People
Undergraduate Fellows
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Zoë Affron
English, Environmental Studies
CAS, 2023
Project: Modernist Ecologies: The Short Fiction of E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf
Zoë Affron is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences from Philadelphia. She is majoring in both English and Environmental Studies. She is especially interested in 20th-century literature and environmental... (more)
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Ezra Chan
Health and Societies
CAS, 2024
Project: Legacies of Loss: An Ethical Analysis of Human Remains in Modern Collections
Ezra is a student from Vancouver majoring in Health and Societies. While not directly related to his core studies, he is interested in examining the ethical implications of modern museums and exploring their role in... (more)
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Olive Coles
Russian and East European Studies; Political Science
CAS, 2023
Project: Finding the Words: Searching for ‘Truth’ in the Shadows of Soviet Past
Olive is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences double majoring in Russian and East European Studies and Political Science. Originally from London, U.K., Olive seeks to explore processes of transition and... (more)
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Roseline Gray
International Relations; Russian and East European Studies
CAS, 2023
Project: Historical Imagination and Political Power: The Role of Premodern Narratives in Contemporary Russian National Identity
Roseline Gray is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is pursuing majors in international relations and Russian and East European studies. While she hopes to eventually explore these interests in the... (more)
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Tyler Kliem
Comparative Literature, Design
CAS, 2024
Project: Blending Poetics and the Avant-Garde: The Constructed Yidishkeyt in the Works of Yiddish Literary and Art Collectives in Europe, 1918–1924
Tyler Kliem (he/him/his) is a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences from Hamilton, New Jersey. Majoring in comparative literature and design, his current research interests include Yiddish literature and... (more)
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Wes Matthews
Anthropology
CAS, 2023
Project: Architecture Of Disillusion: A Qualitative Study of Nihilism Among Black Men in Hip Hop Performance
Wes Matthews is a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences studying cultural anthropology and religion, hailing from Detroit. His research interests primarily encompass music, popular American culture, and... (more)
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Pierre Peters
Music; Cultural Anthropology
CAS, 2023
Project: BRING IT ON HOME: A Decolonial Analysis of Musical Instruments in the Penn Museum
Pierre Li Peters (he/they) is a senior from Philadelphia, PA, studying Music and Cultural Anthropology. His primary research interests rest in ethnomusicology and cultural heritage through the lens of decoloniality... (more)
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Sophie Qi
Health and Societies; History
CAS, 2023
Project: Miss Super Clean: Public Health as Nation Building in Late-Colonial Period Hong Kong
Sophie is a senior from Hong Kong, majoring in History and Health and Societies, with concentrations in Diplomatic History and Healthcare Markets and Finance, respectively. Her research interests include colonialism... (more)
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Vita Raskeviciute
International Relations; Russian and Eastern European Studies
CAS, 2023
Project: On the Brink of Independence: Public Opinion about What it Means to Be Lithuanian
Vita Raskeviciute is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences pursuing International Relations and Russian and Eastern European Studies. As she was born and raised in Lithuania, Vita is interested in the... (more)
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Miriam Shah
Intellectual History
CAS, 2023
Project: Inheriting Political Myth: India’s National Identity?
Miriam Shah is a student in the College, studying Intellectual History with a concentration in Judaic Studies. She grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC, although much of her childhood was spent visiting family in... (more)
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Aili Waller
History of Art
CAS, 2024
Project: Using Genealogy to Recover Lost Artists: The Case of Josephine Walters
Aili Waller is a junior from Lexington, Virginia. She is majoring in Art History and minoring in Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Her current academic interests lie in the study of forgotten 19th-century... (more)