Student Projects

View an example project from a "Mellonized" course using video, narration and research

Recent projects

Sarah Lundy, Le Rwanda: Une Histoire Chronologique, spring 2019 with Brigitte Hamon-Porter (French 441)
Natalie Weg, Japanese Control and Korean Resistance (1910-1945), spring 2019 with Wayne Tan (History 314)
Kirstin Anderson, Lauren from Charlotte, fall 2018 with Steve Nelson (Art 120)
Sarah Herrera, The Art of Moving Across Borders, fall 2018 with Jesus Montaña (English 282)
Hannah Kenny, Hope College and Ready for Life: Kate's Story, fall 2018 with Dennis Feaster (Social Work 312)
Aine O'Connor, From Recreate to Reunite: Operation Babylift, Family Separation and Public Construction of the Family, fall 2018 with Jeanne Petit (History 256)
Rebecca Stanton and Kaitlyn Rustemeyer, La Vie Glamour de F. Scott Fitzgerald à Paris, fall 2018 with Natalie Dykstra (English 371)
Maddie Zimmerman, The Montauri Birth Tray by Bartolomeo de Fruosino, fall 2018 with Anne Heath (Art History 232)

Previous projects

Anna Jones, Multigenre Blog, spring 2018 with Susanna Childress (English 495)
Nina Kay, Turn and Face the Strange: Andy Warhol's Unexamined Legacy, spring 2018 with Heidi Kraus (Art History 242)
Maddie Zimmerman, Shin-Hanga: Visions of Modern Japan, spring 2018 with Heidi Kraus (Art History 360)
Kirstin Anderson, Kahlo in Color: Examining the Person and Legacy of Frida Kahlo in Mexican History and Culture, fall 2017 with Annie Dandavati (Political Science 262)
Raven Bouvier, Exploring Creativity, fall 2017 with Linda Graham (Dance 490)
Carolyn Ellis, The Harry Brorby Project (portions), fall 2017 with Heidi Kraus (Art History 365)
Annika Gidley, Pride and Prejudice and Fantasy, fall 2017 with Curtis Gruenler (English 480)
Katrin Kelley, The Future of Korean Reunification, fall 2017 with Joel Toppen (Political Science 351)
Sarah Lundy, The Media's First Lady, fall 2017 with Jeanne Petit (History 352)
Emma Wangstrom, Hadley and Ernest, fall 2017 with Stephen Hemenway (English 371)
Elle Banaszak, The Veil Between, spring 2017
Anna Jones, a dramaturgy of August: Osage County, spring 2017
Taylor Mills, Architecture and Education in India, spring 2017
Miriam Roth, Action Research: A Student Teacher's Pedagogical Reflection, spring 2017
Rachel Kennedy, dramaturgy of Roustabout: the Great Circus Train Wreck, fall 2016
Matthew Meyerhuber, From Wiederaufbau to 'Wir schaffen das": the Syrian Refugee Crisis and the History of German Refugee Policy since 1945, fall 2016
Nia Stringfellow, The Man Who Wore Red, fall 2016
Gianna Ramirez, Anne Bradstreet's Resolution: Understanding the Complexities of the Puritan Code of Womanhood, fall 2016
Miriam Roth, Introducing Technology in the Language Classroom, fall 2016
Cullen Smith, British Military Intelligences during the Troubles (1969–1984), spring 2016
Austin Garcia, Project Reel, spring 2016
Miriam Roth, Document-Based Learning, spring 2016
Hope Hancock, From Hippies to Hipsters, fall 2015
Colin Rensch, In the Key of Britain: The Making of British Music, 1900–1936, fall 2015
Taylor Mills, Philosophy put to Music, fall 2015
Hailey Perecki, Home for Roy, An Experimental Animation, spring 2014
Kara Robart, Hoobla-Hoobla-Hoobla-How, spring 2014

Summer Fellowship projects

Laura Anthon, Perpetuating Inaccuracies: The Biases of American History Textbooks and Their Origin, Summer 2019 with Charles Green (Psychology)
Mitch Van Acker, Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: An Illustrated Text, Summer 2019 with Greg Lookerse (Art)
Aine O'Connor, InclusiviREAD: Disability, Literature, and Community, Summer 2018 with Wayne Tan (History)
Kaitlyn Rustemeyer, Church Shopping and Protestant Worship Diversity, Summer 2018 with Aaron Franzen (Sociology)
Mitch Van Acker, The Kernel and the Haze: Nietsche Counterposed with Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Summer 2018 with Kathleen Verduin (English)
Carolyn Wetzel, Indigenous Women and the Marketplace in Latin America, Summer 2018 with María Claudia André (Spanish)
Maddie Zimmerman, Japonisme: The Modern Artist's Obsession, Summer 2018 with Heidi Kraus (Art History)
Jonathan Bading, The Office of Lazarus, summer 2017
Nina Kay, The Second Classroom, summer 2017
Ellen Messner, Songs that Speak to Us: A Qualitative Study of Music Preference of Holland Residents, summer 2017
Cullen Smith, The Boston Bicentennial, summer 2016
Cullen Smith, Holland's Vietnam Veterans: An Oral History Project, summer 2015
Claire Trivax, The Medea. A modern adaptation in one act with pre-show videos: Men and Feminism, Men and Anti-Feminism, Women and Feminism, and Women and Anti-Feminism, summer 2015
Elizabeth Ensink, The Boston Smallpox Epidemic: A Quantitative Analysis, summer 2015
Hayley Schultz, A.J. Muste: The Life of an Activist, summer 2015
Miriam Roth, Jonathan Tilden, Sam Stout and Ian Bussan, "For the Boys Over There": The 1918 United War Work Campaign, summer 2015
Daniel Owens, A Summer Adventure in the Land of a Thousand Hills, summer 2012
Kevin Wonch, A New Form of Struggle: Betty Ford and Brest Cancer in the 1970s, fall 2012
Madalyn Northuis, The Lyford Project, summer 2013

Research posters

View Mellon scholars’ posters in the Hope College Digital Commons

IDS 180–181 class projects

Shannon Rogers, Kaitlyn Rustemeyer, Kellyanne Fitzgerald, Nineteenth-Century Sunday-School Literature, spring 2017
Rachel Brugamin, Annika Gidley, Joshua Chun Wah Kam, Katrin Kelley, Little Modern Magazines: The Influence of Literary Magazines, spring 2017
Andrew Monroe, Nina Kay, Kirstin Anderson, Anti-Slavery Almanac, spring 2017
Kelly Arnold, Irene Gerrish, Olivia Lehnertz, Sarah Lundy, The Founding Fathers and their Lending Histories, spring, 2017

By the end of the Mellon seminar, I could confidently say that I was able to shoot video, edit footage and add effects to create an effective and persuasive documentary. As a whole, my experience in the Mellon seminar helped me to have a powerful experience in both personal and professional growth.

—Cullen Smith