Researchers of Emory

Caroline Scheving is a senior who majoring in Art History. She was awarded a Spring 2019 Independent Grant which she used to conduct research on the culture of the early twentieth century and Frank Benson's  dolls  under Dr. Linda Merrill. Last fall, when I returned to Emory to begin my senior year, I realized that I was in a bit of a conundrum. I had come to the conclusion that I was no longer interested in the illustrations of  Robinson Crusoe , the topic I had originally chosen for my art history honors thesis. I needed to find a new subject as quickly as possible, and this time I knew I needed to choose a topic that interested me on a more personal level. After agonizing over the future of my thesis for several days, I finally recalled a conversation I had during my sophomore year with my advisor Dr. Linda Merrill. She had mentioned Frank Weston Benson’s (1862-1951) collection of paper dolls, called the Colton Family, that the  High Museum of Art had acqu...

This month's URP featured researcher is Cana McGhee, an undergraduate student whose research in  Symbolist poetry and French art songs is commendable. You may have seen Cana McGhee (19C) working in the stacks of Woodruff Library, singing in Concert Choir, or uncovering primary sources at the Contemporary Art Archives of the Royal Museum of Belgian Fine Arts. As she moves into her final semester, Cana is completing an Honors thesis which investigates the place of Symbolist poetry and French art songs (mélodie) in late-nineteenth century linguistic nationalism. Cana received funding from the Emory Department of Music and as an Undergraduate Global Research Fellow, which is the product of a partnership between the Halle Institute and the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry (FCHI). With her funding, she spent this past summer in Belgium and Austria, pairing her research trip with her study abroad program. As a Global Research Fellow in the Fall, she presented her work at the fi...