January Research Opportunity Program

JROP Research

The January Research Opportunity Program (JROP) is a grant program that pairs undergraduate students with faculty mentors to conduct exploratory research or artistic activity on social inequality during the January Term. Explore past student research projects below. 

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  • Anna Anderson, with Professor Dante Scala (Political Science), “Education and Ideology Literature Review/Research” 
  • Sonya Endrizzi, with Professor Susan Wager (Art & Art History), “Turner’s Slave Ship: Understanding the Life of an Object”
  • Karter Hanley, with Professor Tejas Aralere (Classics), “A cultural, grammatical, and literary commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus’ Res Gestae 23.6.67-68”
  • Claire Hobbs, with Professor Alexis Broderick (History), “Jewish History of the New Hampshire Seacoast”
  • Liberty Laarman, with Professor Mauricio Pulecio (Languages, Literatures and Cultures), “Katniss Everdeen, the Girl Who Cries: A Book-to-Film Comparison on Female Subjectivity and Corrupt Government Using Althusser’s Ideological State Apparatus in The Hunger Games”
  • Benjamin Menard, with Professor Michael Leese (History), “Revealing Socioeconomic Inequity in Classical Greece”
  • Emily Mezick, with Professor Alynna Lyon (Political Science), “A Reflection on United States Legislation to Mitigate Human Trafficking”
  • Jillienne Robinson-Warren, with Professor Scott Smith (Classics), “An Exploration in Gendered Invective: Gender, Class, and the “Whore” in Cicero”
  • Katie Sullivan, with Professor Kevin Healey (Communication), “AI in English Education: Helpful or Hurtful?”
  • David Wilson, with Professor Paul Robertson (Classics), “Conflict Motif Within Biblical Literature”
  • Joy Woolley, with Professor Paul Robertson (Classics), “Lost in Translation: Examining the Characterization of Briseis in Homer’s Iliad and Contemporary Retellings”

  • Sadie Marston, "Relating certain foundational beliefs in the philosophy of Ancient Stoicism to the Deep Ecology movement of the 1970s. EXPLORE
  • Jillienne Robinson-Warren, "Looking into the relationship between Ancient Roman women and travel, paying specific attention to themes of autonomy, through the translation and analysis of a poem by a Roman woman, as well as an inscription." EXPLORE
  • Kai Parlett, "Researching educational models in the context of building leadership skills among social justice movement leaders." EXPLORE
  • Georgina Ramadanovic, "Writing grammatical and analytical commentaries for the only surviving Latin novel, Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri (The Story of Apollonius, King of Tyre)." EXPLORE
  • Tanner Faucher, "Research into gerrymandering in the state of New Hampshire and how it affected the 2022 midterms." EXPLORE
  • Makayla Panzer, "Researching the system of homelessness and addiction, and finding the relationship between the two." EXPLORE
  • Ella Franzoni, "Exploring the use of literary code-switching and Spanglish in memoirs by Chicana female authors." EXPLORE

  • Sarah Bell, "The cognitive dissonance and resolution experienced among LGBTQ+ Christians." EXPLORE
  • Kyana Burgess, "Exploring Race, Sex, Age, and Geographic Location Discrepancies in Missing Persons Reports: The Northern New England Perspective." EXPLORE
  • Jackie Harris, "Exploring the Environmental and Social Impacts of Fast Fashion." EXPLORE
  • Zoie Haskell, "Exploring Rhetoric Used in American Media Regarding Muslims and Islams." EXPLORE
  • Jenna Hubbard, "An Exploration of the Experiences of LGBTQ+ People of Color in the Workplace." EXPLORE
  • Chloe Kofman, "An Exploration of Italian-Jewish Foods & Identity." EXPLORE
  • Katherine Legier, "Learning the Art of the Independent Artist through the Craft of Ceramics." EXPLORE
  • Hannah Prevost, "Exploring Critical Race Theory Controversies." EXPLORE
  • Emma Pryor-West, "Multiple topics to explore modern day race in the USA." EXPLORE
  • Aliya Sarris, "History of Transracial Adoption from Asian Countries." EXPLORE
  • Kevin Shegani, "Teachers' Freedom to Teach Critical Race Theory." EXPLORE

Call for Proposals

We are excited to again offer the January Research Opportunity Program (JROP) – a grant program for undergraduate students for exploratory research or artistic activity on social inequality undertaken during J-term 204.

Any student majoring in the College of Liberal Arts may apply for a JROP award for work undertaken at a site of their choice during J-term (in Durham or remote). Students must be in good academic standing (expected minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 at the end of the Fall 2023 semester) to apply. Funded students will be awarded a stipend of $850.

How to Apply

To apply, please email paul.robertson@unh.edu a 1-2 page outline of the intended activity (exploratory research or artistic activity); your motivation for embarking on the intended project; its thematic relevance; how you anticipate spending your time (approx. 12 hours each week of J-term [four weeks]); and the location(s) where the work will be done. All proposals will be reviewed by the GRSIL team, and up to 10 students will be funded for J-term 2024.

We welcome proposals working with a specific faculty mentor in COLA. If you don’t have a specific faculty member in mind, please submit your proposal and, if awarded a JROP stipend we will pair you with an appropriate mentor!

Deadline

Submissions due by: November 15, 2023