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. 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.
Fall 2009 Participants
| 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: | Prof. Barrymore Bogues |
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| Eleanor Chute | HIV/AIDS and Ethnic Identity in Yunnan, China
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| Julian Gaertner | Emerging Global Security Regimes in the Financial Sector
| Study Abroad Program: | Brown-in-France: Sciences Po | | Concentration: | International Relations & Economics | | Faculty Advisor: | Prof. Philippe Bonditti |
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| Marina Irgon | The Effects of the Current Global Economic Crisis on the Czech Republic: An Interdisciplinary Study
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| Charles Kelsh | Challenges to the Modern Swedish Welfare State
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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: | Prof. 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 Math and Economics | | Faculty Advisor: | Prof. 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: | Prof. Lina Fruzzetti |
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| Andrew Newton | The Study of Modern Italian Humor and Its Cultural and Literary Roots
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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: | | | Faculty Advisor: | Prof. 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: | Prof. Kathryn De Master |
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| Akinyi Shapiro | Intersection of Adolescent Pregnancy and HIV/AIDS in Salvador, Brazil
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| Zak Stone | Hearing the Voices of Havana’s Urban Agriculturists: An Ethnographic Investigation and Practicum
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| Christopher Wichmann | Post Soviet Ukrainian-Russian Relations
| Study Abroad Program: | Middlebury College in Moscow | | Concentration: | International Relations & Economics | | Faculty Advisor: | Prof. Sergei Khrushchev |
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