Three undergraduate students are presenting papers at the Greater Philadelphia Asian Studies Undergraduate Research Conference, at Ursinus College.
Le Minh Khanh's topic is about the lawsuit that Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam have been unsuccessfully trying to bring against US chemical companies here in the US as compared to the rapid settlement that these companies agreed to with representatives of Vietnam War veterans. The US Congress also quickly passed legislation that granted benefits specific to AO related illnesses. Why the discrepancies?
Mary Seng's research was prompted by her interest in the question of why the INS has been focusing on Cambodian-Americans, who do not have US citizenship, may have committed petty crimes (and paid for them), but because of an agreement signed between Cambodia and the US, have been deported to Cambodia. The interesting thing is that these were young Cambodians who grew up here, do not speak Khmer, had never been to Cambodia, and considered themselves more American than Khmer. For her, it is a question of social justice: once through genocide, exile, resettlement, now deportation?
Susly Ung's topic is closer to home: what her parents remember and refused to tell her and what she remembers or does not know of the Khmer Rouge Genocide. Her research has to do with what we remember or choose to, and what we and our predecessors left out and why.
2007 Members of Phi Alpha Theta, National History Honors Society:
Tonia Allgood Vanessa Kauffman
Joseph Basile Maya Kosok
Jennifer Ann Berdine Seth J. Liebert
Megan A. Brennan Erick Lucadamo
Jared Michael Cain David C. Lugo
Brian Chambers Jonathan L. Mahler
Victor Cortese Samuel K. Marsh
Chelsea Davino Kathryn Maurus
Lisa T. DeAngelo Allyson McCreery
Megan Fesolovich Chelsea J. McDaniel
Michael Fiscus Frances Murphy
Elizabeth Fite Sotira Pema
Samantha Frankenfield Keith Russell
Michael Gieda Joseph Shields
Andrew Good Mary Brideen Silow
Paul Goral Jeffrey T. Trafidlo
Lee Robert Wade Griffith Jesse J. Wagner
Helen Kaplan Caitlin M.G. Whitson
Individual Achievements:
Clay Boggs a History Honors student has had his senior essay accepted for publication. "The Jews' and 'the Pharisees' in Early Quaker polemics." will appear in Quaker History, vol. 97 (2008)
Sa’id Asad Shahalemi has published a review, “Egyptian Islamic History by Two Competing Paradigms,” in The ISRST Review (Philadelphia, March 2007) Temple University’s Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought.
Stephanie Sikora, who is graduating in May, has been admitted as a Graduate Fellow at William & Mary Law School.
Erick Lucadamo will be entering Villanova University Law School this fall.
Matthew Strublewill be attending law school in fall 2007 in Florida at Nova Southeastern, concentrating on intellectual property and real estate
David Gray has published three books The History that was Never Spoken, Three Treaties that Changed the World, and Readings from Ancient Egypt
Corey Goldiner recieved a diamond scholars grant this summer to write an essay entitled "The Economics of Hate: The Case of the Arab-Israeli Conflict". This is an environmental determinist reading of the conflict, borrowing some from Marx's theory of history.
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