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Global Studies
In its Honors Program the Global Studies program (formerly International Studies) awards Honors, High Honors, or Highest Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.
Key:- Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
Committee Chair + Other Committee Members
2023-2024
- Collin James Absher, (Honors)
Chinua Thelwell + Deenesh Sohoni, Lin Chunying
- Izabella Mariah Martinez, (Honors)
Elena Prokhorova + Alexander Prokhorov, Frederick Corney, Leslie Cochrane
2022-2023
- Zeta Marie Atoigue, "" (Highest Honors)
Stephen Sheehi + Roberto Jamora, Joanna Schug, Francis Tanglao-Aguas
- Isabella Xiaoqi DiFulvio, "" (Highest Honors)
Andrea Wright + Francis Tanglao Aguas, Roberto Jamora, Chinua Thelwell, Stephen Sheehi
- Aliia Woodworth, "" (Honors)
Daniel Maliniak + Amy Oakes, Alexander Prokhorov
2021-2022
- Cora Martin, "" (Highest Honors)
Daniel Maliniak + S. .P. Harish, Richard Turits - Sumie Yotsukura, "" (High Honors)
Francis Tanglao Aguas + Michael Iyanaga, R Benedito Ferrao, Laurie Wolf - Whitney Ledesma, "" (High Honors)
Carlos Rivera Santana + Elizabeth Moran Clayton, Michael Iyanaga, Victoria Castillo, Leah Glenn
2020-2021
- Quan Chau, "" (Highest Honors)
Francis Tanglao Aguas + Deenesh Sohoni, Joanna Schug - Jamelah Jacob, "" (High Honors)
Francis Tanglao Aguas + Deenesh Sohoni, Benedito Ferrão - Charlotte Mines, "" (Highest Honors)
Andrea Wright + Rani Mullen, Sharan Grewal
2019-2020
- Anna Gleason, "" (Highest Honors)
Andrea Wright + Stephen Sheehi, Negar-Sadat Razavi - Emma Shainwald, "" (Honors)
Deenesh Sohoni + Francis Tanglao-Aguas, Elyas Bakhtiari
2018-19
- Molly Charles, (Highest Honors)
Alexander Prokhorov + Elena Prokhorova, Frederick Corney
- Sophia Higgerson, "" (Highest Honors)
Sibel Zandi-Sayek + Giulia Pacini, Anne Williams, Meaghan Stiman - Emily Murray, "" (Honors)
Katherine Levitan + Leisa Meyer, Deborah Morse
2017-18
- Lauren Hammett, "" (High Honors)
Tuska Benes + Leslie Cochrane, Nicolette Gable
2016-17
- No Honors students this year
2015-16
- Jon Querolo, "" (High Honors)
Michael Cronin + Tomoko Hamada Connolly, Jennifer Putzi
2014-15
- Jonathon Hsu, (Highest Honors)
Francis Tanglao-Aguas + Lynn Weiss, Bene Ferrao and Marc Lerman - Elizabeth Laird, (High Honors)
Bruce Campbell + Rob Leventhal, Robert Mulcahy and Laurie Koloski
2013-14
- Elizabeth Denny, (Highest Honors)
Michael Cronin + Nancy Gray, Tomoko Hamada Connolly
2012-13
- Gretchen Nutz, (Highest Honors)
Sibel Zandi-Sayek + Anne Rasmussen, Salih Aciksoz - Allyson M. Zacharoff, (Honors)
Marc Lee Raphael + Carla Buck, Tuska Benes
2011-12
- Jacob Evan Lassin, "" (Highest Honors)
Elena Prokhorova + Bruce Campbell, Frederick Corney, Alexander Prokhorov - Emily Marie Matson, "" (High Honors)
Emily Wilcox + Eric Han, Craig Canning, Sophia Hart
2010-11
- No Honors Students This Year
2009-10
- Katelyn Faith Andell, "Ein Volk Verschiedene Schulen?: The Integration of Immigrants in the German Education System (
Hightest Honors)
Bruce Campbell + Tuska Benes, Gail Boseenga, Jennifer Taylor - Sarah Elizabeth Argodale, (Highest Honors)
Fred Corney + Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorov - Jordan Bohn Dickson, (High Honors)
Rachel DiNitto + Hiroshi Kitamura, Eric Han - Courtney Brynn Downing, (Honors)
Bruce Campbell + Tuska Benes, Gregor Kranjc, Paula Pickering - Adam Farrar, (Highest Honors)
Tamara Sonn + Tuska Benes, Jonathan Glasser - Alexa Jordan Hoyne, (Highest Honors)
Chrystie Swiney + Debra Shushan, Lawrence Wilkerson - Tala Salem Karadsheh, (High Honors)
Jonathan Glasser + Gul Ozyegin, Abdul-Karim Rafeq
2008-09
- Sara Black, (High Honors)
Gail Bossenga + Tuska Benes, Maryse Fauvel
- Alexander Mayer, (Highest Honors)
Tamara Sonn + A.K. Rafeq, Debra Shulman
- Christian Peratsakis
Robert Vinson + David Backer, Paula Pickering
- Vadim Shneyder, (Highest Honors)
Alexander Prokhorov + Elena Prokhorov, Fred Corney, Arthur Knight
2007-08
- Judd William Kennedy, (Highest Honors)
Abdul-Karim Rafeq + David McCarthy, Tamara Sonn
2006-07
- Erin Rebecca Alpert, "Reinventing Soviet Visual Memory: A Case Study of Marina Goldovskaia's Documentary Solovki Power" (High Honors)
Alexander Prokhorov + Elena Prokhorova, Sharon Zuber, Fred Corney - Emily Anne Brown, "Memories of a Dictator: the Presence and Absence of Franco in Spanish Nonfiction Writing, Museum Exhibits, and Documentary Cinema" (High Honors)
Carla Buck + Tuska Benes, Laurie Koloski - Kent Spencer Fogg, "Ethnic Out-bidding in Bosnia-Hercegovina" (High Honors)
Paula Pickering + Clay Clemens, Laurie Koloski
2005-06
- Kathleen Davis, "What Powers Determine Political Policies in Modern Russia?" (Honors)
Anthony Anemone + Bella Ginzbursky-Blum, Paula Pickering, Ron Rapoport
2004-05
- Pete Luebke
Rachel DiNitto + Hiroshi Kitamura, Chandos Brown