2005/2006 DISSERTATIONS

Art

• Niharika Dinkar, Advisor: Nicholas Mirzoeff Chair: James Rubin Reader: Zainab Bahrani (Barbara Frank to attend defense)
  Unveiling the Eastern Bride: Envisioning the Nation in Colonial India
• Kirsten Swenson, Advisor: Jonathan Katz Chair:Jim Rubin Reader: Michele Bogart Outside Reader Suzaan Boettger
  From Factory to Kitchen: Eva Hesse's Labors
• Weena Perry, Advisor: Michele H. Bogart Chair: Joseph Monteyne Reader: Jonathan Katz Outside Reader, George Dimock, Art Department ,University of North Carolina , Greensboro
  America in Ruins: Photography and the Making of National Meanings
• Sandra Skurvidaite, Advisor - Donald Kuspit Chair: Joseph Monteyne Reader: Jonathan Katz Outside Reader: Milind Wakandkar (English Department, Stony Brook)
• Tom Williams, Advisor: Jonathan Katz Chair: Jim Rubin Reader: Joseph Monteyne
  Pop Art, Youth Culture and Social Change in the 1960s
• Craig Peariso, dvisor: Jonathan Katz Chair: Joseph Monteyne Reader: John Lutterbie Outside Reader: Seth Clark-Silberman ( Emory University)
  Re/Citing: Radical Activism in Late-1960s America
• Gediminas Gasparavicius, Committee Advisor: Prof. Donald Kuspit Chair: Dr. Jonathan Katz Reader: Dr. Joseph Monteyne
  The Emergence of Neo-Avantgardes in Central Europe in 1975-95
• Katherine Carl, Advisor: Professor Donald Kuspit Chair: Professor Nicholas Mirzoeff Reader: Professor Stephanie Dinkins
  Aorist Avant-garde: South Eastern European Art from 1965-1980
• Robert Rand Shane, Advisor - Donald Kuspit Chair: Michele H. Bogart
  Hans Hofmann and Einfühlung
• Allison Thompson, Advisor: Barbara Frank
  Arriving at the Caribbean : Constructing Visual Representations of Transatlantic and Transcultural Experience
• Kathleen McQueen, Advisor: Donald Kuspit Chair: Joseph Monteyne Reader: Michele H. Bogart Outside Reader: Daphne Brooks , Princeton University , Department of English Literature
  The Aesthetics of Suffering: W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978), Shomei Tomatsu (b. 1930) and the Context of Visual Culture
• Valerie Hellstein, Advisor: Michele H. Bogart Chair: Joseph Monteyne Reader: Jim Rubin Outside Reader: Jonathan Katz
  
  

Art History and Criticism

• Brian Scott Winkenweder, Advisor Donald Kuspit
  Reading Wittgenstein: Robert Morris’s Art-as-Philosophy
• Scott Joseph Budzynski, Advisor Donald Kuspit
  Narcissistic Moments in German Art
• Meredith Harper Moody, Advisor Donald Kuspit
  Ruby C. Williams: An Analysis of a Visionary Art Minister

Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies

• Deborah Anne Gilbert
  Articulating Identity in Literary Struggles Over Land: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, and Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton
• Michael Scott Pittman
  G.I. Gurdjieff: Medieval Textualizations of Oral Story Telling and Modern Teaching on the Soul

English

• Leanne Beth Warshauer
  The Turn Toward Binarism in Writing Across the Curriculum
• Aerie Frances Webb
  The Finer Shades of Difference: Race, Class, and Grammar in the Nineteeth Century of William Dean Howells
• Thomas Jefferson Wehtje
  Out of Darkness, Light: The Theological Implications of (Dis)Belief in Witchcraft in Early Modern English Literature and Thought
• Sooyoung Chung
  A Multi-Dimensional History: Film Adaptations of British Classic Novels in America
• Daouda Coulibaly
  The Landscape of Traumatic Memory: Illness as a Metaphor in Native and African American Literature
• Susan Lynn Crane
  Represenations of the Natural World in Anglo-Latin and Old English Enigmata and Computi: Science as Literature and the Ordering of the World in Time
• Shumona Dasgupta
  Locating Violence: Narrativising the Sepoy Mutiny and the Partition
• Joseph William Gansrow
  Future States: D.H. Lawrence’s Pilgrimage for Nation
• Tina LaVonne Good
  Writing Assessment: An Autobiography of English Studies
• Matthew Dale Herman
  “Across Every Border.” Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, Tribal Sovereignty, and Contemporary Native American Literature
• Steven Jay Salmoni
  “The Mere Use of One’s Eyes is Happiness Enough:” (Re-)envisioning the Italian Travel Writings of Henry James
• Laura Cristina Valdez-Pagliaro
  Writing Latinidad: Mexican American, Chicana and Chicano Writers Re-Contextualizing Language, Narrative and Popular Culture for the 21st Century

Hispanic Languages and Literature

• Fernando Balseca Franco
  Designios de la Lirica Modernista en la Modernidad Ecuatoriana del Siglo XX
• Tania de Miguel Magroe
  Analisis y Edicion Critica de la Comedia “Los Enganos de un Engano o La Confusion de un Paperl” de Agustin Moreto
• Mary Boufis Filou
  A Dialogue with Psychoanalytic Theory in the Prose of Cristina Peri Rossi
• Catherine Elise Wood Lange
  Shaping the Madre Patria: Spanish and Argentinean Female Icons of the 1940’s
• Jason Blake Meyler
  Reconstructing the U.S. Latino: An Image in Literature and Performance Art

History

• Ann M. Becker
  Smallpox in Washington’s Army: Strategic Implications of the Disease During the American Revolutionary War
• Christin Ellen Cleaton
  Caciques into Indios: Spanish Imperial Project in the First Generation After Conquest
• Tanfer Emin-Tunc
  Technologies of Choice: A History of Abortion Techniques in the United States, 1850-1980
• Martin Monsalve
  Civil(ized) Society and Public Spheres in Multiethnic Societies: Lima, Peru (1850-1880)
• Glenn W. Reynolds
  Image and Empire: Cinema, Race, and the Rise of Mass Black Spectatorship in South African, 1920-1940

Music

Philosophy

• Benjamin Slater Hale
  The Roots of Moral Considerability
• Shannon Hoff
  Law and Right in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
• Timothy Alexander David Hyde
  Negativity in Hegel and Breakdown in Heidegger: A Comparison of the Structures of Finitude in Hegel’s Logic and Heidegger’s Being and Time
• Emily Sook-Kyung Lee
  Meaning, Creativity, and the Visible Differences of the Body: A Phenomenological Reading of Race
• Michael Lawrence Sanders
  The Ethical Instant: Continuity, Corporeity, and the Ground of Ethics
• Senem Saner
  The Relation Between Reason and Actuality in Hegel's Philosophy
• Paul Humphrey
  Metaphysics of Mind: Aristotle and Hegel
• Caroline Arruda
  The Practice of Recognition: Hegel and the Social Sciences
• Robb Eason
  A Critique of Contemporary Epistemological Appropriations of Hegel

Political Science

• Daniel Raymond Cassino
  Standing Water: The Causes and Consequences of Affective Intransitivity
• Thomas Christian Craemer
  Bridges Over Troubled Waters: Racial Solidarity Across the Color Line?
• Sung-Youn Kim
  A Model of Political Judgment, the Dynamics of Candidate Evaluation, and Cooperation in Social Dilemma
• Chad Michael King
  Supreme Court Decision Making in Federal Agency Cases
• Simona Kucsova
  Channels of Charter School Law Diffusion and Reinvention
• Dari Elise Sylvester
  Attitudes and Opportunities as Antecedents to Volunteer Activity: A Multilevel Analysis

Sociology

• Yasemin Besen
  Consumption of Production: Youth Labor Market with a Global Comparative Perspective
• Melissa Ann Boylard
  Gender Differences in Occupational Aspirations of High-Achieving College Students
• Diane Alison Diamond
  Going Coed: Gender Integration at the United States Military Academy at West Point and Gender Assimilation at the Virginia Military Institute
• Ivana Eterovic
  Identity and Ideology in the Formation of the Post-Socialist Political Elite/: A Case of Croatia
• Yingfeng Wu
  Social Inequality in China During Market Transition: 1988-1997
• Karen G. Weiss
  (Re)Defining Sexual Victimization: An Interpretive Analysis of Victim Definitions and Accounts
• Dawn Renee West
  Regions as Mobilization Contexts: Collaboration and Networking among Transnational Social Movement Organizations 1993-2003
  

2005 MFA PROJECTS /THESES

Studio Art

• Nathaniel Johanson, Advisor Christa Erickson
  Makeshift / Healing Environments
• Lawrence Mesich, Advisor Christa Erickson
  D.B.I. Temporary Office / Mediating Space and Gesture:
  A Tactical Approach to Art, Architecture, and the Everyday
• Gabrielle Moisan, Advisor Nobuho Nagasawa
  Make It Your Own /
• Nilufer Ovalioglu, Advisor Christa Erickson
  Mirrorland / Tainted-Love

Dramaturgy

• Timothy Charles Browne, Associate Literary Manager of Department of Theatre Arts, Steve Marsh (advisor)
• Stephen Morgan-MacKay, Production Manager of the Cabaret Theatre, John Lutterbie (advisor)
• Lloyd Nerenberg, Literary Manager of the Long Island Play Project, Michael Zelenak (advisor)
• Lydia Franco-Hodges, Assistant to the Literary Manager of Bay Street
  Theatre, John Lutterbie (advisor)

2005/2006 MA PROJECTS /THESES

Art History

• Kim Woltmann. Advisor:Michele Bogart
• Joanna Asvestas. Advisor: Michele Bogart
• Susan Van Scoy. Advisor: Joseph Monteyne
• Jesse Rives. Advisor: Anita Moskowitz

Music

• Miki Kaneda
  Toward a Theory of Functional Timbral Entities
• Cordelia Chenault
  The Vocality of Diamanda Galas

MFA Exhibition 2005, Nilufer Ovalioglu

Emerson Quartet Lesson