UNDERGRADUATE THESIS CONFERENCE May 3 - 4, 2018 Schedule of Events - PDF document

UNDERGRADUATE THESIS CONFERENCE May 3 - 4, 2018

Schedule of Events THURSDAY, MAY 3 (12 - 4:30 P.M.) 12 - 12:15 p.m. Welcome remarks Ed Steinfeld, Director of the Watson Institute and Professor of Political Science 12:15 - 1:15 p.m. Servicing Families: Local and Global Perspectives (Moderator: Tony Levitas) Breastfeeding Trends Across Socioeconomic Status in Mexico and Implications for Current Promotion Efgorts Leah Hardenbergh (DS) Falling Through the Cracks: Homeless Students in Rhode Island Marjorie Pang Si En (PLCY) Fulfjlling the Needs of Our Families: Exploring Rhode Island’s Temporary Caregiver Insurance Program, 2014-2017 Abigale Sanft (PLCY) Innovating Access to Reproductive Health Care: Care Groups, Information & Communication Technology, and Community Health Actors in Southern Senegal Zachary Witkin (DS) 1:15 - 1:45 p.m. Q & A 1:45 - 2:30 p.m. Reconciliation and Nation-Building: Language, Art, and Memory (Moderator: Patsy Lewis) Becoming Bilingual: Power, Politics, and the Failed Promise of Bilingualism in Postcolonial Cameroon Liliana Hertling (DS) A Right to Remember: Reconciling the Armenian Genocide Through Visual Art Ilgin Korugan (DS) Violent Confmict, Nation-Building, and Language Policy Formation: A Comparative Study of India and Indonesia Arundhati A. Ponnapa (IR)

Schedule of Events 12:45 - 1:15 p.m. Q & A 2:30 - 3 p.m. Q & A 1:15 - 2:15 p.m. Justice, Violence, and Rights 3 - 3:15 p.m. Break (Moderator: Nina Tannenwald) 3:15 - 3:45 p.m. Women, Politics, and the State: Cases from Latin America Evaluating Participant Perceptions and Experiences of a Community (Moderator: Claudia Elliott) Based Reentry Efgort: The OpenDoors Employment Program Sarah Cronin (PLCY) The Language of Violence: Gender, Murder, and the Patriarchal State—A Feminist Case Study of Femicide in Chile, 2007-2017 “From Persecutors’ Offjces to Prosecutors’ Offjces”: The Efgects of Margot Cohen (IR) Racial and Gender Diversity in U.S. Attorneys’ Offjces The Infmuence of Societal Dynamics on Impeachment: The Mili Mitra (PLCY) Interrelated Forces of the Brazilian Upper-Middle Class on the Removal of Dilma Roussef The Efgects of Terrorism on State Governance: Armed Struggle Tamara Upfal (IR) in Italy, 1968-1988 Ginevra Maria Sole Bruno (IR) 3:45 - 4:15 p.m. Q & A The “Savior” State: Uncovering the Violence of U.S. Humanitarian 4:15 - 4:30 p.m. Closing remarks Immigration Law Steve Bloomfjeld, Associate Director of the Watson Institute Erin West (DS) 2:15 - 2:45 p.m. Q & A FRIDAY, MAY 4 (12 -4:00 P.M.) 2:45 - 3 p.m. Closing remarks Steve Bloomfjeld, Associate Director of the Watson Institute 12 - 12:45 p.m. Making Hard Choices in Fast-Changing Economies (Moderator: Edward Steinfeld) 3 - 4 p.m. Closing Reception Rebranding the Steel City: Uber’s Self-Driving Car Project in a Changing Pittsburgh Paul Butler (PLCY) Diplomatic Approaches to International Watercourses: Analyzing Chinese Policy on the Mekong and Brahmaputra Rivers, 1997-2018 Vaughn Campbell (IR) Shifting from an Extractive Growth Model to an Innovative Growth Model: A Comparison of Israel and Chile Helen Gerstenfeld Abreu (IR)

Abstracts PANEL I: SERVICING FAMILIES: LOCAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Fulfjlling the Needs of Our Families: Exploring Rhode Island’s Temporary Caregiver Insurance Program, 2014-2017 Moderator: Tony Levitas Abigale Sanft (PLCY) Advisors: Eric Patashnik, Public Policy and the Watson Institute, and Catherine Lutz, Anthropology and the Breastfeeding Trends Across Socioeconomic Status in Mexico and Implications for Watson Institute Current Promotion Efgorts Hardenbergh, Leah (DS) Beginning with a literature review and explanation of methods, my thesis explores the impact of Rhode Island’s Paid Advisors: Professor Margot Jackson, Sociololgy, and Dra. Diana Bueno-Gutierrez, School of Medicine at Family Leave program, called Temporary Caregiver Insurance, which was passed in 2013. My research fjrst explores La Universidad Autónoma de Baja California a quantitative overview of how TDI and TCI funding is being used in the state of Rhode Island; that is, to whom these funds are being disbursed, at what time, and for what reason. Then, my qualitative research continues into a I examine the evolution of the relationship between breastfeeding rates and socioeconomic status (SES) in deep-dive of rhetoric within the paid family leave program in Rhode Island, coupling experiences of passage and Mexico over the last 50 years. Based on Mexico’s compatibility with a model that predicts future trends, it impending expansion with the real-life experiences and viewpoints of those who are users of this system. The thesis is expected that rates will continue to fall among women of low SES and are beginning to rise in women of ends with an analysis of user experiences and trends, as well as lessons learned in implementation for the state as high SES. I explore how women of difgerent SES experience current promotion efgorts, and fjnd that current the legislature considers an expansion of the TCI program. promotion efgorts disproportionately benefjt women of higher SES. I argue that for promotion efgorts to be more impactful, they should work to include lower SES women, as rates will continue to decline in these Key words: Political Ethnography, Paid Leave, Maternal and Child Health, Family Policy, Labor Policy, Gender Studies communities without intervention. Key words: Breastfeeding, Mexico Innovating Access to Reproductive Health Care: Care Groups, Information & Communication Technology, and Community Health Actors in Southern Senegal Witkin, Zachary (DS) The Invisible Students: Evaluating the efgectiveness of the McKinney Vento Homeless Advisors: Daniel Smith, Anthropology, and Jennifer Johnson, History Assistance Act in Rhode Island Marjorie Pang Si En (PLCY) This thesis examines the ways in which a project implemented by Africare called Collaborative Community Based Advisors: Irene Glasser, Anthropology, and Margaret Weir, Political Science and the Watson Institute Technology To Improve Maternal and Child Health in Senegal (CCHT) afgects access to reproductive health services. Using a theoretical framework engaging scholarship on community participation, social network theory and social I investigated the efgectiveness of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (MVHAA) as implemented determinants of health, I interrogate how the implementation of maternal health support groups (Care Groups) in Rhode Island. The MVHAA is a federal law that seeks to provide homeless children and youth with equal and an informational and community technology platform (CommCare) afgect relationships between communities, educational opportunities to their non-homeless peers. I employed a mixed-methods approach, using community health actors and professional health workers as they provide and seek out reproductive health care. I qualitative interviews with state coordinators, local education homeless liaisons, shelter stafg, and homeless examine the role of Care Groups as structures of social and economic solidarity and support that enable women to families, as well as quantitative educational outcomes data from RIDE. I found that the current version of the seek out preventative reproductive health services, while subverting traditional patriarchal household structures. MVHAA implemented in Rhode Island severely under identifjes homeless students, consequently impeding I also look at the efgect that CommCare has on the ways in which community health actors provide care to the homeless students’ access to resources that they are entitled to under the MVHAA. This under identifjcation communities they service. is compounded by the lack of funding of the MVHAA for school districts and limited collaboration between liaisons and other service providers. Based on my research and the best practices of other states, I provide Key words: Reproductive health care, Care groups, Community health, Senegal policy recommendations to improve the implementation of the MVHAA in Rhode Island. Key words: Education, Liaisons, Homelessness, Under identifjcation, McKinney Vento Homeless Assistance Act (MVHAA), Funding