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Amanda Bennett '06 (Enfield, Conn.) believes her Emerson scholarship will allow her to acquire interdisciplinary research skills. She has spent the last two summers conducting research for Hamilton's Chemistry Department. However, this summer her research will go in an entirely different direction.

As an Emerson scholar, Bennett will be working with Hamilton College English Professor Jodi Schorb on a project titled "Indian Captives/Remarkable Conversions: Reading the Pequot Execution Narrative." Bennet has taken two classes on the subject at Hamilton with Professor Schorb: Early American Literature and American Captivities. The project will allow Bennett and Schorb to expand her knowledge on  the subject by researching and reading a variety of acadmic books, journals, and memoir.

Summer Research 2004

She will also travel to the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Mass., and to the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center in Manhantucket, Conn., as part of the project. After completing the necessary research, Bennett plans to write a critical article on early Native American execution narratives with Schorb. Their article, tentatively titled "Native American Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology," will be featured in an upcoming academic anthology.

Created in 1997, the Emerson Foundation Grant program was designed to provide students with significant opportunities to work collaboratively with faculty members, researching an area of interest. The recipients, covering a range of topics, will explore fieldwork, laboratory and library research, and the development of teaching materials. The projects will be initiated this summer, and the students will make public presentations of their research throughout the 2004-2005 academic year.

-- by Emily Lemanczyk '05

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