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Application deadline: February 21, 2025

The McGregor Summer Research program offers students in the humanities, arts, and social sciences excellent opportunities to earn money while working collaboratively with faculty members on their research. The schedule includes weekly meetings exploring the life of a scholar, as well as social events for students and faculty.

NOTE: Students graduating in (or before) August 2025 are not eligible for the fellowship program.

The summer fellowship openings will be posted in the by February 4.

Please note:

  • You must meet with your prospective faculty mentor before you apply. This will give both parties some idea of how well your interests and abilities align with faculty expectations for the project.
  • You must be available to work 40 hours a week from May 12-July 22. 聽You must have access to your own transportation to campus, and be in Grand Rapids during the majority of the fellowship period. All students and mentors will break for the week of June 16-June 20.聽 You may not hold a second job without special permission from your faculty member and the McGregor director. Such permission is not typically granted.
  • You must attach a copy of your unofficial transcript to your application. If you have not already prepared it, please do so before filling out the application. See (bottom of the page) for instructions. Attach to your job application as a .pdf document to your application.

Award Notification Target: Mid-March, 2025

SUMMER 2025 MCGREGOR PROJECTS: some projects may accommodate multiple students. Students may apply to up to three projects in the jobs hub in Workday.

Project #1: Kristin Du Mez, Historical Studies

Title: Live Laugh Love, final edition

Project Summary: The book is a study of white Christian womanhood through the lens of consumer culture. Stretching from the 19th century to the present and analyzing such topics as Christian romance, purity culture, MLMs, and devotional writings, the project traces the influence of positive thinking, evangelical Christianity, and Mormonism on the culture, politics, and faith of American women.聽
The student researcher will help prepare the final manuscript for publishing.

Project #2: Katie Good, Communication

Title: The Family Computer: How to Tend a Digital Hearth in an Era of Splintered Screens

Project Summary: The McGregor Fellowship will support the research for my second book, The Family Computer: How to Tend a Digital Hearth an Era of Splintered Screens. Part cultural history, part practical guide, The Family Computer will argue that the period of shared, stationary computing that took root in U.S. homes and schools from the 1980s-early 2000s can be instructive to present-day efforts to support digital literacy and democracy in our fragmented media age. As parents, educators, health advocates, and young people confront the dangers of digital technology, including online misinformation, privacy intrusions, social isolation, and distraction, this book asks whether the seemingly obsolete model of the shared desktop computer can serve as a resource for supporting digital discernment and literacy, intergenerational conversations about technology, and online and offline wellbeing. This project will build on my record of critical scholarship on educational technology, which includes my first book, Bring the World to the Child: Technologies of Global Citizenship in American Education (MIT Press, 2020), as well as my experience in developing and leading workshops on digital literacy and wellbeing through a 2021-2022 Digital Literacy Accelerator Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Project #3: Doug Koopman, Politics and Economics

Title: Research for a book, provisionally entitled Politics and Renewal: Kuyperian Options for Structural and Personal Vitality. The book's audience is more general and non-technical--college students and younger professionals.

Project Summary: Neo-Calvinist Reformed thought is a fruitful source of guidance for persons engaged in American politics. First, it provides a sound perspective on which to base political renewal: a particular view of humility before God and others. 聽Christian humility establishes a strong platform from which to both embrace and critique political systems鈥攅xpertise, collaboration, and commitment combined with awareness of its ultimate and even immediate limits鈥攊ts limited purposes and calls on one鈥檚 talents. 聽Second, key concepts like sphere sovereignty provide an insightful critique of the American political system while still fully supporting the American project. Third, humility and sphere sovereignty, along with other neo-Calvinist commitments such as community accountability, can shape a sustainable 鈥渞ule of life鈥 for those who work in the public arena聽
There are three parts of the book, all of which will be worked on summer of 2025.

Project #4: Samuel Smartt, Communication

Title: 鈥淎ll Means All鈥: Inclusive Post-Secondary Education Documentary Editing

Project Summary: All Means All鈥 (working title), a 30-minute documentary film, follows the journey of Joe Louisell, an intellectually disabled college student, as he completes a year-long advocacy training program and travels to Washington D.C. to educate lawmakers about the need for inclusive post-secondary education in America. 聽Joe, along with several other students featured in the film, is part of Calvin鈥檚 Life and Career Studies (LCS) program, a post-secondary education program that empowers students with intellectual disability to thrive in post-school life.

The film is produced by Calvin Film and Media professor, Sam Smartt, with the participation of over twenty students from COMM 351 Advanced Documentary Filmmaking throughout the 2024-2025 academic year. 聽The selected McGregor Fellow will work closely with Prof. Smartt to complete a cut of the film by the end of summer 2025.

Project #5: Jason VanHorn, Geology, Geography, and Environment; Kevin den Dulk, Politics and Economics

Title: Restorative Justice for Returning Citizens: A Mapping Project

Project Summary: Since 2017, the work of the Restorative Justice for Returning Citizens project has sought to conduct research vital to those returning to society from prison. Under the leadership of Dr. Kevin den Dulk and Dr. Jason VanHorn, the project has developed into an ongoing effort to provide formerly incarcerated individuals and their families a resource to better integrate into society. The Returning Citizen Services map (https://gis.calvin.edu/rc) is an effort between faculty and students that has geolocated and mapped 3000 service providers in 20 categories that are interested to help this population throughout the state of Michigan as an online interactive web map.

Project #6: Kate van Liere, Historical Studies

Title: Reacting to the Past game development: the English Civil War and the Republic (1640-1660)

Project Summary: I hope to develop a 鈥淩eacting to the Past鈥 role-playing game set circa 1650, after the English Civil Wars and execution of Charles I of England and Scotland in 1649. Similar to the 鈥淎thens Game,鈥 the premise of this game is that the students are all part of a deliberative assembly debating how to rebuild the nation after a destructive civil war, with participants representing three distinct ideological factions. In this case the assembly is the English Parliament, the factions are divided largely along religious lines: Presbyterians (supporters of a national Presbyterian church and of closer ties with Scotland); Independents (Protestants supporting an independent Protestant church, mostly with Puritan affinities), and royalist Anglicans (supporting the restoration of the monarchy and Anglican church). A fourth group consists of Indeterminates whom the other players are trying to persuade.聽
The main task requiring student assistance is to research the biographies of members of the Long Parliament in order to determine appropriate roles for all four factions in the game. (Roles may be either actual historical figures or fictitious composites, but the more historically accurate the better.) As time permits, up to 25 roles may be invented.

Project #7: Julie Yonker, Psychology

Title: Support for the Informal Caregiver: The Role of Faith Communities

Project Summary: This project is a continuation of a multi-year project. It is a community based participatory research project that will focus on two communities, 1) informal caregivers, and 2) the faith communities. We will interview a variety of faith communities and informal caregivers with the hopes of answering the following questions: What faith-based resources already exist for informal caregivers? Are there resources concerning the theology of informal caregiving, as there is for the theology of disability? What if any, training do faith community care teams have concerning support for informal caregivers? Are there nuances with respect to different faith traditions鈥 responses to informal caregiving? This project is a sub-set of a larger project on informal caregiving. The student would be part of a team of faculty and students from nursing and public health.
Informal caregivers (adults caring for physical and medical needs of another person without compensation) are becoming more essential to the health care of their care recipients, yet they often go unrecognized by medical and faith communities. In the USA last year, 53 million adults served as informal caregivers (National Report to Congress, 2024). One hope is that the faith communities could step in to help fill some gaps to assist informal caregivers, however, we have found limited resources.

Project #8: Sung Soo Lim, Politics and Economics

Title: Shifting Capital, Shifting the Middle East, Shaping the World

Project Summary: This project explores the transformative role of capital in shaping the Middle East鈥檚 economic and geopolitical landscape, focusing on the region鈥檚 transition from oil dependence to innovation-driven economies. It examines how capital has historically flowed into the region to shift its political economy and out of the region to influence the global economy. Through an analysis of the historical tensions between absolute monarchs and elite merchants, the book traces the integration of the Middle East into the international capital market since the late 19th century. Additionally, it analyzes the ongoing political and economic reforms in countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia, providing insights into the region鈥檚 transformation and global impact. The book argues that innovation and political stability are essential conditions for sustainable economic growth in the Middle East, illustrated by Dubai鈥檚 success in attracting foreign capital and reducing reliance on oil. Comparisons with other oil-dependent countries, such as Saudi Arabia, reveal how they are following similar paths to achieve political stability and sustainable growth.

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