
Humanities Independent Research Team
Welcome to Student Driven Research!
Student involvement in independent humanities research promotes deep, long-lasting learning through collaboration on a research team. Taking a deep dive into a thematic topic in literature, history, psychology, or an interdisciplinary area of focus, student researchers develop habits of creative and critical thinking that will support future advanced study in college and beyond. Students learn to think like scholars as they interpret primary and secondary sources. They practice the art of good citizenship as they problem-solve, collaborate, and respond to diverse perspectives. Teams present their research to the school community during Research Week in April. Students may also publish individual and collaborative writing in The Parker Road Review, Pingry’s academic humanities journal, and submit to external publications and competitions.

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Faculty
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Projects
2024-2025 Projects
American Modernism
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Behavioral Anthropology
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Children’s Storytelling and the Evolutionary Basis for Altruism
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Creative Nonfiction
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Deep Mapping
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Diverse Creators of Design and Animation
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Economics
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Exploring Architecture and Social Impact for a Sustainable Future
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Futures Thinking
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Historical Fiction
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Impacts of Major Sporting Events in the World - A Historical Lens
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Jane Austen & Friends
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Linguistics
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Lyric Analysis
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Oral History
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Pingry Ethics*
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Psychology*
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Social Innovation
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Technology and Video for Creative Projects
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The Science of Learning
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