THE SCHOLAR Amelia DeFrancis ’16 THE PROJECT Italian American Female Anarchists: The Untold Story of a Radical Past Amelia recounted the history of Italian American female anarchists and the appeal of radical politics at the end of the 19th century and early 20th. She further explored the decline of the movement and its fall into obscurity, as subsequent generations integrated into society and women chose to hide their radical pasts. HIGHLIGHT: “The woman who wrote my primary source book is a professor at Smith College, so I got to talk to her and have a personal one-on-one with her, and she was amazing.”
THE SCHOLAR Alex Fay ’16 THE PROJECT Bell’s Inequality: Proving the “Spooky Action at a Distance” Alex examined the significance of Bell’s Inequality, a quantum physics theorem proposed in 1964 by Irish physicist John Bell. Bell’s work calls into question some of Einstein’s ideas by proposing that at times, separate but related particles can interact with each other. Mr. Fay argued that it “has been a profound development in modern physics with far-reaching implications.”
THE SCHOLAR Maitri Dalal ’16 THE PROJECT Abortion in Classical Literature
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Maitri analyzed a number of works of classical literature that deal with the topic of abortion, including writings by the Roman poet Ovid and Greek philosophers Aristotle, Plato, and Hippocrates. Comparing the ancient texts to today’s debate, she found that many of the same arguments are still being put forth, suggesting that similar gender and power dynamics continue to influence the discussion.