INQUIRY: A Journal of Undergraduate Research Volume XV, 2011 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 Susan and Robert Grossman Research Wilfred L. and Ruth S. F. Peltz Research Harold Akselrad Research Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship Angelica Foundation Research Scholarship Eileen Guggenheim Research Scholarship Sidney Probst Research Scholarship Samuel E. Q. Ashley Research Scholarship Russell and Diana Hawkins Research Pudding Hill Research Scholarship Giuseppe Astorina Research Scholarship Scholarship Marie and Anthony Rao Research Count Lorenzo Attolico di Adelfia Hirschfeld Family Research Scholarship Scholarship Research Scholarship Heights Alumni Association Research Lydia R. Reeve Research Scholarship William B. Baer Research Scholarship Scholarship Joseph A. Rice Research Scholarship Bailey Family Research Scholarship Holten Family Research Scholarship Richard Robins Entrepreneurial Research Dr. Charles Barbiere Research Scholarship Joseph Jerome Research Scholarship Scholarship Mary Rudie Barneby Research Scholarship Thomas Kane Research Scholarship in Daniel A. and Amy L. Rock Research Joel and Shari Beckman Research English Scholarship Scholarship June Schlesinger Katz International Peggy and Bernard Sakin Research Frances and Benjamin Benenson Research Research Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship Dr. Evan and Brooke Kaye Research Salant Family Research Initiative in Pre- Peter Bergmann Research Scholarship Scholarship Health Studies Herman Berkman Undergraduate Research Jurate Kazikas Research Scholarship Ravi and Nalni Saligram Research Scholarship James Koch Research Scholarship Scholarship Steffi Berne Research Scholarship Myron Kove Research Scholarship Schachter Family Research Scholarship Max Bronner Research Scholarship Kringstein Family Research Scholarship Julie C. Schiefflin Research Scholarship Roger and Beth Carlton Research Joan Kupersmith Larkin Research Robert Selander Research Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship James A. 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Suttles Research Scholarship Nicholas and Andrea Ferrara Research George Maker Research Scholarship Swartz Family Research Scholarship Scholarship Rose and Barry McInerney Research Daniel A. Swick Research Scholarship John G. Fleming Research Scholarship Scholarship Varet Family Research Scholarship Robert A. Fowkes Research Scholarship William J. McKeon Research Scholarship Shirley Schmones Wallach Research Sylvia Engel Friedman Research Dr. Aston McLaughlin Research Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship Washington Square College Class of ’42 Samuel and Lilyan Frome Research Nicole and Joseph Meyer Research Research Scholarship in Humanities Scholarship Scholarship Herman J. Wechsler Research Scholarship Arthur Frommer Research Scholarship for Kurt M. Mislow Research Encouragement in Fine Arts Travel and Global Studies Scholarship Howard M. Weisberg Family Research Hugh and Geraldine Fryer Research Mortimer J. Natkins Memorial Research Scholarship Scholarship in Classics Scholarship William F. Weld Research Scholarship in Dr. Molly S. Geller Research Scholarship The New York Community Trust Murray Ancient Studies Daniel Getman and Leonard Marker Hidary Research Scholarship Horace Wendorf Research Scholarship Memorial Research Scholarship Arthur Noulas Research Scholarship Ellie and David Werber Research Joseph Gilbride Research Scholarship S. Okamura Research Scholarship Scholarship in Social Science Jeffrey Gould Research Scholarship in Ariel and Alaleh Ostad Research Arthur L. Wolf Research Scholarship American Politics Scholarship Marion Cohen Griffel Research Drs. Mayank and Amita Patel Research Scholarship Scholarship Anonymous Donors Sidney and Judith Kranes Charitable Trust Beta Chapter of New York, Phi Beta Kappa INQUIRY • VOLUME 15, 2011 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION G. Gabrielle Starr, Research as Educational Paradigm...............................................................................11 FACULTY PERSPECTIVE Bryan Waterman, “BURN THIS”: Adventures and Accidents in the Archives............................................12 HUMANITIES Lily Allen, Goya’s Children*.................................................................................................................................15 Linden Bairey, Caught in California: Phonetic Conditioning of the Low Back Vowel in California English*........15 Brittany Barnard, Imagining Latin America: The Visual Culture of Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy*.......................16 Alice Blumenfeld, Rocío Molina and Israel Galván: Redefining Flamenco Dance without Gender Distinctions*......16 Arun Bodapati, Unfinished Wars: The Continuing Relevance of Depictions of War in the Iliad and Mahabharata......16 Ruth Brillman, Subject and Imperative Agreement in Masarak*........................................................17 Kristen Brooks, Redefining Agustín Ibarrola: Three Studies in Wood*..................................................................17 Simona Caplan, The Transmission of Tales: The Influence of Tablet XII of theGilgamesh Epic on Ramayana Folklore*......................................................................................................................17 Jenna Dodds, Encountering the Urban Sublime in New York City*.................................................17 Lauren Drew, Hearing Voices: A Study of Ovid’s Heroides versus Letters of Women in Greco-Roman Egypt........18 Rachel Dudley, Putting un servidor to Work: A Window into the Nature of Verbal Agreement in Spanish through Imposter Constructions.....................................................................................................................18 Abigail Dunn, “Joy: I ate it.”: Solomon’s “Song of Songs” in James Joyce’s Ulysses.................................................18 Matthew Foster, Agnolo Bronzino’s Portraits: Reverence, Rivalry and the Paragone*................................................19 Lily Frusciante, “Nuestra voz tiene canto”: The History, Transformation, and Action of Ecuador’s Indigenous Movement*..................................................................................................................................19 Jennifer Furman, The Jewish Agricultural Impulse: The Case of the Argentine Colonies.................................19 Sam Gold, “If I’d a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn’t a tackled it”: The Problematic Voice of Huckleberry Finn*.............................................................................................................................19 Eve Goldminz, “The Unaided Effort”: The Possibility of Child-Authored Fiction*................................................20 Hilary Goodfriend, La Lucha Continúa: Women in the Salvadoran Social Movement*......................................20 Aaron Henson, The Problem of International Political Obligation and the Prospects for an International Natural Duty Theory*.................................................................................................................................20 Sabrina Janesick, Heroes and Helplessness: Questions of Free Will in the Iliad*.....................................21 Holly Jones, The Conservation Ideology of Bernhard Grzimek: Origins and Implications*.........................................21 Josh Katz, The Israeli Stalags of the 1960s: Mis-Representing the Holocaust*........................................21 Lindsay Kelley, Language and Identity for Second Generation Caribbean-American New Yorkers*..........................22 Hahkyung D. Kim, Korean Immigrants’ Place in the Discourse of Mestizaje: A History of Race-Class Dynamics and Asian Immigration in Yucatán, Mexico*.....................................................................................22 Kelsey Kline, Extending the Narrative: Era Bell Thompson and Alternative Forms of Black Journalism*....................22 Jacob Krell, Georges Canguilhem, the Pedagogy of Technique, and the 1968 Agrégation*†.........................................22 Karen M. Kuhn, Portraits of the White Uniform: Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols in a Catalan Sports-Comedy Series*..................................................................................................................................23 Isabel Lane, Useless Fossil: Translation of Venedikt Erofeev’s Notebooks.................................................................23