Student Projects

Student Capstone Projects

• Isabel Kiechel

  “Harvesting Change in the Corn Belt: The Meatpacking Industry and Latinx Cultural and Political Impacys on the Midwest.”

  Nate Dolny

  “Mapping the Temporal, Spatial, and Sectoral Distributions of Houston’s Mexican Immigrant-owned Businesses Against Illegal Immigration Rhetoric.”

  Eli Smith

  “Construction of the Enclave Economy: Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Community Building in Lewiston, Maine.”

  Sophia May

  “The Afghan Femal Tactical Platoon: Perceptions of Agency and Personal Security.”

  Diva Belo

   “Stories of Struggle, Stories of Freedom: Collective Memory of Independence Across Generations in Timor-Leste.”

  Ella Provost

  “Tides of Tradition: Cultural movements as a olution to Water Population in Martinique.”

  Velo Prisant

  “Nation-Building and the Marginalization of Taiwan’s Indigenous people.”

  Ben Barresi

  “The Boys In the Arena: The Impact of MLB’s Dominican Academies on Youth Players’ Mental Health.”

  Victoria Bodnar

  “Online, On Edge: The Influence of Internet Democrtization on Anxiety in Zimbabwe and South Africa.”

  Isabelle Leonard

  “Mercenaries and private Military Companies: The Question of Accountability.”

  Pranu Gautam

  “Does Labor Mobilization due to EU integration Account for Brain Drain? The Case of Balkans and The Baltics.”

  Cassandra Vogel

  “US Relations in Central Asia Post 9/11: The Peace Corps and Fear of Global Terrorism.”

  Emaline Relyea-Strawn

  “Modern Farmers in Rural South Korea: How Nationalism Impacts Practices and Identity.”

  Justin Lamport

  Outsourcing Governance: NGO’s, neoliberalism, and urban Poverty in West Africa.

  McKenna Otey

  “What is ‘Local’?” Global Agriculture’s Impact on perceptions of Local Food Systems in Costa Rica.”

  Leslie Morin

  “Deconstructing Aid to Jordan and Egypt: Obama, Trump, and Partisan ideology.”

  Thomas Tan

  “Liberal Democratic Party’s Dominance in 2025: Can Challengers from the Right-Wing Finally Lead to a Genuine Two-Party System in Japan?

  Harlan Power

  “Reform Revolution? Accounting for the Rise of Right0Wing Populism in the United Kingdom.” 

  Leah French

   “The Power of Policy: Exploring Strategies for Language Preservation”

  Katie Mastriano

  “Yoonu Yokkuté: Where Senegal Stands Between Franco-Sino Development and Dependency”

  Tian Qiu

  “Diagnosing the Definition of Nationalism in the Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relationship”

  Pablo Rodriguez

  “The Real Football: How Fandom and Authenticity Persist in a Changing Game”

  Sophia Wittemeyer

  “The Coup Trap: Who Niger’s Kinship Networks Empower”

  Alexandra Rotmil-Eser

   “It takes a Bureaucratic Village: Government policy effects on forcibly displaced people’s mental health in Sweden”

  Elan Stadelmann

  “Vacas, Setanejo, and You: An Analysis of Nationalism and spread of industrial beef production in the global south”

  Hanako Memon

  “Cyberwarfare and new geopolitics: State legitimacy vs. Non-State Ascendency”Madeline Tan – “Big brother is watching you: Government surveillance and social media presence in Hong Kong and Iran”

  Erez HatchTuchman

  “Buying in Benjamins: Analyzing the foreign exchange markets’ influence on reserve currencies”

  Steve Shi 

   “Securing the West – Political and Economic Incentives behind China’s central Asia policy”

  Ellie Doyle

  “Reproductive Healthcare Crisis: maternal mortality in Sub-Saharan and Northern Africa”

  Phoebe Marwill

  “Let’s Talk About Sex(work) Baby: A Feminist case study Analysis of sex work policy”