Senior  Thesis  Titles   Fall  2011  and  Spring  2012       Abigail  Brown   Supervisor:  Kyoko  Sato     Global  Elites  and  Alterglobalization:  The  Case  of  the  World  Social  Forum       Timothy  Lambert   Supervisor:  Kevin  Caffrey     Beyond  Patron  and  Client:  Corruption,  Democracy,  and  the  Aid  Industry  in  Kenya       Abdelnasser  Rashid   Supervisor:    Richard  Tuck     On  a  Federal  Solution  to  the  Israeli-­‐Palestine  Conflict       Amy  Smekar   Supervisor:  Rebecca  Galemba     Closet  Communities:  A  Study  of  Queer  Life  in  Cairo       Natali  Alcala-­‐Moreno   Supervisor:  Ioanna  Tourkochoriti     Mexico  Against  Organized  Crime:  Fear,  Security  and  War       Tarek  Austin   Supervisor:  Ruxandra  Paul     The  End  of  Europe?  Turkey  at  the  Cultural  Border  of  the  European  Union       Ita  Barton-­‐Kettleborough   Supervisor:  Carla  Yumatle     Are  Human  Rights  Universal?  An  Examination  of  the  Philosophical  Justification  of  Human   Rights Anthony  Bator   Supervisor:  Terry  Aladjem     Effect  of  Finality  on  Racial  Discrimination  in  Contemporary  American  Death  Penalty  Practice       Elizabeth  Bloom   Supervisor:  Christopher  Winship     Burden  of  Rhee-­‐form:  The  Politics  of  Education  and  Race  in  the  2010  Mayoral  Election  in   Washington,  D.C.       Tyler  Brandon   Supervisor:  Jennifer  Darrah     "Blended  Roles"  of  Community  Health  Agents  in  Brazil's  Universal  Primary  Health  Care   System       Jessica  Ch'ng   Supervisor:  Keridwen  Luis     Life  Under  the  Knife:  Ethnic  Cosmetic  Surgery,  Consumerism,  and  Agency       Mihir  Chaudhary   Supervisor:  SV  Sumbramanian     Through  These  Eyes:  Gendered  Epistemology  and  Agency  in  North  India's  Village  Democracies       Samantha  Cohen   Supervisor:  Andrew  Jewett     Price  of  Pop:  An  Examination  of  the  Commercial  Market  for  the  Artwork  of  Andy  Warhol       Alissa  Costello   Supervisor:  Caroline  Elkins     Towards  a  New  Synthesis  of  the  Individual  and  Society:  Reconceptualizing  Liberation  in   Postcolonial  Tanzania Alexander  Cox   Supervisor:  Oscar  Grauer     Drugs,  Guns,  and  Plazas?  Public  Space  and  “Post-­‐Conflict”  Revitalization  in  Contemporary   Bogotá  and  Medellín,  Colombia       Katie  Dahlinghaus   Supervisor:  Jennifer  Darrah     Constructions  of  Rural  Poverty:  Navigating  Economic  Insecurity  in  an  Appalachian  Ohio   Village       Hillary  Ditmars   Supervisor:  Erin  Mosley     Exploring  the  "Grey  Matter"  of  Trauma:  Using  Film  to  Reframe  Conceptions  of  Mental  Health   in  Post-­‐Genocide  Rwanda       Avishai  Don   Supervisor:  Leonard  Wood     Discursive  Theater  of  War:  An  Analysis  of  Popular  Intellectual  Discourse  on  the  Israeli-­‐ Palestinian  Conflict  in  the  United  States,  2001-­‐2011       Roisin  Duffy-­‐Gideon   Supervisor:  Ted  Macdonald     María  Lionza:  Ritual,  Community,  and  the  Generation  of  Culture  in  Contemporary  Venezuela         Maya  Espada   Supervisor:  Ted  Macdonald     Believing  Boys  Will  Be  Boys:  A  Cultural  Analysis  of  Gendered  Approaches  to  HIV  Prevention  in   Chile Kirkpatrick  Fergus   Supervisor:  Kevin  Caffrey     Linking  Democracy  to  Ethnic  Violence:  The  Origin  and  Resurgence  of  the  Kurdish-­‐Turkish   Conflict  in  Turkey       Madeleine  Fleming   Supervisor:  Darra  Mulderry     Preach  What  We  Practice:  Boston  Catholics  Call  for  Change  in  the  Church       Ross  Ford   Supervisor:  Brendan  Karch     Enigmatic  Year:  Neorealist  Politics,  Nationalism,  and  Irredentism  in  the  First  Balkan  War       Adam  Gann   Supervisor:  Michael  Frazer     Facts,  Normative  Political  Theory,  and  the  Reshaping  of  American  Distributive  Justice       Chloe  Goodwin   Supervisor:  Leonard  Wood     Interpretations  and  Machinations:  Rethinking  the  Historical  Role  of  International  Law  in   Israeli  Settlement  Policy       Peter  Grbac   Supervisor:  Nicole  Newendorp     Spaces  of  Conflict:  Gypsy/Roma  Migration  and  the  French  Urban  Experience       Elias  Groll   Supervisor:  Ayca  Cubukcu     Mainstream  Radicals:  Right-­‐Wing  Populism,  Race,  and  Nation  in  Sweden Benjamin  Hand   Supervisor:  Richard  Tuck     Utilitarianism  and  Democracy:  From  Bentham  to  Austin       Elizabeth  Heller   Supervisor:  Shauna  Shames     The  Meaning  of  Choice:  A  Study  of  Self-­‐Help  Books  Written  for  Women  on  Breastfeeding  and   Sexual  Partners,  1975-­‐1985       Anita  Hofschneider   Supervisor:  Jennifer  Darrah     Taotao  Tano  "People  of  the  Land":  Discourse  on  Immigration  in  Politics  and  the  Media  in  the   Northern  Mariana  Islands,  2007-­‐2011       Zachariah  Hughes   Supervisor:  Louis  Menand     Masks  of  Glamour,  Screens  of  Discipline:  The  History  of  Sunglasses  in  America       Alexis  Ixtlahuac   Supervisor:  Terry  Aladjem     American  Family  Structure:  The  Influence  of  Supreme  Court  Ideology  on  Family  Law  from   1972-­‐2000       Jean-­‐Paul  Jacquet   Supervisor:  Jennifer  Hochschild     Genetic  Evidence:  A  Foucauldian  Critique  of  the  Collection  and  Maintenance  of  DNA  Evidence   in  the  United  States       Niharika  Jain   Supervisor:  Anush  Kapadia     Political  Economy  of  Public  Primary  Education  in  India Anita  Joseph   Supervisor:  Marcia  Castro     Pills  Over  Practitioners:  Conceptual  Consequences  of  the  Distortion  of  Primary  Health  Care  in   Tanzania       Jonathan  Kaufman   Supervisor:  Kevin  Caffrey     Islam(s)  on  the  Border:  Authenticity,  Imagined  Geographies,  and  Ethnic  Boundaries  in  Chinese   and  Burmese  Muslim  Communities       Jaymin  Kim   Supervisor:  Nicolas  Prevelakis     Legacies  of  the  Minjung:  Democratization  and  Anti-­‐U.S.  Sentiments  in  21st  Century  South   Korea       Andrew  Klein   Supervisor:  Malika  Zeghal     Statue  Suddenly  Awakens:  History,  Historiography  and  Memory  in  a  National  Museum  in   Lebanon       Anne  La   Supervisor:  Nicole  Newendorp     Centering  the  Periphery:  The  Preservation  of  Cantonese  Regional  Identity  in  a  Changing   Guangzhou       Sabrina  Lee   Supervisor:  Keridwen  Luis     "Flower  Folds  Open":  Reimagining  the  Social  World  in  the  Madea  Project  Theater Ga  Eun  Lee   Supervisor:  James  Robson     Re-­‐envisioning  Kinship:  Negotiation  of  Confucian  and  Christian  Identities  by  Modern  Korean   Christians  Through  the  Lens  of  Death  Rituals       Kristy  Luk   Supervisor:  Chiwen  Bao     Remembering  the  Teacher:  Teachers'  Perceptions  of  Rationalization  in  the  Experiential   Realities  of  the  Classroom       Lange  Luntao   Supervisor:  Laure  de  Vulpillieres     Culture  of  Challenge:  The  Role  of  Institutional  Context  in  Conservative  Student  Activism       Eleanor  Martin   Supervisor:  Libby  Newman     Education  for  a  Modern  Democracy:  Building  the  Framework  for  a  Contemporary  American   Civic  Education  Program       Dylan  Matthews   Supervisor:  Thomas  Scanlon     Get  Happy:  A  Defense  of  Act  Utilitarianism       Abigail  Modaff   Supervisor:  Christopher  Meckstroth     Dilemmas  of  Popular  Revolutions:  Popular  Sovereignty  and  the  Crowd  in  Post-­‐Revolutionary   America  and  Russia       Naseemah  Mohamed   Supervisor:  Doris  Sommer     The  Art  of  Literacy:  A  Post-­‐Colonial  Pedagogical  Intervention  in  Zimbabwe Timothy  Moore   Supervisor:  Ted  Macdonald     (Re)creating  Ethnic  Territories:  The  Formation  of  Afro-­‐Columbian  Identity  in  a  Context  of   Violence       Anna  Murphy   Supervisor:  Louis  Menand     Corporate  Culture:  Cold  War  Management  Theory  and  the  Revaluation  of  the  White-­‐Collar   Workplace       Kevin  Neylan   Supervisor:  Rodrigo  Chacon     Revitalizing  Practical  Philosophy:  Heidegger,  Aristotle,  and  the  Roots  of  Theory       Fallon  O'Dowd   Supervisor:  Karam  Dana     Female  African  American  Muslims:  Race  Relations  in  the  Islamic  Community  in  Roxbury       Bronwen  O'Herin   Supervisor:  Andrew  Jewett     Philosophy,  Politics,  and  the  Science  of  Experience:  John  Dewey  and  the  Frankfurt  School       Lucy  O'Leary   Supervisor:  Chiwen  Bao     A  Paternalistic  Pedagogy  for  the  Oppressed:  Power  and  Resistance  in  L.A.'s  Educational   Marketplace       Emily  Osborne   Supervisor:  Kathryn  Boodry     Shouting  Points:  News  Media  and  the  Decline  of  American  Political  Discourse Alex  Palmer   Supervisor:  Brendan  Karch     “They  Will  Rule  Over  the  Desert”:  Refugees  and  Political  Legitimacy  in  Post-­‐Genocidal   Societies       Robert  Paris   Supervisor:  Healan  Gaston     Tax  Exemption  and  the  Postwar  Politicization  of  Religion  in  America,  1950-­‐1980       Seth  Pearce   Supervisor:  Tommie  Shelby     What's  So  Bad  About  Educational  Inequality?       Olivia  Pei   Supervisor:  Jennifer  Brea     Hearts  of  Gold  and  Hearts  of  Stone:  A  Combined  Game  Theoretic  and  Ethnographic  Approach   to  Understanding  Sino-­‐Ethiopian  Joint  Ventures       Nelia  Peña   Supervisor:  Doris  Sommer     "Breaking  the  Chains  That  Silence  Our  Souls":  Las  Krudas,  Cuban  Hip  Hop,  and  Agency       Jazmin  Perez   Supervisor:  Chana  Teeger     Engaging  in  Another  Country's  Schools:  How  Trust  and  Criticism  Affect  Parental  Involvement   Among  Immigrant  Parents       Noah  Rayman   Supervisor:  Evann  Smith     Press  in  Egypt:  Evaluating  the  Role  of  the  Press  as  an  Indicator  of  Democratization Addie  Rolnick   Supervisor:  Sheila  Jasanoff     Seed  Politics:  Genetically  Modified  Eggplant  and  Shifting  Agricultural  Imaginaries  in  India       Emelyn  Rude   Supervisor:  Joyce  Chaplin     Tastes  Like  Chicken:  A  History  of  Making  and  Eating  Meat  in  America       Tyler  Runge   Supervisor:  Anya  Bernstein     Politics,  Values,  and  Foster  Families:    The  Development  of  Kinship  Care  in  the  United  States,   1979-­‐2008       Yvette  Saenz   Supervisor:  Lucas  Fain     Experiments  in  Subjectivity:  The  Anti-­‐Psychiatry  Movement       Robert  Santamaria   Supervisor:  Meghan  Healy     "It  Takes  a  Team  to  Win  a  Game":  Resources,  Culture  and  Networking  in  the  Soccer  for  Social   Development  Movement  in  South  Africa       Erica  Senat   Supervisor:  Christopher  Winship     Giving  With  Expectations  and  Expectations  of  Giving:  Philanthropic  Decision-­‐Making  in  the   Second  Coming  of  the  Gilded  Age       Huma  Shah   Supervisor:  Malika  Zeghal     Negotiating  Islamic  and  Secular  Judicial  Interpretation  in  Pakistan