Hello,
I am offering a class in the History Dept this Fall semester, Human Rights in History, specifically designed for freshmen. Interested students should reach out to christov@gwu.edu.
Thanks, Prof. Christov
Author: alexandralswank
SURE Stories: COVID’s Impact on the Communications, Practices, and Goals of Religiously Affiliated Student Organizations
The following blog post was written by fellow UHPer and Spring 2023 SURE Award recipient, Caleb Auerbach (Political Communication Major, ’23). Read on about how Caleb plans to utilize the SURE Award funding to further expand upon his research experience!
In fulfillment of my UHP thesis requirement, my research project explores how religiously affiliated student organizations at George Washington and American universities were impacted by COVID. More specifically, through the lens of their online communications materials via Instagram posts, I evaluate how their communications adapted to meet the challenges of the pandemic, and how they use what they learned from COVID in their current communications materials. As a direct result of my SURE funding, I was enabled to incorporate AU student groups into my study, strengthening any generalizability in my findings so that they are not solely in the context of student groups at GWU. In other words, the SURE awards enabled me to expand the scope of my study, which worked to increase the generalizability, and thus the relevancy of my study. I plan on using my SURE funding to help facilitate/incentive the interview process of my study, in addition to using it to recruit additional coders to ensure intercoder reliability for the data collected in my coding scheme. Without the funding, my study would not have been able to take the steps that truly make it significant. I just finished my data collection, which is where the generous SURE funding available to UHP students really proved itself to be an invaluable resource. No matter how strong of a study one has developed, additional funding will always serve as a doorway to greater avenues of success as it expands the definitions of what is possible for you to do. I would like to thank my entire Political Communication/UHP support staff and friends for shining the light and showing me the way to go. Your help and support mean more than you know.
Interested in applying for your own SURE Award funding? Find out more about the application process here!
Connecting & Resourcing Empowered Women (CREW) Leadership Program
Brianna Crayton, former UHP Advisor/Program Manager, is now working at Bain & Company, a management consulting firm with locations in DC. She has sent along a fantastic professional opportunity with Bain for sophomore women called the Connecting & Resourcing Empowered Women (CREW) leadership program. The application deadline is November 1st. Interested students are welcome to contact Brianna (brianna.crayton@bain.com) if they are interested or have any questions about the program or the application process.
CREW is designed for undergraduate women in their sophomore/second year at a college or university within the U.S. or Canada. Those who are selected will be invited to a 1.5 day in-person leadership summit in a Bain office, as well as pre-program virtual sessions. This programming will showcase Bain’s ability to develop and empower women leaders and will provide attendees with practical tools that will help them define their leadership style. Additional details about the program and application process may be found on our new webpage here. Please note that all CREW participants will have the opportunity to interview for the 2024 ACI position in 2023.
New Open Section for HONR 2047!
The UHP is excited to offer another section of Transitional Justice with Professor Maria Restrepo. Our new section is being offered on Tuesdays from 5:10 p.m. to 7 p.m. and is cross-listed with IAFF 6186:15. Registration is open and seats are available.
Annual Student Faculty Dinner
The UHP extends an invitation to join us for our annual Student Faculty Dinner taking place Friday, December 10, 2021 from 5-7pm at Magic Gourd restaurant. Come for the Chinese food buffet, stay for the engaging conversation with your peers and UHP faculty. Do you have a faculty member that has made your semester better this year? Invite them to join! Students are welcome to invite other faculty to the dinner even if they are not in the honors program. Keep an eye out for the NewsFlash and blog for when sign-ups begin November 30.
CCAS Undergraduate Research Fellowship Opportunities – Luther Rice and Cisneros
The Columbian College of Arts & Sciences as well as the Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute are offering research funding opportunities for all interested undergraduates. These projects can be used as an Honors thesis for any interested UHP seniors, or valuable research experience for underclassmen.
Luther Rice Undergraduate Research Fellowship
The Luther Rice research fellowship aims to support CCAS’ undergraduate initiative to promote discovery-based education through the undergraduate experience at GW. The research project should undertake a significant, focused examination of an idea or an area of inquiry and result in work that could merit presentation or publication in a scholarly venue.
Requirements:
- Must be a Columbian College sophomore or junior
- Must have a full-time faculty mentor
- Must have a declared major
- Must have no judicial or disciplinary findings against them
Details:
- The fellowships typically provide $3,000-$5,000 to the student for research-related expenditures, including summer living expenses, travel, materials, and equipment.
- Faculty mentors receive up to $1,000 for salary or professional development.
- There are two deadlines for submission. Students who apply in the fall and are not selected for funding may revise and resubmit their proposals in the spring:
- Monday, December 6, 2021 at 5pm ET
- Monday, February 28, 2022 at 5pm ET
Cisneros Undergraduate Research Fellowship
The Cisneros research fellowship provides support to rising juniors and seniors for research projects that address an issue of relevance to Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. The Cisneros Institute works in conjunction with CCAS to offer this undergraduate research opportunity. Students are offered the opportunity to employ the skills learned in their field of study to bring to fruition a well-defined research project that addresses a particular issue of relevance to Hispanics/Latinos.
Requirements:
- Applicant must be a full-time undergraduate student at GW
- Recipient must be enrolled at GW throughout the tenure of the award
- Only full-time faculty can serve as faculty mentors
- Faculty mentors must be associated with GW during the tenure of the award
Details:
- The Cisneros Institute provides an award of $5,000 meant to support student’s research-related expenditures, which may include living expenses, travel, materials, and equipment
- Faculty mentors receive a stipend of $1,000 – Faculty can opt to take this money as supplemental salary or asked that funds be transferred to a departmental account (i.e. supporting travel, equipment, etc.)
- There are two deadlines for submission. Students who apply in the fall and are not selected for funding may revise and resubmit their proposals in the spring:
- Monday, December 6, 2021 at 5pm ET
- Monday, February 28, 2022 at 5pm ET
Students may apply to both awards at the same time and will be considered through the same review process.
Food for Thought with Professor Feigenbaum
The third Food for Thought of the semester will be Friday, 11/12 from 12-1PM. Join Professor Feigenbaum in the UHP Townhouse Club Room to discuss cultural imperialism and the role of American media over a UHP-provided lunch. To reserve your spot (and your lunch!) RSVP here by Monday 11/8.
Title: “Cultural Imperialism and the Hollywood Business Model”
Description:
Over the course of the Twentieth Century American pop culture has influenced citizens around the world. This is especially true of films and television shows. There is an international demand for American products, which are lavishly produced and often universal in theme. American television shows are less universal, but they are less expensive to purchase because they are amortized over many markets. Consequently, people around the world are becoming Americanized.
The result for the world overall is a loss of cultural diversity. This in turn, reduces opportunities for cross-cultural fertilization, which in the past encouraged new ideas and innovation in a wide variety of human activity.
The advent of digital streaming in the 21st Century, however, may be reversing the causal arrows.
Enosinian Thesis and Panel!
Hi All,
My name is Mark Thomas-Patterson, and I am a senior in the GWU Honors Program majoring in History. I am currently working on my history senior thesis as part of the Enosinian Scholars Program. This thesis will examine how American conservative publications discussed German politics between 1969 and 1980. These years saw massive changes within West German society and government. In 1968, a wave of student protests occurred in West Germany, which took aim at, among other things, the country’s Nazi past and the Vietnam War. In 1969, the first Social Democratic Party government came into power headed by Willy Brandt, ending the Christian Democratic Union’s (CDU) long-held dominance of federal politics. Brandt’s chancellorship meant a paradigm shift in German foreign policy, abandoning the Hallstein Doctrine, a policy of non-recognition of East Germany, and adopting Ostpolitik. Under Ostpolitik, the Brandt government established relations with East Germany and pursued closer cooperation with the Eastern Bloc.
My main research focus will be looking at four publications representing different strands of conservative thought: National Review, Commentary, Human Events, and The Wall Street Journal’s editorial section. I plan on looking at what these publications said about Germany between the years of 1969, the election of Willy Brandt, and 1980, which saw the victory of Ronald Reagan and the defeat of German conservatives in the polls. By analyzing conservative American publications’ views of the Federal Republic, the thesis will study how people who deeply opposed communism understood a country that benefitted from closer ties to the East. I will also examine how conservatives understood the Social Democratic government that led Europe’s foremost economic power through the doldrums of stagflation while other European countries faltered.
I am going to be taking part in a panel organized by Gelman Library on Undergraduate Research Opportunities at GWU on Tuesday, November 2nd from 3:00-4:30 PM. There, I will be talking and answering questions about my experience conducting research as an undergraduate, including my participation in the Enosinian Scholars Program. The panel will be held in person in Gelman Room 219 as well as online (all of which is explained in the link).
Congratulations UHP Sure Award Recipients (Fall 2021)
Congratulations to the following Fall 2021 recipients of the UHP SURE Award, an individual grant of up to $500 to support UHPers’ research activities.
Gigi Baer, Sophomore, Public Health (pre-medicine concentration)
Research Project Title: Scoping Review on the Use of Industry Tactics by E-Cigarette Corporations to Target Youth
Lauren Lundvall, Senior, Criminal Justice
Research Project Title: Behind Closed Doors: A Podcast by Lauren Lundvall
Rushabh Patel, Junior, International Affairs & Political Science
Research Project Title: Analyzing the Impacts of Youth Councils on Municipal Policy
Caroline Pickering, Senior, International Affairs (concentration in Global Public Health)
Research Project Title: Gender and Agroecology: Inclusion, Exclusion, and Future Prospects in Peru
Sarah Racile, Senior, Mathematics
Research Project Title: On the Co-Evolution of Fashion and Philosophy from 1500-1900
Sivahn Sapirstein, Senior, International Affairs
Research Project Title: Nonviolence in Deeply Divided Societies: An Exploration Into the Inhibitory Power of Zero-sum Identities
We look forward to hearing more about their research projects later this academic year and will be sure to keep you posted!
Accessing The GW Store to Combat Food Insecurity
Did you know GW has a student-run food pantry to support members of the GW community with food, kitchen appliances, hygiene products, and even interview attire? You can request access to the store via this app, and there are no background checks or requirements to become a shopper– the store just asks that shoppers be mindful of others when shopping and understand that the Store is prioritized for individuals experiencing food insecurity.
The Store has two locations, District House B Level in Foggy Bottom (canned goods as well as produce, dairy, and vegan food items) and West Hall B202 on the Vern (canned goods, pasta, dry goods). Both locations are open 7am-11pm, seven days a week. The Foggy Bottom location is closed during stocking times on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays from 11am to 1pm, however students will be notified after food delivery and stocking has been completed.
Spread the word and remember to be respectful of others when using The Store. If you’d like to help out, you can fill out this interest form to volunteer with The Store, or set up a donation of non-perishable food, school supplies, interview attire, and personal hygiene products by emailing gwstore@gmail.com
