MASTER OF ARTS IN
GLOBAL & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Alumni Profiles
Anthony Morain
After graduating from the California Maritime Academy, Tony worked for over two years as an officer for the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Between voyages with Scripps, he lived in Bogotá, Colombia, where he studied Spanish and worked in an orphanage and place of protection for abused women. More significantly, though, he fell in love with an enchanting culture and a beautiful country.
Still, his voyages to ports in more than a dozen countries, as well as time living abroad exposed Tony to some of the world’s most intractable problems, from the appalling poverty of port cities in the Pacific Islands, Asia and South America, to high-seas piracy and global warming issues. It became apparent to him that such problems can be solved only from a global perspective, and thus he became determined to gain the knowledge, skills and experience needed to address these problems.
Tony entered the MAGIS program at UC Santa Barbara for these reasons and says he could not be more pleased with his decision.
Tony studied this past summer in Leipzig, Germany, at the Erasmus Mundus Leipzig Summer Institute, focusing his efforts on European integration, minorities in Europe, and humanitarian aid; then will spend two months in the Balkans, collecting data for his internship with the State Department’s Bureau of South Eastern European Affairs, where he will be working on the project of Kosovo’s final status.
