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Participant history

completed list of things to doThe first Dissertation Writing Retreat, held in 2009, had 12 participants; in 2010, thanks to increased funding from the Graduate School, we were able to expand to 15 participants—a number that leaders and participants alike have found to be ideal. Below is our current listing of the names, departments, dissertation titles, and defense dates of participants from our first retreat to the present. If you are a former participant who has defended but do not yet appear on this list, please contact Katie Levin to update her with your good news!

 

Defended dissertations produced by retreat participants

2023 retreat

Brian Tebbitt

Cognitive Science / Philosophy

The Nature of Human Truths: The Pragmatism of FCS Schiller and Cognitive Science

2024

Emily Mitamura

Political Science

Plots of Violence: Knowledge Production and the Cambodian Genocide

2023

Ashley Watson

Comparative International Development Education

Born Unveiled: The Process, Protest, and Product of Racialization Among International Black African Collegians in US Higher Education

2023

2022 retreat

Zhuldyz Amankulova

Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

"It Is Not About the Person; It Depends on Their Tarbiyeh": The Role of Social Capital in Educational and Career Aspirations of Kazakhstani Youth from Rural or Lower Socioeconomic Backgrounds

2023

Emina Bužinkić

Curriculum and Instruction

Schooling aftershocks: Perpetual displacements of refugee youth amid multiple pandemics and social (b)orders

2022

SunMin May Hwang

Human Factors & Ergonomics

Aesthetics of produce: A systematic and design-based approach

2022

Jesse Kowalski

Rehabilitation Medicine

MicroRNA and neuroimaging biomarkers of neuropathic pain severity after spinal cord injury: Results from a robotic-assisted gait training study

2022

Laura Toro

Plant and Microbial Biology

Is fertilization essential for taking care of the next generation of tropical trees? / Es la fertilización necesaria para cuidar a la siguiente generación de árboles tropicales?

2022

 

2121 retreat

Evelyn Dsouza

Writing Studies

The Rhetorical Ecology of an Urban Wetland Complex

2022

Kristin Fitzsimmons

Communication Studies

Gender Rolls: A History of Gender, Identity, and Nostalgia in Tabletop Roleplaying Games

2022

Mary Foltz

Rehabilitation Science

Quantification of Intervertebral Disc Morphology: Alterations Associated with Age, Idiopathic Scoliosis, & Corrective Fusion Surgery

2022

Rachael Houston

Political Science

Like, Share, and Comment #SCOTUS: Public Engagement with the U.S. Supreme Court on Facebook

2022

Elizabeth Howard

English

“The Parted Voice”: Polyvocal Utterances in Victorian Elegies

Winner, 2023 Best Dissertation Award, Arts & Humanities, University of Minnesota Graduate School     

2022

Leah Johnson

Rehabilitation Science

Upper Extremity Biomechanics During Manual Wheelchair Propulsion: A Systematic Review and Analysis of Push Rim Positioning and Training Effects

2021

Lauren Klaffke

History of Science, Technology & Medicine

Medicated by the Corporate Soul: Public Relations, Storytelling, and Philanthropy in the Pharmaceutical Industry, 1912–1980

2021

Diele Lobo

Conservation Biology

Entrepreneurship for biodiversity conservation and sustainability transformation: a new frontier in Conservation Science and Practice

2022

Keavy McFadden

Geography, Environment and Society

Schools for Sale: Contested Geographies of Education, Urban Development, and Political Imaginaries in Chicago

2022

Samira Musleh

Communication Studies

The Unpleasantries of Love: Islamic Marital Economy and the Compensability of Reproductive Labor in Postcolonial Capitalism

2022

Amanda Shopa

Curriculum & Instruction: Arts in Education

My Easy Year: Breast Cancer, Narrative Reckoning, and the Art of Creating a Dissertation

2023

 

2020 retreat

Anna Amramina History of Science, Technology & Medicine A Common Language of the Earth: American–Soviet Scientific Collaborations during the Cold War 2021

Barbra Banks

Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

Addressing Institutional Racism in Healthcare: A Case Study

2020

Lisa Fazzino

Microbiolology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology

Bacteriophage in Cross-feeding Bacterial Cocultures: Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences

2020

Sarah Garcia

Sociology

Deindustrialization and Disability: Social-Structural Predictors of Physical Disabilities among Working-Age Americans

2021

Maria Heath

Linguistics

Tweeting Out Loud: Prosodic Orthography on Social Media

2021

Seonghee Hong

Family Social Science

Parental Goals: Determinants, Purpose, and Process

2022

Sara Knauz

Psychology

Alexithymia subscales have distinct roles in both the variability of arousal ratings and in associations with anxiety and psychological inflexibility

2022

Abraham Lamptey French and Italian

Of Sub-Saharan Clandestine Migration: Emotions, Spectrality and Hospitality in World Cinema

2021

Michelle Lee

American Studies

Death Becomes Her: Asiatic Femininity, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Disfigurement

2023

Tai Sims

Nursing

Engaging Older Adults with Alzheimer’s Disease in Exercise: Impact on Caregivers

2022

Monica Watson

Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

How are microbial symbionts exchanged between different host species and across host migration?

2021

 

2019 retreat

Chris Bell

Theatre Arts and Dance

Ecologies of Indigenous-led Performance Collaborations

2022

Sian Durward-Akhurst

Veterinary Medicine 

Tools for Precision Medicine in the Horse

2020

Macey Flood

History of Science, Technology & Medicine

Simple Medicines: Land, Health, and Power in the 19th-century Ojibwe Western Great Lakes

2021

Lisa Gulya

Sociology

Post-Soviet Americans: Familial and National Belonging for Russian Adoptees in the U.S.

2023

David Korostyshevsky

History of Science, Technology & Medicine

Governing Habitual Drunkards: Guardianship, Life Insurance, and the Medico-Legal History of Compulsive Drinking in Nineteenth-Century America

2021

Charlotte Madere

English

Creating Indian and British Selves: Life-Writing and Colonial Relations, 1794–1826

2020

David Melendez

Theatre Arts and Dance

As the Padres Answered: Mission Space, Performance, and Fantasies of Representation in Alta California

2022

Aaron Mallory

Geography

In The Life: Accounting and Triage for Black LGBTQIA Communities in HIV Prevention 

2020

Elaine Norton

Veterinary Medicine

Identification of genetic loci underlying equine metabolic syndrome and laminitis risk

2019

Emma Snowden

History

Briding the Straight: The Shared History of Iberia and North Africa in Medieval Muslim and Christian Chronicles

2021

Irene Vuu

Pharmacy

Development of Parenteral Drugs for the Treatment of Seizure Emergencies

2019

Patrick Wilz

History

In Cold Type: The New Technological Sublime and the Reimagining of Print Journalism in the United States and Britain, 1960–1995

2021

 

2018 retreat

Micaela Bagley

Astrophysics

Reionization from Z to A: Lessons from z~6-7 Lyman-alpha emitters and local analogs of high-redshift galaxies

2018

Chip Chang

American Studies

Korean American Creations and Discontents: Korean American Cultural Productions, Los Angeles, and Post-1992

2020

Suyue Chen

Chemistry

Controlled Synthesis of Silver Nanostructures Using Polyol Methods

2019

Elisheva Cohen Comparative and International Development Education Producing a Culture of Inclusion: Inclusive Refugee Education for Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan 2019
Ambria Crusan Food Science and Nutrition

The Association Between Reported Dietary β-Carotene Intakes, Serum β-Carotene, Anthropometric Factors, and Dietary Fat in United States Adults

2020
Andrew Fang Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy Analysis of Air Pollution Models in the context of Coupled Carbon and Air Pollution Benefits in Multi-scale Urban Systems 2019
Shannon Flaherty Art History Tell Me About It: The Role of Confession in Contemporary Art 2019
Amanda Gorton Ecology, Evolution and Behavior The spatial scale of adaptation in common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) 2019

Allison Haaning

Agronomy and Plant Genetics

Natural genetic variation and gene expression patterns underlying lateral shoot (tiller) development in barley (Hordeum vulgare L)

2018

Jennifer Kang English Modernism and Its Other: The Making of Oppositional Aesthetics in the Era of High Modernism 2021

Curt Lund

Design, Housing, and Apparel

Brodovitch Before Bazaar

2020

Abigail Rombalski

Curriculum & Instruction: Literacy Education

“I get it that you're worried about my school, but this is my education”: Connected literacies and critical pedagogies in anti-racist youth organizing

2018

Ana Claudia Dos Santos São Bernardo

Spanish and Portuguese Studies

From the Dumpster to the Bookshelf: Literature Written by Black Brazilian Women and the Quest for Mobility from 1960s to the Present

2020

 

2017 retreat

Katie Anderson

Comparative and Molecular Biosciences (Veterinary Medicine)

Melanoma displays an evolutionarily conserved resistance to modulation of phagocytic signals

2017

Melanie Galloway

Physics

Morphology is a Link to the Past: Examining Formative and Secular Galactic Evolution through Morphology

2017

Jasmine Joseph

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Heritability of Behavioral and Brain Measures in a Large Cohort of Healthy Twin and Non-Twin Subjects

2019

Sara Kemper

Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

"Where I Bloomed": Exploring Teacher Professional Vitality in the Teacher-Powered School

2020

Tina Kilaberia

Social Work

Diversity of Expertise, Social Diversity, and Commitment: A Comparison of Five Teams at a Care Organization

2017

Min Jung Kim

Carlson School of Management

From mass to motion: The temporal dynamics of industry clusters

2020

Lars Z. Mackenzie

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Digitizing Difference: Fraudulence, Gender Non-Conformity, and Data

2019

Brendan McGillicuddy

Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature

Drug Regimes: Addiction, Biopolitics, American Literature, 1820–1940

2019

Emily Morris

Comparative International Development Education

Performing Graduates and Dropouts: The Gendered Scripts and Aspirations of Secondary School Students in Zanzibar

2018

Joanna Núñez

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies and Chicana/o & Latina/o Studies

¡Mi Mamá me Enseño! Teaching and Learning Mexicana and Chicana Feminisms in the Home

2019

Kong Pheng Pha

American Studies

Queer Refugeeism: Constructions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Hmong Diaspora

2017

Aaron Rosenthal Political Science Locating the State: Dual Visibility in Contemporary American Government 2018

Stephanie Rollag Yoon

Curriculum & Instruction

Connecting through Composition: Critical Intersections in Middle School Writing

2019

Meredith Steck

Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

The ecological context of individual specialization

2018

Nick Wagner Classical and Near Eastern Studies Haec Templa: Religion in Cicero's Orations 2019

 

2016 retreat

Tasneem Anwar

Curriculum & Instruction

Design-Based Online Teacher Professional Development to Introduce Integration of STEM in Pakistan

2016

Emily Durham

History

Magic, Madness, and Mud: The Progressive Realism of Premchand, Manto, and Chughtai

2018

Aaron Eddens

American Studies

"Climate-smart" seeds: Race, science, and security in the global green revolution

Winner, 2019 Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize, Association of American Studies

2019

Emily Gunawan

Mathematics

Combinatorics of cluster algebras from surfaces

2016

Yumin Kim

Design

Is Crowdfunding Altruistic or Egoistic? The Influences of Social Cause and Message Types on Prosocial Motives and Online Cause-Related Crowdfunding

2018

Kate Knuth

Conservation Sciences

How Collectives Drive Deliberate Transformation to Make Progress Toward Sustainability

2018

Alicia Lazzarini

Geography, Environment and Society

'Açúcar nem Sempre Doce': Reinvestment, Land, and Gendered Labor in a 'New' Mozambique

2017

Bin Li

Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics

A Formal Investigation of Human Spatial Control Skills: Framework, Development, and Assessment

2016

Rahsaan Mahadeo

Sociology

Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time while Young, Prescient and Black

2019

Nandita Mirajkar

Veterinary Medicine

Characterization of emerging Brachyspira pathogens in swine: Applications to disease control

2016

Shannon Dahmes Puechner

Curriculum & Instruction

"Teach the kids to code switch...which is a very easy thing to say": Heterosystemic pedagogies for racial justice within a field of (im)possibilities

2018

Amir-Pouyan Shiva

Anthropology

Being Written While Writing: Crafting Selves in the Persian Blogosphere

2017

Meagan Tripp

German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch

Dance on the Page, Poetry on Stage: Encounters between Modernist German Poetry and Dance

2019

Evan Taparata

History

No Asylum for Mankind: The Creation of Refugee Law and Policy in the United States, 1776–1951

Winner, 2019 Best Dissertation Award, Arts & Humanities, University of Minnesota Graduate School

2018

 

2015 retreat

Anne Campbell

Comparative International Development Education

International Scholarship Programs and Home Country Economic and Social Development: Comparing Georgian and Moldovan Alumni Experiences of “Giving Back” 

2016

Jonathan Clayton

Veterinary Medicine

Associations Between Nutrition, Gut Microbial Communities, and Health in Nonhuman Primates

Honorable Mention, 2017 Best Dissertation Award, University of Minnesota Graduate School

2015

Dooyoung Choi

Retail Merchandising

Development and Validation of a Self Sexualization Scale

2017

Diane Cormany

Communication Studies

Mediated Affect and Financial News Media: The Closing Bell, Marketplace and The Wall Street Journal

2016

René Esparza

American Studies

From Vice to Nice: Race, Sex, and the Gentrification of AIDS

2017

Courtney Gildersleeve

Cultural Studies and Comparitive Literature

Writing beyond Redress: Slavery and the Work of Literature

2019

Rita Kompelmakher

Theater Arts & Dance

The Human Rights Performative: The Belarus Free Theater on the Global Stage

2017

Amy Lein

Educational Psychology

Effectiveness of Mathematical Word Problem Solving Interventions for Students with Learning Disabilities of Mathematics Difficulties: A Meta-Analysis

2016

Ann O'Neill

Natural Resources Science and Management

Increasing the Environmental Services of Working Agricultural Lands Through Best Management Practices

2015

Sharon Park

History

Constructing Americans’ Responsibility to Give: Shifting Debates about Foreign and Humanitarian Aid to Child Refugees, 1945–1989

2016

Jolene Pearson

Curriculum and Instruction: Youth, Family, and Community

Too Important to Ignore: A Post-Intentional Phenomenological Investigation of Teaching Pre-Service Early Childhood Teachers About Infants and Toddlers

2016

Christy Pettis

Curriculum and Instruction: STEM Education

Preservice Elementary Teachers' Understandings of the Connections Among Decimals, Fractions, and the Set of Rational Numbers: A Descriptive Case Study

2015

Jeffrey Stott

Neuroscience

Information Processing in the Orbitofrontal Cortex and the Ventral Striatum in Rats Performing an Economic Decision-Making Task

2015

Xiaojing Wei

Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

The consequences of drought, flooding and insect herbivory on the distributions of closely related Salicaceae species across hydrologic gradients in Minnesota wetlands

2015

R.M. Wolff

Art History

All We Have: Performance Photographs and Artist Interviews in the Contemporary

2016

 

2014 retreat

Austin Stair Calhoun

Kinesiology

Sports Information Directors and the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Narrative: Applying Gatekeeping Theory to the Creation and Contents of Division I Women’s Basketball Online Coaching Biographies

2014

Scott Ehrenburg

Spanish & Portuguese Studies

Living and Dying for the Plural: Transformations of Queer Iberian Cinema 

2017

David Groos

Curriculum & Instruction: Science Education

The Knowledge Building Approach to Science Education: A Problem-Solving Perspective

2019

Jennifer Immich

Anthropology

Siting of Castles in the Midlands of Ireland: A Spatial Approach to Cultural Landscapes

2015

Brynna Jones

Chemistry

Dynamics, Solvent, and Reactions: Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy of Vaska's Complex and its Adducts

2015

Elakshi Kumar

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Apprehending Female Masculinity: Globalization and Gender Noncomformity in India

2015

Sarah Lageson

Sociology

Digital Punishment: The Production and Consequences of Online Crime Reporting

Winner, 2017 Best Dissertation Award, Social Sciences & Education, University of Minnesota Graduate School

2015

Suhna Lee

Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health

Coordinating Care: A Relational Systems Approach

2014

Laura Luepke

History and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Defining the Physician's Duty: Medical Professionalization in America and the Politics of Prostitution Reform Activism, 1870s–1910s

2017

Kelly McKay

Theatre Arts & Dance

The Ethics of Occupation: Appropriation and Alignment as Spatial Practices Among Mapuche Activists and Student Protesters in Santiago, Chile

2015

Eunha Na

English

Empathic Imagination: Performing Interracial Intimacy in Contemporary Women's Drama

2016

Aimee Prasek

Nursing

Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate a Self-Guided, Web-Based Mindfulness Program for Stress Reduction and Wellbeing Promotion

2015

Kristina Prescott

Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

Does a natural enemy limit the diet breadth of a generalist predator?

2014

Amanda Smoot

Design

A Qualitative Study of African American Elders’ Housing in Relation to their Well-being

2017

 

2013 retreat

Emily Bruce

History

Reading Agency: The Making of Modern German Childhoods in the Age of Revolutions

Winner, 2016 Best Dissertation Award, Arts & Humanities, University of Minnesota Graduate School

2015

John Czaplewski

Curriculum & Instruction: Mathematics Education

An Evaluation of Blended Instruction in Terms of Knowledge Acquisition and Attitude in an Introductory Mathematics Course

2013

Paul Dahlen

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Enhancing Signal Integrity Methodologies Utilizing Discrete Frequency Domain Techniques

2014

Erika de Freitas

Social and Administrative Pharmacy

Why do I think the way I do? Troubling the concept of critical thinking in pharmacy classrooms

2013

Yejin Hong

Mass Communication

Framing Citizen Journalism in Mainstream News Coverage: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis (1999–2012)

2014

Mary Joyce Juan

Psychology

Intersections of Racial/Ethnic Identity and Gender Identity Among Women of Color

2014

Na-Rae Kim

English

Of Bodies and Things: The Korean as Commodity Fetish

2016

Ursula Lang

Geography

Cultivating Everyday Life: Yards, Nature and Time in the City

2014

Ya Liu

Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

"Spritual Pursuits" in Singing Identity Making of the Chinese Education Diaspora

2014

Moana McClellan

Plant Biological Sciences

Assessing Forest Structure, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Functions between Public and Private Tropical Dry Secondary Forests, a case study in Guancaste, Costa Rica

2014

Heather O’Leary

Anthropology

Uneven Absorption: World-Class Delhi, Domestic Workers and the Water that Makes Them

2014

Tom Sarmiento

American Studies

The Heartland of Empire: Queer Cultural Imaginaries of Filipinas/os in the Midwest

2014

Dana Schowalter

Communication Studies

Philanthropy as Gendered Global Governance: Philanthrocapitalism, Branded Citizenship, and the Selling of Corporate Social Responsibility

2014

Pabalelo Tshane

Theatre Arts

Well-Being Performances in Botswana: Centering Women’s Roles in Popular Theatre

2013

Laura Vietti

Earth Sciences

Insights Into the Microbial Degradation of Bones from the Marine Fossil Record: An Experimental Approach Using Interdisciplinary Analyses

2014

 

2012 retreat

Brenda Becker

Nursing

The lived experience of professional identity in master nursing academics

2013

Kara Erolin

Family Social Science

Family Violence Exposure and Associated Risk Factors to Child PTSD in a Mexican Sample

2012

Katie Goetz

History

“Tell me how you like the shoose”: Gender, girlhood, and material self-fashioning in America, 1780–1850

2013

Ilona Moore

Geography

The Work of “Feeding the World”: From India’s Green Revolution to the Paradox of Plenty

2014

June Msechu

Sociology

Intergenerational Relationships and Eldercare in Rural Tanzania: A Life Course Perspective on the Implications of Social Change on Families

2014

Nicholas Phelps

Veterinary Medicine

Improved diagnosis and management of viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus in fish

2013

Elita Poplavska

Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems

“We get patients”: Understanding the culture of patient recruitment organizations

2013

Xiumei Pu

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Imagining the Decolonial Spirit: Ecowomanist Literature and Criticism in the Chinese Diaspora

2013

Sharyl Samargia

Rehabilitation Science

Pathophysiology of adductor spasmodic dysphonia: a TMS study

2012

Dana Schumacher-Schmidt

English

Monuments of Truth: Domesticity, Memory, and Politics in the English Civil Wars and Restoration

2014

Jessica Dockter Tierney

Curriculum & Instruction

“It wasn't like we were serious”: Laughter in the mediated action of race talk

2013

Yuen-Yi Tseng

Mollecular and Cellular Biology

Adjacent long non-coding RNA PVT1 and MYC cooperate in breast cancer with gain of 8q24

2013

An-Min Wu

Land and Atmospheric Science

Hillslope redistribution of soil organic carbon in depressional landscape in Minnesota

2014

Ismail Yaylaci

Political Science

Performative socialization in world politics: Islamism, secularism, and democracy in Turkey and Egypt

2014

 

2011 retreat

Gozde Goncu Berk

Apparel Studies

A Framework for Designing in Cross-Cultural Contexts: Culture-Centered Design Process

2013

Juliette Brungs

German, Scandinavian, & Dutch

Performing the Jewish Body in Contemporary Germany: Esther Dischereit and Tanya Ury

2013

Kelly Condit-Shrestha

History

American Empire: Migration, Race-making, and the Child, 1845–1988

2017

Linda Freeman

Communication Studies

Wall of Me: Facebook Self-Disclosure and Partner Responsiveness Resulting in Confirmation or Violation of Expectations for Intimacy and Relationships

2011

Jessica Giusti

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

“Burlesque Female Behemoths”: Transgressions of Fat, Femme Burlesque

2012

Emily Goff

Adult Education

The Decision to Pursue Postsecondary Education for Women who Hold GED Credentials

2011

Laura Wertheim Joseph

Art History

Shadow Feminism: Disavowed Feminized Labor in Postwar American Art

2015

Eden Kaiser

Linguistics

Sociophonetics of Hmong American English in Minnesota

2011

Seongdok Kim

Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

Toward a model for explaining secondary school completion in Vietnam

2014

Viveca Pinto

Educational Psychology

Teaching for Transfer of an Evidence-Based Strategy: An Experimental Field Trial

2012

Laura Senn

Nursing

Nurse-Physician Co-Leadership: Exploring a Strategy to Enhance Quality and Patient Safety in U.S. Hospitals

2014

Kim Thomas-Pollei

Writing Studies

Disciplining Medicine: Science and Medical Education Reform in Britain, 1770–1850

2011

Jewon Woo

English

Performing Bodies and Performative Texts: The Bodily Culture of the Antebellum U.S. and Fleshy Writing

2013

 

2010 retreat

Noel Aldrich

Nutrition

Dietary Protein and Weight in Midlife Adults

2013

Beth Brendler

Curriculum & Instruction

De-emphasizing Gender in Talk about Texts: Literature Response, Discussion, and Gender within a Classroom Community of Practice

2012

Ryan Cartwright

American Studies

Peculiar Places: A Queer History of Rural Nonconformity

Winner, 2013 Best Dissertation Award, Arts & Humanities, University of Minnesota Graduate School

2012

Jesse Field

Asian Languages & Literatures

Writing Lives in China: the Case of Yang Jiang

2012

Caroline Hilk

Educational Psychology

Effects of Cooperative, Competitive, and Individualistic Learning Structures on College Student Achievement and Peer Relationships: A Series of Meta-Analyses

2013

Caley Horan

History

Actuarial Age: Insurance and the Emergence of Neoliberalism in the Postwar United States

Winner, 2012 Best Dissertation Award, Arts & Humanities, University of Minnesota Graduate School

2011

Melanie Huska

History

Entertaining Education: Teaching National History in Mexican State-Sponsored Comic Books and Telenovelas, 1963 to 1996

2013

Elena Izaksonas

Social Work

Latino Students’ Expectations of School Success: Do School Supports Matter?

Winner, 2012 Outstanding Dissertation Award, University of Minnesota School of Social Work

2011

Sarah Jackson

Mass Communication

African American Celebrity Dissent and a Tale of Two Public Spheres: A Critical and Comparative Analysis of the Mainstream and Black Press, 1949–2005

2010

Christine Manganaro

History of Medicine

Assimilating Hawai‘i: Racial Science in a Colonial “Laboratory,” 1919–1939

2012

Katherine Ostrom

Spanish & Portuguese Studies

Literatura Policial: Gender, Genre, and Appropriation in Argentine and Brazilian Hard-boiled Crime Fiction

2011

Nicki Simms

Geography

The Counterfeit Consumer: Conterfeit Luxury Goods and the Negotiation of Space and Subjectivity

2011

Kangyong Sun

Business Administration

Inter-unit Conflict, Conflict Resolution Methods, and Post-Merger Organizational Integration in Healthcare Organizations

2011

Rebecca Weaver

English

The Urgency of Community: The Suturing of Poetic Ideology During the Early Years of the Loft and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

2011

 

2009 retreat

Midori Green

Art History

Sec’s Appeal: The Secretary in American Popular Culture, 1900–64

2011

Amy Griffiths

English

“In a Shattered Language”: A Feminist Poetics of Trauma

2011

Chris Kamerbeek

English

The Ghost and the Corpse: Figuring the Mind/Brain Complex at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

2010

Sharon Kelly

Work & Human Resources Education

African American Women Working in the Twin Cities During the Mid-Twentieth Century: Discovering Their Vocational Identity

2010

Jessica Knight

English

Autobiography and the Making of Modernist Multiculturalism

2011

Serena Laws

Political Science

What is Owed: Debt, Bankruptcy, and American Citizenship

2011

Jennifer Lobasz

Political Science

Victims, Villains, and the Virtuous: Constructing the Problems of “Human Trafficking”

2012

Jennifer Moore

Mass Communication

Liquid Poison: Picturing a Public Health Crisis Through Visual Storytelling in the Nineteenth Century Press

2012

N’Jai-An Patters

History

Deviants and Dissidents: Children’s Sexuality and the Limits of Liberation

2010

Emily Rook-Koepsel

History

Unity, Democracy, and the All India Phenomenon, 1940–1946

2010

Sara Wellman

French

Post-Pastoral Possibilities: Nature and the Literary Imaginary in Early Modern France

2011