View by: Funding Andrew W. Mellon Foundation CAS Dean's Office CELS Center for Tropical Forest Science at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Collaborative Faculty-Student Research Grants Fischer Family Foundation Howard Hughes Medical Institute James F. & Marion L. Miller Foundation John S. Rogers Science Program M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust National Institutes of Health National Science Foundation Research Corporation for Science Advancement W. M. Keck Foundation Watzek Library Digital Initiatives Departments Art BCMB Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Biology Chemistry Classics Computer Science Economics English Environmental Studies Foreign Languages & Literatures Gender Studies Geology Hispanic Studies History International Affairs Latin American Studies Mathematical Sciences Music Neuroscience Philosophy Physics Political Economy Political Science Psychology Religious Studies Rhetoric & Media Studies Sociology/Anthropology Theatre Research Period Fall 2016 Summer 2012 Summer 2013 Summer 2014 Summer 2015 Summer 2016 Summer 2017 Summer 2018 Summer 2019 TagsFaculty How do the stories we tell about health and illness shape identities, relationships, health care, and public policy? What does it mean to be a healer? To be healed? Can we more fully understand what metaphysical grounding is supposed to be, and intervene in debates about it? When does the media report on politicians' violating campaign finance laws, and do such violations affect voters' support? Does photographic representation in New York’s Chinatowns continue to perpetuate visual stereotypes of contemporary Chinese cultural? How has alien detention developed across the Americas over the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries? Were harvests in pre-industrial England "self-contained"? How do we disrupt the power of the authorial voice while maintaining it’s relevance in contemporary theatre? How are Mapuche indigenous people in Chile engaging with and being depicted in popular culture? What communication strategies are MOST effective for motivating preparatory action related to the Cascadia earthquake across diverse audiences? What’s the impact of migrations and dislocations on cultural identity (and cultural capital) in Latin America? How did the public exhibition of Asian art change over the course of the nineteenth century? Migrant Detention: McNeil Island to Mexico What are the best approaches for applying digital imagery on ceramic art? Emanation in Kasmiri Saivism, Neoplatonism; and Hegel How do the letters of Sgt. Morgan S. Odell and the records of Albany College reflect the American experience of the First World War? How are the Mexican nation and national identity constructed and performed by the State? How are these ideas redefined by popular culture? What is the sculptor Gaudier-Brzeska's place in the narrative of modernism? How do we construct a simulation model of production, consumption, and reproduction of the medieval English peasantry? How can a contemporary ritual collection of Jewish documents provide a model for cultural heritage preservation and digital scholarship? What are emotions, how did they evolve, and how are they expressed? What is the self, in Ayurveda and Hegel? How did the migrant detention bureaucracy develop in the United States and Mexico over the course of the past century? What are the methods by which theatre artists can excavate and reify classical texts for a contemporary audience? Are there rational grounds for preferring the philosophy of language of Hegel or Kashmiri Shaivism? What are the distinctions in human sex trafficking patterns between the developed and developing world? How can states best enforce campaign finance law? How did Chile and Argentina imagine their national identities during the 2010 Bicentennial celebrations? How does consideration of Austria-Hungary and the Balkans change our understandings of World War I? What can the “natural” wine movement teach us about national identity, contemporary food culture, and globalization? How did Diderot’s Encyclopédie “tree of knowledge” impact the making and the meaning of knowledge in the Enlightenment? What sorts of logical or nomological connections can be found between the appetites and emotions in the moral psychology presented in Plato's early and middle dialogues? Have residents of the Northwest practiced nature religion? If so, how do we track it and study it? What can we learn about Charles Erskine Wood from primary source documents? Will giving children guided practice with a toy help or hinder creative play? We also explore the impact of naming creations on creativity. What is the economic and cultural significance of the mobile food movement? Do college-age adults who binge drink have different brain responses to alcohol images? How do neural circuits form in the developing brain? How can we devise an artificially intelligent program to defeat top human players at the classical Asian game of Go?