Assante-Carrasco Scholars

IOCE is proud to recognize our current and previous recipients of the Assante-Carrasco Fund.

2025-26 Scholars

Danielle Archibold '26

Majors: International Affairs / Government and Law
Thesis title: Legal Accountability for Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: Meta in the United Kingdom and South Africa
Research destinations: Brussels, Belgium and Paris, France
Thesis advisor: Prof. Caleb Gallemore (IA)

Christopher Byrnes '26

Major: Government and Law
Thesis title: Changing U.S. Strategy and Anti-Base Activism in East Asia
Research destination: Seoul, South Korea
Thesis advisor: Prof. Seo-Hyun Park (Gov Law)

Sanaa Hines '26

Majors: Computer Science / Art
Thesis title: To Mend a Dying Thread: The Global Waste Crisis and Japanese Culture of Mending
Research destination: Tokyo, Japan
Thesis advisor: Prof. Karina Skvirsky (Art)

Julia Salvatore '26

Major: History
Thesis title: Resistance in Print: The Estampa Popular and the Visual Politics of Francoist Spain
Research destination: Madrid, Spain
Thesis advisor: Prof. Rekebah Pite (History)

2024-25 Scholars

Ella Dalgliesh '25

Majors: Anthropology and Sociology / Government and Law
Thesis title: The Politics of the “Shadow State”: State and Local Politics and Refugee Resettlement in the U.S.
Research destinations: Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C.
Thesis advisor: Prof. Hannah Stewart-Gambino (Gov Law)

Camille Gitow '25

Majors: English / Government and Law
Thesis title: The Illiberalization of EU Nations: Violence Against Women and LGBTQ+ Rights in Hungary
Research destination: Budapest, Hungary
Thesis advisor: Prof. Katalin Fabian (Gov Law)

John Kammerer '26

Majors: Anthropology and Sociology / Geology
Thesis title: Subglacical Volcanic Risk in a Modern Climate: Decompression Melting and Magma Mingling as Eruptive Triggers near Jökulsárlón, Iceland
Research destination: Jökulsárlón, Iceland
Thesis advisor: Prof. Tamara Carley (Geology)

Olivia Puzio '25

Majors: Government and Law / History
Thesis title: Abortion Policies in Poland from the Post-Communist Period to Present Day
Research destination: Warsaw and Kraków, Poland
Thesis advisor: Prof. Katalin Fabian (Gov Law)

Landy Rakotoarison '26

Major: Computer Science
Thesis title: Adaptive Learning Modalities in Game-Based Programming Education: Behavioral Inference and LLM Benchmarking in Low-Resource Settings
Research destination: Paris, France and Antananarivo, Madagascar
Thesis advisor: Prof. Christian Lopez Bencosme (Comp Sci)

Peyton Schreiber '26

Major: International Affairs / Russian and East European Studies
Thesis title: From Fair Play to Power Play: The Political Evolution of Anti-Doping Regulations in Olympic Governance
Research destination: Lausanne, Switzerland
Thesis advisor: Prof. Katalin Fabian (Gov Law)

2023-24 Scholars

Azalea Danes '24

Majors: International Affairs / Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Thesis title: Tierra Dorada: Exploring extraction as a means to sustainable development
Research destination: Medellin, Colombia
Thesis advisor: Hannah Stewart-Gambino (Government and Law / International Affairs)

Mariama Bah '24

Majors: Engineering / International Affairs
Thesis title: Securing Land Tenure for Quilombo Communities in Brazil
Research destination: Salvador, Brazil
Thesis advisor: Prof. Rexford Ahene (Economics)

Damoi Morgan '25

Majors: Economics / Music
Thesis title: Does Rhythm Make People Move: Senegal
Research destination: Dakar, Senegal
Thesis advisor: Prof. Wendy Wilson-Fall (Africana Studies)

Eline Pellicano '24

Major: International Affairs
Thesis title: The Babel Problem: Brexit, Empire, and the Legible Migrant Woman
Research destination: London, England
Thesis advisor: Hannah Stewart-Gambino (Government and Law / International Affairs)

Matwos Tadesse '24

Majors: International Affairs / Government and Law
Thesis title: Ethnic Identity on Fuel: Dissecting the effect of ethnic federalism in Ethiopia
Research destinations: Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Colorado Springs
Thesis advisor: Prof. Hannah Stewart-Gambino (Government and Law / International Affairs)

2022-23 Scholars

Sakib Arnob '23

Majors: Biology / Economics
Thesis title: Impact of Rohingya Refugee Migration on the Local Labor and Wage
Research destination: Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
Thesis advisor: Prof. Matthew Larsen (Economics)

Maria Bossert '23

Majors: Anthropology and Sociology / International Affairs
Thesis title: Analyzing the Relationship Between State-Led Conservation Policy and Indigenous Knowledge: Perspectives from Case Studies in Nepal and Ecuador
Research destination: Tena, Ecuador
Thesis advisor: Prof. Monica Salas Landa (Anthropology and Sociology)

Nathan Kornfeind '23

Majors: Government and Law / German
Thesis title: Between Conflict and Cooperation: How the German and Hungarian Governments Interacted with Protestant Churches during the 2015 Wave of Migrants
Research destinations: Munich, Germany / Budapest, Hungary
Thesis advisor: Prof. Katalin Fabian (Government and Law)

2021-22 Scholars

Mallory Brown '22

Majors: Government and Law / Art
Thesis title: Michelangelo in the New Sacristy and the Laurentian Library: The Birth of Mannerist Space
Research destination: Rome, Italy
Thesis advisor: Prof. Robert Mattison (Art)

Thea Dekker '22

Majors: Psychology / International Affairs
Thesis title: Fear and Authoritarian Behavior: Does a leader’s fear of losing power motivate authoritarian behavior?
Research destination: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Thesis advisor: Prof. Caleb Gallemore (International Affairs)

Amaya Escandon '22

Majors: Government and Law / History
Thesis title: Sensibilidad Plebeya: How Los Prisioneros Became the Voice of a Generation in Chile Under Pinochet
Research destination: Santiago, Chile
Thesis advisor: Prof. Rebekah Pite (History)