#CRSSH2017
Presenters
Adam Kline
Adam Kline is a freshman at Georgetown University, studying international security with a particular interest in defense and intelligence issues. He writes for the Middle East/North Africa section of The Caravel, and is a research assistant at the Global Governance Lab, focusing on SEC enforcement actions against rogue financial actors. He has interned for the National Archives and Record Administration, where he researched, wrote, and published (along with Robyn Dexter) "Secret Weapons, Forgotten Sacrifices: Scientific R & D in World War II" (Prologue, Spring 2016, 24-33). He has also interned at the Naval History and Heritage Command, where he wrote oral history abstracts in support of research into NATO's 2011 Libyan intervention. He is particularly passionate about history and historical research, and wrote this paper as part of a self-directed research project into civilian casualties in the Korean War.
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His paper is entitled Desperate Times, Lethal Measures: The U.S. Military and the Korean Refugee Crises. Please find it here.
Alyssa Russell
Alyssa Russell (COL’17) is a senior majoring in History and Government with a minor in Theology. Alyssa is currently writing two theses; her history thesis centers on the SEIU’s Justice for Janitor’s campaign while her government thesis focuses on progressive coalition-building. She is from Millersburg, a small town in Northeast Ohio. She is currently the editor-in-chief of the Georgetown University Journal of History, a research assistant for the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, a research assistant for Smithsonian Secretary David Skorton, and the volunteer coordinator of the Phi Alpha Theta honors society. Her passion to improve the lives of working people stems from her family’s working-class background and her own experience as a fast food worker for three years. While at Georgetown, Alyssa has developed a great interest in U.S. labor history and hopes to study the subject at graduate school.
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Her research is entitled Capital in the Nation's Capital: Economic Development Incentives in Washington, D.C.
Amalia Coyle
Amalia Coyle is a current senior in the College double-majoring in Spanish and Justice & Peace Studies. After graduating in May, she will head to the University of Cambridge for a Masters in Development Studies.
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Her research project is entitled Sin City, Mexico: The Making and Breaking of Tijuana. Please find it here.
Bee Jaworski
Bee Jaworski is a senior in the College studying American Studies and Chinese. She is particularly interested in using cross disciplinary research to better understand big picture issues in modern society, as understanding can illuminate possible solutions. It is this interest that has given rise to her senior thesis on trigger warnings in higher education. When not spending time writing her thesis or memorizing Chinese characters, Bee is heavily involved in the theater community and enjoys going horseback riding.
Her research is entitled #Trigger Warnings: Using Tumblr to Understand Current Conflict in Higher Education.
Benjamin M. Reiser
Hailing from Westport, Connecticut, Benjamin M. Reiser is a senior in the College at Georgetown double-majoring in American Studies and Government. A lifelong lover of musical theatre, Reiser has spent much of his undergraduate career gaining an education in arts management, mostly closely studying the links between entertainment, business, and law. Beginning this fall, Reiser will be attending law school in New York City with an ultimate career aspiration of intersecting the New York commercial theatre industry with law. This project serves as Reiser's senior thesis submission in partial fulfillment of his requirements as an American Studies major.
His research is entitled Who Tells Her Story?: Examining the Impact of "Hamilton: An American Musical" on the Memory and Legacy of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. Please find an abstract here.
David Larsen
David Larsen is a first-year at the McDonough School of Business, intending to major in Business Management. He was born in California, and lives in San Clemente. His primary research interests lie within placing various current events in context with other global events, hoping to show that, "past is prologue" and that in order to productively in the future, we should take our lessons from the past.
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His research is entitled Contextualizing the Digital Revolution.
Edom Tesfa
Edom Tesfa is a third-year undergraduate in the School of Foreign Service majoring in Culture and Politics with a concentration in the social contexts of immigrant and refugee education. Her honors thesis examines the links between racial and ethnic identity formation and academic attitudes among Ethiopian and Eritrean American university students. Edom works as a research assistant to Professor Douglas Reed on a study examining academic help-seeking networks and strategies among newcomer English learners at a Northern Virginia high school. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in sociology with a focus on patterns of social and academic incorporation and marginalization of immigrant, refugee, and English learner students in the United States.
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Her research is entitled "Growing Up Foreign”: Racial and Ethnic Identity Formation of Ethiopian and Eritrean American Youth. Please find it here.
Elizabeth Borneman
Elizabeth is a student in the College majoring in Neurobiology. She is originally from Florida, and is expected to graduated in May 2017. While at Georgetown, she has been a community scholar for the class of 2017, and was previously involved in the REL a capella group. She is significantly interested in the neurosciences, with a keen focus on the multi-sensory processing of environmental factors such as visual objects of value; she is also interested in seeing how this leads to effective decision making in the face of complex tasks. Her other interests include data visualization, and she has an overall passion about both pursuing equal opportunities in higher education for marginalized communities and improving educational tools and learning methods. After Georgetown, she hopes to obtain a PhD in computational neuroscience.
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Her research is entitled Cultural Belongingness Study.
Jacqueline Kimmel
Jacqueline is a senior in the SFS studying STIA with a concentration in Biotechnology and Global Health. Originally from Denver, CO, she is fascinated by healthcare innovation and loves the intersection between biomedical science, technology and health policy. She has interned for the Clinton Foundation, the State Department and the Veteran's Administration and currently works at Aledade, a health technology company. Next year she plans on working as a research fellow for the Advisory Board Company, a healthcare consulting company in DC.
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Her research is entitled Repeated Trauma, Constant Stress: PTSD Among Mexican Immigrant Women.
Jasmin Ouseph
Jasmin is a sophomore in the School of Foreign Service, studying Science, Technology, and International Affairs with a concentration in Biotechnology and Global Health. Jasmin is interested in pursuing a career in either law or academia following her undergrad education. Her passions include history, social justice activism and organizing, and writing.
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Her research is entitled Queer, Arab, and Existing. Please find it here.
Jeremy Streich
Born and raised in one of the smallest towns in the smallest state, Jeremy is slowly but surely expanding the horizon of my experience. First it was DC and Madrid for academics, now he hopes to use some of his personal creative work as a vessel to reaching even more far reaching goals and destinations.
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His piece is entitled The Washington Heartbeat.
John Patrick Connors
John is a junior in the McDonough School of Business studying Finance and Marketing. He is from Pennsylvania and attended high school at St. Joseph's Prep. At Georgetown, John is has served as a Representative on the MSB Academic Council for three years, most recently as Treasurer. Also, he is a member of the Georgetown Collegiate Investors in the Industrials Group. Working with Professor Jason Brennan, John completed the McDonough Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Additionally, John traveled to Nicaragua this past summer to work as a business development intern for The Fabretto Foundation, an educational charity, through Georgetown's Global Social Internship Program. Seeking more international experience, he is currently studying abroad in Dublin, Ireland at University College Dublin's Quinn School of Business.
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His research is entitled Framing, Payoff, and the Prisoner's Dilemma: Game Theoretic Experimental Design. Please find it here.
Katherine Riga
Kate Riga hails from Philadelphia and is a senior in the college, majoring in American Studies and minoring in Classics. On campus, she captains the women's club lacrosse team, leads Senior Capstone, and lead an alternative break trip in the spring. Off campus, this year she has interned at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and is currently working in her Senator's press office. Her frequent outbursts of barely-restricted rage against the patriarchy and the problematic nature of female representation in children's films as well as her fanatical, borderline-psychotic adoration of Harry Potter prompted her to delve into her thesis topic of the dead mother plot, an experience that has left her enlightened, rewarded, and quite a bit more enraged than she was before.
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Her research is entitled The Boy Who Lived and the Mother Who Died: An Examination of the Dead Mother Plot in a Cultural Context.
Laura-Brynn Neuhoff
Laura-Brynn Neuhoff is a senior in the College with a major in American Studies and minor in Sociology. Her academic interests include southern culture, collective memory, and masculinities studies. An appreciation for rap and hip-hop led her to write a thesis on the history of minstrel shows and blackface imagery in music videos to be presented to Georgetown prior to graduation. Outside of school, Laura-Brynn has worked in event production for the past three years and is an active member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Originally from Dallas, Texas, Laura-Brynn plans to live in DC following graduation and currently works as an Events Coordinator at IAVA, a national veterans service organization.
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Her research is entitled "The Greatest Colored Show on Earth": How Minstrelsy has Defined Performances of African American Identity from 19th century Theater to Hip-Hop.
Luke Brown
Luke is a senior at Georgetown University majoring in English and a member of the AB/MA program for English undergraduates. He has enjoyed two independent research fellowships and has published on comic book masculinities and the ethics of post-Shoah fictional narratives. He has enjoyed balancing his English and pre-medical courses and hopes to one day fuse the literary engagement with therapeutic mental health practices. When he is not studying, you will likely find Luke facilitating an intergroup dialogue on campus, running to the Lincoln Memorial, or helping formulate social justice immersion trips as the Development Chair of the Alternative Breaks Program.
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His research is entitled Reading to Heal - A Delineation of English Bibliotherapy Projects. Please find it here.
Mark Keffer
Mark Keffer was born in Houston, Texas and moved to the United Kingdom when he was 5 years old where he was raised in London up until the age of 18. Mark is a sophomore at Georgetown University who is double-majoring in fine art and psychology. He has been painting since he was 14 years old and his primary medium is oil paint. He mainly takes inspiration from photographs he has taken. His current work is focused around a theme of societal destruction of nature. Mark’s main technique of painting is a mixture of using both a brush and a palette knife. He hopes to continue painting after college and establish himself further as an artist. In addition to painting, Mark has an interest in music with a focus on singing and is a member of Georgetown’s Capitol G’s a cappella group. His website which displays his artwork is www.markkeffer.co.uk.
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Monika Bapna
Monika Bapna is a senior in the college majoring in Neurobiology.
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Her research is entitled The Impact of Maternal Autonomy on Child Cognitive Outcome in the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh .
Perry Cao
Perry Cao is an undergraduate student at the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is currently majoring in International Politics with a concentration in Security Studies. Beginning in 2016, he became part of the pioneering class of Undergraduate Research Scholars at Georgetown University. The program allows a select few undergraduates to work closely with faculty to develop research projects on relevant current events issues. Perry was born in Beijing, China, but was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is a fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese. He intends to attend law school after his undergraduate studies. Outside of academics, Perry is the captain of the Men’s Ultimate Frisbee Team at Georgetown, and occupies his free time with amateur graphic design.
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His research is entitled The Dangers of a Denuclearized North Korea.
Radhika Sahai
Radhika is a 3rd year in the college studying biology on a Premedical track. She is interested in the intersections of medicine and social justice, as she believes that social injustices underlie health disparities. She specifically would like to advocate for and improve the health of queer people of color in the future. She was born and raised in upstate New York and moved to California when she was 10. In her spare time she enjoys cooking, reading, and exploring DC!
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Her work is entitled Do Genes have Agency? Please find it here.
Sage Sarason
Sage Sarason is a senior in the college majoring in American Studies. Her academic interests are African American Studies, logic, and music theory and performance. She is also a student at Howard University through the Consortium program, where she studies classical piano pedagogue, music theory, and composition with Professor Karen Walwyn. Sage is involved in Resonant Essence Live, Georgetown’s premiere Urban a capella group, where she transposes popular R&B music for a four part vocal group. Sage is also a singer in the Georgetown Campus Ministry Gospel choir, where she enjoys learning about the relationship between the piano, the lead vocalist, the chorus, and the church. Sage is very excited about the prospect of performing her thesis, which is an eight part musical performance piece that she composed for piano and vocals. Entitled The Sixth Sense Vow, Sage’s music utilizes classical piano to fuse blues, soul, gospel, and jazz to restore the attention of American musical culture to the innovation of classical music as a custom in African American music tradition.
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Her piece is entitled The Sixth Sense Vow: How African American Musical Tradition Re-imagined the Boundaries of Classical Music.
Shalina Chatlani
Shalina Chatlani is a 5-year BA/MA student in Science, Technology, and International Affairs and Communication, Culture, and Technology (CCT), graduating this year from her undergraduate studies. She focuses primarily on security issues of information communication technologies and outer space security. Starting in June she will be a full-time associate editor for Industry Dive in Washington, D.C. and be entering into her final year of graduate studies in CCT.
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Her work is entitled Assessing Ideological Divisions in Indian Public Sphere through Online Social Networks.
Steven Lujan
Steven is a first generation college student. Here at Georgetown he participates in several different groups varying from Rugby to a professional foreign service fraternity DPE. One of his most prized groups on campus would be the GSP (Georgetown Scholarship Program), which is a small community of students with a similar background of coming from under-resourced college prep and first generation students. He also participated in a dance performance this semester called Reventón; a collection of Latin and Hispanic dances that he feels brought him closer to his culture.
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His work is entitled The Prospect of Future.
Thu Dao
Thu is a senior in the NHS studying International Health, where one of the perks of her major has been the opportunity to travel the globe in pursuit of studying the health in various countries, including Viet Nam, South Africa, and Argentina through the School of International Training (SIT) last year as well as Chiapas, Mexico in the fall semester for her research practical abroad. These opportunities have allowed her insight to different perspectives on health, understanding how cultural and sociopolitical context affects people’s decisions regarding health from the policy to the personal level. It was also through these immersions into multiple diverse perspectives on reproductive healthcare globally that she ultimately landed on this research project studying perception of the C-sections in Chiapas. Despite the wanderlust, Thu have also always tried to be grounded in her local community. Through her time at Georgetown, she has enjoyed working at local health clinics in DC, including HOYA Clinic and Community of Hope, and building her campus community through Vietnamese Student Association. Though her path ahead post-graduation remains a question mark, she hopes to be able to continue working towards advancing health and well-being in local communities.
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Her work is entitled Factors that Affect the Decision to Have a Cesarean Delivery in the Selva, Altos, and Meseta Regions of Chiapas, Mexico. Please find it here.
Toby Hung
Toby Hung is a junior in the College majoring in linguistics and economics, minoring in art history. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Toby grew up in a multilingual environment, which cultivated his interest in learning different languages. Last summer, during a study abroad program in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Toby conducted an independent research project documenting the dying language of Zaramo. After weeks of elicitation sessions with native Zaramo speakers, he proposed a system of organizing Zaramo noun classes and described the language's complex agreement system in a paper for the Lisa J. Raines research fellowship. He presented his research at the 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at the University of Indiana, Bloomington in early April. After this project, he hopes to continue pursuing his studies in morphosyntax and language documentation. On campus, Toby serves as editor-in-chief of The Hoya, Georgetown's newspaper of record, and president of the Georgetown Undergraduate Linguistics Society. In his spare time, he enjoys reading about the history of furniture, watching standup comedy, and collecting vinyl records.
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His work is entitled A descriptive overview of noun classes and the morphosyntax of agreement in Zaramo, an undocumented Bantu language of Tanzania.
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