Global, Urban, and Environmental Studies (GLUE)

Global Studies Thesis Projects: 2019 – 2020

Lang Senior Work 2020

• Spring 2020 Thesis Projects

  Spring 2020

   

  The Role of Mobility in Disentangling Socio-Spatial Legacies of the Post-Apartheid State: The Case of Young Residents of Informal Settlements in Cape Town, SA (Outstanding Thesis Award, 2019-2020) – Ana Holschuh

   

  Becoming Better Relatives: Envisioning the Practice of Migrant-Native Relationality Through Overlapping Onto-Epistemologies (Honorable Mention, 2019-2020) – Shyamoli Patil-Gupta

   

  Challenging Privatized, Individualized and Commodified Environmental Care in Mainstream Western Environmentalism (Honorable Mention, 2019-2020) – Emma Julia Vos

   

  Disruption of Order and Maintenance of Progress; Exploring the Process(es) of Affirming Black Brazilian Identity (Distinction, 2019-2020) – Na’ilah Harris

   

  A New Form of Political Interference: Fake News as Cyber War Under International Law (Distinction, 2019-2020) – Sofia Mateu-Gelabert

   

  “The Seas are Rising and so are We” (Distinction, 2019-2020) – Ingrid Zuijdgeest

   

  Agency and Power in Global Health: The influence of the public and private sector on a mother’s decision to breastfeed – Martin Cochran

   

  Improving Mental Health Care in the United States: Congolese Refugees – Ann Hourigan

   

  Identifying the Perplexity of Citizenship Through Statelessness in the United States – Noemi Lamy Santos

   

  A Comparative Analysis of the Central Park Five Case in The Central Park Five (2012) and When They See Us (2019) – Uma Talpade Mohanty

   

  White Balance: The Legacy of Racism in Photographic Technology – Lorelai Robideaux

   

  Imagining Expanded Sanctuary: From Immigrant Rights, to Prison Abolition, and Beyond – Teresa Ross Tellechea

   

  A Global History of The New School: Circular Temporality and the Historical Present – Ashinique Kelly Spivey

   

  Printmaking Programs as an Alternative to Incarceration – Summer Wojtas

   

   

• Fall 2019 Capstone Projects

  Fall 2019

  Involuntary Friends? Trauma and the Limits of Sanctuary at New Sanctuary Coalition – Rosalind Aparicio-Ramirez

  Reconstructing Whiteness: Understanding Irish Identity In the United States After Reconstruction – Rebecca Chamblee

  The Glamorous Reflection: Understanding the Queer Community through the Art of Drag – Daniel De Boulay

  Internet for Us: sociotechnical world building with 5G infrastructures – Oscar Fossum

  Locked Up By Choice: Corrections Officers in the Age of Mass Incarceration – Sofie Hubbard Warshafsky

  Escucha! Interrupting the silence in movement Building – Yesenia Lazaro

  “Third Eye”: The Black Radical Imagination in Solitary Confinement –Shankhini Saha

  (Re)Imagining the Balkans: Action, Solidarity and (Re)Emergent Political Subjectivity – Benjamin Smith

  1,000 Baht Bands, Shan male migrants, and sex work in Thailand – Margaux Temmerman

  Obstacles to Education: Bilingual Students in New York City – Elizabeth Van Langeveld

  Ethnically IDP: The Plight of Displaced Georgians – Nika Vetsko

  Incluso el gato aparece, or ‘even the cat shows up’: Animal Rights Activism and the Evolution of Mass Mobilization in Cuba – Sheila White