Research Opportunities

Upcoming Opportunities

Independent Study in Dwelling Studies, Fall 2006

Hugh Crawford and Ron Broglio are seeking students interested in working with them in the field of "dwelling studies." We are exploring the visible and invisible networks of everyday life as they weigh upon nature. Students would develop a bibliography for this interdisciplinary field and from this bibliography begin research in a direction of the student's choosing. Areas of interest for dwelling studies include tool use and cognition, distributed cognition, biosemiotics, phenomenology, ecology, and animal studies. We are also keen on developing a website for dwelling studies and are interested in students with basic web skills. Students participating in this research will receive three credit hours which may count toward a variety of requirements from general humanities to literary period to new media depending on the work done by the student as determined by the professor in dialogue with the student prior to the beginning of the semester. Interested students should contact Ron Broglio at animality@gatech.edu.

Past Student Research

Undergraduate Thesis Advisement (Lisa Yaszek)

Karen Donaldson, STaC. Advisement scheduled to begin Spring 2006. “Representing Law and Ethics in Social Science Fiction.” Plans to begin law school in Fall 2006.

Amelia Shackelford, STaC. Advisement scheduled to begin Spring 2006. “Creativity and Cultural Theory in Recent Science Fiction.” Plans to pursue a professional writing career after graduation.

Jason Ellis, STaC. Advisement began Fall 2005. “Networks of Science, Technology, and Science Fiction During the American Cold War.” Plans to begin graduate work in English literature in Fall 2006.

Kelly Coffey, STaC. Graduated Summer 2005. “Separating Reality from Fiction While Analyzing Gender Differences Within the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” Ph.D., Physical Therapy, University of Georgia.

Andrew Pilsch, STaC. Graduated Spring 2005. “The Systems Esthetic and the Cyborg in Postmodern Art.” Ph.D. student, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University.

Kate Sisson, STaC. Graduated Fall 2004. “Brothers from Another Planet: The Cultural Nationalist Roots of Afrofuturism.” M.S. student, International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Jessica Dillard, STaC, Spring 2003. “Penetrating Nature: Gender and Religion in Early Scientific Writing.”M.A. student, Women’s Studies, Sarah Lawrence College.

PURA Award Mentoring (Ron Broglio)

Chris Pair, Spring 2004. "Contemporary Art and Problems of Capturing Animals on Film."

Zachary Keebaugh, Spring 2004. "Theorizing Contemporary Animal Art."

PURA Award Mentoring (TyAnna Herrington)

Jim Doeden, Fall 2001. "Collaborative work in conjunction with the Global Classroom Project. His work was represented in:

Avery, Cassie, Jason Civjan, and Aditya Johri. "Assessing Student Interaction in the Global Classroom Project: Visualizing Communication and Collaboration Patterns Using Online Transcripts." in Online Education: Global Questions, Local Answers. " Eds. Kelli Cargile Cook and Keith Grant-Davie. Amityville, NY: Baywood, 2004.

PURA Award Mentoring (Lisa Yaszek)

Jason Ellis, STaC, Fall 2005. "Editing and Encoding Video from the Monstrous Bodies Symposium for Online Streaming"

Laura Rich, STaC, Spring 2005, “Researching German Science Fiction in Georgia Tech’s Bud Foote Collection”

Ben Tomassetti, STaC, Spring 2005, “Designing a Website for LCC’s Monstrous Bodies in Science, Fiction, and Culture Symposium”

Penny Harding, STaC, Fall 2004, “Designing a Website for the Science Fiction Lab”

Andrew Pilsch, STaC, Fall 2004, “Researching Cyborg Science Fiction in Georgia Tech’s Bud Foote Collection”

Kate Sisson, STaC, Fall 2004, “Researching French Science Fiction in Georgia Tech’s Bud Foote Collection”

Jessica Dillard, STaC, Fall 2003, “Researching Mary Shelley’s Legacy to Art and Science”

Independent Research in the Bud Foote Science Fiction Collection Supervision (Lisa Yaszek)

Erin Gatlin, STaC, Spring 2005 “Science Fiction and Race”

Bryan Kauffman, ME, Spring 2005 “Predicting the Future in Science Fiction”

Jesse Scherer, CS, Spring 2005 “Terraforming in Science Fiction”

Jason Ellis, STaC, Fall 2004 “Robots in Science Fiction”

Laura Rich, STaC, Fall 2004, “New Wave Science Fiction”

Allen Chen, STaC, Spring 2004, “The Ethics of Creation in Science Fiction”

Kate Sisson, STaC, Spring 2004, “An Interview with Kathy Goonan: The Frankenstein Tradition in Modern Science Fiction”

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