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Coordinators:  Sierra Edd ‘18, Nicole Martinez ‘18

Independent Studies Co-Coordinators Nicole & Sierra facilitated information sessions and syllabus writing workshops, met students for appointments about their proposals, served on the College Curriculum Council's IS selection committee, and built community amongst current (G)ISPers through check-in meetings with GISP students and by  organizing the end-of-semester (G)ISP poster presentations.T They maintained an online archive of successful proposals for the (G)ISP database.

"Sierra Edd: Politics and Art" article from Brown Alumni Magazine published on the web May 16, 2018

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(G)ISP Co-Coordinator Sierra was featured in the spring edition of the Brown Alumni Magazine. Sierra drafted and participated in a number of (G)ISPs during her time at Brown including, "WOC Artists of America," "Navajo Language," and "Exploring Indigineity Through Creative Writing."

About (Group) Independent Study Projects

(G)ISPs for Fall 2017:

15 submissions (submitted in April 2017); 14 in session:

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  • Geometric Group Theory (GISP, Tarik Aougab, Math)

  • Violence, the Drug Trade, and Policing in the Urban Periphery of Rio de Janeiro (ISP, Nicholas Barnes, POBS)

  • Methods in Neuropsychology (GISP, Brian Hayden, CLPS)

  • Economic and Political Impacts of Healthcare in Post Revolution Cuba (ISP, Timothy Empkie, Family Medicine)

  • Medicine, Literature, and Society (GISP, Andrew Colarusso, Literary Arts)

  • Applications and Aesthetics of Advanced Scanning Electron Microscopy (ISP, Geoffrey Williams)

  • Transgender Studies: Theory and Politics (GISP, Virginia Thomas, GNSS)

  • Art as an Act of Care (ISP, William Keach, English)

  • Psychopathology and Mental Health Through a Literary Lens (ISP, Robert Ward, English)

  • Post Slavery Imagination (GISP, Deak Nabers, English)

  • From Maihar to Monterrey: The Globalization of Indian Classical Music (GISP, Shankar Prasad, South Asian Studies)

  • Sports Analytics (GISP, Roee Gutman, Public Health)

  • WOC Artists in America: About Us, For Us, By Us (GISP, Kiri Miller, Music)

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(G)ISPs for Spring 2018:

27 submissions; 25 in session:

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  • Afrofuturism (GISP, Andrew Colarusso, Literary Arts)

  • Exploring Indigeneity Through Creative Writing (GISP, Theresa Warburton, AMST & English)

  • Memes and the Language of the Internet (GISP, Rick Bungiro, Biology; Charles Morton, Chemistry)

  • Contemporary Mexican Queer Literature (ISP, Luis Estrada Orozco, Hispanic Studies)

(G)ISPs for Spring 2018 (con't):

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  • Birch, Maple, Hemlock: An Arboral Approach to the North Woods (ISP, Bathsheba Demuth, History)

  • Ivy Film Festival (GISP, Joseph Rovan, Music)

  • Punk Culture and Aesthetics (GISP, Josh Tucker, Music)

  • Symbolic Systems (GISP, Joshua Schechter, Math)

  • Audio Production Workshop (GISP, Beth Taylor, English)

  • Keeping Up With Keeping Up (GISP, Matt Guterl, American studies)

  • Video Games: The Multidisciplinary Phenomenon (GISP, James Tompkin, Computer Science)

  • Navajo Language (GISP, Scott AnderBois, Linguistics)

  • The Story of the Prophet Mohammad [Peace Be Upon Him] (GISP, Allan Hassan, Middle East studies)

  • Environmental Justice (Internship, Kurt Teichert, Environmental studies)

  • Juvenile Justice (Internship, Kathy Kemp, BioMed & Urban studies)

  • Sea Ice Remote Sensing (ISP, Amanda Lynch, IBES)

  • RI Drug Court (AI, Wendy Schiller, Political Science)

  • Neuroscience of Racism (GISP, Monica Linden, Neuroscience)

  • Population Model for Cancer Prevention (ISP)

  • Shaping Economic Progress Through Sustainable Tourism (ISP)

  • Neuroaesthetics (GISP, Leslie Welch, CLPS)

  • Zika Virus: Biological and Public Health Perspectives (GISP, Judy Liu, Public Health)

  • Psychology of the Jury (GISP, Joachim Krueger, CLPS)

  • Perspectives in Chinese Medicine (GISP, Lung-Hua Hu, East Asian studies)

  • Topics in Political Philosophy (ISP, Alexander Gourevitch, Political Science)

From the (G)ISP Poster session, Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Coordinator:  Alana Felton ‘18

About Global Independent Studies (GLISPs)

GLISP Coordinator Alana Felton '18 staffed at the CRC and Office of International Programs. She designed a syllabus-writing workshop, met with students for appointments, and also served on the College Curriculum Council's selection committee for GLISPs.

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GLISPs for Fall 2017: 3 proposals approved and in session:

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  • Psychoanalytic Identity: Culture and the Mind in Argentina (Advisor: Jessaca Leinaweaver, Anthropology)

  • Intersectional Feminism in France: Political and Cultural Representations in France (Advisor: Justin Izzo, French Studies)

  • Media Representations of Women in Britain: Roots, Development, and Contemporary Significance (Advisor: Lina Fruzzetti, Anthropology)

 

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GLISPs for Spring 2018: 15 proposals approved and in session; (1 not approved):

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  • The Vienna Circle: Philosophy Shaping Society (Advisor: Anna Pautz, Philosophy)

  • The Cuban Health Care System: An Integrated Model, Advisor (Patrick Vivier: Public Health)

  • Renegotiating Representations of the Nation in Scottish Cinema (Advisor: Lynne Joyrich: Modern Culture and Media)

  • Kowloon Walled City: Windows into Late Colonial Hong Kong (Advisor: Evelyn Hu-DeHart: History, American Studies, Ethnic Studies)

  • Black Identity in Contemporary France: dans la vie les livres, to be conducted in French (Advisor: Justin Izzo: French Studies)

  • Militarized Geographies of Vietnam (Advisor: Naoko Shibusawa: History, American studies, Ethnic studies)

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​GLISPs for Spring 2018 (con't):

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  • Colonialism, Cultural Heritage, and Collecting: An Anthropological Study of British Museums and their Islamic Art Collections (Advisor: Holly Shaffer: History of Art and Architecture)

  • The Economics of Spain: An in-depth analysis of regional markets and institutions with focus on Catalonia (Advisor: Barrett Hazeltine: Engineering/BEO)

  • Photographing Cuba: A Study of Cuban Cultures (Advisor: Theresa Ganz, Visual Art)

  • An ethnography of Igbo Nigerian Tribal Identity in Tokyo (Advisor: Yoko Yamamoto: Education)

  • Botanish have: A History of the Copenhagen Botanical Garden and Medicinal Botany in Denmark (Advisor: Harold Cook: History and additional advisor input: Fred Jackson)

  • Runes and Writing: the Uses of Old Norse and Old English Runes in the British Isles (Advisor: Lesley Jacobs: English)

  • Medical Pluralism in Vietnam (Advisor: Elena Shih)

  • L'Etrangete Française: Regards analytiques sur la culture francaise d'un Américain, to be conducted in French (Advisor: Ourida Mostefai: French Studies)

  • Queer Spanish Cinema: From Franco to Today (Advisor: Sarah Thomas: Hispanic Studies)

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