Gospel & Gunpowder: Methodology for Firearm Discourse in Christian Periodicals 1857-2017

Faculty Sponsor: Maryam Gooyabadi & Joe Slaughter William Allen William is a rising senior from El Dorado, Arkansas majoring in Mathematics and minoring in Data Analysis. Outside of mathematics, William likes to hang out with friends, watch music videos, and play chess in his free time. After Wesleyan, William plans to pursue graduate school in … Read more

Deconstructing the Gun: Tracing Technologies through the Linkage Coefficient

Faculty Sponsor: Maryam Gooyabadi & Jennifer Tucker Ethan Chu Ethan Chu is a Mathematics, East Asian Studies, and Data Science student at Wesleyan University working at the Center for the Study of Guns and Society as an undergraduate research fellow. His field of research delves into network analysis, more specifically co-occurrence networks. Besides his work … Read more

Guns: A Worldwide View

Faculty Sponsor: Maryam Gooyabadi & Jennifer Tucker Phone Kant Hi, I am a rising sophomore (Class of 2028) from Myanmar planning to major in Computer Science and Economics. After Wesleyan, I hope to purse a career in the Sports Analytics field. Working on this project, I have gained experience in the R programming language and … Read more

Guns in American Cinema : Studying the Representation of Firearms across Time

Faculty Sponsor: Professor Gooyabadi Spencer Lee Hello, I am the Class of 2025 and will graduate with an Economics major along with an Art History minor and a Data Analysis minor. I entered the QAC Apprenticeship under Professor Gooyabadi and have continued her work on the representation of firearms in media. I was born and … Read more

Comparing Carolingian Chronicles: The Annals of Fulda

Faculty Sponsor: Jesse W. Torgerson Arla Hoxha Arla is a rising senior (‘25) from Albania, double majoring in Economics and the College of Letters. As a research assistant at The Traveler’s Lab–a digital humanities lab at Wesleyan–she has worked on the Chronicles project, focusing on a new, narrative-based approach of studying historical texts. Abstract: Using … Read more

Towards Building a Civilian Lethality Index

Faculty Sponsor: Maryam Gooyabadi Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Cheyenne McLaskey Cheyenne McLaskey(’26) is a rising sophomore from Waterboro, Maine. They’re a US Army Veteran and a member of Wesleyan Posse 9. Cheyenne has been taking advantage of attending a liberal arts university, studying everything from philosophy to quantitative analysis. Outside of the classroom they’re … Read more