The University of Puget Sound, with the support of the Richard Bangs Collier Institute of Ethics and Science and an anonymous donor, has established summer research programs for undergraduates in the arts, humanities and social sciences. These programs offer students the opportunity to engage in independent research projects during the summer. Stipends of $3,250 and $3,750 are awarded on a competitive basis to students who demonstrate research interest and ability.
Summer Visual Art created from 2016 on can be found on Shared Shelf Commons.
Submissions from 2015
Towards a Truer Representation: Transphobic Casting Politics and the Cis-Gaze in Film, Aryeh Conrad
Mormon Feminism: Not an Oxymormon, Alexa Himonas
Entraining Brain Oscillations to Influence Facial Perception, Rosie Irwin
Assata Shakur: The Battle for Memory in the Imagined Borderlands, Joe Kaplan
And the (Fourth) Wall Came Tumbling Down: The Impact of Renegotiating Fan-Creator Relationships on Supernatural, Alena Karkanias
Penitence and Prowess, Maggie Langford
Predicting Attitude Toward Organizational Change, Antonio Manibusan and Sarah Moore
How Museums Colonize the World's Art, Sarah McDonald
Environmental Degradation in Urban and Rural China: A Local Perspective, Taili Ni
Landscape Painting and Ideas of Wilderness, Maia Raeder
EEG Investigation of Mirror-Neuron Activity Before and After Conscious Perception of Emotion in Faces, Katie Singsank
The Prophets and Profits of Neoliberal Feminism in America, Molly Stambaugh
Stimulus Dependence in Mirror Neuron Systems, Rachel Traut
Submissions from 2014
I Know I Shouldn’t Eat That But I’m Going to Anyway: The Role of Mood and Cognitive Depletion in Food Consumption, Stephen Baum
Rome, Women and Religion: Asserting Agency through Decoration, Chloe Ginnegar
Exploring Distortion and Clarity in the Modern Printed Portrait, Karina M. Harper
Copperplate Etching, Traditional and Modern Techniques and Exploring Philosophical Concepts, Bianca Jarvis
The Intra- and Inter-Sub-Community Dynamics of Fandom, Alena Karkanias
Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I of England: Representations of Gender, Influence, and Power, Nichole Lindquist-Kleissler
The Potential and Limitations of Alternative Trade Practices on Improving Coffee Producer Livelihoods in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, Melanie Mazza
People, Plants, and Fungi: Examining the Ecological and Social Landscapes of the Swan Creek Park Food Forest, Renee Meschi
EEG study of perceptual bias in facial expressions, mood, and the mirror-neuron system, Laurel Olfson
The Western Façade of Santiago de Compostela: Christian Dominion and Ecclesiastical Rivalry from the Medieval to the Baroque Period, Louisa M. Raitt
Assessing Empathy in Rats: The Role of Shared Experience, Dylan Richmond
El Duende's Struggle with Words: Embodied and Intellectual Investigation of Spiritual Experience within Flamenco Dance, Chloe Rockas
The Myth of the Immigrant Entrepreneur, Daniel Thorson
Joseph Haydn (?): Attribution and Reception, Robert B. Wrigley
Submissions from 2013
The crossroads at midnight: Hegemony in the music and culture of Delta blues, Taylor Applegate
Printmaking and Textiles, Abbie Baldwin
The Publicity of Monticello: A Private Home as Emblem and Means, Benjamin Block
College Students’ Perceptions of the Rates of Various Types of Sexual Violence and the Barriers to Reporting, Sadie Boyers
Media Interpretations of Wounded Knee II: Narratives of Violence versus Sympathetic Coverage, Jana Cary-Alvarez
Forty Years Later: Remembering the Pinochet Years in 2013, Miriam Cook
Manifesting Stories: The Progression of Comics from Print to Web to Print, Hannah Fattor
The Politics of Transgenic Food: An Ethnographically Informed Analysis of the Ban on Genetically Modified Crops in Bolivia, Kristin Gjelsteen
Not Just Sex That Sells: Religious Rhetoric and References in Contemporary Beer Branding, Julie Kappelman
The Effect of Physical Attractiveness on Mirror Neuron Activity, Jason Kelley
Ordered Chaos: the Negotiation of Space in Deconstructivist Museum Buildings, Sam Mandry
Who's Behind the Lens? Exploring Artistic Voice and Identity in Portrait Photography, Emily Menk
United States' Military Interventions into Civil Wars, Sean Moffitt
Passing on democracy: A look at discourse in post-911 animated film, Anna Sable
Faithful Non-Believers: Examining Ritual and Belief in a Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Clara M. Sciortino
Psychologically Effective Art, Kris Shuford
Citizenship Education in Egypt, Madeline Waddell
Indexing and Researching National Event Coverage in The Puget Sound Trail, 1963-1965, Jillian Zeidner
Submissions from 2012
Questions of Authorship in Josquin, Monteverdi, and Mozart: Documentary versus Stylistic Evidence, Jillian Andersen
Electric Horizons: Advancing the Wind Band in Art Music, Joe Bozich
Rain Inside the Elevator: Dualities in the Plays of Sarah Ruhl As Seen Through the Lens of Ancient Greek Theatre, Hannah Fattor
Corporations are not People: An Analysis of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Melissa Gaughan
Selfhood and the Unity of Consciousness, Kate Hanniball
Uncharted Progress: A Musical Analysis of the Elements and Evolution of Rap, Mark Janzer
Growth / Decay, Yuri Kahan
War Tourism: Shaping Memory and Perception in Post-War Vietnam, Max Keyes
The Evolution of the Modern Book: Understanding the Future of the Printed Word in the Context of Fine Printing Presses and Artist’s Books, Elisabeth Schyberg
The Methodology of Resistance in Contemporary NeoPaganism, Rebecca Short
Migrant Remittances in Rural Nepal: A Mixed Methods Household-level Analysis, Evan Skamarock
Emotion Recognition and Personality Traits: a pilot study, Hilary Tighe
The Possible Connection of Gamma Oscillation and 3-D Object Representation, Thien N. Vu
The relationship between two dimensional and three dimensional art, Erin Wheary
Submissions from 2011
Fashion and Self-Fashioning: Clothing Regulation in Renaissance Europe, Kayla Arnold
The DJ and the Orchestra: Fusing Art Music and Popular Music, Joe Bozich
Byzantine Emperors and Old Testament Kings: Contextualizing the Paris Psalter as a Product of Ninth and Tenth Century Byzantine Imperial Ideology, Kelsey Eldridge
A Foundation for Arithmetic, Kevin Halasz
The Best Explanation: A Defense Scientific Realism, Johnston T. Hill
(Re)constructing National Identity : The Case of Xiqu Culture in Taiwan, Joan Hua
"'Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?'": Functions of the "Unspeakable" in American Gothic Literature, Elizabeth Kirsch
Reclaiming Aztlán: The Visual Rhetoric of Pre-Columbian Imagery in Chicano Murals, Kelsey Mahler
Back to Basics: A New Approach to the Unitary Executive Theory, Amanda Nicol
Barriers to Health – A perspective from the lives of marginalized citizens in India, Daniel Parecki
From Modality to Tonality: The Reformulation of Harmony and Structure in Seventeenth-Century Music, Lukas Perry
The Power to Resist: A Study of Dissidence Movements in Eastern Europe, Melanie Reiff
Myth Materialized: Thirteenth Century Additions to the West Façade of San Marco and their Value in Venetian History Making, Michelle Reynolds
The Construction of the Curia Julia, Will Roundy
Tunisian Push for Democracy: Successes, Failures, and Lessons, Peter Russell
The Senatus Consultum Ultimum and its Relation to Late Republican History, Scott Shump
The Problems of Treason and Tyranny: The Effect of the Gunpowder Plot On Artistic Expression, Jessica K. Spevak
Tanzanian Women Literacy Learners: Balancing Autonomy and Community, Olivia L. Weitz
EEG Measures of Facial Expression Recognition, Madeleine Werhane
“Honest as the Devil:” English Rhetoric and Representations of Catholicism in Ireland during the Reformation, Allie Werner
The Influence and Application of Eastern Philosophy in the Western Musical Tradition, Matt B. Zavortink
Submissions from 2010
Bikers; Who are these people?, Julie Coleman
The Property Rights Battle in Oregon: The Influence of Ballot Titles on Voter Opinion, Annette d'Autremont
The Commencement Bay Superfund Legacy: Collaboration, Restoration and Redevelopment in the Local Landscape, Jenni Denekas
The Historiography of the Black Student Union, Ayanna Drakos
Does Choice Matter? The Generational Impact of Work-Life Balance, Jessica Erickson
Americanizing America: Irving Berlin's Influence On His Adopted Culture, Jay Herman
The Economics of Penny Auctions, Colin Blake MacDonald
Twitterers and Tyrants: Evaluating the Role of Twitter in the Authoritarian Setting, J.E. Merrill
Julio Cortazar, Narratology, and the Short Story, Kyle McCarthy Nunes
Disorder in Rome's Asia Minor, William Roundy
The Queen's Blood: A Study of Family Ties during the Wars of the Roses, Helen Shears
Bending the Gaze: An Ethnographic Inquiry into Contemporary Contortion, Jacqueline C. Ward