Friends of Fondren Library Research Awards
Launched in 2008 and funded by the Friends of Fondren Library, the Fondren Library Research Awards program recognizes students who demonstrate extraordinary skill and creativity in the application of library and information resources to original research and scholarship. Students submitted their research project and an essay outlining how they used specific library tools and resources to do their research. For more information about the awards, see here
Recent Submissions
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Medicinal Baptism: Discipline and Punish(ment) & Care of the (Christian) Self in Clement of Alexandria’s Paedagogus
(2016)The following essay was submitted in partial completion of ANTH 615: Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity, taught by Dr. James Faubion in Spring 2015. I argue that Clement of Alexandria’s use of medical metaphors in his ... -
Shipwreck, Slavery, Revolution: History as the Open Secret in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette
(2016)Is trauma a private or public experience? How do larger moments of historical, national, and imperial upheaval reverberate on the level of the individual? How readily do we forget a violent past, despite the traces that ... -
Environment and Economy Along Houston’s Bayous
(2016)The bayous have played a key role in the development of Houston since the city’s founding in the early 19th centuries. Houstonians have approached their relationship with the bayous in several different ways. Boosters and ... -
Duality and the Mask in Eighteenth-Century Actress Portraits
(2015)Theatrical masks in portraits of eighteenth-century actresses signify more than the figure’s profession. Multiple masks in a single composition and the figure’s active engagement with these plastic, yet eerily human objects ... -
“In the Hour of Arab Revolution” Tricontinental and the Question of Palestine
(2015)This essay seeks to challenge the absence of the Arab world within the emerging literature on “the Global Cold War,” which considers the Arab-Israeli conflict and thus Arab history to be driven by exceptional circumstances. ... -
The God King and the Selra Hero: Distribution of Territory and its Significance for Kingship in Beowulf
(2015)In this essay, I close read chosen lines in the Anglo Saxon poem Beowulf to demonstrate how Old English formulaic expression and hyperbole are used to delineate territory between the hero Beowulf and the King Hrothgar. I ... -
There’s Something About Mary: Negotiating the Identity of Mary Magdalen in “Ludus Mariae Magdalenae in gaudio”
(2015)Historically, Mary Magdalene is presented as a both sinner and penitent, prophet and a disciple, exemplar of both independence and submission, encompassing the profane and secular, as well as the transcendence of sainthood. ... -
Persons with Mental Disabilities and the United States Justice System: a Study of Injustice and Contradiction
(2011)This paper explores a short history of the mentally challenged in the legal system and makes comparisons between how the legal system treats subjects with borderline intellectual functioning and juveniles with normal ... -
Disentangling Desire in 1950s Houston: On Assemblages and Racial Disparity in American Criminal Justice
(2014)The criminalization of black males has been documented and theorized by historians and sociologists alike. While scholars have often analyzed their data with a critical eye to gender and race when black men meet the United ... -
A Singular Cloud: Race, Natural Science, and the Origins of Art History in the United States, 1845-1875
(2014)The abolition of slavery in the United States incited a social rupture that spread even to the halls of Harvard University. In defense of liberal ethics of equality and freedom, the study of art, previously the domain of ... -
Allegory for Political Rehabilitation: William and Mary, 1692, and Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen
(2014)When King William III and Queen Mary II ascended to the English throne in 1689 they were relatively well received. However, by 1692 their relationship with the public was strained. This created a need for image rehabilitation ... -
A Woman’s Role in 1913: The Role of Fashion, Marriage, and the Woman’s Suffrage Movement In Demonstrating Female Rights
(2014)Issues of The Atlanta Constitution newspaper in January 1913 made women’s place in society remarkably clear. Ads, articles, and “help wanted” sections all illustrated that women held a less powerful place in society than ... -
Empathy in the Physician-Patient Relationship: How Physicians Define, Develop, and Demonstrate Emotional Work in Clinical Practice
(2013)In recent years, much research has been focused on the role of empathy in the patientphysician relationship. Empathy has been shown to improve patient communication, trust, and clinical outcomes. Driven by this evidence, ... -
A riot, a market, a pilgrimage, a beating: aerial photography and anthropological method
(2013)Aerial photography has, not without justification, been linked to projects of violence and domination. Yet recent scholarship in visual studies has called for an attention to the actual practices whereby aerial photographs ... -
Gothic Fertility: Reproductive Ecology and the Rise of the Milieu in Leonora Sansay's Secret History (1808)
(2013)Hemispheric American scholars tend to discuss space in a context of territorial geopolitics. But what happens if we reconsider territorial geopolitics through the lens of ecology? Leonora Sansay’s Secret History, or The ... -
Nurturing the Individual and National Body from Sickness to Health in Images of the U.S. Civil War
(2013)The visual culture of the U.S. Civil War is as vast and varied as the approximately 6.3 million soldiers who served in the conflict. This paper examines one specific dimension of imagery produced during the War: representations ... -
Sunlight and Fresh Air: Picturing Life in the Central-Hall Houses of Beirut, 1890-1920
(2012)In the last thirty years of Ottoman rule in Beirut, Lebanon, a form of domestic architecture developed that became the ultimate status symbol for the burgeoning bourgeoisie of the city. This new type of dwelling came to ... -
A Call for Medical Pluralism in America: Integrating Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine
(2012)China has adopted a unique policy of medical pluralism, whereby traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and western biomedicine (WM) are both widely used in the health care system to provide optimal health outcomes to patients. ... -
Re-forming & Representing a Public Library
(2012)how the library as a public institution could re-address the crucial relation in-between knowledge, media as well as people’s perception of publicness.
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