Research and Active Learning

Students

Read about some of the undergraduates who have engaged in research and internships:

Derek Heidemann, a junior, was recently named a 2008 Gilder Lehrman History Scholar. He is one of 15 students selected by competitive application to participate in the program.  Derek will study in New York City in a program that combines historical research, seminars with eminent historians, and behind-the-scenes tours of historical archives. 

For her summer internship, history major Rebecca Chabot is using a 20th-century computer to document 19th century artifacts at Old Sturbridge Village.  Rebecca is helping to update the museum's online database of artifacts, crosschecking and making sure all information is included and correct as part of living history museum Old Sturbridge Village's prestigious college internship program.

 

Undergraduate Honors Theses completed in 2008

Margaret Anderson, "Off With Her Dress:  The Political Pornography on Marie-Antoinette in Eighteenth-Century France"

Christopher Beck, "The Creation of the Standard American Physician Allopathy, Homeopathy, Chiropractic and the Medical Field in America, 1880-1920"

Charity Forrester, "The Construction of Black Masculinity and the Integration of Baseball"

 

Faculty

Read about the research of some of our faculty:

• Dr. Janette Greenwood's research into class and race during Reconstruction
• Dr. Paul Ropp's research into gender issues in Chinese literature
• Dr. Amy Richter's research into the rise of public domesticity in the United States