogosphere
Linta Varghese (Anthropology and American Culture)
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Drama and Film
Performance Studies: The Key Concepts
Gabrielle Cody (Drama and Film)
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Classical Hollywood Cinema: Genre, History, and Analysis
Sarah Kozloff (Drama and Film)
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Dramatic Film Short
Kathleen Man (Drama and Film)
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Economics
Economic Aspects of Child Marriage: Why this Widely Condemned Practice is so Hard to Eradicate
Shirley-Johnson Lans and Patricia Jones (Economics)
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English
On Parole: Obama, Uncle Jimmy, Hip Hop and Me
Kiese Laymon (English)
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Environmental Studies
IDEA: Independent Dutchess Energy Alliance
Lucy Johnson (Environmental Studies)
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Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Hudson River School Painting Exhibition
James Mundy (Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center)
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French and Francophone Studies
“Paris Ethnique”: Spring 2010 course at the Vassar Wesleyan Program in Paris
Patricia Celerier (French and Francophone Studies)
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German Studies
The Accessibility of a New Academic Field: Critical Whiteness Studies in Germany
Peggy Piesche (German Studies)
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History
Modernization and War in Vietnam
Robert K. Brigham (History)
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Researching Contemporary Africana
Ismail Rashid (History and Africana Studies)
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International Studies
DuBois and Global Struggle: Anti-Racist Praxis
Pinar Batur (International Studies)
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Media Studies and Computer Science
Shadowhood: An Educational Role-Playing Game For Youth at Risk
Tom Ellman (Media Studies and Computer Science)
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Political Science
Global Affirmative Action Praxis Project: Critical Race Theory and the Struggles for Human Rights in Brazil, India and the United States – A Transnational Seminar
Luke Harris (Political Science)
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Memorials to Struggle: Politics and the Art of Commemoration in Latin America and Spain
Katherine Hite (Political Science, Latin American and Latino/a Studies)
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Rebel Governance and Peacemaking
Zachariah Mampilly (Political Science and International Studies)
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Russian Studies
Tolstoi’s French Connection: The Use of French Historical Sources in War and Peace
Dan Ungurianu (Russian Studies)
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Science, Technology, and Society
Pedagogic and Policy Challenges of Novel Technoscience
Michael G Bennett (Science, Technology, and Society)
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Sociology
Women, Crime and Imprisonment
Eileen Leonard (Sociology)
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Disaster and Disorder
Marque Miringoff (Sociology)
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