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…
Tag: Political Science
CUTF: Myth, Propaganda, and the State #1
Hello! My name is Emily (she/her/hers), and I am in my final semester here at Pitt! I am from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. A fun fact about me is that at home, I have herded a few hundred cows when they escape their enclosure– a very Lancaster County experience! At Pitt, I am a part of the…
Blog Post #4: My Brackenridge
It was an honor to be a Brackenridge recipient this summer. When I had originally seen the posters in the Honors college in the Cathedral that outlined and presented the Brackenridge, I had never imagined that it would be an opportunity I would get to have. After doing the CURF, I knew I wanted…
Blog Post #3: Brackenridge
Before beginning the Brackenridge, I had never realized the true importance in communicating research. It’s one thing to successfully conduct research, and it is an entirely different thing to expect people to care, especially those not within your field. I frequently find myself reading legal papers or research papers in which I had to look…
Brackenridge Blog Post #1: Fear and Societal Perceptions in Law
Hello everyone! My name is Christina Prado, and I am a Brackenridge fellow this summer. My research is aimed to determine the relationship between Fear and Societal Perception and Law. My mentor is Professor Bernard Hibbitts, who I have had the pleasure of working with in the past during the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship on…
CURF Post #3: How I Now Define Corruption
I found beginning research to be very difficult. The first few weeks, I found the balance between academics, research, and extracurricular activities to put a strain on my workflow. I also struggled knowing where to start. The idea of corruption proved to be enormous, and nearly impossible to study because of the vastness of the…
My Brackenridge: Citizenship, Propagandist Theatre, and Queer Representation
This summer, I attempted to find correlations between the productions and popularity of LGBTQ+ centric theatre and homonationalist rhetoric in the American political sphere. This project was primarily secondary research, meaning I worked predominantly with existing works of scholarship and extrapolated from there. At the beginning of the summer, I was concerned that this project…
Communicating Sensitive or Often Misunderstood Research
Theatre-based research is significantly misunderstood by the broader academic community; I, myself, had no idea there was even research to be done in this field before I met students in the department and discussed their projects. Because of this, I think it is important to begin with explaining what theatrical research achieves on the whole….
Utilizing Exposure to Various Mediums to Support a Single Project
The biggest draw to the Brackenridge fellowship, I believe, is the exposure to a diverse group of engaged researchers across every discipline. My research is fairly niche and specific to my individual academic and personal interests; because of this I have very limited experience with research in other fields and focuses. As someone who is…
“One Last Time” – A Reflection of My CUTF Experience
After serving as an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for PS0835 Hamilton, my eyes have been opened to how to lead an engaging and enriching college course. In guiding me through the process of creating a lesson, Dr. Andrew Lotz has helped me understand what works with a group of students and what does not. Not only…