My Brackenridge experience this summer has been both challenging and rewarding, and I’m incredibly grateful for this opportunity to have strengthened skills I can use moving forward in my academic journey. One of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned is that research is an explorative process. Although I set out on this project with what…
Tag: History
How Watergate Led to CPS: The Child Abuse and Prevention Treatment Act (CAPTA) of 1974
Hello! My name is Joel Turner, and I am a rising junior enrolled in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences at University of Pittsburgh. I am an Economics (BS) and History (BA) double major undertaking a project in the Brackenridge program this summer with the assistance of Dr. Eladio Bobadilla, an esteemed…
Brackenridge Introduction: The Convergence of Italian and American Politics in Interwar Pittsburgh
Hi everyone! My name is Angel Cramer and I’m a rising senior History major with a minor in German and certificates in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and Central European Studies. In my free time, I love trying different food around Pittsburgh with my friends and needle felting. I’m also trying to propagate an…
Central Europe: The Takeaways
Having gotten back from our trip across the Czech Republic, through Prague and Český Krumlov, and Poland, more specifically Krakow, I could not be more happy looking back on this trip. I found the class to be enjoyable in both content and structure, and I met so many people I hope to see back on…
My Brackenridge Experience — Connor Diaz
I can confidently say that I’ve learned more—about history, about research methodology, about working collaboratively, and even about myself—in the past few months than I have in the past few years. The Brackenridge Fellowship is the essence of what undergraduate study should be: independent yet supported, rigorous but manageable, difficult but rewarding. The value one…
History: What’s it Good For?
The reading we did this week about how to conceptualize, articulate, and communicate the purpose and significance of our research really hit home for me. While I was preparing my application for the Brackenridge Fellowship, I ran my idea(s) past some of my friends and family members. Most of them have no experience with academic…
Connor Diaz: My Cohort
Of the five Brackenridge Fellows in my cohort, I am the only one working on a pure humanities project. One of my cohort members, Harsh, is working on a project studying ischemic stroke risk among individuals of African descent. Grace, another member of my cohort, is working on research in the field of neuroscience. The…
Creating Home: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Community Building in North America
About Me Hi everyone! My name is Rachael Rosenstein. I am so excited to begin this Brackenridge research journey this summer! I have always wanted to understand how people function and choose to shape their lives. This interest brought me to my majors of Psychology and History as well as my minor in Classical Civilizations….
Advice from a CURF Researcher
Getting started in researching can be somewhat intimidating, both if if you have had previously experience as well as if you haven’t. There are tons of different kinds of research out there in different topics and using all kinds of methodology. And if you don’t find exactly what you’re looking for, you can always pave…
Reflection and Continuing Research
One of the research skills that I worked on most over the summer was finding new ways to look for information that was relevant to my research. When I started researching for my project, it was easy to type in “immigrant healthcare” into search bars and read through the first materials that were popping up….