Our Fellows
Meet our current fellows!
See "Recent Alumni" for more. ELF Project Archive contains a list of projects from 2011-2020
Current Engaged Learning Fellows
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Cai Aberle
Perceptual differences between parents and their adult children towards marginalization and familial relationships in South Africa and the United States
Mentor: Brad Klein (ÎçÒ¹AV)
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Ryland Adzich
Peruna Policy: Comprehensive Platform for SMU Students Interested in Policy, Government, and Politics.
Mentor: Dayna Oscherwitz (World Languages) -
Callum Morrow
When the Azaleas Bloomed
Mentor: Mark Kerins (Film)
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Daresalam Ayalew
Mapping Inequality: The Persistence of Apartheid Spatial Structures in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Mentor: Brad Klein (ÎçÒ¹AV)
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Joy Hope Mwenda
Bleeding in Silence: Period Poverty and Educational Inequality Among Adolescent Girls in Kenya
Mentor: Elizabeth Berk (Anthropology)
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Bernadette Cruz
Advertising Campaign for Howdy Homemade Ice Cream
Mentor: Mark Allen (Temerlin Advertising Institute) -
Jazmin Darjean
Reflections and Realities: The Cross-Border Experience of Mexican and Mexican American Communities.
Mentor: Leticia McDoniel (World Languages) -
Brian Dashner
When the Azaleas Bloomed
Mentor: Jennifer Prediger (Film)
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Owen Davis
The New Grand Tour: AR/VR and Virtual Explorations of Italian Language and Culture.
Mentor: Aria Cabot (World Languages) -
Cameron Flores
Recursive Light: Exposure Systems in Analog Photography
Mentor: Frederico Câmara (Art)
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Trinity Gabreylski
The Therapy and Medicalization of Native-Hispanic Healing Practices
Mentor:Jill DeTemple (Religious Studies) -
Courtney Godfrey
Something has shifted: who, when, where: Exploring Nigerian American identity as a first timer in Nigeria.
Mentor: Jennifer Thompson (Theatre)
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Sophia Graham
Chinese Food and the People who Make Them
Mentor:Melissa Chessher (Journalism) -
Angel Granados
Living Between Hope and Uncertainty: An Ethnographic Exploration of Health Literacy, Risk, and Engagement in Organ Transplantation Among Latinos in Texas.
Mentor: Elizabeth Berk (Anthropology) -
Ford Hummel
Instrument development for measuring magnetic field effects on magnet sensitive proteins
Mentor:Dr. Brian Zolwtowski (Chemistry) -
Palmer Hurd
Domestic Water Filtration in Tanzania
Mentor: Jessie Zarazaga (Civil and Environmental Engineering) -
Tosin Ilesanmi
Child Marriage in Africa: Examining the Legal, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Realities Through the Power of Storytelling.
Mentor: Kacy Hollenback (Anthropology) and Rick Halperin (ÎçÒ¹AV)
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Faith Lungu
Reproductive Justice and Representation: Media's Influence on Black Women's Reproductive Decision-Making
Mentor: Elizabeth Berk (Anthropology)
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Bailey Kamau
Where Do We Go from Here: A Comparative Analysis between South African and U.S. Gen-Z Perspectives on Christianity and Black Liberation.
Mentor: Brad Klein (ÎçÒ¹AV) -
Simran Mehta
From Former Asylums to Student Support Spaces: Mental Health History and Access in Tuscany
Mentor: Aria Cabot (World Languages & Literatures)
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Camille Nguyen
Heart to Heart
Mentor: Elizabeth Berk (Anthropology)
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Amelia Nugent
Tech Meets Tradition: Data Science for Small Tuscan Businesses.
Mentor: Aria Cabot (World Languages) -
Nadine Nyamari
Sustainable Roof Tiles for a Rural Community in Tanzania
Mentor: Jessie Zarazaga (Civil & Environmental Engineering)
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Kristian Perez
Piloting a low-cost, low-technology but high-accuracy weather station for northwestern Tanzania, and working with local students to develop a climate data collection process.
Mentor: Jessie Zarazaga (Civil & Environmental Engineering) -
Zariyah Perry
The Little Girl In The White Dress
Mentor:Mark Kerins (Film and Media Arts) -
Alexandra Reyes
A Survey of Signals and Noise at High-Frequency Infrasound Arrays in Nevada and South Korea.
Mentor: Stephen Arrowsmith (Earth Sciences) -
Jude Rios-Molina
Art, Anatomy, and the Human Body: How Italian Visual Traditions Shape Medical Understanding
Mentor: Aria Cabot (World Languages & Literatures)
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Yasmina Said
Mechanistic Investigation of Hâ‚‚S-Mediated Reduction of Copper-Bound Nitrite via Reactive Sulfur–Nitrogen Intermediate
Mentor: Pokhraj Ghosh (Chemistry)
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Adyn Schachtel
Investigating Ancestral Puebloan Lifeways: A Field Study at Crow Canyon.
Mentor: Michael Adler (Anthropology) -
Cricket Tatone
Evaluating Climate-Impacted Erosion and Sustainability of Compressed Stabilized Earth Blocks (CSEB) in Rural Tanzania.
Mentor: Andrew Quicksall (Civil & Environmental Engineering)
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Jake Willeford
When the Azaleas Bloomed
Mentor: Mark Kerins (Film)
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William Zhao
Autonomous Drug Discovery Agent: AI-Driven Molecular Docking with Adaptive Reasoning
Mentor: Peng Tao (Chemistry)
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Rachel Zuercher
Developing a sustainable and accessible water filtration system in northwestern Tanzania.
Mentor: Jessie Zarazaga (Civil & Environmental Engineering)