SURF Mentoring

Potential projects/topics: Guiding a student through all the stages of creation of a research article in the humanities (with focus on interdisciplinary connections between philosophy and science, art, and history), from conception to final editing: identifying and formulating clearly a manageable-size thesis, contextualizing it in the dialectically most profitable way, leveraging bibliographic resources to identify leading alternatives in the extant literature, reading and analyzing key foils, devising the arguments that would form the centerpiece of the article, executing the writing process in a self-disciplined way based on concrete writing habits, rereading and copyediting, seeking opportunities for input from peers (e.g., knowing where to find student conferences in which to present drafts), and revising in light of input.

Required qualifications: none

Direct mentor: Faculty/P.I.