About McCormick Summer Scholars
The McCormick Center is pleased to partner with Siena's Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (CURCA) to underwrite hands-on academic service-learning opportunities for select undergraduate researchers. The Siena Summer Scholars program offers our students a distinctive opportunity to develop practical skills applicable to a wide range of careers. In the summer 2024, the McCormick Center underwrote the following projects:
The Philip & Maria Van Rensselaer Papers: A Digital History Project (Historic Cherry Hill)
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Dorsey, Professor of History
Siena Summer Scholars: William Gibney and Michael Zebrowski
There’s No Place Like Home: The Meaning and Experience of Home in History and Sociology (Museum of Firefighting)
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Dorsey, Professor of History
Siena Summer Scholar: Caroline Tahanay
Researching New York in the Revolutionary Era (New York State Archives)
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Dorsey, Professor of History
Siena Summer Scholar: Madison Tinker
Chinese Tea in Colonial and Revolutionary New York (New York State Library)
Faculty Mentor: Dr. YiYun Huang, McCormick Center PostDoctoral Fellow in Revolutionary Era Studies
Siena Summer Students: Jonathan Levin and Kaitlyn Hathaway