This year’s Graduate Liberal Studies Student Showcase will be held on Thursday, May 9, 6:00 – 8:00 PM at the East Duke Parlors. Please view East Duke Parlors Location and Parking Information. Refreshments will be served.
The annual Student Showcase is funded by proceeds from a generous bequest to GLS from our alumna Lottie Applewhite (1924-2017; MALS ’97). Set every spring during graduation week, the Showcase offers an opportunity to highlight student work through both master’s projects and other research and educational activities funded with support from the program’s Applewhite Award grants.
Graduating Students
- Matthew Alexander, “William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury” [Jason Sudak, Cinematic Arts]
- Pete Crispell, “Scenes from Miss Tillie’s Porch” [Michelle Dove, English]
- Michael Crout, “Exploring Neural Correlates of Social Media Use: A Review of BOLD fMRI Studies Utilizing In-Scanner Social Media Exposure” [Edna Andrews, Slavic & Eurasian Studies]
- Shu Hu, “A Study on the Run Xue Emigration Phenomena” [Ralph Litzinger, Cultural Anthropology]
- Kerria Weaver, “The State of Local Newspaper Companies in North Carolina: Diminishing the Odds of Communities Becoming News Deserts” [Chrissy Murray, Duke’s The Chronicle]
Lottie Applewhite Award Recipients
- J. Kelly Davis, “The show’s still goin’ when you get in the van: The Free-form, Therapeutic Music of Sunburned Hand of the Man” [Presented at the 2023 Conference of the AGLSP (Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs).]
- “Hidden Histories” Initiative Organizing Team (Andrea Ryan, Lauren Ballejos, Kalei Porter, Kerria Weaver, Summer Bell, Shu Hu, and Samantha Post): Inspired by Dr. Dean Bruno’s GLS Seminar “Environmental History of the American South” and Dr. Anne Mitchell Whisnant’s summer public history Graduate Academy course on race and place in the U.S. South, this group of current students organized and led a visit for 12 GLS students and these two faculty members to the Outer Banks, exploring key sites related to North Carolina indigenous and African American history. They visited Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, the Elizabethan Gardens, Roanoke Island’s Island Farm, and Somerset Place State Historic Site.
