Etherton's project focuses on expanding his expertise in media archaeology. Working with CU-Boulder's acclaimed Media Archaeology Lab and its founder, CU-Boulder Professor Lori Emerson, he will write a media-archaeological account of germanium- and silicon-based fuzz pedals, exploring their material, aesthetic, and ideological bases and effects. The practical component of his project involves (re)constructing fuzz pedals with silicon and germanium transistors.
With the generous support of the CHA 2nd Leg Graduate Student Summer Fellowship Adi will work on her project German Influence in the Works of Shmuel Yosef Agnon. The Hebrew author S.Y Agnon (1880-1970) resided in Germany (Berlin and Bad Homburg vor der Höhe) between the years 1912 and 1924, where he interacted with prominent figures of the German-Jewish intellectual milieu such as Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem. Adi's research will focus on this interaction and its influence on the works written by Agnon during those years and immediately thereafter. By focusing on the the role of Germany and German influence in the works of Agnon Adi wishes to study the inextricable relation between German and Hebrew cultures that commences with the works of prominent figures of the second Aliyah such as Agnon and continues until the present day.