This year’s Exemplary Master’s Project Awards Ceremonies will be held on Thursday, May 5 at 6:30 PM at East Duke Parlors. Please view East Duke Parlor Location and Parking Information.
Each year, Graduate Liberal Studies awards a handful of Exemplary Master’s Project designations to publicly acknowledge outstanding student scholarship or creative work. Exemplary projects represent particularly accomplished models of graduate-level interdisciplinary work. In order to be considered for this honor, a master’s project must:
- Be nominated by the faculty supervisor.
- Be notably clear, well written and well organized.
- Be of particularly high academic quality. It should demonstrate a notable measure of the following characteristics, as appropriate to the project’s particular interdisciplinary combination of disciplines and methods:
- sound and thorough research;
- sustained and insightful critical inquiry and analysis;
- evocative and meaningful creative work;
- original perspectives or innovative approaches;
- coherent synthesis of multiple perspectives or approaches; and
- lucid, precise and meaningful prose.
The following student projects received the Exemplary Master’s Project designation for 2022:
Marisol Asselta Castro
Hamilton, Miranda, and Tiny Islands in the Sea: The Puerto Rican
Lineage of a Cultural Juggernaut
Supervisor: Thomas Brothers, Music
Jill Kaufman Rose
Preparing for Widowhood – While Your Husband Is Still Living
Supervisor: Deborah Gold, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Frances Starr Rosseland-Harrison
Volleyball, But Make it Sexy: Mediated Representations of Female Athletes
Supervisor: Amanda Starling Gould, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
Lelugnim (Romeo) Tokinai
The Social Life of Remittances
Supervisor: Charles D. Piot, Cultural Anthropology
Winfred Cole Wicker
An Interpretive History of the Lower Deep River Region, NC
Supervisor: Anne Mitchell Whisnant, Graduate Liberal Studies
