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Student Work

For his Master’s Project, '16 M.A., student Hassan Ghedi Santur traveled to Calais, France, over Winter Break to report on migrants in the notorious “Calais Camp.” Warscapes published his "Calais Jungle": Lives in Limbo based on that reporting, and a longer project that began with the Calais story became the e-book Maps of Exile.

Bevertone Kipchumba Some's, '17 M.A., Master's Thesis about Kenya's response to al-Shabaab terrorist attacks was published in New Africa. His report concludes how innocent Kenyans have withstood the worst of the fight between the Kenyan military and al-Shabaab.

Roads & Kingdoms published an account of journeying to the former Islamic Caliphate in Bangladesh, a story that began as a '17 M.A. Master’s Thesis by Siddharthya Roy.

A rail trip through Kashmir took Maddy Crowell, '17 M.A., into the heart of one of the world’s most troublesome regional conflicts. Harper’s published her Letter from Kashmir about the conflict and the controversy surrounding completion of the rail line.

Jeremy Olds, '17 M.A. Arts & Culture, tells the story of an unlikely art collective on Tennessee's death row in his Master's Thesis, which was published by The Marshall Project.

Livia Albeck-Ripka, '17 M.A. Science, published part of her thesis in The New York Times. It examines the effects that climate change has on the mental health of an indigenous community in Canada.

Javier Sauras, '16 M.A. Politics, published several stories stemming from his Master's Thesis, about a program in Bolivia that combines modern maternity medicine with traditional indigenous practices.

How One Bolivian Hospital is Battling Maternal Mortality - By Reaching Back Thousands of Years

Shortly after graduation, Daniel Flatley, '17 M.A. Business, published his Master's Thesis about the coal business in West Virginia. He's now covering regulation in Washington, D.C. for Bloomberg.

An American Bankruptcy

Kamala Kelkar, '15 M.A. Science, wrote her Master's Thesis on the use of brain scans in the courts. Her story, "Can a brain scan uncover your morals?" was published by The Guardian.

Sara Elkamel, '15 M.A. Arts & Culture, reviews the performance of Auction in Hungary.

Read her review.

Amy Lieberman, '14 M.A. Politics, wrote her thesis on Arizona's immigration patrol rebellion.

Read the published article in Slate.

Mona Lalwani, '14 M.A. Arts & Culture, wrote her Master's Thesis on how banning club drugs hasn't made users safer.

Read the published article in Vox.