# Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program (SHARP) #### calendar\_today Date and Time **February 8, 2026** All day "The [Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program (SHARP)](https://uraf.harvard.edu/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: and questions can be directed to . I’d like to share the list of proposed projects with keywords with you directly. Full descriptions are posted here: [uraf.harvard.edu/sharp#projects](https://uraf.harvard.edu/sharp#projects). **Please help me spread the word about these amazing research opportunities by sharing this message with students who may be interested.** I appreciate your help! - **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" See also:- [ Undergraduate ](/academics/undergraduate) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/node/1617766/event-feed.ics) Copy link link