Katy Baldwin

Name: Katy Baldwin
Year: Junior
Hometown: Toledo, OH
Major/Minors: English major, Natural Science and Spanish minors
Project: I am exploring the Maoist insurgency in Nepal, and the ten-year war that resulted. My particular interest lies with the disparity between the governmental control and economic success found in central Kathmandu and the extreme poverty and oppression of the rural farmers in the West, and how the Maoists, through their boycott of the government and use of force, tried to reconcile that difference. My primary question asks if the Maoists were fighting for the uneducated peoples, or exploiting the most desperate communities, and I will examine the political, economic and social affects of this war.