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To earn honors, INTS majors must complete a one-credit Honors Thesis. The thesis is an opportunity for students with a strong academic record in the major to work closely with an INTS faculty member and to pursue independent research beyond the level attained in the Senior Seminar. Students are encouraged to use their language skills, the courses they have taken toward the major, and their experiences abroad to shape their area of inquiry and to determine their methodology. Students pursuing the thesis option will ordinarily take the Senior Seminar in the fall of their senior year and the one-credit Honors Thesis in the spring, although preparation and research for the thesis should begin well ahead of time. Applications for the thesis are typically due to the Director in late October.<\/p>\n

2025 Thesis Writers and Titles<\/h3>\n
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Alicia Grande<\/strong> “Narrating North Korea: Geopolitical Interests and Media Desires in China and South Korea”<\/p>\n

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2024 Thesis Writers and Titles<\/h3>\n

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Colleen Quinn<\/strong> “Navigating the Inter-American Human Rights System: An Analysis of its Role Mapuche Activism”<\/p>\n

Emeline Avignon<\/strong> “Zamrock: Negotiating Masculine Urban Identity in Zambia and Music Success in a Postcolonial World”<\/p>\n

Hannah Lorenzo<\/strong> “Mapping Asian and Asian-American Community Formations in Hartford through Culturally-Related Business”<\/p>\n

Albert Ananyan<\/strong> “Divergent Pathways: The Dynamics of Rural Political Participation in Dilijan Enlarged Community”<\/p>\n

Dansowa Adu<\/strong> “They Have Returned: African Americans, Ghanaians and State Cultivation of Diasporic Desires”<\/p>\n

John Li<\/strong> “Oysters in a Half Shell: An Environmental History of Fishing in Shenzhen from 1960-2000”<\/p>\n

2023 Thesis Writers and Titles<\/h3>\n

Anna\u00a0Tr\u1ea7n<\/strong> \u201cUnearthing Buried Narratives: The Vietnamese Diaspora through 21st Century Literary and Cultural Productions\u201d<\/p>\n

Karina Amador<\/strong> \u201cUncovering the Complexities of Migration in Rural Villages: Insights from Ethnographic Research in Hidalgo, Mexico\u201d<\/p>\n

Malika Buscaino<\/strong> \u201cExperiencing Seine Saint Denis, A Parisian Suburb: An Immigrant Perspective\u201d<\/p>\n

Adyanna Odom<\/strong> \u201cB-Girls Run the World:\u00a0Global Acts of Resistance through Hip Hop Dance\u201d<\/p>\n

2022 Thesis Writers and Titles<\/h3>\n

Amelia Huba<\/strong> “Climate Refugees: The Rising Case for Immigration Reform”<\/p>\n

Sahian Jimenez<\/strong> “Sex Tourism as a Human Rights Issue in Jamaica”<\/p>\n

Brooke Samaratunga<\/strong> “The Camera as a Political Tool: Examining Photography and the Sri Lankan Civil War”<\/p>\n

Masho Jmukhadze<\/strong> “Russian Intervention in Post-Soviet Ethnic Conflicts in its Near Abroad: A Case Study of\u00a0bkhazeti (Georgia) and its Implications for Post-Independence Politics”<\/p>\n

Carolina Villasenor<\/strong> “Neoliberalism and the Environment: AMLO and Mexico’s Cuarta Transformation”<\/p>\n

2021 Thesis Writers and Titles<\/h3>\n

Courtney Robb<\/strong> “Women in Charge: An Examination of Normative and Non-Normative Islamic Faith Based Gender Justice”
\nChang Gao<\/strong> “Filtered Beauty and Cyber-Nationalism in China”
\nConcilia Ndlovu<\/strong> “The Lottery Ticket” (non-fiction short story) & “The Psychological Consequences of Western and Postcolonial Education in\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Africa” (short-form essay)
\nSuyang Wu<\/strong> “Safeguarding Guardianship: Capital and Political Cohesion in the Kettaniyya Order, 1909-1909”<\/p>\n

2020 Thesis Writers and Titles<\/h3>\n

Hamna Tariq<\/strong> \u201cThe Permanent Liminality of Pakistan’s Northern Areas: The Case of Gilgit Baltistan\u201d
\nKaytlin Ernske<\/strong> \u201cThe Dragon’s Neocolonial White Elephant: China’s Urban Infrastructure in Lusaka, Zambia\u201d
\nGillian Reinhard<\/strong> \u201cOrientalist Opera: Western Perceptions of the Other in the Early 20th Century\u201d
\nJohn Gillespie<\/strong> \u201cKick it Out & Keep it Out: Racism in the English Premier League since 2014\u201d
\nElisabed Gedevanishvili<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cEmbedded Plutocracy: A Spectacle of Reform in Post-Revolutionary Georgia\u201d<\/p>\n

2019 Thesis Writers and Titles<\/h3>\n

Hannah Grosberg<\/strong> \u201cBodies and Borders: Navigating Colonial and Capitalist Desires in Trinidad and Tobago\u201d
\nNicola Kostic<\/strong> \u201c’Go West and Also Go Global’: An Analysis of China’s Double Turn and Convergence at the Dawn of the 21st Century\u201d<\/p>\n

2018 Thesis Writers and Titles<\/h3>\n

Noor Malik<\/strong> \u201cCPEC: Balancing the Benefits and Burdens\u201d
\nMallika Khanna<\/strong> \u201cFailure and the Feminist Gaze: Contesting the \u2018Female Empowerment\u2019 Narrative in Contemporary Bollywood Films\u201d
\nKate Dietrich-Manion<\/strong> \u201cNeoshamanism Now: Condors, Eagles, and Itzhak Beery\u201d
\nDominique Ramsawak<\/strong> \u201c\u2018Indian Gyal Nuh Easy\u2019: Indo-Trinidadian Negotiations of Femininity and Sexuality through Carnival\u201d
\nYassine Halila<\/strong> \u201cThe Unsung Heroes of the Revolution: Organized Football Fandom and the \u2018Ultras\u2019 Phenomenon in Tunisia\u201d<\/p>\n

2017 Thesis Writers and Titles<\/h3>\n

\"2017Warren von Weise<\/strong> \u201cThe Forgotten Assassinations: Dr. Malcolm H. Kerr & Ambassador Adolph Dubois\u201d
\nSerena Seaman<\/strong> \u201cThe Politics of Hiking in Israel\/Palestine: A Colonization Guide\u201d
\nFrancesca Oliveira<\/strong> \u201cHow to Prove the Existence of a Ghost\u201d
\nChris Filpo<\/strong> \u201cSurviving in Urban Cities: Sociological Perspectives of Black and Latino Americans in the United States\u2019 Era of Mass-Incarceration (1960s-present)\u201d
\nElizabeth Valenzuela<\/strong> \u201cChallenging Dominance: The Case of Hindu Musicians, Women, and Youth in Trinidad\u201d
\nSamantha Constantinou<\/strong> \u201cA Comparative Approach on Latin American Immigration to the U.S., Past and Present: Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua\u201d
\nChinmay Rayarikar<\/strong> \u201cRwanda: Development Towards Authoritarianism\u201d
\nJamie Brandel<\/strong> \u201cA Voice for the Voiceless: The UNPO and the Dalai Lama\u201d
\nAlexa Anderson<\/strong> \u201cFrom Liberation to Occupation: Orientalism Within the Context of the U.S. Occupation of Iraq\u201d<\/p>\n

2016 Thesis Writers and Titles<\/h3>\n

\"2016Lara Abiona <\/strong>\u201cOf Maps, Margins, and Storylines: Sociologically Imagining Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u2019s Americanah and The Thing Around Your Neck\u201d
\nIan Robinson<\/strong> \u201cThe Commodity City \u2013 Small Business and the State in Yiwu, China\u201d
\nSchirin Schenkermayr<\/strong> \u201cA Flower Between the Cracks: How Contemporary Theater Defies the Fragmentation of Palestine\u201d
\nIchi Ha<\/strong> \u201cShamanistic Traditions in Vietnam: Comparative Studies of Thai Shamanism and the Mother Goddess Practice\u201d
\nJake Villareal<\/strong> \u201cStructural Failure: Identifying the Sites of Resistance in the Partnership Between Israel and Heidelberg Cement\u201d<\/p>\n

2015 Thesis Writers and Titles<\/h3>\n

\"2015Alex Brown<\/strong> \u201cWho to Call in Europe\u201d
\nAlex Hermsen<\/strong> \u201cViolence in Colombian and Cambodian Film: Truth, Past, and Memory\u201d
\nCaroline Hayes<\/strong> \u201c\u2018Out\u2019 in the Open: The Price of Visibility in the Queen Boat Scandal\u201d
\nCarolyn Kimmick<\/strong> \u201c\u2018Prisoner of a Stunted Progress Model\u2019: Ana Tijoux and her Critique of the \u2018Chilean Miracle\u2019\u201d
\nFayola Fraser<\/strong> \u201cJews and Arabs in Argentina: A Study of the Integration, Interactions, and Ethnic Identification of Argentina’s Migrant Groups\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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