In the last few weeks, I have learned a lot about the process of doing research and learning to pivot if things are not going according to plan. I have had to change direction on my project and drastically reassess the work I had completed and planned on continuing. I think that taught me a…
Category: Humanities
My Research Project
My research centers on the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and, specifically, her ability to remain unmarried and childless as the queen regnant of England in the 16th century. I originally came to this program with a formed argument, but since then, have revised my work and decided to move in a different direction. Moving…
Dear Past Self
Dear Past Self, In your first blog post, you reflected on the situations that had brought you to WAGSFP. I’ll let you know what you’ll have come to learn by the very first days of August 2018, due to the efforts that you will make in the time that you spend here. I’ve had some…
The Testimonial (To My Song)
This experience with UROP through the Women and Gender Fellowship has been great. It’s supplied me with the know-how of conducting humanities-based research, which I have been doing in a half-realized way in my humanities classes all these years. Coming in as a freshman to Michigan, not even remotely did I consider UROP as a…
The Song (To My Testimonial)
A song that would describe my summer experience well is Abraham by Sufjan Stevens. Not because I played the song out every morning when I woke up or every evening when I went to bed during these past two months, but because I chose the song in one of my previous blogs at the start…
Opportunities and Challenges
My current goals are to succeed as a senior at Michigan, complete my writing samples for master’s programs in August, and prepare for the GRE’s in August as well. After the presentation I realized that I didn’t actively adopt a growth mindset until I was in college. As of now I try to remain…
Program Reflection
Coming to the close of these two months intensifies my gratefulness for being a part of, and contributing to, the commitments of this fellowship. I appreciate the seminars because they bring everyone together from our separate enclaves of work and offer chances for us to check the progress we are making against each other, whilst…
A Mid-Summer Reflection
The process has been in full swing. I anticipate, as a first in a while, that I will continue to develop significant divisions among the concerns in my life past the end of this two-month experience. The division that has recently been weighing on my mind is that between my intellectual (I think I can…
Reading Reflection: Writing Lucidly
Hey researchers! An article that I’ve recently read is “From Wet Nurse Directory to Milk Bank: The Delivery of Human Milk in Boston, 1909 – 1927”. This article covers how, from the 1850’s to the early 1900’s, the employment rates of wet nurses in the United States radically dropped until wet nurse employment became…
Overlooked History
As part of my research I have to work with hundreds of historical documents and they each represent a piece of an individual woman’s narrative. These women have lived through unique experiences but shared many of the same hardships. Through such struggles, they are connected to each other and when displayed together, they paint a…