Montvale Native Lauren Mahncke Earns Summer Research Award

EASTON, MA (04/10/2012)(readMedia)-- Montvale native Lauren Mahncke will be one of 50 students from Stonehill College working with faculty members at the College this summer on research projects through the Stonehill Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program. The SURE Program provides students with an opportunity to perform significant, publishable research under the guidance of an experienced faculty researcher.

Mahncke, a sophomore English major and philosophy minor at Stonehill, will work with Edward McGushin, associate professor of Philosophy, on an Interview for Foucault Studies with Dr. James Bernauer, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Boston College.

Michel Foucault (1926-1984) is one of the most influential philosophers of our time. Dr. Bernauer traveled to Paris to study with Foucault in 1979 and got to know him personally. Since then Bernauer has become a leading scholar working on and with Foucault's ideas in the fields of philosophy, holocaust studies, and religious studies. Given the importance and uniqueness of his work and his relation to Foucault, the editorial board of Foucault Studies has requested an interview with Bernauer. Mahncke will assist Professor McGushin with drafting the interview questions, transcribing the video-taped interview and drafting footnotes for the piece. The article will be published in the journal in their February 2013 volume.

The scholars and their faculty mentors are the 17th group to work under the Stonehill Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program. SURE Scholars will engage in weekly meetings to discuss the progress of their projects and other topics of general interest, and will be paid a stipend for their full-time service. All SURE Scholars will present summaries of their summer's work at an all-campus poster session in the early fall.

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