People
Undergraduate Fellows
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Jeremy Cohen
2015-16 Undergraduate Humanities Forum Chair
Classical Studies
College of Arts and Sciences, 2017
Project: Same-Sex Unions in the Politics of Ancient History
Jeremy is a Classics major studying ancient languages and literatures, except when he's more interested in everything else. He has, at times, thought himself a student of statistics, anthropology, intellectual... (more)
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Sarah Engell
American History, Political Science
College of Arts and Sciences, 2016
Project: Replacing Periods with Question Marks: A Study of the Role of Public Education in Kanawha County, West Virginia
Sarah is a History major with a concentration in American history and a minor in Political Science. Her general research interests include cultural history, the intersection between public policy and culture, and... (more)
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Marco Herndon
Urban Studies, Latin American & Latino Studies
College of Arts and Sciences, 2016
Project: Soy Moderno y No Quiero Locas
Marco is an Urban Studies major whose research focuses on contemporary urban Latin American history and international development studies. Over his undergraduate career, Marco has honed these research interests... (more)
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Helen Hunter
2015-16 Undergraduate Humanities Forum Steering Committee
History
College of Arts and Sciences, 2016
Project: Redefining American Motherhood: Emily Mudd's Mission at Home and Abroad
Helen Hunter is a history major focusing on race and gender in American history. Also an anthropology minor, Helen is particularly interested on the way societal norms affect individuals, and vice versa. Helen has... (more)
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Hannah Judd
Music
College of Arts and Sciences, 2017
Project: Navigating Gender: Billy Tipton and the Jazz Culture of Masculinity
Hannah is a music major whose broad research interests include jazz studies and gender theory, and her studies are focused on ethnomusicology, nonfiction creative writing, and composition. Her project centers on... (more)
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Erich Kessel
2015-16 Undergraduate Humanities Forum Steering Committee
History of Art
College of Arts and Sciences, 2016
Project: Black Performance’s Remains in Mapplethorpe’s Black Book
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Thomson (Izzy) Korostoff
Urban Studies
College of Arts and Sciences, 2018
Project: Ill-Fame on Blackberry Alley: Prostitution in 19th Century Philadelphia
Thomson studies people and places through the lenses of geography, history, and literature. His research interests include urban historical geography, spatial history,urban morphology (as both an aesthetic and... (more)
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Sofia Amalia Lund
History of Art and Comparative Literature
College of Arts and Sciences, 2016
Project: Gallery 404
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Gabriel Ojeda-Sague
English
College of Arts and Sciences, 2016
Project: Plague Desires: A Re-reading of HIV/AIDS Politics in Contemporary Gay Pornography
Gabriel is pursuing a degree in English with a concentration in 20th Century Literature. His studies center around queer theory and queer literature of the 20th Century. His honors thesis, Then Another and Another,... (more)
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Eileen Wang
Health and Societies
College of Arts and Sciences, 2016
Project: Choice, Control and Childbirth: Cesarean Deliveries on Maternal Request in Shanghai, China
Eileen is a senior majoring in Health and Societies, with a concentration in global health, and minoring in Anthropology. Her research interests revolve around exploring issues of maternal-child health and... (more)
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Xeno Washburne
English; Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies
College of Arts and Sciences, 2016
Project: Autistic Gender Non-Conformity: Negotiating Narratives of Pathology