Middle East & South Asia Capstone Thesis
Class of 2023
Hannah Anderson
Child Bribes in Iran
Lara Arif
The Erotic Iraqi: Reclaiming female sexual pleasure in Iraq
Joseph Hester
Social Media, Fast Fashion, and Social/Environmental (ir)Responsibility
Dorienne Hochard
The Environmental History of Cairo
Miriam Hossani | Imperialism & Architecture: The Role of Architecture in Imperial Projects in the SASWANA Region
Adah Macdonald | Trauma and identity informed services: a framework for promoting well-being among refugee youth in Charlottesville
Waverly Nohr | Efficiency: Exploitative and disempowering to local environments"
Katrina Samaan | Mental health care: cultural implications with healthcare services for refugees in Egypt
Abigail Schlechty | The Impact of Trauma on Refugee Attachment: Addressing the Root Cause for Long-Term Health Effects
Caitlin Shekleton | The Power Dynamics of Global Philanthropy: A Comparative Data Analysis on the Afghan and Ukrainian Refugee Crises
Grace Stevenson | The impact of colonialism and post-colonial legacries on land reclamations in India
Eleanor Thatcher | Paradigm in Practice: Labor Migration and its implications in Ethiopia
Class of 2022
Student Name | Title of Capstone Thesis
Heaven Begum | What is Successful Aging: A Cross-Cultural Analysis Between the United States and Bangladesh on What it Means to "Age Well"
Carlie Cooper | Created Indentities: An Examination of the Changes in Political Cinema of Tamil Nadu
Nidhi Desai | Unequal Power Dynamics: How Gender-Based Violence Impacts Mental Health in India and Proposed Solutions
Alizé Dreyer | A Vicious Cycle: The Legacies of Imperialism on Public Helath in Iraq
Imani Edwards | Brown skin, Black masks: An Exploration of Arab Identity Through Blackface Performance
Ana Gonzalez | Storytelling by Arab Women for Arab Women
Syeda Haide | Sufi Diaspora: Analysis of Sufism as an Alternative to Orthodox Islam in Europe
Webster B. Hill IV | (Mis)Representations and Mistreatment: How Colonialism, Media, and Propaganda Impact Refugees at Borders in the EU
Lana-Michelle J Homola | TAKING ROOTS: THE INTEGRATION OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINE INTO HUMANITARIAN AID IN SOUTH ASIA
Sara C. Massei | Poetry as Alternate Treatment for Mentally Ill Iranians
Lima Mohammad Asif | From Chaos to Chaos: Women’s Perspective from the Past and Present (film)
Fateme Tavakoli | The Iranian Revolution through the Lens of Authenticity and Modernity
Deven Upadhyay | Hindus in Bangladesh: Perspectives on Discrimination and Identity
Sloane Urwin | The U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan and Unaccompanied Minors
Sahithi Vegunta | THE POWER DYNAMICS IN THE SOUND AND ENERGY MEDICINE FIELDS THE UNITED STATES, INDIA, AND CHINA
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