2018 Senior Thesis Grant Recipients

This year, 14 students received Senior Thesis Grants from CES to conduct research on Europe-focused topics as diverse as South Asian cuisine's influence on Victorian England to the far right mobilization of Hungarian youth. Following is a list of the grant recipients and the projects they will research during the summer.

2018 Senior Thesis Grant Recipients – (Front row; left to right): Arthur Schott Lopes, Eliza Ennis, Julia Fine, Jocelyn Hernandez Vazquez, Hannah Johnston, Emily Brother. (Back row; left to right): Sara Bobok, Katherine Brady, Aidan Connaughton, Nicholas Colon.

Sara Bobok (Social Studies, 2019) – Understanding Far Right Mobilization of Hungarian Youth through Civil Society.

Katherine Brady (Social Studies, 2019) – German Politics and Historical Memory on a Monumental Stage, Berlin's Memorial to the Murdered Jews.

Emily Brother (Music, 2019) – Preparing to Analyze, Perform, and Discuss Frédéric Chopin's Preludes Op.28.

Thomas Chatzieleftheriou (Social Studies, 2019) – Petty Corruption as a Defense Mechanism against Populism.

Nicholas Colon (Comparative Study of Religion, 2019) –Exploring the Spiritual Growth of Young Adults on Pilgrimage in Modern Europe. * Real Colegio Complutense Grant Recipient

Aidan Connaughton (Government, 2019) – Effects of Language Translation and Ethnolinguistic Identity on Political Survey Responses.

Eliza Ennis (Social Studies, 2019) – The Politics of International Refugee Aid in an Era of Xenophobia and Public Morality. * Stanley H. Hoffmann Undergraduate Research and Travel Grant Recipient

Julia Fine (History and Literature, 2019) – The Incorporation of South Asian Cuisine into the Victorian Palate.

Fiona Fitzgerald (History and Literature, 2019) – Archival Research on Historical Memory of Italian Colonialism.

Jocelyn Hernandez Vazquez (Romance Languages and Literatures, 2019) – The Foundations of Catalan Independence Discourse in the Parliamentary Speeches of the ERC,1978-2017.

Hannah Johnston (History of Science, 2019) – Women in Early Modern Medicine.

Bella Roussanov (History and Literature, 2019) – Anti-Turkish Nationalism in Bulgaria during the Renaming Campaign of 1984.

Arthur Schott Lopes (History, 2019) – A Colonial Imperialism: Gilberto Freyre and the Luso-Brazilian Confederation, 1915-1965.

Wonik Son (History, 2019) – Public Consumption of Disability: Constructing Postwar Photography, Film, and Visuality.

Profiles of Margot Mai and Benjamin Grimm - 2017 Senior Thesis Grant Recipients

Her app for a socio-medical goal: Anthropology without borders

in Harvard Gazette on May 11, 2018

Margot Mai came to Harvard to pursue medicine but discovered anthropology in her sophomore year. She spent last summer working at a French NGO helping to rehabilitate Nigerian sex workers.

Dancer moves from stage to the study of religion

in Harvard Gazette Commencement Issue on May 14, 2018

A natural performer and photographer, Benjamin Grimm ’18 fell into Swedish and comparative religion, but the unlikely combination of interests paved the way to a greater understanding of humanity. Grimm, who was awarded a CES senior thesis grant, received a Hoopes Prize for his research.

Senior Thesis Presentations 2017

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