Joselle Carrillo Research Presentation

If I were to pursue undergraduate research, I would want to focus on something related to the humanities and culture and how those are affected by different developmental factors. For example, something I have always been interested in is how cultures and their correlated literatures are able to be translated across languages and understood in other cultures. In order to start this research project, I’d imagine the obvious very first step would be to approach faculty members who have some sort of experience with that kind of thing, whether it be someone I know from my major department who specializes in cultural anthropology or someone else that I don’t currently know. I’d also have to do some preemptive research on how research is usually conducted, so that I am able to get a slight feel for things beforehand. Some potential challenges I anticipate to face is going to be that process of finding a faculty member who does research related to something that I’m interested in, or that when I do since it will be a completely new experience there will likely be a tremendous learning curve. Another huge challenge I will probably find is locating faculty members who would be willing to write a letter or recommendation for me, mainly because I always feel weird asking for one. The focus area that interests me relates to the topic of international affairs because it encourages learning more about other cultures as well as just overall having a more “globalized” point of view.