Olivia Osiecki Named SURE Summer 2015 Scholar at Stonehill College

2015 Apr 9

Olivia Osiecki, a member of the Class of 2016 at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass., has been named a Stonehill Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Summer 2015 Scholar. The SURE program provides students with an opportunity to perform significant, publishable research under the guidance of an experienced faculty researcher at the College.

The research experience will help to provide students with a competitive advantage in graduate and professional school applications and in post-college employment opportunities, as well as to provide assistance to faculty in research activities.

Osiecki will be working with Associate Professor of Anthropology Erica Tucker on "Examining Readers’ Interpretations of Historical Violence in Children’s & Young Adult Literature."

Osiecki and Tucker will study the presentation of historical fiction to children. The pair will examine how incidents of historical violence are portrayed in children’s literature, what factors go into establishing age appropriateness and what draws children to these books. The results of this research will provide support for work conducted by Tucker in Poland. They also hope to present their work at a regional conference.

Osiecki is a Sociology & Gender/Sexuality Studies major.

About Stonehill College Stonehill is a selective Catholic college located near Boston on a beautiful 384-acre campus in Easton, Massachusetts. With a student-faculty ratio of 13:1, the College engages over 2,500 students in 80+ rigorous academic programs in the liberal arts, sciences, and pre-professional fields. The Stonehill community helps students to develop the knowledge, skills, and character to meet their professional goals and to live lives of purpose and integrity.