UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #899

Submission information
Submission Number: 899
Submission ID: 15121
Submission UUID: 9514be21-a03f-4d4e-959e-c181a92cfff0

Created: Mon, 08/19/2024 - 02:55 PM
Completed: Mon, 08/19/2024 - 04:57 PM
Changed: Wed, 09/04/2024 - 05:06 PM

Remote IP address: 68.59.50.75
Submitted by: Anonymous
Language: English

Is draft: No

Research Mentor Information

Benjamin Gunter
he, his, him
Dr.
bgunter@fsu.edu
FSU Staff/Campus Partner
Fine Arts
Department of Dance
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Additional Research Mentor(s)

Idy Codington
she, hers, her
Ms.
idycodington@gmail.com
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Overall Project Details

Florida and the American Revolution
Florida, history, reenactment, Romeo & Juliet
Yes
6
Open to all majors
On FSU Main Campus
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In-person
7
Flexible schedule (Combination of business and outside of business. TBD between student and research mentor.)
Revisit the American Revolution from a Loyalist perspective, just in time for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Collaborate with a cross-disciplinary research team to build a research basis for reenacting Florida’s pivotal but little-known role in the American Revolution, complete with authentic foods, games, animals, characters, and speeches.

Learn how to make history come to life, by digging into letters, diaries, pictures, play scripts, newspaper stories, recipes, fashion plates, architectural plats, archaeological finds, music, dances, toasts, government documents, speeches, and tall tales from 250 years ago.
We’ll start with orientation. You’ll get a crash course in British Florida’s loyalist past through assigned readings – selected passages from “Florida in the American Revolution” and “Florida Historical Quarterly.” You’ll get to see what you’re reading about, first person, in targeted group excursions to historical sites (like Mission San Luis and the Museum of Florida History).

We’ll proceed to specialization. Each member of the team will select one aspect of St. Augustine in 1776 and become our resident expert on that particular side of “America’s Oldest City.” You’ll build an annotated bibliography of sources about that facet of the city where Loyalists took refuge and Patriots were imprisoned – sources that make the city’s personality come to life. With the help of two mentors and five fellow UROP members, you’ll dig up primary documents from Florida’s revolutionary history (letters, diary entries, speeches, newspaper stories) and produce research-based suggestions for how to put 1776 St. Augustine onstage.
You need 5 essential skills for succeeding in “Florida and the American Revolution”:

1) Curiosity, since the past does not reveal itself unless you look for it. (Required.)

2) Collaboration, since understanding context from many points of view makes history come to life, for you and for your teammates. (Required.)

3) Commitment to learning, since every research project demands diligence, hits snags, and profits by calling others in to help. (Required.)

4) Time management, since “Florida and the American Revolution” calls for averaging 7 hours of work per week over 2 semesters of research, and a project this large calls for breaking big goals into manageable bites. (Required.)

5) Technological know-how, since your research will involve strategic use of digital libraries, our team meetings may include Zoom, and your research progress will be posted on a Google Drive. (Required.)
We find that research (like rehearsing a play) achieves breakthroughs when people work together to examine turning points from different viewpoints, reading between the lines. That’s why our approach to mentoring is collaborative, guided, and flexible.

We believe in giving you lots of team support as you put into practice a research process that we have repeatedly proven effective, progressing from guided orientation to mentored specialization.

And we believe in giving you all the freedom you need to blaze a highly individual research trail, across barriers of time and space into face-to-face encounters with Florida’s multicultural past.
www.theaterwithamission.com, https://vimeo.com/user/133747389/folder/21820384?isPrivate=false
Want to get hands-on with cutting-edge evidence – not cleaning Petrie dishes but conducting the experiment?

Want to have a say in research design?

Want to map out your own area of expertise within a field that shapes public perception and public policy?

Want to become the resident expert for one key part of a big project?

Want to exercise skills that equip you to excel in your major and/or your minor or another field you’re curious about?

Want to see your research create public impact, right away?

Theater with a Mission (TWAM) wants to talk with you!

bengunter@theaterwithamission.com.
Yes
Roundtable #1: Tuesday, September 3, 1-1:30 PM, https://fsu.zoom.us/j/93364681952
Roundtable #2: Wednesday, September 4, 4-4:30 PM, https://fsu.zoom.us/j/98876139380
Roundtable #3: Thursday, September 5, 3:30-4:00 PM, https://fsu.zoom.us/j/98417732230
Roundtable #4: Friday, September 6, 12 noon to 12:30 PM, https://fsu.zoom.us/j/92678298159

Zoom recording: https://fsu.zoom.us/rec/share/xCAl86lQtmKQBx2cn287RPlt0XxpVxQJZpfbYc6Y6_l0zvJYRk3Xlsy6CLRINTA-.t7Ku3t3vV_WdkAyO
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UROP Program Elements

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