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Undergraduate
Information
UROP
UROP
OPPORTUNITIES IN HISTORY
Many
members of the MIT History faculty offer students the opportunity
to assist them in their research. There are UROP
opportunities in modern Chinese history, in the material
culture of eighteenth-century Europe, and in other areas.
Knowledge of a foreign language is occasionally helpful,
as are web skills, but the most important qualities for
successful UROP students
in History are curiosity about the past and enthusiasm for
original research.
The Economics of Gothic Cathedral Building
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Professor
Anne McCants,
E51-255, x8-6669, employs economic and quantitative approaches to
the study of the European past, and has embarked on a
large project to study the various economic dimensions of cathedral building in the high middle ages. Will be trying to reconstruct where possible the financial underpinning and timing of Gothic cathedral construction in the Paris Basin, Norman England and elsewhere in France, the Low Countries and Scandinavia. The project will also assess the social overhead capital embodied in cathedral building and seek to make welfare assessments for this type of expenditure versus other possible investment or consumption opportunities.
Email:
amccants@mit.edu
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French
Politics and Theater of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Professor
Jeff Ravel, E51-293, x 3-4451, studies
French political culture from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Current projects include the cultural, social, economic, and political aspects of fraud and deception in France from the Old Regime to the nineteenth century; and the digitization of the daily receipts registers of the Comedie-Francaise theater troupe in Paris from 1680 to 1800, in conjunction with MIT's HyperStudio.
Email: ravel@mit.edu
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Russian
and Soviet History
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Professor
Elizabeth Wood,
author of two books on politics and culture in the 1920s in the Soviet Union, is now working on a project on the performance of politics in contemporary Russia under Vladimir Putin, drawing on insights from her work in that earlier era of Soviet history. She is looking for a UROP student to do research in an enormous database of Russian newspapers today to obtain information about images of Putin that are being generated by central and regional authorities for mass consumption.
Email:
elizwood@mit.edu |
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