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FELLOW PRESENTATIONS:
African American Studies and anthropology major Amber Jones '09, right,
presents her research titled "Steal Away (to Jesus): The Origins of the
African American Spiritual and Notions of a Black Collective
Consciousness" during the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows
Presentations July 26 in Fisk Hall. The nine fellows spent six weeks
this summer participating in an intensive seminar taught by Mellon
Fellows Kimberly Brown and Stéphanie Larrieux, and a writing workshop
taught by Krishna Winston, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows
Coordinator. |
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Wendell Ramsay of the City College of New
York, delivers his talk, titled "But a Rite of Sacrifice: African
American Interpretation of Nurse Eunice Rivers and the Tuskegee Syphilis
Experiment" to the audience. |
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Religion and African-American Studies major
Jason Harris '09 presented his research titled "White Bodies in
Black Sacred Spaces." |
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American Studies major Katherine Rodriguez
'09 speaks on her topic, "Viva la Republica: Media Representations of the Puerto Rican Movement in the 20th Century" The
students' independent research has been guided by the reference
librarians at Olin Library. Every week has been enlivened by a dinner
downtown with a faculty member or members of the Middletown community
and by a field trip. In addition, the fellows also went to Williams
College for a two-day GRE-preparation workshop and had workshops on
managing time and on using EndNote software. Other Wesleyan Mellon Mays from the
18th Cohort include Devaka Gunawardena '09, William Franklin '09, and
Julius Hampton '09. (Photos by David Pesci) |
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