These excerpts showcase how scholarly breadth is another way of creating scholarly depth. While these two research strategies are sometimes viewed in opposition to one another, with detailed source engagement being sacrificed for a wider conversation between seemingly disparate subjects, the path that these papers trace between their areas of focus actually results in a more insightful and deeper analysis of their subject, likely more than could have been achieved with a narrower focus. Maya Cabrera’s analysis of the evolution of predator representation in wildlife documentaries places filmmaking technique in conversation with ecological history, tracing shifts that can only be fully understood through a synthesis of these fields. And in Alice Xu’s Writing Seminar paper, she interrogates and deepens the very concept of scholarly knowledge, by drawing on both Eastern and Western constructs of truth-creation.
— Jordan Fraser Angel ’27