Alumni/Past Programs
| 2007 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Concentration Title | Faculty Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Ronen Ben-Efraim | Governance, Decision-Making, and Innovation | Howard Raifa | Contingency Agreements, Joint Decision-Making & Conflict-Resolution: Definitions, Opportunities, Barriers, Prescription & Application |
| Hannah-Sarah Faich | Global Health and Governance | Beth Simmons | --- |
| Olivia Hudson Gage | Anthropology and Public Health | Arthur Kleinman | Motherland: Global and Social Contexts of Maternity in Mayan Immigrants to Western North Carolina |
| Austin Guest | Performance/Media Studies | Elaine Scarry | (Counter)Productive Pleasures: The Theatre of the Wooster Group as a Failure to Obey to Break the Rules |
| Gordon Kraft-Todd | Leadership | Neil Gross | Toward a Comprehensive Definition of Leadership: An Exploration of the Parts and Relationships in the Leadership System |
| Jody Morita | Urban Studies | Alex Krieger | --- |
| Alexis Pozen | Health Policy | David Cutler | Does the U.S. get what it pays for? A comparison of health outcomes in the U.S. and Canada |
| Jennifer "Claire" Provost | Urban Planning and Sustainable Development | Peter Rogers | Political Ecology and the Refugee-Farmer in Western Tanzania: Refugee Settlements, Environmental Impact, and State Politics |
| Slobodan Radoman | Ancient Architecture amid its Modern Applications | Antoine Picon | Strengthening the Identity of the “ Skutary Lake ” Region: Proposal for Sustainable Development |
| John Voith | Biology and Public Policy | Doug Melton | --- |
| 2006 | |||
| Name | Concentration Title | Faculty Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Sarika Bansal | Disease and Public Policy | Charles Rosenberg | The White Plague Goes Green: Connections Between Multi Drug- Resistant Tuberculosis in Lima, Peru and Environmental Justice |
| Kathryn Berndtson | Applied Social Ethics | James Engell | If You Had Known I Was Like You, You Would Not Have Killed Me: Rehumanization in the Wake of Failed Empathy in Rwanda |
| Katherine Chen | Music and Neuroscience | Robert Levin | Effects of Musical Expertise on Consonance Judgments of Major Chords with and without a Preceding Harmonic Context |
| Ryan Coughlan | Environmental Studies | Sheila Jasanoff | Military Bases, Poisons, and Bombs: Sovereignty and the Politics of Environmental Restoration |
| Abigail Cullinan | The Culture of Cities | Theodore Bestor | --- |
| Malini Daniel | Biology and International Policy | David Bloom | Subverting STIs and Stigmatization: The ANEDS as a solution to STI transmission among and Stigmatization of intravenous drug users |
| David Diaz | Environmental History | Noreen Tuross | Variation of Natural Abundance Nitrogen and Carbon Stable Isotopes in Vegetation and Soil as a Function of Historical Land- Use: Documenting Environmental Change and Ecological Adaptation |
| Oscar Hernandez | Ancient Architecture amid its Modern Applications | Rabun Taylor | A Theatre of Harmony: Adomo Boari's Project for the Teatro Nacional, Mexico |
| Rebecca Kastleman | Cultural Aesthetics and Performance Studies | Elaine Scarry | Ghostwriting: The Theatrical Collaboration of Robert Wilson and Helmer Müller on Alcestis |
| Jeffrey Rakover | American Cultural Identities and Social Conflicts | Brad Epps | Dissent and Despair: The Representational Interventions of Paul Monette's Borrowed Time and David Wajnarowicz's Close to the Knives |
| Sarah Sclarsic | Bioethics and Public Policy | Allan Brandt/Dr. Peter Buck | --- |
| Indra Neal Sinha | Public Policy in Health Care | Daniel Carpenter | Likeability as a Determinant of Physician Medical Malpractice History |
| Michael Soto | Development in Latin America | Steven Levitsky | --- |
| James Stillwell | Urban Studies: Community, Place, and Concept | Alex Krieger | --- |
| Joshua Tesoriero | Renaissance Studies | Patrick Provost- Smith | The Popular Spirit of the Italian Renaissance: The Emergence of Human Unity and other Values in Support of a Popular Society |
| 2005 | |||
| Name | Concentration Title | Faculty Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Joe Badino | The Information Age: Technology and Psychology in World Politics | A.I. Johnston | The Information Age: A Presentation of Two Papers The Taiwan Venture Capital Industry- Telecommunications Development in Yunnan Province |
| Jordan Bohnen | Health Care Policy | Richard Frank | Quality Improvement Collaboratives: Performance and Design A Systematic Review of Cooperative Efforts to Improve the Delivery of Health Care Services |
| Leila Chirayath | African Development Studies | Robert Bates | -- |
| Michael Donahue | Performance Studies: Directing | Robert Scanlan | The Oresteia |
| Christopher Golden | Environmental Conversation | Richard Wrangham | Eaten to Endangerment: Mammal Hunting and the Bushmeat Trade in Madagascar's Makira Forrest |
| Ashley Horan | Francophone African Studies | Samba Diop | Once Upon Today: The Evolution of Storytelling in Cameroon |
| Emily Martin | Environmental conversation | Richard Wrangham | A New ETHIC: Environmentally Themed Intentional Communities and the Future of the Environmental Movement |
| Susan McGregor | Interactive Information Design | Philip Stone | Effective Computing: A Proposed Process Model to Enhance the Initial Usability of Interactive Information Designs |
| Runal Mehta | The Modern European Arts | Peter Nohrnberg | "The Group Portrait" in John Singer Sargent and Virginia Woolf |
| Swati Mylavarapu | Human Rights Issues in International Development | Robert Bates | Voices Against the Violence: Hindu- Muslim Riots and Civil Society in Hyderaad, India |
| Jura Pintar | Biology and Philosophy | David Haig | Strategic Genes and the Individuation of Biological Entities |
| Kyle Scherer | American Government and American Theory: | Joseph Kalt | The Importance of "Culture" in Cultural Match Indian Politics Lessons from Indigenous Reservation Governance in South Africa and the United States |
| Christian Stayner | The Study of Architecture and International Development | Francois Vigier | A Temporary Permanence: The Refugee Camp Before and After the City |
| Scottie Thompson | Postcolonial Performance Studies | Robert Scanlan | She Alone is We: Solo Performance and the Search for Collective Identity in New South Africa |
| 2004 | |||
| Name | Concentration Title | Faculty Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Max Davis | Urban Studies | Jerold Kayden | Understanding Charlestown: The Search for a Method |
| Megha Doshi | Bioethics and Policy | Everett Mendelshon | -- |
| Alex Forrester | Postmodern Theological Ontolgy | Peter Gomes | -- |
| Suzanne Podhurst | Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Practical Ethics | James Engell | An Uncommon History: The Commonplace Book in Seventeenth Century Great Britain |
| Carla Seidel | Expression and Culture Studies | Deborah Foster | -- |
| Manny Simons | Neuroscience and Music | Kay Shelemay | The Presence and Distribution of Dopamine in the Lateral Olivocochlear Efferent System: An Immunohistochemical Investigation |
| Nathaniel Tan | Peace and Conflict Studies | David Little | -- |
| George Tsiatis | Byzantine Studies | John Duffy | Mother of God and Redeemer of Motherhood: The Virgin And Saints Between the Eight and Tenth Centuries of Byzantium |
| Kate Widland | Environmental Studies | William Clark | Landowner Incentive Grants: The Danger of Libertarian Values in Endangered Species Policy |
| Randy Xu | Science, Technology and Public Policy | Peter Buck | -- |
| Anna Yesilevsky | Economics and Information Policy | Jonathan Zittrain | The Devil Price Discriminates Technology |
| 2003 | |||
| Name | Concentration Title | Faculty Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Shelby Braxton- Brooks | Performance Studies: Performing Texts | Julie Buckler | The House Ansiedade Built |
| Joy Brooke Fairfield | Postmodern Performance Studies | Verena Conley | HouseBreakHeart |
| Anna Falicov | Urban Studies | John Coatsworth | Non-Honors |
| Jane Humphries | Health Care Policy | Richard Frank | Retaining Medicaid- Eligible Children in King's County Washington: A Survey Study |
| Denise Kim | Computer Science and Biotechnology | George Church | The Epidemiology of Tuberculosis: Mathematical Modeling and Three-Dimensional Simulation |
| Sara McKinley | International Health and Development | Charles Rosenberg | Faith and Aids: The Role of Faith Based Organizations in HIV Prevalence in Uganda |
| Margot Mendelson | Peace & Conflict Studies | David Little | The Legal Production of Identities: A Narrative Analysis of Conversations With Battered Undocumented Women |
| Sandra Nudelman | Behavioral Foundations of Economics | David Laibson | Balancing CEO Compensation and the Shareholder's Checkbook: Effects of Corporate Governance |
| Jelena Pejkovic | Architecture and Urban Design | Arthur Loeb | Non-Honors |
| Hilary Robinson | Genomic Science and Public Policy | Sheila Jasanoff | Making the Case for Kinship Finding the Formula for Family: Reproductive Technologies in American Courts of Law |
| Jason Schwartz | Bioethics | Charles Rosenberg | Aftermaths of Aftermath: Risk Cultures and the Mexican Maize Scandal |
| Sia Shin | Modern Visual Culture | Sandra Naddaff | Non-Honors |
| David Skeist | Cultural Aesthetic Studies: Performance | Richard Kiely | Sand in the Gears: Totalitarian Ideology and Aesthetic |
| Robert Stavert | Biology, Disease, and Society | Nicholas Christakis | Intervention, Fear and Loathing in Disease: An Analysis of Stigmatized in History and Implications for the HIV/Aids |
| Dan Tremitiere | Film Studies | Despina kodoudaki | Primary Colors |
| 2002 | |||
| Name | Concentration Title | Faculty Advisor | Thesis Title |
| Jennifer Clark | Biomedical Ethics | Everett Mendelsohn | "A Spare in the Closet:" Public Fears, Fantasies, and Ethical Performances On Cloning in Post- Dolly America |
| Michael Housman | Health Policy | Allan Brandt | The Determinants of Life Expectancy at 80 in the OECD Countries |
| Eric Krieger | Urban Studies | Arthur Loeb/Alex Krieger | Walking the Tightrope: Miami, Regionalism, and the Global City |
| Andrea Magyera | Health Care Policy | Joseph Newhouse | Aging in Place: Examining the Practices in Wisconsin |
| David Modigliani | History, Literature, and Drama | Peter Sacks | HOLED A Play in Two Acts |
| Candice Player | Medical Ethics & Health Policy | Allan Brandt | Reciprocity Matters: Negotiating Civil Liberty and Public |
| Eve Schaeffer | Native American Studies | Bert Vaux | Non-Honors |
| David Sclar | Health Policy | Andrea Campbell | Insuring America's Children: Understanding the influence of Federal/State Relations on Children's Enrollment in Medicaid and the state of Children's Health Insurance Program |
| David Segrera | International Studies: Comparative Government and Literature | Doris Sommer | Non-Honors |
| S. Andrea Sundaram | The Humanity of Science | Elvira Di Fabio | The Myth of the Discoverer: Columbus and Galileo |
| Nicholas Weiss | Media Arts | Robb Moss | What Now? |
| Daniel Yamins | Complex Systems Studies | Richard Lewontin | Structural Organizational Theory: A New Approach to Modeling Complex Systems |