GSMS Capstone Theses
Expand the accordions below for Capstone titles of GSMS Alumni
Class of 2021
| Student Name | Title of Capstone Thesis |
| Preya Agam | Considering ‘Coolie’ Culture: An Analysis of West Indian and Global Cultural Understandings |
| Cecilia Barber | Revolutionizing “Refugee": Modern Problems Require Modern Definitions |
| Carolina Bunch | The YPJ and the U.S. as the City on the Hill |
| Hanna Davis | The Political Costs of King Abdullah II’s Neoliberal Agenda:A Change in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan’s State-Society Relations |
| Kat DesCamp-Renner | Pandemic Protests in Iran and Implications for Political Legitimacy |
| Shriya Dodwani | The Sindhi Diaspora: Disproportionately Impacted By the Partition of 1947 |
| Rachel Giachinta | Where Pakistan Stands Without Water: The Nexus Between Water & Human Displacement |
| Aleena Haidari | Foreign Intervention as a Source of Instability in Afghanistan |
| Grace Kendall | Pal-art-stine: Art as Resistance in the West Bank: An Analysis of Graffiti on the Separation Wall in Bethlehem and Jerusalem |
| Alyssa Price | Centering Victims’ Voices: How Persecuted Religious Minorities: Navigate the Islamic and International Legal Systems |
| Nithin Seelan | Caste and Communism: Contradiction, Collaboration, and Coalescence |
| Julia Stewart | The Coerced Vulnerability of Palestine to Climate Change Under Israeli Hydro-Hegemony |
| Ben Stoffel | Intervention, Subjugation, and Conflict: An Examination of International Intervention in Globally Southern Spaces |
| Fatomata Tambadou | Camp David Accords Reappraised: How the “Framework for Peace in the Middle East” Hindered the Self-Determination of Palestine |
Class of 2020
| Student Name | Title of Capstone Thesis |
| Alicia Furlan | Primary and Higher Education in Kerala, India: Success, Failures, and Patterns" |
| Ishani Pendse | The Human Body and Health as Microcosm and Model for Human Interactions with Nature: Examining Biomedicine and Ayurveda in the Contemporary Context |
| Marjan Saud | Religious Morality in Economic Structures: Pakistan and the Zakat System |
| Mel Throckmorton | Governing through infrastructure: The politics of urban water access in Cairo, Egypt |
| Reshma Shrestha | Would the Real Kashmir Please Stand up? Analysis of Kashmir conflict and Kashmiri subjects in Hindi Films |
| Sarah Daley | The Assignment of Humanitarian Legitimacy in Aid Operations of Italy and China |
| Sarah Roya | Female Education in Afghanistan: Access and Challenges |
| Shermeen Imam | Politics of Urdu in India |
Class of 2019
| Student Name | Title of Capstone Thesis |
| Fazlah Rahaman | Kurdish Nationalism and Islam |
| Grayson Rost | The Role of Civil Society Production within American Democracy Promotion in the Middle East |
| Isha Kelkar | Cultural Conceptions of Menstruation in India: An Analysis of Women's Health and Access to Healthcare |
| John Urbano | With Borders Like These, Who Needs Identities? An Analysis of the Border Conflict in the Western Sahara |
| Maha Ghori | The Production of Women's Silence During and After the Partition of India |
| Stearns Swetnam | Co-Production: Social Knowledge Production in Islamic Banking |
Class of 2018
| Student Name | Title of Capstone Thesis |
| Makeda Petiri | The Bidoons of Kuwait: A Human Rights Discourse |