Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program (SHARP)

"The Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program (SHARP) is inviting applications from current Harvard first-years, sophomores, and juniors. Through SHARP, fellows conduct full-time research with Harvard affiliates while participating in a professional development curriculum and an engaged residential research community. The deadline for students to apply is Sunday, February 8 at 11:59pm ET (extended from Feb 1). Advising is available through the Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships: https://uraf.harvard.edu/advising and questions can be directed to undergradresearch@fas.harvard.edu. 

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• Caravaggio: Disturbing Naturalism and Double Entendre (with Peter J. Burgard) – Baroque art, naturalism, Italian language
• The Meaning & Modality (M&M) Linguistics Lab (with Kathryn Davidson) – linguistics, modality, language cognition
• Sacred Geographies: An Audio Walk of Harvard’s Lived Religion (with Getzel Davis) – religion at Harvard/in Cambridge, religious pluralism, ethnography, public history
• Works in Progress Podcast – ArtLab (with Bree Edwards and Kat Nakaji) – contemporary art, arts-based research, interdisciplinary practice, podcasts
• Propose Your Own Houghton Library Project (with Kristine Greive and Blake Spitz) – archival research, special collections, creative works, student-initiated investigation
• Queer Archives Curatorial Fellows (with Lauren Kaminsky and Jenny Gotwals) – queer history, archival research, exhibition design, gender and sexuality studies, public humanities
• Retrieving the Past to Imagine the Future: A Historical Mapping of Arts & Humanities at Harvard (with Sean Kelly and Lauren Kaminsky) – institutional history, arts and humanities in academia, archival research, intellectual history, higher education
• Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Summer Scholar (with Hannah Marcus and Joshua Gorman) – history of science, scientific instruments, museum curation, public engagement
• Profs and Politics: To Govern Is to Educate (with Doris Sommer) – Latin America,  politics, citizenship, education, Spanish language
• Latin Meets the Last Kingdom: An Epic Wiki for The Poem of Walter (with Jan Ziolkowski and William Barthelmy) – medieval Latin literature, digital humanities, translation, classical reception, online pedagogy
• Contemporary Methods and Tools for Digital Humanities (with Tracy Stuber and Rashmi Singal) – research methods, tool experimentation, student-initiated investigation, AI
• Spatially Visualizing Papal Correspondence: A Geodatabase of Communications to and from the Most Important Pope of the Late Roman Empire (with Michael McCormick) – Mapping Past Societies (MAPS), Pope Gregory the Great, geographic information systems (GIS), data management
• SHARP Independent Research Fellowship (with any Harvard affiliate) – research focus determined by student, student must find their own Harvard-affiliated mentor"