In March, Brendan O’Connell (’25 Historic Preservation) delivered a presentation titled “Data Analysis and Geocoding” with Dr. Moon and Dr. Hanna at the Virginia Forum, which was held at Sweet Briar College in Amherst, VA. This presentation was the result of their work together on RestrictedVA, a collaborative student project that researches and maps the […]
Zoey Young (’24), a double major in English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, recently attended the National Women’s Studies Association annual conference in Detroit, Michigan and presented a research poster titled “Trans Identity and Theory in Contemporary American Poetry.” This research came from a capstone thesis, directed by Professor of English, Dr. Mara Scanlon. […]
Anthropology is the study of human cultures, and there is no better way to study them than with firsthand experience. That is what UMW senior Ariana Adamek (’25) did in the summer of 2024 with the support of a Beyond the Classroom scholarship. A double major in anthropology and theatre, Ariana spent a month in […]
Only three years after establishing our College of Arts and Sciences Beyond the Classroom Endowment, we have already begun to make a big impact in the student experience at Mary Washington. This past spring and summer ten CAS students with majors in diverse fields from Historic Preservation to Computer Science put their classroom learning into […]
Columns – UMW Humanities and Social Sciences Journal is a student-led undergraduate research journal that publishes student research in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Mary Washington. It was formed in the Fall of 2022 by Kate Gruber (Anthropology ’23), Erin Mahoney (Anthropology ’23), Liam Kiely (International Affairs and Geography ’23), and […]
