Senior Honors Thesis Grant Recipients

Class of 2010

David Knight is from Slidell, Louisiana (right outside of New Orleans). He is in the Honors Program of the History Department, and his thesis centers on how identity and conflict impacted 1964 Mississippi Freedom Project volunteers' faith in the American political process and in their own ability to change. Outside of the classroom, David has been very involved in issues of education and social development. He has chaired the DREAM mentoring Program, participated in community development work in the Dominican Republic, and served as a discussion leader for Education 20: Contemporary Issues in American Education. He is also a Rockefeller Leadership Fellow. This past summer, David interned in South Africa on a Tucker Fellowship, teaching Reading/English in local primary schools as well as running an HIV Peer Education class. David hopes to pursue graduate work in education policy in addition to continuing to teach in the classroom. Advisor: Annalise Orleck.

Kathleen Oprea comes from Berea, OH and graduated as Salutatorian from Berea High School. At Dartmouth, Kathleen, an Environmental Science major, has been a member of the Varsity Sailing Team, a Big Brother Big Sister Mentor, and the Chairperson of the Daniel Webster Legal Society. She continues to play violin in chamber groups, run marathons, and participate in a number of environmental activism programs. During winter 2009, Kathleen interned at the U.S. Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division. During the summer 2009, she interned at the Great Lakes Energy Institute at Case Western Reserve University.  Advisor: Richard Howarth

Michaela Yule is a senior from Newton, MA majoring in Middle Eastern Studies with a minor in Arabic. She spent four months living in Alexandria, Egypt, as well as completing a two-month internship with the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC. In the summer of 2009 she spent two months in Syria conducting research for a senior honors thesis. That research consisted of over twenty personal interviews with female Iraqi refugees in Damascus, exploring national identity and the post-war experience. She is also a violist in the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, a Mentor Against Violence and loves to rock-climb.  Advisor: Hussein Kadhim

Class of 2009

Class of 2008