{"id":4786,"date":"2021-04-22T02:53:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T02:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=4786"},"modified":"2021-04-22T02:53:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T02:53:58","slug":"honors-student-cameron-katz-discusses-experience-as-undergraduate-fellow-at-the-fox-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2021\/04\/22\/honors-student-cameron-katz-discusses-experience-as-undergraduate-fellow-at-the-fox-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Honors Student Cameron Katz Discusses Experience as Undergraduate Fellow at the Fox Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>History major and honors student Cameron Katz recently published a piece on the blog of Emory&#8217;s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry reflecting on her time as an undergraduate humanities fellow. Katz discusses her research, which centers on Florida&#8217;s felony disenfranchisement law, as well as how the pandemic has shaped her experience as a student and scholar. Read an excerpt from the post below, along with the full piece: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/foxcenterresearchcommons.wordpress.com\/2021\/04\/15\/shared-scholarship-during-the-pandemic\/\">Shared Scholarship During the Pandemic<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;<em>The opportunity to present my research to a group of scholars was also very beneficial. My history honors thesis examines the racial implications of Florida\u2019s felony disenfranchisement law \u2013 the rule which revokes a person\u2019s right to vote on account of a felony conviction \u2013 which was on the books from 1838 to 2018. Because my temporal framework is so large, working to condense it to a short presentation for an audience less familiar with the history really helped me to streamline my main argument, which I think is one of the most challenging aspects of large projects. Hearing feedback about my presentation allowed me to narrow my presentation even further so that I could convey my work in an accessible and informative manner. Later this month, I will be presenting my research at the Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Symposium so the additional practice at the Fox Center has helped me to prepare.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History major and honors student Cameron Katz recently published a piece on the blog of Emory&#8217;s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry reflecting on her time as an undergraduate humanities fellow. Katz discusses her research, which centers on Florida&#8217;s felony disenfranchisement law, as well as how the pandemic has shaped her experience as a student and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-uncategorized","category-undergraduate-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}