Research Opportunity: The Lung is a Fish and a Bird
This research opportunity is part of the Urban Studies Research Program. Students who participate will work with their faculty mentor, and will also share their findings at a research symposium with students and faculty working on other projects. To learn more about the Urban Studies Research Program, see our website.
Project Title: The Lung is a Fish and a Bird
Faculty Member: Lochlann Jain
Abstract: The Lung is a Bird and Fish, analyzes the history of the discovery of air, and specifically, of human and animal respiration, based on archival research including medical reports, patents, visual cultures, and literature, as well as an in-depth review of related secondary materials in medicine, the military, law, advertising, and science. This book has two overarching goals. Conceptually, I aim to expand the vocabulary of the social sciences by using drawing as a key method, framing device, and output. In terms of content, I seek to examine the history of the differential effects of air and put this in conversation with the possible futures for human life in the increasingly degraded atmospheric conditions of the Anthropocene.
- Pursuing and attaining permissions for image use
- Photoshopping images for printing
- Tracking down, reading, and discussing research materials
- Develop analytic, research and organizational skills in relation to a multi-year advanced research project
Qualifications:
Excellent organizational skills, photoshop experience and a desire to learn
Enrollment & Academic Standing
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Students must be current undergraduates in good standing at Stanford.
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Students must be enrolled in units while using VPUE grant funding, except during the Summer.
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Students may not receive both academic units and a stipend for any single project activity.
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Co-terms who have not conferred their undergraduate degree and who are still paying undergraduate (not graduate) tuition are eligible for VPUE funding.
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Students may not be serving a suspension.
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Students may not be on a Leave of Absence (LOA) while using grant funding.
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VPUE does not use a GPA requirement for student eligibility, nor does VPUE encourage the use of GPA as a criterion for inclusion in a research opportunity.
Quarters Available:
- Spring, part-time
Stipend:
Part-time projects: $1500 per quarter; 10 hours / week.
