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Syllabi of courses taught by Paul Dosh
Latin America through Women's Eyes (LAWE) (Fall 2008)
Foundations of Comparative Politics(FCP)(Spring 2009)
Latin American Politics (LAP) (Fall 2008)
Comparative Social Movements(CSM) (Spring 2009)
Senior Research Seminar (SRS) (Fall 2008)

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Samples of student work

       Diagnostic Papers:
       LAWE -Identity Crisis: New Dynamics in a Globalizing World (Petty)  

Single Point Papers:
LAWE - Gender-bending in Allende's Chile (Virnig)
LAWE - Poder Femenino: Shrewd, Not Apolitical (Bowron)
LAP - Brazil’s Landless Movement: Effects of Repression or Democratization? (Jelev)
LAP - A Milton Analysis of the MST in Brazil (Kotonias) 
LAP - The Flow of Power Under Chávez (Blom)

Analytic Papers:
LAWE - Fear, Anger, and Necessity: The Driving Forces Behind Political Action (Wittkowski)
CSM - Framing Mobilization around Nationalism (Bigelow)
FCP - Limiting Reserve Domains in Pacted Transitions (Ravdin)
LAP - Women's Political Participation in Revolutionary Nicaragua (Hedin)
LAWE - Community: The Missing Link between Practical and Strategic Interests of Cuban Women (Petty)
LAWE - Violence as both Repression and Opportunity: Women and the formation of the anti-Pinochet movement (Wells)

Biographical Essays:
LAWE - La Nicolasa: Her Life and Times (Seitz)
LAWE - Julieta Kirkwood: Rewriting history and Contesting the Present (Kohl)

Simulations, Partisan Narratives and 9:59 Lectures:
FCP - Iran Simulation (Jelev, Lestanin, & West)
FCP - Wal-Mart Mini-Lecture (Goodman)
LAWE - Colombia Simulation (Hormann, Howland & Wells)
LAWE - Partisan Narrative-Violeta Chamorro (Jacoby)

Research Papers:
FCP - One-Party Democracies (McGovern)
FCP - Comparing Coups in Brazil and Turkey (Duke)
LAP - Comparative Perspectives on Delegative Democracy in Menem & Putin’s Presidencies (Jelev)
LAP - The 1990 Electoral Defeat of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua (Pallmeyer)
SRS - Challenges to a Hemispheric Power: Explaining International Influence of Latin American Leaders (Stone)
CSM - Jesus and Drag Queens: A Study of the Gay Rights Movement in the Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. (Hedin)

Exploratory Papers & Research Assignments:
ULA - The Alternative Street: Gangs as Sights of Urban Governance (Rebert)
SRS - Outline Assignment: Challenging a Hemispheric Power (Stone)

Portfolios:
LAWE - Women within Latin America's Revolutions (Berman)
LAWE - Conflicting Interests, Political Strategies, and Gender Equality in Latin America (Evans)
LAWE - Presente in Our America: Written Portraits from an Abused Subcontinent (Kligerman)
LAWE - Las Mujeres de la Revolución (Campbell)
LAWE - Las Mujeres de Matiz (Seitz)
LAWE - Actualizing Feminism (Stone)

Honors Thesis Proposals:
Envisioning Progressive Pluralism: Customary Law and Contemporary Conflict in Bolivia (Kotonias)

Honors Theses:
The Role of Mothers in the Success of Social Movements in Latin American Authoritarian Regimes (Kaster)
Institutional Strategies and Contentious Protest in the Argentine Factory Takeover Movement (Milton)
A New State of Puerto Rican Politics: Framing the Plebiscites on Status (Bigelow)
Mobilization and Identity in the Immigrant Rights Movement (Rebert)
Legislatures and Neoliberalism in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay (Duke)
Between African Nationalism and Structural Adjustment: How Senegalese Elites Redefined Neoliberalism (Hedin)

Fellowship & Graduate School Applications:
Truman Scholarship (Rebert)
Fulbright to Senegal (Hedin)
Fulbright to Ecuador (Dosh)
Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship to Peru (Hedin)
Princeton Ph.D. Program (Vidina)
Berkeley Ph.D. Program (Dosh)
Internship Report: Chiapas Microfinance Project (Ponce de Leon)

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