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 2023
Gender, Self-Identity, and Vocal Music Education: Student Experiences at the University of Puget Sound in the 1990s, Liana Greger
Submissions from 2022
Prescribed Moroccan Authenticity And The Quest For ‘Real’ Food, Eliana Goldberg
From an Adoptee's Perspective: Interracial Adoption and Identity, Jolie Jenkins
Processor Problems: An Economic Analysis of the Ongoing Chip Shortage and International Policy Response, David Jensen
Retrofitting Washington's Past: An Ethnographic Analysis on Modernist Parcels through Urban Spatial. Discourse, Becca C. Murphy
Nuclear Fine-Tuning and the Illusion of Teleology, Ember Reed
Submissions from 2021
The Influence of Dog-Directed Speech on Quantity Discrimination in Domestic Dogs (Canis familiaris), Devin Cordell Anderson
Contemporary Feminism as Portrayed in Popular Media, Ainsley G. Austin
The Role of Black South African Women in the Construction of Memory with the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Olivia Babcock
Healing Justice Spaces: Virtual Intersections of Religion, Environmentalism, and Social Justice, Addison M. Baker
Hungarian Historical Hysteria, Kris R. Bohnenstiehl
Exploring the Olmsted Legacy in Washington, Amelia E. Burkhart
Public Access Screenings: An Ontological Inquiry into Cinematic Street Art, Logan B. Canada-Johnson
Conceptualizing Thought-Forms Through Dynamic Artworks, Kendyl Aurora Chasco
The Selectivity Gap in United States Responses to Human Rights Violations: Personal Integrity Violations between 1991 and 2001, Jessica Jo Cooper
Ain't Nothin but a G(raffiti) Thang, Ciara Edwards-Mendez
Making the exotic familiar: Representing Chinese Culture in Chicago's Chinatown, Aya R. Hamlish
COVID-19 and Xenophobia: Reckoning with East Asian Identities in the United States, Allie R. Highsmith
ἤρχετο μῦθων: Performance and Beginnings in Homer’s Odyssey, Charlotte E. Lowell
Why Not Climate Change? An Analysis of UNSC Action on Human Security Issues, Lily Miller
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics and The Myth of Japanese Homogeneity, Hana Y. Morita
Myth and Guilt in the Other Europe: David Binder's Dissident Reporting on the Collapse of Yugoslavia, Matt Roge
The Relationship Between Short-Term International Volunteer Work and Long-Term Community Involvement, Sophie Ivana Semenjuk
Complicating Courtly Love: Queering Sex and Gender in High Medieval Literature (1000-1250), Chloe L. Shankland
Evaluating the Role of Thought in Sensorimotor Enactivism, Hannah Stockton
Mitigating Spillover Effects of a General Warning on Accuracy Judgements of True News Headlines, Delaney R. Todd
The Foundation of an Uprising: Spatial Socialization and National Identity Formation in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Protests, Hannah Williams
Submissions from 2020
Beyond a Call to Action, Quinn A. E. Bohner
The Action-Perception of Musical Rhythm: A Review of EEG Findings, Jordan Anderson
The Bonus March and the Cold War, Aidan Crosby
Interstitial Space: An Exploration of the Urban Landscape and Marginal Communities of Tacoma, Washington, Oscar Edwards-Hughes
Against Colonial Imaginaries: Rewriting Latin America in Juan José Saer’s El entenado & Bernardo Carvalho’s Nove Noites [REPORT], Juliano Estrada Donatelli
Against Colonial Imaginaries: Rewriting Latin America in Juan José Saer’s El entenado & Bernardo Carvalho’s Nove Noites [REPORT], Juliano Estrada Donatelli
All Things Intentional, Maya Gilliam
Illustrating Neuroaesthetics, Madeleine Golitz
Body Politics and 21st Century Taboo, Zachary Herrmann
A Historiography of Nationalism: And the Case for Scandinavia, Alexander L. Jacobson
‘Playing Hapsburg:’ The Hapsburg Monarchy and The post-Yugoslav Croatian Society, Fran Leskovar
Understanding Burning Man through Fundamental Religious Studies Theories, Tio Lloyd
Choice Sets for Andean Mothers' Discounting, Alessandra Vidal Meza
Some Papal Bull: 16th Century Alum trade and English Royal Autonomy, Kyra Zapf
Submissions from 2019
Washington’s Affordable Housing Property-Tax Levies: Lessons from the Campaigns, Anna Barcus
"Hail Hydra": Marvel's Captain America and White Nationalism in the United States, Erin Budrow
The Multidimensionality of Wellness Tourism in Thailand and Costa Rica: Mind, Body, and Soul, Cheyenne Clarke
The Philosophies of Love and Despair in Kierkegaard’s Early Aesthetic Works, James Conley
Is it Hot in Here or Is It the Climate? Predicting Individual and Systemic Pro-Environmental Engagement, Alaina Geibig
Mindful of a Profit: A Critical Analysis of Meditation Apps in the Context of Neoliberalism and Western Constructions of Religion., Kylie Gurewitz
The Setauket Gang: The American Revolutionary Spy Ring you've never heard about, Fran Leskovar
Timing is Everything: Temporal Dynamics of Brain Activity Using the Human Connectome Project, Francesca LoFaro
Tattoos in East Asia: Conforming to Individualism, Morgan MacFarlane
Exploring the Urban Infrastructure of Transnational Labor Migration in Nepal, Alena McIntosh
A Patchwork of Detention: Understanding Variation in Community Resistance to ICE Contracts with Local Jails, Manya Mutschler-Aldine
Weaving Sustainability, Carving Identity: An Exploration of Artisan Livelihood in Oaxaca, Mexico, Mariana Sanchez Castillo
Acting the Author: observations on authority in collective performance, Max Tapogna
Womxn of Color in Print Subculture: 1970-2018, Lenora Yee
Queen Catherine's Material Body, Kyra Zapf
Submissions from 2018
Sharing my practice, Elayna Caron
(Re)Writing Home: Unimagining and Reimagining Haitian Identity in Diasporic Literature from the United States, Ashley Coyne
Romantic Relationships in Mental Illness Young Adult (YA) Novels, Indigo DaCosta
Argentina’s Dirty War: Memory, Repression and Long-Term Consequences, Ilana Dutton
Values, Justifications, and Perspectives Connected to the Anti-Vaccination Movement, Gigi Garzio
Digital Strategy in the Art Museum, Ayse Hunt
An Ethnographic, Experimental Philosophical Inquiry Into Attitudes and Perceptions Toward Suicidality, Samantha Dawn Lilly
Targeted Sanctions - Case Study: Iran, Emily Nygard
Metaphors and Mind: An ERP Study of How the Brain Processes Metaphors, Crystal Poole
The Impact of Transboundary Water Management on Human Security in Developing States, Meadow Poplawsky
The International Folk Art Market: Cultural Commodification in the Global Marketplace, Kate Roscher
Segmented Assimilation Concern Among Refugee Families, Tessa Samuels
Crusader Orientalism: Depictions of the Eastern Other in Medieval Crusade Writings, Henry Schaller
Pubic Hair Untamed: Viewership, Body Hair, and Primitivism in Modigliani's Female Nudes, Mary Thompson
Environmental Justice Activism Against Freeway Proposals in Contemporary America, Molly Wampler
A Sociocognitive Perspective of the Uncanny Valley, Andre Zamani
Submissions from 2017
Face, Identity, and Normalcy: Systems of support for individuals with clefts of lip and palate, Ariane Farris
Can Poetry Save the Earth: A Study in Romantic Ecology, Carlisle Huntington
Fighting an Invisible Enemy: The Polish Media Campaign Against Radio Free Europe, 1950-1972, Nicholas Kulawiak
Becoming Augustine: A Network Graph of Texts from Plato to Augustine, Annie K. Lamar
Role of Religion in Recovery, Kayla Lovett
EEG Study of the Featural and Configural Components of Face Perception, Heather Rose Stegman
Ladder to Heaven: An Evaluation of Twelfth Century Latin Catholic Non-Dichotomous Spiritual Gender Identity, Helen W. Tschurr
Submissions from 2016
Seen Through Steam: Narratives of Victorian Steam Technology, Rachel D. Anderson
(Trans)cribing History: The Oral Histories of Transgender Clergy in America, Jae Bates
Who Supports Donald J. Trump?: A narrative-based analysis of his supporters and of the candidate himself, Mitchell A. Carlson 7886304
Neo-Realism: Post-Postmodern Ethics and Metaphysics, Cody Chun
What Do We Mean by Logical Consequence?, Jesse Endo Jenks
Short-Term English Instruction as a Mechanism for Economic Growth, Neha P. Ketkar
Soundscape Composition as Environmental Activism and Awareness: An Ecomusicological Approach, Megan A. Reich
Diary of a White Ally in the Pacific Northwest, Sloan Cidney Strader
"To the Devil we Sprang and to The Devil we Shall go": Memory and History in the Narrative of British Medieval Constitutionality, Helen W. Tschurr
Submissions from 2015
Cultural Authenticity and the Impacts of Cultural Tourism in Malaysian Borneo, Elena Becker
Landscape Painting: A comprehensive study of en plein air and studio painting, Carly Brock
Altruism Online: An Ethnographic Exploration into League of Legends, Rodger Caudill
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