History’s Undergraduate Humanities Scholars Awards for Summer 2020
Five History students (out of a total of 25 awardees for all humanistic disciplines), in collaboration with History faculty, have received UROP Humanities Scholars Awards for Summer 2020. These awards provide students with stipend and supplies/travel support and research funding to their faculty mentor. Our students will present their findings at the Annual UROP Research Symposium and through other activities during academic year 2020-21. Below are the names of the students and faculty mentors, and their topics of research:
Kaasinath Balagurunath, a History major, is conducting research with Dr. Benjamin Siegel (CAS History) on a project titled, “Physicians’ Approaches to the Problem of Pain, the 1980s to the Present.”
Julia Furmanek, a History major, is conducting research with Dr. Bruce Schulman (CAS History) on a project titled, “Personal Trauma in the Public View: Understanding the Postwar Experience in America through Confessional Poetry.”
Shuangyu Liang, a History major, and Xincheng Zhou, an International Relations major and History minor, are conducting research with Dr. Eugenio Menegon (CAS History) on a project titled, “The China Historical Christian Database (CHCD). An Essential Digital Tool for the Cartography and Prosopography of Christianity in China.”
William Santarsiero, a History major, is conducting research with Dr. Andrew David (CAS History) on a project titled, “America’s Hypocritical Destiny: America’s expansion in the mid-1800s and the problems of Manifest Destiny.”