Journal of Undergraduate Research

David O’Dell Neville, Germanic and Slavic Languages According to the stipulations required of recipients of the Research and Creative Work scholarships, a two page report is to be turned in to your office by August 31, 1994. The report should detail what was accomplished with these funds, as well as descriptions of the successes, failures, […]

Gary L. Browning and Dr. Melvin K. Richardson, Germanic and Slavic Languages When Leo Tolstoy was a young boy, his older brother told him that the secret of life was written on a green stick, buried under an oak tree in the woods of Yasnaya Polyana, the Tolstoy family estate in the beautiful rolling hills […]

James W. Scott and Dr. Gary Browning, Germanic and Slavic Languages The discovery of Russian sectarians popularly known as Mormons has generated great interest among missionaries and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in recent years, and several informative articles have appeared on the subject.1 This article summarizes my findings from […]

Nicholas G. Newton and Professor Walter Whipple, Germanic and Slavic Languages Towards the end of Stanis³aw Wyspianski’s Wesele (The Wedding), “the Poet”, speaking to the newly married bride describes Poland as something that you can only find in your heart. “A to Polska w³asnie”. The turn of the 19th century in Poland, when this wedding […]

Spencer Scoville and Professor Walter Whipple, Germanic and Slavic Languages Last year, I proposed to complete a translation of Ukrainian author Ulas Samchuk’s novella Mariia. The process of translating and researching has been both more challenging and more rewarding than I anticipated. I completed the translation of the first section of Mariia, along with a […]

Justin Peacock and Dr. Robert B McFarland, Germanic and Slavic Languages When one hears about the Jewish scholars who fled the German Third Reich during the Nazi’s reign of terror, one often hears of Einstein, Freud and others; however, a little known fact is that many scholars in pre-Nazi Germany were Jewish women. These Jewish […]

Megan S Morris and Dr. Robert McFarland, Germanic and Slavic Languages The purpose of my research was to help with the development of the Sophie Project. It was conceived by members of the Germanic and Slavic Languages Department who had been confronted by the difficulties of the lack of usable German-language texts written by early […]

Elizabeth McFarland and Dr. Michelle Stott James, Germanic and Slavic Languages As one of the most powerful and charismatic leaders of Enlightenment-era Europe, Maria Theresia von Habsburg is well-known for her widespread political and social reforms and for her skillful political maneuvering which centralized the disintegrating Austrian Empire and led to a golden age of […]

Samuel C Lindsey, Michelle Stott and Dr. Robert McFarland, German Slavic and Detail Scholars have failed to systematically observe and record old German facsimiles of German women’s literature for a variety of reasons. First, many of the records have remained unpublished. Second, it is expensive to get hold of these texts due to their rare […]