ICS Honors Theses 2024-2025

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Research Advisor: Erin Siegal McIntyre (UNC)

Reesey DuPont

Interrogating Integration: Alternative Approaches to Care for Refugee and Immigrant Women Living in Denmark

Research Advisor: Kathryn Mathers (International Comparative Studies)

Laurel Holley 

"Because we survived, now the whole world (will know)”: “Comfort” System Survivors’ Chosen Paths toward Redress and Healing

Research Advisor: Aimee Kwon (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)

Vishal Jammulapati 

Producing Revolutionary Periodicals: Al-Hadaf and the Political Economy of Publication in Palestine

Research Advisor: Jessica Namakkal (International Comparative Studies)

Sarine Krovitz 

We Paint to the Sky: Mural Making and Social Action in Post-Dictatorship Chile

Research Advisors: Adam Rosenblatt (International Comparative Studies)

Lucy Law

The Presence of Absence: Palimpsest and Identity in Hong Kong

Research Advisor: Eileen Chow (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)

Thang Lian 

We Were Put Here: Oral Histories of Chin Refugees in Kentwood, Michigan

Research Advisor: Calvin Cheung-Miaw (History)

Meghna Paramasweran

Privileged and Brown: Renegotiating South Asian American Subjectivity by Mobilizing Cultural Capital from the Margins

Research Advisor: Kathryn Mathers (International Comparative Studies)

Jenna Smith 

What Lies Beyond the Mountains: Intimate Sites of Restorative Justice in Medellín, Colombia

Research Advisors: Nina Balmaceda Vargas (Center for Reconciliation)

Storey Wertheimer 

Imperfect Innocence: Navigating Public Scrutiny and Impossible Expectations after Exoneration

Research Advisors: Stephen Buckley (Journalism and Public Policy)

Nicole Zhang 

Strangers into Kin: Posthumous Production of Grievable Identity

Research Advisors: Anna Storti (Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies)