Undergraduate Students

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.

YearResearch CountryAwardeeProject Title
2022Poland, GermanySophia BereaudWithin and Without the Nation: Polish Gay Solidarity 
2022NepalLucia Buscemi The World’s Highest Garbage Dump: The Role of Sherpas as Environmental Protectors of Mount Everest
2022FranceIsabel Coyle Immigration and assimilation: How economics, demographics, and racism shaped French immigration policy during the 1960s and 70s
2022ColombiaNicole Felix-Tovar The COVID-19 Pandemic amidst Protests in Colombia: Lived Experiences, Attitudes, and Perspectives of Colombians
2022United KingdomEdina Hartstein The British Empire’s Influence on The League of Nation’s Trafficking Protocol
2022United KingdomKendall Hauerwas The Grunwick Strike and the Politics of Organized Labour
2022EcuadorRuth Korder Mapping Genetic Diversity Within Ecuador Through the Sequencing of Ancient Ecuadorian Genomes
2022TaiwanJustin Li Culture and Prestige in Taiwanese Public School Lunches
2022PhilippinesDanielle Mangabat Resisting Colonial Legacies: An Assessment of Decolonial Practices and Attitudes in the Philippines through Reproductive Health Movements
2022United Kingdom, FranceJeffrey Rosen Nostalgia and Performance in the works of Virginia Woolf and Édouard Manet
2022United KingdomCaleb Sanders The Utility in Surveillance: Revisiting a Foucauldian Account of Bentham’s Panopticon and Other Unpublished Works
2021IrelandStephen AltobelliBoredom in the work of Samuel Beckett
2021FranceBronwen BoydThe Signares of Senegambia: Slavery, “Progress,” and the French Colonial Project in the Nineteenth Century
2021RussiaEllie CoeUnlikely Friendships: The Little-Known Meetings of Cosmonauts and Astronauts in the Early Space Age
2021BrazilSabrina JinThe Effect of Racialized Covid-19 Discourses on the Mental Health of Chinese Immigrants and Brazilians of Asian Descent
2021United KingdomAlex LevineDueling Dragons: Examining Welsh National Identity Through Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century British Imperial Involvement in China
2021TaiwanAnnie LiA Comparative History of the Activism of Chinese American Churches and Taiwanese Churches
2021United KingdomWillie LiebermanEnglish Femininity in Purcell’s Operas
2021GermanyOlivia MillowayLinkages between land-use and microbiome composition in the common vampire bat
2021GermanyJulien NathanWho is the Nation: Analyzing the Relationship Between Gastarbeiter and the New Left Student Movement, 1960-1973
2021NepalShreya SharmaA Political Economy Approach to Understanding Abortion Attitudes in Kathmandu, Nepal
2021TurkeyIsha SoniThe Right to Learn: How Nationalism Affects Education Quality and Practices for Refugees in Turkey
2021South KoreaJiin WooPublic Art and the Mental Life in Seoul: Building Mental Health into Urban Design
2021Costa RicaImani WrightThe Implementation of Sustainable Development Initiatives in Curridabat, San Jose in Costa Rica
2020Croatia/ NetherlandsTara DjukanovicBlurring The Line: How Migration Impacts Existing Inter-Ethnic Relationships In Serbia
2020ChinaVincent FanThe Hanfu Movement In China: Cultural Renaissance And Renovated Fashion
2020MexicoNayive GaytánTourism And A Telenovela: Representations Of Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico
2020MoroccoMaddie HadenBorders To Health: Socio-Health Dynamics Within The Sub-Saharan Migrant Communities In Morocco
2020Costa RicaChristie JonesLand-Use As A Factor In The Re-Emergence Of Rabies In Costa Rica
2020South AfricaFaith KimMonumental Interplays: How Virtual Encounters Affect Understandings Of The Voortrekker Monument And Freedom Park In South Africa
2020United KingdomShreya PabbarajuPartitioning Body And State: How Nationalism, Religiosity, And Gender Affect Public Opinion Toward Violence Against Women In India
2020USA/ MexicoKassie SarkarWhere Do I Fit: Stories Of Racial Identity, Resistance, And Community Belonging In Biracial South Asian Americans
2019South KoreaMary BohnRightful Citizens vs. Exotic “Other”: Contradictions and Liminality in Seoul’s North Korean Defector Community
2019MoroccoRizky EtikaMoroccan Architectural Influences in the Fox Theatre
2019China/BurmaJunyi HanFrom Soldiers to Refugees: The Chinese WWII Veterans in Burma
2019BrazilAleksei KaminskiInstitutions and Marginalization: A Discourse in Shifting Voting Behavior in Brazil
2019AustraliaRachael LewisUnderstanding the Connection between Mental Health and Malnutrition of Indigenous Children in Australia and the South Pacific
2019South AfricaDarien “Penny” McElweeChildhood in Black and White: A Cross-Cultural, Comparative Analysis of the Effects of Prenatal Depression on Child Development
2019FranceSophia MinnilloRelation between Oral Proficiency and Course Level: An Investigation of French Second Language Acquisition in American Undergraduate Courses
2019IsraelXavier SayeedContemporary Israeli Andalusian Orchestra of Ashdod, which Recreates Judeo-Arabic Music Originating in Medieval Andalusia, Spain
2019UkraineDaniel ThomasA 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).
2019RussiaKira TuckerPoems without a Hero: A Comparative Analysis of Aesthetic Production Amid the Absurd in the Poetry of Anna Akmatova and Natasha Tretheway
2018BrazilChristopher BattermanA Brazilian Opera in Italy or an Italian Opera in Brazil? Considerations on Carlos Gomes’ II Guarany (1870)
2018Israel/ United KingdomBeatrix ContiThe Sassoon Family: From Essential Outsiders to Insiders of Empire
2018BrazilDaniella GonzalezDefining Family Planning in a Healthcare Clinic of São Paulo
2018BrazilAlexandra LlovetStigma Continuity of Leprosy in Brazil
2018BelgiumCana McGheeLanguage Landscapes: Symbolism, Mélodie, and Using French in the Fin-de-siècle
2018GreeceCamila Reed-GuevaraSeneca’s Stoicism:  The Ancient Case for the Unethical Nature of Slavery and the Divine Right to an Education
2018United KingdomZachary ShusterRashi’s Influence on Nicholas of Lyra and the Wycliffite Translations of the Psalms
2018FranceMíša SteklPerishing from Absolute Knowledge with Foucault, Nietzsche, and Queer Theory