Brown University - Office of International Programs

The Global Independent Study Initiative

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.

Spring 2012 Participants

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
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
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
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
Deborah Lai Financial Institutions and Entrepreneurship in China
Study Abroad Program: Columbia University (Beijing)
Concentration: Economics/East Asian Studies
Faculty Advisor: Maria Carkovic
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
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
Nara Shin The 19th Century French Pipe Organ and its Literature
Study Abroad Program: Brown in France (Paris)
Concentration: Music
Faculty Advisor: Mark Steinbach
Rebecca Specking Immigration and Integration in Spain
Study Abroad Program: Brown in Barcelona
Concentration: International Relations
Faculty Advisor: Jessaca Leinaweaver
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
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
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
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
Kyle Wynter-Stoner Poetics of Space in the Sahara Desert
Study Abroad Program: Middlebury College (Jordan)
Concentration: Comparative Literature
Faculty Advisor: Miled Faiza
Chong Yang American Study Abroad Students' Integration to Japanese Culture
Study Abroad Program: CIEE (Tokyo)
Concentration: Sociology
Faculty Advisor: Nancy Luke
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
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

Spring 2011 Participants

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
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
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
Kara Kaufman Producer Responsibility and Industrial Ecology: A European Perspective
Study Abroad Program: DIS (Copenhagen)
Concentration: Environmental Studies
Faculty Advisor: Christopher Bull
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
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
Jennifer Tanaka Drumming in Modern Japanese Society
Study Abroad Program: Waseda University (Japan)
Concentration: International Relations, Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Robert Lee
Yuri Tomikawa Institutionalized Asian Regional Coperation from a Japanese Perspective
Study Abroad Program: Seoul National University
Concentration: East Asian Studies
Faculty Advisor: Kerry Smith
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

Fall 2010 Participants

Dan Alexander The History of US-Cuban Relations
Study Abroad Program: Brown-in-Cuba
Concentration: History
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Evelyn Hu-Dehart
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
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
Lizette Chaparro Cuban Architecture and Identity
Study Abroad Program: Brown-in-Cuba
Concentration: Urban Studies
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Dietrich Neumann
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
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
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
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
Sarah Grossman Measuring Social Entrepreneurship in Argentina
Study Abroad Program: CIEE, Argentina
Concentration: International Relations
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Geoffrey Kirkman
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

Spring 2010 Participants

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Brianna Willamson Evaluation Methods for Sport and Development Organizations
Study Abroad Program: Brethren Colleges Abroad: Quito, Ecuador
Concentration: Development Studies
Faculty Advisor: Mary Fennell

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: Barrymore Bogues
Eleanor Chute HIV/AIDS and Ethnic Identity in Yunnan, China
Study Abroad Program: SIT Kunming, China
Concentration: Human Biology
Faculty Advisor: Patricia Symonds
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
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
Charles Kelsh Challenges to the Modern Swedish Welfare State
Study Abroad Program: Brown-in-Sweden
Concentration: Public Policy, Sociology
Faculty Advisor: Marilyn Rueschemeyer
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
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
Ambika Natesh Tradition, Islam and Gender in Jordan
Study Abroad Program: CIEE: Amman, Jordan
Concentration: International Relations
Faculty Advisor: Lina Fruzzetti
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
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: James Green
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
Akinyl Shapiro Intersection of Adolescent Pregnancy and HIV/AIDS in Salvador, Brazil
Study Abroad Program: SIT: Brazil
Concentration: Community Health
Faculty Advisor: Patricia Sobral
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
Christopher Wichmann Post Soviet Ukrainian-Russian Relations
Study Abroad Program: Middlebury College in Moscow
Concentration: International Relations, Economics
Faculty Advisor: Sergei Khrushchev
Updated: February 13, 2009