Theses and Capstone Projects from 2019
Sweeping Exposures: Lead Poisonings and Black Working Poor Populations in the United States, Shirley Reid
Hermeneutics: A Literary Interpretive Art, David A. Reitman
Public Blockchains as a Means to Resist Information Censorship, Gregory Rocco
The Publicly Private Joan Didion: Literary Celebrity Combining Literary Persona and Photographic Images, Jessica J. Salfen
Fashion Merchandising: An Augmented Reality, Naeha A. Sayed
Signals in the Black Stack / GEOMEtyr Design Manual, Jason T. Scaglione
Enacting Race and Class Online: Gatekeeping and Meaning Making on Reddit’s r/Brooklyn, Peter J. Sclafani
Resisting Industrial Food Systems on the Web: How Non-Profit Organizations Use Digital Technology for Sustainability Education, Aleksandr Segal
Democratization of Nepal: Towards Consolidation? Perspectives on Rule of Law & Civil Liberties, Anil J. Shahi
Morris High School: A Biography, Naomi Sharlin
Black Economic Empowerment: Educating in the Hood?, Jeffrey C. Suttles
Finding the Public: Models of Interaction Between Curatorial and Education Departments in Three American Encyclopedic Museums, Liam Sweeney
“Save One for Yourself”: A Reconsideration of the Houston Rebellion of 1917, Malcolm K. Thompson
Rural Adolescent Education Reframed: Can Social Justice, Lewin’s Topology, and Aesthetics Aid Reform Efforts?, Judith F. Upjohn
Little Egypt: A Critical Biography, Katherine Vecchio
What Rome Really Adopted from Ancient Greece, Christian J. Vella
The Feminization of Prehistory: Evidence for the Emergence of Complex Modern Behaviors before c.70,000 Years Ago, Jeffrey Vreeland
Auditory Spaces and Sonic Narratives of Gender: The Queer Phenomenology of Sound in Girls Lost and Tangerine, Mira Vuorinen
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