Graduate Global Research

Victoria Slabinski, Fall 2024 CGII GGR Research

The study explores informal constitutional norms in Latin America, employing comprehensive methodology including textual analysis, case studies, and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Healthy Learners is an international NGO that developed an innovative, low-cost school health program in Zambia.

My project explores the ways Indigenous and Afro-Andean activists worked within, or were in conflict with, revolutionary class-based organizations in the Northern Andean region encompassing the countries of Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador during the 1920s and 1930s.

This project seeks to better understand the history and formal qualities of the form as a means of offering the groundwork for a transcultural artistic project: writing milongas in English.

My project examines the experience of “Afro-Turks” in the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican periods. This project will frame these experiences within the context of race, migration, displacement, and the formation of nation-states in the wake of WWI.

America's Disappearing Chinatowns: A Case for Preservation is a project that examines the history, architecture, and proliferation of Chinatowns in the American urban landscape, chronicling their development in the U.S.

I will conduct travel research to Denmark and Sweden to study the design and management of nature-based learning environments in K-12 schools for comparison with U.S. approaches.

How did British colonial efforts to expand “commodity frontiers” come to shape environmental changes on one hand and contestations over belonging, citizenship and territory on the other in South Asia?

My project explores Martin Luther King Jr’s highly publicized visit to both East and West Berlin. King arrived in September 1964, only a few months after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and just before he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.