SURF Mentoring

Potential projects/topics: The proposed project is reviewing and expanding the existing resource guide at Fondren for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. This work entails exploring research resources, tools, and methods used within the fields of women, gender, and sexuality studies.

Potential skills gained: After the project, the fellow will have: deepened their academic research skills; become more familiar with a wide array of resources on the study of women, gender, and sexuality; considered the politics of knowledge production and dissemination.

Required qualifications: This project is open to students of any major who are interested in the study of women, gender, and sexuality. No prior research experience or skills are required.

Direct mentor: Faculty/P.I. (Lora Wildenthal), Other Research Associates (Abby Stovall - Fondren Library; Brian Riedel - CSWGS)

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Potential projects/topics: I am open to mentoring projects concerning my own fields: women, gender, sexuality, Germany, colonialism, human rights, and workplace politics. I see my role as supporting the student's curiosity rather than supporting my own research, so am open to proposals that may seem to go beyond these areas. I expect students to be ready to spend time reading and to be open to working seriously on their writing (but I do not expect them to be, or to consider themselves, especially good readers and writers).

Potential skills gained: analyzing the structure of scholars' arguments; stating one's own argument; using evidence to support an argument; writing clearly so that anyone can understand you/ writing for a public audience

Required qualifications: None listed

Direct mentor: Faculty/P.I.

Student Project Titles List

Competing Claims: State and Church Uses of the Past in the Debate over the Ownership of the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, Spain

Lady Mary Montagu and her Perception of the Turkish Harem

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Black Feminist Suffragism