Peter Gill, "The Politics of Land Reform in Nepal, 1951-1964," in Studies in Nepali History and Society, Vol. 14, No. 2 (December 2009), pp. 217-259.

The paper examines the series of Nepali land reform legislation that came in the 1950s and 1960s, in the wake of the 1950-51 revolution that ended the Rana family oligarchy.  It argues that land reform legislation was not an inevitable consequence of the 1950 Revolution, but rather it was the product of a dynamic political process in which various primary and secondary actors were involved.  Primary actors, who included the king, the various democratic political parties and independent politicians, shaped political discourse most directly due to their status as leaders of the country.  Secondary actors, who included the elite landowning classes, the peasantry, and international powers (particularly the US) also influenced discourse by pressuring primary actors, either directly or through less organized, less direct means.  Many political parties lacked a coherent ideology for supporting land reforms; rather, their espousal of land reforms in preparation for elections and their populist rhetoric suggest that they used these issues instrumentally as a political tool for garnering popularity among the peasantry.  However, the Nepal Communist Party and the Nepali Congress were exceptional in that each espoused socialism and thus had a strong ideological foundation for land reform.  The monarchy developed a tenuous commitment to land reforms only gradually, apparently motivated at times by prospects of political gain and at times by a desire to boost national agricultural productivity and industrialize the country, but it ultimately abandoned land reform for fear of alienating the support of the landed classes.  Peter Gill (’09) is in Semegal working in agroforestry for the Peace Corps.  Peter wrote this paper as his senior thesis under advisors Adeeb Khalid and Susannah Ottaway. 

The following four papers were selected for publication in the Columbia Undergraduate Journal of History:

Melissa Hampton, "Sinners Never Give Up:" The Trial of Madam Sally Stanford and the Policing of Morality in Post World War II San Francisco; Steven Landkamer, The Formation of the National Meiji Elementary School System in Aichi Prefecture, 1868-1879; Andrew McCreary, Buffalo Bill's Pan-American Wild West; Simone Srinivasan, Audience and Authenticity: New York's Chinese Theatre, 1893-1910.

Abrams K, Leger K, Schlosser L, Minkina A, Emmons, H. (March 2010). Does Acute Nicotine Use or Withdrawal Promote Panicky Symptoms? – Some Surprising Findings from Biological Challenge Studies.

Paper presented at the 30th annual convention of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, Baltimore, MD.

Abrams K, Merrill A, Bresslour M, Jalan A, Snyder E, Stevens K. (March 2010). Cognitive Processes Underlying the Elevated Rate of Panic Disorder Among Smokers.

Poster presented at the 30th annual convention of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, Baltimore, MD.

Mayer M, Abrams K. (2010). Alcohol cues, alcohol expectancies, and aggression. In F. Columbus (Ed.), Social Drinking: Uses, Abuses, and Psychological Factors. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Abrams K, Mayer M.  (2010). Abstinence vs. controlled drinking: trends and a call for research. In F. Columbus (Ed.), Social Drinking: Uses, Abuses, and Psychological Factors. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

These two book chapters were co-authored by Professor Kenneth Abrams and Melissa Mayer ('09). The first chapter listed is based primarily on data from Melissa's comps project. Melissa contributed to the second chapter through a paper she wrote for his psychopathology course.

Aufderheide R, Clement V, Kerns P, Gupta L.  Students in Pamela Felman-Savelsberg’s SOAN 262, Anthropology of Health and Illness, course completed Academic Civic Engagement projects with three community partners. They did so under the additional and invaluable mentorship of ACE director Adrienne Falcon.  The community partners were: HealthFinders Collaborative; Four Corners Partnership (funded by Clearway Minnesota and affiliated with the Depts of Public Health of four counties); the Rice County Children's Mental Health Resource Team; and Growing Up Healthy. The students all gave formal oral presentations in class, academic conference-style; for eight of these, representatives of two of the community partners were present. Four of the students also presented the results of their research to the Rice County Children's Mental Health Resource Team at their monthly meeting on March 2, 2010.

The titles of their papers/presentations were:
Ruth Aufderheide,  The Transition to Adulthood: Challenges within the Latino Community;

Viviane Clement,  The Lost Generation: A Study about the Emergence of Sudanese Americans and the Implications of Returning to Sudan for Youth Mental Health;

Peter Kerns, Children of Alcoholics: Family Culture, Explanatory Models, and Institutional Treatment of Alcoholism in Rice County, Minnesota;

Lipi Gupta, Rice County's Mental Health Resource Team: How the Organization Responds to Community Needs.  

Cantor S, Ehrenberg D, Krafft J, Van Sistine M.  Presented at the Fourteenth Annual Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics conference, or ISMIL 14 at the University of Minnesota, April 30 - May 2, 2010. It is an international conference (the location rotates, and is held every other year in North America/Europe, and on the opposite years in Asia), and is peer-reviewed. It was a professional scholarly conference.

The titles of their presentations were:
Sara Cantor ('11), Yes/No Questions in Malay: A Multiple C-based Account;

Daniel Ehrenberg ('12), DP Structure and Ellipsis in Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian;

Jennifer Krafft ('10), Multiple ter- Prefixes in Malay;

Mikaela Van Sistine ('10), meN- and DP Movement in Malay: An Agreement Analysis.

Alex Forde ('07) recently received the award for best undergraduate poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2008.　 Alex's poster was titled "Choosiness in rolled-leaf beetles: Leaf age and leaf configuration affect colonization by the specialist herbivore Cephaloleia fenestrata".　 Co-authors on the poster were Clare Kazanski ('07), Jenna Forsyth ('07), Jannel Anderson ('07), Mark Luterra ('07), and Mark McKone (Biology Department).　The field research was carried out in Costa Rica as part of Professor McKone's course in Tropical Rainforest Ecology (Biology 361, 362).

Rowe E, Weinstein H.  "Room for everyone? Examining inclusivity and ideology in the Scottish National Party." Poster presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2009.

Tell KA, Gross DS, Van Wyngarden AL, Iraci LT. “Identification of components in organic films by coupled liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.” Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 15 – 19, 2007.

Hamilton RM, Gross DS. “Detection of sulfate esters as a function of particle composition using single particle mass spectrometry.” Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 15 – 19, 2007.