Summer Programs: Student Research Assistantships
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Professor Stephen Finley and Lewis Bauer '06 Explore the Historic Karakung Valley.
Designed to foster close interaction between students and faculty pursuing humanistic inquiry, the Student Research Assistantship Program provides mutual benefits, helping scholars advance their work while giving students meaningful experience in developing humanistic research and curricula. SRAs undertake a variety of tasks, including archival research, exploration of bibliographical databases or primary sources, generating annotated bibliographies, editing, proofreading, source-checking, web design, and curatorial apprenticeship. These assistantships take place for up to ten weeks in the summer, with the Center providing a weekly stipend. Arrangements for shorter periods may be considered. The Center prioritizes returning students, but recent graduates are eligible to work during their post-graduation summer.
Faculty may have particular students in mind to work with over the summer, but there are faculty for whom the HCAH serves as a clearinghouse, a place to look for students with particular skills or interests. All SRA's funded by the Center must submit an application.
Faculty SRA Projects for Summer 2013
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Imke Brust, German
Lauren Hawkins '13 helped compile a list of scholars currently working in European/German film, to be invited to a symposium that will be organized as part of a new course on European/German film in the spring, among other projects. -
John Cheng, History
Joshua Bucheister '14 researched and added data to The Science Fiction Social Network database/wiki of science fiction pulp magazines in the 1920s and 30s, mapping the social networks the data reveals, and exploring interactive information access on the site. -
Hank Glassman and Erin Kelley, East Asian Studies
Yue Xin '15 (BMC) helped pursue visual and material culture research on a particular kind of medieval Japanese grave marker called the "five-element pagoda," among other projects. -
Darin Hayton, History
CJ Morrison '15 helped to identify and evaluate sources related to witchcraft and prodigious weather in the 16th and 17th centuries. -
Laura McGrane, English
Ryan Rebel '14 helped choose primary texts, create assignments, and hone a theoretical reading list for the new course "Print & Media Culture"–a course that will focus on media and print change in 17th and 18th century literary culture and its 21st-century analogs, among other projects. -
Rajeswari Mohan, English
Joshua Bucheister '14 assisted in research for a chapter of a book on narratives of women's militancy in the postcolonial world, investigating responses to Frantz Fanon's writings on anti-colonial struggles in Algeria. -
Donovan Schaefer, Religion
David Roza '15 helped research teaching materials for the fall class "Religion, America, and the Science of Life" by reading and summarizing correspondence between Charles Darwin and his contemporaries as they considered the cultural and religious implications of the emergence of Darwinian evolutionary theory. -
Gustavus Stadler, English
Cole Fiedler-Kawaguchi '13 examined Woodie Guthrie recordings—particularly those from the late 1940s—and how these embody shifts in American social thought on topics such as social outsiders, collectivity, and various aspects of identity.
How to Apply
- Please complete the application.
- Submit the completed application via email to hcah@haverford.edu by 5 p.m., Friday, March 1, 2013.
* Note: Please make the subject line of your email "SRA (your name)."
The deadline for Faculty project proposals is March 1, 2013 as well. Faculty will review student applications shortly after the March 1st deadline to determine possible matches.
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Summer 2012
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Stephen Finley, English | Student: Elizabeth Cohen-Scheer '12, English
Assisting Professor Stephen Finley with his ongoing scholarship on Henry James and John Ruskin, focusing primarily on the way that memory and artifact figure in James's "The Spoils of Poynton.”
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Aurelia Gomez, Spanish | New Course Development & Interview Organization and Transcription, Students: Allison Guindon '13, Spanish and Meegan Winslow '12, (BMC), Spanish and Anthropology
Full Project Description & Notes
Assisting with two projects: 1) select readings for a new course about gender and guerrilla warfare in Latin America and transcription of roundtable sessions from a conference last year about guerrilla warfare in Mexico and interviews to be organized and conducted with former guerrilla women.
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Steven Lindell, Computer Science | A Digital Resource for the History of Computing, Student: Gavriella Fried '14, English
Full Project Description & Notes
For a quantitative seminar entitled “The History of Mechanical Thought,” student would create en electronic version of a beautifully written and illustrated trade book, now out of print, “Bit by Bit” by Stan Augarten © 1984. Since its publication, the Web has opened up extraordinary resources that expand upon the topics covered in the text.
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Bret Mulligan, Classics | Scholarly Assistance & Latin Resources, Students: Hannah Silverblank '12, Comparative Literature and Latin and Emma Mongoven '14, Classics
Full Project Description & Notes
Assist with ongoing scholarly projects, including: preliminary research for two projects that will be under contract by the summer; help revise monograph and work on ancillary materials; work to develop resources for Elementary Latin; assist with the development of a new advanced Latin seminar on Epigrams by digitizing texts. Possibily collaborate on a short article on the correspondence of Ezra Pound with Howard Comfort, a Latin Professor at Haverford.
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William Williams, Fine Arts | Continuing Digitizing the Fine Art Photography Collection & Image Research and Documentation, Students: Ever Ramirez '14, History and Aaron Schwartzbaum '13, Political Science and Russian
Full Project Description & Notes–Digitizing
The student will receive the necessary training in handling and processing this material to be able to catalog it, photograph it and gain familiarity with the various photographic materials to identify them.
Full Project Description & Notes–Research & Documentation
This is a two-part assignment that concerns editing the Master List of Fine Art Photographs. The second part of the assignment is to research and add visual images to Haverford Digital Art Library. Number of Hours: 400 hours for 10 weeks.
Summer 2011
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Farid Azfar, History | Student: Larry Miller '12, English Full Project Description & Notes
Cosmopolitanism, Sexual Space, and Newspapers in Enlightenment Britain: research related to current book project. Three aspects:- analysis of debates over urban sexual spaces in early 18th-century newspapers, sermons, and pamphlets
- examine patterns within the same newspapers' coverage of foreign crises and calamities, particularly those in Persia.
- locate trends with newspapers' coverage of the fluctuating fortunes of the East India Company.
- Markus Baenziger, Fine Arts | Student: Milap Dixit '12, Philosophy Full Project Description & Notes
Studio assistant to support development of a new body of work for exhibition.
240 hours (8 weeks x 30 hours) - Kim Benston, English | Student: Susanna Sacks '13, English & Sociology Full Project Description & Notes
I'm requesting funding for an SRA to work with me for the entire summer on production of the modern (post-WWII) period segment of Norton's forthcoming Anthology of Africa-American Poetry. The project is in the final phases of research and manuscript preparation.
400 hours (10 weeks) - Duane Kight, French | Student: Takumi McAllister ;12, Computer Science Full Project Description & Notes
Development of electronic materials to support my teaching of French at all levels. My focus at the moment is on developing a series of Flash animations that foster student listening comprehension of authentic French news videos.
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Richard Freedman, Music | Student: Jen Rajche BMC, English Full Project Description & Notes
Digital Resources for Renaissance Music- Assembling on-line bibliographies and printable study guides for his new book (Music in the 15th and 16th Centuries) in press of 2012 with W.W. Norton.
- Work on a set of digital facsimiles, editions, commentaries, of Renaissance songs — part of an ongoing initiative sponsored by the NEH (Office of Digital Humanities) in collaboration with the CESR (a French research center devoted to all aspects of Renaissance culture).
- Kristin Lindgren and Theresa Tensuan, English | Students: Kyle McCloskey '11, English Major; Karina Puttieva '11, English Full Project Description & Notes
Student Research Assistant who would spend 10 weeks at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) in Los Angeles, a non-profit, tax-exempt educational and research archive that collects, preserves, documents, and circulates domestic and international political posters relating to historical and contemporary movements for social change.
Housing, etc. is not included
400 Hours (10 weeks fulltime) - Bret Mulligan, Classics | Students: Hannah Silverblank 2012, Classical Languages & Comparative Literature; Leah Humphrey BMC '12 Full Project Description & Notes
Help finalize the draft of his monograph, Membra Commissa: The Poetics of Claudian's Carmina Minora. Tasks will include bibliographic research, information checking, and significant textual editing, as well as the possibility of targeted research projects on selected topics.
400 Hours (10 weeks fulltime) - Jill Stauffer, Philosophy | Students: Sydney Keough '11, Philosophy Full Project Description & Notes
Assistance on a book about the relationship between resentment, forgiveness, and reconciliation after violence and injustice - find current materials, and comment on new articles , both in regard to the topic and in regard to how the materials might work in an undergraduate course.
240-400 hours
Summer 2010
- Craig Borowiak, Political Science
Noel Ottman '10 will translate major articles, web-pages, and sections of books related to the solidarity economy from Spanish and possibly Portuguese into English. - Andrew Friedman, History
Bennett Smith '11 will assist with foundational research for a spatial history of Lancaster Avenue, including archival research, annotated bibliography preparation, collecting relevant maps and photographs, and conducting interviews. - Lisa Jane Graham, History
Lydia Emery '12 will assist in identifying a repertoire of visual themes that define the iconography of pleasure in eighteenth-century French art, including representations of seduction, gambling, luxury goods, the court, and debauchery. - Darin Hayton, History
Arielle Harris '13 and Thea Rockwell '12 will assist in the design and creation of a webpage that explores various museums and cabinets of curiosity. - Barak Mendelsohn, Political Science
Hannah Jaenicke '10 will maintain and update "the global terrorism resource database" and assist on projects focusing on the behavior of a regime that relegates some of its most important governance prerogatives to extremist ideological groups as well as al Qaeda's franchising policies. - Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Religion
Diane Tracht '11 will locate and gather materials on a particular moment in Jewish-Christian relations in fourth-century Persian Mesopotamia and assist in formulating the best way to summarize, synthesize, and present new research within the framework of old research. - David Sedley, French
Caitlin Ross '12 and Asher Reisman '11 will assist in locating a few of the most important Renaissance editions of the Elements of Euclid and translating them from Latin into English, summarizing, and analyzing their prefaces, and research in order to describe the status of the field of literary studies within academia. - Ying Li, Fine Arts
Nicole Yulo '11 (Bryn Mawr student majoring at Haverford) will assist in course development and update materials (“Chinese Calligraphy”), compile an assortment of bibliographies that are relevant to the course, and an create electronic slideshow or digital display of student artwork for the Fine Arts Department website.
Summer 2009
- Hank Glassman, East Asian Studies
Editorial assistance in English and Japanese on a book "The Face of Jizô: Image and Cult in Medieval Japan" (provisional title)
Jesse Drian '09 - Lisa Jane Graham, History
Research on changing attitudes toward pleasure in 18th-century France and identifying visual and textual materials for an article on Turkish-style portraits and their significance in eighteenth-century France
Olivia Kelley '10 - Duane Kight, French
Development of animations designed to teach or review French grammar
Inez Suhardjo '10 - Jim Krippner, History
Assistance in course design and preparation for two courses, "Introduction to Global History" and "Visions of Mexico"
Alejandra Alvarez '11 - Barak Mendelssohn, Political Science
Assistance in updating syllabi for a survey course in terrorism studies and a seminar on conflict in the Middle East
Katie Drooyan '11 - Bret Mulligan, Classics
Assistance with compiling primary and secondary sources for a monograph, "The Epigram in Late Antiquity" and assistance with the revision and preparation of two courses, "Elementary Latin" and "Classical Mythology"
Asher Reisman '11, Meaghan Ryan '11 - David Sedley, French
Locating, translating, summarizing and analyzing Renaissance editions of "The Elements of Euclid"
Hannah Silverblank '12 - Carol Solomon, Independent College Programs
Curatorial assistance for an exhibition, "In-Betweenness: Art and Identity in a Global Society," for the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery in spring of 2010
Janet Yoon '10
Summer 2008
- Duane Kight, French
Development of Flash-based French grammar lessons for the web
Inez Suhardjo '10 - James Krippner, History
Revision of Introduction to Global History and Latin American History courses
Julia McGuire '09 - Barak Mendelsohn, Political Science
Development of annotated bibliography for new course on terrorism
Jacob Waters '10 - Bret Mulligan, Classics
Assistance with article on late antique Latin poetry; development of two new Classics courses
Willy Lebowitz '08 - Ravi Sharma, Philosophy
Creation of analytical bibliography on sophist philosophers of the 5th and 4th centuries
Evan Rodriguez '08, Dylan Ravenfox '09 - Theresa M. Tensuan, English/Gender & Sexuality Studies
Research for new course on feminist theory
Mari Christmas '08, Melissa McCartney '09 - William E. Williams, Fine Arts
Selection and digitization of visual materials for new course on African-American art, 1619-present
Corey Wheeler '10
Summer 2007
- Israel Burshatin, Spanish
Helped to collect and evaluate sources used by an author for a review of the author's work; compiled an annotated bibliography for an upcoming project about frontiers in Early Modern/Late Medieval Spain.
Maya Cabot '10 - Steve Finley, English
Helped in research for upcoming essays on "Middlemarch" and "The House of Seven Gables" by compiling annotated bibliographies of criticism dealing with landscape, nature, space, and place in the works of Hawthorne and Eliot.
Ben Lansky '08 (English, Creative Writing Concentration/Gender & Sexuality Studies) - Richard Freedman, Music
Assisted Professor Freedman with a book that he is writing on 15th and 16th century European music; gathered source materials and gave feedback on chapters and ideas.
Ariella Foss '09 (English/German) - Friends General Conference – Emma Lapsansky/Angelina Conti '05
Alisa Apgar '08 - Lisa Jane Graham, History
Gathered and organized both print and visual materials to redesign Professor Graham's "Gender, Sex, and Power in Europe, 1550-1850" class.
Jimmy Meagher '08 (History/Religion) - Laurie Kain Hart & Zolani Noonan-Ngwane, Anthropology
Created slideshows for Art and Anthropology course (which necessitated reading each text on the syllabus for the course, thinking about images that might illustrate and/or contest the ideas presented in these books and articles, and writing notes that elucidated the connection between texts and images); researched Foucault's "heterotopia;" compiled statistics describing attitudes towards AIDS in South Africa.
Zoe Marquardt '07 (English) - Darin Hayton, History
Assisted in research on witchcraft in the printed media of the fifteenth-, sixteenth-, and seventeenth-centuries, primarily focusing on the visual portrayal of witches. Research included finding and evaluating various sources from collections in England, France, and Germany, both in the original and in digital archives.
Nicholas Nelson '08 (History) - Shizhe Huang, Linguistics
Christopher Healey '09 - Duane Kight, French Developed web-based educational grammar and language films using Flash software.
Duncan Cooper '09 (Growth & Structure of Cities) - Jim Krippner, History
Archived files on Quaker history in Mexico and Haiti with the American Friends service committee.
David Bamat '09 (Romance Languages/Education minor) - Emma Lapsansky, History
Nancy Anderson '08 and Ian Ramsey-North '08 - Bret Mulligan, Classics
Assembled class materials for "Intro Mythology, Herodotus and Lyric" (100 level Greek class), and "Culture and Crisis in the Golden Age"; assisted on the legwork for some of Professor Mulligan's research Late Antique poetry focused on the poets Ausonius and Claudianby by finding materials and editing papers.
Willy Lebowitz '08 (Classics/Philosophy) - Asima F. X. Saad-Maura, Spanish
Helped prepare three books for publication—critical editions of a Golden Age Spanish novel (Lazarillo de Tormes), colonial Puerto Rican history of travel and piracy (Los infortunios de Alonso Ramirez), and colonial Mexican epic poem (Grandeza Mexicana). Assembled bibliographies; obtained and wrote abstracts of sources, and writing; and created an annotated map.
Meridith Sine '09 (Anthropology/Gender & Sexuality Studies concentration; Spanish minor) - David Sedley, French
Prepared material for the new French webpage, assisted in editing and proofreading articles, and organized notes on French and English criticism.
Emily Tartanella '10 - Ravi Sharma, Philosophy
Compiled a bibliography and reading list for an upper level ancient Greek philosophy seminar and created supplementary materials for an introductory course.
Evan Rodriguez '08 and Zachary Freeman '08 (Classics & Philosophy) - Dorian Stuber, English
Assisted with research for an article about D.H. Lawrence's use of a "living" language in "The Rainbow," including tracking down source material; also researched the theory of "vitalism" proposed by the early 20th century biologist Hans Driesch in search of a connection between the theory and Lawrence's language.
Emma McDowell '07 (English) - Theresa Tensuan, English
Assistance with research concerning any aspect of the medium, artists, and politics of comics for Professor Tensuan's upcoming book "Breaking The Frame." Research included fact-checking, traveling to the Comics Research Library in Columbus, OH, and purchasing new and relevant comics.
Jacob Carroll '09 (English, History of Art minor) - Theresa Tensuan, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Revised thesis and learned steps toward publication; assisted with research for junior seminar course revisions (Heidi); helped update the academic biographies of the Haverford faculty involved in the program, helped edit and form portions of the program's student course guide booklet and assisted in organizing program events and editing program documents. Also researched and reviewed sources pertaining to Professor Tensuan's scholarly work (Melissa).
Heidi Smith '07 and Melissa McCartney '09 (English/Gender & Sexuality Studies)
Summer 2006
- Deborah Roberts, Classics
Assisted with research in preparation for a new course "Translation/ Transformation: Theory and Practice", which involved the collection of examples of translation as well as responses to translations (reviews, etc).
Willy Lebowitz '08 - Kim Benston, English
Conducted research and annotation for the forthcoming Norton Anthology of African-American Poetry, and also assisted with development of a new course, "Humanimality", on the role of animals in the shaping of human institutions.
Ellie Langhans '07 and Emma McDowell '07 - Emily Cronin, Humanities Center
Assisted with ongoing projects, including a range of administrative tasks, writing and web design, as well as aiding the Center's own research ventures.
Ben Lansky '08 - Steve Finley, English
Assisted with a new research project: an "autobiography of place" and/or geo-history of the Karakung Valley and The Grange (remnants of a 17th-century settlement-cum-mansion located in Havertown).
Lewis Bauer '06 - Richard Freedman, Music
Assisted with the renovation of the College's music history curriculum, exploration of new potential electronic resources for courses, and transcription of some Renaissance music into modern notation.
John Bower '07 - Hank Glassman, East Asian Studies
Converted an existing English-language database of information on Endnote 7 to a new, bilingual (English/Japanese) version on Endnote 9; conducted bibliographic research for a new book on Buddhism; and created digital libraries of images of Japanese culture for use in future courses.
Masataka Murakami '08 - Lisa Jane Graham, History
Gathered and organized both print and visual materials to redesign Professor Graham's "Gender, Sex, and Power in Europe, 1550-1850" class.
Carolyn Hotchkiss '06 - Darin Hayton, History
Assisted with research toward development of a new History course, "Scientific Revolution," working both with primary sources and secondary literature.
Nicolette Gable '07 - Jim Krippner, History
Helped with renovation of curriculum and course offerings through the addition of digital imaging, the conversion of lecture notes to PowerPoint and other technology, and research to identify and scan relevant audio-visual materials.
John Powers '06 and Thomas Bryan '08 - Danielle Macbeth, Philosophy
George will assist in all aspects of preparation for a one-day symposium in honor of retiring Philosophy professor Aryeh Kosman titled "A Celebration of Philosophy in the Liberal Arts". Duties include assisting with travel arrangements, advertisement, and general organization of the event.
George Reuter '08 - Laura McGrane, English
Helped devise a "methodology for teaching visual culture" for a new course, "Spectatorship in the Eighteenth Century" by collecting and formatting visual materials, and creating a course booklet of theoretical writings, model analyses, instructional worksheets, and topics for class discussion.
Ross Lerner '06 - Maud McInerney, English
Assistance with research for a new book on court culture in medieval and Renaissance Europe, including tracking down and evaluating source material.
Becca Wittenstein '07 - Bret Mulligan, Classics
Assisted with development of two new courses: "Tales of Troy" and "Myth & Society"; compiled and prepared primary and secondary resources, with a particular focus on the preparation of classroom artifacts (A/V and material resources); assisted with proofing, testing, and developing supplemental resources for a published student edition and commentary of Eutropius' "Breviarium."
Willy Lebowitz '08 - David Sedley, French
Assisted with preparation for the 2006-07 Faculty Seminar: "Why We Do Where We Do: Modern Divisions of Science and Literature" and with French Department research.
Lewis Bauer '06 - Jill Stauffer, 2005-07 Mellon Fellow
Jessica will help with the upcoming Mellon symposium, including collecting articles from journals, creating a bibliography of materials and informational packets for the symposium, and gathering organizational information to help with planning the event.
Jessica Johnson '07
Summer 2005
- Kim Benston, English
Archival research for Anthology of African-American Poetry (Norton)
Shamie Sahandy '05 - Emily Cronin, Humanities Center
General office assistance, web design and editing, alumni profiles
Robyn Schelenz '07 - Steve Finley, English
Assistance with the preapation of a book manuscript for submission, Self Topography: Studies in the Landscape of Autobiography
Lindsey Dolich '06 and Ross Lerner '06 - Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Religion
Research assistance for a writing project including the creation and annotation of bibliographic material
Colin Yarbrough '07 - John Lardas, Religion
Assistance with visual files for book manuscript and course syllabi, researching 19th century theology, natural science, and meteorology, and modern technologies of surveillance
Michael Kassler-Taub '06 - Raji Mohan, English
Preparation for next year's Faculty Seminar
Isha Dalal '07 - Religion Department
Assisting the Religion faculty with various projects
Jeanne Dreskin '07 - Margaret Schaus, Library
Editorial assistance for Women & Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia
Veronica Faust '06 - Michael Sells, Religion
Editorial assistance on second draft of forthcoming book Jihad and Crusade and first draft of book on love poetry of the Islamic world
Tariq Khondker '06 - Marianne Tettlebaum, Mellon Fellow 2004-06
Preparation for next year's Mellon Symposium
Megan Gage '07