Independent research projects
Overview
Projects pursued during the school year independently working with faculty to submit to national competitions and publications to pursue independent study.
Revisiting the Crown Heights Riot: Multi-Ethnic Hostility at the Neighborhood and City Levels
Revisiting the Crown Heights Riot: Multi-Ethnic Hostility at the Neighborhood and City Levels
Consciousness and Commodity: Towards A Critical Theory of Genre in American Popular Music
Consciousness and Commodity: Towards A Critical Theory of Genre in American Popular Music
Fabricating a False Consciousness
Fabricating a False Consciousness
To Shape the National Debate
To Shape the National Debate
Brothers In Law
Brothers In Law
Areas of Expertise
◐ The Neoconservatives
My interest in the evolution of conservative politics and
◓ Jewish History
History of Jewish immigration contrasting the 1800’s German immigrants with the huge 1900’s wave of eastern-european immigrants of my ancestors.
◒ Music History and Theory
Bridging my interest in music chart history and my school’s focus on critical race theory, I wanted to deep-dive into the historical trends of music genre.
◑ Africa and the West
Bringing a critical sense to the study of Africa and its relation with the West