2016–2017 Graduate Student Associates
Undergraduate Associates 2017–2018
The following students have been appointed Undergraduate Student Associates for the 2017–2018 academic year and have received grants to support travel in connection with their senior thesis research on international affairs.
Sarah Anderson (Government), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Analyzing global terrorist organizations' structures and their impacts on counterterrorism.
Cengiz Cemaloglu (Social Anthropology), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Islamic finance and communal debt and risk in Malaysia.
Maria Amanda Flores (Social Anthropology and Ethnicity, Migration, Rights), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. The human right to adequate housing in urban indigenous communities in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Benjamin Grimm (Comparative Study of Religion and German & Scandinavian Studies), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Integration issues and religious identity among Muslim immigrants in Sweden.
Kamran Jamil (Social Studies and Global Health & Health Policy), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. The impact of Pakistan's 2011 Ministry of Health devolution on two provinces.
Angela Leocata (Social Anthropology), Frank M. Boas Undergraduate Fellow. The lay-counselor experience through a framework of caregiving in Goa, India.
Margot Mai (Joint in Anthropology, Romance Languages & Literatures, and Global Health & Health Policy), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Political tension between French feminism and Muslim immigrant communities.
Daniel Martinez (Social Studies), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. The relationship between revolutionary movements and race in Colombia, specifically focusing on the Benkos Biohό guerilla group.
Iman Masmoudi (Social Studies), Rogers Family Research Fellow. Islamic education in Tunisia with implications for the broader Muslim world.
Daniel Ott (Government), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Electoral College reform from a British perspective.
Theo Serlin (History), Frank M. Boas Undergraduate Fellow. Anglo-Indian MPs, nationalism, and competing internationalisms.
Jennifer Shore (Social Studies), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. Political participation among Syrian refugees in Jordan.
Ikenna Ugboaja (History), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. The relationship between the rise of the US military-industrial complex and the failed United Nations disarmament negotiations between 1945 and 1960.
Junius Williams (African and African American Studies), Rogers Family Research Fellow. Contemporary Omani investment and economic development in East Africa.
Sohyun (Kate) Yoon (Social Studies), Undergraduate Canada Program Fellow. Multiculturalism and national identity in Canada.
2017 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize Winners
The Weatherhead Center congratulates the following Undergraduate Associates and Juster Fellow alums who were awarded 2017 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prizes on the basis of their outstanding scholarly work.
Hana S. Connelly, “Kidnap in the Caucasus: Rethinking Russian Imperialism in the 19th Century.”
Samantha Deborah Luce, “Death and Taxis: Violence, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Mobility in Postapartheid South Africa.”
Sarah Nyangweso Michieka, “The 48th County: Kenyan State Diaspora Relations from 1990 and the Establishment of the Kenyan Diaspora Vote.”
Tessa Mattea Mrkusic, “Collapse the Distance: Climate Change Migration and Frontline Storytelling in the Republic of Kiribati.”
Photo Caption
The 2016–2017 Graduate Student Associates at their final luncheon, April 28, 2017. Photo credit: Kristin Caulfield