Global Studies Capstone
Student Presentations
December 1st -10th
Jensen Lecture Hall
Dec. 1
4-5:30
Dec. 3
4-5:30
Maxwell Bressor: Fifteen Years of Free Trade: How NAFTA has Affected the Identity of
Rural Mexican Farmers
Leah Lamdin: Making International Aid Work Matter: An Alternative Model
Irene Malarkey: Revolutionary Mothers: The Innovative Strategies of Las Madres de la Plaza
de Mayo
Rachel Schonberg: Growing Health: Using Sustainable Agriculture to Fight the HIV/AIDS
Epidemic in Malawi
Sara Reddick: Teaching La Lucha: Popular Education and the Zapatista Struggle
Marie Bourgeois: One Nyayo Forward: The Concept and Practice of Tribe in Kenya
Allie Clupper: Language Services in Health Care: A Question of Equal Access and Human
Rights
Anna Petrie: China’s Pending Water Crisis: A Case Study of Shandong Province
Dec.4
George Pilzer: The Effects of Mau Zedong and Deng Xiaoping on Modern China
2:30-3:50 Laura Dison: Exporting Livelihoods: Shortcomings of the Coffee Export-Based Economy in
Guatemala
Joelle Kellem: From the 1996 Laws to Today’s Enforcement: The Town Cop as La Migra
and The Criminalization of Immigrants In The United States
Dec. 8
4-5:30
Sean Moffitt: The Global Implications of Educating Rural Chinese Women
Brent Figlestahler: Materialist Disciples: A Case of Latin American Conversion
Callie Baruch: Water for Life Not for Profit: Water Rights Violations in Rural Chile
Kelsey McDonald: U.S. Intervention in the Presidency of Salvador Allende: The
Social, Political and Economic Effects in Chile
Dec.10
4-5:30
Will Weaver: Machismo, Homophobia, and the Changing Attitudes toward Homosexuality in
Latin America
Rebecca Parish: Representations of the Other: Are Study Abroad Students Actually
Perpetuating Global Power Imbalances?
Ileana Anderson: The Impacts of the Neo-Liberal Experiment on the Mapuche Traditional
Health System