Category: ARTSCHOL 200 2020

Professor Jennifer Frost research on youth voting rights and the 26th amendment lead me upon a reflection of what it means to be youth in today’s society. The young people who were involved in her research were activists...

Reflecting on research panels and back on my own thoughts, I looked in the mirror and wondered… how the heck could I possibly create research that is intellectually stimulating and has a greater impact beyond the benefit of...

Our second research seminar that was delivered by Erin Griffey and Victoria Munn explored beauty ideals from the Renaissance and how this might be reflected in art produced at the time. Their work involved translating historical...

We’ve seen throughout the course so far that a research project can be on any topic, although it seems that a good research project is on that is in some way connected to life experiences. Patrick Thomsen had spoken in his...

So far in Arts Scholars we have discussed many power imbalances in research, be it the western gaze on indigenous cultures, socio-economic bias when viewing underprivileged groups, or the control of the researcher over the...

  Why retell a story that is already in the confines of a fading memory? The reasoning behind the retelling of young Americans gaining the right to vote was discussed in our most recent seminar delivered by Jenifer Frost....

Historian Jennifer Frost is publishing a book titled, “Let Us Vote,” dedicated towards the significant events that led up to the 26th amendment in 1971, which granted youth voting rights in America. Admittedly, I’m unfamiliar...

I respect that Erin Griffey and Victoria Munn had researched a topic that they are passionate about, even though they knew it was not going to be anything easy. Covering beauty is such a vast topic, with body ideals, makeup and...