THI Congratulates This Year’s Undergraduate Fellows
Every year, THI funds an array of innovative undergraduate research projects engaging fields in the Humanities. The topics and problems that our fellows focus on take up critical issues across disciplines, intellectual traditions, and sites of practice. The range and relevance of this year’s projects underscore the importance of supporting undergraduate Humanities research. We offer our sincerest congratulations to this amazing cohort of scholars and look forward to following their work and trajectories into the future.
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Brandon Castro, Film & Digital Media
Project: “Sancho & The School of Quetzalcoatl”
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Lucy DaSilva, Independent Study
Project: “The Blacklist Revisited: Jewish Screenwriters’ Memories of the McCarthy Era”
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Logan Fitzsimons, Psychology
Project: “Queering the Cowboy”
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Jonah Gertz, Intensive History
Project: “The Relationship Between SCAP, the Development of Narcotics Control Laws in Postwar Japan and the “Hiropon Age””
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Maya Gonzalez, Intensive History
Project: “Remember Us: Holocaust Representation in European-Jewish Émigré Film, 1942-1945”
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Sage Michaels, Intensive History
Project: “Okinawa Memories Initiative Project History Timeline”
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Jacinto Salz, Film & Digital Media
Project: “BIRTHRIGHT – A Documentary”
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Kelly Swenson, Literature
Project: “Fulfilling Prophecies: Towards An Alternate History of Emancipation”
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Jessica Valdez-Alvarez, Literature and Spanish Studies
Project: “Art as a Resource for Indigenous Communities during COVID-19”
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Karely Valdez Lopez, Spanish Studies
Project: “Language and Identity: Heritage Spanish Speakers’ Sense of Identity and Use of Spanish in the U.S.”