ICS Honors Theses 2024-2025

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Aisha Baiocci

“The Losaida Archives”

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 & Matthew Shutzer (History)

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 (International Comparative Studies)