Graduate Global Research

What can Gandhian ideas offer to a world caught in ever-expanding environmental crises?

Since 2010, Central Chile has experienced particularly dry and hot conditions, which caused more severe wildfires to spread and pose an increasing threat to the Chilean population.

Frances Bell’s research examines follows several thousand people who were taken as slaves from revolutionary Haiti to the U.S. by enslavers fleeing the revolution.

My project focuses on analyzing indigenous subjecthood in the Spanish Empire through examination of the Tehuantepec rebellion of 1660-1661.

My doctoral project examines the complex legal and social attitudes towards women who committed 'reproductive crimes' such as infanticide and abortion in colonial India.

My dissertation research seeks to develop a theory of citizen-state engagement in the context of Latin America’s urban informal settlements and how they engage with the state in the context of landslides and other environmental crises.

This project studies the interaction between ethnopolitics in Yanbian, the ethnic Korean enclave in the China-North Korea borderland, and the international relationship between the two newly-emerged communist states.

“Making France Global, 1974-83” explores France’s attempt to remake itself from a great into a global power.

Eren Jaye’s doctoral project considers theatres of the region from both a folkloric and ecological perspective.

This preliminary research will focus on exploring and more fully if/how public procurements in Brazil can be used to reward campaign donations from firm donors.