We’re excited to share that two of our Geography majors, Sarai Castaneda and Christina Carasis, have been selected for the prestigious Haas Scholars Program.
Castaneda will be working under the mentorship of Dr. Diana Negrin on a research project focuses on Haitian refugees living in Mexico and will engage with pressing questions around migration, displacement, and borders.
Carasis's project, under the mentorship of Dr. Geronimo Barrera de la Torre, uses participatory mapping methods to create a StoryMap of Arvanite communities (a ethnolinguistic minority group in Greece). By documenting cultural knowledge through a spatial lens, Carasis aims to preserve endangered heritage and challenge dominant narratives of national identity within ethnostates.
Please join us in congratulating Sarai and Christina on this outstanding achievement and exciting research opportunity!