{"id":798,"date":"2015-05-31T21:29:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T02:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pbose\/?page_id=798"},"modified":"2026-01-05T21:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T02:13:15","slug":"undergraduate-honors-theses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pbose\/teaching\/undergraduate-honors-theses\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Honors Theses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Supervisor<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2026, Meredith Loney, Global Studies,\u00a0<em><span lang=\"EN\">The Politics of Belonging and Consumption: Migrant Use of Alternative Food Spaces in a Shifting Immigration Landscape<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li>2025, Annabelle Keimach, Geography, <i>Promoting belonging, empowerment and community care for BIPOC students in the interdisciplinary environmental sciences at UVM<\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">2024, Hanna Hartman, Geography, <em>Becoming Burlington: An analysis of citizen engagement in waterfront revitalization<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">2024, Clara Feldman, Global Studies, <em>Gemeinsam mit den b\u00fcrger*innen<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">2023, Nicole Paolo, Biology, <em>The investigation of acute respiratory infections, cooking fuel sources and climate change in Cox\u2019s Bazar Refugee Camps from 2018-2020.<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">2023, Evie Wolfe, Global Studies, <em>Gardening as ritual in New American communities: foodways and placemaking amongst Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2022, Anitra Conover, Global Studies,\u00a0<em>Rethinking Burlington Area Food Programming For New Americans<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2022, Keegan Vaughn, Political Science, <em>Examining the Global Development of Basketball: The Political and Economic Implications of the Sport\u2019s International Growth<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2022, Charlotte Laseter, Geography, <em>Ultimate Frisbee and Racial Inequality<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2022, Tulley Hescock, Geography,\u00a0<em><span style=\"font-size: revert\">Funded &#8211; A look into Vermont\u2019s public education funding system<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li>2021, Valentina Czochanski, Global Studies, <em>Confinement during COVID-19: A case study of Vermont Prisons<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2021, Sophia Knappertz, Global Studies, <em>Comparative case studies of European crises: an analysis of the European project<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2021, Sorrel Galantowicz, Global Studies, <em>Social media and K-Pop as a means of radical social change among US youth<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2021, Darcy Eliot, Global Studies, <em>The vulnerability of international students: from visa policy to the COVID-19 Pandemic<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2021, Alexandra Crosby, Global Studies, <em>France\u2019s Asylum Seeker and Refugee Populations in Age of the COVID-19 Global Pandemic<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2020, Zach Johns, Political Science,\u00a0<em>Diagnosing and Addressing Suicide Risk Among Vermont Refugees: A Study of Mental Health Screening and Community Resources in Burlington, VT<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2019, Kate Fain, Global Studies,\u00a0<em>Photographing the Other<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2019, Kim Furtado, Geography, <em>Spatial Patterns and Personal Perceptions of Gentrification in Burlington, VT<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2019, Gillian Tiley, Geography, <em>Re-imagining Providence: The \u2018Creative Capital\u2019 Campaign and the Gentrification of Downcity<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2019, Emily Klofft, Political Science, <em>Non-Profits as Creators of Public Policy in Public-Private Partnerships<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2019, Haley Barriere, Global Studies, <em>The Misconceptions and Realities of the Criminalization of Immigration in Vermont<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2019, Emma Gianoplus, Global Studies, <em>U.S. Refugee Resettlement: An Analysis of the Relationship between Available Community Assets in Chittenden County, Vermont and the Self-Sufficiency of Resettled Refugees<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2019, Annie Ryan, Global Studies, <em>\u2018<\/em><em>Willkommenskultur\u2019 in East and West Germany: How and why levels of xenophobia and acceptance of refugees\/migrants vary between the former GDR and FRG<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2019, Jen Mitchell, Geography, <em>Defining rural education: exploring the relationship between place and public education outcomes in New Hampshire<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2018, Tilden Remerleitch, Geography, <em>Finding Home \u2013 Personal Stories of Refugee Resettlement in the U.S. with a Case Study in Chittenden County, VT<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2018, Sarah Barrett, Global Studies, <em>Contemporary border crossings: seeking asylum across the US-Canada Border<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2017, Erica Gilgore, <em>Interstices of power: considerations of women\u2019s health and agency through creative non-fiction<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2017, Katie Hickey, Global Studies, <em>The Burkini Buzz: Exploring French National Identity Discourse Through Social Media<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2016, Sammie Ibrahim, Geography, <em>The spatial politics of refugee resettlement in Burlington, Vermont<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2016, Alexander Rosenberg, Geography, <em>Can a T-Shirt create long-term change? Cause-related marketing in pre-emptive disaster response and mitigation efforts<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2015, Meraz Mostafa, Geography, <em>Imaginative geographies of the Old North End<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2014, Erin Kerr, Geography, <em>More than the Marshall Plan: Analyzing Official Development Assistance to Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2013, Mia Payraudeau, Geography, <em>Greenmageddon: Salvation through consumption<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2013, Holidae Filkins, Geography, <em>The role of farmers\u2019 markets in the Burlington community<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2013, Oakley Clark, Geography, <em>The geopolitics of forced migration and humanitarianism: A\u00a0critical geopolitics perspective<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2013, Julia Panopoulos, Geography, <em>New Farms for New Americans: Incubator Farm Programs, Economic Self-Sufficiency and Grant Dependency<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2012, Tyler Wilkinson-Ray, Global Studies,\u00a0<em>Growing food justice: Two case studies in Burlington, Vermont<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2012, Anya Gedrath-Smith, Environmental Studies, <em>Time for tea: The sustainable development of tea tourism in Nepal<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2012, Maria White, Global Studies, <em>Burlington, Vermont, the FairTrade Towns Campaign, and the Fair Trade Movement<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2011, Kathryn Grenoble, Political Science, <em>An exploration of governance and health care in the face of the HIV and AIDS Crisis in Botswana: \u00a0A luminary of success in sub-Saharan Africa or a failure of state responsibility?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Committee Member or Chair<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2025, Sian Hernit, Geography, <i>Older adults\u2019 access to mobility in urban spaces in winter conditions: a case study of Burlington, Vermont to identify barriers and strategies for advancing mobility equity for older adults<\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">2024, Owen Palcsik, Geography, <em>The role of place in the function, meaning and future of electric vehicles in Vermont<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-size: revert\">2024, Cameron Provorny, Geography, <\/span><em>Student perspectives of safety at the University of Vermont: an analysis of fear in Burlington, VT<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-size: revert\">2023, Fosca Bechtold, Geography, <\/span><em>Geographies of mobility: exploring the place-based connections of Northern Italians<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-size: revert\">2023, Jake Pehle, Geography, <\/span><em>Making race, making place: racialization of space and people in San Francisco\u2019s Chinatown, 1860-1906<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-size: revert\">2023, Molly Myers, Geography, <\/span><em>Social Relations, Second Homes and the Space Between \u201cInsider\u201d and \u201cOutsider\u201d in a Rural, Amenity Rich Community<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-size: revert\">2022, Mia Dillon, Political Science, <\/span><em>Forcing families to choose between basic rights: an assessment of Vermont\u2019s nutritional programs and their barriers to immigrants<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-size: revert\">2021, William Omohundro, Political Science, <\/span><em>The case for black reparations<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-size: revert\">2020, Marisa Loury, Anthropology, <\/span><em>The cows don\u2019t milk themselves: using worker-driven social responsibility to fight labor and housing injustice on Vermont\u2019s dairy farms<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2018, Sonia Vaccheo, Anthropology, <em>Food security and the Burlington immigrant community<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-size: revert\">2018, Meghan Conway, Environmental Studies, <\/span><em>Success of Food Assistance Programs: Metrics to Evaluate Provision of Healthy Food Products Across Burlington, Vermont<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">2018, Sonia Vaccheo, Anthropology, <em>Food security and the Burlington immigrant community<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">2017,Olivia Langley, English, <em>Fictions of belonging: \u2018New arrival literature\u2019 and contemporary discourse on US immigration<\/em><em>. <\/em><\/li>\n<li>2016,\u00a0Erika Shepherd, Geography, <em>The Emerging \u2018Immigrant-Friendly\u2019 City: How and why cities frame themselves as welcoming places to immigrants<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2016,\u00a0Kelly Molloy, Sociology, <em>Smoke and mirrors: A study of deviance creation<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2016,\u00a0Taylor Brough, Independently Designed Major, <em>Fleshiness as a grammar for sociality: theorizing inclusion and (mis)recognition in the academy<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2016,\u00a0Jordan Weith, Psychology, <em>Post-migration stressors and infant development<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2015,\u00a0Jessica Solodkin, History, <em>The Partitions of British India and the Palestinian Mandate, 1937-1948<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2015,\u00a0Hunter Cropsey, Anthropology, <em>Food and faith: theology and Burlington\u2019s local foods movement<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2015,\u00a0Samantha Sawyer, Anthropology, <em>Service providers\u2019 perceptions of refugees\u2019 needs, services and service delivery barriers in Burlington, Vermont<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2015,\u00a0Alana Robinson, Community Development and Applied Economics, <em>It\u2019s beautiful [but] it\u2019s not affordable for us\u201d: Negotiating neighborhood change and displacement in Vine City, Atlanta<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2015,\u00a0Marshall Distell, Geography, <em>Connectivity, sprawl and the cul-de-sac: An analysis of cul-de-sacs and dead-end streets in Burlington and the surrounding suburbs<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2014, Sydney Healey, Global Studies, <em>Co-Created (and Imperfect) Meaning: A Case Study Analysis of Indigenous Discourse In Tres Pozos and Pozo Colorado<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2014, Rachel Aronson, Anthropology, <em>Eating in crisis: culturally appropriate food and the local food movement in the lives of domestic violence survivors<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2013,\u00a0Samantha Arcata, Environmental Studies, <em>Examining cultivation of the mustard seed in Rajasthan, India from 1960 \u2013 2010<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2012,\u00a0Megan Kelly, Political Science, <em>The movement against mountaintop removal coal mining in central Appalachia<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2012,\u00a0Andrew Fallion, History, <em>Pa\u2019lante: The Direct Action Campaigns of the Young Lords Party<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2012,\u00a0Katie Hartin, Environmental Studies, <em>Eyo Matamaney Alakuwa: the social implications of conservation-induced displacement for the Masaii residents of Engare Sero, Northern Tanzania<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2012, Katherine Baldwin, Global Studies, <em>The Effects of Tourism in Mombasa on the Maasai Culture<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2012,\u00a0Abby Zuckerman, Environmental Studies, <em>Awareness and advocacy towards instituting bias-free policing in Vermont: A cross-county comparison of Addison and Franklin counties<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2012,\u00a0Emma Petersen, Environmental Studies, <em>Fables and reflections: understanding the implications of the Maori Party formation in communicating alternative motivations for environmental change<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2012,\u00a0Erica Goldberg, Environmental Studies, <em>From Ghana to the Dominican Republic: can ceramic water filtration improve rural Ghanian women\u2019s access to clean water?<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2012,\u00a0Karuna Jobanputra, Environmental Studies, <em>Dowry proliferation and inflation in Southern India<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2011,\u00a0Andrea Hagan, Environmental Studies, <em>Socially responsible investment of the University of Vermont\u2019s endowment<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2011,\u00a0Hanna Zeman, Global and Regional Studies, <em>Measuring the success of microfinance institutions<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2011,\u00a0Tom Benoit, Political Science, <em>Re-envisioning the Second World: Russian national identity in the post-Soviet era<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2011,\u00a0Rachel Fabian, English\/Film and Television Studies, <em>Unseen and unheard: feminist politics and the Iranian mother in the films of Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Abbas Kiorostami<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2010,\u00a0Sam Werbel, Anthropology, <em>Participant-observers or participant-soldiers: The role of anthropologists in the military<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2010,\u00a0Lindsey Gillies, Environmental Studies, <em>Beyond fair trade: an exploration of alternatives in the cacao trade<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2010,\u00a0Elizabeth White, Geography, <em>Community gardens as transnational space<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2009,\u00a0Anna Royar, Geography, <em>Urban life, later life: The creation of an elder-friendly city in Burlington, Vermont<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2009,\u00a0Andrew Turgeon, Geography, <em>Youth and their rural place: An examination of teenagers\u2019 geographies in Bennington County, Vermont<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2009,\u00a0Marsh Gooding, Geography, <em>Balancing the scales: Implementing urban sustainability in Burlington, VT<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2009,\u00a0Kerry Canton, Environmental Studies, <em>Those who have no name: a case study of small island state climate change refugees<\/em><\/li>\n<li>2008,\u00a0Sarah Chace, Environmental Studies, <em>How NGOs Work Influence Equity in Tank Irrigation, Tamil Nadu, India<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supervisor 2026, Meredith Loney, Global Studies,\u00a0The Politics of Belonging and Consumption: Migrant Use of Alternative Food Spaces in a Shifting Immigration Landscape 2025, Annabelle Keimach, Geography, Promoting belonging, empowerment and community care for BIPOC students in the interdisciplinary environmental sciences at UVM 2024, Hanna Hartman, Geography, Becoming Burlington: An analysis of citizen engagement in waterfront &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/pbose\/teaching\/undergraduate-honors-theses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading 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