student presenting at the Undergraduate Research Symposium

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Humanities

In 2024 the Center for Undergraduate Research and Engagement (CURE) and Oregon Humanities Center (OHC) launched a new partnership to support undergraduate research and creative work in the humanities and arts. The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Humanities (SURF-Humanities) is open to students of any class standing.  Fellows conduct full-time summer research for 8 weeks minimum under the supervision of a UO faculty member, and participate in CURE summer co-curricular workshops on academic and career development topics, as well as an end-of-summer Works-in-Progress presentation gathering.  All SURF-Humanities fellows present at the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. This fellowship offers $5000 to each recipient and $1000 to their faculty research mentor.  Five fellowships were awarded in the inaugural year.  CURE and OHC performed specialized outreach and relationship-building with faculty in the humanities and arts to promote the fellowships and encouraged faculty to consider the opportunity for the fellowships to function as a research assistantship for students supporting faculty research as well as independent student projects.  The application due date is March 13, 2025.

More information and application guidelines.

2024 recipients:

Caitlin Lloyd, History of Art and Architecture, “Chinese Mythological Creatures in Qing Dynasty Embroidered Badges” with faculty mentor Chiara Gasparini, assistant professor of the History of Art and Architecture.

Jesse Murphy, English, “Patchwork Narratives: The Importance of Form on Reading Hypertext Literature in the Classroom and Beyond” with faculty mentor Mattie Burkert, associate professor of English and Digital Humanities.

Charlie Petrik, Geography, “Socioterritorial Movements From a Comparative Perspective” with faculty mentor David Meek, associate professor of Global Studies.

Micah Primack, Folklore and Public Culture and Psychology, “Exploring Musical Families: Cluster and Regression Analyses to Determine Associations between Musical Preferences, Depression, and Anxiety” with faculty mentor Zachary Wallmark, associate professor of Musicology and Music Cognition.

Danielle Richard, Cinema Studies and English, “Black Womanhood and Fungibility in Jordan Peele’s Us” with faculty mentor Faith Barter, assistant professor of English.