School of Visual and Performing Arts

M.A. in Liberal Studies

2008

Robin Goods — Hanging Out Their Shingles:
Nineteenth-Century Black Women Physicians in America
Susan Halmi — The Castrati:
Discovering the Beauty Behind Androgyny
Mary Hamson—Courtesans:
Protofeminists of Nineteenth-Century France
Rosemary McCann—The Nestors of Kilnagarnagh:
A Retrospective on the Discovery of an Ancestral Family and Its Connections to Irish History
Susan Spiedel— Complex Women, Challenging Mothers, and the Changing Dream in the Musicals of Stephen Sondheim
Carlos Frederick—The New York Underground Railroad:
The Abolitionists and Their Organization

2007

Hattie Barron – The Role of African-American Women in the Montgomery Bus
Boycott 1955 – 1956
Brannon R. Gerling – The Eternal Idea as a Feeling

Jerome Liddy – The African-American Military Experience in the Civil War: An
Annotated Bibliography of Selected Articles

Judith McCarron – German Immigration to Colonial Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Daniel Silva – For Love and Country: John and Abigail Adams and the United States of America

Daria Catrombon--The Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33: Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer-Prize Winning Lie
Frances Rose Gallicchio--Darcia Maraini: A Study of Her Silenced Women
Sheri Jakubowski--John C. Calhoun’s Role in Southern Secession
Karen Lynch--Resistant to Bondage: Black “Loyalists” of the American Revolution
Fredy Reyes--Economic Interests and Colonial Loyalties in Elizabethtown, New Jersey from the Founding to the American Revolution
Zachary Sieczkowski--The Women’s Suffrage Movement from 1890-1920: Focusing on the Efforts of Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul
Sertirus L. Wilkins--The Black Women’s Club Movement and Its Impact on the Perception of African-American Women in America

Terrence Adam--The 1919 Treaty of Versailles and President Wilson's Influence on the Peace Terms
Thomas Billings--The Laity's Role in Renewing the American Catholic Church
Marilee A. Bleetstein--British Subordination of the Loyalists during and after the American Revolution
Joan Anna Conway--The Ethics of Using Data from Nazi Medical Experiments
Herbert Smith--Ireland: The Dichotomy of Two Heroes
Mitchell L. Schlossman--The Rise of the Bourgeosie during the French Revolution
Maria Gabriela Vargas--Magical Realism and the History of Latin America in one hundred years of solitude

John Brus--The Bourgeois Revolution: How the Colonial Expansionist Elite Shaped American Independence
Dalton A. Robinson--Richard II: The Concept of the King's Two Bodies
Laszlo B. Szremac--Going to Extremes to Understand the Zoot-Suit Riots . in Sanchez’s Zoot-Suit Murders
Catherine Sullivan--The Many Faces of Molly Pitcher

Joseph Czachowski--Vietnam: Much Confusion; Search for Relief
Craig Hoek--A Knickerbocker in Andalusia: Defending Washington Irving’s Islamic Spain
Jill Stafford--The Undocumented Mexicans in the United States: Why They Should Be Granted Amnesity
Michael Szarek--Stories of Their Own: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of The Rings

Gail Deutsch--Elizabeth Siddal: A Reading of Her Life and Art
Stephen Gajewski--Zora Neale Hurston and Womanism
Patricia Gesualdo--The Rise and Fall of the Flapper in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Linda Gorman--Biblical Allusions in Melville's Moby Dick
Jennifer Rivera--Rated R: Viewer Discretion Is Advised: Drawing The Fine Line on What Is Permissible and Appropriate to Watch

Denise Arena--The Role of Women in the Armed Forces: A Case Study of the Vietnam War as a Turning Point
Alexandra De Los Santos--My Artistic Life
Mary Kachoogian--Out of the Mists of Time: The Origins of the Cult of Mary
Katherine Mennona--The Mythological Journey of The Matrix
Susan Ortiz--Egyptian Women: Their Power and Prestige
Virginia Perez--Charles Dickens: An Advocate of Educational Reform
Toni A. Perrotto--The Nostalgia of the Nineteen Twenties and the Emergence of the New Woman

Tara Lea Aleszcyc--I, Too, Am America: Mulatto Influence on Harlem Renaissance Literature
Margaret Carlson--Without Enough Light: Reflections on the Household of William Cruser 1829 to 1841
Sean P. Dineen--An Analysis of Three Insurgencies
James Eimont--Moonlighting: What Writers Do When They Are Not Writing
Vincent G. Gagliardi--Reflections of Ourselves: The Planet of the Apes Film Anthology
Connie M. Kuligowski--American Women and the Home Front War
Robin Sweeney--Institutions and the End of Individuality

Carol Bamdad--A Community of Women in Toni Morrison's Novels
Mary Chalmers-Downs--Dorothy L. Sayers' Epigraphs: Influences and Sources Authority?
Erika Hanlon--Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Early Years
Edward Midglew--The Novels of Charles Waddel Chesnutt: Lessons for the 20th Century and Beyond
Richard A. Raffman, M.D.--Christopher Columbus and the Star of David
Ken Slusser--Introspection, Contemplation, and Meditation: The Pathway of Wisdom
Myrna Wasserman--Margaret Fuller: A Life in Transition From Puritan to Political Radical

Miguel Cruz--Views About Hispanic Music Today: A Different Perspective About the Influence of Salsa And Tejana
Miguel DeLuca--The Practical and Theoretical Differences Between Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Halleck: The Attempt to Split the South at Fort Donelson and Henry
Shirley Horbatt--Emily Dickinson's Puritan Perspective: An Epistemological Analysis
Korin Astrid Lichter--Unmeltable Ethnics? An Oral History of Three Generations of Estonian-Americans
David W. Locke--Has the Modern Judiciary Appropriated Unconstitutional Authority?
Marylyn Luster--A Rationale for Historic Preservation: A Case of the Kean Farm Buildings
Francis X. Nicastro--The Influence of Scientific Knowledge Upon Western Philosophical Ideas
Ross M. Sherman--Interfaith Marriages Between Jews and Gentiles: Assimilation, the "Vanishing Jew" and the "Marginal Man"
Sandra S. Smith--Jane Austen: Social Critic, Feminist, and Single by Choice
Raymond Zipf--Cultural Elements of Music and Society