Hey researchers! So I have been hemming and hawing for a while about the practical impact that my research during this two-month experience will make. My hesitation comes in part from growing up thinking that research occurs with lab equipment and quantitative data or qualitative data, which normally, I guess, it does. However, within…
Category: Humanities
History of Breastfeeding in Brazil– Research Impact
I am working with Professor Victoria Langland, who holds a joint appointment in the History and Romance Languages and Literatures departments, on her project about the history of breastfeeding in Brazil. This project is a historical study of the development of scientific and social understandings of breastfeeding, human milk banking, and motherhood throughout the 20th…
CHICANA POR MI RAZA
Chicana is a digital archive focused on preserving the Chicana and Latina voices during the civil rights movement as well as the feminist movement. This is crucial because the general history of the movements omits the roles that women of color played. The Civil Rights era is predominantly male and the feminist movement is predominantly white.…
Hello WAGSFP, my name is Trina.
I really enjoy listening to music, and doing other things as well to take it easy. Currently my favorite songs are “Karma Police” by Radiohead and “Abraham” by Sufjan Stevens. These songs contain open-ended and speculative interests, with the former suiting men who ironically drone to empty skies and the latter adopting an ascetic and…
A Little About Me
[su_heading size=”28″]Hey y’all my name is Caiser Bravo. I am originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but came all the way to Michigan to study Nuclear Engineering. I am also minoring in physics and International engineering. Out of this group I’ll be the odd one out as an engineer but I love exploring other fields and learning…
To a Future Trina
Dear future self, Through a fortuitous combination of guidance, others’ faith, and a renewed sense of purpose (however dramatic it all may sound), your past self is here and working. She has never formally conducted research in the humanities, nor has she worked with a small group pf people that is predicated on sustained…