Kenah decided on the topic while working in Bangladesh--where he witnessed police burning a slum, presumably to enhance the country's appearance.
"It would be almost impossible to capture the results of a slum clearance using income statistics," Kenah said.
William Edwards '01 also tackled a weighty social issue--race relations.
Edwards studied the role of bi-racial electoral coalitions coming together to elect blacks to office. He found that such coalitions were surprisingly common in the cities he studied, especially Birmingham, Ala., and Charlotte, N.C.
Hoopes-winning theses, however, did not all embrace matters of such social and political gravity.
Soman S. Chainani '01, who is also a Crimson executive, opted for a flashier topic--evil women in postmodern fairy tales.
"I really wanted to write a thesis on sex and violence," Chainani said.
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