2016
Maria Paz Almenara (Track 1)
"Yuyanapaq: Photographic accounts of spectacle and disappearance in Peru, 1980-2000
Thesis Advisor: Ariella Azoulay
Reader: Esther Whitfield
Pom Sirada Bunsermvicha (Track 2)
WRITTEN COMPONENT: "Capturing Reality, Creating Truth"
FILM: "E-po, Grandma’s Little Sister"
Thesis Advisor: Joan Copjec
Reader: Leslie Thornton
Sebastian William Rider Clark (Track 2)
"Updating Modernity in Chandigarh: Toward an Understanding of Form, Information and Informality in Urban Politics"
Thesis Advisor: Wendy Chun
Reader: Jo Guldi
Elizabeth Lauren Davis (Track 2)
"Wir funktionieren automatik Jetzt wollen wir tanzen mechanik: an Inquiry into the Politics of Electronic Music 1960-1991"
Thesis Advisor: Zachary Sng
Reader: Gerud Koch
Jade Donaldson (Track 2)
"The Electric Moon Peony Farm
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Thesis Advisor: Leslie Thornton
Reader: Elisa Giardina Papa
Grant Anthony Meyer (Track 1)
"“Good” Copy, “Bad” Copy: Discourses of Copying Within Appropriation Art, Popular Music, and Media Piracy, and Their Significance for the Ownership of Culture"
Thesis Advisor: Anthony Cokes
Reader: Wendy Chun
Hannah Rachel Subotnick (Track 2)
"Beheld"
Thesis Advisor: John Cayley
Reader: Betsey Biggs
Jane Catherine Tracy (Track 1)
"Animation and the Representation of Conflict in Documentary Cinema: The Wanted 18, Waltz with Bashir, and Why We Fight
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Thesis Advisor: Philip Rosen
Reader: Gertrud Koch
2015
Marianne Abbott (Track 2)
"The Celluloid Woman: Reversing Dehumanization in Cinematic Representations of Women"
Thesis Advisor: Anthony Cokes
Reader: Matthew Tierney
Daniel Fethke (Track 2)
"Seeing Through Drones: An Investigation into Constructed Autonomous Vision"
Thesis Advisor: Wendy Chun
Reader: Anthony Cokes
Roberto Gedeon (Track 2)
"Oh, Cornelia!"
Thesis Advisor: Carole Maso
Reader: :Leslie Thornton
Elisa Leser (Track 2)
"The Book"
Thesis Advisor: Anthony Cokes
Reader: Leslie Thornton
Augustus Longer (Track 1)
"Framed"
Thesis Advisor: Leslie Thornton
Reader: Elisa Giardina Papa
2014
Blake Beaver (Track 1)
"Queer Anachronism: Perverse Temporalities in the Hours and To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life"
Thesis Advisor: Ellen Rooney
Reader: Jacques Khalip
Sarah Friedland (Track 2)
"The Meaning of the Moves: Gestural Mythologies and the Generic Film"
Thesis Advisor: Lynne Joyrich
Reader: Spencer Julie Strandberg
3rd Reader: David Barker
Anna Muselmann (Track 2)
"Palimpsest: Re-Membering the Traces of Ghosts"
Thesis Advisor: Ellen Rooney
Reader: Spencer Brandon Shaw
Daniel Stump (Track 2)
"Chill Yourself: The Life and Times of Gnar Tapes"
Thesis Advisor: Anthony Cokes
Reader: Michael Siegel
2013
Alexis Aurigemma (Track 2)
"The Seagull: Stage to Screen"
Thesis Advisor: Anthony Cokes
Reader: Spencer Golub
Travis Bogosian (Track 2)
"Forget-Me-Not"
Thesis Advisor: Ted Bogoian
Reader: Leslie Thornton
Adam Davis (Track 1)
"Budgeting for Success: Interior Design, Real Estate, and the Competitive Domesticity of Reality TV"
Thesis Advisor: Lynne Joyrich
Reader: Wendy Chun
John-Gabriel Gonzalez (Track 2)
"BlunderF*ck"
Thesis Advisor: Leslie Thornton
Reader: Anthony Cokes
Emma Janaskie
"The Constant State of Desire: Thinking the Sexual Specificity of the Abjected/Fluid Female body with Kristeva and Irigaray"
Thesis Advisor: Ellen Rooney
Reader: Timothy Bewes
Jelena Jelusic (Track 1)
"Negociating Mediated Identities: Female Stars and Contradictions of Gender"
Thesis Advisor: Lynne Joyrich
Reader: Ellen Rooney
Hannah Levy
"The Rules"
Thesis Advisor: Leslie Thornton
Reader: Lynne Joyrich
Alyssa Migliori
"Finding Monk"
Thesis Advisor: Leslie Thornton
Reader: David Barker
Ariel Rodriguez
"Performance Script: For Audience Member
Thesis Advisor: Rebecca Schneider
Reader: Ellen Rooney
Rosemary Selig-Addiss
"Masked Encounters"
Thesis Advisor: Joshua Neves
Reader: Leslie Thornton
Jennifer Vincent
"Leave a False Name"
Thesis Advisor: Rebecca Schneider
Reader: Joshua Neves
2012
Alexander Ashe (Track 2)
"Luanne"
Thesis Advisor: Michael Siegel
Reader: Anthony Cokes
Dia Barghouti (Track 2)
"Secrets of the Name Ibn-Sinana"
Thesis Advisor: Erik Ehn
Reader: Mark Tribe
Jordan Carter (Track 1)
"A Virtual Process: Socially Engaged Art in the Context of Network Culture"
Thesis Advisor: Philip Rosen
Reader: Herve Vavel
Yeon Seung Hong (Track 2)
"To Like a Work of Music in the Age of Digital Reproduction"
Thesis Advisor: Anthony Cokes
Reader: Wendy Chun
Andrew Lenoir (Track 2)
"Dead Lies Dreaming: H.P. Lovecraft and the Other Side of Modernity"
Thesis Advisor: David Bering-Porter
Reader: Michal Oklot
Daniel Lopez-Goicochea (Track 2)
"Transplanted; A Photoethnography of abstract displacement and constructed localism"
Thesis Advisor: Theresa Ganz
Reader: Mark Tribe
Edward Myerberg (Track 2)
"Layover & Sunday Afternoon: A Film in Two Parts"
Thesis Advisor: Mar Tribe
Reader: Carole Maso
Tracy Szatan (Track 2)
"a m a s s"
Thesis Advisor: Anthony Cokes
Reader: Carole Maso
2011
Evan Donahue (Track 2)
"The Man in the Mask: Artistic Practice at the Edge of Terror"
Thesis Advisor: Wendy Chun
Reader: Fred Moten, Duke University
Sean Feiner (Track 1)
"The Discipline of Gaming: The Ethics and Design of Affective Labor"
Thesis Advisor: Wendy Chun
Reader: Ellen Rooney
Emily Fishman (Track 2)
"Fashion and the Role of Personal History in the Construction of the Individual"
Thesis Advisor: Lynne Joyrich
Reader: Leslie Bostrom, Visual Art
Monica Garcia (Track 1)
"Human(e) Borders: Tracking Interventions in the U.S. Borderlands
Thesis Advisor: Wendy Chun
Reader: Philip Rosen and Barrymore Bogues, Africana Studies
Harrison Heller (Track 2)
"Virtuality, Warefare, and the Military-Entertainment Complex"
Thesis Advisor: Mark Tribe
Reader: Leslie Thornton
Ioana Jucan (Track 2)
"Face-to-Face: Screening the Face in the Culture of the Interface"
Thesis Advisor: Wendy Chun
Reader: Mary Ann Doane
Jonathan Lee (Track 2)
"De-Vision"
Thesis Advisor: Leslie Thornton
Reader: Anthony Cokes
Jungmin Lee (Track 2)
"Modes of Exhibition as Mediated Space: Projection Installation as Spectatorial Frame
Thesis Advisor: Anthony Cokes
Reader: Herve Vanel, History of Art and Architecture
Liana Ogden (Semiotics-French)
"Avisceral Animal: Projecting and Indexing Life in the Age of Bioethics
Thesis Advisor: Thangam Ravindranathan, French Studies
Reader: Mary Ann Doane
Farah Shaer (Track 2)
"F.R.E.D."
Thesis Advisor: Stephen Groening
Reader: Barret Hazeltine, Engineering
David Walker (Track 2)
"Psychiatrist"
Thesis Advisor: Anthony Cokes
Reader: Leslie Thornton
2010
Zachary Caldwell (Track 2)
"The Big Ship"
Thesis Advisor: Leslie Thornton
Reader: Richard Fishman, Visual Art
Alexandra Chemla (Track 2)
"Left to Chance"
Thesis Advisor: Mark Tribe
Reader: Richard Fishman, Visual Art
Samuel Ewenczyk (Track 1)
"Representations of the Male Body in Contemporary Advertising Images"
Thesis Advisor: Mary Ann Doane
Reader: Wendy Chun
Zachary McCune (Track 2)
"In Bookish Play: a commentary of Myst"
Thesis Advisor: Wendy Chun
Reader: Alex Galloway, New York University
2009
Megan Billman (Track 2)
"Adolescent Projectors"
Thesis Advisor: Paul Myoda, Visual Art
Reader: Micahel Udris
Megan Goetsch (Art-Semiotics)
"Exploding Glossy Images: Postmodernism in Art-Fashion Photography and the Case of Weird Beauty"
Thesis Advisor: Micahel Silverman
Reader: Douglas Nickel
Abraham Halpert (Art-Semiotics)
"After Birthright"
Thesis Advisor: Michael Udris
Reader: Leslie Thornton
David Harrington (MCM)
"Meat-Games & Metal: Sensations and the Representations of the Extreme"
Thesis Advisor: Micahel Silverman
Reader: Dana Gooley, Music Department
Valeria Iavtouhovitsh (MCM)
"Hold Still"
Thesis Advisor: Micahel Silverman
Reader: Leslie Thornton
Davis Jung (Art-Semiotics)
"I Can't Remember the Name, I"m Sorry"
Thesis Advisor: Michael Udris
Reader: Leslie Thornton
Caleb Miller (Track 1)
"Plurality, Event, Forgiveness: An Epistemological and Ethical Investigation into the Possibility of Political Rupture"
Thesis Advisor: Michael Silverman
Reader: Corey Walker, Africana Studies
Sonya Mladenova (MCM-German)
"W.G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten: Human Consciousness as Photographic Plate"
Thesis Advisor: Zachary Sng, German Studies
Reader: Susan Bernstein, Comparative Literature
2008
Meghan Boudreau (Art-Semiotics)
"Blue Pills and Blue Pens"
Thesis Advisor: Micahel Udris
Reader: Anthony Cokes
Matthew Cate (Art-Semiotics)
"Die Auteur and the Desiring Machines"
Thesis Advisor: Anthony Cokes
Melina Gills (MCM)
"El Ultimo Beso" (The Last Kisss) and "the Leap of Remembrance"
Thesis Advisor: Anthony Cokes
Reader: Elizabeth Weed
Claire Harlam (Art-Semiotics)
"And Suddenly it Seems that the Chicken Was an Egg's Idea for Getting More Eggs"
Thesis Advisor: Anthony Cokes
Reader: Wendy Chun
Patrick Harrison (MCM)
"Ideas of Politics Contemporary Philosophy and Radical Politics"
Thesis Advisor: Philip Rosen
Reader: Barrymore Bogues, Africana Studies
Lily Kerrigan (Art-Semiotics)
"I would Eat That" (Video and Exhibition)
Thesis Advisor: Anthony Cokes
Reader: Herve Vanel, History of Art and Artchitecture
Jeremiah Kittredge (MCM)
"Subject, Space, System: The French Banlieue Beur Cinema, and French Urban Policy"
Thesis Advisor: Philip Rosen
Reader: Keith Brown, Watston Institute for Interational Studies
Katrina Lencek-Inagaki (Art-Semiotics)
"An Egg's Idea"
Thesis Advisor: Anthony Cokes
Reader: Douglas Brown, Dean of College/Writing Center
Emily Roberts (Art-Semiotics)
"Untitled Animation"
Thesis Advisor: Anthony Cokes
Reader Paul Myoda, Visual Arts
David Sobel (Art-Semiotics)
"Visualization Biochanical Hybridization for the Enhancement of the Human Body"
Lily Szajnberg (MCM)
"Sleepwalking Across the Frontline: Media Saturation, Compaaassion Fatigue and Spectagorship in the War in Iraq"
Thesis Advisor: Wendy Chun
Paul Wallace (Art-Semiotics)
"The Face"
Thesis Advisor: Mark Tribe
Reader: Anthony Cokes
Kemisha Wiliams (MCM-German)
"Race as Mechanism in National Socialist Idealogy and Film"
Thesis Advisor: Thomas Kniesche, German Studies
Reader: Wendy Chun
2007
Shane Brennan (Art-Semiotics)
"New Climates: A Weblog Exhibition"
Thesis Advisor: Mark Tribe
Reader: Wendy Chun
Elizabeth Enterkin (Art-Semiotics)
"Two Truths and a Lie"
Thesis Advisor: Leslie Bostrom, Visual Art
Reader: Michael Silverman
Sonya Goddy (Art-Semiotics)
"Land of Plenty"
Thesis Advisor: Anthony Cokes
Reader: LIsa Young, Visual Art
Shanay Jhaveri (Art-Semiotics)
"Live: An Instance Without Duration and Dimension"
Thesis Advisor: Leslie Thornton
Reader: Mary Ann Doane
Joseph Kuhn (Art-Semiotics)
"Le Mariage"
Thesis Advisor: Leslie Thornton
Reader: Anthony Cokes
Amanda Parker (MCM-Italian)
"Sguardo indietro: The Psychoanalytic Signification of Nostalgia in Mid-Twentieth Century Italian Cinema"
Thesis Advisor: Massimo Riva, Italian Studies
Reader: Mary Ann Doane
Daniel Scudellari (Art-Semiotics)
"Hind Sight"
Thesis Advisor: Leslie Thornton
Reader: Anthony Cokes
Robert Wollach (MCM)
"Quantum Identities"
Thesis Advisor: Anthony Cokes
Reader: Michael Silverman
2006
Eric Barkin (Art-Semiotics)
"Of Great Uncles & Christmas Lights"
Thesis Advisor: Roger Mayer
Reader: Brian Evans
Paul Bookstaber (Art-Semiotics)
"Customer Service"
Thesis Advisor: Ben Russell
Reader: Roger Mayer
Daniel Caroselli (Art-Semiotics)
"The Luxury Urban Commodity: Exploring the Semiotics of a New Urbanity"
Thesis Advisor: Anthony Cokes
Reader: Lynne Joyrich
Louise Despont (Art-Semiotics)
"And Lo! Guilharmenia"
Thesis Advisor: Ben Russell
Reader: Roger Mayer
Maria Dyer (Art-Semiotics)
"And Lo! Guilharmenia"
Thesis Advisor: Ben Russell
Reader: Ellen Rooney
Brandon English (MCM)
"Constructions of Power, Masculinity, and Televised Reality"
Thesis Advisor: Lynne Joyrich
Reader: Anthony Cokes
Sarah Gilbert (Art-Semiotics)
"Towards A "Humanity of the Senses:" Object-Based Artworks and the Sensation of Estranged Human Life"
Thesis Advisor: Chris Taylor, RISD
Reader: Wendy Chun
Laura Green (MCM)
"Lyme or Something Like it: A Multimedia Exploration of Social Construction, Biological Ambigwith and Health Inequality"
Thesis Advisor: Mark Tribe
Reader: Lundy Braun, Bio Med Pathology & Laboratory Medecine
Matthew LeMay (MCM)
"Sex and the City and the Discourse of "Quality" Television"
Thesis Advisor: Lynne Joyrich
Reader: Susan Smulyan, American Studies
Nathan Lovejoy (Art-Semiotics)
"Identity and Interaction in Swarming Media Networks"
Thesis Advisor: Mark Tribe
Reader: James DerDerian, Watson International of Interational Studies
Rielle Navitiski (MCM)
"Art Cinema, Liberation Cinema, Exilic Cinema: National Transnationality, and Postnationality in Argentine
Thesis Advisor: Phlilip Rosen
Reader: Enric Bou, Hispanic Studies
Francesca Rios (MCM)
"Labors of Love: Puerto Rico and the (Re) Production of Spectacle, Race, and Citizenship in the Time-Space of the Nation"
Thesis Adivsor: Ralph Rodriguez, American Studies
Reader: Ellen Rooney
Anthony Rodriguez (MCM)
"Pageants of Hybridity"
Thesis Advisor: Anani Dzidzienyo, Africana Studies
Reader: Wendy Chun
Lucy Ross (MCM)
"Body and /as Software"
Thesis Advisor: Wendy Chun
Reader: Carol Poore, German Studies
Alice Shay (Art-Semiotics)
"An Experimental Cartography of a (Re) Imagined Landscape: A Process Performance and Istallation
Thesis Advisor: Roger Mayer
Reader: Ellen Rooney
Sobhan Nazir (MCM)
"Animal Inerplay"
Thesis Advisor: Massimo Riva, Italian Studies
Reader: Wendy Chun
Alice Staros (Art-Semiotics)
"Pet Zeppelins: Love Weapons"
Thesis Advisor: Mark Tribe
Reader: Roger Mayer
Kristin Wheadon (Art-Semiotics)
"Soft Mathematics"
Thesis Advisor: Marlene Malik, Visual Art
Reader: Roger Mayer
Isabelle Zaugg (Art-Semiotics)
"At Home in the Valley"
Thesis Advisor: Anthony Cokes
Reader: Roger Mayer
2005
Anastasia Ali (MCM)
" The Myth Deconstructed: Legitimating the Ascension of African Thought to Philosophical Discourse"
Thesis Advisor: Michael Silverman
Reader: Paget Henry, Sociology
Spencer Collins (Art-Semiotics)
"Brittle Paradise: Los Angeles in Film"
Thesis Advisor: Michael Silverman
Reader: Roger Mayer
John Fitzgerald (MCM)
"Living Buddha: A Sound Image (installation)"
Thesis Advisor: Roger Mayer
Sarah Hirschman (Art-Semiotics)
"Deviled Eggs"
Thesis Advisor: Anthony Cokes
Reader: Michael Udris
Adam Katz (Art-Semiotics)
"A Curatorial Responsibility & Documenta XI"
Thesis Advisor: Herve Vanel, History of Art and Artitecture
Reader: Michael Silverman
Ian McAlpin (Art-Semiotics)
"Fictional Memories: Obliscence, Photography, Film"
Thesis Advisor: Michael Silverman
Reader: Mary Ann Doane
Jonathan Miller (Art-Semiotics)
"Representations of Jewish Gangsters in American Cinema
Thesis Advisor: Leonard Tennenhouse
Reader: Michael Silverman
Kathryn Papp (MCM)
"The Work of Musical Subcultures"
Thesis Advisor: Philip Rosen
Reader: Marc Perlman, Music
Jennifer Pranolo (MCM)
"Time Re-Played: The Dialectical Image of History of Film"
Thesis Advisor: Mary Ann Doane
Reader: Rey Chow
Samuel Solomon (MCM)
"Reading Celila Dropkin, Defferred: Translation and the Category of "Women's Writing"
Thesis Advisor: Ellen Rooney
Reader: Rey Chow
2004
Robin Amer (Art-Semiotics)
"Reconstructing Providence: Adaptive Reuse, Urban Revitalization & Neighborhood Change"
Thesis Advisor: Roger Mayer
Reader: Beth Taylor
Alex Breen (MCM)
"Projected Illness: The Celluloid Experience of Mental Illness"
Thesis Advisor: Philip Rosen
Reader: Brian Hayden, Cognitive Linguistic & Psychological Sciences
Liliana Greenfield-Sanders (Art-Semiotics)
"Ghosts of Grey Gardens"
Thesis Advisor: Michael Silverman
Reader: Roger Mayer
Michelle Higa (Art-Semiotics)
"Splitscreen"
Thesis Advisor: Roger Mayer
Reader: Rachel Stevens
Caroline McCaughey (Art-Semiotics)
"Property Poachers Turned Landed Gentry: The Suatting Movemeton the Lower East Side"
Thesis Advisor: Rachel Stevens
Reader: Marlene Malik, Visual Art
Valeria Mogilevich (MCM)
"Why Float a Fish?"
Thesis Advisor: Michael Silverman
Reader: Mary Ann Doane
Stephen Mosblech (MCM)
"Staging the Schreber Process: A Theoretical Monologue"
Thesis Advisor: Michael Silverman
Reader: Peter Rehberg
Sebastien Robcis (MCM)
"Synchronizing Emotions: The Role of Media Representations of 9/11 and It's Immeiate Aftermath"
Thesis Advisor: Lynne Joyrich
Reader: Wendy Chun
Erin Sisk (Art-Semiotics)
"Desert Venture: An Analytical Documentary on the Anti-War Movement"
Thesis Advisor: Michael Silverman
Reader: Anthony Cokes
Antonia Thompson (Art-Semiotics)
"Repasos: Art & Life in Pinochet's Chile"
Thesis Advisor: Josie Saldana, English
Reader: Anthony Cokes