During these extraordinary times, when it is not possible to gather together for our traditional Hooding Ceremony, GLS wishes to acknowledge the extraordinary individuals who have completed their Master of Arts in Liberal Studies degree this academic year.
Summer 2020
Nadiyah Suleiman
Precarity in German Policy: The Vulnerabilities of Refugees and Asylees from Discrimination to Human Trafficking
Supervisor: Erdag Göknar, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Fall 2020
Jessica Almy Pagán
:: salt mark :: open studio :: qr.2.vv :: picando portales :: hilvanando terruño :: stitching unearthed moments into place ::
Supervisor: Laurent DuBois, Romance Studies
Janet Butcher Shaw
Every Three Hours: The Walk to Independence
Supervisor: Susan Thorne, History
Lin Li
Wartime Film History in Occupied North China, 1937-1945: The Emerging Field and Subjectivity
Supervisor: Prasenjit Duara, History
Joseph E. McCarthy
How Evolution, Stories, and Irrationality Influence Decision Making in Financial Markets: Analyzing Whether We Can Leverage Our Innate Traits and Characteristics To Improve Outcomes
Supervisor: Edward Tower, Economics
Paul Rehren
On the Stability of Moral Judgment Over Time
Supervisor: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Philosophy
Spring 2021
Muhammad Ali
Russian Literary Conflicts Over the Nihilist Novel, 1861-1881
Supervisor: Martin Miller, History
Hongyu An
An Analysis of Shaping of Female Characters in Films Directed by Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese and Chinese Diasporic Female Directors
Supervisor: Carlos Rojas, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Dolores Arreguin-Carey
The Draft: A Review of Barriers and Benefits to a Gender-Neutral Selective Service Mandate
Supervisor: Amy Laura Hall, Duke Divinity School
Jennifer Chambers
Who’s Chasing Who: An Exploration of Relationships Among the Brigata in Boccaccio’s Decameron
Supervisor: Martin Eisner, Romance Studies
Ismail Ćidić
Biden’s Fight for Bosnia: An Analysis of Joe Biden’s Role in Ending the War and Genocide in Bosnia
Supervisor: John Aldrich, Political Science
Harper Feng
The Making and Unmaking of Guiyu
Supervisor: Ralph A. Litzinger, Cultural Anthropology
Anne Hammond
Farming as Formation: What Working with the Land Can Teach Us About the Human to Non-Human Relationship – An Essay In Companion With “The Land Witness” Podcast
Supervisor: Norman Wirzba, Duke Divinity School
Suiyuan Jin
The World of Eurydice
Supervisor: Bill Fick, Art, Art History and Visual Studies
Di Liao
Racial and Ethnic Mixing in Chicago 1920-2020: Neighborhoods and Schools
Supervisor: Robert Healy, Nicholas School of the Environment
Thea Qianyu Liu
Swaying between Grace and Pomposity: The Imagined Modernity of Soong Mayling
Supervisor: Prasenjit Duara, History
Olivia G. Merli
The Emperor’s Two Bodies
Supervisor: Mary T. Boatwright, Classical Studies
Leanora Minai
Fatal Automobile Crashes in North Carolina: A Historical and Present-Day Portrait of Grief
Supervisor: Anne Mitchell Whisnant, Graduate Liberal Studies
Hanxue Wang
Deconstructing Maoist Myth: Yan Lianke’s Mythorealism in The Passage of Time and Lenin’s Kisses
Supervisor: Eileen Chow, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Sheridan Wilbur
Pursuit of Faith: Navigating Ethics and Self-Referential Documentary – A Family Documentary Film and an Analytical Essay on Ethics
Supervisor: Wesley Hogan, Center for Documentary Studies
