Theses and Capstone Projects from 2019
Adults Formerly in Foster Care Narrate Schooling Experiences, Danielle Walker
Twelve Rounds with Bob Dylan: Pugilist/Poet, Richard Westlein
The Crusader and the Dictator: An Exploration of Ideology and Neurodivergence in Contemporary Technology Practice, David J. Williams
"A Complicated Story, An Unsolved Mystery": An Experiment in Poetry and the Ethics of Representation, Darren Wood
The Position of a Woman: A Poetics of Grace Paley’s Political Storytelling, Jamie Zabinsky
Getting Located: Queer Semiotics in Dress, Callen Zimmerman
Theses and Capstone Projects from 2018
Conditions of Personhood and Property, Zachary James Acree
To Whom Occurs the Haunting: A Singular Exploration of a Disturbed Femme Psyche, Meghan E. Addison
How Lucille Ball Fought the Patriarchy, While Lucy Ricardo (Indirectly) Contributed to Second-Wave (White) Feminism, Anam Rana Afzal
Differences in the Role of Acculturation on the Correlates of Suicidal Ideation Among Asian Subgroups, Khadijah Ahmad
Party On, Derrida!: A Queer, Deconstructionist Look at Wayne's World, Glam, and the Losers of Rock and Roll, Michelle A. Arp
School to Prison Pipeline Unmasked: Review of how the School to Prison Pipeline Reinforces Disproportionality in Mass Incarceration, Akeem A. Barnes
Exploring the Roots of Chronic Underdevelopment: The Colonial Encomienda and Resguardo and their Legacy to Modern Colombia, Pedro Bossio
Black Business as Activism: Ebony Magazine and the Civil Rights Movement, Seon Britton
The Exceptional Case of Plancia Magna: (Re)analyzing the Role of a Roman Benefactress, Barbara F. Caceres-Cerda
Tragedy and Theodicy: The Role of the Sufferer from Job to Ahab, Nora Carroll
Dancing, Mindfulness, and Our Emotions: Embracing the Mind, Body, and Sole, Alisha M. Collins
Pawns of Policy and Problematized Perception: The Sustainability of Inequality Through the Space of African-American Childhood, Jen-I S. Costosa
Chile’s Decree-Law 1094: A Source of Immigrant Vulnerability, Joao M. Da Silva
Venezuela: Oil and Madness. Politics, Propaganda, and Realities of the Chavista Era, Alvaro E. de Prat
Food Network Fallout: Why There Are Labor Shortages in Restaurant Kitchens, Jennifer M. Dillon
Shadows of Empire: The Mughal and British Colonial Heritage of Lahore, Naeem U. Din
The Essential New York City Films, Nikola M. Durkovic
Betty Friedan and Juliet Mitchell: Critiques of Ideology and Power, Jennie Eagle
From Mass Incarceration to Mass Education: Fostering Collaboration Between State Prisons and State Universities, Miriam Edwin
Merging Subsistence Perspective and Buen Vivir: An Alternative to Damming the Mekong, Aaron B. Eisenberg
The Literature of Loss: Modernity, Poetic Prose, and the Tendency Toward Contradiction, Jared D. Fagen
From Establishment to Final Independence: A Study of the National Archives of the United States of America from 1934–1985, Daniel M. Frett
Poetry, Photography and the Place of Longing: A Return, Victoria R. Gandolf
A Discourse of True and False: An Analysis of the Publications of the AFL-CIO Between 1955-1965 as Archived in the Tamiment Library, John J. Gorham Jr.
The Library of Pantainos: A Unique Ancient Library, Michael W. Handis
Female Autistic Perspectives: Limits in Diagnosis and Understanding, Alexandra Helmers
“For Us, By Us": The Boondocks, Black Agency, and Black Spatial Reclamation in Comics, Luana Horry
Swimming in a Sea of No's: Controlling and Managing the New York Public Pools, Mette L. Jensen
Inching Closer: Life on the Sinking Island of Ghoramara, Anjani Kapoor
Race, Sexuality, and Masculinity on the Down Low, Stephen Kochenash
Music for AI Reports: Dual Prospects in Music Production, Achim Koh
EmBody: The Transformation of Intimate Knowledges Through Generations in Liberal Societies, Lisa Kronberg
A Sustainable “No Excuses” Charter School Model, Kelly Lerash
Tangible Things: The Matter of Susan Howe, Thomas Lewek
The Patterns and Prosecutions of Media Leakers, Julia M. Lipkins
Memory in Memoir & Biography: Science, Place, and Agency, Johnathan E. Longo
Just Drop My Body on the Steps of the FDA: Emotion & Activism at ACT UP’s “Seize Control of the FDA” Action, Mariana Lopez de Castilla
Territories of Contestation in Medellín: Destierro, Memory, the Youth, and the State, Joan C. Lopez
Opposition to the Eighteenth Amendment in the House of Representatives, Henry J. Manwell
A Colony’s State of Sovereignty: Decolonization Has Yet to Take Place In Rwanda, Mahalia Mehu
Militarization of Conservation, Daniel Ryan Michel
Brentwood, New York 11717: A Multimedia Ethnographic Study on an Immigrant Town, Ashley Mungo
Sites of Historical Amusement: Tourism and the Recontextualization of American History, Brendan Murphy
It’s a Family Affair: Parental Configuration, Educational Attainment, and Race, Sandra Murphy
Explaining Animosity Towards the Roma: A Case Study of Twitter Communication in Italy during the Refugee Crisis, Mayuko Nakatsuka
Nature versus Nurture, Matilda Nikehasani
The Threats of Sea Level Rise: An Eco-Geopolitical Visual Analysis, Jorge L. Nowell-Enriquez
Never Trust Anything That Bleeds for Seven Days and Doesn’t Die: Menstruation, Cultural Materialism, and Autoethnography, Anastasiya Panas
Tracing Dominican Attitudes Towards Race: A Historical Analysis, Marcos Polonia
Due Process and the Right to Legal Counsel for Unaccompanied Minors, Marielos G. Ramos
Alternative Futures: The Creative Reconsideration of Fashion Objects, Kathryn Roberts
Still Life: Growing Up with Death - A Visual Memoir, Lindsey Roth-Rosen
The Unsuspected Francis Lieber, Richard Salomon
Postcolonial Indian Nonfiction Cinema: The Documentaries of Satyajit Ray, Muzahid Sharif
Everyday Violence and Women's Lives in Zambia: An Autoethnography, Amina Shikupilwa
Weaponization of Data for Governmentality, Juliana Son
The Distant Early Warning Line: Geographies, Infrastructures, and Environments of Warning, Jordan Steingard
Transformations: Suburban Cordoba During the Umayyad Caliphate, 929-1009, Carmen M. Tagle
Capital Growth: Precision Agriculture and Vertical Farming in the Corporate Food Regime, Justin Taylor
Making “Made in New York” Matter, Adeline Trento
Paper Memories: A Visual Memoir, Stephanie Trinidad
Education Through Social and Cultural Transmission, George F. Trivino
The Redemption of Goethe’s Eternal Feminine: Discovering the Reality and Significance of an Archetypal Phenomenon, Mariana Weisler
The Affective Domain and the Intersection of Learning in Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic Education, Meghan Williams
Pipeline to Failure: Social Inequality and the False Promises of American Public Schooling, Adia Wilson
Examining the Impact of Study Abroad for Community College Students: Five Case Studies, Kathryn B. Wilson
Speaking Sober: Program Language as a Mechanism for Community Creation in Alcoholics Anonymous, Talya Wolf
“The Childish, the Transformative, and the Queer”: Queer Interventions as Praxis in Children’s Cartoons, Heather Wright
The Early History of Photography of Georgia: Tbilisi, 1860–1900, Lia E. Zaaloff
The Bronx Was Brewing: A Digital Resource of a Lost Industry, Michelle Zimmer
Theses and Capstone Projects from 2017
Making a Case for Social Innovation as a Structural Counterpart to Public Participation in Regional Planning, Manju A. Adikesavan
Heavy Ink: A Documentary on the Comicbook Revolution, Renzo Adler
The Untold Story of Africa: What Advertising from Africa Reveals to the Rest of the World About the Continent, Rachael F. Afolabi
Back to Square One: Understanding the Role of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Ahmed A. Ahmed
The Legacy of Slavery and the Continued Marginalization of Communities of Color Within the Legal System, Julia N. Alvarez
You Need Violence and Sincerity: Godard and the Manufacturing of a Revolutionary Cinema, Matthew Ballinger
Production of Energy and Environmental Protection as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Development, Diana Baus
Overpopulation and the Impact on the Environment, Doris Baus
The Fantastic Manifesto: Monstrosity of Memory and Epiphany of Selfhood in The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), Layla Blodgett Carrillo
Mapping How Culture in New York City and London Influences Respectively the Iconic Fashion Brands of Kors and McQueen: A Case Study, Carol Brathwaite
Diplomas vs Incarceration: Does Intersectionality Affect Black Men and Women Differently?, Chelsie Burchett
Great Power Politics in the Twenty-First Century: The Ukrainian Example, Oksana Byeha
The Fat Female Bodies of Saturday Night Live: Uncovering the Normative Cultural Power of a Countercultural Comedy Institution, Katharine Cacace
Walking as Ontological Shifter: Thoughts in the Key of Life, Bibi (Silvina) Calderaro
By Beauty Damned: Millennial Feminism and the Exploitation of Women's Empowerment in Pop Culture and Corporate Advertising, Maria L. Carreon
Sonifying Hamlet, Ashleigh Cassemere-Stanfield
"La Dolce Vita" Today: Fashion and Media, Nicola Certo
Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book of the Dead": An Analytical Appreciation, Emily Cogan
Clara Lemlich Shavelson: An Activist Life, Sarah B. Cohn
Imagining Basic Income as an International and Domestic Remedy to Wealth Inequality, Christian A. Davis
Education Is Transformation: The Impact of Attitudes, Robert DeCaul