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The CCRA blog is authored by Columbia undergraduate researchers, who are invited to reflect on all aspects of the research process and their own undergraduate research experiences, beginning (but not ending) with the Core.
Category Archives: Archives
Evolution and the Importance of Tradition in Literature Humanities
“The words of truth are naturally simple” – Euripides, The Phoenecian Woman The history of the formation of the course now known as Literature Humanities is not a well-known story among students at Columbia College nowadays, and this is a … Continue reading
Approaches to Interdisciplinary Research
It is rarely ever the case that our attitudes are binary or one-dimensional. In fact, life is characterized by the many beliefs, opinions, and preferences that we embrace. Ascribing to one thought or ideology while resisting others is not only … Continue reading
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Searching for a research opportunity? Start here!
Navigating the research landscape for student opportunities can seem intimidating – here are some tips on where to start with brainstorming and searching. Picture your ideal opportunity Jot down a few notes relevant to the kind of experience you are … Continue reading
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‘A Journey to the ‘Metropole’: Tracing Transnational Networks at the University of Oxford
It has always struck me as somewhat paradoxical that some of the Indian subcontinent’s most famous political activists in the twentieth-century journeyed to Britain to complete their education: from the anticolonial leader M.K. Gandhi, to the first Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, to … Continue reading
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Uncovering Public Hellenism
At the beginning of my summer, I participated in the Columbia Summer Research Practicum for Public Humanities and Hellenic Studies. Under the supervision of Professor Dimitris Antoniou and Nicolas Nicolaides, our teaching assistant, a group consisting of me and four … Continue reading
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Interning in the Archives: My Experience at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
This summer, I had the exciting opportunity to intern with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) as part of a program called Natural History Research Experiences (NHRE). Throughout my 10-week NHRE internship, I was able to prepare a … Continue reading
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Reimagining Research during COVID-19
“Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality –– whatever it may be.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism The COVID-19 pandemic, regardless of the declaration from many that it has reached some sort … Continue reading
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“Useless” Research: Applying Research Skills to an Unrelated Summer Internship
In the spring of 2021, I attended a virtual undergraduate Classics conference and presented my research on Lucian of Samosata, a 2nd Century Greek satirist. In my paper, I focused on a text called On salaried posts in great houses, … Continue reading
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Research in Your Own Backyard: Using Archives at Columbia and in NYC
My first experience making use of a historical archive was spring of my sophomore year. I was taking a course called Making of the Modern American Landscape and we were assigned a final paper with little in terms of a … Continue reading
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HU OSA 300-60-1: Finding What You Are(n’t) Looking For
While in Budapest and working at the Open Society Archives, I was paired with a junior researcher who works primarily on the history of cybernetics (the science of communications and control systems in both machines and living things) during the … Continue reading
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