Cogut Institute for the Humanities

ACADEMIC YEAR

NAME

GRADUATION

DEPARTMENT

RESEARCH PROJECT

2024-2025

Arnav Adhikari

N/A English Amorphous Empires: Literature, Media, and Politics in Cold War South Asia
2024-2025 Lee Gilboa N/A Music Listening for More: A Study of Heardness
2024-2025 Nomaan Hasan N/A Anthropology Experiments in Collective Selfhood on the Last Days of Democracy
2024-2025 Amanda Macedo Macedo N/A Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Unraveling Resistance: Aesthetic Interventions in the Face of Imperial Violence
2024-2025 Katharina Weygold N/A American Studies African American Women and Haiti from the U.S. Occupation to the Duvalier Regime, 1915 - 1986
2023-2024 Devon Clifton N/A English Psychoanalytics: Towards a Black Object Study
2023-2024 Brianna Eaton N/A Africana Studies Everywhere Black Folks Went: Examining Transnational Diasporic Dialogues in Media
2023-2024 Itamar Levin N/A Classics Cenotaphs and the Politics of Commemoration: Civic Ideology in the Greek Polis
2023-2024 Goutam Piduri N/A English Owning Renunciation: Studies in the Authority of Non-possession

2022-2023

Sam Coren

N/A

American Studies

Watershed Metropolis: A Partial History of the Providence River and Its Lifeworlds

2022-2023

Marah Nagelhout

N/A

English

Critique of Extractive Reason: Time and the Environmental Antiblackness of Racial Capital

2022-2023

Ayantu Israel-Megerssa

N/A

Political Science

Impossible Objects: Democratic Pessimism and a Politics of Contamination

2022-2023

Kiran Saili

N/A

English

Identification After Disillusionment: The ‘Minor’ Idioms of Diasporic Life

2021-2022

Lubabah Chowdhury

N/A

English

Caribbean Women's Writing and Afro-Asian Intimacies, 1948-2001

2021-2022

Christina Gilligan

N/A

English

Readerly Identification in the Realist Novel from Austen to Hardy

2021-2022

Irina Kalinka

N/A

Modern Culture and Media

User Democracy: A Political Theory of Digital Logics

2021-2022

Baoli Yang

N/A

Comparative Literature

The Literary Strata of Imperial Borders: Sinoscript Literature and its Encounters in the Tang Era

2020-2021

Tanvir Ahmed

2021

Religious Studies

Radical Shadows of God: Popular Resistance in Persianate Islam, 1200-1550 C.E.

2020-2021

Gregory Hitch

N/A

American Studies

The Forest Keepers: An Environmental History of the Menominee Nation from Colonization to Climate Change

2020-2021

Allison Pappas

N/A

History of Art and Architecture

'Considered only in its ultimate nature': Photography between Object and Idea

2020-2021

Kelly Nguyen Sutherland

2021

Classics

Vercingetorix in Vietnam: Classical Reception in French Colonial and Postcolonial Vietnamese Communities

2019-2020

Claire Grandy

2021

English

Documentary Poetry and the Photographic Record from Wordsworth to Lewis

2019-2020

Dennis Hogan

N/A

Comparative Literature

La Reina de dos mundos: Crisis and Creation in the Central American Transit Zones, 1848–1914

2019-2020

Brigitte Stepanov

2020

French Studies

In-Human: Visions of Cruelty in 20th- and 21st-Century French and Francophone Texts

2018–2019

Daniel Byrne

N/A

English

Untimely Form: Late Modernism and the Persistence of Aesthetic Autonomy

2018–2019

Michael Gastiger

2021

English

Model Cities: American Literature and the Urban Design Imagination, 1890–1980

2018–2019

Morris Karp

2021

Italian Studies

"A Time of Actual Genius": Leopardi Interprets the Renaissance

2018–2019

Anna Thomas

2020

English

Forms of Rearrangement: Habit, Injury, and Mourning in African American and Caribbean Literature

2017–2018

Rajeev Kadambi

2019

Political Science

Pathologies of Cosmopolitan Radicalism: M. N. Roy on Politics and Ethics

2017–2018

Lakshmi Padmanabhan

2018

Modern Culture and Media

The Impassive Image

2017–2018

Michelle Rada

N/A

English

There is No Textual Relation: Sex, Reading, and the Surface of Form

2017–2018

Noga Rotem

2021

Political Science

"Full of Fear and Full of Resistance:" Rahel Levin Varnhagen, Daniel Paul Schreber, and the Politics of Paranoia

2016–2017

Wuming Chang

2017

Italian Studies

Virgil as Horatian Discretio in the Commedia

2016–2017

Ferris Lupino

2020

Political Science

Ralph Ellison and the Democratic Use of Sacrifice

2016–2017

Megan McBride

2017

Religious Studies

On ISIS, or the Islamic State

2016–2017

Frances Tanzer

2019

History

Re-Imagining Vienna in the Aftermath of Genocide: Cultural Reconstruction and Representations of Jewish Absence

2015–2016

Benjamin Brand

2016

German Studies

Cherry Trees on the Highest Towers: Johann Peter Hebel's In-Difference Towards the Opposition of Nature and Man's Cultural Mandate

2015–2016

Nicholas Friesner

2017

Religious Studies

Emerson's "Religion" Problem

2015–2016

David Hollingshead

2018

English

Charles Chesnutt, the Rise of Negligence, and Nonhuman Liability

2015–2016

Patrick McKelvey

2017

Theatre Arts and Performance Studies

Ron Whyte's Prosthetic Disemployment

2015–2016

Apollonya Porcelli

2020

Sociology

Towards a Sociology of Climate Precarity: An Ethnography of Expertise in Peru's Anchovy Fishery

2014–2015

(Anna) Fannie Bialek

2015

Religious Studies

A Vulnerability and Asymmetry in Feminist Power Critique

2014–2015

Karida Brown

2016

Sociology

Turning the Screw of Interpretation on the Archive

2014–2015

Anja Jovic

2015

Comparative Literature

Black and Balkan: A Comparison of Caribbean, African, African-American, and Balkan History, Theory, and Art

2014–2015

Sara Matthiesen

2016

American Studies

Fertile Ground: Alternative to Abortion and Maternal Health

2014–2015

Yana Stainova

2016

Anthropology

A Sonorous Silence: The Polyphonous Politics of Classical Music in Venezuela

2013–2014

Nicolas Bommarito

2014

Philosophy

Virtuous and Vicious Anger

2013–2014

Meghan Kallman

2016

Sociology

Bureaucratized Morality: Institutionally-Mediated Idealism in the Peace Corps

2013–2014

Sean Keck

2015

English

Literary Regionalism and Mark Twain's Telephone

2013–2014

Coleman Nye

2014

Theatre Arts and Performance Studies

Biological Properties: Gene Patenting and the Theatrical Laws of Nature

2012–2013

Andrea Allgood

2014

Religious Studies

Some Reflections on Exile, Homeland, and Purity in the Hebrew Bible

2012–2013

Jeffrey Neilson

2014

English

Yusef Komunyakaa at the Jazz Workshop

2012–2013

Jacob Richman

2013

Music

The (Unfinished) Ballad of Adam and Elena Emery

2012–2013

Steven Swarbrick

2016

English

Milton and the Movement-Image: A Natural

2011–2012

Sohini Kar

2013

Anthropology

The Reluctant Moneylender: Microfinance Loan Officers and the Ethical Risk of Commercialized Debt

2011–2012

Aniruddha Maitra

2013

Modern Culture and Media

Why Fanon was Never "Black Lacan," but Lacanian before Lacan: Race as Language in Black Skin White Masks

2011–2012

Clint (Michael Clinton) Bruce

2013

French Studies

The Atlantic, Obliquely: Eugène Sue's Atar-Gull, a 19th-Century Novel of the Sea, Slavery, and Transoceanic Revenge

2011–2012

Chiwook Won

2013

Philosophy

Making Sense of Ourselves

2010–2011

Pauline de Tholozany

2011

French Studies

Clumsy and Clumsier: la maladresse from Rousseau to Jean-Jacques

2010–2011

Thomas Devaney

2011

History

Knights, Magi, and Muslims: Miguel Lucas de Iranzo and the People of Jaén

2010–2011

Jonathan Gentry

2015

History

The Nietzschean Politics of Musical Modernism

2010–2011

Malgorzata Rymska-Pawlowska

2012

American Civilization

Logics of Preservation and Reenactment: Historicity in the 1970s

2009–2010

Sophia Beal

2010

Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

Brazil under Construction: Literature, Public Works, and Progress

2009–2010

David Bering-Porter

2011

Modern Culture and Media

Undead: On Vital Indices and the Uncanny Life of Media

2009–2010

Kevin Patton

2011

Music

The Performance and Orchestration of Gestural Computer Music Instruments

2009–2010

Oded Rabinovitch

2011

History

Viry, or the Perraults in the Countryside: Literary Sociability and Textual Representation in the 17th Century

2008–2009

Kelley Kreitz

2009

Comparative Literature

Painting Modern Life, or the Burden of Journalism

2008–2009

Sarah Moran

2010

History of Art and Architecture

The Vita of Anna van Schriek: Gender, Print Culture, and Teresian Spirituality in 17th-Century Flanders

2008–2009

Kathryn Rhine

2009

Anthropology

Support Groups, Marriage, and the Management of Ambiguity among HIV-Positive Women in Northern Nigeria

2008–2009

Sarah Wald

2009

American Civilization

Remapping Imperial Geographics and Reclaiming National Identities in Bulosan's America is in the Heart and Galarza's Strangers in Our Fields

2007–2008

Pannill Camp

2008

Theatre, Speech and Dance

Le Premier Cadre: Theatre Architecture and Objects of Knowledge in 18th-Century France

2007–2008

Robert Newcomb

2008

Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

Counterposing Nossa and Nuestra América

2007–2008

Emily Steinlight

2010

English

Mass Man and the Future of the Social in 19th-Century Literature

2007–2008

Amy Vegari

2008

Comparative Literature

Violence, Immediately: Representation and Materiality in 20th-Century Literature, Film, and Theory

2006–2007

Jessica Barr

2007

Comparative Literature

In the Absence of Authority: Satirizing the Visionary Tradition in Chaucer's House of Fame

2006–2007

Christine Evans

2008

Theatre, Speech and Dance

The Library in the Desert of the Real