We’re pleased to welcome our second-ever cohort of Undergraduate Discovery Fellows to the collections this semester. This year, we’ve had the good fortune to grow the program to five fellowships. You’ll hear more about these projects over the coming weeks, but we’re looking forward to seeing what they discover.
Christian Harris (’24)
is a mathematics major who is interested in the ways that geometry is (and has been taught). He’ll be looking through the Rare Book Collection and the Baldwin Library for different approaches to illustrating and explaining Euclid’s Elements of Geometry.
Allyson Maldonado (’24)
is pursuing her love of all things theater in the Popular Culture Collections. This semester she’ll be looking at the evolving portrayals of Asians on Broadway and in other aspects of American musicals.
Meir Schochet (’25)
will be investigating the place of whiteness in Jewish identity, as well as how non-Jews have sought to exclude them from this category. He will be using the published texts and ephemera from the Price Library of Judaica.
Natalie Triana (’25)
is eager to explore the ways that naturalism, transcendentalism, and policy combined in the beginnings of the American conservation movements of the nineteenth century. She’ll be starting her search in Rare Book Collection as well as the PK Yonge Library of Florida History.
Chrishann Walcott (’25)
wants to explore the ways that religious traditions assume other portions of national, social, and communal identities by looking at the growth of religious communities in the modern US and the Caribbean.
A warm welcome to them all!
