Current Semester Project Summaries
Welcome to the Spring 2012 Student-Scholar Internship Program!
The SSP is an exciting internship offering educational & real-world experience while benefiting from a supportive mentoring relationship with a Scholar.
To apply, please submit your resume through the Office of Student Employment. Then you will need to fill out the application form and submit a writing sample directly to Kristen Mullin in Epstein at the Womens Studies Research Center. The writing sample can be any length or topic (relevant to project is better). It needs to show you can take a thought, put it in on paper, and then discuss it clearly and intelligently. Many students have used past graded papers before.
Available Spring 2012 Projects (click on project for detailed description):
This Scholar is doing a project with urban children where they make poetry while drumming. The children build relational skills and literacy skills at the same time. The program has been going on for over a year and is now in a stage where data us being coded and quantified for research and sharing purposes. Students can help in a variety of areas including taking video and coding it; editing video for presentation to educators; leading sessions of children; or interviewing parents and others for feedback .
2. "Depictions of Older Women in Feature Film, 1930 - 2008" with Scholar Elizabeth Markson
This Scholar is doing a project researching how older women's lives have been portrayed in American feature films over the decades. Student and scholar will examine how women are portrayed in film, how the aging process is depicted, and how has Hollywood responded to the demographic and social changes in women's lives?
Student will conduct literature searches about film portrayal of women and will write their findings. The Student's work will aid in providing a background for a monograph the Scholar is planning to write.
3. "Speaking Out Against Age-ism" with Scholar Margaret Gullette
This Scholar is a writer and cultural critic who works on age issues. She is considered a pioneer in the emerging field and has published several books to much acclaim. She also writes for online sites and blogs. The student will help the Scholar conduct research for her current writing projects as well as reading and editing drafts. The student may also assist the Scholar in the search for an agent/editor for a new project. If time is available and student is willing, plans for a new website might be discussed as well.
4. "Understanding the Needs of Grieving Children" with Scholar Phyllis Silverman
Research is being done as to what makes a particular grief resource helpful, and why does it work? The student will work with the Scholar to transcribe interviews, identify themes and bring a college-aged perspective to the findings. Issues of gender and grieving will also be examined.
Specifically, data will be examined from The Children’s Room: Center for Grieving Children and Adolescents in Arlington, MA which serves children and their families whose parent or sibling has died.