People
Undergraduate Fellows
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Parker Abt
History
CAS, 2019
Project: PAC Men: How the Civil Rights Movement Inadvertently Created Dark Money in Politics
Parker is a junior majoring in History. His primary academic interest is the intersection of American legal and economic history. He recently researched the history of a federal tax on horse-drawn carriages that... (more)
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Rive Cadwallader
Health and Societies, Classical Studies
CAS, 2018
Project: Medicine in the "Athens of America": Physicians and the Neoclassical Movement in Late Eighteenth Century Philadelphia
Rive Cadwallader is a senior majoring in Classical Studies and Health and Societies, with a concentration in the History of Medicine. A lifelong Philadelphian, Rive has a deep interest in the city's medical history,... (more)
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Jeffrey Careyva
English, Philosophy
CAS, 2018
Project: Jacques Derrida's Ghostly Archive of Poetry
Jeffrey Careyva is a senior from Ringtown, PA, where he helps his father run their family farm. He is majoring in both Philosophy and English with a concentration in Literary Theory and Cultural Studies. His research... (more)
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Seung Hyun Chung
Executive Board, Wolf Undergraduate Humanities Forum
English
CAS, 2018
Project: Empathy Machine? The Afterlives of Race, Memory, and Bodyhood in Immersive Virtual Reality
Seung Hyun (or Seung-Hyun) is a senior majoring in English with minors in Asian American Studies and Theatre Arts. He is a budding playwright and filmmaker, engaging creative practice with his research interests in... (more)
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Alisa Feldman
Health and Societies
CAS, 2018
Project: Be Fruitful and Medicalize: IVF Risk Communication and the Politics of Assisted Reproduction in Israel
Alisa is majoring in Health and Societies with a concentration in health policy and law, and minoring in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. Her research interests center on new reproductive technologies; the... (more)
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Rebecca Heilweil
History, Political Science
CAS, 2018
Project: The Search for Solidarity Beyond Bloom: Jewish Advocacy in Ireland, 1933-1958
Rebecca Heilweil is a University Scholar from New York. She is interested in the relationship between contemporary media and history. At Penn, she has been an undergraduate fellow for the College House Research... (more)
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Adrian Kase
Biological Basis of Behavior
CAS, 2018
Project: Conceptions of Death and the Afterlife in Modern American Comedic Films
Adrian is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences majoring in Biological Basis of Behavior. She currently studies the genetic basis of behavior in Pharaoh ants in Professor Timothy Linksvayer's lab. Along with... (more)
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Claudia Kassner
Chair, Executive Board, Wolf Undergraduate Humanties Forum
Classical Studies, Ancient History
CAS, 2018
Project: ἐλευθέρα εἶμεν καὶ ἀνέφαπτος: Examining the Afterlife of Greek Slavery in the Manumission Inscriptions at Delphi
Claudia is a Classical Studies (concentrating in Classical Languages and Literature) and Ancient History major. Her primary areas of interest include Greek and Roman mythology and religion, Greek tragedy, gender in... (more)
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Colin Lodewick
English
CAS, 2019
Project: “I think heaven is…”: Articulating Community in Elegy of the AIDS Crisis
Colin is an English major concentrating in Poetry & Poetics and minoring in Hispanic Studies. He is interested in an expansive definition of poetics – one that includes not just literary expression but much more... (more)
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Kyra Schulman
Executive Board, Wolf Undergraduate Humanities Forum
History, French Studies
CAS, 2018
Project: The Dreyfus Affair in Vichy France: An Afterlife
Kyra Schulman is a senior double majoring in history with a European concentration and French and francophone studies with a minor in music. Her research focuses on the afterlife of the Dreyfus Affair in France and,... (more)
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Amy Stidham
English
CAS, 2018
Project: Literary Reincarnation
Amy is a senior English major whose project for the Humanities Forum will focus on the afterlives of authors in later literary works, particularly 20th century poetry. She conducted research this summer with a... (more)