The Robert Tucker Award
The Tucker Award is given to the best International Studies Thesis in a given year. The winners of the past decade are: | 2000 Co-winners | Pia Sha | | "Journey Over a Night: Transglobal Rave Culture at the Turn of the Millennium" | | | Shelley Fairweather | | "Food, Fun, and Foreign Affairs: The International Relations of American Popular Culture in Europe" | | 2001 Co-winners | Jessica Shapiro | | "Politics of Humanitarianism" | | | Josephine Valencia | | "Spiritual Forces: Religious Pluralism in West Africa" | | 2002 | Louisa McClintock | | "The Legacies of Collaboration: The Presence of the Past in Modern-Day Germany and France" | | 2003 Co-winners | Nicole Nucelli | | "A Europe of Patries or Nations? Ethnonationalism, France, Europe" | | | Suman Sureshababu | | "Micro-finance in Africa: A Question of Sustainability" | | 2004 | Rebecca Nelson | | "The Art of Political Economy: Credit Rating Agencies and State Sovereignty" | | 2005 | Brooke Neuman | | "Splitting the Difference: An Assessment of Partition as a Solution to Conflict | | 2006 Co-winners | Sam Seunghyo Baek | | "Toward the Democratization of North Korea: The Politics of Refugees" | | | Michelle Browne | | "Breaking the Cycle of Child Soldiers: An Analysis of How Sierra Leone Intends to Destroy the Cradles that Raised Child Soldiers" | | 2007 Co-winners | Sunyoung Park | | The "Rational Brinkmanship" of North Korea: A Possible Overture to the Resolutions of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis | | | Maytal Saltiel | | "A Child's Return: The Social Reintegration of Child Soldiers in Mozambique | | 2008 | Jamen Tyler | | Muslim Problem or Problem with Muslims? Perception and the Integration of Muslim Immigrants in Britain, Germany and the Netherlands | | 2009 | Michael Goodwin | | "A Path to Nationhood? The Valesco State, Sendero Luminosos, and the Construction of the Peruvian Political Imaginary |
The International Honors Society, Sigma Iota Rho Johns Hopkins' chapter of Sigma Iota Rho, the national International Studies honor society, is looking for its inaugural class of members! Requirements for membership are as follows: you must be a full-time junior or senior with a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher, having completed at least 20 credit hours towards the International Studies major that include at least two courses at the 300 or 400 level. To apply for membership, please contact Hopkins' chapter of Sigma Iota Rho for an application at: jhu.sigma.iota.rho@gmail.com. Note: the application deadline is Friday, September 25th, 2009.
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