Senior Project 2018
MEHGAN ROSE ABDEL-MONEIM
St. Paul, Minnesota
Political Studies: “Reporting Identity: Social and Political Implications of Adding a MENA Category to the U.S. Census”
Project Adviser: Christopher McIntosh
KEVIN ANTONIO GERAUD BARBOSA
Queens, New York
Political Studies: “The Gentle Giant: Brazilian Soft Power Maximization toward a New World Order”
Project Adviser: Michelle Murray
AIDAN RICHARD BARRY
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
Political Studies: “Communist China in the 1950s: A Case Study of Non-recognized States at International Conferences”
Project Adviser: David Kettler
TAYLOR DONOVAN BOND
Pembroke, New Hampshire
Political Studies: “United States Complex Relationship with the International Criminal Court”
Project Adviser: David Kettler
NATHANIEL VERGOZ CARLSEN
Indianapolis, Indiana
Political Studies: “Greedy Bastards”
Project Advisers: Christian Crouch and Kevin Duong
ISOBEL MONIQUE COEN
Portland, Oregon
Political Studies: “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: The Introduction of ‘Soft’ Deradicalization Policy in France”
Project Adviser: Christopher McIntosh
ADELINA COLAKU
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
Economics and Political Studies: “Politics and the ‘Self’ vs. ‘Other’ Binary: The Failure of the Great Recession as a National
Security Threat”
Project Adviser: Michelle Murray
CIARA COLLINS
Los Angeles, California
Political Studies: “Newsroom Action during the Lebanon War: A Look at American and Israeli Media Coverage”
Project Adviser: Samantha Hill
YAMILET ELIEZET CORTES GIL
Yonkers, New York
Political Studies: “Asilo para las mujeres: The Hesitation to Recognize Women as a Particular Social Group under U.S. Asylum Legislation and Its Effects on the Central American Migrant Crisis of Women”
Concentration: Latin American/Iberian Studies
Project Adviser: Miles Rodríguez
DALTON LEE DAVIS
Boynton Beach, Florida
Political Studies: “Human Judgment and Autonomous Weaponry: What Does It Mean?”
Project Adviser: Christopher McIntosh
BENJAMIN RICHARD ELLIOT FALLER
Bennington, Vermont
Political Studies: “On Citizenship: The Evolution of Civic Education from Mann to Meier”
Project Adviser: David Kettler
AROBI HANIF
Flushing, New York
Political Studies: “Do Democracies Excel: An Empirical Analysis of the Democracy-Growth Relationship”
Project Adviser: Gautam Sethi
MEDORA MCDOUGALL JONES
Frankfort, Kentucky
Political Studies: “Donald Trump and the Spectacle of the Modern American Presidency”
Project Advisers: Charles Dixon and Marina van Zuylen
JONAS LEOPOLD HAKKE KUNZ
Utting am Ammersee, Germany
Political Studies: “WHO ACTS? Community through Chance”
Project Adviser: Roger Berkowitz
SHENGYANG LI
Shenzhen, China
Political Studies: “The Balance: Japanese Nuclear Ambivalence and Its Formation”
Project Adviser: James P. Ketterer
STEVEN THOMAS MAROTTA
Harrington Park, New Jersey
Political Studies: “Puerto Rico’s Unique Relationship to the United States”
Project Adviser: David Kettler
RISHI PRAVAH MUTALIK
Orange, Connecticut
Political Studies: “Brown Pluralism and Beyond: A New Political Vision for South Asian Americans”
Project Adviser: Charles Dixon
Theater and Performance: “Creating ‘Color Coded’,” a play exploring nonwhite imaginations
Project Adviser: Jean Wagner
ZAK WILLIAM RAWLE
Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
Middle Eastern Studies and Political Studies: “Energy Transition in Saudi Arabia: Oil, Solar, and Vision”
Project Adviser: Omar Youssef Cheta
ISABELLE LILY SCARBOROUGH
Chicago, Illinois
French Studies and Political Studies: “Securing a Seat at the Table des Grands: French Identity and the Application of Identity Management Strategies in Postwar France”
Concentration: Global and International Studies
Project Adviser: Michelle Murray
ELLE MCCORMICK TURLEY
Knoxville, Tennessee
Political Studies: “The Problem of Privacy”
Project Adviser: Roger Berkowitz