Theses and Capstone Projects from 2021
Child-ish Books: Presenting Zines and Artist Books for Kids, Hannah Coleman
From Object to Icon: The Unpredictable Path to Everlastingness, Donna M. Desideri
Spirits in the Dark: Black Community Education and the Light it Bears, Sydoni A. Ellwood
Challenges of Repatriation: Asante Artifacts at the American Museum of Natural History, Abdul-Alim Farook
When Is a Sandwich Too Much? A Critical Look at Teenage Parenthood and Its Impact on the Lives of Their Parents, Shirley P. Grant
El Chapo's Trial as Legitimation of the War on Drugs: A Neoliberal Mechanism of Social Control and Imperial Intervention, Maurizio Guerrero
School Recess and Changes to Children's Play Opportunities in New York City, Keyonna Hayes
Some Notes On Birds: Language and Attention in the Age of Social Media, Aimee Lamoureux
Spaces of Statecraft: How the Bureaucratic State Was Built on Manhattan’s Sidewalk, Brian J. Lee
Remarkably Ordinary, an Oral History: Examining the Micro Effects of Family Reunification on the Lee Siblings and Their Spouses, Carol Joo Lee
Video on Film: Video Essay, Videographic Criticism, and Digital Academic Publishing, Tian Leng
A Reflection on the Dialectical Relationship of Librarian | Teacher: The Need for Pedagogical Training in Core MLIS Curriculum, Melanie C. Locay
Avocado Mania: The Rise and Costs of Our Obsession with Avocados, Rosa C. Lourentzatos
A Difference in Rhythm: John Burroughs as Rhythmanalyst, Jennifer MacDonald
Connecting Communities to Coastal Resilience: Enhancing Sustainability through Public Participation in Salt Marsh Management and Restoration in Suffolk County, NY, Jennifer L. McGivern
Serial Killer: Gustave Flaubert's Pro-Woman, Woman-Killing Madame Bovary, Francesca Montalti
The Local Accountability Journalism Tracker, Sandy Mui
Framing the Border: Liminality in the Network Narratives of Alejandro González Iñárritu, Muhammad Muzammal
Aloof: Black Divas of Refusal, Kwame K. Ocran
“A Space Where You Can Imagine In”: Queer World Building with Wynne Greenwood’s Tracy + the Plastics, Colleen M. O'Shea
Smashing Solidarity: Two New York Strikes at the Start of the Postwar Wave, Joseph D. Parziale
Lobster Palaces in Times Square: The Public Stage Where America Discovered Itself Through Play and Leisure, Lydia E. Ravnikar
Pandemic Schooling: Lessons in Equity, Advocacy, and Racial Justice, Donna Rivera
No Hair! Don't Care! Resistance and Empowerment of Bald and Low Shaved Black Women, Monica Rivers
Pedagogy and Love: Preservice Teacher Perspectives, Eleni Stellatos
Own Your Politics: The Entanglement of Resistance and the Luxury Fashion Industry, Brent A. Van Horne
The Ambiguity of Diversity: How Parents Understand and React to School Desegregation Efforts, Adam Wilson
Progress Narratives in Trans Internationalism: Surveying a Collected Archive of the Global Trans Movement, 2008–2018, Flora P. Wolpert Checknoff
Gay for English: Postcolonial In(queer)ies into Contemporary Hindi Cinema, Hardik R. Yadav
The Hamite Must Die! The Legacy of Colonial Ideology in Rwanda, Awa Princess E. Zadi
Theses and Capstone Projects from 2020
Shock and Awe, Sectarianism, and Violence in Iraq Post-2003, Sarim Al-Rawi
Popular Education in the Civil Rights Movement: Bridging Depth and Scale, Amanda Altman
The Berbers: Constructed Identities by Foreigners on African Soil, Zineb Askaoui
The Stories We Tell for the Narrative We Need, Ayana Bartholomew
Bones, Burials, and the Riddle of Truth: Reconstructing the Past Through What Has Been Left Behind, Jelena M. Begonja
Creating Content for a Healthy New Life, Valeria C. Borja Lopez
Humanizing Higher Education: Disrupting Racial Injustice in Teacher Preparation Through Critically Caring Communities, Melissa M. Boronkas
Digital Occult Library, Alexis Brandkamp
The Women that No One Wanted to See: The Duality of the Women within the Holocaust, Valerie Cabezas-Iacono
Spatial and Collective Memories of Jewish Heritage Sites: A Comparative Study, Bryanna Caraballo
Tracking Keywords in American Studies, Thomas Cleary
The History of Martha J. Lamb: Her Origin, Rise, and Progress., Mary Collins
A Plan for Democratic Public Schooling, Diana Concepcion
Can Gentrification Improve Education for Low-Income Minority Students?, Edir Coronado
Asians Applying for Postsecondary Success: Students, Schools, and Socioeconomic Status, Avery M.D. Davis
The Cinematic Treatment of Tableaux Vivants in D.W. Griffith’s Broken Blossoms, Sheikh Deen
Revisiting Juchitán: Witnessing an Indigenous Mexico Within the Latin American Archive, Michelle G. de la Cruz
Red Sea, White Tides, and Blue Horizons, John P. Devine
Through the Scholastic Looking Glass: The Pedagogical Potential of Textual Deformation for Poetic Studies, Taylor Dietrich
Analysis of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Treatment Options, Amanda C. Dominguez
Ujamaa Policies and Women Gender Issues of Land Tenure in Tanzania, Nasa S. Edgar
Bloodied Hearts and Bawdy Planets: Greco-Roman Astrology and the Regenerative Force of the Feminine in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Christina E. Farella
Legend Has It: Tracking the Research Trope in Supernatural Horror Film Franchises, Deirdre M. Flood
Political Fictions: Black Feminist Novels of Slavery and the Narrative of the American Left, Elizabeth A. Foley
Returning to Imaginative Literary Texts in the Composition Classroom: A Case Study of Greek Literature and Their Potential in First-Year Writing, Esther M. Gabay
A Critical Analysis of the Projection of Historical Narratives of the Indian Tribal People in "Our Past III", Sudhashree Girmohanta
An Empire Among Empires: America's Relationship to "the Other" in the Historiography of Empire, Lynne C. Goldhammer
The Guinea-Bissau Constitutional Reform Debate, Watson Aila Gomes
Performing NYC Latinidades: Building a Diasporic Home at Pregones and the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Oriana E. Gonzales
And Ain’t I a Man: An Examination of Violence Against African-American Men by Caucasian Men in the United States, Bryan L. Greene
“Something Happened on the Day He Died”: How David Bowie Fans Transformed Brixton, Valerie Gritsch
Binaural: Trauma and Disability Representation in Cinema, Joshua Grossberg
Crumbs To Keep Them Full: Neoliberal Spectacle at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Lisa Gueldenzopf
A Data Exploration of Jeopardy! from 1984 to the Present, Brian S. Hamilton
Work–Family Conflict in Low-Income Households, Maritza G. Hiciano Ramos
In Support of Abstraction: Physical Interiority Beyond Postmodern Dance, Irene Hultman Monti
Hebrew as a Gendered Language and an Oppressive Mechanism against Women in the Israeli Society, Rotem Itzhaky
The Implementation of Empathy in the Animated Television Show “Hey Arnold”, Starnise Johnson
'Once Famous in an Odd Way': Curiosity and Queerness in Late 19th-Century American Male Impersonation, S.C. Lucier
In Ordinary Trauma: Notes on Time, Carmel M. Mc Mahon
Agentive Personhood: Finding Yourself Through Serving Others, Sasha M. Miller
Returning to Childhood: Memoirs of Childhood Reading, Stephanie Montalti
Social Contract Theory and Transitional Justice: A Philosophical Approach to a Problem of Global Importance, Brendan Moriarty
The Mock Doc Film Series: History of the Mockumentary Film, Victoria Napolitano
Dear Black Child: A Discussion on the Formation of Identity for African Diasporic Adolescents in the U.S., Sokhnagade B. Ndiaye
Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Psilocybin from January 1, 1989 to December 31, 2019, Dax Oliver
The Objectives of Public Higher Education in New York City Through the Lens of Language, John-Nicholas Parker
Hannah Arendt’s Vision of Politics: Exemplary Negativities and the Ostjuden, Jacob E. Pearce
“The Little Seed and the Wind”: Digital Intervention Tool for Geography and Empathy, Maritha Pocorni-Humphries
Americans Collecting Natural History, Herbert A. Pollard IV
Reflections on the Eating of Bologna Sandwiches: A Memoir, Benjamin M. Raphael
The U.S. Approach to Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: A Comparative Analysis of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump Administration Policies in Afghanistan, Mohammad Rasouli
Inspirations for Awake: Expressions of Trauma Through Fiction and Autoethnographic Literature, Sophia Rodriguez
Democracy for Homework: A Review of Civic Engagement in Urban Public Schools, Amanda B. Rosenblum
A Narrative Inquiry to Explore the Connection Between Gender and Discipline in Grades Pre-K–8, Nicole Salazar
UN Trust Funds as Agent to Fulfill the Norm Adapting and Diffusing Functions, Mikiko Sawanishi
“In the same figure, like the king that’s dead”: The Phantasmic Authorship of The Other Side of the Wind, Hunter M. Sawyer
Whose War Is It Anyway? How Afghanistan Became a Battlefield Over Global Hegemony During the Cold War, Kathryn Shapiro
Breast Dressing: A Critical Review of Post-Surgical Bras, Adi Sieradzki
Landscape and Lore: River Acheron and the Oracle of the Dead, LaShante St. Fleur
Describing the Dress of Women: Author’s Notes on the Development of Gender, Cassandra B. Tan
Controlled Observation: The Challenges of Therapy for the Mentally Ill Incarcerated Population, Esther Tingué
Representations of Hustling Women: The Figure of the Black Sex Worker in Ann Petry’s The Street and Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner, Deborah L. Uzurin
The Capabilities of Students in Poverty: Student Outcomes from a United States Department of Education TRIO Program, Arthur Valiant
The Political Aesthetic of Hannah Arendt: Modernity, Judgment, and Culture, Quixote R. Vassilakis
Promoting the Consumer Citizen: Seals, Spectacles, and the Gendered Consumer in Depression-Era America, Danielle B. Wetmore