The Trinity Perspective | Fall 2016

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Trinity EAST program awards 11 scholarships for summer study

Read more about Medrano’s summer undergraduate research on the Trinity Experiential Learning Blog gotu.us/UndergradResearch

Megan Medrano ’17 Megan Medrano’s research in the Department of

underrepresented in scholarship. Unlike traditional

Modern Languages and Literatures this summer seems

Hollywood films that were created with huge budgets and

like a perfect match. A McNair Program scholar, a

big celebrity names, the independent films that Medrano is

communication major, and a bilingual student,

analyzing have very little literature written about them.

Medrano ’17 was thrilled when three Spanish professors

Despite the challenges that Medrano has faced, her

reached out to her about writing three chapters for

research has been incredibly rewarding. She claims that

their newly imagined book, Cinelatinidades: Gender,

her favorite part of her research is getting to watch and

Sexuality, and Cinema in the Americas.

pull clips from the three movies she is analyzing:

The project is giving the professors, Medrano, and

La Mission, Pelo Malo, and Mosquita y Mari. By the end

her classmates Diana Chavarria ’18, and Cindi Marin ’18,

of the summer, Medrano expects to finalize the drafts

the opportunity to analyze 20 films directed by Latin

of the chapters analyzing female perspective and queer

American and Latina filmmakers, who are frequently

identity in independent films.

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Cameron Piper ’17

Preserving History Art history major granted Jo Ann Wigodsky Architectural Travel Fellowship

By Carlos Anchondo ’14

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Photos By Cameron Piper ’17

At five years old, Cameron Piper ’17 already commanded a love for architecture. Visiting his grandmother in New Orleans, the pair would ride the streetcars together, Piper’s face pressed against the glass windows as the buildings streamed by. New Orleans, where Piper’s family has roots dating back to the 1700s, fostered his love for architecture and taught him his first lessons about the relationship between a physical structure and a city’s sense of place.

As an art history major, Piper cares deeply about the historic preservation of buildings and how those structures act as a connection to the past. Piper spent his junior year abroad studying art, architecture, and French in Tours, a university town approximately 150 miles southwest of Paris. This summer he returned to Europe as the first recipient of the Jo Ann Wigodsky Architectural Travel Fellowship.

Facilitated by the Department of Art and Art History, the fellowship provides grant money for a summer study of architecture. Starting in Helsinki, Piper will embark on a trip to study examples of early 20th century architecture in Scandinavia and Germanic Europe.

“I want to see how these modernist buildings are being preserved, why they are being preserved, and what the call to preserve them looked like,” Piper says. “Traveling across Europe, I will be able to compare how the same architectural trends, in the same period, look different in Finland than they do in Austria than in the Czech Republic.”

Originally from Banner Elk, N.C., Piper says he was inspired to apply for the fellowship after taking art history professor Kathryn O’Rourke’s course on 20th century architecture. Among other destinations, he will visit Finland’s Villa Mairea and Paimio Sanatorium, Sweden’s Skogskyrkogården cemetery, and Germany’s Neue National Gallery and Bauhaus art school.

Piper is particularly excited to see the Fagus Shoe Factory in Alfeld, Germany, a building he says is “one of the most beautiful in the world and way ahead of its time.”

At each monument or building Piper will take a photograph, which will later be

Studying abroad for an entire year helped push me into adulthood and forced me to be comfortable on my own even when things did not go exactly as planned. compiled into an exhibition at Trinity. As he travels, Piper hopes to capture a sense of each city’s energy and the nuanced evolution of modernist architecture. He says that often societies are tempted to tear down architecture that is no longer in style, a mistake he says cannot be remedied by trying to reconstruct the built environment every generation. To be considered for the fellowship, Piper submitted a bibliography of texts relevant to the places he will visit, a statement of support from a Trinity faculty member, a budget and proposed itinerary, a statement of intent, and a transcript.

Piper completed the entire application while living in Tours, working diligently to become fluent in French.

“The ability to be bilingual spoke very strongly

to me,” Piper says. “Studying abroad for an entire year helped push me into adulthood and forced me to be comfortable on my own even when things did not go exactly as planned.”

As Piper drafted the application, he purposefully chose to focus his fellowship itinerary outside of France. He wants to widen his perspective on European early modernism before the advent of World War II. In the fall, Piper will begin work on an honors thesis that examines housing on the outskirts of Paris and of New Orleans during the 1950s. Despite having completely different styles and contexts, he plans to use the two case studies to debunk the misconception that poor architectural form can cause various social problems.

The Jo Ann Wigodsky Architectural Travel

Fellowship honors the legacy of Jo Ann Wigodsky P’75, an artist whose love of travel and architecture largely influenced the career of her son Dan Wigodsky. Dan established his architecture firm, Wigodsky & Associates Architects, in 2001. His practice is primarily focused on bringing creativity and experience to the design of buildings.

Piper is the inaugural recipient of the fellowship and has previously taken Trinity courses about medieval art and architecture, green urbanism, the urban experience, and 18th century art and architecture. He plans to make historic preservation his life’s work and vows to protect the world’s treasures through every building, neighborhood, and culture he can discover.

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Head EAST Trinity EAST program awards 11 scholarships for summer study

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What we want is to get students to China who would not necessarily go, because once you get a student abroad it will change their life forever.

By Carlos Anchondo ’14

The Year of the Monkey has been extremely fortuitous for the East Asian Studies at Trinity (EAST) program. This February, EAST conferred 11 scholarships and grants to students participating in one of Trinity’s summer programs in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Zhuhai, China. The scholarships come as EAST embarks on its latest faculty-led study abroad course—the Ecological Civilization in China (EcoCiv) program.

EcoCiv will be held at United International College (UIC) in Zhuhai, located in the Pearl River Delta region of China. Researching environmental issues, students from Trinity, Southwestern University, and UIC will study together in class and will also participate conjointly in fieldwork.

Six students from UIC will attend the EcoCiv program through a grant from the J.K. Lee Family Foundation. Those students will receive Trinity course credit that will transfer to their institution. The funds also enable Trinity students to pay for travel expenses to Zhuhai.

Some UIC students will travel to Trinity in July to conduct research in the Center for the Sciences and Innovation.

Stephen Field, the J.K. and Ingrid Lee Professor of Chinese, is a co-director of EAST

and travels to China each summer to oversee programming. He says the initial EcoCiv grant will help bring about a true exchange where students from each country will study at the other’s campus. “This grant is an investment in our innovative educational methodology,” Field says. “This one piece of money has already helped so many students.”

Existing programs, like the China in the City Program and the Shanghai Program, send students to Lingnan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University respectively, two of Trinity’s Chinese sister schools. The Shanghai Program, entering its fifth year, enrolls students in a two-week course on contemporary China before they begin one-month internships with businesses in Shanghai. To help defray the expenses of attending, three Shanghai Program students will receive Field Fellowships.

During the China in the City program, students participate in service learning workshops at Lingnan, the only public liberal arts college in Hong Kong. This program, in its eighth year of operation, is funded by Trinity alumnus Donald Kurtti ’80.

The Trinity Chinese program in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, which originated in 1990, currently

employs four full time Ph.D. professors of Chinese. It offers the Bachelor of Arts in Chinese. EAST, an interdisciplinary program established in 2006, offers the Bachelor of Science in Chinese Studies. For many students in EAST, the opportunity to study abroad in Asia is a critical component of their education.

Yet, for some, financial reasons can make it prohibitive.

“What we want is to get students to China who would not necessarily go, because once you get a student abroad it will change their life forever,” Field says. “Some students know zero about China when they first go, but all students come back as experts.”

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Education Ambassadors

Four Trinity seniors to serve as Fulbright English teaching assistants

By Carlos Anchondo ’14

This year, four Trinity seniors earned the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Award. The recent graduates will spend one year teaching English language skills to students of various age groups. Emily Acker ’16 is placed in Tunja, Colombia, at the University of Boyacá; Sonam James ’16 in Zlín, Czech Republic; Laurel Meister ’16 in the Thuringia region of Germany; and Sarah Yaccino ’16 in Ecuador.

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Since the creation of the Fulbright Program in 1946, more than 360,000 individuals have served in the program. The ETA Award is one type of Fulbright grant and provides a native English speaker the opportunity to serve as a cultural ambassador for the United States. At Trinity, this is the first year more than two Fulbright scholars have been selected in one cycle.

“It is awesome that four of us were accepted into this prestigious program,” Acker says. “It shows that Trinity students are wellqualified for opportunities like the Fulbright program.

This really is the perfect post-grad job.”

Acker, an economics major from College Station, Texas, decided to apply for the program after studying abroad in Mendoza, Argentina, where she became particularly interested in health care policy and its intersection with education. Carrying those interests to Tunja, Acker says she is most excited to interact with Colombian university students and to meet other Fulbright scholars.

Southwest in Ecuador, Yaccino plans to use her Fulbright experience as preparation for a career as an English as a second language teacher. A Spanish and human communication double major from Helotes, Texas, Yaccino studied abroad in Quito as a junior. As one of the only American students in her classes, she initially felt intimidated when participating in group discussions with native Spanish speakers. Yaccino plans to use this experience in the future, imagining that this is how many immigrant students feel when they are first introduced to classrooms in the U.S.

“I have always been fascinated with Spanish and I want to work toward celebrating diversity,” Yaccino says. “We should support Spanish and English use in schools and think of kids as funds of knowledge.”

A chief component of the Fulbright ETA program is to design a service project that benefits the local community. Reflecting on the poverty she witnessed in Quito, Yaccino plans to create an education program for children who might not be able to pursue school full time.

In Thuringia, Meister is considering founding a music group at her school as her service project. Originally from Albuquerque, Meister is a clarinetist, an English major, and a German and music minor. She hopes to enter graduate school for English after living in Germany and believes that her Fulbright experience will deepen her understanding of the world and of different education models.

“For me, just applying was a confirmation of all of the work that I had done in college,” Meister says. “I’ll be working in the equivalent of a K through 12 school, so I’m excited about teaching and also becoming fluent in German.”

For James, moving to the Czech Republic is a thrilling opportunity to learn a completely new language. During her junior year James studied abroad in Barcelona and always heard about the beauty and history of the Czech Republic. When she learned about the Fulbright program via a friend, James knew she had to apply. She sees the experience as a test of her independence, as she will likely be one of a few English speakers in the small city of Zlín.

A political science major from Montgomery, Texas, James is eager to start a model United Nations club at her school so that students will have a chance to learn about countries outside the Czech Republic. James says that opportunities like study abroad made her Trinity education a “very global experience,” and inspired

Yo soy una erudita de Fulbright.

Jsem Fulbright učenec.

Ich bin ein FulbrightStipendiat.

I am a Fulbright scholar. her to become a Fulbright scholar. She plans to apply to law school after her year in Zlín to practice international law.

As these seniors transition from student to teacher, they do so with an institution that operates in more than 160 countries worldwide.

Moving from one elite network to another, they are not only ambassadors of the U.S., but of their alma mater as well.

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