{"id":30019,"date":"2024-02-06T16:51:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T21:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=30019"},"modified":"2024-02-06T16:56:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T21:56:41","slug":"mary-christine-helms-26-earns-hertog-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/mary-christine-helms-26-earns-hertog-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Christine Helms \u201926 earns Hertog Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"

As one of 60 Humanities at Hertog Fellowship recipients<\/a>, Mary Christine Helms \u201926 had a few more things on her plate for the month of January. That\u2019s OK with the Classics major because the extra assignments involved digging into a subject area she loves \u2013 British Romantic poetry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She and 14 other students in her cohort met via Zoom and studied the political and social turmoil of the Romantic period through works of British poets of the era. American Enterprise Institute Fellow and former English Professor Christopher Scalia<\/a> led the seminar. Three other seminars, Dostoevsky\u2019s \u201cCrime and Punishment,\u201d Melville\u2019s \u201cMoby Dick,\u201d and Wharton\u2019s \u201cThe House of Mirth\u201d catered to the interests of the 45 other Hertog fellows.<\/p>\n

Helms said she came away from the fellowship with a fresh perspective and greater understanding of the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and the early women’s rights movement. She also honed her knowledge of the class conflicts during the period, the Romantic poets themselves and their criticisms and praises of the historic events, not to mention the consequences thereof.<\/p>\n

In some ways, the fellowship represented a microcosm of her Classic major, which gives Helms access to a broad range of disciplines.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a Classics major because I love how it allows me to intensely study the most foundational cultures on Earth,\u201d Helms said. \u201cBut I also study Classics because it doesn\u2019t confine me to one discipline. In addition to literature, I study language, philosophy, ethics, culture, history and more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Helms, also a psychology major, has her eye on becoming a licensed professional counselor.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cStudying the humanities, like counseling, requires looking at something holistically – breaking down the parts to better understand the whole,\u201d she said. \u201cIt requires a broad array of skills and capabilities to do either of these things, and I\u2019ve found that by studying the Classics and psychology simultaneously, iron sharpens iron, and I am better in both because of the other.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Helms said the supplemental class time and projects associated with the fellowship were worth giving up a few evening extracurriculars, and she\u2019d welcome the chance to participate in another fellowship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would absolutely do something with Hertog again, especially with one of their humanities programs,\u201d she said. \u201cI will miss the discussions in particular. My peers in the program were so engaged and intelligent. Learning with such bright minds, with Dr. Scalia’s excellent guidance, was by far the best part of the experience and what I most hope to return to someday in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Helms took on a few more assignments during January. As a Humanities at Hertog Fellow, she studied the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, suffrage and more through the lens of British Romantic poets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":30020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,48,61],"tags":[2536,2539,2537,2540,2538],"class_list":["post-30019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classics","category-psychology","category-the-furman-advantage","tag-bristish-romantic-poetry","tag-early-womens-rights-movement","tag-french-revolution","tag-hertog-foundation","tag-napoleonic-wars"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}