Compilation of Research and Internships over the years (this represents primarily on site research and internship projects, along with several of the more unusual projects done throughout the years -- it does not include standard research papers)

1986

• Don Jennings '86, conducted research on the hunger strikers in the Maze prison for Padraig O'Malley's book Biting at the Graves, researched in Northern Ireland

1990

• Jeremy Harrington '91, "Counterinsurgency in the Philippines," researched in the Philippines
• Jeremy Harrington '91, "Sam Cummings and the Small Arms Industry," researched in Monaco

1991

• Ramin Arani '92 and Jeremy Bohrer '93, "National Security Measures in the Israeli Occupied Territories: Systemic Human Rights Violations and Security Concerns," researched in Israel and the West Bank
• Mark Carrie '92, "Haiti Since Duvalier: The Impact of Duvalierism on the Pursuit of Democratic Rule," researched in Haiti
• Mark Carrie '92, researcher on law and civil society for the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, researched in Argentina
• Rob Daniels '91, "Contending with Past Human Right Violations and Ethnic Schisms: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia," researched in Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia
• Rob Daniels '91 and Raluca Oncioiu F'92, internship at Freedom House in New York City, researching the annual freedom report
• Keith Fitzgerald '91 and Brian O'Rourke '92, "Counterterrorism, Civil Liberties, and the Use of Lethal Force in Northern Ireland," researched in Northern Ireland

1992

• Jaya Baloo '95, "Population Growth and the Environment in India," researched in India
• Christy Barnes '92, Brian Kaplan '92, Ben Macklowe '92, Ann Riley '92, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (The Rio Earth Summit), in Brazil
• John Horowitz '92 and Lauren Lovelace '92, "Economic Growth vs. Environmental Security: The Future of Russia," researched in Russia
• Brian Kaplan '92, "People and the Planet" project, research for two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe photojournalist Stan Grossfeld, in US
• Mouna Khabbaz '92, "Water Scarcity, Population Growth, and the Nile River," researched in Egypt
• Samia Kirmani '92 and Lara Staub '93, "Challenging 'Conservation by Self-Determination': The Miskito Indians of Nicaragua," researched in Nicaragua
• Katherine Langley '92 and Ann Riley '92, "The Colorado River Basin: Water Scarcity and Water Security," researched in Colorado, US
• Kevin McCauley '92, "Spirits of Violence: An Experimental Perspective on the Militarization of Zimbabwean Identity and the Reconstruction of Memory in Southern Africa," researched in Zimbabwe
• Sol Nasisi '92, "Water in the Middle East: Technological and Economic Alternatives," researched in Jordan and Israel

1993 >>top

• John Mark Crowley '93, "Preparing for 1997: Democratic and Economic Reforms in Hong Kong," researched in Hong Kong
• Sonja Lichtenstein '93, "Privatization in the New Czech Republic," researched in The Czech Republic

1994 >>top

• Karen Ahlborn '94 and Kate Konschnik '94, United Nations World Summit for Social Development, the only two undergraduates to present their research at the conference; their topics were "Nationalism and Separatism in Northeast India" and "Exploring the Links between Human, Environmental, and Political Security: A Case Study of the Tuareg in Mali," respectively, presented in Stockholm
• Gregory Karpinski '95, "The Rise of Fundamentalism and the Prospects for Civil Society," researched in Kuwait, Egypt, and Israel and the West Bank
• Maura Lynch F'95, "The Reunification of Families in Eastern Europe after Civil Strife," researched in Georgia

1995 >>top

• Jennifer Ahlfeldt '95, "In Light of Our Reflection," an interactive, gallery juried exhibition of 40+ artists at the Tufts University Art Gallery
• Sean Love '95, "Volatile Stability: Democratic Elections in Kyrgyzstan" (film documentary), researched and filmed in Kyrgyzstan

1996 >>top

• Meghan Armistead '96 and Maria Kamin '97, "Liberation Theology and The Chiapas Conflict," researched in Mexico
• Matt Cammack '96 "Reconstructing the Historical Record," researched in Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Krista Desgranges '97, Micah Meisel '98, Kavita Pillay '97, "Possibilities for Reconciliation: The Fate of Jerusalem," 1996, researched in Israel and the West Bank
• Omer Hiziroglu '98, "Reconstructing Beirut: How the Past Influences the Future," researched in Beirut
• Lucas Kello '99, "Political Disputes, Ethnicity, and Post-war Reconstruction," researched in Bosnia Herzegovina
• David McNally '97, "After the 'Troubles': Restoring Civil Society in Northern Ireland," researched in Northern Ireland
• Delegation of six EPIIC students, 1996, United Nations Human Settlements Conference, presentation of their original research and CD-Rom on "Beyond Intolerance: Reconciliation and Reconstruction in Beirut, Belfast, Jerusalem, and Sarajevo," in Istanbul, Turkey

1997 >>top

• Aparna Basnyat '00 and Carolyn Hunt '00, "The Trafficking of Nepali Girls and Women in the Brothels of India," researched in Nepal
• Elizabeth Chen '99, "Popular Culture and Democratization in China," researched in China
• Allison Cohen '98, "Organizational Profiles: Key Right-Wing Legal Institutions," a project for The Center for Democracy Studies, in US
• Goh Chin Lian '00, "Rural Election in the People's Republic of China," researched in China
• Alexandra Haddad '97, "Demilitarization and Women's Health Issues," researched in Costa Rica and Guatemala
• Anthony Lin '99, "Two Engines of the Chinese Reform Machine: Special Economic Zones and Rural Enterprises," researched in China
• Courtney Reed '97, "One Country, Two Systems or One Country, One System?," researched in Hong Kong
• Samar Shaheryar '99, "War Crimes and Women's Issues: Rape and Dilemmas of the Witness Protection Program," researched at The Hague
• Serge Todorovich '97, "Refugees and the Dilemmas of Reconciliation," researched in The Serb Republic

1998 >>top

• Jesse Lainer '99, "Labor Migration and Citizenship Laws in the UAE," researched in the United Arab Emirates

1999 >>top

• Abisoye Babajide '00, participated in a needs-assessment tour by KIND of NGO's that work with women and youth, researched in Nigeria
• Sam Barzilay '00, Hyun Jung Choi '01, and Shorena Shaverdashvili '01, "Corporate Crime and Corruption: The Caspian and Beyond," researched in Azerbaijan
• Kristen Cibelli '99 and Tamy Guberek '02, "Justice Unknown, Justice Unsatisfied? Bosnia NGOs Speak about the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia" (they interviewed 54 NGOs in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia about the ICTY and about the proposed truth and reconciliation commission and organized a conference at the University of Sarajevo on their findings; their report is currently being used as a foundation for outreach to the community in Sierra Leone as that country begins its truth and reconciliation process; http://www.epiic.com/class/justicereport.pdf), researched in Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Arum Han '01 and Keiko Nakano '01, "The Legacy of War Crimes and the Potential for Reconciliation," researched in Japan and South Korea
• Harris Rashid '00 and Hyun Jung "Jo" Choi '01, "The Indonesian General Elections and Corruption," researched in Indonesia

2000 >>top

• Nicole Bores '02, internship with T.E.A.M. (The Exceptional Athlete Matters) USA, preparing updates and curricula for the Ride Across America
• Michael Conte '02 and Peter Mayer '00, internships with NBC Sports at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, in Australia
• Julie Leimbach '00, 2000 Leonard Silk-EPIIC Fellow, International Consortium for Investigative Journalists, Washington, DC
• Lauren Pinkus '00, participated in the International Olympic Committee Conference on Women in Sport, documented proceedings and presented a summary during the conference, in Paris

2001 >>top

• Aditi Banerjee'02, internships with the Human Rights Program at the Harvard Law School, researching minority rights and conflict resolution in North and South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, for the Bellagio Conference
• Tami Guberek '02, 2001 Leonard Silk-EPIIC Fellow, International Consortium for Investigative Journalists
• Sarah Leistikow '03, internship, Center for Law, Culture, and Difference at Northeastern University School of Law, researching racial profiling and creating a web site
• Sam Schwartz '01, Aditi Banerjee '02, and Mimi Feldman '01, "Putting the Burundian Civil War in Context (1994-present): Supplement to Breaking the Codes ," working with Nieman Fellow and filmmaker Bryan Rich
• Natica Smith '03, worked with Dr. Patrick Ball of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science on designing and cross-referencing databases to study death squads in Guatemala and El Salvador, in Washington, DC

2002 >>top

• Sam Abrams '05, Joseph Gulezian '05, and Pon Souvannesong '05, project with Builders for Peace, in Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Nicole Bores '02, "Assessing the Impacts of Outsiders on Community Empowerment: Water Source Protection in Rural Uganda," researched in Uganda
• Alexander Busse '04 and Sean Young '04, "Housing and Sustainable Development in South Africa: An Examination of Informal Settlements in the Greater Johannesburg Area," researched in South Africa
• Alex Busse '04, "Civil Society and the Peace Process: Sri Lanka Looks to the Future," researched in Sri Lanka
• Jaime Carlson '02, "Migrating for Work: Globalization and Labor," researched in Thailand
• Jana Frey '02, "The Plight of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan," researched in Pakistan
• Grace Hollister '02 and Kelly Morrison '02, "Senegalese Women and Microcredit: The Search for a Suitable Solution," researched in Senegal
• Jared Levant '02, "Pharoah's Legacy: The Nature of Conflict in Modern Egypt," researched in Egypt
• Anne O'Loughlin '02, "Occupational Hazard? The Life of the Migrant Worker in Taiwan," researched in Taiwan
• Sean Young '04, 2002 Leonard Silk-EPIIC Fellow, International Consortium for Investigative Journalists
• EPIIC Class, 2002, prepared briefing papers on critical aspects of global inequities for the director of the Strategic Policy Unit for the Secretary-General of the United Nations

2003 >>top

• Robina Bhasin '03 and Vicky Hartanto '03, "U.S.-Mexico Border: Identity, Immigration, and Human Right," on the U.S.-Mexico border from Texas to California
• Rachel Brandenburg '05, "Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Resolution," in Israel
• Kate Burns '05, "Corsican Identity: Claims for Sovereignty," in Corsica
• Nicholas Chaset '05,"East Timor: Nation-building and the Repatriation of Refugees," in East Timor
• Frances Dixon '06 and Jeremy Sueker '06, "Famine as a Political Tool," in Zimbabwe
• Elana Eisen-Markowitz '06, Jenna Sirkin '04, and Sonia Weiss-Pick '06, "Sovereignty and Free Choice: A Study of the Relationship between Internal and External Governmental and Non Governmental Organizations and Reproductive Health Policy in Mexico," in Mexico
• Shai Gruber '06, "The Future of Jerusalem," in Israel
• Alia Hamid '04, "Statelessness and Sovereignty: The Status of Palestinians in Lebanon," in Lebanon
• Elliot Hirshon '05 and Kari McIntyre '06, "The Australian Project: Understanding the Complexities Surrounding Asylum Policies and National Security," in Australia
• Joe Jaffe '05 and Leah Rogers '05, "Trafficking of Women and Girls in Thailand: Would the Intervention of International Authorities and Morality Violate Thai Sovereignty?," in Thailand
• John Rogers Maxwell '03, "The Process of Government Decentralization and its Impact on the Culture, the Economy, and the People of Peru," in Peru
• Amiti Wolt, '06, "The Future of Palestinian Refugees," in Israel

2004 >>top

• Sarah Arkin '06, Tiffany Chen '06, and Ana Martinez '05, "U.S. Aid and International Policies on Refugees and IDPs in Uganda," in Uganda
• Laura Arriaza '05, "Transitional Justice in Guatemala and the Role of the U.S.," in Guatemala
• Vera Belitsky '07 and Sarah Newton '07, "U.S. Aid and Public Health in Russia," in Russia
• Lisa BonoCorredor '04 and Erica Levine '04, "USAID and Women's Policies," in Morocco
• Boryana Damyanova '06 and Thomas Singer '06, "The Cultural Impact of American Multinational Corporations," in the United Arab Emirates
• Matthew Edmundson '05, "The Immigration of the Somali Bantus from the Kauma Refugee Camp to the U.S.," in Kenya
• John Francis '04, Tsega Menelik '05, and Ajaita Shah '06, "The Impact of the EU Rapid Reaction Force," in Belgium and France
• Claudine Iliev '06, William Lange '06, and Guergana Petkova '06, "Bulgaria's Accession to NATO," in Bulgaria
• Aliyah Shahid '06, "U.S.-South Korea Security Relations," in South Korea

2005 >>top

• Adina Allen '05, "Engaging with the Emotional Component of Intellectual Work" in United States
• Kathryn Brooks '05, "Hydropolitics of the Egyptian Nile and its Effect of Relations Between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia" in Egypt
• Katherine Conway '07, "Water Sanitation in Honduras and Nicaragua" in Honduras and Nicaragua
• Katharine Ferguson '05, "Bridging the Urban Rural Divide: Discussion of Irrigation Methods and Farmer's Choices on the North Eastern Nebraska Plains " in the United States
• Nicolas Gortzounian '08, "Venezuela's Outlook on its Relations with the United States" in Venezuela
• Rachel Hereford '05, "Oil and Populism in the Chavez Administration" in Venezuela
• Student Delegation to the International Institute for Mediation and Conflict Resolution Conference on Africa in South Africa
• Unaza Khan '07, "A Sustainable Cairo" in Egypt
• Rachel Leven '07, "The Effects of the Exporting Waste Management to International Firms and its Effect on Egypt's Zabaleen Community" in Egypt
• Dora Levinson '07, "AIDS in Tanzania" in Tanzania
• Elexia McGovern '05, "Water Scarcity, Population, and Industrialization in El Paso, TX and Cuidad Juarez" in the United States and Mexico
• Christopher Quirk '05, "Water for All? How the AIDS Epidemic Affects Water Access in South Africa" in South Africa
• Sajid Pothiawala '06, "Impending Scarcity Conditions: The Need for Water Resource Management Reform in Egypt" in Egypt
• Diane Rish '05, "The Lack of Water and Waste-water Infrastructure in the Colonias of the US-Mexico Border: Causes, Consequences, Challenges and Responses" in the United States
• Kathrine Schmidt '05, "The Religious Right and American Energy Policy" in the United States
• Student Delegation, 9 students, to the Student Conference on U.S. Affairs (SCUSA) at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point
• Sinan Seyhun '07, "The Role of Solar Energy in the Implementation of the Kyoto Treaty: The Case of the UK," and an internship with Energy 21 (via Peter Droege and David Wortmann) in the United Kingdom
• Carol Strulovic '05, "Venezuela: A Crude Situation" in Venezuela
• Oleg Svet '08, "The Role of Water in Israel's Domestic and Foreign Policies" in Israel
• Valerie Wood '05, "Nile and Disease: Water Bourne Illness in Modern Egypt" in Egypt
• Alexandra Wright '08, "The Piro River Watershed" in Costa Rica

2006 (in progress) >>top

• Daniel Becker '08, "Ethanol Production in Brazil" in Brazil
• Jake Berliner '07, Nicolas Chaset '05, and Alexandra Wright '08, "Alternative Energy Policies" (as the groundwork for the new student organization they are creating: with the IGL & TIE, the Tufts Energy Security Initiative) in Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic
• Student Delegation to the "The Fear of the Other in the Arab-Israeli Conflict" Conference in London
• Shanti Sattler '07, "The Hope of Perpetrators: A Review of Remorse and Forgiveness in Post-Apartheid South Africa" in South Africa