Best Masters Thesis Award
Graduate students may be nominated for the commencement award of Best Master’s Thesis by the College Awards Committee. For further details about the nomination process, please consult the program’s Graduate Advisor. Here are some of the past award winners:
Andrew Siwabessy (Geography)“Geologic Mapping of Terra Cimmeria, Mars, and Resultant Implications for the Martian Plate Tectonics Hypotheses”
Jacob Moran (Communications Studies) ”100% Slave-Free Chocolate: Authenticity and Interpellation in Consumptive Spaces”
Dean Bruce (Philosophy MA), al-Ghazâlî on Occasionalism , Natural Science, and Miracles
Kari Spector (Linguistics MA), Code-Blending Patterns of School-Aged Bimodal Bilingual Children
Nicole Buehlmaier (History), “Vanguards and Violence: Representations of Female Armed Resistance and the Search for Radical Legitimacy, 1968-1975”
Zara Raheem (English), "The Intersection"
Saleem Alfaife (Linguistics MA), A Grammar of Faifi
Rebecca Jacobs (Geography MA), Determinants of Fire Intensity in a Mesic West Africa Savanna: A Statistical Analysis of Fire Characteristics
Heather Barone (Communication Studies MA), Bad Boss, What Are You Going to Do? An Investigation of Supervisor Misbehaviors
Marissa Jenrich (History MA), To Treat Her as a Woman: African American Women and Respectability in New York, 1860–1890
Manuel Romero (Italian MA), Chronicling the Encounter: Wilderness and ‘Civilized’ Spaces in Filippo Salvatore Gilij’s Essay on American History
Ashton Politanoff (English MFA), Locals
Christopher Ortega (Anthropology MA), An Ethnohistorical Survey of Non-/Heteronormativity: The Role of Etiological Myths in the Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Bronze Age Mesopotamia
Suzette Zazueta (Religious Studies MA), Purifying the Body: Contemporary Notions of Purity and Pollution Concerning Intersex Persons
John Galleta (Psychology MSIO), From Injustice to Retaliation: The Mediating Role of Identity Threat
John Haberstroh (History MA), Opposing the Panhellenist: The Oligarchic Resurgence in Athens, 413–411
Shouhei Tanaka (English MA), The Plastic in the Garden: Material Ecopoetics of Evelyn Reilly’s Styrofoam
Erin Arendse ( English MA), A Textual Caribbean: Voices of the Multitude in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Tully MacKay-Tisbert (Anthropology MA), Continuities of Violence and Vulnerability: An Ethnographic Study of Supportive Housing for the Homeless
Arturo Garcia (Psychology MS), Long-term Shifts in Adolescent Nicotine Reward Following Early Methylphenidate Exposure in Male and Female Rats