Humanities

With the help of the Graduate Global Research Grant, I will be able to conduct preliminary research necessary to write the first chapter of my dissertation project on the work of Dominican-Haitian artist Firelei Báez.

This semester, Profs. Cheryl Krueger and Ari Blatt, both in the Department of French, are co-facilitating a new, 1-credit reading seminar.

Mary-Dryden Maio translates into English the first book of poetry, Jardín Transparente (Transparent Garden), by the Ecuadorian poet Camila Peña.

This project consists of a year-long thesis study surrounding the influence of French garden design on the American landscape as traced through the distribution of French botanical art of the 18th century.

Yen-Yu Lin’s dissertation project, Colors of the Empire: Visual Representations of Race and Gender in Colonial Taiwan, examines the racialized and gendered “rule of difference” through material culture with an empirical focus on Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule (1895-1945).

Cherrie Kwok will focus on advancing her dissertation project about the relationship between anti-imperialism and a late nineteenth-century artistic and literary style named Decadence.

This project seeks to establish an eco-cultural study of the Ecological Park of the Ceiba Tree of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

This project is about films that are often categorized as educational, nontheatrical or nonfiction.

On average, over 16,000 people ascend the rocky outcrop of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece each day. The main attractions are the remains of the monumental religious buildings, namely the Parthenon, a 5th century BCE temple to Athena.

My thesis research examines the early period of Italian colonization between 1870 and 1900 in today’s Eritrea and Somalia.