2008-2015
Resettling Refugees in Maine (Winter Study Project)
2010
Sameer Aryal ’12 and Tarjinder Singh ’12 – “Demand-Side Barriers and the Influence of NGO Operations on the Provision of Healthcare in Nepal,”
Julian (Adam) Century ’12 – “South African Perspectives on the Chinese, Examined through the Microcosm of the Chinese-Zimbabwean Arms Shipment Refusal at the Port of Durban in April 2008,”
Hannah Cunningham ’11 – “Labial Stretching in the Buganda Kingdom.”
Zeynep Coskun ’12 – “The Ironic ‘Other’ Experience in the Country Where My Family Had Been Living for Four Generations.”
Leah Eryenyu ’12 – “The Street Children Question in Kampala, Uganda”
Gonpo Lama ’12 – “The Relevance of Faith and Religious Belief at a Leprosy Community in Rural Maharashtra, India,”
Shara Singh ’12 – “Sociolinguistic Causes behind the Endangerment of the Inari Sami Language”
Emanuel Yekutiel ’11 – “An Ethnographic Study of Afghan-Jews in Jerusalem.”
2009
Muhammad Asad Liaqat ’11 – Ideas, Traditions, and Practices of Sufism in Pakistan
Meghan Rose Donnelly ’11 – Imagination and Education in an Javanese Orphanage
Moira P. Yoe ’10 – NGOs in the Israeli-Palestine Conflict
2007
Nontombi Kraai, ’09 – “How Has an Increase in the Literacy Rates of Maldivian Women Affected Their Societal Status?”Rhonda Carr, ’09 – “Experience of Native Guatemalans Compared to American Blacks”
Jay Cox-Chapman, ’09 – “Globalization’s Impact on Indian Society & the Contribution of New Manufacturing Firms to the Rise of the Middle Class”
Christopher St. Cyr, ’09 – “Comparative Study of Office Culture in the US and India”
Reid Lynch, ’07 – “Why Homosexuality Is Such A Hot Button Issue For Christians”
Laura Specker, ’08 – “Scientific vs. Religious Concepts of Brain Death in Japan”
Mariama Massaquoi, ‘07 – “The Civil War of Sierra Leone”
Nataliya Ostrovskaya, ’07 – “The Impact of Standardizing the Native Creole Language in Curacao”
Rahul Shah, ’09 – “Fisherman Survivors of the 2004 Tsunami”
2006
Jennifer Menzies ’07 – “The Meaning of Church Buildings in British Society”Mirza Delibegovic ’08 – “Why Is The Degradation Of The Environment Ignored?”
Ameeda Chowdhury ’07 – “Maintaining Immigrant Identity Distinct From the Majority Culture”
Ashley Burrell ’08 – “Orphaned Children of South Africa”
Ana Koski-Karell ’08 – “Gender & Business in Mexico”
Bryan Dragon ’06 – “Role of Women in Rural Panama”
2005
Elizabeth Frazier ’05 – “Women’s Issues in A Muslim Country” (Morocco)Alan Cordova ’06 – “Impact of Muslim immigration on religious and national identity in Spain”
Sara Gersen ’05 – Orange Revolution of Ukraine: This project examined first-hand the Orange Revolution of Ukraine. Sara Gersen lived in the “tent city” in Kiev just days after massive protests forced a second presidential election and the victory of Viktor Yushchenko, a western-leaning opposition leader, over the Moscow-backed state candidate, Viktor Yanukovych.
Benjamin Scent ’06 – “Examining the future prospects of democracy in Hong Kong”
2004
Michelle Smith ’04 – Global Trade of A Sacred Commodity: Investigating the intellectual property rights debate on traditional Maori tattoo art in New Zealand.
Arathi Rao ’06 – International Law and Local Culture: Examining the impact of corporate biotech patents on Indian farmers
Jessica Lovaas ’06 – Interdependence of Economic Development & Education in the Rural Village of Nyawa in Malawi
Emily Kirby ’04 – Modern Economy’s Impact on Traditional Gender Roles and the Art of Weaving among the Mayan People of Chiapas, Mexico