UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #986

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  roundtable_info:
    - day: 'Wednesday, September 3'
      endingtime: '1:30'
      starttime: '1:00'
      zoomlink: 'https://fsu.zoom.us/j/2029728060'
    - day: 'Thursday, September 4'
      endingtime: '2:30'
      starttime: '2:00'
      zoomlink: 'https://fsu.zoom.us/j/2029728060'
  approximately_how_many_hours_a_week_would_the_research_assistant: 5-10
  are_you_currently_looking_for_students_: 'No'
  confirmation_1: '1'
  contact_email_fsu_email: ''
  contact_email_fsu_email2: ''
  contact_email_fsu_email_if_affiliated_: afrank@fsu.edu
  faculty_advisor_confirmation: ''
  faculty_advisor_name: ''
  faculty_advisor_s_fsu_email: ''
  fsu_college: 'Arts and Sciences'
  fsu_department_if_applicable_: 'Native American and Indigenous Studies Center and the Department of History'
  headshot_optional_: '60916'
  if_the_project_location_is_off_campus_does_the_student_need_to_p: ''
  mentoring_philosophy: |-
    My approach to mentoring undergraduate researchers is to allow students to create low-stakes but high-reward opportunities to do original research. This means that I encourage students to start with large collections of original sources that speak to broad topics, and then to create answerable questions as the evidence allows. So rather than looking for needles in haystacks and run the risk of facing failure, I encourage students to study the haystacks and then to pay special attention when they stumble across an intellectual needle or anything else that looks compelling.

    I take this approach because all historical research (or research in general) carries a risk that a trip to an archive will yield no relevant documents or a stack of documents that do not speak directly to our most pressing questions. So I encourage students to have open-ended questions, to follow the sources to better questions, and to learn to continue asking new questions throughout the project. I am also a mentor who pays attention to students but does not hover at every moment. I believe that scholars need intellectual space to make their own discoveries and then they need guidance to grapple with what they have learned.  As a result, I help lead students to their initial sources and let them be creative and apply their own skills and knowledge to address important historical questions. As a result, I learn from their research even as I am providing some of the instruction. 
  mentor_handbook_and_faqs: '1'
  name_of_other_faculty_collaborator_if_applicable_: ''
  number_of_assistants_needed_faculty_postdoc_max_6_graduate_stude: '5'
  other_faculty_collaborator_s_preferred_pronouns: ''
  overall_research_project_description: 'This project examines the history of the Seminole and Miccosukee Indians in the wetlands of south Florida and the scientific policies and practices that impacted them in the early and mid 20th century. In particular we will examine the history surrounding the "draining" of the Everglades in the early 20th century and the creation of Everglades National Park in the middle of the 20th century. The goals of the project are to see how scientists, conservationists, developers, public officials, and/or other Floridians who were engaged in these events imagined the Indigenous homelands and the future of Indigenous Floridians.'
  please_add_any_additional_information_here: ''
  please_provide_a_link_to_your_publications_a_video_clip_or_a_web: 'https://history.fsu.edu/person/andrew-k-frank'
  please_select_the_choice_that_most_accurately_describes_your_exp: 'Partially Remote'
  please_select_the_location_of_your_project_: 'On FSU Main Campus'
  position_availability_for_student_research: 'Flexible schedule'
  position_title: Faculty
  primary_research_mentor_name: 'Andrew Frank'
  project_keywords: 'History, Florida, Indigenous, Environment, Resiliance'
  relevant_student_major_s_: 'Open to all majors'
  research_mentor_preferred_pronoun2: ''
  research_mentor_pronouns: Dr.
  research_mentor_supervisor_if_different_from_above_: ''
  research_tasks_for_student_research_assistant_s_: 'Each member of the team will collect and analyze sources created by a different type of observer: scientists, conservationists, developers, public officials, etc. These sources will mostly be found at the FSU library, online databases or archival collections, or if possible the State of Florida Archive and Library (downtown Tallahassee). Students may focus on a specific individual, type of scientist. or another way of breaking down these categories into manageable or interesting parts. Students will be encouraged to select the category that most suits their interest.'
  roundtable_times_and_zoom_links: |-
    Wednesday September 3 from 1:00-1:30
    Thursday September 4 from 2:00-2:30

    https://fsu.zoom.us/j/2029728060
  skills_that_research_assistants_may_need_: none
  title_of_the_project: 'The Seminoles and Miccosukees and the Transformation of the Florida Everglades'
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  urop_performance_evaluation: '1'
  urop_poster_presentation: '1'
  when_potential_research_assistants_are_reaching_out_via_email_2: ''
  when_potential_research_assistants_are_reaching_out_via_email_wh: ''
  when_students_are_reaching_out_via_email_what_is_your_preferreda: Dr.
  would_you_like_to_participate_in_the_urop_research_mentor_round2: 'Yes'
  would_you_like_to_participate_in_the_urop_research_mentor_roundt: ''
  year: '2025'