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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Scholars Program
in the Arts and Humanities
Hope College
Holland, MI 49422-9000

  

Mellon Scholars'
Grants & Conference Presentations

Class of 2013

Athina Alvarez, Tessa Angell, Katie Callam, Madalyn Muncy, Daniel Owens

Class of 2014

Elizabeth Badovinac, Anthony Bednarz, Lauren Ezzo, Kayleigh Forlow, George Getschman, Kaitlyn Holmwood, Tessa Judge, Lauren Madison, Madalyn Northuis, Amanda Palomino, Hailey Perecki, Taylor Rebhan, Kara Robart, Chikara Saito, Sara Sanchez, Kevin Wonch

Class of 2013

Student NameYearConference Presentations
Athina Alvarez 2012 Women Surrealist Artist Archive
Tulips as Cultural Emblems in 17th-Century Netherlands
  • Holland Museum
  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research
Exploring Utopia through Graphic Novels in Les Cités Obcures by Schuiten and Peeters
  • Michigan Academy of Arts, Science, and Letters
    [Alma College]
  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research
2011 Leonardo da Vinci, Francis I, and the Struggle for International Prestige in 16th-Century France
Reading Between the Lines - A Practical Guide to Understanding the Book
  • DePree Art Gallery
    [Curated exhibit]
Tessa Angell 2012 Myth, the Occult, and Experimental Writing in the Works of Mexican and European Surrealist Women Artists (1930’s to 1960’s)
  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research
2011 María de Zayas y Sotomayor: A Transnational Protofeminist in Seventeenth-Century Spain
  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research
A Hope for Reconciliation: Building a Culturally Inclusive College Community
  • Mellon Summer Fellow
  • Summer Research Showcase
Katie Callam 2012

A Viola d'amore in the Sitting Room:
Clara Kathleen Rogers and Musical Life in Early Twentieth-Century Boston

  • Mellon Summer Fellow (2012)
The Compositional Process of Clara Schumann's Piano Trio in G Minor, op. 17
  • National Conference on Undergraduate Research
  • Posters on the Hill
  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research
  • Summer Research Showcase
  • Mellon Summer Fellow (2011)
2011 Ralph Vaughan Williams and the English Musical Renaissance: A London Symphony, “Who Wants the English Composer?”, and a New English Music
  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research
  • Summer Research Showcase
  • Mellon Summer Fellow
Madalyn Muncy 2012 The Holland Historian: Ruth Keppel and Holland, Michigan's Collective Historical Memory
  • Mellon Summer Fellow
  • Summer Research Showcase
2011 A Hope for Reconciliation: Building a Culturally Inclusive College Community
  • Mellon Summer Fellow
  • Summer Research Showcase
“Shakespeare’s Sister” – Victorian Women and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights Through the Lens of Elizabethan Drama
  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research
Daniel Owens 2012

Transitional Justice in Rwanda and South Africa: A Comparative Exploration of Processes of Reconciliation, National Narrative, and Implications for Peace-building in Post-conflict Societies

  • Mellon Summer Fellow
  • Summer Research Showcase
The Hybridization of Peacekeeping: the United Nations Mission to Liberia Revisited
  • 2012 Annual Meeting of the Academic Council of the United Nations System
  • 2012 National Conference on Undergraduate Research
  • 2012 Human Development Conference at University of Notre Dame
  • 2012 Hope College History Colloquium
  • 2012 Celebration of Undergraduate Research
American Foreign Policy During Periods of System War: Learning From Long-Term Trends in an Effort to Minimize the Prospects of U.S. Involvement (with Dr. Jack E. Holmes)
  • 2012 International Studies Association Annual Meeting
2011 Thabo Mbeki's African Renaissance: A Transformative Vision for African Development?
  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research
  • 2011 Hope College Arts and Humanities Colloquium
  • 2011 National Celebration for Undergraduate Research Week

Class of 2014

Student NameYearConference Presentations
Elizabeth Badovinac 2012 Virginia Woolf’s Exploration of Bipolar Disorder in To the Lighthouse
  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research
Anthony Bednarz 2012 To Cure the Criminal: The Practice of Institutionalization in Asylum and Penitentiary History
  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research
Lauren Ezzo 2012 Twins and Eugenics in the Holocaust
  • Celebration for Undergraduate Research
Kayleigh Forlow 2012 Reading, Writing, and Living the Revolution: Intertextual Conversation in Ginsberg’s “A Supermarket in California”
  • Celebration for Undergraduate Research
  • Arts and Humanities Colloquium
George Getschman 2012 Still America’s Pastime: The Longevity of Baseball in U.S. Culture
  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research
Kaitlyn Holmwood 2012 Dancing for Democracy: How Dance Influenced the Cultural Conversation of the Cold War
  • Celebration for Undergraduate Research
  • Arts and Humanities Colloquium
  • National Conference on Undergraduate Research
Tessa Judge 2012 A Revolution in American English: The Transformation of American Spoken Language from the 1940s to the 1970s
  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research
Lauren Madison 2012 History and Environmental Issues in the Lake Macatawa Watershed
  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research
  • Nyenhuis Summer Grant (2012)
Madalyn Northuis 2012From 'Savage' to 'Civilized' and Back Again: White-Cherokee-African Relations from 1790 to 1861
  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research
  • Nyenhuis Summer Grant (2012)
Amanda Palomino 2012Creativity in Community: Using the Inklings as a Model for Collaborative Groups Today
  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research
Hailey Perecki 2012 When Images and Words Collide: The Artist Book and Where the Wild Things Are
  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research
Taylor Rebhan 2012 Believing Versus Being and Living: The Correspondence Between Leo Tolstoy and Gandhi
  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research
Kara Robart 2012 The Yorkshire Moors in the Romantic Tradition: Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and J. M. W. Turner’s Frosty Morning
  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research
Chikara Saito 2012 Sunyata and Kenosis: Examining the Forms of Emptying in Buddhism and Christianity Through the State of Suffering
  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research

Does Liberalism Need Modernity?: A Hermeneutical Analysis of Early Modern Political Theology in Jean Bodin to Thomas Hobbes

  • Mellon Summer Fellow
Sara Sanchez 2012

“Teasing with the Fumes”: Succèss de Scandale and the Reception of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton

  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research
Kevin Wonch 2012

Returning to the Roots: Urban Farming and Environmentalism in Detroit

  • Celebration of
    Undergraduate Research
  • Nyenhuis Summer Grant (2012)