September 9, 2005

Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

To the Editor:

I am writing to second Marc Zimmer's contention that liberal-arts colleges are particularly well positioned to encourage undergraduate research, and to observe that this is as true for the humanities as it is for the sciences ("How to Find Students' Inner Geek," The Chronicle Review, August 12).

I suggest this knowing full well that models for facilitating undergraduate research in the humanities are less fleshed out than scientific models. Translating the

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