Humanities Center Chooses 17 Student Fellows for 2020-21

April 06, 2020

Submitted By: Nicholas Ealy

The Humanities Center is happy to announce that the following 17 students have been chosen as fellows for 2020-21. All will take the year-long honors seminar “Lights, Camera, Activism” with Mala Matacin, associate professor of psychology (A&S) and will receive, if eligible, a $500 scholarship:

1. Kayla Ballard (Mathematics Secondary Education, A&S)

2. Alexandros Cooke-Politikos (Physics, A&S)

3. Juli Dajci (Politics and Government, Psychology and Mathematics, A&S)

4. Cameron Diaz (Business Management, Barney)

5. Ally Evarts (Digital Media and Journalism, A&S)

6. Hayden Gaillard (Visual Communication Design, HAS)

7. Katherine Kozak (Visual Communication Design, HAS)

8. Kyrsten Lane (Painting, HAS)

9. Silvia Lopez (Psychology, A&S)

10. Kayla Newsome (Biology, A&S)

11. So Yoon Rhee (Voice Performance, Hartt)

12. Drew Saias (Communication, A&S)

13. Samuel Swap (Photography, HAS)

14. Hailey Winschel (Photography, HAS)

15. Brooke Winterlich (Psychology, A&S)

16. Chaz Young (Digital Media and Journalism, A&S)

17. Shelby Zorick (Biology, A&S)

Professor Matacin’s honors seminar will explore how photojournalists and documentary photographers have used photos to shed light on a variety of social problems and to bring about public awareness and change. The fall semester (HON 389) is a seminar-style class. The spring semester (HON 390) doubles as a public lecture series where Humanities Center Faculty Fellows from the University of Hartford and other experts in the field will speak.

The Humanities Center aims to provide greater visibility for the humanities at the University of Hartford and to furnish venues for interdisciplinary exchanges across the humanities and the arts, sciences, technology, media, music, psychology, film, philosophy, history, and literature. It was founded in 1984 in the College of Arts and Sciences through a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant. For more information, contact Nicholas Ealy, center director, at ealy@hartford.edu, or visit our webpage or Facebook page.