Islands, Archipelagos, and Cultural Ecologies
As part of the course’s civic and global engagement component, students completed a semester-long, team-based project connected to the Archipelago Initiative. Working in groups, students were assigned a Caribbean country and investigated its economic, social, and environmental conditions using real-world data.
Each project analyzed key indicators—including GDP and GDP per capita, inflation, unemployment, trade, income inequality, population, environmental measures (such as CO₂ emissions and air quality), and life expectancy—and compared them to corresponding data for the United States and New York City.
The resulting mini websites and posters/infographics are presented below on this page, showcasing students’ data-driven analyses and comparative insights. These projects will be featured in a Spring 2026 showcase, highlighting student research that connects economic analysis to global sustainability, inequality, and development.
This project is closely aligned with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation–supported Archipelago Initiative at Pace University, which was recently awarded $476,000 to support a three-year interdisciplinary program titled Islands, Archipelagos, and Cultural Ecologies. The initiative advances environmental justice and the environmental humanities by building on Pace’s strengths in experiential learning and place-based education.
Centered on Pace’s lower Manhattan location as an island campus, the initiative connects New York City to other archipelagos shaped by U.S. history and influence, including the Marshall Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Through comparative, data-driven analysis, student projects engage with themes of vulnerability, responsibility, resilience, and decolonization, contributing to Mellon’s broader mission of fostering interdisciplinary inquiry, civic engagement, and a deeper understanding of global interdependence.
Each project analyzed key indicators—including GDP and GDP per capita, inflation, unemployment, trade, income inequality, population, environmental measures (such as CO₂ emissions and air quality), and life expectancy—and compared them to corresponding data for the United States and New York City.
The resulting mini websites and posters/infographics are presented below on this page, showcasing students’ data-driven analyses and comparative insights. These projects will be featured in a Spring 2026 showcase, highlighting student research that connects economic analysis to global sustainability, inequality, and development.
This project is closely aligned with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation–supported Archipelago Initiative at Pace University, which was recently awarded $476,000 to support a three-year interdisciplinary program titled Islands, Archipelagos, and Cultural Ecologies. The initiative advances environmental justice and the environmental humanities by building on Pace’s strengths in experiential learning and place-based education.
Centered on Pace’s lower Manhattan location as an island campus, the initiative connects New York City to other archipelagos shaped by U.S. history and influence, including the Marshall Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Through comparative, data-driven analysis, student projects engage with themes of vulnerability, responsibility, resilience, and decolonization, contributing to Mellon’s broader mission of fostering interdisciplinary inquiry, civic engagement, and a deeper understanding of global interdependence.
From Data to Insight: Student Research
These projects showcase student-created, public-facing work that applies macroeconomic analysis to real places, connecting data to lived experience, environmental challenges, and global inequality.
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
The Bahamas
Barbados
The British Virgin Islands
The U.S Virgin Islands
Cuba
Cayman Islands
Curaçao
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Haiti
Jamaica
Martinique
Puerto Rico
St Kitts and Nevis
St Lucia
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos Islands
St Martin (French)
Sint Maarten (Dutch)
St Vincent
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