{"id":150,"date":"2024-08-06T17:13:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T17:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/halle\/?page_id=150"},"modified":"2025-08-10T10:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:24:25","slug":"undergraduate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/halle\/awardees\/undergraduate\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/halle\/files\/2025\/08\/Research-Location-All-Under-Graduate-1024x559.png\" alt=\"World map showing research locations of Halle Undergraduate Fellows\" class=\"wp-image-313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/halle\/files\/2025\/08\/Research-Location-All-Under-Graduate-1024x559.png 1024w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/halle\/files\/2025\/08\/Research-Location-All-Under-Graduate-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/halle\/files\/2025\/08\/Research-Location-All-Under-Graduate-768x419.png 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/halle\/files\/2025\/08\/Research-Location-All-Under-Graduate.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Research Locations and Departments of Halle Undergraduate Global Fellows (2018-2025)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"118\" height=\"101\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/halle\/files\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-05-at-9.22.14\u202fPM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-250\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Year<\/th><th>Research Country<\/th><th>Awardee<\/th><th>Project Title<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>2025<\/td><td>Brazil<\/td><td>Coco Sandoval<\/td><td><br>Bridging the Gap: Language Barriers and Mental Health Care Access Among Spanish-speaking Immigrants in Bom Retiro<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2025<\/td><td>Brazil<\/td><td>Briana Yang<\/td><td><br>The cost of distance: how healthcare access influences birthweight in Bom Retiro\u2019s immigrant community<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2025<\/td><td>Puerto Rico<\/td><td>Lucia Alexeyev<\/td><td><br>Military Occupation and Changing Healthcare Landscapes: Vieques and the U.S. Navy Post 1941<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2024<\/td><td>No Awards<\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2023<\/td><td>No Awards<\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>Poland, Germany<\/td><td>Sophia Bereaud<\/td><td>Within and Without the Nation: Polish Gay Solidarity&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>Nepal<\/td><td>Lucia&nbsp;Buscemi<\/td><td>&nbsp;The World\u2019s Highest Garbage Dump: The Role of Sherpas as Environmental Protectors of Mount Everest<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>France<\/td><td>Isabel&nbsp;Coyle<\/td><td>&nbsp;Immigration and assimilation: How economics, demographics, and racism shaped French immigration policy during the 1960s and 70s<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>Colombia<\/td><td>Nicole&nbsp;Felix-Tovar<\/td><td>&nbsp;The COVID-19 Pandemic amidst Protests in Colombia: Lived Experiences, Attitudes, and Perspectives of Colombians<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>United Kingdom<\/td><td>Edina&nbsp;Hartstein<\/td><td>&nbsp;The British Empire&#8217;s Influence on The League of Nation&#8217;s Trafficking Protocol<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>United Kingdom<\/td><td>Kendall&nbsp;Hauerwas<\/td><td>&nbsp;The Grunwick Strike and the Politics of Organized Labour<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>Ecuador<\/td><td>Ruth&nbsp;Korder<\/td><td>&nbsp;Mapping Genetic Diversity Within Ecuador Through the Sequencing of Ancient Ecuadorian Genomes<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>Taiwan<\/td><td>Justin&nbsp;Li<\/td><td>&nbsp;Culture and Prestige in Taiwanese Public School Lunches<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>Philippines<\/td><td>Danielle&nbsp;Mangabat<\/td><td>&nbsp;Resisting Colonial Legacies: An Assessment of Decolonial Practices and Attitudes in the Philippines through Reproductive Health Movements<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>United Kingdom, France<\/td><td>Jeffrey&nbsp;Rosen<\/td><td>&nbsp;Nostalgia and Performance in the works of Virginia Woolf and \u00c9douard Manet<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>United Kingdom<\/td><td>Caleb&nbsp;Sanders<\/td><td>&nbsp;The Utility in Surveillance: Revisiting a Foucauldian Account of Bentham\u2019s Panopticon and Other Unpublished Works<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>Ireland<\/td><td>Stephen Altobelli<\/td><td>Boredom in the work of Samuel Beckett<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>France<\/td><td>Bronwen Boyd<\/td><td>The Signares of Senegambia: Slavery, &#8220;Progress,&#8221; and the French Colonial Project in the Nineteenth Century<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>Russia<\/td><td>Ellie Coe<\/td><td>Unlikely Friendships: The Little-Known Meetings of Cosmonauts and Astronauts in the Early Space Age<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>Brazil<\/td><td>Sabrina Jin<\/td><td>The Effect of Racialized Covid-19 Discourses on the Mental Health of Chinese Immigrants and Brazilians of Asian Descent<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>United Kingdom<\/td><td>Alex Levine<\/td><td>Dueling Dragons: Examining Welsh National Identity Through Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century British Imperial Involvement in China<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>Taiwan<\/td><td>Annie Li<\/td><td>A Comparative History of the Activism of Chinese American Churches and Taiwanese Churches<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>United Kingdom<\/td><td>Willie Lieberman<\/td><td>English Femininity in Purcell&#8217;s Operas<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>Germany<\/td><td>Olivia Milloway<\/td><td>Linkages between land-use and microbiome composition in the common vampire bat<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>Germany<\/td><td>Julien Nathan<\/td><td>Who is the Nation: Analyzing the Relationship Between Gastarbeiter and the New Left Student Movement, 1960-1973<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>Nepal<\/td><td>Shreya Sharma<\/td><td>A Political Economy Approach to Understanding Abortion Attitudes in Kathmandu, Nepal<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>Turkey<\/td><td>Isha Soni<\/td><td>The Right to Learn: How Nationalism Affects Education Quality and Practices for Refugees in Turkey<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>South Korea<\/td><td>Jiin Woo<\/td><td>Public Art and the Mental Life in Seoul: Building Mental Health into Urban Design<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>Costa Rica<\/td><td>Imani Wright<\/td><td>The Implementation of Sustainable Development Initiatives in Curridabat, San Jose in Costa Rica<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>Croatia\/ Netherlands<\/td><td>Tara Djukanovic<\/td><td>Blurring The Line: How Migration Impacts Existing Inter-Ethnic Relationships In Serbia<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>China<\/td><td>Vincent&nbsp;Fan<\/td><td>The Hanfu Movement In China: Cultural Renaissance And Renovated Fashion<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>Mexico<\/td><td>Nayive&nbsp;Gayt\u00e1n<\/td><td>Tourism And A Telenovela: Representations Of Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>Morocco<\/td><td>Maddie&nbsp;Haden<\/td><td>Borders To Health: Socio-Health Dynamics Within The Sub-Saharan Migrant Communities In Morocco<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>Costa Rica<\/td><td>Christie&nbsp;Jones<\/td><td>Land-Use As A Factor In The Re-Emergence Of Rabies In Costa Rica<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>South Africa<\/td><td>Faith&nbsp;Kim<\/td><td>Monumental Interplays: How Virtual Encounters Affect Understandings Of The Voortrekker Monument And Freedom Park In South Africa<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>United Kingdom<\/td><td>Shreya&nbsp;Pabbaraju<\/td><td>Partitioning Body And State: How Nationalism, Religiosity, And Gender Affect Public Opinion Toward Violence Against Women In India<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>USA\/ Mexico<\/td><td>Kassie&nbsp;Sarkar<\/td><td>Where Do I Fit: Stories Of Racial Identity, Resistance, And Community Belonging In Biracial South Asian Americans<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019<\/td><td>South Korea<\/td><td>Mary Bohn<\/td><td>Rightful Citizens vs. Exotic &#8220;Other&#8221;: Contradictions and Liminality in Seoul&#8217;s North Korean Defector Community<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019<\/td><td>Morocco<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/halle.emory.edu\/student-opportunities\/rizky-etika-2019.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rizky Etika<\/a><\/td><td>Moroccan Architectural Influences in the Fox Theatre<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019<\/td><td>China\/Burma<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/halle.emory.edu\/student-opportunities\/junyi-han.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Junyi Han<\/a><\/td><td>From Soldiers to Refugees: The Chinese WWII Veterans in Burma<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019<\/td><td>Brazil<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/halle.emory.edu\/student-opportunities\/aleksei-kaminski-2019.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aleksei Kaminski<\/a><\/td><td>Institutions and Marginalization: A Discourse in Shifting Voting Behavior in Brazil<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019<\/td><td>Australia<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/halle.emory.edu\/student-opportunities\/rachael-lewis.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rachael Lewis<\/a><\/td><td>Understanding the Connection between Mental Health and Malnutrition of Indigenous Children in Australia and the South Pacific<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019<\/td><td>South Africa<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/halle.emory.edu\/student-opportunities\/darien-mcelwee-2019.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darien &#8220;Penny&#8221; McElwee<\/a><\/td><td>Childhood in Black and White: A Cross-Cultural, Comparative Analysis of the Effects of Prenatal Depression on Child Development<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019<\/td><td>France<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/halle.emory.edu\/student-opportunities\/sophia-minnillo-2019.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sophia Minnillo<\/a><\/td><td>Relation between Oral Proficiency and Course Level: An Investigation of French Second Language Acquisition in American Undergraduate Courses<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019<\/td><td>Israel<\/td><td>Xavier Sayeed<\/td><td>Contemporary Israeli Andalusian Orchestra of Ashdod, which Recreates Judeo-Arabic Music Originating in Medieval Andalusia, Spain<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019<\/td><td>Ukraine<\/td><td>Daniel Thomas<\/td><td>A more convincing explanation for the bloodbath in the Donbas: the region\u2019s fraught history of economic depression during the post-Soviet period (1991-present day).<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019<\/td><td>Russia<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/halle.emory.edu\/student-opportunities\/kira-tucker-2019.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kira Tucker<\/a><\/td><td>Poems without a Hero: A Comparative Analysis of Aesthetic Production Amid the Absurd in the Poetry of Anna Akmatova and Natasha Tretheway<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2018<\/td><td>Brazil<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/halle.emory.edu\/student-opportunities\/christopher-batterman.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Batterman<\/a><\/td><td>A Brazilian Opera in Italy or an Italian Opera in Brazil?&nbsp;Considerations on Carlos Gomes\u2019 II Guarany (1870)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2018<\/td><td>Israel\/ United Kingdom<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/halle.emory.edu\/student-opportunities\/bea-conti.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beatrix Conti<\/a><\/td><td>The Sassoon Family: From Essential Outsiders to Insiders of Empire<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2018<\/td><td>Brazil<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/halle.emory.edu\/student-opportunities\/daniella-gonzalez.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniella Gonzalez<\/a><\/td><td>Defining Family Planning in a Healthcare Clinic of&nbsp;S\u00e3o Paulo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2018<\/td><td>Brazil<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/halle.emory.edu\/student-opportunities\/alex-llovet.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexandra Llovet<\/a><\/td><td>Stigma Continuity of Leprosy in Brazil<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2018<\/td><td>Belgium<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/halle.emory.edu\/student-opportunities\/cana-mcghee.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cana McGhee<\/a><\/td><td>Language Landscapes: Symbolism, M\u00e9lodie, and Using French in the Fin-de-si\u00e8cle<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2018<\/td><td>Greece<\/td><td>Camila Reed-Guevara<\/td><td>Seneca\u2019s Stoicism:&nbsp; The Ancient Case for the Unethical Nature of Slavery and the Divine Right to an Education<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2018<\/td><td>United Kingdom<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/halle.emory.edu\/student-opportunities\/zach-shuster.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zachary Shuster<\/a><\/td><td>Rashi\u2019s Influence on Nicholas of Lyra and the Wycliffite Translations of the Psalms<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2018<\/td><td>France<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/halle.emory.edu\/student-opportunities\/misha-stekl.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">M\u00ed\u0161a Stekl<\/a><\/td><td>Perishing from Absolute Knowledge with Foucault, Nietzsche, and Queer Theory<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Halle Institute Undergraduate Global Research Fellows Program awards fellowships to undergraduate juniors who propose research outside the United States for their<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/halle\/awardees\/undergraduate\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5101,"featured_media":0,"parent":47,"menu_order":-1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templeat-full-width.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-150","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/halle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/halle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/halle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/halle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/halle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/halle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/halle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150\/revisions\/315"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/halle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/halle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}