Bringing together the insights gleaned through the course of one's studies, the completion of a thesis in a student's major discipline on a Latin American or Caribbean topic is one of the capstone experiences of the undergraduate certificate program. Below, you can get a sense of the impressive and broad-ranging scholarship produced each year.
Class of 2024
Students may write a senior thesis, an independent research paper (*), or take an additional LAS course to fulfill the final requirement for the certificate.
Yonatan Ambrosio, Psychology
LAS 324/ POL 455 Dynamics and Narratives of the Latin American Drug Trade
Jesus Adam Arroyo, Psychology
LAS 324/ POL 455 Dynamics and Narratives of the Latin American Drug Trade
Paul-Louis Biondi, Comparative Literature
“Il regarde. Mais il n’a pas u.”: Suzanne Césaire, Visual Poetics, and Cultural Hybridity
Samuel Bisno, History
LAS 318/ HIS 319/ AAS 343 Race and Nation in Modern Latin America
Robert Franklin Britt, Spanish & Portuguese
Investigating Health Access, Experience, and Outcome of Latin American Immigrants in Trenton, New Jersey through an Intersectional Lens
Marlene Esmeralda Cardoza, Psychology
SPA 304 / LAO 304 Spanish in the Community
Luke Matthew Chan, Politics
¿MAS o Menos China? The Effects of Chinese Belt & Road Initiative Investments on Public Opinion and Voting Behavior in Bolivia
Alaina Chiriyankandath Joby, School of Public & International Affairs
LA ISLA DEL ENCANTO: THE ISLAND OF ENCHANTMENT OR THE ISLAND FORGOTTEN? An Investigation Into La Reforma's Impact on the Quality of Health Among the Elderly Populations in Puerto Rico
Kateri Caridad Espinosa, School of Public & International Affairs
“Añoro mi Pueblo”: Migrant Remittances and Public Goods Provision in Mexican Origin Communities
Tobias Jacob Fishman Janowitz, School of Public & International Affairs
A Tale of Two Nations; A Comparative Analysis of Divergence between Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Kristen Alexis Fonseca, Anthropology
The Privilege of Reverence in a State of Denial After the Dirty War in Argentina: Murals and Graffiti as Collective Resistance
Zaiya Patel Gandhi, School of Public & International Affairs
“Le Llaman Puebladelphia”: A discussion of Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Community Organization in Philadelphia’s Italian Market
Faraaz Ahmed Godil, School of Public & International Affairs
Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI)
Kristal Hailie Grant, African American Studies
"Monstrous" Mothers: Exploring the Pathologization of Black Women's Reproduction in Victorian Jamaica
Carrington Symone Johnson, Spanish & Portuguese
De almas assassinadas aos espíritos vivos: Embodied Liberation and Community Reimagining in Cuban, Brazilian, Panamanian and Puerto Rican Afro-Diasporic Performance
Sydney Simone Johnson, Spanish & Portuguese
"A (Brief) Black, Panamanian History of Reggaeton: Connecting The Streets of Panamá to New York, Puerto Rico, and the World"
Mae Margaret Kennedy, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
LAS 317/ ENV 376 /ANT 317 Political Natures: The Politics of Nature and Development in Latin America
Isabel Byers Kingston, Comparative Literature
In Search of "Bodies of Rhetoric": Diamela Eltit’s Lumpérica and the Legacy of Chile’s Disappeared
Elise Hamilton Kratzer, Computer Science
SPA 350/ LAS 349 Topics in Latin American Cultural Studies
Ellen Li, Comparative Literature
Mixed Bodies: A Translation
Clariza Marie Macaspac, Spanish & Portuguese
Untold Stories of Women in the Philippines during the 17th and 18th Centuries
Clara Jane McNatt, Anthropology
ENTRE DOS: Reflections on the Tango Embrace
Ana Lucia Palacios, Anthropology
“Siendo Solidarias Alcanzaremos la Prosperidad”: Belonging, Empowerment, and Prosperity in a Colombian Ecovillage
David A. Palomino, Politics
Proximity to Whiteness: COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution and Indigenous Diversity in Peru*
Sydney Pargman, Economics
School Finance Reforms (SFRs) and English Language Learner Outcomes in American Public Schools
Kennedy Primus, African American Studies
Still Waters Run Deep: Enslaved Resistance within the North Atlantic, 1700-1850
Laura Robertson, History
"“Luchando Por Comida Justa”: The Legacy of Guatemalan History and Organizing on Florida’s Farmworker Movement"*
Erik John Roll, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
LAS 324/ POL 455 Dynamics and Narratives of the Latin American Drug Trade
Michael Jacob Salama, History
FLUID IDENTITIES: THE SUBALTERN POLITICAL HYDROLOGY OF THE URUS OF LAKE POOPÓ
Luz Victoria B. Simon Jasso, Sociology
SPA 236/ LAS 236 Pajaros en la boca: Latin American Women Writers and Artists' New Languages
Julia Brooke Stahlman, Anthropology
What Grows Inside the “White Cube:” Contending With New Climate Futures by Queering the Anthropological and Anthropologizing the Queer Inside the Modernist Art Gallery
Sebastian Suarez, Independent | Linguistics
Maltiosh, Gracias, Thank You: The Language Situation of K’iche-speaking Guatemalan Migrants to the Trenton Area
Katherine Elliotte Van Dusen, School of Public & International Affairs
Sin Recurso: Immigration Relief for Victims of Latin American Non-State Armed Groups
Gabriela Isabel Veciana, Music
Breaking the Sound Barrier: Investigating Latine Racial Bias Through Reggaetón Music
Myla Eleanor Isenberg Wailoo, African American Studies
The Greatest Technologies are Ours: Carrying the Legacy of Quilombola Culture and Life through Contemporary Afrofuturist Brazilian Art
Marquez Christopher White, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Marvels of Manatee Rehabilitation: Factors Influencing Rehabilitation Outcomes of Amazonian Manatees in the Peruvian Amazon