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Summer Research Fellows

The Levitt Research Fellows Program is open to Hamilton students who wish to spend the summer researching a public affairs question of their choosing. Students from any academic concentration are welcome to apply. The Levitt Council gives preference to rising juniors and seniors.

Kaygon Finakin '19
Kaygon Finakin ’19, a 2017 summer research fellow, talks with Associate Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas about her project “The Role of International Institutions in the Continued Oppression, Exploitation, and Underdevelopment of Various Caribbean Countries.”

Summer Research Fellows collaborate closely with a faculty adviser, work on a full-time basis for up to ten weeks, report on their research sometime during the summer, create a large-format poster and participate in a poster presentation session in the fall and submit a paper or equivalent final product by August 15th.  

There are two deadlines which will be announced in early January: a pre-application deadline and a regular application deadline. As part of the pre-application process, students will need to submit the topic for their summer research and provide the Levitt Center with the name of the faculty member who has agreed to act as the advisor. Once the Levitt Center has received the pre-application, we will contact advisors to provide them with information on what the Levitt Council is looking for in students’ research proposals and applications. Students are strongly encouraged to work closely with their advisor to ensure their proposals are well thought out, manageable and focused. The Levitt Center will not accept any regular applications from students who do not meet the pre-application deadline.

Students selected for the program will receive a $520/week summer stipend. Faculty advisors receive $150/week for advising up to three individual fellows, an additional $50/week for 4 or more fellows, with a cap of $200/week total. 

2024 Research Fellows

Omar Barghout ’25
What is Mental Health?
Advisor: David Walden, director of the counseling center, staff psychologist & lecturer in psychology

Norma Callejas ’26
Ethnomusicological Research Methods and Interactions of “Nature” and “Nurture” in Mexican and Salvadoran Music and Dance
Advisor: Alex Bádue, assistant professor of music

Madeline Cloutier ’27
Issues of Patronage and Sustenance at the Mahavihara Nalanda
Advisor: Abhishek Amar, associate professor of Asian studies

Rafael (Rafa) Coutinho Padua ’26
Communicating Inflation: An Analysis of How Presidential Communication Affected Inflation Expectations in Brazil
Advisor: Cody Couture, assistant professor of economics

Shraddha Datta ’25
Using Technology for Good: A Qualitative Study on the Role of Hamilton College in Reproducing Technology-based Ideology
Advisor: Chaise LaDousa, Chair, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of Anthropology; director of education studies

Madison Harland ’26
Are Men the Problem? A Foray Into Queer Economics
Advisor: Eliane Barker, assistant professor of economics

Eval-Eniman (Eniman) Imoke ’26
Nigeria After Colonialism: Social and Economic Development
Advisor: Heather Merrill, professor of Africana studies, director of Italian studies

Alya MacDonald ’25
Heirloom
Advisor: Robert Knight, associate professor of art, director of digital arts

Amaris Martins ’26
The Power of Perception:?? The Role of City Branding Initiatives in Utica, NY
Advisor: Mahala Stewart, assistant professor of sociology

Ting Mei ’26
Political Dynamics and Infrastructure Sustainability: A Comparative Analysis of Qatar's Success and CPEC Challenges within the BRI
Advisor: Alan Cafruny, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Relations, acting chair German studies

Jonathan Nemetz ’25
Called to Serve: Finding Religious Community in Volunteer Corps
Advisor: Stephen Ellingson, professor of sociology

Clare Robinson ’25
Exploring Rural Stakeholders' Perceptions and Actions Towards Climate Change: A Comparative Study between Upstate New York and Canterbury, New Zealand
Advisor: Aaron Strong, associate director, assistant professor of environmental studies

Julia Smith ’25
'I Want to Document It': Curation of Anorexia Nervosa (AN) Recovery Identities on Social Media
Advisor: Mahala Stewart, assistant professor of sociology

Mina Stevens ’26
Virtual Materiality: Reshaping Perspectives on Object Agency through Video Games
Advisors: Laura Ann Samuelson, visiting assistant professor in dance and movement studies; Anna Huff, assistant professor of digital arts 

Mikaella (Mika) Tortusa ’25
Elihu Root’s Legacy Reconsidered
Advisor: Celeste Day Moore, associate professor of history

Aubrey Wallen ’26
The Faustian Legend: and Applications to Contemporary Art and Politics
Advisor: Laura Bryson Tedford, lecturer in German studies

Kyle Wood ’25
Understanding the Impact of Removing Single-Family Zoning on Housing Affordability, Neighborhood Demographics, and Urban Development in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Advisor: Evelyn Skoy, assistant professor of economics

Past Research Fellow Projects

Quinn Brown ’24
Imagined Communities in the Holy Land: Exploring the role of Nationalism and History in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Advisors: Lisa Trivedi, Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of History; Shoshana Keller, Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of History

Lia Cagnetta ’24
Incorporating of Climate Change Resiliency into Urban Planning: Green Infrastructure Initiatives in Boston and Copenhagen
Advisor: Aaron Strong, associate director and assistant professor of environmental studies

Santiago (Santi) Chamorro ’25
Maturity in Children's Literature
Advisor: Margaret Thickstun, Jane Watson Irwin Professor of Literature

Sarah DeSanto ’25
Heavy Metal Concentration Disparities in Freshwater Mollusks from Socioeconomically-Diverse Connecticut River Towns
Advisor: Carolyn Hutchinson, assistant professor of chemistry

Jennifer Gidicsin ’25
Heavy Metal Concentration Disparities in Freshwater Mollusks from Socioeconomically-Diverse Connecticut River Towns
Advisor: Carolyn Hutchinson, assistant professor of chemistry

Nevaeh Gutierrez ’25
‘The Town that Loves Refugees?’: Media Framing of Refugees in Utica, NY
Advisor: Andrea Pena-Vasquez, visiting assistant professor of government

Syra Gutow ’24
“When a Storyteller Dies, a Whole Library Burns”: Gender and Linguistic Dynamics of Oral Storytelling in Morocco
Advisor: Kira Jumet, associate professor of government

Willa Karr ’25
The Neighborhood Speaks: A Narrative Study of New York City’s Bodegas and Corner Stores
Advisor: Julie Starr, assistant professor of anthropology

Raymond Ni ’24
Perception and Assessment of DEI Practices within Athletics in Liberal Arts Schools
Advisor: Chenyu Wang, assistant professor of anthropology

Hadley Noonan ’25
Book Bans: the Advocacy Group-led Politicization of Reading
Advisor: Jamie Kucinskas, associate professor of sociology

Ainsley Novack ’25
‘The Town that Loves Refugees?’: Media Framing of Refugees in Utica, NY
Advisor: Andrea Peña-Vasquez, visiting assistant professor of government

Grace Park ’25
Understanding the Perceptions of Authentic Chinese vs. Korean Food in Flushing, NY: From the Eyes of Consumers
Advisor: Julie Starr, assistant professor of anthropology

Ryan Swanson ’24
Public Vices into Private Benefits? The Unintended Consequences of Political Competition on the Homeless Experience in New York State
Advisor: Frank Anechiarico, Maynard-Knox Professor of Law, Director of Public Policy

Rongchen Wang ’25
Gender Stereotypes in Job Applications: Does Signaling Parental Warmth Enhance Evaluation of High-Achieving Female Applicants
Advisor: Matthew Grace, associate professor of sociology

Sylvia Yang ’25
The Pandemic's Effect on Women's Labor Market Participation: Investigating the Role of Remote Work
Advisor: Wei Zhan, assistant professor of economics

Angela Zheng ’25
Understanding the Perceptions of Authentic Chinese vs. Korean Food in Flushing, NY: From the Eyes of Consumers
Advisor: Julie Starr, assistant professor of anthropology

Kaitlyn Bieber ’23
The Subarctic Ethic: Understanding the Impact of Dramatic Landscapes on Climate Visions and Values in Southeast Alaska
Advisor: Aaron Strong, assistant professor of environmental studies
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Olivia Chandler ’23
Realizing Radical Hope in Rural Places: How Tidelines Institute in Alaska Connects Place, Advocacy, and Alternative Environmental Education
Advisor: Aaron Strong, assistant professor of environmental studies
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Emlyn Harris ’23
Surrealism in Altered Mental States: Migraine Auras, Vertigo, and Disassociation
Advisor: Anna Huff, assistant professor of digital arts

Yinjia Hou ’24
The Rising Awareness of Feminism Represented in Chinese Contemporary Music
Advisor: Zhuoyi Wang, associate professor of East Asian languages and literatures

Olivia James ’23
Understanding Language Inequality in Financial Literacy
Advisor: Rebecca Dyer, visiting assistant professor of psychology

Katharine Jenkinson ’23, Abigail Moone ’23
Homegrown: A Narrative Exploration of Community and Environment
Advisor: Tina Hall, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of Literature and Creative Writing

Jason Le ’23
The Asian American Experience Through Documentary Cinema
Advisor: Kyoko Omori, associate professor of Japanese

John Myles ’24
Predator–prey Relationships and the Influence of Humans on Shorebird Nest Survival
Advisor: Andrea Townsend, associate professor of biology
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Violet Newhouse ’23
Youth Political Action in Upstate New York: Why Traditional Institutions are No Longer Enough
Advisor: Stephen Ellingson, professor of sociology

Lillian Norton-Brainerd ’23
Mapping the Construct of “Foreign” Food in Grocery Stores
Advisor: Stina Soderling, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies

Anna O'Shea ’24
Women Behind Bars: The Potential of Educational Liberation in the Carceral State
Advisor: Vivyan Adair, professor of women's and gender studies

Madeline Schink ’23
Medical Women and Reproductive Medicine in Colonial India
Advisor: Lisa Trivedi, chair and professor of history

Lena Schneck ’23
Studying Barriers to Rehabilitation in Prisons: Healthcare in Incarceration Facilities
Advisor: Doran Larson, Edward North Chair of Greek and Greek Literature and Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
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Brian Seiter ’24
Intersecting the Foucauldian Frame: Analyzing Foucault’s Histories and Genealogies through Postcolonial and Decolonial Approaches to History
Advisor: Lisa Trivedi, chair and professor of history

Sadie Wallis ’24
Food Insecurity and Farming: Possibilities and Limitations of Local Food
Advisor: Stephen Ellingson, professor of sociology

James Winner ’23
Non-Abrahamic Religious Minorities in Iraq and their Place in Society
Advisor: Usman Hamid, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies

Huarui Zhang ’23
Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger: A Discourse Analysis of Self-love in American Society
Advisor: Chenyu Wang, visiting assistant professor of anthropology

Alan Zhao ’23
Analyzing Rental Protection Policy and Its Effectiveness: A Case Study of Tenants in New York City During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Advisor: Stephen Wu, Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics
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Helen Ziobrowski ’24
Identifying Shortcomings of Disability Law Regarding Structural Accessibility in Postsecondary Education
Advisor: Chenyu Wang, visiting assistant professor of anthropology

Finlay Adamson ’22
Historical Analysis of American Immigration Detention Through a Focus on Neoliberal Economic Reforms and the Rise of National Security
Advisor: Priya Chandrasekaran, visiting assistant professor of environmental studies

Olivia Chandler ’23
Motivation to Embrace or Escape? A Comparative Look at Two Post-Capitalist Communities.
Advisor: Priya Chandrasekaran, visiting assistant professor of environmental studies

Andrew Court ’22
Providing Improved Livelihoods for Muskoka’s Residents and Visitors in the Time of Two Global Crises
Advisor: Aaron Strong, assistant professor of environmental studies

Emily Fienco ’23
Recreating and Adapting the Traditional 2000’s Girls/Boys’ Manual for A New Generation
Advisor: Max Majireck, associate professor of chemistry

Maya Figliuolo ’22
Recreating and Adapting the Traditional 2000’s Girls/Boys’ Manual for A New Generation
Advisor: Max Majireck, associate professor of chemistry

Emory Goodwin ’23
Development or Decline: Understanding Community Barriers to Solar Expansion in Upstate New York
Advisor: Aaron Strong, assistant professor of environmental studies

Tonwa Hauff ’23
Exploring the Usage of Ancient Mediterranean Imagery by the Alt-Right
Advisor: Anne Feltovich, associate professor of classics

Eric Kopp ’22
Unpacking the Imposed: The Colonial Binary, Hijras, Queers, and India
Advisor: Lisa Trivedi, professor of history

Nina Lissarrague ’22
The Effect of the Pandemic on Vermont's Bi-partisan Anti-vaccination Movement
Advisor: Julie Starr, assistant professor of anthropology

Katelyn Perruc ’23
U.S.-Colombian Foreign Policy Depiction Through the Popular Media
Advisor: Heather Sullivan, assistant professor of government

Nicole Ramirez ’23
US-Colombian Foreign Policy Depiction through the Popular Media
Advisor: Heather Sullivan, assistant professor of government

Sean Storr ’22
Environmental Equity and the Cosmetics Industry: An Intersectional Perspective
Advisor: Vivyan Adair, professor of women’s and gender studies
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Henry Curcio ’21
Ancient Wisdom: Friendship in the Good and Happy Life
Advisor: Justin Clark, assistant professor of philosophy

Peter Case ’21
Framing the Fight: How Chile's History of Framing Social Movements Affected the Fall 2019 Protests
Advisor: Heather Sullivan, assistant professor of government

Ashley Garcia ’22
The Implications of Skin Tone Stratification in Latinx Perspectives of Race
Advisor: Matthew Grace, assistant professor of sociology
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Kayla Glemaud ’21
Environmental Justice and Poverty in Camden, NJ
Advisor: Peter Cannavó, professor of government

Sara Jadbabaie ’21
Spirituality and Ideology: Examining the Intersection of Movement, Spirituality, and Environmental Attitudes on El Camino De Santiago
Advisor: Aaron Strong, assistant professor of environmental studies

McKela Kanu ’22 and Emnet Sisay ’22
Reclaiming Land, Health, and Bodies: A Decolonization Approach to the Impacts of Food Sovereignty and Primary Health Care on Central NY Indigenous Reservations
Advisor: Priya Chandrasekaran, visiting assistant professor of environmental studies
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Eric Kopp ’22
The Very Foundation of Our Liberation: A Historical Perspective on LGBTQ+ Rights in the United Kingdom and Our Future after Brexit
Advisor: Kevin Grant, Edgar B. Graves Professor of History

Camille Laude ’21
The Replication of Pilgrimage: Camino Cebu
Advisor: Seth Schermerhorn, associate professor of american studies

Ngoc (Emily) Le ’22
Where I Came From: Unveiling the Changes in Vietnamese Culture, Then and Now
Advisor: Robert Knight, associate professor of art

Dorothy Poucher ’21
Bodiliness and Gender in Depictions of Sex
Advisor: Marianne Janack, John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy

Anyi Rescalvo ’22
¿Porque no está en español?': Voices of Latinx Mothers Within the Special Education System in the South Bronx
Advisor: Chenyu Wang, visiting assistant professor of anthropology

Carter Steckbeck ’22
Why Women Don’t Code: Media Exposure and Occupational Choice in US Labor Markets
Advisor: Emily Conover, professor of economics

Summer Research Groups

The Levitt Research Group Grants support groups of students that complete summer research projects under the supervision of at least one faculty advisor. The grants are intended to encourage faculty and student publications. Student and faculty members from all divisions in the college are encouraged to apply.

Fieldwork or original analysis of existing data is generally required, with preference given to teams doing research in the local community. Projects that will be useful for policy makers and other researchers are also encouraged. Students in research groups and their faculty advisors meet face-to-face regularly to coordinate and communicate research efforts.

Each student works on a full-time basis for the duration of the project as determined by the faculty mentor, submits a 25-page paper (or equivalent final product) by August 15th and presents their research in the fall or spring.

Deadline for applications is mid-February. Stipends: $520/week for the student and $250-$400/week per faculty member, depending on the number of students supervised:  $250 for the first two students, an additional $100 for a third student and an additional $50 for a fourth student, up to a maximum stipend of $400/week.

2024 Research Groups

Calvin Doherty ’25, Ailis Hayden ’26, Lily Watts ’26
Rural Responses to Climate Change in Upstate New York: Renewables, Agriculture, and the (Im)possible
Advisor: Aaron Strong, associate director, assistant professor of environmental studies

Garrin Brandl ’27, Morgan Hodorowski ’26, Sarafina Madden ’26, Jack O'Brien ’26,
Drug Discovery through Historical Pharmacopeias: Applications for Artificial Intelligence in Large Pharmaceutical Datasets
Advisor: Mackenzie Cooley, assistant professor of history, director of Latin American studies

Tia Cole ’25, Ainsley Novack ’25, Rachel Parajuli ’25
The Global Spread of Police Militarization
Advisor: Erica De Bruin, associate professor of government

John Carbone ’25, Maria Chipres ’25, Jaiden Knowles ’26
Charting the Community Film Movements and Festivals in the Hispanic World
Advisor: Marcelo Carosi, visiting assistant professor of Hispanic studies

Past Summer Research Groups

Lara Barreira ’25, Simon Le ’25, Nicholas (Cole) Wassiliew ’26, Andrew Hohmann ’26
Global Pharmacopeias
Advisor: Mackenzie Cooley, assistant professor of history

Bailey Black ’24, Hannah Lipskar ’25, Daniel Rodriguez ’26, Jesica Sanchez ’24
Activism and Digital Queer Culture in the Hispanic World
Advisor: Marcelo Carosi, visiting assistant professor of Hispanic studies

Roselin (Rosey) Pineda ’25, Natalia Reboredo ’24, Emile Vasquez ’24, Brandon Yam ’25
Lessons learned in “safe spaces”: An ethnographic exploration
Advisor: Chenyu Wang, assistant professor of anthropology

Helen Ziobrowski ’25, Leslie De La Rosa ’25, Skye Dupree ’24, Alissa Mangiaracina ’24
Shifting the Narrative: Exploring Disability through Theatre for Social Change
Advisor: Emily K. Harrison, assistant professor of theatre
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Matt Fiore ’24, Angela Escalante Zarco ’25, Kimmie Johnson ’24
Archaeology as Advocacy: Celebrating Cultural Heritage and Promoting Sustainability in Transylvanian Mining Communities
Advisor: Colin Quinn, assistant professor of anthropology

Zachary Brooks ’24, Misaki Funada ’23, William Geach ’23, Caitlin Gooding ’24, Shi-Anne Morgan ’25, Emily Weinstein ’24, and Nathanael Wild ’24
Education in the Time of COVID-19: Ethnographic Approaches to Policy
Advisors: Chenyu Wang, visiting assistant professor of anthropology; Chaise LaDousa, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of Anthropology

Makayla Alston ’25, Lara Barreira ’25, Hannah Jablons ’25, Elizabeth Gale ’24, Nevaeh Gutierrez ’25
Producing a Black World: Citizenship, Race, and Media
Advisor: Celeste Day Moore, assistant professor of history

Nicholas Cackett ’24, Quinn Jones ’23
Authority in the Borderlands: Who do Migrants Turn to on the US-Mexico Border?
Advisor: Heather Sullivan, assistant professor of government
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Katelyn Perruc ’23, Nicole Ramirez ’23, Ariana Silva ’23
Digital Culture and Social Justice in Latin America
Advisor: Marcelo Carosi, visiting assistant professor of Hispanic studies

Naima Akter ’24, Isabelle Crownhart ’23, Carter Myers-Brown ’24, Isabella Roselli ’23
Bioprospecting, Materia Medica, and the Ecologies of Medicine
Advisor: Mackenzie Cooley, assistant professor of history

Liam Hudgings ’24, Jack Ritzenberg ’24, Teddy Slosberg ’24, Scout Winer ’24
Places and Things
Advisor: Marianne Janack, the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy
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Sosina Abuhay ’23, Sarah John ’24, and Dylan Koproski ’23, and Zou Lingli ’22
Lead Toxicology: A Study at the Intersections of Community Health, Genetics, Reproduction, and Behavior
Advisor: Rhea Datta, assistant professor of biology

Carson Halabi ’22, , Madison Hurtgen ’22, and Lillian Norton-Brainerd ’23
Pathways to a Zero Carbon New York: Understanding Solar NIMBYism and Overcoming Barriers to Renewables Deployment
Advisor: Aaron Strong, assistant professor of environmental studies

Philip Chivily ’23, Liam Garcia-Quish ’23, Masoud Maheen ’24, Ravena Pernanand ’21, and Nandini Subramaniam ’22
Roti Project
Advisor: Mariam Durrani, assistant professor of anthropology

Zachary Brooks ’24, Josue Herrera Rivera ’24, and Luis Lopez ’24
Routine Resistance: Archaeological Analysis of Daily Life and Political Transformation at the Tilcajete Sites, Oaxaca, Mexico
Advisor: Lacey Carpenter, visiting assistant professor of anthropology

Steven Campos ’22, Kaela Dunne ’22, Caroline Freundel ’24, and Shania Kuo ’23
Schooling in COVID-Times: How Parents Navigate Schooling Through a Global Pandemic
Advisor: Mahala Stewart, assistant professor of sociology

Isabelle Crownhart ’23, William Burstein ’24, Emma Tomlins ’23
Senegal Liberations Project
Advisor: Rebecca Wall, visiting assistant professor of history

Mahi Ghia ’22, Michael Ghiorsi ’23, Alexis Jamaica ’22, Janna Perez ’23, Salwa Sidahmed ’23, and Huarui Zhang ’23
The Discourse of Diversity and Inclusion at Predominantly White Institutions: An Ethnographic Exploration
Advisors: Chaise LaDousa, Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of Anthropology, and Chenyu Wang, visiting assistant professor of anthropology

Min Yu Huang ’24, Jason Le ’23, Allie LeeHoffman ’23, Crystal Lin ’22, Michelle Jiayi Liu ’23,  Rachel Lu ’22, Maya Nguyen-Haberneski ’23, Kothiya Nyaari ’23, Anna Sakamoto ’23, Haruna Shimizu ’21, Khuslen Tulga ’23, and Michelle Zheng ’24
What is it like to be Asian/American at Hamilton College? Phase II
Advisors: Kyoko Omori, associate professor of Japanese, Steve Yao, Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English, and Pavitra Sundar, associate professor of literature
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Carter Steckbeck ’22
Analysis of Media Portrayal of Computer Use by Gender as part of the larger project “Why Women Don't Code: Media Exposure and Occupational Choice in US Labor Markets”
Advisor: Emily Conover, professor of economics

Elizabeth Arnold ’22, Aidan Leahey ’22, and Isabelle Roselli ’22
Archaeology as Advocacy: Celebrating Cultural Heritage and Promoting Sustainability in Transylvanian Mining Communities
Advisor: Colin Quinn, assistant professor of anthropology

Claire Campbell ’22, Juliana De Simone ’21, Carson Goos ’21, and Natalie Halpin ’21
Assessing the Impact of Racism, Classism, Sexism, Homophobia, Ageism and Able-ism on the Experience, Reporting and Remediation of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, in the Time of COVID-19, in Our Region
Advisor: Vivyan Adair, professor of women’s and gender studies

Rachel Pike ’21 and Abigail Roller ’21
Data and Tools for Assessing the Impacts of a Changing Spring Climate in Central and Northern New York
Advisor: Heather Kropp, assistant professor of environmental studies

Taron Kui ’22, Weihan Lin ’22, and Qian Ren ’22
FinTech, Financial Inclusion, and Income Inequality: Understanding the Distributional Effects of FinTech on Tackling Income Inequality With Cross Classes and Countries Examination
Advisor: Christophre Georges, Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of Economics

Nicole Eisenberg ’21, Diana Perez ’21, Ha Tran ’22, and Gregory Varney ’22
Militarized Policing and Political Stability
Advisors: Erica DeBruin, associate professor of government, and Sharon Rivera, professor of government

Elizabeth Atherton ’22, Philip Chivily ’23, and Emma Tomlins ’23
New World Nature Medicine and Empire in the Early Modern Atlantic World,
Advisor: Mackenzie Cooley, assistant professor of history

Carina Krusell ’22, Matthew McGoey ’21, Sajan Palanki ’21, and Majestic Terhune ’21
Politics and Policy of COVID
Advisors: Phil Klinkner, James S. Sherman Professor of Government, and Gbemende Johnson, associate professor of government

Ashley Garcia ’22, Jahmali Matthews ’22, Hope Medina ’21, and Hannah Peterson ’22
Schooling Under Covid-19: How Families Navigate School and Care During a Global Pandemic
Advisor: Mahala Stewart, assistant professor of sociology

Isabelle Crownhart ’23, Joseph Fraser ’21, Charlotte Guterman ’22, and Erica Ivins ’21
Senegal Liberations Project
Advisor: Rebecca Wall, visiting assistant professor of history

Sophia Coren ’21, Janna Perez ’23, and Cherry Zhang ’22
Students of Color and the Discourse of 'Diversity and Inclusion' at Predominately White Institutions
Advisor: Chenyu Wang, visiting assistant professor of anthropology

Clare Barbato ’22, Chris Inkiow ’22, and Rebecca Ridgway ’21
The Barriers to and Potential for Natural and Working Lands Carbon Sequestration to Facilitate Effective Climate Action in New York State
Advisor: Aaron Strong, assistant professor of environmental studies

Jo Dine ’22 and Alex Reboredo ’22
The Philosophical Endeavor of Community-Engaged Teaching
Advisor: Todd Franklin, professor of philosophy and Africana studies

Kahleel Bernard ’23, Shania Kuo ’23, Natalia Reboredo ’24, and Isabel Rutkey ’22
The Turn toward Racial Social Justice in Mindfulness and Yoga
Advisor: Jaime Kucinskas, associate professor of sociology

Cameron Blair ’21, Eliza Jones ’22, and Riley Nichols ’21
Virtual Philosophy: Deconstructing Power Dynamics and Building Community
Advisor: Marianne Janack, John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy

Divyan Karuri ’23, Nyaari Kothiya ’23, Jason Le ’23, and Anna Sakamoto ’23
What Was It Like, What Is It Like, to be 'Asian' at Hamilton College?
Advisor: Kyoko Omori, associate professor of Japanese

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