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New York University INQUIRY College of Arts and Science A Journal of Undergraduate Research Volume XXIV, 2020 Humanities Social Sciences Natural Sciences Student Research Abstracts INQUIRY: A Journal of Undergraduate Research Volume XXIV, 2020 College of Arts and Science, New York University ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The College of Arts and Science wishes to thank the contributors to the Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund for their generosity in establishing the following scholarships to support undergraduate research projects: Ronald Abramson Research Scholarship Joseph Gilbride Research Scholarship Drs. Mayank and Amita Patel Research Harold Akselrad Research Scholarship Dr. Milton Goldstein, D.D.S Research Scholarship Angelica Foundation Research Scholarship Scholarship Wilfred L. and Ruth S. F. Peltz Research Samuel E. Q. Ashley Research Scholarship Jeffrey Gould Research Scholarship in Scholarship Giuseppe Astorina Research Scholarship American Politics Sidney Probst Research Scholarship Count Lorenzo Attolico di Adelfia Research Marion Cohen Griffel Research Scholarship Pudding Hill Research Scholarship Scholarship Susan and Robert Grossman Research Marie and Anthony Rao Research Scholarship William B. Baer Research Scholarship Scholarship Lydia R. Reeve Research Scholarship Bailey Family Research Scholarship Eileen Guggenheim Research Scholarship Joseph A. Rice Research Scholarship Dr. Charles Barbiere Research Scholarship Russell and Diana Hawkins Research Richard Robins Entrepreneurial Research Mary Rudie Barneby Research Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship Joel and Shari Beckman Research Hirschfeld Family Research Scholarship Daniel A. and Amy L. Rock Research Scholarship Heights Alumni Association Research Scholarship Frances and Benjamin Benenson Research Scholarship Peggy and Bernard Sakin Research Scholarship Holten Family Research Scholarship Scholarship Peter Bergmann Research Scholarship Joseph Jerome Research Scholarship Salant Family Research Initiative in Pre- Herman Berkman Undergraduate Research Thomas Kane Research Scholarship in Health Studies Scholarship English Ravi and Nalni Saligram Research Steffi Berne Research Scholarship June Schlesinger Katz International Research Scholarship Max Bronner Research Scholarship Scholarship Mary L. Santirocco Research Scholarship Roger and Beth Carlton Research Scholarship Dr. Evan and Brooke Kaye Research Schachter Family Research Scholarship Max and Cecil (Steuer) Chesin Research Scholarship Julie C. Schiefflin Research Scholarship Scholarship Jurate Kazikas Research Scholarship Robert Selander Research Scholarship Nathan and Sarah Chesin & Bernard and James Koch Research Scholarship James A. Shea Research Scholarship Mollie Steuer Research Scholarship Myron Kove Research Scholarship Sigal Family Research Scholarship Sorrell and Lorraine Chesin Research Kringstein Family Research Scholarship Seena and George Silbert Research Scholarship Joan Kupersmith Larkin Research Scholarship The Collaborate Dean’s Undergraduate Scholarship Larry and Klara Silverstein Research Research Scholarship Howard Levene (WSC ’41) Research Scholarship College of Arts and Science Parents Research Scholarship J. S. Sinclair Research Scholarship Scholarship Barnet and Phyllis Liberman Research Jack Sitt Research Scholarship Tory Dent Research Scholarship in Creative Scholarship Dr. Dorothy A. Starr Research Scholarship Writing Liebman Family Research Scholarship Drs. Aaron A. and Francine M. Stein Family Nathan Ende Research Scholarship John and Julia Lindsey Research Scholarship Research Scholarship Benjamin P. B. and Fannie L. G. Feldman Linn-Cohen Family Research Scholarship Joan C. Suttles Research Scholarship Research Scholarship Walter and Phyllis Loeb Research Swartz Family Research Scholarship Norman M. and Ann C. Feldman Research Scholarship Daniel A. Swick Research Scholarship Scholarship Philip Alfred Lotz Research Scholarship Varet Family Research Scholarship Sidney Feldshuh and Lillian Kaplan Feldshuh George Maker Research Scholarship Shirley Schmones Wallach Research Research Scholarship Rose and Barry McInerney Research Scholarship Nicholas and Andrea Ferrara Research Scholarship Washington Square College Class of ’42 Scholarship William J. McKeon Research Scholarship Research Scholarship in Humanities John G. Fleming Research Scholarship Dr. Aston McLaughlin Research Scholarship Herman J. Wechsler Research Scholarship in Robert A. Fowkes Research Scholarship Nicole and Joseph Meyer Research Fine Arts Sylvia Engel Friedman Research Scholarship Scholarship Howard M. Weisberg Family Research Samuel and Lilyan Frome Research Miller Family Research Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship Kurt M. Mislow Research Encouragement William F. Weld Research Scholarship in Arthur Frommer Research Scholarship for Scholarship Ancient Studies Travel and Global Studies Mortimer J. Natkins Memorial Research Horace Wendorf Research Scholarship Hugh and Geraldine Fryer Research Scholarship Ellie and David Werber Research Scholarship Scholarship in Classics The New York Community Trust Murray in Social Science Dr. Molly S. Geller Research Scholarship Hidary Research Scholarship Arthur L. Wolf Research Scholarship Daniel Getman and Leonard Marker Arthur Noulas Research Scholarship Memorial Research Scholarship S. Okamura Research Scholarship Ariel and Alaleh Ostad Research Scholarship Anonymous Donors Sidney and Judith Kranes Charitable Trust Beta Chapter of New York, Phi Beta Kappa CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Gene Andrew Jarrett, Research as Educational Paradigm ..................................................................................................... 13 HUMANITIES Talia Abrahams, Polyphony of Power: Voices of a Late Nineteenth-Century Kongo Crucifix* ............................................ 15 Milly Ames, Beasts, Battle, and Backgammon: A Study of Twelfth-Century Backgammon Pieces and Their Iconographic Significance in Medieval Europe* .................................................................................................................... 15 Jack Booth, Contracts and Nomads: Gilles Deleuze’s Politics of the State in May ‘68* ....................................................... 16 Wayne Chen, A Changing Landscape in New York’s Physical Retail: Coffee Edition* ........................................................ 16 Emily Conklin, Reclaiming the Red Hook Waterfront: An Analysis of the Urban Maritime Architectural Tradition in South Brooklyn*† ................................................................................................................................................................ 16 Emily Gibson, Art on the Street: What Happens at the Walls* .............................................................................................. 16 Lola Granger-Jourdan, Alexa Nicole Mamoulides, The Poetry of Julia Uceda: Five Decades of Love and Seclusion ......... 17 Danielle Hadjin, When Nonna Starts to Rap: An Exploration of Apulian Dialect in Modern Rap Music* ........................... 17 Tyler Ingram, Translation as Gesture: Le Petit Prince across Languages* ............................................................................ 17 Shivani Kamat, Masculinity, Morality, and Mobility in Harry Potter* .................................................................................. 18 Clare Kernie, “Eternal Passion! / Eternal Pain!”: Sex and Suffering in T. 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Eliot and Beyond* .......................................... 18 Devanshi Khetarpal, Smarginatura: The Language of Porosity in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels .............................. 18 Edward Kim, Analyzing the Absent Father in Japanese Manga and Anime* ........................................................................ 19 Anna Sujin Leckie, Looted Korean Art in the US: A Case Study of Legal and Cultural Repatriation* ................................ 19 Devin Lee, Portraits of Disappearance: Photography, Justice, and Memory in Argentina* ................................................... 19 Nico Lob, Eyes on Trash: An Investigation of the Relationship between the Built Environment and the Street through the Study of Litter* .................................................................................................................................................... 20 Olivia McCaughey, Hotbeds of Discord: Elizabeth Street Garden, Chelsea Green, and the Conflict between Open Space and Affordable Housing * ................................................................................................................................... 20 Noah Mullenix, Translation, Localization, and the Problem of “Japaneseness” in English-Language Releases of Anime (1990s–Present)* ..................................................................................................................................................... 20 David Evan Schulman, Law & Literature: Legal Fiction Set in the Civil Rights Era* .......................................................... 21 Ella Senglaub, Re-Defining the Eurocentric Narrative Surrounding the Italian Renaissance:Art and Exchange During the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries* .................................................................................................................... 21 Juliette Shoemaker, Not a Story to Pass On: Margaret Garner and the Ways Writers Tell Her Story throughout American History* .................................................................................................................................................................