The Halle Institute Undergraduate Global Research Fellows Program awards fellowships to undergraduate juniors who propose research outside the United States for their honors theses or senior capstone projects.
Year | Research Country | Awardee | Project Title |
2022 | Poland, Germany | Sophia Bereaud | Within and Without the Nation: Polish Gay Solidarity |
2022 | Nepal | Lucia Buscemi | The World’s Highest Garbage Dump: The Role of Sherpas as Environmental Protectors of Mount Everest |
2022 | France | Isabel Coyle | Immigration and assimilation: How economics, demographics, and racism shaped French immigration policy during the 1960s and 70s |
2022 | Colombia | Nicole Felix-Tovar | The COVID-19 Pandemic amidst Protests in Colombia: Lived Experiences, Attitudes, and Perspectives of Colombians |
2022 | United Kingdom | Edina Hartstein | The British Empire’s Influence on The League of Nation’s Trafficking Protocol |
2022 | United Kingdom | Kendall Hauerwas | The Grunwick Strike and the Politics of Organized Labour |
2022 | Ecuador | Ruth Korder | Mapping Genetic Diversity Within Ecuador Through the Sequencing of Ancient Ecuadorian Genomes |
2022 | Taiwan | Justin Li | Culture and Prestige in Taiwanese Public School Lunches |
2022 | Philippines | Danielle Mangabat | Resisting Colonial Legacies: An Assessment of Decolonial Practices and Attitudes in the Philippines through Reproductive Health Movements |
2022 | United Kingdom, France | Jeffrey Rosen | Nostalgia and Performance in the works of Virginia Woolf and Édouard Manet |
2022 | United Kingdom | Caleb Sanders | The Utility in Surveillance: Revisiting a Foucauldian Account of Bentham’s Panopticon and Other Unpublished Works |
2021 | Ireland | Stephen Altobelli | Boredom in the work of Samuel Beckett |
2021 | France | Bronwen Boyd | The Signares of Senegambia: Slavery, “Progress,” and the French Colonial Project in the Nineteenth Century |
2021 | Russia | Ellie Coe | Unlikely Friendships: The Little-Known Meetings of Cosmonauts and Astronauts in the Early Space Age |
2021 | Brazil | Sabrina Jin | The Effect of Racialized Covid-19 Discourses on the Mental Health of Chinese Immigrants and Brazilians of Asian Descent |
2021 | United Kingdom | Alex Levine | Dueling Dragons: Examining Welsh National Identity Through Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century British Imperial Involvement in China |
2021 | Taiwan | Annie Li | A Comparative History of the Activism of Chinese American Churches and Taiwanese Churches |
2021 | United Kingdom | Willie Lieberman | English Femininity in Purcell’s Operas |
2021 | Germany | Olivia Milloway | Linkages between land-use and microbiome composition in the common vampire bat |
2021 | Germany | Julien Nathan | Who is the Nation: Analyzing the Relationship Between Gastarbeiter and the New Left Student Movement, 1960-1973 |
2021 | Nepal | Shreya Sharma | A Political Economy Approach to Understanding Abortion Attitudes in Kathmandu, Nepal |
2021 | Turkey | Isha Soni | The Right to Learn: How Nationalism Affects Education Quality and Practices for Refugees in Turkey |
2021 | South Korea | Jiin Woo | Public Art and the Mental Life in Seoul: Building Mental Health into Urban Design |
2021 | Costa Rica | Imani Wright | The Implementation of Sustainable Development Initiatives in Curridabat, San Jose in Costa Rica |
2020 | Croatia/ Netherlands | Tara Djukanovic | Blurring The Line: How Migration Impacts Existing Inter-Ethnic Relationships In Serbia |
2020 | China | Vincent Fan | The Hanfu Movement In China: Cultural Renaissance And Renovated Fashion |
2020 | Mexico | Nayive Gaytán | Tourism And A Telenovela: Representations Of Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico |
2020 | Morocco | Maddie Haden | Borders To Health: Socio-Health Dynamics Within The Sub-Saharan Migrant Communities In Morocco |
2020 | Costa Rica | Christie Jones | Land-Use As A Factor In The Re-Emergence Of Rabies In Costa Rica |
2020 | South Africa | Faith Kim | Monumental Interplays: How Virtual Encounters Affect Understandings Of The Voortrekker Monument And Freedom Park In South Africa |
2020 | United Kingdom | Shreya Pabbaraju | Partitioning Body And State: How Nationalism, Religiosity, And Gender Affect Public Opinion Toward Violence Against Women In India |
2020 | USA/ Mexico | Kassie Sarkar | Where Do I Fit: Stories Of Racial Identity, Resistance, And Community Belonging In Biracial South Asian Americans |
2019 | South Korea | Mary Bohn | Rightful Citizens vs. Exotic “Other”: Contradictions and Liminality in Seoul’s North Korean Defector Community |
2019 | Morocco | Rizky Etika | Moroccan Architectural Influences in the Fox Theatre |
2019 | China/Burma | Junyi Han | From Soldiers to Refugees: The Chinese WWII Veterans in Burma |
2019 | Brazil | Aleksei Kaminski | Institutions and Marginalization: A Discourse in Shifting Voting Behavior in Brazil |
2019 | Australia | Rachael Lewis | Understanding the Connection between Mental Health and Malnutrition of Indigenous Children in Australia and the South Pacific |
2019 | South Africa | Darien “Penny” McElwee | Childhood in Black and White: A Cross-Cultural, Comparative Analysis of the Effects of Prenatal Depression on Child Development |
2019 | France | Sophia Minnillo | Relation between Oral Proficiency and Course Level: An Investigation of French Second Language Acquisition in American Undergraduate Courses |
2019 | Israel | Xavier Sayeed | Contemporary Israeli Andalusian Orchestra of Ashdod, which Recreates Judeo-Arabic Music Originating in Medieval Andalusia, Spain |
2019 | Ukraine | Daniel Thomas | A more convincing explanation for the bloodbath in the Donbas: the region’s fraught history of economic depression during the post-Soviet period (1991-present day). |
2019 | Russia | Kira Tucker | Poems without a Hero: A Comparative Analysis of Aesthetic Production Amid the Absurd in the Poetry of Anna Akmatova and Natasha Tretheway |
2018 | Brazil | Christopher Batterman | A Brazilian Opera in Italy or an Italian Opera in Brazil? Considerations on Carlos Gomes’ II Guarany (1870) |
2018 | Israel/ United Kingdom | Beatrix Conti | The Sassoon Family: From Essential Outsiders to Insiders of Empire |
2018 | Brazil | Daniella Gonzalez | Defining Family Planning in a Healthcare Clinic of São Paulo |
2018 | Brazil | Alexandra Llovet | Stigma Continuity of Leprosy in Brazil |
2018 | Belgium | Cana McGhee | Language Landscapes: Symbolism, Mélodie, and Using French in the Fin-de-siècle |
2018 | Greece | Camila Reed-Guevara | Seneca’s Stoicism: The Ancient Case for the Unethical Nature of Slavery and the Divine Right to an Education |
2018 | United Kingdom | Zachary Shuster | Rashi’s Influence on Nicholas of Lyra and the Wycliffite Translations of the Psalms |
2018 | France | Míša Stekl | Perishing from Absolute Knowledge with Foucault, Nietzsche, and Queer Theory |