Sarah Davisson

Sarah Davisson (Research Fellow)

Email : sdavisson8180@sdsu.edu

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• 4 semesters college-level French
• 3 years high school level French
• 4 months of immersive French in Paris
• 1 month solo travel throughout Europe, in areas where English is not spoken

TECH SKILLS

• SPSS: Statistical Analysis in Social Science
• Microsoft Office/Google Suite
• Adobe Premiere Pro/Final Cut Pro

EXPERIENCE ABOARD

• Global Seminar at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana , Cali, Colombia; Summer 2023
• Worked with Institute of Intercultural Studies learning about the 2016 FARC peace
  agreement, community-based peacebuilding, and establishing intercultural dialogues.
• Conducted field research in campesino communities, indigenous reserves, and
  ex-FARC combatant cooperatives.
• Semester Abroad at Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po); Spring 2023
• Studied global political science and international relations issues through the lens of
  both local and international professors and consultants/industry lecturers.

RELEVANT COURSEWORK

• Human Rights in a Global Perspective
• Theories and Practices of Contemporary Diplomacy and Negotiations
• Life After War: Community-Based Peacebuilding in Colombia
• Primer on Guerilla Warfare and Counterinsurgency
• The “Postcolonial Question” in Contemporary France: Islam, Immigration and Identity
• Power and Poverty
• Morality of War and Peace
• Strategic Studies
• American Soft Power
• Black Nationalism
• Political Ecology in Latin America
• Culture Worlds
• African American Political Thought
• Comparative Political Systems
• Political Change in Modern Africa
• Latin American Politics
• History of Western Political Thought
• Blacks in the American Justice System
• American Constitutional Law

INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH PAPER

• Human Rights in Malaysia: SUHAKAM’s Mission (joint)
• The Road to Peace in Colombia
• UN REDD’s Destruction of Indigenous Communities in Latin America
• Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo: Los Desaparecidos
• La Violencia: The Legacy of Colombia’s Brutal Civil War
• The Plight of Women in Higher Education and Politics in Kaduna State, Nigeria
• Grant Proposal: Reversing the Decline of Democratic Governance
• Anticolonialism, Postcolonialism, and Decolonialism
• Fanon’s Vision: Liberation in Today’s Discourse
• The Death of the Voting Rights Act: A New Age of Voter Suppression
• American Welfare Reform for the Future
• The US’s Use of Hollywood as a Soft Power Asset

Education