In 2021, 40Â students from different departments and programs received Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Research Internship Awards.
ARIA Summer Projects
Anthropology
“Ashura Online: Poetry, Technology and Ritual in Iran”
Ashkaan Kashani
Prof Setrag Manoukian, Anthropology
“An Historical Anthropology of Medieval South Indian Socio-Politics: Archaeology and Epigraphy in Early and Middle Medieval”
Audrey Gray
Prof. Peter Johansen, Anthropology
“Conservation and Society in East Africa”
Eliana Miskey
Prof. John Galaty, Anthropology
“Territories of Life”
Phenthok Tenzin
Prof. Colin Scott, Anthropology
Art History
“Energy Media - The Politics of Solid-Phase Bitumen”
Hyeyoon Cho
Prof. Darin Barney, Art History & Communication Studies
“Artistic Expression and Material Conditions in Canadian Federal Prisons”
Ella Hough
Prof. William Straw, Art History & Communication Studies
“Locating AI”
Laine McCrory
Prof. Jonathan Sterne, Art History & Communication Studies
Communications
“Technologies of Social Change in the Student Press and Student Media Culture”
Kate Ellis
Prof. Carrie Rentschler, Communication Studies
Computer Science
“DynAppDis System Full Integration”
Ruoyu Wang
Prof. Bettina Kemme, Computer Science
Economics
“Understanding the Heterogeneity of Urban Transit Interventions: The Case of Bus Rapid Transit Systems”
Josephine Campbell
Prof. Nicolas Gendron-Carrier, Economics
 "Tackling COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Ontario: Does language matter?"
Olivia Yu
Prof. Laura Lasio, Economics
Electrical and Computer Engineering
"Understanding user perception of AI ethics - A case study of COVID-19 contact tracing system"
Anthony Dumais
Prof. AJung Moon, Electrical and Computer Engineering
English
“Race, Fiction, and Readers on the Internet: A Study of Goodreads.com”
Victor Wang
Prof. Richard So, English
“Mountains of the Mind”
Juliette Naeveke
Prof. Sandeep Banerjee, English
“FRQSC Research Team Epistemologies of Embodied Risk "A Study Guide to Alison Duke's Promise Me: HIV/ AIDS Media, Policing Black”
Shaquiera Hamilton
Prof. Alanna Thain, English
Geography
“New cities as geopolitical strategy”
Rebecca Stewart
Prof. Sarah Moser, Geography
History and Classical Studies
“Songs of Mourning in Roman Epitaphs and Law”
Robert Hinrichsen
Prof. Charles Gladhill, History and Classical Studies
“Religion, Ethnicity, and Immigration in Montreal 1907-1918”
Grace Farran
Prof. Tassos Anastassiadis, History and Classical Studies
“À travers le vortex”
Olivia Genest-Binding
Prof. Lynn Kozak, History and Classical Studies
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
“Between Past and Future: Hannah Arendt – Walter Benjamin – Theodor W. Adorno and the Ethics of Memory After Auschwitz”
Frank Li
Prof. Karin Bauer, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Linguistics
“Puzzles in the Syntax of Hierarchy Effects”
Jack Ryan
Prof. Jessica Coon, Linguistics
Mathematics and Statistics
“Rank-Based Hierarchical Clustering and its Applications in Dependence Modelling”
Sebastian Pacheco
Prof. Christian Genest, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Neurology and Neurosurgery
“Musician Advantages in Pitch Processing: A Basis in Brain Connectivity?”
Rubana Murshed
Prof. Robert Zatorre, Neurology and Neurosurgery
Philosophy
“Ideas of Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy”
Pratik Mahajan
Prof. Hasana Sharp, Philosophy
“Psychological Effects of the Flooding in Rigaud, QC”
Adele Gagnon
Prof. Ian Gold, Philosophy
Political Science
“Research on Covid-19, Partisanship and Democratic Backsliding”
Alexander Kelly
Prof. Dietlind Stolle, Political Science
“The Politics of Hybrid Global Governance Practices”
Celia Benhocine
Prof. Vincent Pouliot, Political Science
“The Development of the Concept of Ideology in the Early Frankfurt School (1922-1937)”
Helena Lang
Prof. William Roberts, Political Science
“Federalism, Natural Resources, and Territorial Political Conflicts”
Mathieu Lavault
Prof. Daniel Beland, ż´Ć¬ĘÓƵ Institute for the Study of Canada
"Pandemics, Conflict Actors, and Implications for Peace Operations"
Nathan Devereaux
Prof. Jennifer Welsh, Political Science
"A Different Partisan Voice: The Shifting Roles of Gender and Conservative Women in the Conservative Party of Canada "
Anna Mackay
Prof. Kelly Gordon, Political Science
"The Separation of Powers and the Crisis of Constitutional Democracy"
Noah Kidd
Prof. Jacob Levy, Political Science
Psychiatry
“Sociodemographic Moderators of Natural Disaster Exposure on the Psychological Distress of Pregnant Women"
Sophie Brunelle-Newman
Prof. Suzanne King, Psychiatry
Psychology
“Production of Idioms, Homonyms, and Cognate words in Bilingual Speakers"
Michelle Yang
Prof. Debra Titone, Psychology
“Eye Tracking Analyses Methods for Dyadic Interactions"
Miriam Cheety
Prof. Jelena Ristic, Psychology
“Trait Concepts Vary by Target Identity Because of Assumed Context"
Hannah Shiller
Prof. Eric Hehman, Psychology
Religious Studies
“Religious Symbols and Narratives in Japanese Pop Culture”
Ryan Brown
Prof. Mikael Bauer, Religious Studies
Social Work
“SHIFT: the Impact of COVID-19 on Peer Researchers Living with HIV”
Fern Lou Fernandez
Prof. Zack Marshall, Social Work
Sociology
“Fighting Over State or Nation: British and French Colonialism and the Type of Ethnic Warfare”
Emmanuelle Hebert
Prof. Matthew Lange, Sociology
Visual Arts Collection
"Primary Research for ż´Ć¬ĘÓƵ's Bicentennial: The Visual Arts Collection"
Sarah Kingston
Prof. Gwendolyn Owens, Visual Arts Collection
