1989-2009 Honors Theses

Katherine Beck, Evoismo: the essential element to effective land reform? Advisor: Heather Williams.
Marissa Galizia, Sustainably Cool: Marketing Ecolabels as the New Cool Way to Consume. Advisor: Deborah Gallagher.
Guen Han, Inequalities in Application: The International Human Rights Regime and Human Rights in North Korea and Refugee Rights in China
Tara Hopkins, The Local Case: A Rural Health Clinic’s Journey through the Boundaries of Health. Advisor: Charles Piot.
Andrea Marston, Certified Equality: A Comparative Evaluation of the Impact of Mainstreaming Fair Trade on Rural Craftswomen. Advisor: Margaret McKean.
Katie Mikush, Creating Gangsters: The Moral Panic Over Latino Youth and Gangs in Durham. Advisor: Gunther Peck.
Jessie Weingartner, Expendable Youth: Impacts of Neoliberalism on the Chicago Public School system and the Belizean Education System. Advisor: Anne-Maria Makhulu.

Marjorie Elisabeth Bryan, Next Interface: New Conceptions of the Gendered Body in Postmodern Feminist Art in East Asia. Advisor: Laurel Fredrickson.
Andrew JC Cunningham, Rebalancing the Scales in Sino-African Relations: Transitions From Bilateral to Continental African Responses to China’s Emerging Hegemonic Interest in Sub-Saharan Africa. Advisor: Sherryl Broverman.
Vasavi Reddy Devireddy, The Social Dynamics of India’s Health: Understanding Caste. Advisor: Kathryn Whetten.
Andrea Dinamarco, Marta Suplicy and Benedita da Silva, Paths to Political Power and Electoral Success in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Advisor: John D. French.
Amy Winter Feagles, Tempted to Torture: A Comparative Analysis of the Use of Torture in the Algerian War of Independence and the U.S. War on Terror. Advisor: Claudia Koonz.
Laura Ann Heeter, Access to Healthcare and Education: Illustrating the Differential Citizenship Status of Chinese Migrants. Advisor: Anne Allison.
Kayleigh Marie O’Keefe, The Hypercommodification of Professional Club Soccer and the Emergence of Local – Global Fan Identities. Advisor: Orin Starn.
Kathleen Marie Stanton, Voices Lost in the Crossfire: Internal Displacement in Turkey. Advisors: Charles Thompson and Bahar Leventoglu.

Jie Gao, Viewing Japanese Extremism. Advisor: Liu Kang.
Amanda Pickens, Assata: A Reflection on Freedom. Advisor: Marcy Litle.
Nick Renner, Orange and Blue: A Cultural Study of Popular Symbols and the Discourse of Disengagement in Israel. Advisor: Rebecca Stein.
Melissa Richer, In the Eyes of Hunchbacked Warriors. Advisor: Ariel Dorfman.
Jennifer Thompson, Secularity and Modernity: The Turkish Context. Advisor: Bruce Lawrence.

Hind Al-Thani, Origin. Advisor: miriam cooke.
Emily Antoon, Palestinian Women’s Identity in UNRWA, and Modes of Self-Definition. Advisor: Rebecca Stein.
Beverly Chang, Rationalization and Glocalization of Convenience Stores in Taiwan.
Jonathan D. Cichowicz, Organized Crime and the Russian Experience. Advisor: Michael Newcity.
Abigail Gray, Obstacles and Options: Reforming Muslim Personal Law in India. Advisor: Steven Wilkinson.
Yazan Kopty, The Specter Nation: Palestinian Refugees, Nationalism, and the Right of Return. Advisor: miriam cooke.

Maital Guttman, Mechina: A Preparation. Advisor: John Jackson.
Milouska Hoppenbrouwer, Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: The Limits of Society
Julia Hueckel, Polak-Katolik: The Evolution of National Identity and Modern Political Discourse in Poland. Advisor: Edna Andrews.
Judd King, Islamic Politics in the 21st Century: Alternative Modernity or Alternative to Modernity. Advisor: Ibrahim Mousa.
Stephanie Miller, The Political Economy of Indigenous Identity: Intellectual Property and Bioprospecting in Peru
Ami Beruriah Paik, Western Zhou Bell-chimes and Mechelen Carillons: A Comparative Analysis of the Development of Bells Into Their Golden Ages in China and the Low Countries. Advisor: Brenda Neese.

Jeannette Osterhout, Increasing Access to Resources and Support Networks for Ecuadorian Youth with Diabetes.
Leah Pollak, Articulating Resistance: The Struggle for Autonomy of the Current Mapuche Movement in Chile. Advisor: Marcy Litle.
Marlena Sierra Crippin, A Challenge to Hegemonic Stability Theory: Exemplary Cases within the Organization of American States and the World Trade Organization. Advisor: Judith Kelley.

Stacy Cooper Bailey, Militant Mothers and Radical Revolutionaries: Women's Experiences in the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional and the Weather Underground. Advisor: Marcy Litle.
Elizabeth K. Colucci, Evaluating the Modern Extreme Right in Western Europe. Advisor: Suzanne Shanahan.
Elizabeth A. Gulledge, Fundamentalist Movements and Globalizations: a comparative study of Hindu fundamentalism in India and Christian fundamentalism in the United States. Advisor: Steve Wilkinson.
Scott McGee, Toward a Functioning Bilingualisms: Policy Proposal for Hong Kong multilingual development in the 50 year transition period from British colony to Chinese mega-city. Advisor: Carolyn Lee.

Bridget Barnes, The Artificiality of Patriarchy. Advisor: Martin Lewis.
Ariana A. Curtis, Sexploitation: The rise of sex tourism in Cuba. Advisor: Marcy Litle.
Aniruddah Gopalakrishnan, Migration and Economic Policy: A Comparison of Two South Indian States. Advisor: Lori Leachman.

Karen A. Anderson, The Russian Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church in Lithuania: the experience of communism and their reactions to freedom. Advisor: Edna Andrews.
Alex Fattal, Photography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa. Advisor: Alex Harris.
Mary E. Mackey, Comparative Crossfire: Explaining fun and violence and gun control in the United States and Canada. Advisor: John H. Thompson.
Elisabeth Richardson, Community based social change and HIV/AIDS in the U.S. and South Africa. Advisor: Sheridan Johns.

Melanie de Trindade-Asher, Temperance movements in France and Peru. Advisor: James Roberts.

Marc A. Sánchez, Religion, syncretism, and millenarism as manifested in Colonial Mexican Rebellions. Advisor: Marcy Litle.

International Comparative Studies