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Undergraduate Theses

The Weatherhead Center runs an annual competition to award travel grants to support the summer field research of Harvard undergraduates. These grants are designed to help finance travel in connection with senior thesis research on international affairs. All grant recipients become Undergraduate Associates of the Weatherhead Center for the year following their summer research and present their research findings at a conference organized by the Center in the spring of their senior year. The following are theses submitted by the Center's Undergraduate Associates:

Undergraduate theses are considered working papers, and as such, copyright remains with the author.

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Black, White, and the Limbo in Between: The Precarious Position of the South African Chinese Under Apartheid
by Liss, Daniel
The South African Chinese have long labored to manipulate their racial position to advance their individual and collective economic and political interests. Their negotiation reached its peak under...
Publication Type: Undergraduate Thesis
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Conceiving Conception: The Bioethics of Assisted Reproductive Policy in China
by Guo, Elizabeth Congcong
My thesis explores the ethics behind assisted reproductive policy in China by examining how ethical issues are identified, framed, and implemented among three groups of professionals: academic...
Publication Type: Undergraduate Thesis
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Conceiving the Impact: Connecting Population Growth and Environmental Sustainability
by Lehner, Eliza A.
This thesis seeks to analyze what would have to change in American discussions of global environmental sustainability for population growth to assume its rightful place in the discussion. The amount...
Publication Type: Undergraduate Thesis
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Making Place for Belonging: Migration and Public Space among Turkish Women in Copenhagen
by Lin, Stephany Yu-Zhu
Publication Type: Undergraduate Thesis
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Reducing Subsistence Farmers’ Vulnerability to Climate Change: The Potential Contributions of Agroforestry in Western Kenya
by Thorlakson, Tannis R.
Climate change is predicted to have huge impacts on rural farmers in developing countries, as small-scale farmers are particularly vulnerable to climatic stresses and shocks. Agroforestry, or the...
Publication Type: Undergraduate Thesis
Published Date: March 2011 More