Mentoring

Teaching

Mentoring, IS, and Theses

Honors Thesis Advisor

  • Maren Frye, The Procedural and Emotional Impact of Truth-Finding Strategies: A Comparative Approach Between US Courts, Swedish Youth Court, and Restorative Justice – with Laura Grattan, Political Science (2023).
  • Melissa Bruehl, The Forgotten Convention Ground: A Comparative Study of Women Asylum Seekers and Gender-Based Persecution – with Craig Murphy, Political Science (2018).
  • Isabelle St. Clair, Being In-between: Narratives of Identity and Community by Chinese American Adoptees (2017).
  • Claire Yi, ‘Defector’ as Socio-Lexical Labeling: A corpus-based discourse analysis of North Korean defector narratives in South Korea – with Sun-Hee Lee, East Asian Languages and Cultures (2016).
  • Michelle Vogelzang, Polio Eradication Efforts and Conflict in the AfPak Region – with Stacie Goddard, Political Science (2013, not defended).
  • Josephine Kabambi, Afrocentricity, Womanism, and Peace: Deconstructing Discourse on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo Using an Afrocentric Womanist Framework (2011).

Honors Thesis Committee

  • Angela Qian, Computer Science, Augmented Reality and how it may affect vaccine beliefs (2022).
  • Anna Beyette, Environmental Studies, Environmental Legacies of Colonialism: How Past Colonization Affects Current Social and Environmental Outcomes (2021).
  • Ishwari Gupta, Political Science, Transitional Justice in the Aftermath of the Sri Lankan Civil War (2021).
  • Adwoa Antwi, Africana Studies, Un-Civilizing the African: European Imperialism and its Impact on the African Identity (2021).
  • Laïssa Alexis, Peace and Justice Studies, Reimagining the African Union: A More People-Centered Approach (2020).
  • Rachel Kisken, Peace and Justice Studies, Students who work or Workers who study? Student-Workers in a Static Society (2020).
  • Majella Ruden, Peace and Justice Studies, Faith and Feminicide: The Catholic Church’s Efforts to Combat Feminicide in Guatemala (2019).
  • Charlotte Kaufman, Peace and Justice Studies, A Walk in Your Shoes? Exploring the Limits and Drivers of Empathetic Action Towards Venezuelans in Colombia (2019).
  • Emerson Goldstein, Political Science, The Task of Renewing A Common World: A Democratic Feminist Ethic of Care in Schools (2018).
  • Anne Schnitzer, German and Environmental Studies, “The Power of Art to Break Despair”: The Impact of the Kohleausstieg on the German Imagination (2018).
  • Katharine Mallary, Political Science, More Than Growth: The Shift from Performance Legitimacy to Moral Legitimacy in Structural Adjustment and Poverty Reduction (2017).
  • Leena Shapiro, Education, Our Mission is to Build Critically Conscious Kids: Constructing Holistic Models of Restorative Justice in Public Schools (2017).
  • Pauline Day, Peace and Justice Studies, A Continual Evolution: The Reform of France’s “Politique de la Ville” as an Urban Peace-Building Mechanism in the Suburbs of Paris (2016).
  • Laura Bruno, Italian Studies, L’Americanizzazione dell’Italia: una storia paradossale di entusiasmi e reticenze (2014).
  • Jiezhen Wu, Community in Education: Lessons Learned from Around the World (2013).
  • SM Gray, The Queer Sounds of Justice: Contemporary Queer Musicking and Transformative Justice in the United States. (2012).
  • Hilary Allen, Undue Burden: an Investigation of the Trap Effect and Abortion Access in Mississippi (2011).
  • Annick-Marie Jordan, The Cost of Exclusivity: a Comparative Analysis of Social Exclusion in Argentina and Chile (2011).
  • Vivian Azucena Secaida, The Social Construction of the Human Right to Food: Possibilities and Prospects in an Age of Hunger (2011).

Dissertation Advisor, Bram Smet. Tampere Peace Research Institute, Tampere University, 2023

External Member, PhD Dissertation Committee, Paul Yoo. University of Massachusetts, Boston, 2023

Independent Studies (PEAC 250H) Advisor, Peace and Justice Studies Majors (2010-present) – ~40 students.

Presenters’ Advisor, Ruhlman and Tanner Student Conferences (2010-present) – ~20 students.

External Advisor for Senior Project at Olin College of Engineering: Alison Shin, Bikes Not Bombs Internship: Reflecting on the Organization’s Key Attributes (2013).

A demonstration supporting DACA students with Profs. Charlene Galarneau and Irene Mata from Wellesley College (2017).
A demonstration supporting DACA students with Profs. Charlene Galarneau and Irene Mata from Wellesley College (2017).
Group picture with Wellesley students participating at Oxford Global Ethics Seminar: War and Peace­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­, Oxford University (2019).
Group picture with Wellesley students participating at Oxford Global Ethics Seminar: War and Peace­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­, Oxford University (2019).
With Wellesley students MJ Freedman and Jiezhen Wu at Ruhlman Conference, Wellesley College (2013).
With Wellesley students MJ Freedman and Jiezhen Wu at Ruhlman Conference, Wellesley College (2013).