Brown University Library is pleased to announce that Paulina G\u0105siorowska and Amira Haileab are the recipients of the 20th annual Undergraduate Prize for Excellence in Library Research, supported through the Center for Library Exploration and Research. This award, established in partnership with the Office of the Dean of the College, recognizes undergraduate projects that make extensive and creative use of Brown University Library\u2019s collections, including print and primary resources, databases, and special collections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The winning projects are honored with a $1,000 prize each and will be recognized at an awards ceremony on Wednesday, April 29 at 3 p.m. in the Racial Justice Resource Center<\/strong> on the second floor of the Rockefeller Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paulina G\u0105siorowska’s research project, “On Re-Painting and (Self-)Primitivizing in Mela Muter\u2019s Maternity Cycle,” takes up the life and work of early 20th century Polish-Jewish painter Mela Muter, who made her mark on French modernism by painting and re-painting maternity scenes across the aesthetic modes associated with the great (male) artists of the Western European avant-garde. Turning to exhibition catalogs and artist emigration archives, as well as frameworks of feminist, cultural, and art historians and theorists, the project posits a critical recognition of Muter’s pictorial surfaces as not constituting sites of pure radical subjectivity, but rather as staging dynamic negotiations of her ambivalent positionalities and complicities in modernist discourses of repetition and derivation, cosmopolitanism and primitivism, origin and originality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This paper is the introduction to Amira Haileab’s larger honors thesis project for AFRI 1970 with the supervision of Professors Kim Gallon and Jennifer Johnson. The project seeks to answer how The Conscript: A Novel of Libya\u2019s Anticolonial War<\/em>, by Dr. Abba Gebreyesus Hailu, understands and reimagines the Red Sea as a racialized space, and the significance of Black geography, the study of the relationship between Blackness and space, for understanding the role that the Red Sea plays in the novel. Written in 1927, published in 1950, and translated from Tigrinya to English in 2013, The Conscript <\/em>is a fictional retelling of the experiences of Eritrean soldiers, known as the ascari. From 1889 to 1941, the ascari were conscripted by Italy to battle anti-colonial nationalist forces across African countries, including Sudan, Ethiopia, and Libya. The fraught journey of the ascari in The Conscript<\/em> locates the region\u2019s geography as a site of transformation, remembrance, and grief, highlighting the role that geography plays in informing identity. By analyzing two critical geographies in The Conscript<\/em> \u2014 the coast and the desert \u2014 Amira’s paper works toward classifying the Red Sea as a particular lens through which the characters begin to understand their conscription and subjugation in relation to other African people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brown University Library is pleased to announce that Paulina G\u0105siorowska and Amira Haileab are the recipients of the 20th annual Undergraduate Prize for Excellence in Library Research, supported through the Center for Library Exploration and Research. This award, established in partnership with the Office of the Dean of the College, recognizes undergraduate projects that make extensive and … Winners of the Undergraduate Prize for Excellence in Library Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,155,17,231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events","category-home-page","category-research-award","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17037"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17044,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17037\/revisions\/17044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Winners<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Paulina G\u0105siorowska \u201927<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOn Re-Painting and (Self-) Primitivizing in Mela Muter\u2019s Maternity Cycle\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Amira Haileab \u201926<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA Black Red Sea: Understanding the Red Sea in Black Geography through the Conscript\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n