Leah Ceccarelli (Communication)
The Frontier of Science Metaphor: The Rhetoric of Exploration and Exploitation in a Postcolonial Transnational Context

Ceccarelli examines the use of the “science is a frontier” metaphor in speeches, popular books, and op-ed essays by American scientists, and what happens when this familiar figure of speech encounters audiences from other nations, or purposes that conflict with its connotations, or ambiguities of public memory regarding America’s frontier history. Assisting Ceccarelli is Celia Lowe (Anthropology), who brings expertise in postcolonial and transnational science studies.

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Madeline Dong (History, International Studies)
Stories from the Wilderness: Unofficial Histories of the Qing Dynasty

Dong’s project examines popular narratives of the history of the Qing and the significance of this genre in the creation of historical consciousness among the general population. Alys Weinbaum, (English), will provide her with direction in literary interpretation of text and with information about debates in contemporary theory and criticism.

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Glennys Young (History, International Studies)
The World the Refugees Made: The Niños de la Guerra in the USSR and Beyond

Young is working on the first transnational study of the political, social, and cultural consequences of the evacuation, during the Spanish Civil War, of Spanish Republican children to the Soviet Union, their return to Spain (whether immediately after official permission was granted in 1956 or in the 1980s and beyond), and the participation of a few of them as advisors during Castro’s Cuban Revolution.  In consultation with Professor Tony Geist (Spanish & Portuguese Studies), she will acquire expertise in the literature about the Spanish emigration during and after the Spanish Civil War, and of how issues of Spanish identity were treated in twentieth-century Spanish literature.