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Undergraduate
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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.
Eighteenth-Century
Dutch Material Culture
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Professor
Anne McCants,
E51-293, x 8-6669, who 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.
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, E51-179, 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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Nineteenth-Century
British Environmental History
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Professor
Harriet Ritvo, E51-284 xt 3-6960,
specializes in British history, environmental history, and the history of human-animal relations.
Email:
ritvo@mit.edu |
Russian
and Soviet History
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Professor
Elizabeth Wood,
author of two books on poltics nad 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 reseach 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 |
Citizenship
in Twentieth-Century America
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Professor Christopher Capozzola specializes in the political and legal history of the United States in the twentieth century. His current research focuses on the U.S. military in the Philippines; in the coming year research will focus on U.S.-Asian relations in the Cold War era. Another UROP project for 2009-10 looks at civilian workers and diplomats in Afghanistan and Iraq, and is based on a newly opened collection of oral history interviews. No specialized knowledge or languages are needed; almost all research can be done at home or at MIT libraries. Students interested in a UROP for pay must secure UROP Direct Funding.
Email:
capozzol@mit.edu |
Science
and Technology in American History
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Professor
Pauline
Maier, E51-279, xt 3-2646. Science and technology in American history from the 17th century to 1801. Ratification of the Federal Constitution.
Email:
pmaier@mit.edu |
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