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Recent Draper Master's Theses

September 2009 / May 2009 / January 2009 / September 2008 / May 2008 / January 2008 / September 2007/ May 2007 / January 2007 / September 2006/ May 2006


September 2009

Danis Banks (Adv. Jacques Lezra)
Transferential Relations in the Psychoanalytic Novel: Robertson Davies, Doris Lessing, and Alberto Moravia

Alex Carp (Adv. Paul Kelleher)
“We Are at All Moments in History and in Matter…” An Essay on Feminism, Poststructuralism, and Other Necessary Fictions

Nathan Fulton (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Botany Bay and Guatanamo Bay: Exercises in Space, Law and Political Identity

Alexandra Ingalls (Adv. Jon Ritter)
Messages, Motives, and Mediums: Exploring Graffiti Writing and Street Art

Elisabeth Kinsley (Adv. Robert Dimit)
Bordering Upon Reason and Sense: Guilt’s Effects on the Early Modern Self

Justin Leroy (Adv. Tavia Nyong'o)
Governmentalities of Freedom: Liberalism, Finance Capital, and (Anti)Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1750-1850

Jamie Loeks (Adv. Maia Ramnath)
The Development of a Post Secular Theory: Finding a Balance Between Government and Religion in an Increasingly Global Society

Jordan McIntyre (Adv. Gabriele Basterra)
Faustus and Helen: The Terms of Experience

Amy Meverden (Adv. Shireen Patell)
The Pileges of Judges 19 as a Bare Life Figure: The Concubine as Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer

Lauren Murphy (Adv. Juliet Fleming)
To Witch the World with Noble Horsemanship: Discipline and Domestication in Shakespeare's Works

Scott Murray (Adv. Lytle Shaw)
An Air of Possibility: Getting Situated to the Atmospheric Prose Poetry of John Ashbery

Meghan Nadosy (Adv. Jonathan Zimmerman)
Advice to the Working Woman: Millicent Carey McIntosh and the Mid-Century Moment

Diana Oberlander (Adv. Shireen Patell)
Cleansing: A Fashion Story: Addictive Narrative Substance, Rehabilitative Resistance, and Semiotic Repetition (Lye in the projective eye)

Timothy Palmer (Fredrich Ulfers)
Chronis, kairos, and the 'Geological' Ontology of Time in Nietzche and Deleuze

Cristina Ridgley-Mones (Adv. Peter Lucas)
Innocent Ones: The Effects of Armed Conflict and War on Children and their access to Education and Culture

David Romine (Adv. Marilyn Young)
The Betancourt Way: Consent and Coercion in Venezuela’s Cold War

Susan Rosenfeld (Adv. Michael Gomez)
Guerilla Tricksters as Folkloric Strategies of Resistance: Slavery’s Effect on the Transforming Definition of Morality from West Africa to the Caribbean

Eduardo Saldana-Piovanetti (Adv. Philip Mitsis)
The Methods of Justice: A reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia

Robin Shutinya (Adv. Robert Dimit)
Biographical Illusion and Pseudo-Parody in Vladimir Nabokov's _The Real Life of Sebastion Knight_

Mary Snauffer (Adv. Joellen Fisherkeller)
The Presentation of Self Online: A Study of People’s Relationships to Online Social Network Publics

Dejana Tintor (Adv. Fredrich Ulfers)
Nietzsche’s Idea of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same as a Post-Classical Ontological Thesis

Laura Wolfe (Adv. Nicole Rizzuto)
Autant de bruit qu’un nuage: Testimony, Translation and Transmission in the Work of Marie-Celie Agnant



May 2009

Angelina Arlia (Adv. Ernest Gilman)
Shakespeare's Venetian Plays: A Continuum of Location

Veronica Aveis (Adv. Elisabeth Bronfen)
"You're Just a Girl": The Application of Gendered Identity on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

+April Bacon (Adv. Natalie Jeremijenko)
The Bricoleur and Consensual Domain: New Foundations for Interspecies Communication

Ariella Bar-on (Adv. Crystal Parikh)
"Way Down in the Hole": Redefining Law and Order in HBO's The Wire

Nadia Berenstein (Adv. Daniel Thurs)

The Bird is Gone: On the Trail of the Passenger Pigeon

+Devin Blake (Adv. Steven Lukes)
Understanding Moral Diversity

*Andrei Boutyline (Adv. Harvey Molotch)
How San Diego Got Its Heritage: A Collective Production in a City and Its Suburbs

Allison Bridges (Adv. Mrinalini Rajagopalan)
Shelter from the Storm: The Role of Housing Microfinance in Indonesia's Troubled Housing Market

Erin Deo (Adv. Laurel George)
Video Art and Its Impact on the Institution: Challenges to Ideas of Reproduction, Ephemerality, and Technology

+Mariel Dumas (Adv. Ragan Rhyne)
Breaking Venus: Understanding the Militant Suffrage Movement through the Public Museum and Cultural Governance

Molly Frame (Adv. Laurel George)
Biennial Culture: An Art World Gone Global

James Gawley (Adv. John Costello)
A Linguistic Approach to the Origins of Christianity: Statistical Textual Analysis of the Didache

+Ann Marie Genzale (Adv. Josephine Hendin)
An Inconstant Goddess: Thomas Pynchon and the Search for the Absent Mother

+Claire Heckel (Adv. Randall White)
Widening the Lens: Physical Science Research and Microscopy in the Archaeological Study of Mammoth Ivory

John Hellman (Adv. Mrinalini Rajagopalan)
Beyond Gay Community: Queer Politics, Race, and Heteronormativity in New York City's Gay Neighborhoods

Karolina Jekal (Adv. Robert Dimit)
"Women on the Market": Objectification of a Female Body in the Light of James Joyce's Dubliners, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Exiles, and Ulysses

Elena Landriscina (Adv. Bonnie Brennan)
Constructing the Rights of Foreign Nationals: The Political and Legal Mobilization Against Detention, Disappearance, and Torture

Folasona Olorunsola (Adv. J. Martin Daughtry)
Sounds of Thunder in Diaspora: The Trans-Atlantic Journey of the Bata Drumming Tradition

Donna Pancari (Adv. Robert Dimit)
Stage Implications of the Early Modern Conception of Self

Elona Pira (Adv. Mrinalini Rajagopalan)
Privatization of Space and Self: The Formation of Neoliberal Subjectivities in Tirana

David Pomerico (Adv. Sukhev Sandhu)
The Review is Under Review: An Examination of the Decline of book reviews in Newspapers and the Repercussions from an Industry-Insider's Perspective

+Lauren Randall (Adv. Robert Weissberg)
Culture and Political Consumption: How Morality Affects What We Consider Consumption

Angela Ranelli (Adv. Jennifer Berg)
Modern Food Anxiety in the United States: The Increasing Nature/Culture Divide and the Disruption of Cuisine as Regulatory Language

Margaret Seidel (Adv. Laurel George)
Balancing Interests and the Fate of an Artist's Career

Daniela MacGregor Sevilla (Adv. Peter Lucas)
Los Rios Profundos: Transcultural Identity and the Struggle for Human Rights

Alice Shin (Adv. Jennifer Berg)
The Neurotic Foodie: When Food Culture and Our Relationship to Food Signals Neurosis

Hillary Sites (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Recreating Representation: Aesthetic Culture and Performed Subjectivity in Inside Bedford Stuyvesant and Do the Right Thing

Claire Sommers (Adv. John Hamilton)
Sophia and Socrates: The Literary Quality of Plato's Phaedrus and Symposium

Hillary Sparks (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Producing Patriots: Citizenship of Belonging and the American Classroom in the Postwar Period (1945 - 1960)

Curtis Williams (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Voices of Protest: Analyzing Controversial Speech within the Black Public Sphere

Jamia Wilson (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Soul Intact: Black Feminist Consciousness and Dissidentification

Todd Woodlan (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
v2.0

Michael Wrobel (Adv. Allison Butler)
Performance Pay as Public Relations: Tracing Inaccuracies at the Source of Knowledge Production

+Pauline Yeghnazar (Adv. Heather Lukes)
"Better Luck Tomorrow": Racial Melancholia, Split Subjectivity, the Task of Male Heterosexuality, and the Possibilities for New Conceptions of the Racialized, Gendered Subject in Contemporary American Culture

Aaron Zwintscher (Adv. Nicole Rizzuto)
Beyond Closure; or, Blogs: Writing, Authorship, and Participation


+Nominee for the Hirshhorn Award, 2008 - 2009
*Recipient of the Hirshhorn Award, 2008 - 2009


January 2009

Katherine Blankenship (Adv. Laurel George)
Seeing the Glass as Half Full: How Grassroots Arts Spaces Approach New Conventions in the Nonprofit Cultural Sector

Kate Crouse (Adv. Robert Dimit)
Face-to-Face with the Other: Heidegger and Levinas' Phenomenological Ethics and the Call to Responsibility in Dave Eggers' What is the What and Ishmael Beah's A Long Time Gone

Russell Fehr (Adv. Neil Brenner)
The 1919 Elections in New York County: A New Interpretation

Christina Garcia (Adv. Nicole Rizzuto)
A Caribbean Aesthetics of Hyperbole: Excess and Ecstasis within an Ethics of Non-Identitarian Community

Leslie Heatwole (Adv. Robert Dimit)
"Can Stand Up, Will Stand Up," or How Buffy Created the Postfeminist World

Adrinda Kelly (Adv. Pedro Machado)
The Cape Town Slave Rebellion of 1808 and the Limits of Historicity

Charlene Kim (Adv. Friedrich Ulfers)
Exposure as Nonexperience

Marci Kwon (Adv. Jeanne Nugent)
Commodifying Identity: Subculture, Bricolage, and Globalization in the Work of Takashi Murakami

Daniel Lanza (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Between Friends: Queer/Straight Male Friendship in Post-Stonewall Literature and the Emergence of a New Queer Literary Tradition

Nathalie LeDu (Adv. Mark Crispin Miller)
Market Censorship in the U.S. Book Trade: How the "Reader" Became the "Consumer"

*Luke Martin (Adv. Nicole Rizzuto)
(A)versions of the Traitor: Figures of Narrative and the Politics of Betrayal in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent and Philip Roth's Operation Shylock

Patrick Reilly (Adv. Susan Murray)
The Knockout That Never Happened: Erasure in Burns/Johnson Fight and the Dynamics of Race in Early Boxing Films

+Eliane Sum (Adv. Friedrich Ulfers)
A-Polity: Pathos and A-Pathy in Democracy and Representation

Rafael Tiffany (Adv. Jeanne Nugent)
"Seeing Yourself Seeing:" Olafur Eliasson's Immanent Critique of Institutions

Brooke Todsen (Adv. Ragan Rhyne)
Congratulations! You Are the Highest Bidder: Online Auctions and the Illicit Trade of Iraqi Cultural Property

Sihan Wang (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Politicized Temporality: Heidegger's Concept of Time and the Political

Gabriel Zinn (Adv. Daniel Thurs)
Trouble on Triton, Heterotopia, and the Politics of Survival


+Nominee for the Hirshhorn Award, 2008 - 2009
*Recipient of the Hirshhorn Award, 2008 - 2009


September 2008

Mark Berger (Adv. Andrew Jewett)
Gender, Norms, and Justice

Benjamin Blickle (Adv. Patrick Deer)
Not Seeing Things Eye to Eye in A Passage to India: Conflicting Focalization in E.M. Forster's Novel and David Lean's Film Adaptation

Robin Brown (Adv. Saul Fisher)
Chromoindicators: Color's Role in Portraying Environmental Health

Dasha Chapman (Adv. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Amblett)
Kriye Bode! Participation and Embodiment through Hatian Folkloric Dance in New York City

Sakina Fahkri (Adv. Noha Radwan)
Women Writers in Algeria Reclaim the Public Space: Oral Storytelling and Algerian Nationalism

+Shayne Leslie Figueroa (Adv. Hasia Diner)
"Sunday is Family Day at Howard Johnson's:" Casual Dining Franchises' Appeal to "Happy Housewives" in Post-War America

Benjamin Foley (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Overestimating the Image: Visual Media, Human Rights, and a Desensitized Public

Mélanie Griot (Adv. Denis Hollier)
The Writer and the Demon in André Gide's Les faux-monnayeurs

Jennifer Lynn Jordan (Adv. Michael Stoller)
'In tribus Indus dominatur magnificentia nostra:' Prester John and the Crusader Imagination

David Martin (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Alternative Globalizations: The Zapatista Movement Toward Autonomy Under Neoliberal Globalization

Caitlin Kerker Mennen (Adv. Marita Sturken)

The Irish Hunger Memorial and Embodied Memory

Josh Rollins (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Epistemic Value and Equal Political Autonomy: A Defense of the Intrinsic and Instrumental Justifications for Deliberative Democracy

Benjamin Resnick-Day (Adv. Nicole Eustace)
The Case of the Captive John Dunn Hunter: Race, Civilization, and the Transatlantic Contest for Sovereignty in the American West

Cara Shepley (Adv. Shireen Patell)
Japanese Internment in American Children's Literature

Christakis Shiamili (Adv. Juan Corradi)
Is Market Socialism a Feasible and Desirable Alternative to the "Free-Market" Capitalist System?

Brittany Shields (Adv. Saul Fisher)
A Sociological and Historical Study of the Early Development of New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Ryan Stodtmeister (Adv. Thomas Augst)
Dream House: Inhabiting Identity in The Rise of Silas Lapham and The Great Gatsby

Ruth Lauren Zisman (Adv. Shireen Patell)

Armies of Metaphors and the War on Truth-or-ism: Nietzsche, Truth, and Violence


+Nominee for the Hirshhorn Award, 2008 - 2009
*Recipient of the Hirshhorn Award, 2008 - 2009


May 2008

Giuseppe Ancona (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Meeting Face-to-Face: The Post of Queer in Posthumanism

Tara Bahl (Adv. Leslie Siskin)
Exceptionalizing the Urban: Theorizing Security and Surveillance Practices in American Urban High Schools

Hilary Berwick (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
I Listen to Records: Historical Objects Within an Analysis of New Media

Sunny Bjerk (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Narrative and Nation: The Authorship of Modernity and Shame in The Matter of Toboso-Alfonso and Before Night Falls

Katherine Carlson (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Individualism and Influence: André Breton's Use of Freud, Hegel, and Marx and the Foundations of Surrealism

Laura Cave (Adv. Nicole Rizzuto)
Literature as History: A Bourdieusian Reading of The Yellow Book, 1894 - 1897

Paul Cognata+ (Adv. Rita Aiello)
Emotion and Meaning in Music: Reflections for the Performer

Michael Falletti* (Adv. Mrinalini Rajagopalan)
Tribal Commodities: Bedouin Sedentarization, Tourism, and the New Global Realities of the Jordanian Nation-State

Jesse Francis (Adv. Cyrus Patell)
An Ishmael Made (W)hole

Karl Giverholt (Adv. Nicole Rizzuto)
Resisting the Future in the Past: Historicity in Three Novels by J.M. Coetzee

Hannah Hoffman (Adv. Krishnendu Ray)
Locks, Stocks, and Bagles: Food Identities Among the Mosdos Skolya Hasidic Community in Brooklyn, New York

Elaine Jackson (Adv. Laurel George)
Reflections on a Pool: Achievement and Failure of Equity, Excellence, Utility at McCarren Park Pool

Jennifer Kelly+ (Adv. Ella Shohat)
Evangelical Imperialism in the "War on Terror:" The Representational Practice and Political Economy of U.S. Christian Zionism

Patrick Lawrence+ (Adv. Nicole Rizzuto)
Metafiction's Distorting Mirrors: Experiment as Screen for Conventional Narrative and Complicit Politics in Willie Master's Lonesome Wife and Lost in the Funhouse

Dana Leventhal (Adv. Lok Siu)
Transnational Connectivities and Family-Making in Adoption from China

Deborah Lintang+ (Adv. Jan Clausen)
Magic Realist Devices in Contemporary Chinese Literature

Jeremy Lybarger+ (Adv. John Chioles)
Black and White: The Violent Humor of William T. Vollmann's The Rainbow Stories

Jessica Lyons+ (Adv. Sal Restivo)
Anarchism, Science, and the Good Society

Maria José Navia (Adv. Mrinalini Rajagopalan)
Literary Geographies of Trauma and Testimony in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Ken Norris (Adv. Aaron Rosenfeld)
David Markson's Mistress: Amidst the Catastrophe

Pei Palmgren (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Claims to Globalization: Grassroots Global Politics and Thailand's Assembly of the Poor

Chandani Patel (Adv. Patrick Deer)
Generating Black Britain through the Burden of Representation: Political Aesthetics and Affiliative Networks

Erin Pauwels (Adv. Ernest Gilman)
The Art of Joseph Keppler and Visual Burlesque

Kristen Petersen+ (Adv. Heather Lukes)
In the Name of the Future: Reproduction, Biopolitics, and Subjectivity in Dystopic Fictions

Christina Phelps (Adv. Nicole Rizzuto)
Making (Non)Sense: The logic of Superimposed Causality in the Early Cold War American Novel

Eleanor Rae (Adv. Mrinalini Rajagopalan)
Multicultural Landscapes: Investigating Culture, Symbol, and Space in the City

Jessica Rivers (Adv. Kay Turner)
Peering into Urbana: Decoding New York City's Poetry Slam Space

Aja Roache (Adv. Laurel George)
Since "Forever Free" 1981 - 2008: The Academy and the Politics of Being an African-American Woman Visual Artist

Yehudit Robinson+ (Adv. Shireen Patell)
Plus de Meta-Food: Economies of Consumption and the Disappearance of the Subject in Eating Disorder Literature

Lisa Shannon (Adv. Laurel George)
Where the Art Ends: Karen Finley and the Memoir Mystique

Kevin Sheldon (Adv. Laurel George)
"Made in New York:" Governmental Support and Independent Film

Heather Shpiro (Adv. Jody Spiro)
Health Education in South Africa: Socio-Cultural Challenges to Policy Creation and Implementation

Elizabeth Streb+ (Adv. André Lepecki)
Real Move Manifesto: "What is a 'Real Move?'"

Ekaterina Svetova (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Communicating Images: Some Semiotic Aspects of Angelic Iconography in the Traditional Orthodox Icon

Erin Thornton (Adv. Laurel George)
Follow the Money: The Hybridity of Function and Funding for American Presidential Libraries

Lara Torsky (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Beyond Representation: Convergence Culture, Identity, and The L Word

Daniel Van Winkle (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Military Masculinity: A Critical Analysis of Arguments Against the Full Integration of Women and Homosexuals in the U.S. Military

Stewart Walker (Adv. Mrinalini Rajagopalan)
Crisis of Democratic Citizenship: Seeking Alternatives to Dominant Neoliberalism


+Nominee for the Hirshhorn Award, 2007 - 2008
*Recipient of the Hirshhorn Award, 2007 - 2008


January 2008

Leah Ammon (Adv. Laurel George)
Dreaming, Enacting, Envisioning Politics: French Surrealism Between the Wars

Sarah Cooke (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
The Decmocratizing and Mobilizing Effects of the New Media and Globalization Upon Societies Lacking a Free Press

Richard Evans (Adv. Christopher Packard)
Diamond Boys: The Representation of Gay Baseball Players in Contemporary Fiction and Drama

Naomi Hart (Adv. Mrinalini Rajagopalan)
"My Shy is My Home?": Hegemony of the National Over Competing Spheres of the Global-National-Local Axis in New Order Indonesia

Ándrea Laurencell (Adv. Josephine Hendin)
Seductive Subjectivity and Telling Truth: Fiction and Fact in the Contemporary American Nonfiction Novel

Michelle Roche Rodríguez (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
The Uncanny Real: Representations of Modernity's Collapse in Venezuela

Patricia (Kate) Simpkins (Adv. Jeffrey Spear)
Artistic Fellows and Seraphic Boys: Sympathy, Affection, and Locating the Jew in Daniel Deronda

Elizabeth Vanderputten (Adv. Harold Wechsler)
The Creation of Selective Admissions Policies at New York University: What historical institutional precedents can tell us about discriminatory practices inherent in today's college admissions policies


+Nominee for the Hirshhorn Award, 2007 - 2008
*Recipient of the Hirshhorn Award, 2008 - 2009


September 2007

Humberto Ballesteros Capasso (Adv. Jane Tylus)
Dante's Poetic of the Other: Notes for a Reading of the Dialectic of Meaning in the Commedia

Birna Anna Bjornsdottir+ (Adv. Michael Norman)
"A scene in a battlefield is more important than a scene in a shop:" Femininity and Feminism in the Writings or Virginia Woolf and Joan Didion

Brooke Borel (Adv. Andrew Jewett)
The Effects of Individuals, Institutions, and the Media on Governmental and Institutional Gender Diversity Initiatives in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Academic Faculties

Kate Bovitch (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Butch Poetics: Authenticity, Visibility, and Explicit Desire

Joshua Cangelosi (Adv. Matthew Evans)
Innate Conscience in Conscious and Self-Conscious Experience: Oikeiosis in Sensation, Emotion, Motivation, and the Defense of Moral Realism

Jeremy Dillahunt (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Reality is a PR Problem: Collective Memory, Technology, and Culture

Jesse Gant (Adv. Jennifer Morgan)
Freemen to the Rescue! Wisconsin Commemorates the Underground Railroad

Patricia Cuoto Glover (Adv. Kathleen Ross)
Ana Cristina Cesar: The Reality of Apartness

Katie Grogan (Adv. Martha Rust)
Narratives of Resistance: Representing the Multiply Marginalized Self in Postmodern Breast Cancer Autopathography

Catherine Hansen (Adv. Clifford Siskin)
Magnificent Gesture and Magnificent Imposter: Inventing the Means of Invention

Kimberly Harris (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Austria's Public Memory Culture and "A Letter to the Stars:" Redefining Historical Memory of the Holocaust in Austria

Emily Levine (Adv. Peter Lucas)
New York City Remembers the Holocaust: Physical Reminders of Our Past and Our Future

Pat McIntyre (Adv. Robert Dimit)
René Descartes' Passive Mechanics of Vision

Shabnam Piryaei (Adv. Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami)
'All the Intimate Moments:' An Analysis of Literary Strategies Employed in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad

Philip Rosenbloom (Adv. Marilyn B. Young)
Iraq as Vietnam: Collective Memory and the Contested Lessons of History

Erin Sickler (Adv. Laurel George)
Documenta and Difference: The Politics of Exhibition

Maria Skouras (Adv. Karen Finley)
China's Goddess of Democracy: Beijing's Experimental Art Scene in an Age of McDonaldsization

Benjamin Thomas (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Necessite Fait Loi: The State of Emergency in Sangatte and Rawanda


+Nominee for the Hirshhorn Award, 2007 - 2008


May 2007

Matthew Carillo-Vincent (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Fighting for My Lost Cause: The Quest for the Real in Twentieth-Century American Masculinity

Susan Civale (Adv. Bryan Waterman)
The Contemporary Reception of The Love Letters of Margaret Fuller

Laura Cogan* (Adv. Aaron Rosenfeld)
Postwar Digressions: The Narrative Journeys of Samuel Beckett's Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable and W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz

Suzanne Dia (Adv. Krista Maglen)
Exploring Why the Medical Community Responded Differently to the Introduction of Anesthesia in Surgery and Childbirth

Samuel Doak (Adv. Pedro Machado)
Masculinity, Race, and Empire in Spanish (Re)Conquest

Katherine Garretson (Adv. Friedrich Ulfers)
Being Literature: Kafka and Metaphor in "The Judgment" and "The Metamorphosis"

Alana Glaser (Adv. Sofia Shwayri)
Integrating Urban and Feminist Approaches to Female Sexuality in Juarez and New York City

Dina Hoffer+ (Adv. Judith Samuels)
Presidential Administration, Party Platform, and Public Opinion: A Study of Progress and Retreat in Mental Health Policy

Maria Elena Howard (Adv. Perry Meisel)
Articulating the Inexact: Tone in the Stories of Katherine Mansfield

Tiffany Hu (Adv. Laurel George)
The Artist as Agent: Diaspora and Identity Politics in Global Contemporary Art

Lijie Huang (Adv. Laurel George)
Seeking the Hidden: Reclaiming and Spiritual Significance of Religious Icons in the Rubin Museum of Art

Dijana Jelaca (Adv. Heather Lukes)
The Cinematic Construction of Authentic Balkan-ness: Women's Bodies and Metaphors of Territory

Yael Korat (Adv. Laurel George)
The Co-Construction and Contestation of Pearl Jam's Anti-Corporate Authenticity in the Age of Conglomerates

Anthony  Leonard (Adv. Aaron Rosenfeld)
Doubting Modernity

Arija Linauts (Adv. Laurel George)
Reconstructing Culture: The Relationship between Identity, Politics, and Policy

Galina Mardilovich (Adv. Laurel George)
Mir Iskusstva and the Art World in Russia's Silver Age

Tatiana Margitić (Adv. Crystal Parikh)
"Unhinging Fixity:" Disidentification in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing

Elek Miller (Adv. Laurel George)
Writing on the Wall: The Effects of Government Policy and Private Patronage on New York City Graffiti from 1960 - 1980

Elizabeth Oldfather (Adv. Gabrielle Starr)
Aesthetic Fear: Negative Affect and Awe in Visual Art

Lindsey Plewa (Adv. John Maynard)
William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Demystifying the Artistic Genius

Fatima Policarpo+ (Adv. Mark Sanders)
Mia Couto's Fiction: "A strategy of not being any one thing"

Julie Prince (Adv. Pedro Machado)
Pineapple Paradise: Cultural Production and Consumption of Hawai'i

Dikla Regev (Adv. Patricio Navia)
Economic and Socio-Political Development in Latin America: Neoliberalism, Democratization, and Public Sphere in Venezuela and Mexico

Lawrence Reilly (Adv. Giancarlo Lombardi)
Kissing a Mirror: Desire and Identity in Two Novels of Patricia Highsmith and Their Cinematic Adaptations

Margaret Riggs (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Africa, Atrocity, and Hollywood Cinema: Human Rights, Representation, and Education

Karen Rosenthall (Adv. Josephine Hendin)
Casting Out: Baiting the Politics of History in The Old Man and the Sea

Krista Saunders+ (Adv. Pedro Machado)
Museums, Space, and Time: How the Queens Museum of Art Exhibits Self Through the Temporal

Gina Schmeling+ (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita; Robin Nagle)
Storage as Practice in Art and Garbage

Thomas Stuart (Adv. Pedro Machado)
A Critical Reading of the Subfield of Global History

Erica Warren+ (Adv. Laurel George)
Gabrielle Münter and Dora Maar: A Reconsideration of the Construction of the Muse

+Nominee for the Hirshhorn Award, 2006 - 2007
*Recipient of the Hirshhorn Award, 2006 - 2007


January 2007

Elizabeth Bishop (Adv. Paul Kelleher)
Deconstructing the Ambivalent Madwoman of The Bell Jar and "The Yellow Wallpaper:" An Exploration of the Oscillating Proliferation of Heterogeneity in the Intersecting Marginalizations of the "Mad" and the "Feminine" Figures

Jin Chang+ (Adv. Anne Lounsbery)
Marrying Away from the Father in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park

Laura Gunlogson+ (Adv. Micki McGee)
Reaching Out: A Study of How New Mothers in America Use the Internet to Access Support and Resources

Kathleen Halleron (Adv. Lytle Shaw)
Elizabeth Bishop: The Interpretive Consequences of Potential Associations between Her Poetry and Jamesian Pragmatism

Shelley Lightburn (Adv. Sofia Shwayri)
Evidencing Harlem: Gentrification, Community, and the Archive

Nick Likos (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Surfing Mediated: From the Ocean to the Internet

Stacy Redd (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Everything Old is New Again: The Postmodern Recycling of Classic Fiction

Benjamin Unguren (Adv. George Stoney)
On Going Back to Participants in Ethnography and Documentary Film


+Nominee for the Hirshhorn Award, 2006 - 2007


September 2006

Alexandra Chang (Adv. Margo Machida)
Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual Art Collectives from Godzilla, Godzookie to the Barnstormers

Molly Cohen (Adv. Shireen Patell)
Irresponsibility and the Ethical Encounter: Levinasian Interpretations of Alterity in Shakespearean Tragedy

Michael Colley (Adv. Thomas de Zengotita)
Reading Rashomon and History: Knowledge, Ethics, and the Power of Narrative

Gregory Croft (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Selective Remembering and Deliberate Forgetting: The Construction of "Collective Memory" and the Perpetuation of Violence and Repression in the Modern Middle East

Ryan Farnkopf (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Gender, Metaphor, and Political Identity After September 11th

Stephen Koss (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Medieval Subjectivity and the Enjoyment of Women

Benjamin McClure (Adv. Theodore Hamm)
A "Terrain of Conflict:" Contending Visions for Limited Space in the East Williamsburg Industrial Valley

Jamie Oldham (Adv. Anne Lounsbery)
From Space to Place: Alice's Transformative Adventures in Wonderland and Looking-Glass World

Pablo Olivares (Adv. Peter Lucas)
Cantando La Diferencia/Singing the Difference: A Reexamination of the Relationship Between the Culture Industry and La Nueva Canción Chilena

Nina Rothberg (Adv. Pat Hoy)
What News of the Planet?: Annie Dillard and Gretel Erlich Report on "The World in Spectacle Perishing Ever, and Ever Renewed"

Kristina Schull (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Positive Peace: The Clinton Administration's Involvement in the Northern Ireland Peace Process as a Case Study in Positive Peace Diplomacy

Sonia Werner (Adv. Anne Lounsbery)
Writing Against History: The Politics of the Poetic Real

Tim Knievel (Adv. Peter Lucas)
Reassessing the "Forward Strategy of Freedom:" Prerequisites, Contingency Choice, and the Bush Pro-Democracy Program in the Middle East


May 2006

Denise Abatemarco (Adv. Heather Lukes)
Hollywood's New Anti-Love: Contemporary Portrayals of Romance in Hollywood Drama

Lindsay Anderberg (Adv. Rayna Rapp)
"A Machine, A Restoration, a Philosophy:" An Analysis of CEREC in Contemporary Dentistry

Nicole Brewer (Adv. Paul Mattingly)
Changing Patterns of Belief: Analyzing the Assumptions about Racism since Reconstruction

Daniel Butcher (Adv. Friedrich Ulfers)
Societal Disengagement, Irreducible Undecidablity, and the Eternal Deferral of Judgment: Kafka's 'Das Urteil'

Jonah Cardillo (Adv. Robert Dimit)
Visions of Identity: The Shifting Signification of 'I' in Kerouac's Early Journals, Letters, and Fiction

Michelle Duran (Adv. Peter Wosh)
Out of the University and Into the 'Streets': Shifting Strategies in Evangelical Youth Outreach and the Emergence of a Parallel Youth Culture 

Madeline Einhorn Glick (Adv. Friedrich Ulfers)
Kafka's Writing and the Need for Abgeschiednheit

Kristen Gerdes (Adv. Robert Dimit)
Blurring Binanaries: Tracing the Body in the Philosophy of Anne Conway

Laura Govia (Adv. Aaron Rosenfeld)
The Doubting Spirit: Intersubjectivity in Three Novels by Virginia Woolf

Lauren Hildebrand (Adv. Pedro Machado)
"This Area is for Tourists Only:" Collective Memory and the Representation of Slavery at Elmina Castle

Robert Forloney (Adv. Sofia Shwayri)
Covento Kivas and the Battle between Church and State in 17th Century New Mexico

James Hallquist (Adv. Friedrich Ulfers)
The Determinability of Language through the Use of Jokes: A Structuralization of Deconstructionist Theory

Daniel Hotary (Adv. Ronald Zweig)
From Text to Amalgamation: Historical Continuity of Jewish Proto-Nationalism to Modern Zionism

Amber Kelsey (Adv. Joy Gould Boyum)
Sacred "Monuments": The Candomble Ritual Performance as Social Medicine in Brazil's African Heart

Amia Lazarus (Adv. Adv. Peter Lucas)
Unimaginable Imaging After Atrocity: Reality Reframed, Images, and Impact--The Representation of Genocide in Film

William Levay (Adv. Kyra Gaunt)
Version Galore: The Remix as Sound, Art, and Metaphor

Daniel Nieciecki (Adv. J.J. Lee)
The Great Famine and the Transition from Federalism to Capitalism: Marxist Dialectics as a New Direction in Irish Historiography

Carrie Pagonas (Adv. Friedrich Ulfers)
Overfullness and Emptiness: The Irony of Nietzsche and Buddhism

Jonathan Pettinato (Adv. J.J. Lee)
War and Worship in Victorian Britain: A History of British Nationalism and the Monarchy

Joanna Raczkiewicz (Adv. Laurel George)
Modern Socialist Realism: An Account of Politics and Aesthetics in Late 1940s Poland

Shira Joy Rappaport (Adv. George Stoney)
The "Truth" about Oil Contextualized: A Critical Examination of the Values in and of Documentary Films

Angela Reed (Adv. Peter Wosh)
Creating the Real from the Ideal in the American Suburb: LlewellynPark, A.J. Davis, and the Trancendentalist Impulse

Daphne Ruoff (Adv. Paul Kelleher)
Fair or Foul: The Representation of Maternal Malevolence in Shakespearean Tragedies of Hamlet, Macbeth, and Richard III

Laura Shanley (Adv. Riaz Khan)
Multiculturalism in New York: Exploring the Adaption of Public Space in the Inner City

Alyssa Stalsberg (Adv. Paul Kelleher)
If Translation is a Metaphor, It is Not a Metaphor to Say So

Rachel Teicher (Adv. Paul Kelleher)
Difference and Disconnect: Challenging Essentialism Within the Intimate Partner Violence Movement

Raegan Truax-O'Gorman (Adv. Julian Carter)
Redefining Sexual Violence

Gabrielle Wiley (Adv. Laurel George)
Gender, Race, and Class in U.S. Advertising: A Failed Discourse with Society (1889 - Present)

Michael Wueste (Adv. Paul Kelleher)
Perverse Love: Sex and Power in Faulkner and Mishima

David Zinser (Adv. Sofia Shwayri)
Deconstructing Reconstruction: Rebellion-Era Los Angeles and the Replication of Urban Form