Pardee School Students Awarded CAS Research Internships
Two students at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University – Cristina Morrison (Pardee BA ’22) and Ariana Thorpe (Pardee BA ’22) – were recently awarded 2020-21 Social Science Research Internships in Social Justice and Sustainability from the College of Arts and Sciences.
Morrison and Thorpe will work on the project entitled, “Race and Radioactivity in New Mexico and Namibia,” under the supervision of Jayita Sarkar, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School. The research project will examine how infrastructures of nuclear technologies have systematically disenfranchised communities of color in New Mexico, where the first atomic weapon was tested in July 1945, and in uranium-rich Namibia, one of the last countries to become decolonized in Africa.