This year’s research teams
Energy Prices and Emerging Markets
Colonization and its Lasting Effect on Public Health
Sustainability in Fashion
Factors of Inflation
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China's Digital Currency and Yuan Internationalization
The development of the DCEP has been partially driven by a desire to proliferate the Yuan into the international financial system.
Chinese SOEs and International Debt Relief
The G-20’s struggle to secure well-defined and quantified commitments from China to freeze low-income nation debt is of the same kind that fueled the United States’ volatile response to an ascendant TikTok, WeChat, and Huawei.
WARNING! Bottled Poison; Minors Beware
Child obesity is a growing problem in Mexico. Many state legislatures have already passed or are considering a ban on the sale of junk food and soda to minors but there are varied reactions.
Latin America's Undemocratic Democracy
Latin American countries claim to have a democracy, but what exactly does that mean? Their "democracy" verges on dictatorship, bringing about questions of how they got there and what they can do.
Latin America's Absence From the Global Stage
Is Latin America unable to make the great powers' mouths water? China has aligned itself with strategic partnerships in the region, but full commitments in the region are a thing of the past.
Past Research Teams
Fall 2020 – Spring 2021
Politics of Genocide
Adarsh Javvaji, Tisha Chaudhuri, Emma Costa, Shivani Purohit, Amina Syed
Crisis in Affordable Housing
Sernry Tu, Aditya Dronamraju, Sarah Lee, Sebastián Leal, Henry Stocker
Healthcare
Vedanth Ramabhadran, Aayan Khasgiwala, Anish Ravindran, Anisha Bhattaru
US-China Relations
Melanie Hsieh, Keshav Krishna, Arnav Myana, Zarik Tao
Fall 2020 – Spring 2021
Latin America’s Emerging Economies
Evan Bimaputra, Paul Choi, Grainne O’Casey,
Nikhil Guddati, Chloe Jin
The Global Rise
of China
Mauricio Aguilar, Sahana Rao, Sam Mills,
Jenna Chen, Morgan Myhill, Porter Slack
Artificial Intelligence and Automation
Sanchith Shanmuga, Brian Lee, Nehaarika Shridhar,
Juan Esparza, Faizan Firdaus
Spring 2020
US–China Relations
Evan Bimaputra, Justin Tran, Kaitlyn Marcatante, Mauricio Aguilar, Cameron Waltz
Climate Change
Paul Choi, Sanchith Shanmuga, Seann DSouza, Brian Lee