Recent Draper Master's Theses
January 2012 / September 2011 / May 2011 / January 2011 / September 2010 / May 2010 / January 2010 / September 2009 / May 2009 / January 2009 / September 2008 / May 2008 / January 2008 / September 2007 / May 2007 / January 2007 / September 2006/ May 2006
January 2012
Nicholaus Gutierrez (Adv Crystal Parikh)
Some Small Measure of Hope for the Possibility of Meaning: Reading the Ethics of Literature and the Literature of Ethics
Julia Vivienne Haav (Adv Rebecca Colesworthy)
More or Less Dead in the Archive: Enacted Trauma, Affective Histories, and Contemporary Horror in Three Recent Latin American Novels
Benjamin Kampler (Adv Amber Musser)
Video Games are Kid Stuff: The American Construction of Childhood Via the State's Conversations on Violence in Video Games
Scott Kaplan (Adv Ann Pelligrini)
From an Elegant Despair to a Moral Exuberence: A Search for Utopian Feeling in Tony Kushner's Theatre of the Fabulous
Charlotte Kelly (Adv jill Lane)
Writers in Cuba 1959-1971: Alejo Carpentier's /Explosion in a Cathedral/ and Jose' Lezama Lima's Paradiso as "Words to the Intellectual"
Jessica Kelly (Adv Renato Rosaldo)
Breaking Down the Imaginary Wall: "The Troubles" of Northern Ireland and Punk Rock Ethnicity, 1974-1980
Jessica Krzeminski (Adv Amber Musser)
Queer Femininity in Fictional Space: Henry James Dismantles Domestic Bliss
Jacqueline LaSorda (Adv Cristina Vatulescu)
Kitty Genovese, Revisited: On Crime and Truth in the Anecdotal Sense
Megan Natt (Adv Rebecca Colesworthy)
Contaminated with Fiction: The Rhetoric of Possibility in Jorge Luis Borges' Ficciones
Beatriz Olivetti (Adv Miriam M. Basilo)
Conceptual Strategies: Curating Emptiness and Performance at the 28th Sao Paulo Biennial
Yoham Ortiz (Adv Steven Moga)
Listening to the Language of the City: Understanding How Communities of Sounds Inform the Soundscape of New York City
William Michael Paris (Adv Thomas de Zengotita)
Moral Structures and "Ethical" Moments: An Analysis of Language and Existential "Ethics"
Noga Pnueli (Adv Amber Musser)
Capturing Time: On the Horrors of Categorical Fluidity and Imbalances in the Spacetime Continuum
Alexander Roeskestad (Adv Thomas de Zengotita)
Finding a Way Home: Palestinian Coping and their Search for Meaning
Kerri Alexis Shadid (Adv Thomas de Zengotita)
Absurdity in Albert Camus, Lewis Carroll, and Buddhism: The Problem of the Human Condition and the Restoration of Meaning
Elizabeth Shaheen (Adv Jack Tchen)
Affective Resistance: Questions of Queer Subjectivity in Arab Arts-based (sub)Cultural Production
Brandi Wagner (Adv Amber Musser)
Fat Zines: Widening Spaces for Multiple Fat Voices and Experiences
Whitney Walker (Adv Radha Hegde)
Digital Communication and the Americas: Young Migrants and Identity
Homa Zaryouni (Adv Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami)
Time and Narrative in Three Persian Novels: From Two Timelines to a Singular Narrative
September 2011
Amanda Elledge (Adv. Thomas Truxes)
A Mind to Learn: Janet Schaw, An Eighteenth Century Atlantic Biography
Shanna Marie Farrell (Adv. Daniel Thurs)
The Hudson River Project: The Recreational Fishing Community, PCBs, and Ecological Violence
Adam P. Frederick (Adv. Rebecca Colesworthy)
"An Oasis of Horror": The Dystopian City in Roberto Bolano's 2666.
Adam Jurkiewicz (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Prospects for a Heideggerian Realism Concerning Entities Posited by Natural Science
David Lamme (Adv. Fred Ulfers)
The Graven Image: Truth, Self, and Identity in Max Frisch’s Novel I’m Not Stiller
Sarah Latanyshyn (Adv. Michael Beckerman)
"From Uzhhorod there is a road" to Lemkovyna: Music and Identity Among the Lemkos
Jonghoon Lee (Adv. Peter Lucas)
Comfort Women: in the Perspectives of Human Rights
David Mettler (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
The Meaning of Documentary: Narrativity, the Cartesian World View, and a Heideggerian Critique
Tamir Morag (Adv. Itamar Rabinovich)
Public Atmosphere and Policy Making in Israel on the Eve of the Six Day War
Helen Pavlac (Adv. Tom Looser)
Postmodern Monsters: An Analysis of the Films of Hayao Miyazaki
Guillaume Pignol (Adv. Friedrich Ulfers)
The Recasting of French Racial Conflicts, or an Exploration of the Absorption of the Imaginary into Imagery
Justina Sade (Adv. Amber Musser)
Children on The Wire: The Problem Children
Jacqueline Simonovich (Adv. Rebecca Colesworthy)
H.D.'s Creation of the New: Redeeming the Maternal Body in Pursuit of Feminine Language
Madison Thompson (Adv. Amber Musser)
Redheads, Their Identity, and Stigmatization in the 20th Century
May 2011
Mike Alves (Adv. Daniel Patrick Thurs)
Towards a New Synthesis of Knowledge: Human Nature and our Capacity for Empathy
Dinika Amaral (Adv. Peter Nicholls)
Scaling the Circulations of Crises in Moby-Dick, 1919 and The Big Money
Matthew Annis (Adv. Eckart Goebel)
Why Are Gay Men So Effeminate? An Essay on Aesthetics, Affect, and White Gay Male Subjectivity
Kalia Armbruster (Adv. Dr. Amber Musser)
Out of Joint: Spinsters and Widows of Nineteenth-Century Britain as Queer Subjects
Daniel Baker (Adv. Chuck Wachtel) Dharma Bums and Zen Lunatics: Beat Zen Influence and Transformation in the Life and Work of Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, and Gary Snyder
Brian Ballard (Adv. David Vellemdu)
Sensing Values: A Representational Theory of Affect
Julia Baumgardner (Adv. Sukhdev Sannhu)
Sense Attack: Innovation, Hybridity and Audiovisual Art
Cristos Birkitt (Adv. Liana Theodoratu)
Enlightenment from Shadows and Delay
Sarah Broderick (Adv. Rebecca Colesworthy)
Puncturing the Skin of a Nation: How the (Re)presentation of the Black Vampire in Popular Film Embodies Racial Stereotypes that Continue to Haunt America
Emily Colucci (Adv. Nina Hein)
Moda Up, Moda Down, Planet Moda: The Spatial Phenomena of Fashion Moda
Miguel Cruz (Adv. Maia Ramnath)
World After Nations: Direct Democracy, Diasporas and Global Governance
Halah Darwazeh (Adv.Shireen R.K. Patell)
Fragmented Formations: Staging the Ghost through Formal Elements
Tamara Day (Adv. Brent Edwards)
Speaking in Tongues; Language and Creolite in the Work of Kamau Brathwaite and Junot Diaz
Melvin Echols (Adv. Maia Ramnath)
Literature as a Resource for Social Control: A Discussion of Forced Assimilation through Cultural Means of American Indian Groups
Megan Empey (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Mourning the Loss: Derrida's Paper Machine and the Transition from Page to Screen
Ayelet Even-Nur (Adv. Nadar K. Uthman)
Roots of Poetic Alterity: Partition, Belonging, and Language in Israel and Palestine
Courtney Faue (Adv. Shireen Patell)
The Infamy of Columbine: How the Media Creates and Perpetuates and Inaccurate Collective Memory
Weisong Gao (Adv. Amber Musser)
Dancing to Sunset Glory: Lai Lai Dance Hall and Chinese Queer Identity Politics
Seth Garrison (Adv. Tom De Zengotita)
Imagining Zombies: A Phenomenological Cognitive Approach
Rebecca Goodman (Adv. Amber Musser)
What has yet to Become: Citizenship and the Non-Biological Lesbian Mother
Emma Greer (Adv. Judy Miller)
Vers un esprit en printemps: des metaphores et des exils multiples dans L'enigme du retour par Dany Laferriere
Tara Haskins (Adv. Nina Hien)
Unclogging the Toilet: How Online Parenting Forums are Dissolving Social Boundaries
Eric Hodges (Adv. Peter Button)
Messianism in Ding Ling's The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River and Zhou Libo's The Hurricane
Whitney Johnson (Adv. Michael Peachin)
Dialogues of Identity: Antioch and Pisidia under Rome
Luce Melendez-Robledo (Adv. Maia Ramnath)
Luis Rafael Sanchez's Subversive Use of Language in La Guaracha del Macho Camacho
Katherine Mohrman (Adv. Amber Musser)
Queer Utah: (Re)Thinking Queerness, Non-urban Space, and Activism
Ji Hyuck Moon (Adv. Steven T. Moga)
Cracks Everywhere: How the Seongsu Bridge Collapse Changed Seoul's Urban Personality
Kyle Munkittrick (Adv. Greg Bognar)
Human Enhancement and Our Responsibility to Future Generations
Emma Nordin (Adv.Peter Nicholls)
Who Aint a Slave?: The Relationship Between Race and Labor in Herman Melville's Typee and Moby-Dick
John Perry (Adv. Maia Ramnath)
Modern Islamic Political Expression: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Militancy in the Movement
April Pierce (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Metaphor, Metaphysics, and the Origin of Language: Vico and Heidegger on Poetic Thinking
Alexander Ponomareff (Adv. Shireen Patell)
Space is the Place: Reading Emptiness on a Comic's Page
Kathleen Reeves (Adv. Peter Nicholls)
Perishable but Never Ending: Materiality and Mystery in Early DeLillo
Christopher Reisig (Adv.Cyrus R.K. Patell)
The Appiahn Way: Depending on the Kindness of Strangers in a Cosmopolitan World
Matthew Schratz (Adv.Rebecca Colesworthy)
Cruelty and Curiosity in Nabokov's Bend Sinister, Pnin, and Transparent Things
Celesta Sharp (Adv. Terri Lonier)
Hanna S. Gould's Ship of Widows: A Pioneering Female Entrepreneur Leads a Klondike Gold Rush Expedition
Ariel Sheen (Adv. Maia Ramnath)
The Political Economy of the United States 1886-1920: Development, Disequilibrium and the Labor Market
Jason Slaughter (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Finding Aletheia: The Search for Truth in Music
Erin Stebbings (Adv. Joe Lee)
Methods of Evaluation: The Academic Struggle Over J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Susan Stephan (Adv. Maia Ramnath)
Privacy and Privatization in Cyberspace: Cultural Policy Goals for Information Management in Global Network Economy
Khurram Tai (Adv. Maia Ramnath)
"Al Shari'ah al Islamiyyah fil 'Aalam al Hadith": Meaning and Application of Islamic Sacred Law in Theorized Modern Nation-State
Alex Teplitzky (Adv. Nina Hien)
The Saint Thomas Effect: The Problem of Visuality in Art, Terrorism, and Art Terrorism
Guadalupe Trigos (Adv. Maia Ramnath)
Control Yourself or Lose Your Head!
Jafreen Uddin (Adv. Maia Ramnath)
Finding Power in the Margins
Gregory Wersching (Adv. Peter Nicholls)
Dwelling Poetically in "The Good House": Technique and Imperative in the Post-Language Poetry of Rod Smith
Mia Wilson (Adv. Amber Musser)
Threatening Anti-Normativity: Tracing the Gendered Implications of 21st Century U.S. National Security Policy
Sarah Yurch (Adv. Rebecca Colesworthy)
The Unsayable: Language and Violence in the American Slave Narrative
January 2011
Jessica Arnett (Adv. Maia Ramnath)
The Land Speaks: Native Alaskan Anti-Colonial Movements and the Development of Indigenous Consciousness
Hilarie Ashton (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Life of the Author: Embodied Authorship in Paul Auster's City of Glass and Edgardo Vega Yunque's The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle
Timothy Campbell (Adv. Maia Ramnath)
Transnational Resistance to Neoliberalism: Linking Social Movements in the United States and Oaxaca
Omar Farahat (Adv. Marion Katz)
Listening to Music and the Interplay of Law and Morality in Medieval Sunni Thought
Katrin Gerard (Adv. E. B. Vitz)
"Tell About the South": Storytelling in the Works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Conner
Anoa Gibson-Hunter (Adv. Pamela Newkirk)
Elisabeth Ginsberg (Adv. Paul Fleming)
Irony We Can Believe In- Are Stewart and Colbert Making the Spectacle a Vehicle for Change?
Russell Hamilton (Adv. Daniel Thurs)
In Quantum Deus, Habuit Regnum: The New Science and Theology
Emily Harris (Adv. Rebecca Colesworthy)
Writing Non-being: A Levinasian Reading of Flannery O'Connor and Margaret Atwood
Eris Johnson-Smith (Adv. Robert Hinton)
Empty Rhetoric: The Transformation of the Black Identity from Political to Cultural
Katharine Lu (Adv. Crystal Parikh)
Where Have All the Revolutionaries Gone? Human Rights and Revolution in Rebiya Kadeer's Dragon Fighter
Mirelle Luecke (Adv.Thomas Truxes)
Invasion Scares and Defense Nightmares: The Royal Navy in Ireland
Danielle Newman (Adv. Alan Segal)
The Psychology of Personal Exposition in Religious Exploration
Salvador Olguín (Adv. Lourdes Davila)
Snapshots of the Dead: Fetishism, Prosthesis and Traces of Posthumanism in the Works of Joel-Peter Witkin and Mario Bellatin
Heather Paulson (Adv. Una Chaudhuri)
Going to the Dogs: Human and Dog Relationships in Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf
Laura Sayer (Adv. Robert Dimit)
How Dance Engenders Empathy in an Observer: An Interdisciplinary Analysis
Karen Schleif (Adv. Theodore Hamm)
Historic Preservation and Landmarking: Use, Abuse and Politicization in Tottenville, Staten Island
Rosemary Sitler (Adv. Amber Musser)
The Catholic School Uniform: Deploying a Cultural Symbol
Katherine Sperber (Adv. Colin Eisler)
The Modern Return to Mythology: The Narcissus Myth and the Invention of the Photographic Self-Portrait
Kaitlyn Widlak (Adv. Rebecca Colesworthy)
"Mountains are Your Mind": The Poet as Mythographer in Gary Snyder's Early Poetry
Keith Aksel (Adv. Marilyn B. Young)
Executive Action in the Age of Isolationism: Turkish-American Relations Under the Coolidge Administration
John Allen (Adv. Richard Sieburth)
Paraphrase, Rephrasal, Restatement: Modes of Translation in Analytical Philosophy
David Badham (Adv. Rebecca Colesworthy)
Deconstructing Lies: The Function of Lying in Systems of Communication
Anna W. Bardaus (Adv. Patricia Lennox)
Modern Monomyths: The Phenomenon of Contemporary Otherworldly Crossover Fiction and Mythic Recapitulation
Aubrey Bemis (Adv. Rebecca Colesworthy)
When in the Doghouse, Do as Dogg: Language, Communication, and Censorship in Tom Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's MacBeth
Marlena Brown (Adv. Chuck Wachtel)
James Baldwin and the Role of the Self in the Creation of Literature
Christie Dam (Adv. Nina Hien)
Faking It? Reproductions, Authenticity, and the Origin(s) of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Yelizaveta Goldfarb (Adv. Rebecca Colesworthy)
Reclaiming Literature's Sovereignty: Theoretical Power of the Literary in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and Invitation to a Beheading
Jennifer S. Kim (Adv. Nina Hien)
Off with the Queens' Heads: An Analysis of Historical Fiction Films Depicting Beheaded British Queens of the 16th Century
Sara Kluberdanz (Adv. Amber Musser)
The Battered Mother: Reasonableness and the Battered Woman in History and Popular Culture
Ji Hyun Lee (Adv. Shireen Patell)
Archiving Bodies: Trauma's Epistemological and biological Effects in the Post-Apocalyptic Fiction of Walter Miller and Octavia Butler
Stanley Lee (Adv. Peter Lucas)
Iron Will and Carbon Fiber Legs: A Freireian Exploration of Human Rights in Sports
Danielle Limos (Adv. Rebecca Colesworthy)
Culinary Aesthetics in the Contemporary Ethnic_American Short Story: Farias, Lahiri, and Diaz
Faith Merino-Davies (Adv. Una Chaudhuri)
"Trying to Say": Autism and Mental Illness as a Means of Escape from the Plantation in The Sound and the Fury and Beloved
Dmitry Nirenberg (Adv. Frederich Ulfers)
Human Rights without Norms: Instrumentalist and Status Theories of Rights vs. A Nietzschean View of Rights
George Rohac (Adv. Tom de Zengotita)
Copyright and the Economy of Web Comics
Bernadette Stewart (Adv. Eliot Borenstein)
"I Told You So. You Damned Fools." Cognitive Estrangement as a Mechanism for Social Commentary in H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds
Adrian Versteegh (Adv. Sukhdev Sandhu)
Truths of Midnight: Reading for Apocalypse in Victorian Literature
Xinyi Zhang (Adv. Maia Ramnath)
The Jin Yong World: Martial Arts in the Hong Kong Space
Scott Bankert (Adv. Sukhdev Sandu)
Impossible Cities: Personal Accounts of Wonder in the Global Everyday
Megan E. Barickman (Adv. Ilya Kliger)
Being a Son in The Brothers Karamazov: The Lived Ideologies of Ivan and Alyosha Karamazov
Rita Biggers (Adv.Jennifer Trahan)
Above the Law? An Examination of U.S. Management of Guantanamo Bay from 2001-2009
Elizabeth Blackford (Adv. Karen Shimakawa)
Abject/Self: The Use of the Abject in Catherine Opie’s Self-Portraits
Esther Hio-Tong Castillo (Adv. Harvey Molotch)
The Remaking of a City: State, Staged Spaces and Everyday Life in Macau
Ying Zhu Chin (Adv. Jini Kim Watson)
The Non-Malay Malaysian Dilemma: A Brief Politico-Literary Analysis
Emily Clark (Adv. Martin Scherzinger)
Queer Echoes: Aesthetic Liberation on the Radio
Meredith M. Davidson (Adv. Cristina Vatelescu)
Complicating Collective Memory: A Close Reading of the Individual in Columbia's September 11, 2001 Narrative and Memory Oral History Collection
Bryan Degnan (Adv. Peter Button)
Untangling a Little Red Bundle of Contradictions: Finding Continuity in the Young Pioneers of China from Mao to Hu
Elizabeth Corinne DuPree (Adv. George Levine)
Natural Truths: The Use of Ruskin's Pathetic Fallacy in the Victorian Bildungsroman
Jason Green (Adv. Frederich Ulfers)
Nietzsche and the Novel: Readings of Musil, Proust, and Kundera
Grant Hamming (Adv. Nina Hien)
Visualizing the Urban Transition: Currier & Ives and the Rise of the American Middle Class
Joseph Hargitai (Adv. Daniel Thurs)
Measuring Comprehensive National Power
Andrea Hines (Adv. Peter Nicholls)
Public Depression, Personal Economies in Tender is the Night and To Have and Have Not
Catherine Mary Kollen (Adv. Shireen Patell)
Of Maus or Man?: An Intergenerational Study of Trauma Theory through Art Spiegelman's Graphic Novels
Kate Lim (Adv. Robert Dimit)
What Virginia Woolf Meant by Life
Casey Lynn (Adv. Robin Nagle)
The Higher the Hair, the Closer to Controversy: HonFest, Community Memory, and Urban Identity in Baltimore
Rachel Menyuk (Adv. Jill Lane)
Mujeres en La Plaza: Women Performing Memory and Protest in the Plaza de Bolívar, Bogotá
Liza Moffet (Adv. Peter Lucas)
From Poetry to Peace: Educating Youth about Human Rights Violations through the Words of the Traumatized Witness
Courtney Morales (Adv. Peter Lucas)
Why Darfur? Understanding the Successes and Failures of the Save Darfur and STAND Coalitions
Ryan Moser (Adv. Frederich Ulfers)
Language, Style, Deception: Understanding and Creating the Philosophical Self from Nietzsche to Nehamas
Travis Michael Mushett (Adv. Tom de Zengotita)
The Virtual Wake: Television News Coverage on 9/11 as Emotional Gathering Space
Maya Rodale (Adv. Gabrielle Starr)
The Reputation of Romance: The Origin of the Stigma against Romance Novels
Rhyannon Rodriguez (Adv. Allen S. Weiss)
The Film That Wasn't There: The Aesthetics of Silence and the Use of Blank Tapes in the Cinematic Avant-Garde(s)
Samantha Sher (Adv. Nina Hien)
The Creation of Usable Antiquity: A Study in the Utility and Implications of Early Photographs of Ancient Sites in Greece
Alana Brooks Smith (Adv. Mehmet Tabak)
Res Nullius: Productive Power and Human Life: Reading the Missing Slave into Theories of Sovereignty
Rachel Smith (Adv. Bambi Schieffelin)
Urban Dictionary: Youth Slanguage and the Redefining of Definition
Juan M. Torbidoni (Adv. John T. Hamilton)
Contrasting Humanisms: A Comparative Study of the Origin of Language in J.G. Herder and J.G. Hamann
Alexandra Marie van Riel (Adv. Nina Hien)
Becoming Heritage
Christine Marie Woody (Adv. Lawrence Lockridge)
Review/Selection/Autopsy: Editorial Re-fashioning of Thomas De Quincey 1822-2006
January 2010
Alexandra Blaszczuk (Adv. Tony Judt)
Reading through Show Trial Lenses: Historical Examples, Universal Definitions
Lauren Brannon (Adv. Rayna Rapp)
The National Women and AIDS Collective: Risk, Identity, and Citizenship
Yvonne Garrett (Adv. Cyrus Patell)
This Ain't Rock'n'Roll, This is Genocide: Structures of Hybridity, Cosmopolitanism and the Silencing of the Native Subject in Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues
Holly Halmo (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Jody's Got Your Girl: The Construction and Performance of Martial Masculinity in the United States Military
Meret Hofer (Adv. Ronald Esposito)
Mission: Possible? Developing a Truly Universal Standard of Human Rights
Blake Hoonhout (Adv. Josephine Hendin)
Craft, Style, and Metaphysics in Hemingway and Early Modernism
Darren Kelley (Adv. David Barnett)
On Propositions, Beliefs, and Belief Reports
Mark Lawley (Adv. Elizabeth McHenry)
Transformation and Threshold in Ben Okri's The Famished Road
Danielle Sheeler (Adv. Jan Clausen)
Marriage Between Writers: Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Lucia Staiano-Daniels (Adv. Stefanos Geroulanos)
Morningland: The Promise and Terror of India in the National Socialist Imagination
Samantha Steinberg (Adv. Joel Rosenthal)
The American Condition of Contradiction: Promises of Pluralism and Patterns of Oppression
Emily Vides (Adv. Shireen Patell)
Violence, Power, and the Word: The Use of Metaphor in Torture, American Style
Alissa Wilkinson (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Art, Faith, and Fear: Evangelicals and Modernist Art-Making
September 2009
Danis Banks (Adv. Jacques Lezra)
Transferential Relations in the Psychoanalytic Novel: Robertson Davies, Doris Lessing, and Alberto Moravia
Alex Carp (Adv. Paul Kelleher)
“We Are at All Moments in History and in Matter…” An Essay on Feminism, Poststructuralism, and Other Necessary Fictions
Nathan Fulton (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Botany Bay and Guatanamo Bay: Exercises in Space, Law and Political Identity
Alexandra Ingalls (Adv. Jon Ritter)
Messages, Motives, and Mediums: Exploring Graffiti Writing and Street Art
Elisabeth Kinsley (Adv. Robert Dimit)
Bordering Upon Reason and Sense: Guilt’s Effects on the Early Modern Self
Justin Leroy (Adv. Tavia Nyong'o)
Governmentalities of Freedom: Liberalism, Finance Capital, and (Anti)Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1750-1850
Jamie Loeks (Adv. Maia Ramnath)
The Development of a Post Secular Theory: Finding a Balance Between Government and Religion in an Increasingly Global Society
Jordan McIntyre (Adv. Gabriele Basterra)
Faustus and Helen: The Terms of Experience
Amy Meverden (Adv. Shireen Patell)
The Pileges of Judges 19 as a Bare Life Figure: The Concubine as Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer
Lauren Murphy (Adv. Juliet Fleming)
To Witch the World with Noble Horsemanship: Discipline and Domestication in Shakespeare's Works
Scott Murray (Adv. Lytle Shaw)
An Air of Possibility: Getting Situated to the Atmospheric Prose Poetry of John Ashbery
Meghan Nadosy (Adv. Jonathan Zimmerman)
Advice to the Working Woman: Millicent Carey McIntosh and the Mid-Century Moment
Diana Oberlander (Adv. Shireen Patell)
Cleansing: A Fashion Story: Addictive Narrative Substance, Rehabilitative Resistance, and Semiotic Repetition (Lye in the projective eye)
Timothy Palmer (Fredrich Ulfers)
Chronis, kairos, and the 'Geological' Ontology of Time in Nietzche and Deleuze
Cristina Ridgley-Mones (Adv. Peter Lucas)
Innocent Ones: The Effects of Armed Conflict and War on Children and their access to Education and Culture
David Romine (Adv. Marilyn Young)
The Betancourt Way: Consent and Coercion in Venezuela’s Cold War
Susan Rosenfeld (Adv. Michael Gomez)
Guerilla Tricksters as Folkloric Strategies of Resistance: Slavery’s Effect on the Transforming Definition of Morality from West Africa to the Caribbean
Eduardo Saldana-Piovanetti (Adv. Philip Mitsis)
The Methods of Justice: A reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia
Robin Shutinya (Adv. Robert Dimit)
Biographical Illusion and Pseudo-Parody in Vladimir Nabokov's _The Real Life of Sebastion Knight_
Mary Snauffer (Adv. Joellen Fisherkeller)
The Presentation of Self Online: A Study of People’s Relationships to Online Social Network Publics
Dejana Tintor (Adv. Fredrich Ulfers)
Nietzsche’s Idea of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same as a Post-Classical Ontological Thesis
Laura Wolfe (Adv. Nicole Rizzuto)
Autant de bruit qu’un nuage: Testimony, Translation and Transmission in the Work of Marie-Celie Agnant
May 2009
Angelina Arlia (Adv. Ernest Gilman)
Shakespeare's Venetian Plays: A Continuum of Location
Veronica Aveis (Adv. Elisabeth Bronfen)
"You're Just a Girl": The Application of Gendered Identity on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
+April Bacon (Adv. Natalie Jeremijenko)
The Bricoleur and Consensual Domain: New Foundations for Interspecies Communication
Ariella Bar-on (Adv. Crystal Parikh)
"Way Down in the Hole": Redefining Law and Order in HBO's The Wire
Nadia Berenstein (Adv. Daniel Thurs)
The Bird is Gone: On the Trail of the Passenger Pigeon
+Devin Blake (Adv. Steven Lukes)
Understanding Moral Diversity
*Andrei Boutyline (Adv. Harvey Molotch)
How San Diego Got Its Heritage: A Collective Production in a City and Its Suburbs
Allison Bridges (Adv. Mrinalini Rajagopalan)
Shelter from the Storm: The Role of Housing Microfinance in Indonesia's Troubled Housing Market
Erin Deo (Adv. Laurel George)
Video Art and Its Impact on the Institution: Challenges to Ideas of Reproduction, Ephemerality, and Technology
+Mariel Dumas (Adv. Ragan Rhyne)
Breaking Venus: Understanding the Militant Suffrage Movement through the Public Museum and Cultural Governance
Molly Frame (Adv. Laurel George)
Biennial Culture: An Art World Gone Global
James Gawley (Adv. John Costello)
A Linguistic Approach to the Origins of Christianity: Statistical Textual Analysis of the Didache
+Ann Marie Genzale (Adv. Josephine Hendin)
An Inconstant Goddess: Thomas Pynchon and the Search for the Absent Mother
+Claire Heckel (Adv. Randall White)
Widening the Lens: Physical Science Research and Microscopy in the Archaeological Study of Mammoth Ivory
John Hellman (Adv. Mrinalini Rajagopalan)
Beyond Gay Community: Queer Politics, Race, and Heteronormativity in New York City's Gay Neighborhoods
Karolina Jekal (Adv. Robert Dimit)
"Women on the Market": Objectification of a Female Body in the Light of James Joyce's Dubliners, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Exiles, and Ulysses
Elena Landriscina (Adv. Bonnie Brennan)
Constructing the Rights of Foreign Nationals: The Political and Legal Mobilization Against Detention, Disappearance, and Torture
Folasona Olorunsola (Adv. J. Martin Daughtry)
Sounds of Thunder in Diaspora: The Trans-Atlantic Journey of the Bata Drumming Tradition
Donna Pancari (Adv. Robert Dimit)
Stage Implications of the Early Modern Conception of Self
Elona Pira (Adv. Mrinalini Rajagopalan)
Privatization of Space and Self: The Formation of Neoliberal Subjectivities in Tirana
David Pomerico (Adv. Sukhev Sandhu)
The Review is Under Review: An Examination of the Decline of book reviews in Newspapers and the Repercussions from an Industry-Insider's Perspective
+Lauren Randall (Adv. Robert Weissberg)
Culture and Political Consumption: How Morality Affects What We Consider Consumption
Angela Ranelli (Adv. Jennifer Berg)
Modern Food Anxiety in the United States: The Increasing Nature/Culture Divide and the Disruption of Cuisine as Regulatory Language
Margaret Seidel (Adv. Laurel George)
Balancing Interests and the Fate of an Artist's Career
Daniela MacGregor Sevilla (Adv. Peter Lucas)
Los Rios Profundos: Transcultural Identity and the Struggle for Human Rights
Alice Shin (Adv. Jennifer Berg)
The Neurotic Foodie: When Food Culture and Our Relationship to Food Signals Neurosis
Hillary Sites (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Recreating Representation: Aesthetic Culture and Performed Subjectivity in Inside Bedford Stuyvesant and Do the Right Thing
Claire Sommers (Adv. John Hamilton)
Sophia and Socrates: The Literary Quality of Plato's Phaedrus and Symposium
Hillary Sparks (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Producing Patriots: Citizenship of Belonging and the American Classroom in the Postwar Period (1945 - 1960)
Curtis Williams (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Voices of Protest: Analyzing Controversial Speech within the Black Public Sphere
Jamia Wilson (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Soul Intact: Black Feminist Consciousness and Dissidentification
Todd Woodlan (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
v2.0
Michael Wrobel (Adv. Allison Butler)
Performance Pay as Public Relations: Tracing Inaccuracies at the Source of Knowledge Production
+Pauline Yeghnazar (Adv. Heather Lukes)
"Better Luck Tomorrow": Racial Melancholia, Split Subjectivity, the Task of Male Heterosexuality, and the Possibilities for New Conceptions of the Racialized, Gendered Subject in Contemporary American Culture
Aaron Zwintscher (Adv. Nicole Rizzuto)
Beyond Closure; or, Blogs: Writing, Authorship, and Participation
+Nominee for the Hirshhorn Award, 2008 - 2009
*Recipient of the Hirshhorn Award, 2008 - 2009
January 2009
Katherine Blankenship (Adv. Laurel George)
Seeing the Glass as Half Full: How Grassroots Arts Spaces Approach New Conventions in the Nonprofit Cultural Sector
Kate Crouse (Adv. Robert Dimit)
Face-to-Face with the Other: Heidegger and Levinas' Phenomenological Ethics and the Call to Responsibility in Dave Eggers' What is the What and Ishmael Beah's A Long Time Gone
Russell Fehr (Adv. Neil Brenner)
The 1919 Elections in New York County: A New Interpretation
Christina Garcia (Adv. Nicole Rizzuto)
A Caribbean Aesthetics of Hyperbole: Excess and Ecstasis within an Ethics of Non-Identitarian Community
Leslie Heatwole (Adv. Robert Dimit)
"Can Stand Up, Will Stand Up," or How Buffy Created the Postfeminist World
Adrinda Kelly (Adv. Pedro Machado)
The Cape Town Slave Rebellion of 1808 and the Limits of Historicity
Charlene Kim (Adv. Friedrich Ulfers)
Exposure as Nonexperience
Marci Kwon (Adv. Jeanne Nugent)
Commodifying Identity: Subculture, Bricolage, and Globalization in the Work of Takashi Murakami
Daniel Lanza (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Between Friends: Queer/Straight Male Friendship in Post-Stonewall Literature and the Emergence of a New Queer Literary Tradition
Nathalie LeDu (Adv. Mark Crispin Miller)
Market Censorship in the U.S. Book Trade: How the "Reader" Became the "Consumer"
*Luke Martin (Adv. Nicole Rizzuto)
(A)versions of the Traitor: Figures of Narrative and the Politics of Betrayal in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent and Philip Roth's Operation Shylock
Patrick Reilly (Adv. Susan Murray)
The Knockout That Never Happened: Erasure in Burns/Johnson Fight and the Dynamics of Race in Early Boxing Films
+Eliane Sum (Adv. Friedrich Ulfers)
A-Polity: Pathos and A-Pathy in Democracy and Representation
Rafael Tiffany (Adv. Jeanne Nugent)
"Seeing Yourself Seeing:" Olafur Eliasson's Immanent Critique of Institutions
Brooke Todsen (Adv. Ragan Rhyne)
Congratulations! You Are the Highest Bidder: Online Auctions and the Illicit Trade of Iraqi Cultural Property
Sihan Wang (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Politicized Temporality: Heidegger's Concept of Time and the Political
Gabriel Zinn (Adv. Daniel Thurs)
Trouble on Triton, Heterotopia, and the Politics of Survival
+Nominee for the Hirshhorn Award, 2008 - 2009
*Recipient of the Hirshhorn Award, 2008 - 2009
September 2008
Mark Berger (Adv. Andrew Jewett)
Gender, Norms, and Justice
Benjamin Blickle (Adv. Patrick Deer)
Not Seeing Things Eye to Eye in A Passage to India: Conflicting Focalization in E.M. Forster's Novel and David Lean's Film Adaptation
Robin Brown (Adv. Saul Fisher)
Chromoindicators: Color's Role in Portraying Environmental Health
Dasha Chapman (Adv. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Amblett)
Kriye Bode! Participation and Embodiment through Hatian Folkloric Dance in New York City
Sakina Fahkri (Adv. Noha Radwan)
Women Writers in Algeria Reclaim the Public Space: Oral Storytelling and Algerian Nationalism
+Shayne Leslie Figueroa (Adv. Hasia Diner)
"Sunday is Family Day at Howard Johnson's:" Casual Dining Franchises' Appeal to "Happy Housewives" in Post-War America
Benjamin Foley (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Overestimating the Image: Visual Media, Human Rights, and a Desensitized Public
Mélanie Griot (Adv. Denis Hollier)
The Writer and the Demon in André Gide's Les faux-monnayeurs
Jennifer Lynn Jordan (Adv. Michael Stoller)
'In tribus Indus dominatur magnificentia nostra:' Prester John and the Crusader Imagination
David Martin (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Alternative Globalizations: The Zapatista Movement Toward Autonomy Under Neoliberal Globalization
Caitlin Kerker Mennen (Adv. Marita Sturken)
The Irish Hunger Memorial and Embodied Memory
Josh Rollins (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Epistemic Value and Equal Political Autonomy: A Defense of the Intrinsic and Instrumental Justifications for Deliberative Democracy
Benjamin Resnick-Day (Adv. Nicole Eustace)
The Case of the Captive John Dunn Hunter: Race, Civilization, and the Transatlantic Contest for Sovereignty in the American West
Cara Shepley (Adv. Shireen Patell)
Japanese Internment in American Children's Literature
Christakis Shiamili (Adv. Juan Corradi)
Is Market Socialism a Feasible and Desirable Alternative to the "Free-Market" Capitalist System?
Brittany Shields (Adv. Saul Fisher)
A Sociological and Historical Study of the Early Development of New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Ryan Stodtmeister (Adv. Thomas Augst)
Dream House: Inhabiting Identity in The Rise of Silas Lapham and The Great Gatsby
Ruth Lauren Zisman (Adv. Shireen Patell)
Armies of Metaphors and the War on Truth-or-ism: Nietzsche, Truth, and Violence
+Nominee for the Hirshhorn Award, 2008 - 2009
*Recipient of the Hirshhorn Award, 2008 - 2009
May 2008
Giuseppe Ancona (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Meeting Face-to-Face: The Post of Queer in Posthumanism
Tara Bahl (Adv. Leslie Siskin)
Exceptionalizing the Urban: Theorizing Security and Surveillance Practices in American Urban High Schools
Hilary Berwick (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
I Listen to Records: Historical Objects Within an Analysis of New Media
Sunny Bjerk (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Narrative and Nation: The Authorship of Modernity and Shame in The Matter of Toboso-Alfonso and Before Night Falls
Katherine Carlson (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Individualism and Influence: André Breton's Use of Freud, Hegel, and Marx and the Foundations of Surrealism
Laura Cave (Adv. Nicole Rizzuto)
Literature as History: A Bourdieusian Reading of The Yellow Book, 1894 - 1897
Paul Cognata+ (Adv. Rita Aiello)
Emotion and Meaning in Music: Reflections for the Performer
Michael Falletti* (Adv. Mrinalini Rajagopalan)
Tribal Commodities: Bedouin Sedentarization, Tourism, and the New Global Realities of the Jordanian Nation-State
Jesse Francis (Adv. Cyrus Patell)
An Ishmael Made (W)hole
Karl Giverholt (Adv. Nicole Rizzuto)
Resisting the Future in the Past: Historicity in Three Novels by J.M. Coetzee
Hannah Hoffman (Adv. Krishnendu Ray)
Locks, Stocks, and Bagles: Food Identities Among the Mosdos Skolya Hasidic Community in Brooklyn, New York
Elaine Jackson (Adv. Laurel George)
Reflections on a Pool: Achievement and Failure of Equity, Excellence, Utility at McCarren Park Pool
Jennifer Kelly+ (Adv. Ella Shohat)
Evangelical Imperialism in the "War on Terror:" The Representational Practice and Political Economy of U.S. Christian Zionism
Patrick Lawrence+ (Adv. Nicole Rizzuto)
Metafiction's Distorting Mirrors: Experiment as Screen for Conventional Narrative and Complicit Politics in Willie Master's Lonesome Wife and Lost in the Funhouse
Dana Leventhal (Adv. Lok Siu)
Transnational Connectivities and Family-Making in Adoption from China
Deborah Lintang+ (Adv. Jan Clausen)
Magic Realist Devices in Contemporary Chinese Literature
Jeremy Lybarger+ (Adv. John Chioles)
Black and White: The Violent Humor of William T. Vollmann's The Rainbow Stories
Jessica Lyons+ (Adv. Sal Restivo)
Anarchism, Science, and the Good Society
Maria José Navia (Adv. Mrinalini Rajagopalan)
Literary Geographies of Trauma and Testimony in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Ken Norris (Adv. Aaron Rosenfeld)
David Markson's Mistress: Amidst the Catastrophe
Pei Palmgren (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Claims to Globalization: Grassroots Global Politics and Thailand's Assembly of the Poor
Chandani Patel (Adv. Patrick Deer)
Generating Black Britain through the Burden of Representation: Political Aesthetics and Affiliative Networks
Erin Pauwels (Adv. Ernest Gilman)
The Art of Joseph Keppler and Visual Burlesque
Kristen Petersen+ (Adv. Heather Lukes)
In the Name of the Future: Reproduction, Biopolitics, and Subjectivity in Dystopic Fictions
Christina Phelps (Adv. Nicole Rizzuto)
Making (Non)Sense: The logic of Superimposed Causality in the Early Cold War American Novel
Eleanor Rae (Adv. Mrinalini Rajagopalan)
Multicultural Landscapes: Investigating Culture, Symbol, and Space in the City
Jessica Rivers (Adv. Kay Turner)
Peering into Urbana: Decoding New York City's Poetry Slam Space
Aja Roache (Adv. Laurel George)
Since "Forever Free" 1981 - 2008: The Academy and the Politics of Being an African-American Woman Visual Artist
Yehudit Robinson+ (Adv. Shireen Patell)
Plus de Meta-Food: Economies of Consumption and the Disappearance of the Subject in Eating Disorder Literature
Lisa Shannon (Adv. Laurel George)
Where the Art Ends: Karen Finley and the Memoir Mystique
Kevin Sheldon (Adv. Laurel George)
"Made in New York:" Governmental Support and Independent Film
Heather Shpiro (Adv. Jody Spiro)
Health Education in South Africa: Socio-Cultural Challenges to Policy Creation and Implementation
Elizabeth Streb+ (Adv. André Lepecki)
Real Move Manifesto: "What is a 'Real Move?'"
Ekaterina Svetova (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Communicating Images: Some Semiotic Aspects of Angelic Iconography in the Traditional Orthodox Icon
Erin Thornton (Adv. Laurel George)
Follow the Money: The Hybridity of Function and Funding for American Presidential Libraries
Lara Torsky (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Beyond Representation: Convergence Culture, Identity, and The L Word
Daniel Van Winkle (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Military Masculinity: A Critical Analysis of Arguments Against the Full Integration of Women and Homosexuals in the U.S. Military
Stewart Walker (Adv. Mrinalini Rajagopalan)
Crisis of Democratic Citizenship: Seeking Alternatives to Dominant Neoliberalism
+Nominee for the Hirshhorn Award, 2007 - 2008
*Recipient of the Hirshhorn Award, 2007 - 2008
January 2008
Leah Ammon (Adv. Laurel George)
Dreaming, Enacting, Envisioning Politics: French Surrealism Between the Wars
Sarah Cooke (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
The Decmocratizing and Mobilizing Effects of the New Media and Globalization Upon Societies Lacking a Free Press
Richard Evans (Adv. Christopher Packard)
Diamond Boys: The Representation of Gay Baseball Players in Contemporary Fiction and Drama
Naomi Hart (Adv. Mrinalini Rajagopalan)
"My Shy is My Home?": Hegemony of the National Over Competing Spheres of the Global-National-Local Axis in New Order Indonesia
Ándrea Laurencell (Adv. Josephine Hendin)
Seductive Subjectivity and Telling Truth: Fiction and Fact in the Contemporary American Nonfiction Novel
The Uncanny Real: Representations of Modernity's Collapse in Venezuela
Patricia (Kate) Simpkins (Adv. Jeffrey Spear)
Artistic Fellows and Seraphic Boys: Sympathy, Affection, and Locating the Jew in Daniel Deronda
Elizabeth Vanderputten (Adv. Harold Wechsler)
The Creation of Selective Admissions Policies at New York University: What historical institutional precedents can tell us about discriminatory practices inherent in today's college admissions policies
+Nominee for the Hirshhorn Award, 2007 - 2008
*Recipient of the Hirshhorn Award, 2008 - 2009
September 2007
Humberto Ballesteros Capasso (Adv. Jane Tylus)
Dante's Poetic of the Other: Notes for a Reading of the Dialectic of Meaning in the Commedia
Birna Anna Bjornsdottir+ (Adv. Michael Norman)
"A scene in a battlefield is more important than a scene in a shop:" Femininity and Feminism in the Writings or Virginia Woolf and Joan Didion
Brooke Borel (Adv. Andrew Jewett)
The Effects of Individuals, Institutions, and the Media on Governmental and Institutional Gender Diversity Initiatives in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Academic Faculties
Kate Bovitch (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Butch Poetics: Authenticity, Visibility, and Explicit Desire
Joshua Cangelosi (Adv. Matthew Evans)
Innate Conscience in Conscious and Self-Conscious Experience: Oikeiosis in Sensation, Emotion, Motivation, and the Defense of Moral Realism
Jeremy Dillahunt (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Reality is a PR Problem: Collective Memory, Technology, and Culture
Jesse Gant (Adv. Jennifer Morgan)
Freemen to the Rescue! Wisconsin Commemorates the Underground Railroad
Patricia Cuoto Glover (Adv. Kathleen Ross)
Ana Cristina Cesar: The Reality of Apartness
Katie Grogan (Adv. Martha Rust)
Narratives of Resistance: Representing the Multiply Marginalized Self in Postmodern Breast Cancer Autopathography
Kimberly Harris (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Austria's Public Memory Culture and "A Letter to the Stars:" Redefining Historical Memory of the Holocaust in Austria
Emily Levine (Adv. Peter Lucas)
New York City Remembers the Holocaust: Physical Reminders of Our Past and Our Future
Pat McIntyre (Adv. Robert Dimit)
René Descartes' Passive Mechanics of Vision
Shabnam Piryaei (Adv. Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami)
'All the Intimate Moments:' An Analysis of Literary Strategies Employed in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad
Philip Rosenbloom (Adv. Marilyn B. Young)
Iraq as Vietnam: Collective Memory and the Contested Lessons of History
Erin Sickler (Adv. Laurel George)
Documenta and Difference: The Politics of Exhibition
Maria Skouras (Adv. Karen Finley)
China's Goddess of Democracy: Beijing's Experimental Art Scene in an Age of McDonaldsization
Benjamin Thomas (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Necessite Fait Loi: The State of Emergency in Sangatte and Rawanda
+Nominee for the Hirshhorn Award, 2007 - 2008
May 2007
Matthew Carillo-Vincent (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Fighting for My Lost Cause: The Quest for the Real in Twentieth-Century American Masculinity
Susan Civale (Adv. Bryan Waterman)
The Contemporary Reception of The Love Letters of Margaret Fuller
Laura Cogan* (Adv. Aaron Rosenfeld)
Postwar Digressions: The Narrative Journeys of Samuel Beckett's Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable and W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz
Suzanne Dia (Adv. Krista Maglen)
Exploring Why the Medical Community Responded Differently to the Introduction of Anesthesia in Surgery and Childbirth
Samuel Doak (Adv. Pedro Machado)
Masculinity, Race, and Empire in Spanish (Re)Conquest
Katherine Garretson (Adv. Friedrich Ulfers)
Being Literature: Kafka and Metaphor in "The Judgment" and "The Metamorphosis"
Alana Glaser (Adv. Sofia Shwayri)
Integrating Urban and Feminist Approaches to Female Sexuality in Juarez and New York City
Dina Hoffer+ (Adv. Judith Samuels)
Presidential Administration, Party Platform, and Public Opinion: A Study of Progress and Retreat in Mental Health Policy
Maria Elena Howard (Adv. Perry Meisel)
Articulating the Inexact: Tone in the Stories of Katherine Mansfield
Tiffany Hu (Adv. Laurel George)
The Artist as Agent: Diaspora and Identity Politics in Global Contemporary Art
Lijie Huang (Adv. Laurel George)
Seeking the Hidden: Reclaiming and Spiritual Significance of Religious Icons in the Rubin Museum of Art
Dijana Jelaca (Adv. Heather Lukes)
The Cinematic Construction of Authentic Balkan-ness: Women's Bodies and Metaphors of Territory
Yael Korat (Adv. Laurel George)
The Co-Construction and Contestation of Pearl Jam's Anti-Corporate Authenticity in the Age of Conglomerates
Anthony Leonard (Adv. Aaron Rosenfeld)
Doubting Modernity
Arija Linauts (Adv. Laurel George)
Reconstructing Culture: The Relationship between Identity, Politics, and Policy
Galina Mardilovich (Adv. Laurel George)
Mir Iskusstva and the Art World in Russia's Silver Age
Tatiana Margitic (Adv. Crystal Parikh)
"Unhinging Fixity:" Disidentification in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing
Elek Miller (Adv. Laurel George)
Writing on the Wall: The Effects of Government Policy and Private Patronage on New York City Graffiti from 1960 - 1980
Elizabeth Oldfather (Adv. Gabrielle Starr)
Aesthetic Fear: Negative Affect and Awe in Visual Art
Lindsey Plewa (Adv. John Maynard)
William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Demystifying the Artistic Genius
Fatima Policarpo+ (Adv. Mark Sanders)
Mia Couto's Fiction: "A strategy of not being any one thing"
Julie Prince (Adv. Pedro Machado)
Pineapple Paradise: Cultural Production and Consumption of Hawai'i
Dikla Regev (Adv. Patricio Navia)
Economic and Socio-Political Development in Latin America: Neoliberalism, Democratization, and Public Sphere in Venezuela and Mexico
Lawrence Reilly (Adv. Giancarlo Lombardi)
Kissing a Mirror: Desire and Identity in Two Novels of Patricia Highsmith and Their Cinematic Adaptations
Margaret Riggs (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Africa, Atrocity, and Hollywood Cinema: Human Rights, Representation, and Education
Karen Rosenthall (Adv. Josephine Hendin)
Casting Out: Baiting the Politics of History in The Old Man and the Sea
Krista Saunders+ (Adv. Pedro Machado)
Museums, Space, and Time: How the Queens Museum of Art Exhibits Self Through the Temporal
Gina Schmeling+ (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita; Robin Nagle)
Storage as Practice in Art and Garbage
Thomas Stuart (Adv. Pedro Machado)
A Critical Reading of the Subfield of Global History
Erica Warren+ (Adv. Laurel George)
Gabrielle Münter and Dora Maar: A Reconsideration of the Construction of the Muse
+Nominee for the Hirshhorn Award, 2006 - 2007
*Recipient of the Hirshhorn Award, 2006 - 2007
January 2007
Elizabeth Bishop (Adv. Paul Kelleher)
Deconstructing the Ambivalent Madwoman of The Bell Jar and "The Yellow Wallpaper:" An Exploration of the Oscillating Proliferation of Heterogeneity in the Intersecting Marginalizations of the "Mad" and the "Feminine" Figures
Jin Chang+ (Adv. Anne Lounsbery)
Marrying Away from the Father in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park
Laura Gunlogson+ (Adv. Micki McGee)
Reaching Out: A Study of How New Mothers in America Use the Internet to Access Support and Resources
Kathleen Halleron (Adv. Lytle Shaw)
Elizabeth Bishop: The Interpretive Consequences of Potential Associations between Her Poetry and Jamesian Pragmatism
Shelley Lightburn (Adv. Sofia Shwayri)
Evidencing Harlem: Gentrification, Community, and the Archive
Nick Likos (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Surfing Mediated: From the Ocean to the Internet
Stacy Redd (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Everything Old is New Again: The Postmodern Recycling of Classic Fiction
Benjamin Unguren (Adv. George Stoney)
On Going Back to Participants in Ethnography and Documentary Film
+Nominee for the Hirshhorn Award, 2006 - 2007
September 2006
Alexandra Chang (Adv. Margo Machida)
Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual Art Collectives from Godzilla, Godzookie to the Barnstormers
Molly Cohen (Adv. Shireen Patell)
Irresponsibility and the Ethical Encounter: Levinasian Interpretations of Alterity in Shakespearean Tragedy
Michael Colley (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Reading Rashomon and History: Knowledge, Ethics, and the Power of Narrative
Gregory Croft (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Selective Remembering and Deliberate Forgetting: The Construction of "Collective Memory" and the Perpetuation of Violence and Repression in the Modern Middle East
Ryan Farnkopf (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Gender, Metaphor, and Political Identity After September 11th
Stephen Koss (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Medieval Subjectivity and the Enjoyment of Women
Benjamin McClure (Adv. Theodore Hamm)
A "Terrain of Conflict:" Contending Visions for Limited Space in the East Williamsburg Industrial Valley
Jamie Oldham (Adv. Anne Lounsbery)
From Space to Place: Alice's Transformative Adventures in Wonderland and Looking-Glass World
Pablo Olivares (Adv. Peter Lucas)
Cantando La Diferencia/Singing the Difference: A Reexamination of the Relationship Between the Culture Industry and La Nueva Canción Chilena
Nina Rothberg (Adv. Pat Hoy)
What News of the Planet?: Annie Dillard and Gretel Erlich Report on "The World in Spectacle Perishing Ever, and Ever Renewed"
Kristina Schull (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Positive Peace: The Clinton Administration's Involvement in the Northern Ireland Peace Process as a Case Study in Positive Peace Diplomacy
Sonia Werner (Adv. Anne Lounsbery)
Writing Against History: The Politics of the Poetic Real
Tim Knievel (Adv. Peter Lucas)
Reassessing the "Forward Strategy of Freedom:" Prerequisites, Contingency Choice, and the Bush Pro-Democracy Program in the Middle East
May 2006
Denise Abatemarco (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Hollywood's New Anti-Love: Contemporary Portrayals of Romance in Hollywood Drama
Lindsay Anderberg (Adv. Rayna Rapp)
"A Machine, A Restoration, a Philosophy:" An Analysis of CEREC in Contemporary Dentistry
Nicole Brewer (Adv. Paul Mattingly)
Changing Patterns of Belief: Analyzing the Assumptions about Racism since Reconstruction
Daniel Butcher (Adv. Friedrich Ulfers)
Societal Disengagement, Irreducible Undecidablity, and the Eternal Deferral of Judgment: Kafka's 'Das Urteil'
Jonah Cardillo (Adv. Robert Dimit)
Visions of Identity: The Shifting Signification of 'I' in Kerouac's Early Journals, Letters, and Fiction
Michelle Duran (Adv. Peter Wosh)
Out of the University and Into the 'Streets': Shifting Strategies in Evangelical Youth Outreach and the Emergence of a Parallel Youth Culture
Madeline Einhorn Glick (Adv. Friedrich Ulfers)
Kafka's Writing and the Need for Abgeschiednheit
Kristen Gerdes (Adv. Robert Dimit)
Blurring Binanaries: Tracing the Body in the Philosophy of Anne Conway
Laura Govia (Adv. Aaron Rosenfeld)
The Doubting Spirit: Intersubjectivity in Three Novels by Virginia Woolf
Lauren Hildebrand (Adv. Pedro Machado)
"This Area is for Tourists Only:" Collective Memory and the Representation of Slavery at Elmina Castle
Robert Forloney (Adv. Sofia Shwayri)
Covento Kivas and the Battle between Church and State in 17th Century New Mexico
James Hallquist (Adv. Friedrich Ulfers)
The Determinability of Language through the Use of Jokes: A Structuralization of Deconstructionist Theory
Daniel Hotary (Adv. Ronald Zweig)
From Text to Amalgamation: Historical Continuity of Jewish Proto-Nationalism to Modern Zionism
Amber Kelsey (Adv. Joy Gould Boyum)
Sacred "Monuments": The Candomble Ritual Performance as Social Medicine in Brazil's African Heart
Amia Lazarus (Adv. Adv. Peter Lucas)
Unimaginable Imaging After Atrocity: Reality Reframed, Images, and Impact--The Representation of Genocide in Film
William Levay (Adv. Kyra Gaunt)
Version Galore: The Remix as Sound, Art, and Metaphor
Daniel Nieciecki (Adv. J.J. Lee)
The Great Famine and the Transition from Federalism to Capitalism: Marxist Dialectics as a New Direction in Irish Historiography
Carrie Pagonas (Adv. Friedrich Ulfers)
Overfullness and Emptiness: The Irony of Nietzsche and Buddhism
Jonathan Pettinato (Adv. J.J. Lee)
War and Worship in Victorian Britain: A History of British Nationalism and the Monarchy
Joanna Raczkiewicz (Adv. Laurel George)
Modern Socialist Realism: An Account of Politics and Aesthetics in Late 1940s Poland
Shira Joy Rappaport (Adv. George Stoney)
The "Truth" about Oil Contextualized: A Critical Examination of the Values in and of Documentary Films
Angela Reed (Adv. Peter Wosh)
Creating the Real from the Ideal in the American Suburb: LlewellynPark, A.J. Davis, and the Trancendentalist Impulse
Daphne Ruoff (Adv. Paul Kelleher)
Fair or Foul: The Representation of Maternal Malevolence in Shakespearean Tragedies of Hamlet, Macbeth, and Richard III
Laura Shanley (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Multiculturalism in New York: Exploring the Adaption of Public Space in the Inner City
Alyssa Stalsberg (Adv. Paul Kelleher)
If Translation is a Metaphor, It is Not a Metaphor to Say So
Rachel Teicher (Adv. Paul Kelleher)
Difference and Disconnect: Challenging Essentialism Within the Intimate Partner Violence Movement
Raegan Truax-O'Gorman (Adv. Julian Carter)
Redefining Sexual Violence
Gabrielle Wiley (Adv. Laurel George)
Gender, Race, and Class in U.S. Advertising: A Failed Discourse with Society (1889 - Present)
Michael Wueste (Adv. Paul Kelleher)
Perverse Love: Sex and Power in Faulkner and Mishima
David Zinser (Adv. Sofia Shwayri)
Deconstructing Reconstruction: Rebellion-Era Los Angeles and the Replication of Urban Form
