About My Magellan Project

The Magellan Project is essentially an independent, self-designed research project in a location of a student's choice.  Last summer, I spent three weeks studying economic development in post-Katrina New Orleans. This summer, I will be pursuing a topic that I am very interested in, but does not pertain directly to my major or minor. I will be studying religious architecture from a secular perspective; specifically, I will be studying how places of worship grew out of the context in which they were created. I will be examining how religious art and architecture reflects the political, social, and religious climate of its time, instead of focusing on specific art and architectural techniques used. I will be studying pre-Christian places of worship, pagan places of worship which later adopted Christian significance, and Renaissance places of worship. I will be paying particularly close attention to how these places of worship influenced one another. I am excited to see what I discover!

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