CISLA Seniors: Class of 2026

Jenifer N. Alvarado Rivadeneira

Majors: English, Latin American and Latino Studies, and Sociology

CISLA Language: Spanish
SIP: Civil Disillusionment: Citizens' Perceptions of Governance in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Internship: Legal Márquez
Location: Guayaquil, Ecuador

Delaney Brenner

Majors: Biochemistry, Cellular Molecular Biology and French

CISLA Language: French
SIP: Decolonizing Health in Madagascar: A Francophone Perspective
Internship: Avotra ONG
Location: Antananarivo, Madagascar

Caleb Butler

Majors: Classics and Theater

CISLA Language: Latin
SIP: Creation of a New Roman Identity: Encounters, Conflicts, and the Establishment of Multicultural Order in Virgil’s Aeneid
Internship: Faculty-directed research
Location: Multiple cities in Italy

Catie Clarke

Majors: French and International Relations

CISLA Language: French
SIP: Deterrence Without Peace: Nuclear Weapons and the Rising Threshold of Warfare
Internship: Initiatives pour le Désarmement Nucléaire
Location: Paris, France

Eli Craddock

Major: Hispanic Studies and International Relations

CISLA Language: Spanish
SIP: The Collapse of Coffee: Latin American State Capacities to Respond to Market Liberalization
Internship: Unión Iberoamericana de Municipialistas
Location: Granada, Spain

Dixie Dayton

Majors: East Asian Studies and Slavic Studies

CISLA Language: Mandarin and Russian
SIP: “I Ignored Western Media and Went Down the Rabbithole No One Warns You About”: An Exoticization Genre on YouTube
Internship: SPICE
Location: Hong Kong

Kahron Gaul-Blakley

Major: Government

CISLA Language: German
SIP: Not Like Us: Afro-Germans and the Myth of the "Germanness"
Internship: Carl-Schurz-Haus
Location: Freiberg im Breisgau, Germany

Kai Gee

Major: International Relations

CISLA Language: Japanese
SIP: The Distributional Effects of Feed-in-Tariff Policy for Renewable Energy in Japan
Internship: Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies
Location: Tokyo, Japan

Eisha Giran

Majors: Neuroscience

CISLA Language: Spanish
SIP: Invisible Shipwrecks and Neurological Endangerment: The Trade-Off In Seeking Asylum - Reframing the Neurobiological Cost of Forced Migration
Internship: FIDMAG Foundation for Research
Location: Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain

Clare Hummer

Major: East Asian Studies

CISLA Language: Mandarin
SIP: An Exploration of Third Spaces in China
Internship: Faculty-directed research
Location: China

Tandin Johnson Ward

Majors: German Studies and International Studies

CISLA Language: German
SIP: Community Resistance and Public Visibility Kreuzberg, Berlin
Internship: Give Something Back to Berlin
Location: Berlin, Germany

Hope Kisakye

Majors: Architectural Studies and Environmental Studies

CISLA Language: Spanish
SIP: Vernacular Architecture as an Approach to Contemporary Design
Internship: El Terreno
Location: Guaranda, Ecuador

Sabrina Malec

Majors: Anthropology and East Asian Studies

CISLA Language: Mandarin
SIP: From Progressive Politics to Media Censorship: Analyzing the Trajectory of LGBT Rights in Taiwan and China
Internship: Taiwan Equality Campaign
Location: Taipei, Taiwan

Leah Mayerhauser

Majors: International Relations and Slavic Studies

CISLA Language: Russian
SIP: Not the Only Game in Town: Unconsolidated Democracy, Elite Capture, and Shifting Alliances in Georgia
Internship: European Business Association
Location: Tbilisi, Georgia

Eliza McCoole

Major: International Relations

CISLA Language: Mandarin
SIP: Assessing Transit-Oriented Development and Mixed-Use Urban Planning Strategies in Taipei, Taiwan
Internship: The Community Services Center
Location: Taipei, Taiwan

Anna Olivia Nielsen

Majors: German Studies and International Relations

CISLA Language: German
SIP: Investigating the representation of Ukrainian refugees in German political discourse and party programs
Internship: Rechtsanwältin Fleischer
Location: Berlin, Germany

Sebastian Parilov

Majors: Psychology and Slavic Studies

CISLA Language: Russian
SIP: Cultural Identity in Transition: A Comparative Study of Self-Defining Memories and Personality in American and Russian-American Students
Internship: University of Belgrade
Location: Belgrade, Serbia

Roman Perrotto

Majors: East Asian Studies and Psychology

CISLA Language: Japanese
SIP: Trauma, Memory, and Narrative Identity: Intergenerational Effects in Atomic Bomb Survivor Families
Internship: ANT-Hiroshima
Location: Hiroshima, Japan

Stephanie Reyes Bravo

Majors: Biochemistry, Cellular Molecular Biology and Latin American and Latino Studies

CISLA Language: Spanish
SIP: “Eres mujer y te tienes que aguantar”: Hispanic Maternal Wellbeing
Internship: Asociación Hogar de María
Location: Barcelona, Spain

Sylvia Richards

Majors: Art, International Relations, and Italian Studies

CISLA Language: Italian
SIP: Political Graffiti in Milan
Internship: Viafarini
Location: Milan, Italy

Gray Ruffer

Majors: Psychology and Slavic Studies

CISLA Language: Russian
SIP: Reflections of a Queer Latvia: How the Past has Shaped Contemporary Activism
Location: Riga, Latvia

Matthew Sharretts

Majors: German Studies and Quantitative Economics and Econometrics

CISLA Language: German
SIP: Sovereign CAT Bonds: Evaluating Issuance
Internship: Convex Europe SA
Location: Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Caelan Stewart

Major: International Relations

CISLA Language: Arabic
SIP: The Role of Socioeconomic Development in Preventing Violent Extremism
Internship: High Atlas Foundation
Location: Marrakech, Morocco