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Class of 2021
Andrea Dilao
Rodrigo Duterte’s “War on Drugs”: a Critical Analysis of the Relationship Between Philippine Security and Development
Annie Heath
Combatting Obstetric Racism
Bethanie Fletcher-Perez
The Role of Information and Ideas in Reshaping the Narrative in Venezuela: How Venezuelans Maneuver the Maduro Regime’s Seized Sectors of Society to Reclaim Their Voices Through Acts of Resistance
Bezawit Bogale
Participatory development and sustainable community engagement through the lens of localism (Podcast)
Charlotte Houghton
Education in India and Bangladesh: A Comparative Analysis
Clarissa Shelley | Revolutionizing American Public Education: Incorporating Social Justice and Non-Traditional Pedagogy
Cristina Zarhloul | Maternal Death Rates in the United States (Podcast)
Dina Tekaalem | Mental Health and Awareness within the Eritrean Diaspora
Francine Mananzan | Museums, Objects, and Discourse: Rethinking the Space Between Artists and the Public
Frank Valdez | Reimagining Community: Centering Impacted people in knowledge making (Multi-media website)
Hira Azher | Parwa: A podcast exploring South Asian American diasporic identities and how they relate to abolition and transformative justice
Jasmine Mao | Today and Tomorrow and the Day After: Creating Spaces of Care and Wellbeing in an Uncaring Place
Jennifer Flores | Latinx Urbanism: An Analysis of Contributions, Support, and Hindrances
Jieying Huang | The Asian American Experience then and now: as seen through the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II and anti-Asian sentiments during the COVID-19 pandemic
Katie Timothy | FOOD INSECURITY AND CULTURE: UNDERSTANDING THE NEED FOR CULTURAL SECURITY IN PLANNED REFUGEE CAMPS
Lillian Saunders | Social Determinants of Health as Barriers to Preventative Care for Migrant Populations in Harris County, Texas and Hennepin County, Minnesota
Melissa Perez | The Effect of Eugenics on Black Women (Essay and Podcasts)
Morgan Wolf | To what extent and under what conditions can community-building partnerships benefit local residents?
Noor Samee | When the Soul Speaks: a Music Activism Album
Nyles Rome | Reforumulating Reparations: The Underdevelopment of Black Bodies in the Unites States
Oliver Gerbig | Oliver's Opinions: Covid 19 in Taiwan and the US (Podcast)
Payton Souders | Disposable: The Intersection of Solid Waste Management and Gender in India
Roma Chitko | Race, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and the School to Prison Pipeline: The Intersection of Systemic Inequality and Criminalization of Youth
Sara Rizvi | Gentrification and the Changing D.C. (Website)
Sonya Pandey | A Closer Look at Domestic Workers in Nepal: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Sydney Suarez | Saving White Cubans in Service of Civilization: Racialized Capitalism and Moral Politics of Death in US-Cuba Relations
Walter Sharon | What Do You Stand For: Cultural Development Theory and Models of Public Monumentalism
Zhuang Lin | Social and Cultural Reproduction through the Lens of Racial Segregation and Economic Disenfranchisement in Charlottesville
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Class of 2020
Student Name | Title of Capstone Thesis
Alex Spratley | The Fundamentally American Project: Settler Colonial Violence Against Indian Women
Anna Brotman-Kras | Domestic Fantasy, Disguised as Attainable Truth: Performance in Activism & Domestic Labor
April Corwin | In Defense of Public Education:A Personal Reflection & Comparison of Social Movements Against Privatized Education in the United States and Chile
Ariana DeLaurentis | Unearthing the Global Food Struggle Through a Place Based Politic: The Need for Food Sovereignty at Bellair Farm in Charlottesville, Virginia
Blake Hesson | Communities of Care: A Cross-Cultural Study of Indigenous 2SLGBTQ HIV/AIDS Health, Healing, and Community Prevention
Carlin Smith | Arts, Culture, and Transnational Solidarities as Vehicles of Change Collaborative Development between Makhanda, Charlottesville, and the University of Virginia
Chandler Collins | Reclaiming Attention in the Attention Economy
Charlotte Brake | Exploring the Significances of Sexual Assault Across Cultural Contexts: Lessons for Engaging in International Development Work
Charlotte Scharfenberg | Native Youth, Public Schools, and Trauma: Exploring the Potential of School to Heal
Clara Sophia Camber | Reviving the American Chestnut: Intersections of Ecological Intervention
George Moss | Sustainability, viewed by a 21-year-old college student: how to proceed in a world where it is not a subject, yet essential to continue living as a species
George Perry | The New Wave: Healthcare Technologies and Their Impact On Development
Iqra Razzaq | A modern pandemic, a global prison: Tracking the Geopolitical Life and Narrative of COVID-19 from China to the Rest of the World
Johntrell Bowles | Myopic Planning: Assessing the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program and Spaces for Community Action
Julia DiFabrizio | Decolonizing Education: How We Can Begin to Reimagine and Subvert the Classroom to Include All Students
Kelvin Thukha | A Case for Benevolent Dictatorships: Installing Soft Authoritarianism & State-led Economy in South East Asia using the Singapore Model
Kristina Colevas | STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE IN AID: A MULTIAXIAL APPROACH TO EXPLAINING THE CURRENT OCCUPATION OF HAITI
Maame Esi Eghan | Change and Continuity: Assessing the Past, Present and Future Implications of Pre and Post Colonial Land Tenure Systems in Ghana
Madeline Walker | IMAGINING FUTURES: DECOLONIZING THEATRE PRACTICE AND THEATER BASED TECHNIQUES IN PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA
Mahlet Haile | The Progression of Women’s Health and Safety In East Africa. A Comparative State Case Study Analysis: Evaluating Public Health Policy Proposals In The Region Over The Last 50 years.
Makayla Whitehurst | Lessons on Education Quality, Access, and Equity: An Exploratory Look at Uruguay’s Schooling System
Marwah Shuaib | Digital diasporas and desi identity: examining artistic explorations of bi-hemispheric belonging
Mercer Craighill | A Simple, Yet Wicked, Problem: Homelessness in Charlottesville
Natalie Romero | Land, Deceit, and Development
Renae Meana | Asian Americans in the Liberal Arts: Livelihood vs. Passion The Privileges, Sacrifices, and Compromises Behind Studying What One Wants to
Ruth Rosenfeld | The Neoclassical Model of Immigration: A Battle between Capitalism and Nationalism in Immigration Policy
Sarah Carter | Rojava, Radical Agriculture, and Anarcha-Feminism in the Middle East and North Africa: Women’s Role in Decolonizing Agriculture in the Face of Climate Change
Veronica Sirotic | GENDER DISCRIMINATION, LABOR, AND LAW: How judicial policymaking in the mid 20th century defined the body