Isabelle Halaka - Naef Scholarship Recipient 2021-2022
June 21, 2021
Isabelle had this to say, "I am very grateful to be a recipient of the Naef Scholarship! I am looking forward to collaborating with other students in the cohort to find ways that our various passions for social justice intersect."
The Naef Scholarship recognizes outstanding junior and senior students from diverse backgrounds in the undergraduate schools and programs of the University. The scholars hold endorsements from faculty and staff across the university and have been recognized for their work on and off campus and their leadership.
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a book chapter: “Argentina’s Enigmatic Wall on the Paraguayan Border,” in Andréanne Bissonnette and Élisabeth Vallet, Eds., Borders and Border Walls: In-Security, Symbolism, Vulnerabilities. This book addresses the recent evolution of borderlines around the world as an attempt to control transnational movements with a view to securitization of borders rooted in the need to control mobility and preserve national identities. It explores two main issues: how international borders have become enforced lines of demarcation and division, reinforcing national identity and impacting national and regional dynamics; and the material and immaterial, discursive and concrete expressions of borders and the impacts of the transformation of bodies into threat to be monitored, as daily lives become sites of border enforcement.
in the International Studies program. He teaches several classes in the INST program, including Introduction to International Studies, International Studies Honors Seminar, US-Latin American Relations and Latin American Politics.
The ensuing debate often pitted US and Western European feminists against women’s rights activists from the colonized world. Another axis of debate was among secular and religious women’s organizations. With ICTC support, I will study St. Joan’s International Alliance’s imprint on the construction of international women’s rights norms. Unlike some of the major secular women’s organizations, St. Joan’s, a Catholic feminist organization, appears to have been a tireless advocate for representation from the colonized world. The research will be integrated into a larger book project The Woman Question: The League of Nations and the Shaping of the International Women’s Rights System.
