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Leventhal is one of many across a variety of fields who have pursued thesis topics relating to Sept. 11.
Clemens says he came across the idea for his economics thesis in a national security seminar inspired by Sept. 11 and taught by Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein. Clemens learned that 40 percent of Afghanistan’s Gross Domestic Product comes from opium production, a figure that...
Using data collected by the United Nations since the early 1990s, Clemens estimated the efficacy of drug control policies like crop eradication and crop replacement. This May, he won a Hoopes prize for his thesis on price fluctuations in opium from Afghanistan.
Huebner says he was struck by the widening cultural divide exposed as the United States purported to defend its interests through military invasions while most of Europe watched idly. His social studies thesis examined the rise of a new political discourse in America, one which heightened binary representations of the...
While Huebner drew from examples other than Sept. 11, he says that his decision to examine American and European relations was motivated by the terrorist attacks. Sept. 11, Huebner says, “spearheaded my whole thesis.”