Theses and Capstone Projects from 2024
Migrant Children and Legislation: Integrating Knowledge about Trauma into Policy, Yolennys E. Albornoz
Beyond The Rational: Exploring Transrational And Embodied Knowledge Through Ceremony And Nature, Dimitris A. Alexakos
Racial-Sexual Normativity in/as Narratives of “the Human”, Jeri Brand
A Journey to a Black Woman’s (Read Black Girl’s) Joy and Her Story of Coming Home, Brittany Lauren Brock
The Four Seasons: Integrating the Big Four Sports, Joseph S. Brody
Twenty Years of Community-Based College Success: Oral Histories from Practitioners, Partners, and Peer Mentors Supporting City University of New York (CUNY) Students, Benjamin J. Carey
Placemaking and Placewashing in Manhattan's Chinatown: Capitalist vs. Community Interests, Mary Chu
Culturally and Socially Responsive Teacher Professional Learning at the American Museum of Natural History, Jessica Correa
The Art of Mathematics: Modernizing K-12 Mathematics Education in the USA, Lirak Drenica
Wuwei Praxis, Zachary L. Gelnaw-Rubin
The Migration of South Asians from India to Guyana: The Journey, Struggles in a New Land, Reasons for Changes Over Time and Their Cultivation of a New Culture., Cynthia C. Harry
Power and the Press: Reimagining the World by Producing Information Together, Jen Hoyer
A Pearl Ravaged: The Paradox of Haiti and Its Socioeconomic Origins, Isabel Ishibe Exel
"My First Best Love": Women's Writing on College Friendships 1880–1905, Alyssa J. Kayser-Hirsh
Math Anxiety and Avoidance of Mathematics at The College Level: Undergraduate and Their Sense of Not Belonging in Math Classrooms, Kay C. Lashley
Housing Displacement in Corlears Hook: From Naghtongh to One Manhattan Square, Don MacLeod
Consciousness and Physicalism, Brian McGowan
Stolen Valor: Mapping the Style Subcultures of the Left, Lydia Mokdessi
Me and Mathematics: “Doing What You’re Talking About”: In Dialogue with My Family, Eden Morris
Visualizing Ancient Empire in Tudor England: Imperial Monarchy, Reformation, and the Antique Soldier in the Title Page to Richard Grafton’s Large Chronicle (1569), Peter Nicholas Otis
From the Outside Looking In: Transmasculine Narrative Identity, Experiences, and Larger Narratives on Social Media, Micah Roldan
From “Total Destruction” to “Total Dictatorship”: The Influence of Ernst Jünger’s Visionary Fascism, Nick Schiff
Fashion, Freedom, and Feminism: The Transcendent Work of Rosa Genoni and Her "Tanagra Dress" Reimagined, Christina Trupiano
Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness: An Experimental Short Film, Fernando Vieira
Spain's Vision of Empire through Conquest, Ideology, and Law in the Sixteenth Century, Penelope Yau-Wen
Theses and Capstone Projects from 2023
Conservative and Cultural Clashes with Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Bryan Z. Anderson
Is Gifted Education and Its Program a Brand?, Farzana Begum
music lessons, Cecilia-Rose Louise Bender
Justice, Pandemics, and Museums in Cyberspace: Archaeology Museums’ Decolonization Projects During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Samuel Besse
Examination of Korean Feminism from the Intersections of Colonialism, Modernity, and Nationalism in Colonial Korea (1910–1945), Yae hee Choi
The Bracero Program and the Exploitability of Migrant Workers, Kayla E. Dantona
John Singer Sargent in Spain: Eluding the Stereotype, Cristina Domenech
The Persephone Series: Storytelling, Art, and Making Sense of Myself, Katie M. Frank
Fluidity of Ptolemaic Tomb Architecture: Third to Second Centuries BCE, Caroline Gerkis
Economic Factors and Theories of Decline and Reform in the Late Ottoman Empire C. 1789–1911, Peter S. Gomori
Slow Speed Rail: The Social, Psychological and Environmental Benefits of Long-Distance Train Travel, Vincent Gragnani
Queer Aesthetics in Dancehall Lyrical Content: 2013-2023, Robert Guchinov
Diversity Still Matters: School-Level Racial Diversity, Poverty and Performance of New York City Public Schools, Byunghwa Kim
Cartographic Subjectivity in Fernand Deligny’s lignes d’erre, Anya Komar
White Supremacist Print Culture and the Creation of White Working-Class Ideology in 1860s New York City, Anna Meyer
Armenian Painterly Modernity and the Union of Armenian Artists, 1916–1921, Sato Moughalian
Africa’s Coastal Archaeological Record and Climate Change, Michael Murphy
Confusion of Tongues: Translation and Transfers of Attachment in a Post-monolingual Condition, Hiji Nam
Bozo the Clown: An Icon as American as an Apple Pie in the Face, Gregory Kent Oswald
Examining Past, Present, and Future of Agricultural Labor: From the Bracero Program to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Francesca Paradiso
MOOD: A Zine Exploring the Value of Youth-Oriented Media, Patricia K. Paul
The Possibilities and Limitations of Parent Organizations to Advance Equity, Nildania Perez
Jus Soli and Jus Sanguinis: Politics, Race, Culture, and Citizenship in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, Guido A. Proano
A Female Pharaoh and The Emperor’s Wife: Hatshepsut, Julia Domna, and Female Authority in Antiquity, Gabriella E. Ramalho
Higher Law and Lincoln's Antislavery Constitutionalism: What It Means to Say the Civil War Was Fought Over Slavery, Joel A. Rogers
Ambivalent Scales: Methods for Reading Scenes of Sexual Violation, Natalie Ruby
You Don’t Even Need the Ghosts: A Writer’s Look at The Turn of the Screw, Andrea M. Schenkel
Politics of Refusal: Justice and Liberation for Black Trans Lives, Quincy Smith
Narratives In, On, and Around Contemporary Queer Film: A Study of Adam and its Paratexts, Jeremy Stoller
A Typological and Chemical Analysis of Roman Oil Lamps from Poggio del Molino, Brandon Tejo
Bi Erasure and Bi Invisibility in Media and Medicine: Moving Beyond, Lacy M. Telles
Becoming George Lucas: From Avant-Garde, Auteur, Independent Artist to Studio Executive, Ryan Thompson
Confronting the Doppelganger: Mapping the Ontological Terrain of an Afro-Caribbean Woman as She Rebrands Diasporic, Feminine Identity Politics: An Autoethnography, Aysha E. Todd-Stone
“Girl Power, Selfies, and Sexiness”: An Investigation into the Neoliberal and Postfeminist Era of Influencer Marketing, Amalie A. Werenskiold
Ornamentalism: Costuming and the Portrayal of the Chinese Woman in Film, 20th-21st Century, Andrea Yepez
Theses and Capstone Projects from 2022
Exile Garden of The Uprooted: A Zine About Migration and The Right to Move, Sazia Afrin
The Relationship Between Turks and Armenians Leading Up To and During the Great War, Kutay Agardici
Debt-Driven Settlerism: Small Farmers and Bankers in the Trans-Appalachian South, 1800–1820, Phil Agee
The Problem of Blackness in America: Becoming When the Being Never Comes to Be, Nkiru Anyaegbunam
Desire Informing Philosophy in Plato: The Lover, the Tyrant, and the Citizen, Christian P. Bagrow
The Social Construction of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD), Raya Balabanova
North of the Grid: The Black Experience of 17th -19th Century Rural New York City, Stephanie E. Barnes
Play: A Normative Theory of Agency and Culture, Maxaie Belmont
A Case for Comprehensive Work-Based Learning and Career Education for New York City’s Public High School Students, Jacqueline De La Cruz
Process of the Memoir and the Burden of Memory, Samantha L. Fabal
Staging the Ocean: The Emergence of the Aquarium in Victorian England, Alaina Claire Feldman
The Important Role and Contradictions of Italian Women Image in Fashion, Magazines and Cinema during the Fascist Period, Lu M. GomezdelaTorre
Graphic Novels in the Foreign Language Classroom: Teaching Central American History in the Target Language, Vanessa Elizabeth Guzmán
The Cop in Your Head: Criminal Justice Education, Liberalism, and the Carceral State, Nicole Haiber
Caribbean Immigrant Parents and Elementary School Choice in New York City, Keshia T. James
Audiovisual Afterlives: The Soundtrack of Liberal Nostalgia, Max W. Kaplan
Sweetness and Femininity: Fashioning Gendered Appetite in the Victorian Age, Michael Krondl
Who Taught You to Hate Yourself: Disentangling My Black Identity from White Christian Doctrine, Patrice Lorna Lebron
Fragmentation and Fabulation: Reflexivity and the New Black Documentary, Joanna Lehan
Practicing Abolition: A Digital Roundtable on Abolitionist Pedagogy, Samantha Lilienfeld
Equitable Assessment for Elementary Dual-Language Learners, Joliette Mandel
When the Children Touched the Paintings: The Afterlives of the New German Cinema and the Red Army Faction, Rudy R. Martinez
Go Off: The Geography and Labor of Off- and Off-Off-Broadway, Sean C. Mellott
Historical Sisters: Black Feminist Actions Across History and Literary Studies, Jazz A. Milligan
Alternative Food Production in Cauca, Colombia: The Value of Agroecological Food Systems for Local Small Producers and Consumers, Andrea Negret
From Perfect Victims to Collateral Damage: How Nigerian Women are Implicated in and Impacted by Contemporary French Anti-Trafficking Policies and Discourse, Oladunni Patricia Oduyemi
When the Elite Control Public Education: A Critical Inquiry on Charter Schools, Marisela Palafox
Control, Allegiance, and Shame in Male Qing Dynasty Hairstyles, Carolle Pinkerton
Promoting Play-Based Learning Strategies in the Upper Elementary and Lower Middle School Classroom, Michelle L. Randall
The College Experience Podcast: Connecting Student Services for College Success, Lucila Sanchez
Girl Friends, Camila Santander
Hudson Yards: Hybrid Capital's New Home, Massimo D. Scoditti
The World is Your Pulpit: A Research-Based Performance on the Broder Singers, Amanda Seigel
The International Academy of Language and Culture: The Global (pre)K-12 Charter School Network, Dree-el Simmons
Prime Factors: America’s Prioritization of Literacy over Numeracy and its Relationship to Systemic Inequity, Troy Smith
How Marlon T. Riggs Queered the Documentary Form, Anthony M. Sweeney
Colonial Education: Puerto Ricans and the Carlisle Indian School, Progenitors of the Mythic Identity, Melissa Swinea