Theses and Capstone Projects from 2016
Madison Vanguard: A Novel, Berni Moestafa
Ethnic and National Identity of Third Generation Koreans in Japan, Haruka Morooka
"A return to reality": Mark Hansen's Metaphysics: Towards a New Relationality of Twenty-first-century Media, Sandra Moyano Ariza
Integral Theory, Positive Psychology, and Sacred Texts of the World: A New Philosophy of Education for the 21St Century, Muhammad Naeem
The Remedy That's Killing: CUNY, LaGuardia, and The Fight for Better Math Policy, Rachel A. Oppenheimer
Crossing The Great Divide: An Investigation of Data and Memory, Julia Pollack
Brainstorming Solutions for the Unintended Consequences of Antibiotics and the Development of Resistant Bacteria, Rajini D. Ramsukh
A Comparative Perspective between FARC Guerrilleras and Chechen Black Widows, Denise Rivera
Genocide in Rwanda: Understanding Why They Died, Joseph Sambou
Yellow Dust Abode: The Hawley-Suski Letters, 1942-1945, Roxanne Shirazi
Queering by Example: Sex Education in the Age of Vlogging, Zoe M. Simpson
Can People Successfully Return to Nature?, Nicholas A. Sollogub
Discourses of "Cruelty-Free" Consumerism: PETA, The Vegan Society and Examples of Contemporary Activism, Andrea Springirth
Wet Data: The Ocean and its Negative Archive, Kendra M. Sullivan
Shattered Mosaic: David Dinkins, Rudolph Giuliani, and Social and Electoral Polarization in Late-20th Century New York City, Gabriel S. Tennen
Screening Male Crisis: A Comparative Analysis of the Alternative Coming-of-Age Motion Picture, Matthew J. Tesoro
Autobiographical Poetry to Plays: Taking Memoir to a Theatrical Level, Ryan P. Tofil
Broadcasting the Crisis: Spanish Television as Critique, Eva Velasco Pena
Patterns of Growth and the Economic Development of China, Adam C. Watson
An Exploration of Early Romanization: A Comparative and Semiotic Approach, Mikel Wein
What are the Barriers and Conduits to College Success for Academically Vulnerable Students?, Marisol Zacarias
DH Box: A Virtual Computer Lab in the Cloud, Stephen Zweibel
Theses and Capstone Projects from 2015
Gender, Money, and the Charity Organization Society: 1900-1919, Sarah H. Arnold
Basic Cable: A Reluctant American Perspective on the Arab Spring Through Revolutionary Art, Philip Ayoub
Por Uma Vida Sem Catracas: The 'June Uprising' and Recent Movements in Brazil, Matthew Binetti
The Philosophical Side of Contemporary Art Forms, Kristina Bodetti
Institutionalizing Colonial Identity: A Case Study On The Indian Partition, Jamie Bodine
Modernity, Parallel Editing, and the Flâneuse: Examining the White Slave Narrative in Early and Contemporary American Cinema, Alex W. Bordino
The Development Of The Eu's Counter Terrorism Policies In The Post 9/11 Era, Sinem Cevik
Ecomusicology: back to the roots of sound/music and environmental sustainability, Tiffany Challe
The Ones Left Behind: MAKING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN POVERTY AND THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP, Audrey Davis
More Than Objects: Understanding Female Slaves in Barbados in the Early Modern Period, Phoebe Martine Downes
The Inconstancy of Bodies: Yvonne Meier's Works, 1985 ' 2012, Lindsey Ann Drury
Lost in Translation: Regressive Femininity in American J-Horror Remakes, Matthew Ducca
Revisting the Domestic Labor Debate: Toward a Critique of Workerist Feminism, Alice Feng
Counting the Blades of Grass: Series, Punctum, and the Averted Gaze in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants, Lane Glisson
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Expanding International Regimes, Thomas R. Goggin
The American Monster, Dara Beth Gross
The City Meditations, Nicholas Grosso
College Graduation Rates of Hispanic Students: A Review of the Literature, Jessica Hall
A Critique of Western Liberalism, Siddhant Issar
A Gender Approach to Vulnerability and Natural Disasters, Ema Izquierdo
Climate-Smart Agriculture: Farmer's Bane Or Boon?, Jeeva Mary Jacob
Bad Apple: Complexities of New York City Food Aid Programs, Rose Meagan Jimenez
Technological Revolution in Astronomy, Michael Julio
The Odyssey of North Korean Defectors: Issues and Problems in the Migration Process, You Gene Kim
Effecting Moral Change: Lessons from the First Emancipation, Howard Landis
Some Common Sense For The Common Core, Katherine M. Maciaszek
Virtue: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, Jessica McGivney
The Trickster In Nella Larsen's Passing (1929): Performing And Masquerading An American Identity, Rachael Miller Benavidez
Renaissance Humanism and the Ottoman 'Other' - Discourse Construction, Position and Power, Aramis Miranda-Reyes
The Impact of Technology on Consumerism, David Naranjo
"The planet is the way it is because of the scheme of words": Sun Ra and the Performance of Reckoning, Maryam Ivette Parhizkar
Manifestation of Humanity and Humanism in Czechoslovak Cinema 1949-1953, Selma Rockova
The Journal Of Mother Studies: A Peer Reviewed, International, Interdisciplinary, Open-Acess, Digital Humanities Hybrid Project, Martha Joy Rose
Changing Identities in a Changing Land: The Romanization of the British Landscape, Thomas Ryan
Foreign Direct Investment and the Chinese Economy: Theory and Impact, Gerasimos Seriatos
The Three-Quarter House: A Product of The Neoliberal City, Paulette Soltani
Education as a Site for Ethical Transformation and Activism, Lindsay Sudeikis
Organizing Against Discrimination: The Chinese Hand Laundrymen Historical Niche and Ethnic Solidarity in America, Johnny Thach
Arab-American Lives In New York City: the Value Of Creative Non-Fiction Journalism To The Social Sciences, Sofie F. Tholl
Unhappy Together: Chinese Diaspora In Film, Jo Hsin Wang
Technology and the Glass Imagination: Isolation and Closeness from the Window to the Screen, Sarah Elizabeth Welsh
Actuality Or Mystifying Spectacle? War In Cinema And Electronic Gaming, Christopher Robert Workoff
Theses and Capstone Projects from 2014
Infrastructure, Production, and Archive: American and Japanese Video Art Production of 1960s and 1970s, Ann Atsuko Adachi
Marvel Comics and New York Stories: Anti-Heroes and Street Level Vigilantes Daredevil and The Punisher, Jesse Allen
Dominican Gaga Music and Dance: The Remaking of a Spiritual Performance in the City of New York, Marimer Berberena
A Parent at War and the "Invisible Wounds" They Carry Home: PTSD in Military Veterans and a Review of Psychosocial Family System Challenges, Melina Sofia Calle
The Bronx: Creating Fashion Identity through Race, Class, Hip-Hop Culture and J.Lo, Milesska Jordana Contreras-Hernandez
Wordsworth, Ruins, and the Dialectics of Melancholia, Colin Dekeersgieter
Can All Religions Live In Peace?, Antony Das S. Devadhasan
Environmental Progress Under China's New Leadership, Arielle Dumornay
Feisty Kids on the Conservative Block: How Business Mobilized against Organized Labor in the Seventies, Ryan Eustace
Gentle Introduction Resource, James Anderson Laird Evans
"Women Have the Right to Fight!": The Contested Legacy of Second-Wave Feminism and Anti-Rape Politics in the Trials of Inez Garcia, 1974-1977, Megan Elizabeth Feulner
Queen of the Underworld: The Biography of Sophie Lyons (1848-1924), Barbara M. Gray
Early Ballet in the United States: The Importance of Florence Rogge, Choreographer, E. Laura Hausmann
"La Feminista Nuyorquina" Contextualizing Latina Experience in the Space of Radical U.S. History: Dominican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban Presence in New York City, Maribi Henriquez
An Approach To Understanding Through Practice: Contextual Analysis Of A High School--College Latina/o And Latin American Studies Collaborative Program, Gabriel Antonio Higuera
The Shadow Banking System in the United States, Bhakti Joshi
Working Women: Contemporary Cinematic Costumes in "Desk Set" and "Working Girl", Karen Hummel Kinsley
Bass in Your Face: A Case-Study Exploration of Networked Culture, Samantha Phyllis Kretmar
The Relative Impact of Identity on LGBT API Outness: A Quantitative Analysis, Jessica Lee
Teaching in the Shadow of Sekou: Reflective Practice, Culturally Relevant and Student-Centered Pedagogy and the Research to Performance Method, Brian Gregory Lewis
Foreseeing Identity in Blank Interstices: New-wave African Migration to the United States and a New Theory of Diaspora, Bernard D. Lombardi
"Do you live on Spruce Street or are you straight?" The Boundaries of Philadelphia's Gayborhood and the Production of Queer Identities, Lauren Elisabeth Manley
The Perceived Religiousness of the Repertoire of the Muslim Minority in France, Brian Mawyer
The Jacob A. Riis-Theodore Roosevelt Digital Archive, Jonathan Conrad Maxwell
The Representation of Nonmonogamy on Feminist Blogs, Caitlin M.
Aging Out of the Spectrum of Cultural Visibility, Darthea M. Miller
School Librarians and the Common Core: How They Can Help Teachers and Students Through the New Standards, Enito Mock
Ethnic Language Maintenance: A Case Study of Second-Generation Iranian Americans in the Northeastern States, Maryam Moeini Meybodi
Public Space--Urban Spaces Of Multiple And Diverse Publics, Antti Moelsae
Work-Life Experiences for People with Mobility Disabilities in New York City, Jessica A. Murray
Coming Of Age During The Sixties: A Narration Of Lives Through Music And Battle, Jennifer L. Oliveri
Flapper Fashion In the Context of Cultural Changes of America in the 1920s, Soo Hyun Park
Rendering the Unthinkable: (Un)knowable Animality, Compulsory Recovery, and Heterosexualized Trauma in The Hunger Games, Jennifer Polish
The Second Generation's Homeland Trips: A Parental Expectation for the U.S.-Born Children of Mexican Immigrants in the South Bronx, Alexia Raynal