Student Projects
View an example project from a "Mellonized" course using video, narration and research
- Recent projects
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- 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
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- 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)
- 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
- 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
- Hailey Perecki, Home for Roy, An Experimental Animation, spring 2014
- Kara Robart, Hoobla-Hoobla-Hoobla-How, spring 2014
- Summer Fellowship projects
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- 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
- Research posters
- IDS 180–181 class projects
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- 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
Mellon Initiatives