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## 2023–2024 Graduate Student Associates

   ![Group of 18 diverse graduate students smiling for a photo in a well-lit office space with artwork on the walls.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/wcfia/files/researchgroups-students-gsa-700px.jpg?itok=hD_apYm4) 

 

The Graduate Student Associates (GSA) program is one of the Center's oldest and most valued programs. Directed by Erez Manela, professor of history and Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate, the program welcomes applicants from any of Harvard's graduate and professional schools. Thank you to this year's GSAs for all your hard work and dedication!

## 2024 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize Winners

The Weatherhead Center congratulates the following undergraduate students who were awarded 2024 [Thomas Temple Hoopes Prizes](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/hoopes-prize) on the basis of their outstanding scholarly work.

**Amen Gashaw**  
“For God or Greater Good: Organizational Religiosity as an Enhancer of Coalitional Capacity and Efficacy in Development Service Delivery”

**Henry Haimo**   
“Rewriting History: Education, Publishing, and Media in Ghana, 1945–1966”

**Justin Hu**   
“Studying with Césaire: Caribbean Counter-Pedagogies of the Lycée Victor Schœlcher during the Third Republic, 1870–1945”

**Logan Kelly**   
“Immoral Medicine: A Comparative Study of Religious Influence on Drug Policy in Portugal and Spain”

**Eleanor Wikstrom**  
“Making Subjects of Subjects: The Transnational Project of US Education, English, and Epistemic Colonialism in the Philippines”

## Undergraduate Associates 2024–2025 

The following students have been appointed Undergraduate Associates for the upcoming 2024–2025 academic year. They have received funding from the Weatherhead Center as well as from our Hartley Rogers Family Fund to support summer 2024 research and travel in connection with their senior thesis projects.

**João Victor Bezerra de Arruda**   
*Government; Art, Film, and Visual Studies*  
Brazil / corruption levels, polarization, and voting behavior

**Christina Nehemie Chaperon**   
*Sociology*  
Jamaica / impact of colonization on gender and female-based anticolonial resistance movements

**Adreanna Elizabeth Dillen**   
*Social Studies*   
Trinidad and Tobago / colonial history legacy on how economy adapts to climate change

**Nadia Raquel Douglas**   
*Government*  
Switzerland / impact of ethnic/racial identity in two-state violent conflicts and resolutions

**Samir Duggasani**   
*Government; Computer Science*  
India / parallels between suppression of Black Americans under Jim Crow and that of religious minorities in India

**Anna Farronay**   
*History; Romance Languages and Literatures*  
Argentina / aesthetics and national identity formation

**Alice Ruby Ferguson**   
*History; Government; History of Art and Architecture*  
England, France, and Washington DC / intelligence diplomacy between allied nations

**Sebastian Ramirez Feune**   
*Government*  
Puerto Rico and Guam / English and local languages, American territorial policies, and resident sentiments

**Peter Nicholas Darlow Jones**   
*Government; Spanish*  
Hungary, Georgia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina / anti-NGO foreign agent laws on civic space

**Jovan Lim**   
*Social Studies; Economics*  
Thailand and South Korea / economic histories of Shin Ramyun in South Korea and MAMA Noodles in Thailand

**Rayha Kelly McPherson**   
*Psychology; African & African American Studies*  
Rwanda / movement-based intervention for adolescents with transgenerational trauma

**Aqil Arif Merchant**   
*Anthropology; Global Health and Health Policy*  
Greece / EU migration-deterrence measures on asylum seekers

**Saya Horikawa Mitchell**   
*Social Studies*  
Japan / state building in Manchukuo

**Laila Abdulaleam Nasher**   
*History; Anthropology*  
Oman and England / South Yemeni separatism and independence

**Ryan Hieu Doan-Nguyen**   
*History & Literature; Government*  
England / UK's overlooked involvement in the Vietnam War

**Allaura Marie Osborne**   
*Anthropology; History*  
South Dakota / Pine Ridge Reservation tribal members' experiences with Indian boarding schools and family services

**Charlotte Pearl Ritz-Jack**   
*Social Studies*  
South Africa / use of restorative justice in postapartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission

**Daniella Owusu Saforo**   
*Government; Educational Studies*  
Ghana and Sierra Leone / education policy reforms in resource-constrained countries

**Maryam Suraya Karim Tourk**   
*Social Studies*  
England and India / effects of Indian legislation and surveillance on law in Kashmir

**Jamaal Nathan Andre Willis**   
*Government; African & African American Studies*  
Jamaica / impact of British antihomosexual legal codes

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2023–2024 Graduate Student Associates and staff. *Credit: Michelle Nicholasen*



 



 

 See also:- [ Centerpiece: Spring 2024 ](/newsletter-issues/centerpiece-spring-2024)