Theses and Capstone Projects from 2020
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
Black Skin, White Gaze: The Presence and Function of the Linchpin Character in Biopics About Black American Protagonists, Nicole N. Williams
Black and Brown Students’ Mathematics Anxiety in Elementary School: The Use of Restorative Justice Circles and Critical Concepts of Care, Hope, and Love, Mariana E. Winnik
Accessibility Across the Curriculum: An OER Website on Accessibility, Amy Wolfe
Theses and Capstone Projects from 2019
The Critique Became the Counter-Narrative: Planning Manhattan North of the Street Grid, Gail K. Addiss
You Are Here: Mapping the World System of Mohsin Hamid’s Fiction, Terrie Akers
History of Military Interventions in Political Affairs in Pakistan, Hina Altaf
Migrant Domestic Labor in the Global South: The Plight of Filipina Domestic Workers in Morocco, Sara Asselman
Adorno and the Language of the Intellectual in Exile, Ana Baert
Unstitching the Borders: Color, Class and Consumption in Queens, New York, Cassandra R. Barnes
Black, Male, and Poor: The Intersection of Social Identities Effects on Special Education Referrals for Emotional Disturbance, Marilyn D. Bassett-Joseph
A Resistance from Within: An Experience of Pakistani Migrant Women, Ramsha Begum
Queerness, Witchcraft, and Embodied Presence: Aesthetic Knowings of What a Body Can Do, Megan Bigelow
How Black Lives Matter Has Influenced and Interacted with Global Social Movements, Arelle A. Binning
Rituals of Remaindered Life in the Films of Kidlat Tahimik, Alison R. Boldero
The Role of the Intelligentsia in the Collapse of the USSR: Soviet Intellectuals and the Idea of the West, Alma Boltirik
Refugees from Somalia, Burma/Myanmar and Iraq: Navigating New Lives in the US in Post-9/11 Context, Ivona Boroje
Landing Points, Matt Boyle
Class Matters: School Affluence and Other Predictors of Attainment for Wealthy and Poor Students, Alison Brockhouse
Infinity Wars: Post 9/11 Superhero Films and American Empire, Peter J. Bruno
Brrap Brrap Pew Pew: Representations of Abortion in Adult Animated Television Comedy, Erika A. Byrnison
An Exposition and Analysis of Kant’s Account of Sublimity, Paulina Simone Calistru
You Can’t Eat Altruism: Searching for Workplace Democracy at New York City’s Nonprofits, Celia Castellan
The Ladies' Garment Worker Speaks Volumes for the Woman Worker and Writer, Carolyn J. Cei
Italian/Americans and the American Racial System: Contadini to Settler Colonists?, Stephen J. Cerulli
Sexual Violation, Feminism, and Foucault: Against a Confessional Politics of Truth, Amber M. Chiacchieri
Eugenics in the 21st Century, Jessica Linn Chin
Exhibition Catalog on Rediscovering the Fashion of Hanboks and Kimonos: The Tale of Kisaengs and Geishas, Sylvia Chung
Clothing the Black Body in Slavery: What They Wore and How it Was Made, Wanett I. Clyde
Testimonios in Liminal Spaces: Puerto Rican Women Living in Extended-Stay and Shelter Hotels in New York City After Hurricane Maria, Jessica Crespo
"He Who is Conscious of the Bright but Keeps to the Dark": The Fame and Legacy of Jack Kerouac, Regina Crotser
Cosmopolitan Democracy: Re-evaluation of Globalization and World Economic System, Muhammad Dalhatu
Internal Displacement in the United States: A Result of Climate Change and U.S. Policy, Ahmad T. Diop
The Past is Never Dead: Amorphous Time in Jean-Luc Godard's Notre Musique, Anthony E. Dominguez
Reclaiming the Musical Burlesque: A Reconstruction of the 1855 Musical Score to John Brougham’s Po-Ca-Hon-Tas: Or, The Gentle Savage, Christopher Drobny
Refracting Immigration Rhetoric: The Struggle to Define Identity, Place and Nation in Southern Arizona, Emily Duwel
İbne, Gey, Lubunya: A Queer Critique of LGBTI+ Discourses in the New Cinema of Turkey, Azmi Mert Erdem
Just Borders: The Foundations of Immigration Policy, Cody Fenwick
The Music in His Words: The Art of Sound and Folk in Louis Armstrong’s Manuscript for Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, “The Armstrong Story”, Adriana C. Filstrup
Revolutionary Affinities: Democracy and Revolution in Hannah Arendt’s Portrait of Rosa Luxemburg, Matthew P. Finck
Visualizing the Decline of the Corset Business, Iris Finkel
The Novelist and the Nun: Two Sisters, One Bond, Kathleen J. Gaffney
Extreme Heat and Vulnerability in Japan Demographic and Spatial Analyses of Heatstroke, Wataru Gima
Rezoning, Real Estate, and The Dynamics of Displacement in Inwood, Damaly Gonzalez
Reversing borrón y cuenta nueva: The Curative Power of Family Memory in the Novels of Loida Maritza Perez and Nelly Rosario, Ivonne Gonzalez
Imagining the Archive: Speculation as a Tool of Archival Reconstruction, MarieClaire Graham
Law and Society: The Criminalization of Latinx in the United States, Gabriela Groenke
Private Funding of the United Nations, Consequence and Future of the World Intergovernmental Organization, Kossi H. Hator
Between the Living and the Dead, Laura Henriksen
Clientelism and Democracy in Turkey and Mexico: The Impacts on Regimes of Political Party Exploitation of Housing Tenure in Informal Settlements, David J. Henry
Navigating Colorism and Racial Identity in Dominican Women, Christine Hernandez
A Parade of Identities: Negotiation of Ethnic Identities in Three New York City Cultural Parades, Julia M. Herrera-Moreno
Immigration, Small Business and Assimilation: Three Stories of Small-Time Capitalism on the Lower East Side, Marcus Hillman
The Post-9/11 LGBTQ Human Rights Struggle in Egypt, Donna K. Huaman
Getting Dressed and Being Dressed: A Constructed Autobiography of Identity, Jana Jarosz
Performing Desire in Times Square: Sailors, Hustlers and Masculinity, Kel R. Karpinski
Women and Their Struggle to be Considered Funny as Told Through the Study of Female Standup Comics, Jean Kim
The Equal Right to Sing: The American Zeitgeist and Its Implications for Music Education, YoungEun Kim
“Whispers Out of Time”: Memorializing (Self-) Portraits in the Work of John Berryman, John Ashbery, Anne Carson, and Nan Goldin, Andrew D. King
Furious: Myth, Gender, and the Origins of Lady Macbeth, Emma King
Romanization Through Mosaics: Transition at Fishbourne and Colchester, Elizabeth Kurtulik Mercuri
Cultural Heritage Preservation in the Context of Climate Change Adaptation or Relocation: Barbuda as a Case Study, Martha B. Lerski
Basis for a Critique of International Human Rights and Constitutional Law: Foundations, Speech Acts and Analytic Limitations, Luis H. Llanos Gil
Art and War: Republican Propaganda of The Spanish Civil War, Jason Manrique
Remembering Vienna: Mapping Oral Histories of Holocaust Survivors from Austria, Katharina Menschick
The Origins of the Jones Act of Puerto Rico, Stephanie Mercedes
Caring Choices? Supporting and Dreaming with Students in New York City’s Stratifying High School Admissions System, Megan R. Moskop
Dance of Exile: The Sakharoffs’ Visual Performances in Montevideo (1935–1948), Pablo Munoz Ponzo
The Family, Political Theory, and Ideology: A Comparative Study of John Stuart Mill and Friedrich Engels, David M. Murray Jr.
Critical Visuality: Workshops for the Examination of Media, Aily R. Nash
