Kellogg International Scholars Program Research Night

If you are a first-year student interested in applying to the Kellogg International Scholars Program, this event is for you! Come learn about the research current International Scholars are doing with their faculty advisers. Then attend the reception to get your questions answered and network with students and staff of the program.
Research Spotlights – International Scholars
- Jake Harris ‘25 (anthropology and global affairs)
- Halle Keane '25 (economics and Spanish)
- Raleigh Kuipers ‘25 (global affairs and Spanish)
- Brian Olemo ‘25 (economics and political science)
- Ashwin Raghuraman ‘27 (global affairs)
- Sonia Zhang ‘26 (economics and global affairs)

Jacob Harris ‘25
Jake Harris is working with Professor Aidan Seale-Feldman, a medical anthropologist specializing in studying disaster, mental health, and mass hysteria. Professor Seale-Feldman and Harris are collaborating on a project focused on user/survivor movements and disability studies within the field of global mental health...
Halle Keane ‘25
Halle Keane is a senior from Avon, CT majoring in Spanish and economics with a minor in poverty studies. As a research assistant to colonial Latin-American historian Karen Graubart, she conducts paleography, transcribes 16th-century court documents, and completes general historical research, supporting Professor Graubart's forthcoming book on indigenous and Black legal autonomy in colonial Panamá...
Raleigh Kuipers ‘25
Raleigh Kuipers—a global affairs and Spanish double major with minors in civil and human rights and European studies—is researching with Professor Clemens Sedmak, the director of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. Through ISP, Kuipers is currently working on a project funded by Notre Dame’s Strategic Framework Grant to create an ethical framework for Catholic universities around the world...
Brian Olemo ‘25
Olemo Gordon Brian is an economics and political science major from Apac, Uganda. He will be assisting Prof. Jaimie Bleck with revisions of her upcoming book on “Social Capital, Youth, and the Mali Crisis”. He will also work on a project about the dynamics of the township economy...
Ashwin Raghuraman ‘27
Ashwin Raghuraman works with Dr. Nikhit D'Sa in the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child on its project to measure Teacher Agency in Uganda. Raghuraman specifically focuses on the conceptualization of teacher agency in academic literature, and previous attempts to quantify agency...