Summer Undergraduate Research

There is an opportunity at the University of Pittsburgh for 12 undergraduates in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences to be awarded a $3500 scholarship to conduct research during the summer semester. This page will be the brainstorm forum for research topics.

If I decide to pursue something practical, I will ask Annmarie Duggan to be my advisor.
If I decide to pursue something literary/research-oriented, I will ask Lisa Jackson-Schebetta to be my advisor.

IDEAS:

• Continuation of Independent Study
• How to create and sustain a non-profit theatre company
• Senegalese women in the French-speaking community
• Women's rights from birth to adulthood
• French influence (culture)
• Western influence (culture)
• Dialects
• Social issues and revolutionary movements
• Moroccan youth in the French-speaking community
• Culture
• Dialects
• Integration of French culture, Arabic culture, and Western influence
• Rights
• Social issues and revolutionary movements
• Stagecraft: from building sets to fostering communities
• The art of creating sustainable sets
• Sets that remain as homes and community centers to improve communities that have been damaged by weather, war, and economic neglect
• The link between language and identity
• Youth vernacular
• Francophone
• Anglophone
• Family vernacular
• Socioeconomic groups' vernaculars
• Similarities and differences between Francophone and Anglophone communities
• Areas of interest: France, Morocco, Quebec