Hamilton has announced recipients of the 2018 Emerson Summer Grants. Created in 1997, the Emerson Foundation Grant program was designed to provide students with significant opportunities to work collaboratively with faculty members, researching an area of interest. Twenty-six Hamilton students and 26 faculty members will work on the following projects this summer. The students will make public presentations of their research throughout the academic year. Recipients are:
Jacob Altman-Desole ’19 and Professor of History Doug Ambrose
“Hamilton’s Place in the History of Abolitionism”
Angelique Archer ’20 and Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer
“Ain’t I a Woman: Challenging Narratives of Color”
Emily Aviles ’19 and Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Sara Walsh
“How to Create Theatre for and with Trauma Survivors”
Claire Curran ’20 and Professor of Sociology Dan Chambliss
“Fraternities at NESCAC Colleges”
Zachary Deming ’20 and Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz
“Self Told Slant: Toward a Narratology of Motive and Behavior”
Ethan Dunn ’20 and Professor of Philosophy Marianne Janack
“Hermeneutics and the Sublime: Secular Transcendence”
Louis Mark Dzialo ’19 and Associate Professor of Art History Deborah Pokinski
“History of Edward W Root and Root Art Center-Teaching Visual art at Hamilton”
Emma Fighera ’20 and Associate Professor of Art Rob Knight
“Visual Ambrosia: Verity and the Contemporary Photographic Landscape”
Ram Franqui ’19 and Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran
“Wittgenstein's Influence on Psychological Methodology”
Zhaosen Guo ’21 and Associate Professor of Biology Wei-Jen Chang
“The First Chinese Student on the Hill”
Ian Hohm ’20 and Associate Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus
“Finding Connections East and West: Exploration of Comparative Philosophy”
Shavell Jones ’21 and Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Kyoko Omori
“Japanese Views of African Americans: 1940s-50s”
Hunter Lewinski ’20 and Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature Andrew Rippeon
“Seriality, Heteroglossia, and the Peripherality of Language”
Konstantin Manokhin ’19 and Visiting Assistant Professor of History Faiza Moatasim
“Low-Income Housing Regulations in Greater New York City Suburbia”
Christina Naston ’20 and Assistant Professor of Classics Anne Feltovich
“Working on Pylos Dig”
Ashley Ramcharan ’20 ad Associate Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas
“Studying Transition to College for People of Color”
Angelica Ramos ’20 and Visiting Assistant Professor Education Studies Meredith Madden
“Look into the Lives of Mexican-American Students in East LA Post-Chicano Movements”
Anthony Reyes ’20 and Professor of Music Doc Woods
“Jazz Fusion Album”
Geoffrey Schweller ’19 and Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald
“Representations of Place in Ethnographic Film”
Eleanor Silva ’19 and Professor of French Bonnie Krueger
“Linguistic Experience of Francophones in Maine”
Adrian Summers ’19 and Resident Designer, Theatre Production Manager Jeff Larson
“Racial Bias in Lighting in Theatre”
Muhammed Huzefah Umer ’21 and Professor of Government Steve Orvis
“Examining Trade policies of China and US in Kenya, Pakistan and Brazil.”
Shanay Wadhwani ’19 and Associate Professor of Mathematics Chinthaka Kuruwita
“Predicting Fifa World Cup outcomes with statistics”
Jinhong Wang ’19 and Professor of Government Alan Cafruny
“Sino German Relationships: Economic Interests or Ideological Differences”
Lilly Yangchen ’20 and Lecturer in Environmental Studies Andrea Murray
“Gross National Happiness, Cultural Identity, Ecotourism in Bhutan”
Stephanie Zhang ’19 and Associate Professor of East Asian Language and Literatures Masaaki Kamiya
“Analysis of Learning of Negative Quantifiers by Japanese Learners of English”
