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2011 Arts Undergraduate Research Event

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Will Agnew, Katherine O'Konski, and Ana Vadeanu, all U3 Environment students.

 On 2 February 2011, 21 undergraduate students from over 13 different programs participated in the Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Research Event. They showcased research activities undertaken over the past year to students, professors and faculty members alike.

For more information contact Mathew Lyle at mat [dot] lyle [at] mcgill [dot] ca.

Information pertaining to students' research, including presentations and posters, is available below.

Will Agnew, U3 Environment
Sustainable Food Practices at McGill
Professor George McCourt

Majd Al Khaldi, U3 Political Science and Economics
The Dilemma of Statebuilding in Areas of Ethnic Violence: How International Efforts to Bolster Georgia's Statebuilding May Have Contributed to the Resurgence of Ethnic Violence since 2003
Professor Stephen Saideman
The Dilemma of State-Building in Areas of Violence - Majd Al Khaldi [.pdf]

Philippe Baird, U3 History
20th Century Gabon: Enclave of Neocolonial Interests
Professor John Hellman
20th Century Gabon: Deakubg wutg ab Enclave of Neocolonial Interests - Philippe Baird [.pdf]

Marie-France Barrette, U3 History
Property Formation in Colonial North America - Arpenteurs et arpentage en Nouvelle-France: A Study of Practical and Legal Aspects of Surveying in New France, 1600-1760
Professor Allan Greer
Property Formation in Colonial North America - Marie-France Barrette [.pdf]

Vassilli Bazinas, U3 Economics
An Analysis of United States' Home Prices: Fundamentals or Irrational Exuberance?
Professor Russell Davidson
An Analysis of US Home Prices - Vassili Bazinas [.pdf]

Shelly Burian, U3 Art History
Progress in the Acquisition of Pre-Columbian Art: the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts
Dr. Cecily Hilsdale
Trends in the Acquisition of Pre-Columbian Art - Shelley Burian [.pdf]

Jack Deming, U3 German Studies
Media and Metamorphosis: Geothe's Notebooks
Professor Andrew Piper
Media and Metamophosis: Goethe's Notebooks - Jack Deming [.pdf]

Brendan Fenerty, U3 Anthropology
Surface Scatters and Core Reduction: A Spatial Analysis of Co-clustered Stone Tools and Debitage at Hiidenkanga, Finland
Professor André Costopoulos
Intra-Site Analysis of the Hiidenkangas Site in Finland - Brendan Fenerty [.pdf]

Karine Fonda, BA 2011 International Development Studies
How Healthy is Healthcare in OECD Countries?
Professor Amélie Quesnel-Vallée

Rebecca Goodwin, U3 Anthropology
Zooarchaeological Study of Early Thule Dwelling

Stephanie Gutnik, U3 Political Science
More Than Meets the Eye: An Assessment of the Current Status of Women Journalists in the Field of Canadian Broadcast Journalism
Professor Elisabeth Gidengil
More than Meets the Eye: An Assessment of the Current Status of Women Journalists in the Fiedld of Canadian Broadcast Journalism - Stephanie Gutnik [.pdf]

Aaron Hirsch, U3 Linguistics
Syntactic Differences in the Reliability of Prosodic Disambiguation
Professor Michael Wagner

Leah Katzman, BA 2011 Cognitive Science
The Capgras Delusion
Dr. Ian Gold
The Capgras Delusion - Leah Katzman [.pdf]

Nada Khashaba, U3 Drama and Theatre Studies
The Plastic Age of the Puppet - The Usurpation of Subjectivity by the Object-Theatre of Posthumanist Modernity
Professor Catherine Bradley
The Plastic Age of the Puppet - Nada Khashaba [.pdf]

Mookie Kideckel, U3 History
Making of Macho Men: Masculinity in Turn of the Century Canada
Professor Elsbeth Heaman
Making Macho Men - Masculinity in Turn-of-the-Century Canada - Mookie Kideckel [.pdf]

Rachel Rudolph, BA 2011 Philosophy
Moritz Pasch's Notes on Weiserstrass's Lectures on Analytic Functions
Professor Dirk Schlimm
Moritz Pasch's Notes on Karl Weierstrass's 1865/66 Lectures on Analytic Functions - Rachel Rudolph [.pdf]

Brendan Shanahan, U3 History
America Fever?: Quebec Departures and New England Destinations in the Age of Industrialization
Dr. Morgan Grefe
American Fever? From French Canadians to Franco-Americans (1840-1930) - Poster [.pdf]
American Fever? From French Canadians to Franco-Americans (1840-1930) [.pdf]

Ada Luisa Sinacore, U2 Art History
The Inclusive Museum: Ways of Learning Through Sensory Exploration
Dr. Cecily Hilsdale and Ms. Dana Broadbent
The Inclusive Museum: Ways of Learning through Sensory Explorations - Ada Sinacore [.pdf]

Caylin Smith, U3 English and Cultural Studies
The Life of Stephen G. Clow
Professor Will Straw
Stephen G. Clow - Broadway Brevities and Society Gossip - Caylin Smith [.pdf]

Alice Walker, U2 Anthropology
Body as Machine: Tree Planting in Canada
Professor Edwardo Kohn
Mind, Motivation, and Body as Machine: Tree Planting in Canada's North - Alice Walker [.pdf]

Andy Yu, U3 Philosophy
Mathematical Developments Arising from the Discovery of Inconsistent Results: The Case of Set Theory
Professor Dirk Schlimm
Mathematical Empiricism and the Concept of Set - Andy Yu [.pdf]