The Office of International Programs is pleased to recognize the following Brown undergraduate students who will be carrying out Global Independent Study Projects while studying abroad during the fall term, 2009 and the spring term, 2010. Brown encourages all prospective study abroad participants to consider the value of conducting a Global Independent Study Project. For more information on this exciting new initiative, click here.
| Julie Boldt |
From Painting to the Art Object: An Exploration into French Textiles
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown in France (Paris) |
| Concentration: |
Visual Art/History of Art and Architecture |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Leslie Bostrum |
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| Laken Hottle |
Study of Russian Sign Language with a Comparison of Russian and American Deaf Culture
| Study Abroad Program: |
Middlebury College (Yaroslavl) |
| Concentration: |
Slavic Studies |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Arkady Belozovsky |
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| Thomas Jarus |
Immigrant Identity in Contemporary French Literature: The Integration, Marginalization, and Formation of African Communities in France
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown in France (Paris) |
| Concentration: |
Comparative Literature |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Thangam Ravindranathan |
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| Celi Khanyile-Lynch |
The Development of African Studies in Post-Apartheid South Africa
| Study Abroad Program: |
CIEE (Cape Town, South Africa) |
| Concentration: |
Africana Studies/International Relations |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Corkey Walker |
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| Deborah Lai |
Financial Institutions and Entrepreneurship in China
| Study Abroad Program: |
Columbia University (Beijing) |
| Concentration: |
Economics/East Asian Studies |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Maria Carkovic |
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| Julia Longoria |
Composing Constitutions: The Law and Literature of Constitutional Spain and Cuba
| Study Abroad Program: |
Boston University (Madrid) |
| Concentration: |
Comparative Literature |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Esther Whitfield |
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| Jacob Scharfman |
Bologna, Italy as a Didactical and Scholarly Destination for Notable Musical Figures of Eighteenth-Century Europe
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown in Bologna |
| Concentration: |
Music: Theory and Composition |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Louis Frederick Jodry V |
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| Nara Shin |
The 19th Century French Pipe Organ and its Literature
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown in France (Paris) |
| Concentration: |
Music |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Mark Steinbach |
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| Rebecca Specking |
Immigration and Integration in Spain
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown in Barcelona |
| Concentration: |
International Relations |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Jessaca Leinaweaver |
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| Amelia Stanton |
Manifestations and Explorations of Trauma in the Work of Marguerite Duras
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown in France (Lyon) |
| Concentration: |
Comparative Literature |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Sanda Colopentia/Gretchen Shultz |
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| Elizabeth Stein |
An Analysis of Refugee Policy and Exclusionary Mechanisms of Asylum Seekers in France
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown in France (Paris) |
| Concentration: |
Public Policy/French Studies |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Hilary Silver |
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| Shawn Verma |
Cars, Trains, Buses, and Planes: Capturing Three Countries' Conversations on Transportation
| Study Abroad Program: |
IHP: Health and Community Track |
| Concentration: |
Community Health |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Timothy Empkie |
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| Natasha Kumar |
Cars, Trains, Buses, and Planes: Capturing Three Countries' Conversations on Transportation
| Study Abroad Program: |
IHP: Health and Community Track |
| Concentration: |
Community Health/Public Policy |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Timothy Empkie |
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| Kyle Wynter-Stoner |
Poetics of Space in the Sahara Desert
| Study Abroad Program: |
Middlebury College (Jordan) |
| Concentration: |
Comparative Literature |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Miled Faiza |
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| Chong Yang |
American Study Abroad Students' Integration to Japanese Culture
| Study Abroad Program: |
CIEE (Tokyo) |
| Concentration: |
Sociology |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Nancy Luke |
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| Emily Yi |
Crime, Psychology, and Comparative Legal Systems in the United States and United Kingdom
| Study Abroad Program: |
University College, London |
| Concentration: |
Cognitive, Linguistics, and Psychological Studies |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Brian Hayden |
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| Inni Youh |
The Political Economy of the European Financial Crisis
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown in France (Paris) |
| Concentration: |
Political Science/Economics |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Mark Blyth |
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| Jocelyn Bell |
Alternative Forms of Social Reintegration for Victims of Sex Trafficking
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown in India |
| Concentration: |
Development Studies |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Lina Fruzzetti |
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| Jennifer Harlan |
An American in Paris: Travel Writing in the City of Lights
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown in France (Paris) |
| Concentration: |
Comparative Literature-Literary Translation |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Jonathan Readey |
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| Betty Hua |
Curriculum and Cultural Identity Development in Post-Dictatorship Chile
| Study Abroad Program: |
SIT Chile |
| Concentration: |
Education Studies, Sociology |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Cynthia Garcia Coll |
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| Kara Kaufman |
Producer Responsibility and Industrial Ecology: A European Perspective
| Study Abroad Program: |
DIS (Copenhagen) |
| Concentration: |
Environmental Studies |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Christopher Bull |
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| Nicole Noronha |
Contemporary Challenges for the British National Health Service
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown in the UK (Oxford) |
| Concentration: |
Human Biology |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Albert Wessen |
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| Julia Sheehy-Chan |
Christians and Circassians: An Examination of the Situational Constraints Facing Minorities
| Study Abroad Program: |
CIEE in Jordan |
| Concentration: |
International Relations |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Melani Cammett |
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| Jennifer Tanaka |
Drumming in Modern Japanese Society
| Study Abroad Program: |
Waseda University (Japan) |
| Concentration: |
International Relations, Psychology |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Robert Lee |
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| Yuri Tomikawa |
Institutionalized Asian Regional Coperation from a Japanese Perspective
| Study Abroad Program: |
Seoul National University |
| Concentration: |
East Asian Studies |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Kerry Smith |
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| Robert Webber |
The Chilean Classroom: A Comparison between the US and the Chilean Perspectives on Child education with an Evaluation of the Experience of Chilean Children in the Classroom
| Study Abroad Program: |
Middlebury College in Chile |
| Concentration: |
Education Studies |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Cynthia Garcia Coll |
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| Dan Alexander |
The History of US-Cuban Relations
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown-in-Cuba |
| Concentration: |
History |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Prof. Evelyn Hu-Dehart |
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| Melanie Berkowitz |
Food Sovereignty and Social Movements in Argentina: Current Issues and Social Reactions to Land Tenure, Water Rights and Local Agriculture
| Study Abroad Program: |
IFSA Butler, Argentina |
| Concentration: |
Development Studies |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Prof. Kathryn De Master |
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| Alejandro Brambila |
Decentralization and Restructuring of Agriculture during Cuba's "Special Period"
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown-in-Cuba |
| Concentration: |
Biology |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Prof. Peter Heywood |
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| Lizette Chaparro |
Cuban Architecture and Identity
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown-in-Cuba |
| Concentration: |
Urban Studies |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Prof. Dietrich Neumann |
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| Jessica Daniels |
Memories, Materials and Motifs: A Gobal Mixed-Media Travelogue
| Study Abroad Program: |
International Honors Program (Tanzania, India, New Zealand, Mexico) |
| Concentration: |
Environmental Studies & Visual Arts |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Prof. Wendy Edwards |
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| Sarah Foster |
Religion and Nationalism in Ecuador: The Conservative Catholic Nation-Building Project of Gabriel Garcia Moreno and its Critics
| Study Abroad Program: |
BCA Quito, Ecuador |
| Concentration: |
History |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Prof. James Green |
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| Ana Fox-Hodess |
Art of Memory: The Cultural Legacy of the Military Dictatorship in Chile
| Study Abroad Program: |
IES, Santiago |
| Concentration: |
Latin American Studies/Visual Art |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Prof. James Green |
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| Sarah Grimm |
A Sociological and Photographic Investigation of Immigrant Organizations in Barcelona, Spain
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown-in-Spain (CASB) |
| Concentration: |
Development Studies/Visual Art |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Prof. Jose Itzigsohn |
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| Sarah Grossman |
Measuring Social Entrepreneurship in Argentina
| Study Abroad Program: |
CIEE, Argentina |
| Concentration: |
International Relations |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Prof. Geoffrey Kirkman |
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| Samuel Karshenboym |
A Cross-Cultural Study on Health Disparities in France
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown-in-France (Paris) |
| Concentration: |
Sociology and French |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Prof. Ann Dill |
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| Rebecca Levinson |
Culture, Geography, and Autobiography: Documentary Experiments in Visual Arts
| Study Abroad Program: |
NYU, Berlin |
| Concentration: |
History and Art History |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Prof. Daniel Stupar |
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| Dung Nguyen Va |
Civil Society: Working with Women in Modern China
| Study Abroad Program: |
ACC, Hamilton College-in-China |
| Concentration: |
Economics and International Relations |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Prof. John Logan |
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| Chennan Peng |
The Comparison of France-China Relations During the Presidencies of de Gaulle and Sarkozy
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown-in-France (Paris) |
| Concentration: |
International Relations |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Cornel Baw |
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| Miriam Silk |
Alamar: Public Housing and Cultural Production in La Habana del Êste
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown-in-Cuba |
| Concentration: |
Urban Studies |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Prof. Esther Whitfield |
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| Anthony Urena |
Shades of Brazil: AIDS and Afro-Brazilian Identity in Modern Brazil
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown-in-Brazil |
| Concentration: |
Human Biology |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Prof. James Green |
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| Daniel Velazquez |
A Study of the Cuban Economy with Respect to the Connections Between Agriculture, Fuel, Labor and Politics
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown-in-Cuba |
| Concentration: |
Hispanic Studies and Economics |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Prof. George Borts |
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Liz Adler
Francis Gonzales
Jordan Worthington |
Approches to Health and Development in the Field (Group GLISP)
| Study Abroad Program: |
International Honors Program on Health and the Community (Francis and Jordan will travel to Brazil, Vietnam and South Africa; Elizabeth Adler will travel to India, China and South Africa |
| Concentration: |
Liz: Development Studies
Francis: Development Studies
Jordan: Development Studies |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Melani Cammett |
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| Benjamin Hymen |
Jews and Muslims in/of France
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown in France: Sciences Po-Lyon |
| Concentration: |
International Relations, Comparative Literature |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Maud Mandel |
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| Liana Ogden |
Biblical Bestiaries: Animals and the Symbolic in French Gothic Architecture
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown in France: Vincennes - Staint-Denis |
| Concentration: |
Semiotics/French |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Melissa Katz |
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| Krystie Onibokun |
Australia's Current Reforms on its Financial Markets in Response to the Current Economic Crisis
| Study Abroad Program: |
University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Concentration: |
Economics |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Peter Howitt |
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| Lillian Patil |
Argentinean-Brazilian Relations through the Lens of Nuclear Issues
| Study Abroad Program: |
CIEE: Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Concentration: |
International Relations |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Catherine Kelleher |
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| Nicolette Rodriguez |
Continuing American Sign Language Studies with a Comparison Between the American Deaf Experience and Argentinean Deaf Experience
| Study Abroad Program: |
IES: Bueno Aires Advanced Spanish Honors Program, Argentina |
| Concentration: |
Community Health, Hispanic Literature and Culture |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Arkady Belozovsky |
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| Deanna Saunders |
Exploring Sexualtiy in Cape Town through Literary Journalism
| Study Abroad Program: |
Interstudy: University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Concentration: |
Psychology |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Doug Brown |
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| Jenna Stark |
The Basque Separatist Movement: Examination of a Terrorist Movement and its Political Consequences
| Study Abroad Program: |
Arcadia: University of Granada, Spain |
| Concentration: |
International Relations |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Pauline Luong |
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| Brianna Willamson |
Evaluation Methods for Sport and Development Organizations
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brethren Colleges Abroad: Quito, Ecuador |
| Concentration: |
Development Studies |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Mary Fennell |
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| Sarah Abarbanel |
Race, Art and Politics: Representing the Human in Post-Apartheid South Africa
| Study Abroad Program: |
CIEE: Cape Town, South Africa |
| Concentration: |
Visual Arts |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Barrymore Bogues |
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| Eleanor Chute |
HIV/AIDS and Ethnic Identity in Yunnan, China
| Study Abroad Program: |
SIT Kunming, China |
| Concentration: |
Human Biology |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Patricia Symonds |
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| Julian Gaertner |
Emerging Global Security Regimes in the Financial Sector
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown-in-France: Sciences Po |
| Concentration: |
Interational Relations, Economics |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Philippe Bonditti |
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| Marina Irgon |
The Effects of the Current Global Economic Crisis on the Czech Republic: An Interdisciplinary Study
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown-in-The Czech Republic |
| Concentration: |
Slavic Studies |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Alexander Levitsky |
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| Charles Kelsh |
Challenges to the Modern Swedish Welfare State
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown-in-Sweden |
| Concentration: |
Public Policy, Sociology |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Marilyn Rueschemeyer |
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| Michelle Levinson |
A Study of the Cuban Agenda for a Changing Relationship with the U.S.
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown-in-Cuba |
| Concentration: |
International Relations, Political Economy |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Julio Ortega |
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| Megan Lin |
A Contemporary Analysis of Monetary Economic Policy in the United Kingdom
| Study Abroad Program: |
London School of Economics |
| Concentration: |
Applied Mathematics, Economics |
| Faculty Advisor: |
George Borts |
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| Ambika Natesh |
Tradition, Islam and Gender in Jordan
| Study Abroad Program: |
CIEE: Amman, Jordan |
| Concentration: |
International Relations |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Lina Fruzzetti |
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| Andrew Newton |
The Study of Modern Italian Humor and Its Cultural and Literary Roots
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown-in-Italy |
| Concentration: |
Italian Studies, History |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Cristina Abbona-Sneider |
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| Celina Pedrosa |
Brazilian Exiles in Paris During the Military Dictatorship: Discovering Identity and Culture in the Brazilian-French Relationship
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown-in-France: The Sorbonne |
| Concentration: |
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| Faculty Advisor: |
James Green |
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| Lucy Sedgwick |
The Culture of Organic Farming: A Comparison Between the United States and Italy
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown-in-Italy |
| Concentration: |
Environmental Studies, English |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Kathryn De Master |
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| Akinyl Shapiro |
Intersection of Adolescent Pregnancy and HIV/AIDS in Salvador, Brazil
| Study Abroad Program: |
SIT: Brazil |
| Concentration: |
Community Health |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Patricia Sobral |
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| Zak Stone |
Hearing the Voices of Havan's Urban Agriculturists: An Ethnographic Investigation and Practicum
| Study Abroad Program: |
Brown-in-Cuba |
| Concentration: |
Anthropology |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Mattew Gutmann |
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| Christopher Wichmann |
Post Soviet Ukrainian-Russian Relations
| Study Abroad Program: |
Middlebury College in Moscow |
| Concentration: |
International Relations, Economics |
| Faculty Advisor: |
Sergei Khrushchev |
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