Graduate Global Research

I plan to do a historical analysis of the convict labor used by the British East India Company in the early nineteenth century in their newly acquired territory in the North Western Provinces of British India.

The study investigates the roles of judicial diplomacy and comparativism within Latin American courts, analyzing the impact of institutional capacity and legal education on the adoption of foreign law.

What are the limits of Puerto Rican nationalism?

In the face of climate disaster and gross inequity, degrowth is a sociopolitical movement that proposes an alternative to the hegemony of capitalist economism and commodification, advocating for a collectively supportive, equitable and non-accumulative way of life.

Archaeological excavations at San Jacinto, an ancient temple from the Formative Period on the Peruvian central coast (1500 B.C.), have revealed the architectural design of an important section of the monument.

I study the interaction of state capacity and an underexplored religious institution – religious cults that center around one figure of authority.

My research will explore the connections between landscapes and perceptions of self, people, and place, and how these relationships are changing in conjunction with Iceland’s changing climate.

This funding will support my Masters of Architecture graduate thesis project, which will examine the possible spatial and conceptual future for post-mining landscapes in the intermountain American West.

This project will promote an understanding of the international interdependence of horticulture and will disseminate the ways in which vernacular landscapes provide a form of resilience. 

Benefitting from interdisciplinary methodologies of spatial analysis and digital history, my research tries to rediscover its history by questioning the economic, social, and cultural impacts of the slave trade on the Ottoman Imperial Capital.