A complete list of Human Rights senior projects can be found here at the library’s Digital Commons.
Projects from 2015
Nationalism, Secularism, Authoritarianism: Dissenting Voices Gain Visibility in Turkey, Yasemin Melisa Akturk
Gated Communities in Gurgaon: Caste and Class on the Urban Frontier, Armaan Mullick Alkazi
The Hands that Build: Collective Mothering and Empowerment in Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif”, Emily Grace Berkowitz
India and Its Northeast Exception: From Frontier to Forefront, Akshita Manjari Bhanjdeo
Dominican Identity: Whitening an African Diaspora, Bernardo Antonio Cáceres
Uptown Predator, Meaghan R. Falvey
Neither Here Nor There: Mapping My Iranian-American Identity, Laila Iravani
Decoding the Islamic State: Islamic State Hostage Videos and State Formation, Natalie Kerby
Constructing the Perfect Villain: Osama bin Laden and the American Media and Government, Jane Tapper Kovich
‘Tande Pa di Konprann Pou Sa’:Shortcomings of Medical Intervention in Haiti and Struggles to Define the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health, Avery Ellen Lamb
Quality Education as a Human Right, Abigail Rose Lutsky
I Saw This: Conversations on Visual Media, Representation, and Surveillance, Rene L. Macioce
The Greek Identity, Immigration and the Rise of the Far-Right, Christina Miliou-Theocharaki
Still Locked Up: Prison Stories Told From Outside, Emily Jane Parker
How To Map A Desert, Ariana Perez-Castells
An Anthropological Education? The World Press Photo Competition and Photographic Intelligence, Tatiana Roth
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Echo, Diego Alvarez-Parra
Searching for Dignity and Rights: Two Approaches to the Liberation of the Manual Scavenger, Louis I. Bonhoure
Seeing “Jack”: Race and the Ethics of Representation, Zora Chandler Radovan Bowman
Design and Development of a Chitin-Based Method for V. Cholerae Filtration., Francesca M. Di Rienzo
A Republic of Insects and Grass, Angels and Demons, Evan Dunn
Climate Change and Human Rights: An Examination of the Synergies in Discourse and Practice, Mai Aurell Foulser
Unmasking the Reality of Trafficking in Persons, Ishita Gupta
Against Tradition: A Critique of the Transformative Adjudication of South Africa’s Constitutional Court, Nina Germaine Kamp
Imaginary Topographies, Erica Ruth Lashof Newton
The Norms We Live By: Weighing the Benefits of a Legalistic Lens in Advancing Norm Implementation and Internalization, Emily M. Pascual
The Effect of Rehabilitative-Oriented Training and Mission Statement on Prison Guard Attitudes and Behavior Towards Inmates With Mental Disorders, Dana Nicole Pitts
The “Reasonableness” of Poverty: Progress and Pitfalls in South Africa’s Socio-economic Jurisprudence, Benajmin Oliver Powers
Understanding Microfinance, Cooper Mackenzie Roberts
Education For Freedom: A Look at Education’s Role in Economic and Human Development, Devon Scarlett
“Human Betterment”: The Fight For and Against 50 Years of Sterilization in North Carolina, Kay Bielak Schaffer
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
“I Don’t Post About Politics” An Analysis of Speech among Palestinian Youth in the West Bank, Lauren Elizabeth Blaxter
Dying For: Martyrdom, Sacrifice, and their Contemporary Forms in Modern America, Clay Robert Coffey
Ritual Surgeries: The Discourse Surrounding Female Genital Cutting and Tostan, Anna Karin Gors
Re-Envisioning Humanism in a Reductionist World, Anna Elizabeth Hadfield
The Gilded Gift: A Study in Celebrity Humanitarianism, Sanchi Illuri
#GonnaKillMyself: An Examination of Suicide Prevention in Social Media, Margaret Elizabeth Kucera
You Say Tomato, I Say Injustice: How Farmworkers Brought Human Rights to the Table, Phyllis Jeanne Kuplast
“(A) boot stamping on a human face–forever:” Gender, Sex, and Human Rights in Science Fiction, Rosemary Karin Limburg
“Transitional Justice: A Long Overdue and Difficult Way Forward for Afghanistan”, Mohammad Mehdi Rahmati
Politics By Other Means: Authenticity As Dissent In Post-1968 Czechoslovakia, Kasra Kurt Sarikhani
Human RIghts as Education: A Comparison of Models of Human Rights Education (HRE) in American Classrooms, Caitlin Marie Simon
Is the Gag Still On? The Lasting Impacts of America’s Rescinded Global Gag Rule on Abortion, Margot Elaine Sirinek
Human Rights and the Russian Avant Garde, Alexandra Marie Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Narratives of Survival: Ogojas, Igbos, and the Biafran War, Beatrice Ajaero
“Bang Bang Cut” & “O4O, Casey Asprooth-Jackson
‘Amakwerekwere’: an assessment of xenophobic sentiment and violence in South Africa, Travis Bostick
Television News and its Detriments to Conflict as explored in the short film “White Ants”, Ayana Enomoto-Hurst
“A Truthful Accounting of Events”: The Roles of Linguistic Strategy, Narrative, and Performance in United States Asylum Hearings, Celia Feldman
Regimes of Separation and Settlement:The Construction of Israeli Identity, Paulina Gorczyn
Hijabs, Morgan Green
Democracy & the Dangers of Security: Politics of the Nepali Armed Police Force, Dhana Laxmi Hamal
Hidden and Unregistered: The Migrant Domestic Labor Industry in Lebanon, Sadaf Hasan
Cracking Joe’s Six-Pack: A Study of Masculinity and its Discontents, Patricia C. Hochheim
Interrogating the Good: Humanitarian Appeals and the Limits of Our Political Imagination, Irina Kalinka
Brotherhood and (Dis)Unity?: Politics of Memory and the Reconstruction of History in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Marina Lazetic
Rationalizing the Pleasure in Another Group’s Suffering: From Schadenfreude to Dehumanization, Mengyao Li
Si ce n’est pas Genet, je ne sais pas: Theatre, Aliens, and Revolution, Shaun Allen Mahan
The Heart of Light: Rights, Justice, and Representations of History and Conflict in the Congo, Nion T. McEvoy Jr.
The Influence of Key Adult Relationships on the Motivation and Achievement of Urban High School Students: A Qualitative Analysis, Danielle Moses
On Space, Place, and Identity: Armenians in Bourj Hammoud, Nora Palandjian
The Call For Critical Responsibility: Theoretical Suggestions For Practical Human Rights Discourses and Strategies, Melissa Patel
La generación perdida: The Negative Effects of American Immigration Policy on Future Generations of Latin American Youth in the U.S., Diana Pitcher
Transitional Justice: A Long Overdue and Difficult Way Forward for Afghanistan, Mohammad Mehdi Rahmati
“Captivity of the Mind: Education and Incarceration in America,” an investigation of the effects of mass incarceration on the American psyche, as well as links between failure in school and entry into prison, Veronique Pearl Whittaker
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Learning to Include, Shaveena Z. Anam
Inclusion vs. Unity and the Immigrant as a Potential Political Actor, Isabel Barber
Artifacts of Technoscience: Surrogacy and the Technological, Medically Mediated Reinvention of Nature, Lizzie Logan Baur
Breaking Down Testimony: Remembering, Reliving, and Representing, Sarah E. Bessel
The Atomized Self: Violence in Global Society, Kevin A. Cassem
Between Nation and State: Examining the International Romani Unions, Anna M. Fischer
Compete Narratives: The Search of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo for the Missing Children of Argentina, Johanna Greenberg
Resistance in Appalachia: What the Movement Against Mountaintop Removal Can Tell Us About Combating Corporate Power, Elias Isquith
Discipline and Doctrine: Learning from the Catholic School Model for Public School Success, Claire E. Phelan
“Go now and tell them”: Bulgarian folksongs and political resistance to the Turkish “yoke”, Thea Piltzecker
The Paradox of Language: Alienation and Reconstructed Identity in Exile Narratives, Chloé Ravel
The Narrative of Efficacy: Contemporary US Grassroots Food Movements and Formulations of Resistance to Globalized Food Systems, Emilie Ruscoe
The Al-Huda movement and the Inculcation of Gender Roles and Identities Among Urban Pakistani Women, Mahwish Tazeem
Development as Freedom? Questioning Foreign Aid Development Assistance and Turning to What We Can Learn From Nicaragua, Chelsea Lea Whealdon