2019 Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellows

Cydnie Davenport

Major: Linguistics and Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies  Faculty Mentor: Melissa Baese-Berk

Project Title: Dialect Variation in English: An Investigation into the Disappearing Word Effect

Violet Fox

Major: Anthropology   Faculty Mentor: Lamia Karim

Project Title: “I can make people in my tears”: An Urban Anthropological Study of Homeless Women in Eugene Oregon

Alice Harding

Major: History   Faculty Mentor: Lindsey Mazurek

Project Title: Migration in the Bronze Age Near East

Anika Nykanen

Major: English and Humanities   Faculty Mentor: Mark Whalan

Project Title: Literary Racialization: The Function of Children in Southern Gothic Literature

Ally Shaw

Major: Asian Studies and Linguistics  Faculty Mentor: Kaori Idemaru

Project Title: The Role of Intonation in Japanese Politeness

Kendra Siebert

Major: Journalism and Advertising   Faculty Mentor: Peter Laufer

Project Title: An Exploration of Urban Art as Cultural Testimony Throughout Social Movements in Mexico City and Oaxaca

DeForest Wihtol

Major: English and Spanish  Faculty Mentor: Kate Myers

Project Title: Caliban Yisrael: The Jewish “Other” in Shakespeare’s The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice

Scott Zeigler

Major: English  Faculty Mentor: Gordon Sayre

Project Title: Antagonistic River: The Agency of Nature in Northwest Fiction