2005 - 2006 SAH Dissertations

Summer 2006

Jesse Lerner, Cultural Studies
"Modernist Imagination, 1839-2003"

Albert Vargas, English
"Public Confessions and the Joycean Walking Cure"

Spring 2006

Denise Campbell, Cultural Studies
"Quilting a Culture: Theories of Aesthetics, Representation, and Resistance in African American Quiltmaking"

Catherine Corder, History
"Sowing the Seed of Discretion: Husbandry Manuals and Popular Religion in Sixteenth-Century England"

Alexander Karn, History
"Negotiating the Past: Restitution and Historical Commissions in the New Europe"

Elizabeth McCormick, English
"It's How You Play the Game: Christine and Chaucer Debate 'Woman'"

Melissa Menendez, English
"When Mexico was en Vogue: U.S. Modernist Aesthetics andt he Discourse on National Character"

Genevieve Migely, Philosophy
"The Repugnant Soul: Berkeley's Theory of Mind"

Stephen Parmelee, English
"Trouble in Paradise: Nine Southern California Novels, 1927-1940"

Roger Patterson, Musicology
"Emotional Expression in the Operas of Benjamin Britten"

Claudia Vesasco, English
"Robert Frost: The Design of Sexual Politics"

Fall 2005

Steven Gamboa, Philosophy
"Hume's Master Anthology"

William Havlicek, Philosophy
"Van Gogh's Paintings in the Basement: Toward the Redemption of Art"