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.
Summer 2023
- Scott Boylan, “Restoring the State through Aristotle’s Homonoia: A Potency for True Friendship” [Thomas Pfau, English]
Fall 2023
- Maddie Bryant, “The Business of Women’s College Volleyball From a Gender Equity Perspective” [Amanda Starling Gould, Graduate Liberal Studies]
- Douglass Coleman, “Split” [Joseph Winters, Religious Studies]
- Taya Corosdale, “Inclusive Basketball Camp: Hoops Without Limits” [Amanda Starling Gould, Graduate Liberal Studies]
- Kerigan Pickett, “A Media Study on the Rise in Popularity and Ethics of True Crime Podcasts” [Amy Laura Hall, Divinity & Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies]
- Jordyn Shubrick, “Beyond the Towers: Septemember 11, 2001: Watching the Past & Present to Understand the Surveiled Future”, [Catherine Mathers, International Comparative Studies]
- Jakob Sieber, “The Entrepreneurial Blueprint — Unravelling the Relationship of Personality Traits, Cognitive Strategies, and Entrepreneurial Behavior” [Richard Larrick, Psychology & Neuroscience]
- Felix Wang, “Will You Always Be the One You Were Born To Be? Identity, Dissents, and Humors: A Case Study on R/Chonglang TV” [Carlos Rojas, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies]
Spring 2024
- Matthew Alexander, “William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury” [Jason Sudak, Cinematic Arts]
- Hayes Bierman, “Tropes for Neuro*Solidarity: a Science-Technology-Society (STS) Pirate Map to Cognitive Diversity and Disabled Collectivity” [Amanda Starling Gould, Graduate Liberal Studies]
- Peter Crispell, “Scenes from Miss Tillie’s Porch” [Michelle Dove, English]
- Michael Crout, “Exploring Neural Correlates of Social Media Use: A Review of BOLD fMRI Studies Utilizing In-Scanner Social Media Exposure” [Edna Andrews, Slavic & Eurasian Studies]
- Robert Gfeller, “Trust in the System? Public Pensions & Private Equity: A Primer for Plan Participants” [Edward J. Balleisen, History]
- Moritz Hamelmann, “Markets for Voluntary Carbon Credits: Economic Rationale, Market Structures, Valuing Biodiversity Joint Benefits” [Robert Healy, Nicholas School of the Environment]
- Shu Hu, “A Study on the Run Xue Emigration Phenomena” [Ralph Litzinger, Cultural Anthropology]
- Lizzie Lagarde, “Women’s College Basketball Personal Development Program” [Amanda Starling Gould, Graduate Liberal Studies]
- Cameron Mule’, “Regenerative Agriculture: A Key Tool in Our Fight Against Climate Change” [Amanda Starling Gould, Graduate Liberal Studies]
- Jarred Papcsy, “The Body and Mind of a Wrestler ” [Amy Laura Hall, Divinity]
- Garrett Raynor, “Jordan Lake: Biography of a Multi-Purpose North Carolina Reservoir 1945-2024 and Beyond” [Robert Healy, Nicholas School of the Environment]
- Kerria Weaver, “The State of Local Newspaper Companies in North Carolina: Diminishing the Odds of Communities Becoming News Deserts” [Chrissy Murray, Duke’s The Chronicle]
- Nicholas Williams, “The Aftermath” [Michelle Dove, English]
- Xiaohan Xiong, “The Effect of Women’s Education Level on Their Fertility Choice in China” [Arkadev Ghosh, Economics]
- Qiyun Zhang, “From Fishy Past to Fishy Future: Thinking through the Aquarium” [Dore Bowen, Art, Art History, & Visual Studies]
