{"id":16374,"date":"2024-04-10T16:53:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T20:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/?p=16374"},"modified":"2024-04-12T08:46:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T12:46:15","slug":"humanities-research-symposium-eclectic-student-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/blog\/humanities-research-symposium-eclectic-student-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Eckerd College Humanities Research Symposium course inspires eclectic student projects with faculty mentors"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; column_margin=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction_tablet=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction_phone=&#8221;default&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; row_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; row_border_radius_applies=&#8221;bg&#8221; overflow=&#8221;visible&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; gradient_direction=&#8221;left_to_right&#8221; shape_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extraa-padding&#8221; column_padding_tablet=&#8221;inherit&#8221; column_padding_phone=&#8221;inherit&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; column_element_direction_desktop=&#8221;default&#8221; column_element_spacing=&#8221;default&#8221; desktop_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_backdrop_filter=&#8221;none&#8221; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; column_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; column_position=&#8221;default&#8221; gradient_direction=&#8221;left_to_right&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; animation_type=&#8221;default&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; border_type=&#8221;simple&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;][image_with_animation image_url=&#8221;16382&#8243; image_size=&#8221;full&#8221; animation_type=&#8221;entrance&#8221; animation=&#8221;Fade In&#8221; animation_easing=&#8221;default&#8221; animation_movement_type=&#8221;transform_y&#8221; hover_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; alignment=&#8221;&#8221; img_link_large=&#8221;yes&#8221; border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; box_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; image_loading=&#8221;skip-lazy-load&#8221; max_width=&#8221;100%&#8221; max_width_mobile=&#8221;default&#8221;][vc_column_text]<em>Junior Jayde Lewis (center) and classmates participate in a weekly class that is part of a series of new humanities courses. Photos by Penh Alicandro &#8217;22<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;full_width_content&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; column_margin=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction_tablet=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction_phone=&#8221;default&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; row_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; row_border_radius_applies=&#8221;bg&#8221; overflow=&#8221;visible&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; gradient_direction=&#8221;left_to_right&#8221; shape_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; shape_type=&#8221;&#8221; gradient_type=&#8221;default&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;padding-2-percent&#8221; column_padding_tablet=&#8221;inherit&#8221; column_padding_phone=&#8221;inherit&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;right&#8221; column_element_direction_desktop=&#8221;default&#8221; column_element_spacing=&#8221;default&#8221; desktop_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_backdrop_filter=&#8221;none&#8221; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; column_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; column_position=&#8221;default&#8221; gradient_direction=&#8221;left_to_right&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; animation_type=&#8221;default&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; border_type=&#8221;simple&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<h3>The 11th Annual Eckerd College Humanities Research Symposium, slated for April 26 in the Triton Room on the Eckerd campus, is a match made in academic heaven.<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;full_width_content&#8221; 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desktop_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_backdrop_filter=&#8221;none&#8221; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; column_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; column_position=&#8221;default&#8221; gradient_direction=&#8221;left_to_right&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; animation_type=&#8221;default&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; border_type=&#8221;simple&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; column_padding_type=&#8221;default&#8221; gradient_type=&#8221;default&#8221;][vc_column_text]The seminar provides students interested in conducting humanities research a supportive workshop environment to address questions about the craft of humanistic research and share findings as an interdisciplinary team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone is paired with a different <a href=\"\/mentoring\/\">faculty mentor<\/a>,\u201d explains <a href=\"\/history\/faculty\/guerin\/\">Adam Guerin, Ph.D.<\/a>, associate professor of <a href=\"\/history\/\">history<\/a> at Eckerd and the leader of the symposium. \u201cIt\u2019s a collaborative independent study program that gives students a way to work with humanities scholars and then offers the students a forum to present their research.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;full_width_content&#8221; 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The class is part of a series of new humanities courses designed to facilitate and direct undergraduate research.<\/p>\n<p>Among the seven students taking part this year is Elianna Tenace, a junior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/chemistry\/biochemistry\/\">biochemistry<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/humanities\/\">humanities<\/a> student from Colorado Springs, Colorado. She is working with <a href=\"\/religious-studies\/faculty\/mccrary\/\">Charles McCrary, Ph.D.<\/a>, assistant professor of <a href=\"\/religious-studies\/\">religious studies<\/a>, and her focus is the Scott Warren case. Warren, currently a professor of geography at the University of Arizona, was tried and aquitted in 2019 of federal charges that he harbored and shielded migrants along the Arizona-Mexico border. What he and others had done was put water jugs in the desert and offer medical help to those who needed it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ordered and read the court transcript,\u201d Elianna explains. \u201cIt was a really good thing for Warren to do, but he was prosecuted for it. I\u2019m looking at why that happened and what the implications are. Dr. McCrary and I are consulting with each other at every step of the project. I get great feedback, and he can connect me with other scholars in the field. He set up a Zoom meeting with me and <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.villanova.edu\/university\/liberal-arts-sciences\/programs\/global\/faculty\/biodetail.html?mail=dana.lloyd@villanova.edu&amp;xsl=bio_long\">Dr. Dana Lloyd, an assistant professor of global interdisciplinary studies at Villanova University<\/a> who wrote the book <em>Land Is Kin: Sovereignty, Religious Freedom and Indigenous Sacred Sites<\/em>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_tablet=&#8221;inherit&#8221; column_padding_phone=&#8221;inherit&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; top_margin_tablet=&#8221;32&#8243; column_element_direction_desktop=&#8221;default&#8221; column_element_spacing=&#8221;default&#8221; desktop_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_backdrop_filter=&#8221;none&#8221; 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gradient_type=&#8221;default&#8221;][vc_column_text]<span class=\"accent-color\">\u201cOne of the benefits of the project is having the final product as a writing sample for graduate school or for further studies,\u201d Elianna adds. \u201cIt will be invaluable.\u201d<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;full_width_content&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; column_margin=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction_tablet=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction_phone=&#8221;default&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; top_padding=&#8221;32&#8243; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; row_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; row_border_radius_applies=&#8221;bg&#8221; overflow=&#8221;visible&#8221; advanced_gradient_angle=&#8221;0&#8243; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; gradient_direction=&#8221;left_to_right&#8221; shape_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; 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Hephaestus is often described as \u201clame\u201d and \u201chalting.\u201d He was said to have curved feet and had to walk with the aid of a stick. Oedipus, according to mythology, blinded himself after learning he had married his mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are Greek gods who both have mobility impairments,\u201d Sonny explains. \u201cWe\u2019re looking at the different ways they\u2019re depicted. There\u2019s been a lot of scholarship about both of them, focusing on their impairments. One area of disagreement is that the disability is simply a metaphor, as opposed to an actual physical disability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project has already proven rewarding. McNabb says that Sonny\u2019s work \u201coverlaps with my research for a chapter on disability in <em>Oedipus Rex<\/em> for my current book project <em>Dramatic Prosthesis: Disability and Drama<\/em> [under contract with University of Michigan Press]. Once their research is done, I plan to cite it for a section of that chapter that deals with depictions of mobility impairment in Greek vases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sonny says they were drawn to the project because they have a chronic illness. \u201cSo it\u2019s really important to me. And it\u2019s interesting to go back in history and see how these people with disabilities were depicted. They\u2019ve existed in every culture, and still do. Doing this research will help me be a better student, a better scholarly writer, and I\u2019ll be able to be cited in Dr. McNabb\u2019s book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leah Lentz is a sophomore creative writing and literature student from Medford, New Jersey, who also is the opinion editor for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonlinecurrent.com\/\"><em>The Current<\/em><\/a>, Eckerd\u2019s student newspaper. She is working with Guerin on a project focusing on how prostitution was depicted in artwork and literature in 19th-century France, and how that depiction changed the public perception of prostitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the 1860s, prostitution was brought into the French mainstream by artists like Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix and \u00c9douard Manet,\u201d Leah says. \u201cThey helped define what was acceptable to the French public and what wasn\u2019t. The French had legalized prostitution from 1804 to 1946, but the laws and attitudes in other countries were different. 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