New York University INQUIRY College of Arts and Science A Journal of Undergraduate Research Volume XXIII, 2019 Humanities Social Sciences Natural Sciences Student Research Abstracts INQUIRY: A Journal of Undergraduate Research Volume XXIII, 2019 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. 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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 ..................................................................................................... 15 FACULTY PERSPECTIVE Professor Shanker Satyanath, Researching Conflict ............................................................................................................... 16 HUMANITIES Bayan Abubakr, Memory, Loss and Nubian Displacement: Contesting Constructions of the Aswan High Dam*................ 19 Alyssa Ahn, The Hunter and the Prey: Precarity of the Worker’s Body in Latin America* ................................................... 19 Akshara Anirjita, Belonging and Un-Belonging: Looking at the Partition of India through the Lens of Gender .................. 20 Natalie Behrends, Comrade Foreigner: Immigrants at the 1910 Congress of the Socialist Party of America†* .................... 20 Daria Berman, House Arrest: Women in the Spanish Inquisition* ......................................................................................... 20 Karishma Bhagani, Decolonizing the Theatre: The Politics of Performance in Idi Amin’s Uganda (1971–1979)* .............. 20 Elise Bortz, Catherine Korren, Ha-Young Kwon, Richard Seeno, Taylor Upchurch, Dates: Sweet Fruit, Sticky History ......................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Kelia Brooks, Indigenous Bodies: Museo de La Plata and Narratives of Argentine National Identity Formation* .............. 22 Colby Browning-Doorn, Hiding, Rambling, Writing: The Psychic Role of the Secret in L’Écriture Féminine* .................. 22 Cheyne Campbell, The Design of Dining Out: An Exploration of Adaptive Reuse in Restaurant Design in London*......... 22 Korey Caron, Breaking the Mold: Augusto Boal and the Reframing of Theatrical Rehearsal Processes* ............................ 21 Danny Carpentier Balough, Cultural Capitulation: Trans-Western Identity in the United States Embassies in London and the Implications for Political Architecture in the West* .................................................................................................. 22 Gabriella Argueta-Cevallos, The Salvadoran Civil War Then and Now: Child Soldiers and Children of War* .................... 22 Tony Cui, Salvator Rosa’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them* ................................................................................. 23 Yanqiu Deng, Holistic Consequentialism: Reuniting Animal Ethics and Environmental Ethics* ......................................... 23 Tess Derby, Moi-même: Investigating the Life of Hélѐne Cuenat and the Memory of the Escape from Petite Roquette* ..................................................................................................................................................................... 23 Michelle Dicke, Misconceptions of “Denial” and “Exploitation:” Operation Matchbox and Operation Paperclip, 1945–1963*............................................................................................................................................................................. 24 Grace Easterly, From Imperial Port City to Logistics Hub: The Production of Strategic Space in Djibouti ........................ 24 Samantha Fritsch, Address, Action and Performance: Second-Person Multiplicity in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen* .............. 24 Casilda García López, “Canciones Para Después de una Transición” or “Songs for After a Political Transition”* ........... 25 Vienna Giacchè, Dancing into the Cuban Revolution and Beyond* ...................................................................................... 25 Ladan Jaballas, Re-Imaging Cleveland, Ohio: A Look at City Plans to Revitalize the Downtown Area* ............................. 25 Owen Klinkon, Color and Construction: Le Corbusier and the Decorative Arts of the French Avant-Garde* ...................... 25 Timothy Koh, Milton’s Prelapsarian Meals: The Problem of Excess and Waste