Join us in celebrating this year’s graduating class who have completed their Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies degree in the Duke Graduate Liberal Studies program. You will find details on Duke Commencement, GLS Graduation & Hooding, and the GLS Master’s Projects Showcase on this site.
Our graduates are listed below — with the titles of their master’s projects and their supervisors’ names.
Click here to see this year’s graduation photos!
Summer 2022
- Matthew Gregory Duncan, “An Environmental Humanities Approach to E-waste” [Amanda Starling Gould, Graduate Liberal Studies]
- Diana Zwilling, “Negotiating Imperial Encounters: The British and the Iñupiat at Point Barrow, 1852-1854” [Thomas Robisheaux, History]
Fall 2022
- Andie Shelton, “Volleyball’s Glass Ceiling” [Amy Laura Hall, Divinity & Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies]
- Di Xu, “Can Chinese Tourists Support Nature-Based Tourism?” [Robert Healy, Nicholas School]
- Janet Yu, “Realism in Ancient History Documentaries” [Gun-Juin Hong, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies]
Spring 2023
- Harriet Carlton, “Inescapability of interconnectivity” [Christopher Sims, Sanford School of Public Policy]
- Lacie Chen, “The Lost Reader: Self, Language, Diaspora” [Robyn Wiegman, Literature]
- Tiffany Frye, “Acknowledging Autofiction: The Gaze of the Other” [Toril Moi, Literature]
- Latishia R. Futrell, “Against the Odds: Four American Women Who Shaped Human Rights Protections through Activism in the 20th Century and Beyond” [Robin Kirk, Cultural Anthropology]
- Tatiana González Buonomo, “Inequality, Resistance, and Reparations: A Step Towards Justice for Puerto Rico” [Jennifer Nash, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies]
- Alissa Victoria Goode, “Walking to a Place You Belong: Exploring the Impact of Walkability and Historical Factors on Durham’s Black Wall Street” [Edward Triplett, Art, Art History & Visual Studies]
- EK Hayes, “Badwoman Blues: The Role of Violence in the Music of 1920s Blueswomen” [Jarvis McInnis, English]
- Anahad Kaur, “The Imagined Identity: Factors Impacting an Artist’s Brand Identity and Interaction with Their Fandom” [Rick Larrick, Psychology & Neuroscience]
- Yutong Li, “We Are All Psychos” [Michelle Dove, English]
- Echo Ling, “Interactive Storytelling in Video Games” [Mark Olson, Art, Art History & Visual Studies]
- Samantha Lauren Maksud, “Me, Myself, and I: Understanding Identity Denial of Multiethnic and Multiracial People in White Settings” [Lee Baker, Cultural Anthropology]
- Sergi Nus, “The Media Management of the Key Events in the Spanish-Catalan Conflict for Independence” [Amy Laura Hall, Divinity & Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies]
- Joseph Robertson, “The Historical Trajectory of Digital Health Technology in MSK Physical Therapy with a Specific Focus on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision” [Amanda Starling Gould, Graduate Liberal Studies]
- Sarah Krueger Robinson, “Mixed-Income, Mixed Reviews: Trading Traditional Public Housing for Mixed-Income Housing in Durham, North Carolina and Beyond” [Anne Mitchell Whisnant, Graduate Liberal Studies]
- Brianne Martha Rovtar Russell, “Walking with Ma | A Lifetime of Memories in One Act” [Amanda Starling Gould, Graduate Liberal Studies]
- Toya Wallace, “We Want To Live (Asé)” [Amy Laura Hall, Divinity & Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies]
- Ilana Weisman, “Stock Images: What Cookbooks, Advertisements, and Chicken Soup Recipes Tell Us About Jewish America” [Susan Thorne, History]
