26 GLS Students Awarded MALS Degrees

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May 14, 2016

On Saturday, May 14, 2016, Graduate Liberal Studies awarded 26  MALS degrees. Gregson Davis, Andrew W. Mellon Research Professor of the Humanities and a GLS Advisory Board member, addressed the graduates. Kim Smith served as graduate student speaker, while Director Donna Zapf and Assistant Director Kent Wicker presided over the commencement ceremony.

Seven graduates received the distinction of Exemplary Master's Project. They are:
Natalya Barker, “Revising Justice: Punitory Thought  and Action in the Works of Atwood, Jordan and Oates.”
Richard Barlow , “From Prose to Policy: Leonard Woolf’s Literary Journey from Unconscious Imperialist to Conscientious Internationalist.”
Kaitlin Henderson, “Ambiguously Human: Questioning the Dichotomy between Human and Object.”
Francesca Prince, “Compensatory Education: Approaching the Problem from the Wrong Direction.”
Laura Ruble, “How Cities Became Kindling: Racism and the Decline of Two Once-Great American Metropolises: Detroit and Baltimore.”
Dan Scheirer, “Thinking Like a Mountain: the Antiquities Act in its Political and Ideological Milieu.”
Kim Smith, “Book of Harriet: The Disambiguation of Five North Carolinian Siblings 1840-1941.”

Congratulations to all our graduates!

September 2015

Juanjuan Huang
Values and Symbolism in Anonymous’s
Brand Identity
Supervisor: Amy Laura Hall, Divinity School

Daniel C. Scheirer, II
Thinking Like a Mountain: The American Antiquities Act
in Its Political and Ideological Milieu
Supervisor: Paul Manos, Biology

*Designated as an exemplary master's project for 2015-16*

December 2015

Matthew Cronheim
Quality and the Craft of the Good Life
Supervisor: Margaret Sartor, Center for Documentary Studies

Melissa Galletta Lewis
The Origin of the Curaçao Sephardim and the Bond
Which Held the Diaspora Together
Supervisor: Martin Miller, History

Shagufta Farrukh Hakeem
The Writings of Rokeya Hossain:  A Pioneer of Her
Time Whose Writings Hold Relevance Today
Supervisor: Amy Laura Hall, Divinity School

Gary L. Patterson
The Duke Aeolian Organ: The Journey of an
American Musical Instrument
Supervisor: Donna Zapf, Graduate Liberal Studies

Harry Don Stephenson, Jr.
“Unlucky in Affairs of Business…” 
Turning Points in the Life of Lorenzo de Medici
Supervisor: Thomas Robisheaux, History 

Yang Zhao
Communications of Frequent Flyer Programs on Weibo and
Webchat: Examining Social Media in China’s Commercial Sphere
Supervisor: Kang Liu, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 

May 2016

Khalid Ansari
Hindu Nationalism in Theory and Practice
Supervisor: Irene Silverblatt, Cultural Anthropology 

Natalya Machnaigh Barker
Revising Justice: Punitory Thought and Action in the
Work of Atwood, Jordan, and Oates
Supervisor: Amy Laura Hall, Divinity School
*Designated as an exemplary master's project for 2015-16* 

Richard L. Barlow
From Prose to Policy: Leonard Woolf’s Literary Journey from
Unconscious Imperialist to Conscientious Internationalist
Supervisor: Craufurd Goodwin, Economics
*Designated as an exemplary master's project for 2015-16*

Amal Boumaaza
War in Iraqi Feminist Writings
Supervisor: Abdul Sattar Shakhly, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 

Claudia M. De La Cruz

Can Art Represent a Country? 
In Search of Salvadoran Cultural and National Identities 
through 20th Century Literature, Poetry, and Art
Supervisor: Miguel Rojas Sotelo, Latin American Studies 

Yangyang Geng
As the Fairy Tales Unfold—Reimagining Childhood with
Autobiographical Stories and Photographs of Children in
China, Cuba, and the United States
Supervisor: Margaret Sartor, Center for Documentary Studies

Kaitlin Henderson
Ambiguously Human: Questioning the Dichotomy
between Human and Object
Supervisor: Andrew Janiak, Philosophy
*Designated as an exemplary master's project for 2015-16* 

Batya Knebel
Jews in Polish Security Service: Between Soviet Communist
Rule and a Hard Place
Supervisor: Martin Miller, History

Steven Lou
A comparative Study of the Chinese trickster hero Sun Wukong
Supervisor: N. Gregson Davis, Classical Studies 

Sarah K. Brandt Maxwell
Weathered Girl: An Exploration of Scribing the Indescribable and
Healing Through First Person Childhood Trauma Narratives
Supervisor: Margaret Sartor, Center for Documentary Studies 

Tony Monaco
Improving Recruitment and Retainment of
Teachers in Rural Rwanda
Supervisor: Rosemary Fernholz, Public Policy 

Francesca Taylor Prince
Compensatory Education: Approaching the Problem
from the Wrong Direction
Supervisor: Robert Korstad, Public Policy
*Designated as an exemplary master's project for 2015-16* 

Laura Kathleen Ruble
How Cities Became Kindling: Racism and the
Decline of Two Once-Great American Metropolises,
Detroit and Baltimore
Supervisor: Susan Thorne, History
*Designated as an exemplary master's project for 2015-16* 

Kim Smith
Book of Harriet: The Disambiguation of Five
North Carolinian Siblings 1840-1941
Supervisor: Margaret Sartor, Center for Documentary Studies
*Designated as an exemplary master's project for 2015-16*

Nils Burrowbridge Tracy
Patent Pledges: Private Tool for Public Good
Supervisor: Kip Frey, Law School 

Thomas Charles Tsatsis
Fundamental Flaws in Labeling Genocide
Supervisor: Edward Tiryakian, Sociology 

Banban Wu
Beethoven’s Shifting Reception in China, 1910-1970
Supervisor: R. Larry Todd, Music 

Yumeng Zhang
Thinking Beyond Ethnic Hatred: An Examination of the
State’s Mobilizations during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994
Supervisor: Irene Silverblatt, Cultural Anthropology

Manjun Zhao
An Amorous Prehistory of Hong Kong Queer Cinema
Supervisor: Guo-Juin Hong, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies