As my Brackenridge Fellowship comes to a close this summer, I would say that my understanding of research and scholarly work has changed significantly — and not in the way I expected. I don’t know if it’s just my specific research project, but the process has turned out to be much drier, tedious, and less…

If I were talking to a lay audience about my research this summer, I would first need to distill it into something understandable by the general population. My specific project involves a lot of jargon and acronyms that aren’t familiar to the average person, and I’ve encountered difficulties explaining it even to other Brackenridge Fellowship…