2017 Mullin Presentations

The 2016 Edward H. "Ted" Mullin '06 Memorial Fellowship Prize in History presentations took place on January 31, 2017 in Leighton Hall, Room 402. Sam Bearak '17: Transforming Class at the University of Cape Town. Sam's Ted Mullin research journey was to Cape Town, South Africa, for four weeks in June and July, 2016. He worked at the Chancellor Oppenheimer Library Archives at the University of Cape Town where he researched undigitized South African national newspapers and interviewed faculty and students. Prior to his trip, he had worked with Professor Catherine Besteman through e-mail correspondence regarding her book Transforming Cape Town and consulted with her about his expected research. Emma Nicosia '17: Tracking the Landscape: An American Experience by Rail. Emma has a strong background in travel research, writing, and presentation. She completed three previous projects in Seattle and Alaska, American nature writing, and a research trip to New Zealand. Her Ted Mullin research journey was by an adventure by rail from the East Coast to the West in August, 2016. Because she traveled by rail, she was able to simultaneously compile her observations, complete her reading list of relevant works, and to take pictures and videotape her route from Philadelphia to the Deep South, the American Southwest, and the West, and arrive in Seattle.  Her goal was to examine how the landscape changed in each part of the country. She compared the significant landscape changes from cities to suburban and rural areas, and photographed and compiled detailed records of these transitions.