Student Programs
Undergraduate Associates Program 2006–07
The Weatherhead Center awards summer international travel grants to Harvard College undergraduates embarking upon thesis research on international affairs. These 2006 grant recipients are the Weatherhead Center’s 2006–07 Undergraduate Associates, and they presented their research findings at seminars organized in February. The following is a list of the Weatherhead Center’s 2006–07 undergraduates, their concentrations, and their thesis topics.
- Genevieve Lakier, Harvard Academy Scholar, providing feedback on the research of Kate Walro (right), Undergraduate Associate, Rogers Family Research Fellow, during the Undergraduate Associates thesis presentations at the Weatherhead Center.
- Alexander Bevilacqua
- Department of History
- Samuels Family Research Fellow
- “Towards Perpetual Peace: Neo-Kantian Visions of Europe, 1914–1933.”
- Megan Camm
- Degree Program in History and Literature
- Rogers Family Research Fellow
- “The Politicization of Narratives about the Xhosa Cattle-Killing.”
- Leanne Gaffney
- Degree Program in Social Studies.
- “‘Civil Society’ and the Storyteller: A Story of Peace in Northern Ireland.”
- Olivia Gage
- Special Concentration in Anthropology and Public Health
- Samuel Family Research Fellow
- “Motherland: The Care and Raising of Mayan Children in North Carolina.”
- Wei Kevin Gan
- Department of Biomedical Sciences
- Rogers Family Research Fellow
- “Using Community Health Workers to Establish a ‘Living’ Health Database in KwaZulu-Natal.”
- Kafui Gbewonyo
- Degree Program in Environmental Science and Public Policy
- Rogers Family Research Fellow
- “A Farmer’s Perspective on Wastewater Irrigation: Investigating the Relation between Irrigation Water Source, Farming Practices, and Farmer Health in Accra, Ghana.”
- Joshua Gottlieb
- Department of Economics
- “Do Political Beliefs Affect Household Financial Choices?”
- Vaibhav Gujral
- Department of Economics
- “Impact of Education Spending on Student Outcomes: Examining India’s Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Program.”
- Norman Ho
- Department of History
- “‘Japanese’ Crime?: Universal and Particular Explanations for Rape Atrocities in the Nanjing Massacre.”
- Jinu Koola
- Degree Program in Social Studies
- Rogers Family Research Fellow
- “Should I Stay or Should I Go? An Analysis of the Determinants of Migration and Remittance between Kerala, India, and the Arab Gulf.”
- William Marra
- Department of Government
- Samuels Family Research Fellow
- Investigates the major British press’ unanimous decision not to reprint controversial Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad last February, especially as related to the integration of the British Muslim minority and the phenomenon of homegrown terror.
- Rabia Mir
- Degree in Social Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
- “Trafficking of Pakistani Children to the United Arab Emirates for the Camel Racing Industry.”
- Xin Wei Ngiam
- Degree Program in Social Studies
- An examination of individual responsibilities for structural injustice by research on the shack dwellers’ movement in Durban, South Africa.
- Oludamini Ogunnaike
- Department of Psychology
- Rogers Family Research Fellow
- “Implicit Attitudes in African and Colonial Languages in Morocco.”
- Nhung Pham
- Department of Government
- Samuels Family Research Fellow
- “Incentives and Disincentives for Citizen Participation in Anti-Corruption in Vietnam and Thailand.”
- Jennifer Claire Provost
- Special Concentration in Urban Planning
- Rogers Family Research Fellow
- “Environmental Planning in Long-Term Large-Scale Refugee Settlements: The Barundi in Western Tanzania.”
- Ravi Ramchandani, Undergraduate Associate and Rogers Family Research Fellow, giving his thesis presentation at the Weatherhead Center.
- Ravi Ramchandani
- Department of History
- Rogers Family Research Fellow
- “The East India Company and Problems of Early Colonial Rule in Madras.”
- Rosmary Roca
- Department of Government
- “Impact of Public Political Ideology on the Election of ‘Visible’ Minority Representation in the British House of Commons and the French National Assembly.”
- Anne Romatowski
- Degree Program in Social Studies
- Rogers Family Research Fellow
- Study of Local attitudes towards the medicalization and abandonment of female genital cutting in Senegal and Guinea by comparing the complete abandonment of female genital cutting (FGC) in Senegal to the medicalization of FGC in Guinea.
- Caroline Sloan
- Department of History
- Rogers Family Research Fellow
- “Money, Prestige and Domination: The Politics of Sleeping Sickness Control in Ruanda-Urundi, 1916–1939.”
- Kathleen Walro
- Department of Government
- Rogers Family Research Fellow
- “The Relationship Between De Beers and the South African State in 1986 and 2005.”
- Tina Wang
- Degree Program in Social Studies
- Samuels Family Research Fellow
- “Does Bureaucracy Matter? The Bureaucratic Politics Model and China’s International Behavior on Climate Change.”
- Kaya Williams
- Department of Anthropology
- “The Women of Sendero Luminoso in Peru.”