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For information
regarding
Course 21H
UROP Opportunities,
please see
the UROP Coordinator
or check the UROP
Project Openings page.
Once you've
found your
UROP, follow
all UROP procedures
for pay or
credit. For
information
on funding
that may pertain
to your research
see the "Awards
&
Funds" section
of this site.
- Prof.
Christopher
Capozzola, E51-180,
x2-4960, capozzol@mit.edu
- Professor Christopher Capozzola specializes in the political and legal history of the United States in the early twentieth century. Projects for Fall 2006 include research into the social history of the U.S. military between 1898 and 1945, with a particular focus on the history of ethnic and religious minorities in the ranks.
Another UROP project specifically focused on American legal history includes research into legal cases involving Filipino Americans from the 1920s to the 1940s. No specialized legal knowledge or languages are needed; almost all research can be done at MIT libraries, but students with full access to Harvard libraries are particularly welcome.
- Prof.
Pauline
Maier, E51-279,
x3-2646, pmaier@mit.edu,
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Current project is a narrative history of the ratification of the American Federal Constitution, 1787-88, with further consideration of the amendments recommended by the First Federal Congress as a response to the demands of state ratifying conventions. Expects to have a full draft by the fall of 2008. UROP students would locate additional materials on individual participants in the story, EXPLORE CONTEMPORARY DISCUSSION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENTS (THE "BILL OF RIGHTS"), perhaps check references, and, in general, help finalize the manuscript. Access to the Harvard libraries is desirable but a willingness to use other research facilities in Cambridge and Boston should be sufficient
Prof.
Anne McCants, E51-293,
x8-6669, amccants@mit.edu- Employs
economic
and quantitative
approaches
to the study
of the European
past, has
embarked
on a large
project
to study
the material
lives and
daily routines
of residents
of Amsterdam
in the eighteenth
century.
UROP students
have the
option of
helping
her in any
of a number
of areas:
the reconstruction
of family
networks
via marriage,
birth, and
death records;
debts and
debt networks;
people's
possessions
and their
placement
in domestic
settings;
and wealth
inequality
in the urban
context
of the Dutch
capital.
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- Prof.
Peter
C. Perdue, E51-291,
x3-3064, pcperdue@mit.edu,
- Specializes
in Chinese
history
from the
seventeenth
century
to the present.
UROP assistants
have helped
Prof. Perdue
with the
preparation
of materials
for the
web, and
they have
also aided
with translations
of Chinese
literature
from the
past four
hundred
years. Prof.
Perdue's
other research
interests
relate to
China's
frontiers,
its national
minorities,
and its
environmental
history.
Prof.
Jeff Ravel, E51-179, x3-4451, ravel@mit.edu- 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 Comédie-Française theater troupe in Paris from 1680 to 1800, in conjunction with MIT's HyperStudio.
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- Prof.
Harriet
Ritvo,
E51-284,
x3-6960, hnritvo@mit.edu
- Specializes in British history, environmental history, and the history of human-animal relations. UROP involves assisting with the research for a book about a Victorian environmental conflict (the furor caused when a remote scenic lake was dammed to provide a reservoir for a large industrial city).
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- Prof.
Elizabeth
Wood, E51-282,
x3-3255, elizwood@mit.edu
- Author of two books on politics and culture in the 1920s in the Soviet Union, Professor Wood 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.
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