Student Research
In addition to the suite of activities designed for the on-campus sheep events by students in the College of Natural Sciences and School of Earth and Sustainability, students in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts have engaged in research on various aspects of sheep and sheep-derived products and the roles they have played in art, culture, and landscape design across the world. Click on the titles below to read their work.
Other Sheep-Related Research:
- Sheep and the Democratic Park: How English Landscape Parks Inspired Olmsted’s Park for the People, by Meredith Boyle
- Sustainable EweMass: Robert Moses and the Flock of Central Park, by Amelia Ceballos
- Thomas Cole, Transcendentalism, and the Climate Crisis, by Owen Embury
- A Centuries-Old Technique: Brining Sheep Mowing to UMass, by Maia Medina
- The Legacy of Sheep in Persian Manuscripts and Beyond: A Case Study of the Mongols, Ilkhanids, and their influences on the Timurids and Safavids, by Andersson J. Perry
- Michelangelo’s David: Marble or Wool?, by Maria Pitel
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