International Thesis Awards
2012 Senior Honors Thesis Award in International Politics and Economics
The Senior Honors Thesis Award in International Politics and Economics was established by the Center for International Affairs and is awarded annually for the best senior thesis in international politics and economics.
Pui Shen Yoong: (International Politics and Economics) "Brazil's Bolsa Família: Do Local Governments Matter?"
2012 Senior Honors Thesis Award in International Studies
The International Studies Award is presented to the graduating senior who, in the judgment of the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs Committee, has written the best senior thesis in the area of international studies, broadly conceived. Eligible students include majors in International Politics and Economics, International Studies, and majors in other disciplines whose theses have an international focus.
Tucker Van Aken: (International Politics and Economics) "Decentralized Experimentation: Adaptation and Noncompliance in the Making of Modern China"
2011 Senior Honors Thesis Award in International Politics and Economics
The Senior Honors Thesis Award in International Politics and Economics was established by the Center for International Affairs and is awarded annually for the best senior thesis in international politics and economics.
Agnes Hevér: "Foreign Currency Borrowing in Transition Economies: Causes and Policy Implications"
2011 Senior Honors Thesis Award in International Studies
The International Studies Award is presented to the graduating senior who, in the judgment of the International Peak Committee, has written the best senior thesis in the area of international studies, broadly conceived. Eligible students include majors in International Politics and Economics, International Studies, and majors in other disciplines whose theses have an international focus.
Casey W. Mahoney (Russian): "Putting Local 'Self' Government In Its Place: The authoritarian Russian state's capture of local autonomy, 200-2011"
2010 Senior Honors Thesis Award in International Politics and Economics
David Becker: "An Analysis of the Determinants of Riot Intensity"
2010 Senior Honors Thesis Award in International Studies
Daniel Langfitt (international studies): "Perceptions of Political Legitimacy in the Franco-Russian Encounter of 1814"
2009 Senior Honors Thesis Award in International Politics and Economics
Daniela Fiedler: "Islamic Finance--Complement or Substitute?--An Empirical Analysis"
2009 Senior Honors Thesis Awards in International Studies
Jessica Clayton (international studies): "The Development Impact of Remittances in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis of Panel Data and Household Surveys"
Elizabeth Herron-Sweet (international studies) "The right to Memory and Truth: Evaluating the Consequences of Transitional Justice Policy in Brazil"
2008 Senior Honors Thesis Award in International Politics and Economics
Eric Lonstein "The Markets and Media in China: An Event Study"
2008 International Studies Award
Amy Beck (international studies): "El legado de Tupak Katari" (The Legacy of Tupak Katari)
2007 Senior Honors Thesis Award in International Politics and Economics
David Restrepo: “W(h)ither Coca? Drug Policies, Insurgencies, and Their Effects on the Andean Drug Trade”
2007 International Studies Award
Laura Kuhl (sociology and anthropology, and environmental studies): “Losing a Stigmatized Commons: Identity and Community Solidarity for Ecuadorian Concheros”
