Elements Fall 2013 Issue

Authors

  • Marie Pellissier
  • Tracy Lu
  • James Newhouse
  • Claire Marinello
  • Emilie Sintobin
  • Jordan Dorney
  • Cameron Givens

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6017/eurj.v9i2.8992

Keywords:

Fall 2013, humanities, social science

Abstract

Full book of the Fall 2013 issue of the journal

Author Biographies

Marie Pellissier

Marie Pellissier is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, majoring in history. Her interests include early American history, the colonial relationships of the Atlantic world, and material culture. She is currenlty working on research into historic cooking, inspired by a book in the Burns Library special collections at Boston College. She has served as a research assistant to Professor Owen Stanwood of the history department and was a recipient of an Advanced Study Grant to study historic cooking techniques and vocabulary in Paris, France. A musician, Marie sings with the Madrigal Singers of Boston College, and is studying abroad this fall at University College London, London, England.

Tracy Lu

Tracy Lu is a member of the 2013 class. She majored in Philosophy and Economics, and sampled enough Psychology courses to make a minor. The inspiration of her paper "Figures of Existentialism" came from the dark optimism that she finds in philosophy as well as a love of Russian literature. She currently works and lives in New York City and hopes to write and research in the future.

James Newhouse

James Newhouse is a junior History major and Environmental Studies minor in the College of Arts and Sciences. His acaemic interests include Latin American and US history, especially the Civil War. In addition to studying History, James is also a member of the Men's Cross Country and Track and Field teams, Los Angeles native, and prospective law school student.

Claire Marinello

Claire Marinello is a native of New Jersey and a graduate of the 2013 class at Boston College, where she majored in history with a minor in Islamic Civilizations and Society. She is the recipient of the Patrick J. Durcan Award for excellence in history studies. She is currently an AmeriCorps volunteer in Lynn, Massachusetts, where she teaches English and civics to immigrants and refugees.

Emilie Sintobin

Emilie Sintobin is from Dallas, TX. She recenlty gradauted from Boston College in May with a Bachelor of Arts in French and Arrt History, having also spent a semester studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. Her paper was written for Professor Cernuschi's Art History Seminar last fall, a course which looked in depth at foundational art theory from the early twentieth century to the present. Emilie will continue her art historical studies this fall as she pursues a Masters in Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute of Art in New York.

Jordan Dorney

Jordan Dorney is a 2013 graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences, having majored in Political Science with a minor in Irish Studies. For his honors thesis on Plato's "myths" of the afterlife in the Republic and the Gorgias, he received the Donald S. Carlisle Award. For this article, the study of Cambodia and the international political system was something of a departure from his usual interests. This fall Jordan will begin graduate studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Cameron Givens

Cameron Givens is a member of the Honors Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, Class of 2015. He is double majoring in History and Mathematics. His research focuses on the First World War and he is considering a senior thesis on the war's medical history.

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Published

2013-11-01

How to Cite

Pellissier, M., Lu, T., Newhouse, J., Marinello, C., Sintobin, E., Dorney, J., & Givens, C. (2013). Elements Fall 2013 Issue. Elements, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.6017/eurj.v9i2.8992

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2013)

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