EMR Summer Thesis Research Grants are generously supported by donors to the EMR Gift Fund and the Observatorio Cervantes at Harvard University. We are enormously grateful to those who make these opportunities possible.
To follow are titles of year’s EMR Summer Thesis Research Grant Winners’ proposed projects. Congratulations to our winners, we are excited to learn more about your research!
Kashish Bastola, “American Gurkhas: Locating Nepalis in US Empire”
Dulce Gonzalez Arias, “Untold Stories of the San Fernando Valley: How Latino Immigrants Transformed America’s White Suburb”
Leslie Nevarez, “Comparing the Impact of Migrant Protection Protocols on Healthcare Access in Brownsville & San Diego”
Kaitlyn Tran, “Ideas of Decolonization: Vietnamese Revolutionaries and Black Radicals in the late 1960s”
Kawsar Yasin, “An Ethnographic Study of Uyghur
Women in Istanbul”
Laurinne Eugenio, “Icons On Wheels: The Jeepneys Journey Through History and Its Fight for Survival”
Sophie Goodman, “Discrepancies, Discretion &
Disillusionment in the U Visa Process”
Amber Nolazco-Torres, “Impacts of Organized Crime on Educational Attainment in Rural Sinaloa”
Katherine Villanueva, “Violence Against Women in Mexico: The Social & Political Landscape Connecting to US Migration”
Rebecca Zhang, “Who is the Asian American Student?: An Ethnographic Project on Asian American High School Student Identity”