Arts & Culture Capstones
Capstones from 2020
No More Funeral Marches: How an Orchestra Conductor is Using Music to Heal His City, Carolyn Brown
Mindful Mind Project, Toussaint Campbell
The Gay men who play with their HIV Status., Matthew I. Euzarraga
Three Iona Prep Football Players: Three Different Paths To College, Fiifi Frimpong
The Insanity Spectrum, Nicholas Gallagher
Closing Up Shop, Rachel Green
"Revolution", Noelle Lilley
New York’s Jazz Scene Decimated by Ongoing Shutdown, Alissa L. McPherson
Up close and personal with Italian cities during the Covid-19 pandemic and the country’s multifaceted national identity., Violetta Nespolo
Pirate radio proves invaluable to immigrant communities during the pandemic — but the FCC isn’t having it, May Olvera
Baseball Has a Race Problem: The Decline of African-Americans in Baseball, Ariel Pacheco
Connecticut’s Liberal Image Hides a History of Systematic Housing Inequality, It’s Time For A Change, Ashley Rodriguez
Profits for Spotify, Pennies for Artists, Joshua R. Rosenberg
Armed Resistance in Providence: How the Rhode Island John Brown Gun Club is preparing for an armed future., Jaya Sundaresh
The Asian Diaspora, a storytelling project, Kevin Truong
The Fourth Wall of Jericho: Wrestling with COVID, Cheyenne R. Ubiera
LGBTV - A look into queer representation in television, Daisy J. Williams
Capstones from 2019
The Body. The Art. The Psyche, Anushtha Agrawal
Becoming His Own Boss, Reginald A. Blake Jr.
Maternidad, Denise Cervantes
The Rise of Cultural Appropriation in Fashion, Henna Choudhary
Disability Artistry is Not Outsider Art, Hiram A. Durán
Healing the Black Mind, Vanessa Etienne
Rise, Fall and Renaissance of Graffiti, Georgina S. Hallowell
Discipline or Destiny: A School-to-Prison Pipeline Story, Trayonna Hendricks and Kourtney Webb
The Never-Ending Lap, Ennica D. Jacob and Alexis Reese
W()MEN, Natalia M. Keogan
Someday We'll Look Back on This and Laugh, Ben Masten
Gay Social Networking Apps are Fueling Crystal Meth Use, Moises A. Mendez II
I Love Fashion Influencing and I Hate it at the Same Time, Nicolette Muro
Putting a Face to Cancer, Lenn Robbins
Whatever Happened to the Movie Theme Song?, Luka Vasic
The Miss America Pageant Should Restore Prioritizing the Evening Gown Segment, KEISHEL WILLIAMS
Postpartum Pains, Lakea Youngblood
Capstones from 2018
Art That Heals, Christina Cardona
Inside C3: Portrait of a Megachurch, Andrew Chandler and Reece T. Williams
Suicide Watch: How Netflix Landed on a Cultural Landmine, Shabnaj Chowdhury
Reimagining Essex Street Market, Madeleine M. Crenshaw
The Fight Before the Fight: Weight-Cutting in Mixed Martial Arts, Michael T. DeSantis
What can we learn from rapper and provocateur, Azealia Banks?, Robert A.R. Dozier
America's New Favorite Food, Laura E. Duclos and Sshiva Tejas M
Telling the Good News, Allyson R. Escobar
Linda Collazo: A Bronx Aria, Jose A. Giralt
The Gentrification of Drag, Kyle Kucharski
NIMBY: Not In My Backyard, Ariama Long
Beyond "The One"/ More Than "The One", Andrea Nicole Tagle and Shelby Boamah
I AM A MAN: How legacy and inheritance bear a heavy burden on black masculinity in A Raisin in the Sun, Barbershop, and Creed, Aliyah D. Veal
How Immigrants are Redefining Hudson Valley Dining, Kevin Wheeler
Capstones from 2017
TWO-WAY CONTRACTS: THE SOLUTION FOR THE NBA, Stefan Anderson
Sneaker Culture Has Given Black Men Fashion Freedom While Creating Restriction, Shaquille-Omari Bekoe
Tropes Trump Politics, Aaron Berkowitz
The Unspoken Truth, Cherese Butler
When Grade Schools Stage Musicals, It’s Broadway or Bust ..., Erin DeGregorio
2nd Option: Overseas, Malik Edwards and Gregory Alcala
Only The Strong Live, Dewayne Gage
How the “Greatest Rapper Alive” Returned Hip Hop to its Political Roots, Meeran Karim
Half a Mile to Hope, Ryan Kelley
Control Freak: How an injured esports athlete got back into the game, Imad Khan
A Tale of Two Seasons, Fran Kilinski
Saving DIY Spaces, Katherine Lavacca
Starting Over on Stage, Keydra Manns
Left Out In The Cold, Kayla Rivera
Mask On: How Fashion Erased the Politics of Streetwear in 2017, Frances Sola-Santiago
Capstones from 2016
LIBERTARIAN PARTY GROWS...AND SO DO ITS CRITICS, Nicole Andrea Ashley
The Last Gay Man on Earth -- Can the mainstreaming of a culture be responsible for its demise?, Muri Assunção
The Psychology of Single-Sex Classrooms, Jenna E. Bagcal
Still Here: Life in a New York Garment Factory, Veronika Bondarenko
The New Pornography: The Rise of Fanfic, Kelly Caputo
NYC Dances, Camila Cibils
Head to Head with Concussions in Youth Football, Setrige Crawford and Michelle Simon
The Future of Music: Exploring Noise and Pop with Cienfuegos, Reed Dunlea
The Rise of the Rams, Anthony P. Falco
Why the Business of Love is Bull$hit, Deanne Gaston
The Blurred Lines of Cultural Appropriation, Jaja Grays
‘You’re Nobody Till Somebody Kills You’: How Tupac Shakur Secured His Place in the Hall of Fame, Joseph Devin Holt
The Post Banishment Films of Jafar Panahi, Christopher L. Inoa
How I Made an $880 Jacket for $37, Hayley Lind
Crossing Borders, Jarrett Lyons
Tracing the Rise of Food Mash-ups, Jennifer Mennella
Arresting Survival, Mariya Moseley
Cord Cutters, Brandon Nix
Haiti's Political Notes, Tadia Toussaint
Capstones from 2015
The Reanimation of the Zombie Genre, William Engel
You're Only As Good As You Do In School: Asian American Students and the Mental Risks They Face in Higher Education, Asia C. Ewart
Reshaping the Event Horizon‑ Marketing Utopia at Music Festivals, Justin D. Joffe
Transgender and Black, Looking for an Audience, Brian C. Josephs
The Struggle Of Female Fighters, Anthony R. Kane
#SociallyConnected: The Now and Then Era of the Fangirl, Tionah Y. Lee
Silk Wings: The Making of Noma, SANDRA C. LOPEZ-MONSALVE
Outrage Is the New Black, Derek R. Scancarelli
Beyond the Ring: Vegan Fighter, Bianca Silva
ATH #142, Joseph Swide
Capstones from 2014
Dead Women and White Men: Why Are Today’s Hit Noir Shows Still Stuck in the Gender/ Race Politics of the ‘40s and ‘50s?, Zainab Akande
Hockey's Cutting-Edge Canvas – The Art of the Goalie Mask, Jacob Becker
X-Cel-ing to Rio, Nicholas Forrester
A Tale of Two Knicks Teams, Madison Hartman
2-D or Not 2-D?: How the Iris Closed on Hand-Drawn Feature Animation, Thad Komorowski
Iggy Azalea: Cultural appropriator or scapegoat for accepted practice?, Malorie Marshall