New York University College of Arts and Science Student Research A JOURNAL OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH VOLUME XIX, 2015 Abstracts INQUIRYin Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences INQUIRY: A Journal of Undergraduate Research Volume XIX, 2015 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. 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Fleming Research Scholarship Scholarship Herman J. Wechsler Research Scholarship in Robert A. Fowkes Research Scholarship Miller Family Research Scholarship Fine Arts Sylvia Engel Friedman Research Scholarship Kurt M. Mislow Research Encouragement Howard M. Weisberg Family Research Samuel and Lilyan Frome Research Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship Arthur Frommer Research Scholarship for Mortimer J. Natkins Memorial Research William F. Weld Research Scholarship in Travel and Global Studies Scholarship Ancient Studies Hugh and Geraldine Fryer Research The New York Community Trust Murray Horace Wendorf Research Scholarship Scholarship in Classics Hidary Research Scholarship Ellie and David Werber Research Scholarship Dr. Molly S. Geller Research Scholarship Arthur Noulas Research Scholarship in Social Science Daniel Getman and Leonard Marker Memorial S. Okamura Research Scholarship Arthur L. Wolf Research Scholarship Research Scholarship Ariel and Alaleh Ostad Research Scholarship Anonymous Donors Sidney and Judith Kranes Charitable Trust Beta Chapter of New York, Phi Beta Kappa INQUIRY • VOLUME 19, 2015 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION G. Gabrielle Starr, Research as Educational Paradigm..........................................................................................................13 FACULTY PERSPECTIVE Patrick Deer, Bridging Gaps and Discovering Questions: Research across the Disciplines......................................................14 HUMANITIES Catherine Addington, Dios y los Diez: Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi and the Making of Icons in Contemporary Argentina*...........17 Mia Appelbaum, A Historiography of the Relationship between the Third Reich and Zionists.........................................................17 Erik Battista, An Exploration of Bike-Oriented Development Patterns in Scandinavia*...........................................................18 Melissa Bazydlo, “El Niño del Nuevo Estado:” How the Franco Regime Used Textbooks to Influence Spanish Youth*...................18 Kristina Bogos, “No One Cares About Us:” Syrian Refugees and the Greek-EU Immigration System*................................................18 Monica Bulger, “Let Them Say, ‘He Is A Better Man Than His Father!’” An Examination of Paradigmatic Behavior in Portrayals of Heroic Fathers and Sons in Ancient Greek Art and Literature*..............................................................................................18 Selena Chen, “Freedom:” The Abrams Struggle*...............................................................................................................................19 Cara Cifferelli, “A King of Infinite Space:” The Textual and Spatial Management of Henry VIII’s Legacy*.....................................19 Clancy Cornell, Excavating the Photo-Archive: Exploring Memory and Healing through the Creation of Radical Archives.........19 Philip Dalgarno, Inventing the Petite Patrie: The Félibrige as a Nationalist Project†*.................................................................19 Anthony Donadia, Something in the Forest: A Scientific and Social History of Ebola Virus Disease, 1976–2015*.................................20 Luka Douridas, Arts, Spirituality and Judson’s Avant-Garde........................................................................................................20 Laura Edelman, Edward Burtynsky: Photographing the New Landscape*.................................................................................20 Catalina Escalona, Figuring Post-War Trauma: The Return to Representation in German Neo-Expressionism...............................21 Christopher Feldsine, Some Versions of Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century†*......................................................................21 Alice Fischetti, The Gaze of Narcissus: Ovidian Echoes in the Orlando Furioso*............................................................21 Isabelle Foss, Philanthropy: A Staple Piece of British Culture in the Nineteenth Century*........................................................22 Ashley Frenkel, Garudas and Nagas: An Eastern Approach to the Monstrous...........................................................................22 Nora Gorman, Manuscript Collecting as Statecraft in the Courts of King Charles V of France and Jean, Duke of Berry, 1364–1416.......22 Marian (Nate) Grau, Opening Hearts and Aligning Minds: Counterinsurgency in Algeria and Iraq*...........................................22 Alex Greenberger, One Big Soul: The Unity of Bill Viola’s Going Forth by Day*..........................................................................23 Jesslyn Guntur, Glocalizing Expressway Conversions: From Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to Public Urban Tech-Park “Midline”..............................................................................................................................................................23 Alexandra Heffern, A Call to Arms: John Oliver’s Democratic Engagement with His Audience.........................................23 Emma Hickey, Shaping Citizens’ Values in Augustus’ Rome and Post-9/11 America: Scenes from Virgil’s Aeneid