Theses and Capstone Projects from 2017
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
Never Forgets: Traumatic Trace Within Public Space, Jan Descartes
The Variation in Russia’s Foreign Policy in Near Abroad After the Disintegration of the USSR, Nataliia Donchenko
Spectral Bodies: Women's Resistance Across Time in North America, Whitney C. Evanson
The Economics of American Higher Education, Robin Freedman
Reinventing the Wheel of Teaching Business? Learning in the Academic Classroom - The Case of the Business Consulting Course, Francesco R. Frova
"Propaganda for Democracy": The Vexed History of the Federal Theatre Project, Karen E. Gellen
A Realization of Modernity: Case Studies in Connectivity and Time, Mari Gorman
“Pay, Protection, and Professionalism”: The History of Domestic Worker Organizing and the Future of Home Health Care in the United States, Julia R. Gruberg
Beyond Vulnerability: Refugee Women’s Leadership in Jordan, Widad Hassan
Arghhh! My Computer Screen Froze: A “Glitch” in K-12 Blended Learning Classrooms, Tricia P.A. Herbert
Parental Influence on Second Generation Chinese-American Youth’s Career Choice and Development, Yingli Huang
Secret and Divine Signs: A Cinematic Ode to the Art of Cruising, Terrence T. Hunt
The Racialization and Exploitation of Foreign Workers by the Law, Seiko Ishikawa
Violence Against Architecture: The Lost Cultural Heritage of Syria and Iraq, Heidi James Fisher
Social Order and the Culture of Corruption in India, Arunodhaya Jebamani
K-12 Education, Pedagogy and Student Achievement, Genevieve Johnson
Heritage Language Education in South Korea: Challenges and Demands, Mihyun Jo
Trumping Norms: Whither the International Liberal Order?, Maureen Jones
The Bunker Hill Story: Welfare, Redevelopment, and Housing Crisis in Postwar Los Angeles, Stephen Jones
Beyond the Vale: Visualizing Slavery in Craven County, North Carolina, Marissa N. Kinsey
Between the Cloud and the Page: Repetition and Textuality in Post-Conceptual Poetics, Michael Kirby
The New American Slavery: Capitalism and the Ghettoization of American Prisons as a Profitable Corporate Business, David A. Liburd
Queering Addiction, TaraRose Macuch
Beyond the Biological: William Beebe, the Bronx Zoo, and U.S. Biological Field Stations in British Guiana, Katherine F. McLeod
Clemence of Barking and Valdes of Lyon: Two Contemporaneous Examples of Innovation in the Twelfth Century, Lisa Murray
Black Models Matter: Challenging the Racism of Aesthetics and the Facade of Inclusion in the Fashion Industry, Scarlett L. Newman
The Expansion of the Mandarin Mind, Tyler Okney
An Examination of the Needham Question: Why Didn't China Have a Scientific Revolution Considering Its Early Scientific Accomplishments?, Rebecca L. Olerich
Things We Dare Not See: Media Revisions of Incestuous Relationships, Mattheus M. Oliveira
Open Source Micro Diplomas: New Credentials for New Learning, Jack F. Powers
Smita Patil: Fiercely Feminine, Lakshmi Ramanathan
Washington Square Park: Struggles and Debates over Urban Public Space, Anna Rascovar
Dancing Silhouettes: Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed: A Critical Study, Maria N. Rhodes
Women in the Workplace: The Impact of Earning Potential Empowerment and the Work-Life Balance, Alysha-Beth Rodriguez
The Conflict of Progressive and Conservative Tendencies in the Film Work of Steranko, James H. Romberger
Deconstructing Rape Culture Through An Exploration of Consent, Desire, and Pleasure, Yael Rosenstock
Imperial Butterfly, Dagmar Rothschild
Culture and Mental Health: Considering the Role of the Complex Cultural-History in Irish-American Population, Tiffinie Patricia Sesko
No More False Heavens: In the Wake of Campus Sexual Violence, Destry Sibley
Parallels of Love and Hate Defined by Attachments, Nicole Spann
Early American Cookbooks: Creating and Analyzing a Digital Collection Using the HathiTrust Research Center Portal, Gioia Stevens
The Dream Deferred: The School-to-Prison Pipeline and the Destruction and Potential Resurrection of the Black Male, Alexandria L. Timoll
The Fight for Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Parenting Rights in The United States, Nancy Tresil
Decidedly Uncertain, Sophia I. Varosy
Dehumanization: A Case Study, Regina Varthi
The Odyssey of African American Women in Films: From the Silent Era to the Post-War Years to the 1950s, Elvera L. Vilson
Tandem 2.0: Image and Text Data Generation Application, Christopher J. Vitale
The Fabric of Manhattan: Art and Industry in the Era of A.T. Stewart, Patricia Wadsley
Mermaid Song: The Notebooks of the Writing Woman, Gianna T. Ward-Vetrano
The Column of Constantine at Constantinople: A Cultural History (330-1453 C.E.), Carey Thompson Wells
The Behavioral Effects Divorce Can Have on Children, Wanda M. Williams-Owens
Conceptualizing the Emergence of Social Capital in Young Children, Courtney Wong
A Girlhood Among Ghosts, An Experimental Project, Maple Wu
Theses and Capstone Projects from 2016
Transatlantic Surrealisms, Imagined Homelands, and the Poetry of Paul Laraque, Maxine C. Anderson
Bilingual French Initiatives in Public Schools: A New York Story: New Opportunities, Diversity and Shared History and Values, Claire JM Arnod Horikawa
Christ the Queer: Gender and Sexuality in Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ", Stephen Barnett
Empowerment from Within: Supporting Palestinian Women’s Struggle Against Violence, Ortal Bensky
YouTube As A Net"work": A Media Analysis of the YouTube Beauty Community, Barbara Casabianca
Producing Discursive Change: From "Illegal Aliens" to "Unauthorized Immigration" in Library Catalogs, J. Silvia Cho
Socio-Economic Inequalities, Academic Failure, and Institutional Interventions: What CUNY Is Doing To Help Its High Risk Populations, Cynthia Constant
How Do Open Educational Resources (OERs) Impact Students? A Qualitative Study at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, Cailean Cooney
The Virtue Mentality, Rachel Eckhardt
Studies in the Creation and Implementation of School Cultures: Two New York City Stand-Alone Charter Schools, Olivia-Beate A. Franzini
The South African Elderly: Neglect, Social Contribution and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Alessia Frisoli
Shadows and Light. Ernie Gehr Exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Sean M. Fuller
Fragmentation and Multiplicity in Cuban-American Identity: In Cuba I was a German Shepherd by Ana Menéndez and Memory Mambo by Achy Obejas, Daimys E. Garcia
Developments in Television Viewership, Lucile E. Hecht
Media Representation of Asian Americans and Asian Native New Yorkers’ Hybrid Persona, Min Huh
Response and Responsibility: The War Veterans’ Art Center at the Museum of Modern Art (1944–48), Laurel Humble
‘Open, and Always, Opening’: Trans- Poetics as a Methodology for (Re)Articulating Gender, the Body, and the Self ‘Beyond Language’, Lizzy Tricano Kaval
Normalization Policies with Cuba: Implications for Political and Economic Reform, Ramona N. Khan
Life Experience: Freddy Got Fingered As Neo-Surrealist Masterpiece, Frank Koshel
Commemorations and Ethnicity: Victory Day Celebrations Among Elderly Russian Jews in Brooklyn, Amy Kraizman
Where Is the "Korean" in the Korean War Memorial: Kissena Park's Korean War Memorial, Alice Lam
The Bodies, Minds, Desires and Scorn of Britain's "Stepdaughters of War", Alexandra J. Lightle
McCarthyism and the Id: "Forbidden Planet" (1956) as a Veiled Criticism of McCarthyism in 1950s America, William Lorenzo
Fashioning Desire at B. Altman & Co.: Ethics and Consumer Culture in Early Department Stores, Tessa Maffucci
Mindfulness in Learning, Anna Malyukova
Paratextuality and Contemporary Narrative: The Physical Object as a Storytelling Device, James Mason
Assembly and Association: Mapping the Development of the Public Sphere in 19th Century Columbia County, NY, Christopher L. Meatto
Loans’ Impact on International Relations: Venezuela as Lender and Borrower, Leonela C. Medina Baez