Watson Institute for International StudiesBrown University

Development Studies Masters of Arts Recipients and their Theses

*= Not in thesis library at Development Studies office
(names of thesis advisors given when known)

2008

Mark Silverman, "Diasporas, Development and U.S. History" (Stephen Lubkemann and Nitsan Chorev)

Annelise Grimm, "Developing Discourse: The IDB's Progressive Rhetoric and Neoliberal Implementation of Plan Puebla-Panama" (Kay Warren and Barrymore Bogues)

 

2007

Francisco Cabas, "La Violencia" a Literature Analysis of Socio-Political Exclusion, State Failure, and Violence in Colombia (Winifred Tate and James Green)

Bathsheba Demuth, "The Structure of Silence: Language and the Production of Inequality in Gwich'in Country" (Kay Warren and Nitsan Chorev)

Sarah McCallum Potts, "Understanding the Influence of Rapid Free-Market Reforms on Healthcare Systems and Health: Case Studies of the Russian Federation and Kenya" (Alvaro Tinajero and Patricia Symonds)

Anja Simms, "Tourism: Creating a Framework for a Vehicle for Economic Development in Underdeveloped Societies" (Yona Rubinstein and Patricia Symonds)


2005

Arisha Ashraf, "The Environment-Development Balance: Analyzing the Global Environment Facility and its Partnerships at Multiple Scales" (Richard Wetzler and Louis Putterman)

Hannah Delane Baker, "Negotiating Power and Profitability of HIV/AIDS in South Africa." (Mark Lurie and Teodros Kiros)

Sophie Briant, "The Remittance Sending Behavior of Liberians in Providence." (David Lindstrom and Kay Warren)

Abigail Ladd, "Gender-aware Development Policy and Praxis: Expanding Challenges in the Face of Global Integration" (Marida Hollos and Brooke Harrington)

Shawn Wen Hui Lin, "Reform of Japan's Keiretsu Structures in the Late 1990s: Initiated by the Stress of Global Competition and Inward FDI" (Yong Wook Lee and David Meyer)

Makna Men, "HIV/AIDS in Cambodia: Stigmatization, Isolation and the Intervention of Buddhist Monks." (Patricia Symonds and David Pugatch)

Faith Model "Maasai Livelihoods: Revisiting the Past, Re-imagining the Future" (Nancy Jacobs and Chris Zarcadoolas)

Madeline Otis, "Re-Imagining Civil Society in India." (Dan Smith and Patrick Heller)

Dengnoi Reineke, "The Lao State and Hmong Relationship." (Louis Putterman and David Meyer)


2004

* Benjamin Bolger "A Redesign of Development" (James A. Morone and Wilbur Johnson)

Jinhwan Oh, "Economic Benefits and Political Constraints: North Korea 's Precarious Relations with South Korea and the United States " (Pravin Krishna and Jae H. Ku)

Andrew Taylor, "MST Resistance to Neoliberalism: Political Opportunities, Frame Shifts and Movement Strategy" (Melani Cammett and Louis Putterman)

Erica Tryon, "Puzzling Out the Paradox: A Comparison of HIV Prevention Efforts In Uganda and South Africa " (Daniel Smith and Mark Lurie)


2002

Ratasit Charutrakulchai, "Exploring the Initial Conditions, Pre-Modern Development and Patterns of Regional Development Progress in Indonesia " (Louis Putterman and David Meyer)

Mindy Lok, "Modern Intellectual Property Law & Enforcement in China " (Jerome Grieder and Louis Putterman)

* Rose Shuman "Refugees, Representation and Power" (Maria Josefina Saldana and Stephen Lubkemann)

 

2001

* Jikyoung Ahn "Civil Society and Environmental Movements in Korea " (David Meyer and Louis Putterman)

2000

Megan Elizabeth Ryan, "Searching for Hope: Development Alternatives in Nicaragua " (Peter Uvin and Maria Josefina Saldana)

 

1999

Aya Sonoda, "Can a Large NGO Remain Effective? Lessons from BRAC" (Lucile Newman and Barrett Hazeltine)

Alan Koon King Lau, Jr., "The Development of the Grain Market in China : The Struggle between Regulation and Liberalization"


1997

* Jennifer Coughlin, "The Impact of Foreign Aid on Democratization: The Case of El Salvador "


1996

* Salvy Zakaria

* Young Soo Ha "The Mexican Informal Economy and its Relations with the Economic Policies of the Mexican Government" (Jose Itzigsohn and Vedat Milor)


1995

Lydia Lobenthal, "Ethnic Conflict and Democracy in Guyana and Fiji " (Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Paget Henry)

* Doyle Morgan "Decentralization and the Political Institutional Design: Chilean Municipalities and the Myth of Decentralization"


1994

Lisa Chick, "Development and the Use of Anthropology: A Comparative Case Study from Bolivia " (Alexandrina Mouro and Liliana Acero)

Smita Narula, combined MA(DS)/BA(International Relations), "Women and AIDS in Zimbabwe : Incorporating Sexuality and Gender into Women's HIV Prevention Issues" (Sally Zierler and Calvin Goldscheider)

Allison Lane Smith, combined MA(DS)/BA(Environmental Studies),"Rural Water Supply Development in Tanzania : A Case Study of Foreign Donor Policies" (Harold R. Ward, Louis Putterman and Kevin Brennan)


1992

* Azhar Dogar "Islam and Banking: The Case of Pakistan "

Chris Gowlland, "Financial Deregulation and Financial Collapse: Chile between 1973 and 1983" (Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Morris Morris)

Abigail Marr, " Cuba and Haiti : U.S. Foreign Policy and the Immigration Crisis" (Paget Henry)

Roch Nakajima, "Fisheries Development, A Human Rights Approach: A Case Study of Cuba and Fiji " (Ellen Messer, Peter Heywood and Albert Wessen)


1990

Shannon Wright, "Food, Farm and Family: The Importance of Women Farmers in Strengthening the Food Economy of Cameroon "


1988

* Richard Palmer


1987

Marta Echavarria, "The Convergence of Environment and Development and Its Limitations: The Case of Columbia and the Hydroelectric Project Arrieros del Micay" (Talbot Page and Robert W. Kates)