Colleen Boyle
Colleen studied Anthropology and Pre-Health Studies with a minor in Poverty Studies. Through the Kellogg Internship program, she spent 10 weeks volunteering for VivePerú in its clinical medicine program. In her adopted Peruvian hometown, Colleen shadowed doctors in a hospital and clinic, observing patient consults and minor procedures, as well as surgeries. She also helped design a public health curriculum for an elementary school class and participated in organizing two rural medical campaigns. Her favorite part of the experience was living with her host family, along with a handful of other VivePerú volunteers who completed her familia otuzcana. Colleen would love to return to Peru to do service in the future.
Colleen studied Anthropology and Pre-Health Studies with a minor in Poverty Studies. Through the Kellogg Internship program, she spent 10 weeks volunteering for VivePerú in its clinical medicine program. In her adopted Peruvian hometown, Colleen shadowed doctors in a hospital and clinic, observing patient consults and minor procedures, as well as surgeries. She also helped design a public health curriculum for an elementary school class and participated in organizing two rural medical campaigns. Her favorite part of the experience was living with her host family, along with a handful of other VivePerú volunteers who completed her familia otuzcana. Colleen would love to return to Peru to do service in the future.
Quinlan Ellington-Meaney
Quinlan studied anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. She spent the spring semester of 2013 in Tanzania with the School for International Training’s program Wildlife Conservation and Political Ecology. Her semester consisted of studying wildlife, Swahili, the history of conservation in Tanzania, Tanzanian and Maasai cultures, and Tanzania’s role in global relationships. As a part of this education she went on safaris in wildlife parks, did a three week home-stay in a rural village, and spent four days living with the Maasai. Through these experiences she explored the concept of globalization in Tanzania and how it influences different aspects of the country including the tourism industry, the Maasai, and the education system. Her semester abroad in Tanzania was an experience that continues to influence how she perceives the world as an anthropologist as well as a global citizen.
Quinlan studied anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. She spent the spring semester of 2013 in Tanzania with the School for International Training’s program Wildlife Conservation and Political Ecology. Her semester consisted of studying wildlife, Swahili, the history of conservation in Tanzania, Tanzanian and Maasai cultures, and Tanzania’s role in global relationships. As a part of this education she went on safaris in wildlife parks, did a three week home-stay in a rural village, and spent four days living with the Maasai. Through these experiences she explored the concept of globalization in Tanzania and how it influences different aspects of the country including the tourism industry, the Maasai, and the education system. Her semester abroad in Tanzania was an experience that continues to influence how she perceives the world as an anthropologist as well as a global citizen.
Katy Gorentz
Through the help of the Glynn Family Honor Society and the Notre Dame Anthropology Department, Katy Gorentz spent summer 2013 researching childhood disability in Makeni, Sierra Leone for her senior thesis project. During this time, she conducted interviews among the staff of hospitals, special education schools, and disability organizations. Using this information, she analyzed the impact of Sierra Leonean concepts of morality to provide context for disability identity in Makeni. Her research also applies these results to problems of resource accessibility and utilization by individuals with disabilities in the area. She hopes that the context provided in this research will assist various initiatives intended to impact persons with disabilities in Makeni, specifically projects concerning special education.
Through the help of the Glynn Family Honor Society and the Notre Dame Anthropology Department, Katy Gorentz spent summer 2013 researching childhood disability in Makeni, Sierra Leone for her senior thesis project. During this time, she conducted interviews among the staff of hospitals, special education schools, and disability organizations. Using this information, she analyzed the impact of Sierra Leonean concepts of morality to provide context for disability identity in Makeni. Her research also applies these results to problems of resource accessibility and utilization by individuals with disabilities in the area. She hopes that the context provided in this research will assist various initiatives intended to impact persons with disabilities in Makeni, specifically projects concerning special education.
Katie Hamel
Katie Hamel majored in Anthropology and Spanish, graduating in 2015. During the summer of 2013, she spent seven weeks in Amatlán, Veracruz, Mexico. Over the course of the summer, she taught English to kindergarten, grade school, and middle school students while conducting a research project about language and identity. Katie intends to continue her summer experience by coming to a deeper understanding of the underlying social, political, historical, and economic structures leading to indigenous language loss and by searching for possible methods of language revitalization.
Katie Hamel majored in Anthropology and Spanish, graduating in 2015. During the summer of 2013, she spent seven weeks in Amatlán, Veracruz, Mexico. Over the course of the summer, she taught English to kindergarten, grade school, and middle school students while conducting a research project about language and identity. Katie intends to continue her summer experience by coming to a deeper understanding of the underlying social, political, historical, and economic structures leading to indigenous language loss and by searching for possible methods of language revitalization.
Amy Klopfenstein
Amy Klopfenstein studied Anthropology. She spent the summer of 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand pursuing an internship with an anti-trafficking NGO. Specifically, she focused on the publication and professionalization of the organization's new scholarly journal with the aim of bringing a more critical discourse to the anti-trafficking movement. Amy wrote her senior thesis on the complicated dynamics of the anti-trafficking movement, with a focus on male victims of trafficking.
Amy Klopfenstein studied Anthropology. She spent the summer of 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand pursuing an internship with an anti-trafficking NGO. Specifically, she focused on the publication and professionalization of the organization's new scholarly journal with the aim of bringing a more critical discourse to the anti-trafficking movement. Amy wrote her senior thesis on the complicated dynamics of the anti-trafficking movement, with a focus on male victims of trafficking.
Rachael Krishnan
Rachael Krishnan majored in Political Science and Peace Studies at Notre Dame. In the spring of 2013, she spent the semester studying development in Kampala, Uganda. While there, she participated in an urban and rural homestay, took Luganda classes and spent most of her time analyzing development through a gendered lens. The highlight of her trip was doing independent research assessing the political and religious participation of sex workers as well as the methods used to rehabilitate them.
Rachael Krishnan majored in Political Science and Peace Studies at Notre Dame. In the spring of 2013, she spent the semester studying development in Kampala, Uganda. While there, she participated in an urban and rural homestay, took Luganda classes and spent most of her time analyzing development through a gendered lens. The highlight of her trip was doing independent research assessing the political and religious participation of sex workers as well as the methods used to rehabilitate them.
Lauren Schmitt
Lauren Schmitt majored in Environmental Sciences and Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. She spent the summer of 2013 interning through the Foundation for Sustainable Development in Masaka, Uganda. While in Uganda, Lauren worked at a demonstration farm and training center for farmers. She helped out around the farm--milking cows, mulching vegetable beds and vaccinating chickens--and designed and executed a program that created the capacity for local women to dry fruits and vegetables. Lauren hopes to build on this experience as she pursues graduate school and a career in sustainable agriculture.
Lauren Schmitt majored in Environmental Sciences and Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. She spent the summer of 2013 interning through the Foundation for Sustainable Development in Masaka, Uganda. While in Uganda, Lauren worked at a demonstration farm and training center for farmers. She helped out around the farm--milking cows, mulching vegetable beds and vaccinating chickens--and designed and executed a program that created the capacity for local women to dry fruits and vegetables. Lauren hopes to build on this experience as she pursues graduate school and a career in sustainable agriculture.
Marianinna Villavicencio
Marianinna Villavicencio was a Guatemalan student studying Anthropology with minors in European Studies and Business Economics. In the summer of 2013 she received a grant from the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts to carrying out an ethnographic project that examines indigenous identity and mobility in Guatemala City. The bulk of her participant observation and interviews were done with present and former students of two different privately funded and independent scholarship programs in Guatemala City.
Marianinna Villavicencio was a Guatemalan student studying Anthropology with minors in European Studies and Business Economics. In the summer of 2013 she received a grant from the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts to carrying out an ethnographic project that examines indigenous identity and mobility in Guatemala City. The bulk of her participant observation and interviews were done with present and former students of two different privately funded and independent scholarship programs in Guatemala City.