Student Research

SENIOR PROJECTS IN LAIS AND LITERATURE
Projects directed by Professor Nicholson:

• Abigail Morgan, 2005: “Devil's Drool or Angel's Filaments? Interpretive Culpability and the Ethics of Representation in Julio Cortázar” (co-directed with Prof. Nicole Caso)

• Mara Bond, 2005: “The ‘Madre' Program: Why Come to the United States to Be a Mother?” (co-directed with Prof. Nicole Caso)

• Emily Schmall, 2005: “Reading Mexico City: A Project of Cultural Reform and Civic Consciousness”

• Sarah Bernstein, 2005: “Antonio Skármeta's Novels of the Formation of the Young Man: Political Overtones and Expectations”

• Chris Konker, 2004: "Spanish Dominion and Indian Servitude: Portraits of the Spanish Character in the Debate over the Indians' Humanity between 1516 and 1550"

• Jean Klosovsky, 2004: "Model Citizens: Argentine Nationalism and Gender Roles in the Popular Women's Magazine Para Ti "

• April Howard, 2004: "The Lipstick of Provocation: Translations from De perlas y cicatrices and an Introduction to the Work of Pedro Lemebel"

  Aimee McCauley, 2004: "The Battlefield of Meaning: Rodolfo Walsh's Struggle to Define the 'Dirty War' in Argentina"

• Meghan Mazzacone, 2003: "Entre familia: Una exploración literaria de los aspectos personales de la inmigración"

• Dorothy Albertini, 2002: "Sieve: Essays and Poems"

  Lisa Culbert, 2002: "When I Was One I Was Three: A Novella."

• Megan Hamill, 2001: "Hum: Poems"

• Dara Hymowitz, 2001

• Selena Reynolds, 2001: "Las zonas que tenemos que sublevar: Traducciones de Canon de alcoba y En estado de memoria por Tununa Mercado"

• Madeline Beach Carey, 2000: “Livable City: Poems and Stories”

• Tatum Hunter, 2000: “Voices of Silence: An Analysis of Argentinean Testimonial Discourse, 1976-1983”

• Stuart Krimko, 2000: “To Start All Over Again: Translations of Poetry by Héctor Viel Témperley and Related Essays”

• Lara Landrum, 2000: “El Presente Sagrado: Un Análisis del Uso del Presente Histórico en Los pasos perdidos de Alejo Carpentier”

• Ilán Greenfield, 1998: “Naufragio en una Isla Maravillosa: Conceiving Magical Realism in Latin America”

• Gabriel Lally, 1998: “Tracing Reconfigurations of the Historic Mythic Figure of La Malinche in Modern Mexican Literature”

• Irina Prentice, 1998: Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: Hacia una Identidad ‘Americana'”

• Tara Padua, 1997: “Ritual Expressions: Cooking, Eating, Sexuality, and Writing in Latin American Literature”

• Nicole Tavares, 1997: “Organic Writing: Representations of the Body and Phenomenological Subjectivities in Plays by Latinas”

• Julia Wolk, 1997: “Silence and Desire / El silencio y el deseo , Translation of the Complete Works of Contemporary Spanish poet Lola Velasco” (co-directed with Prof. Lourdes Alvarez)

• Patrycja Sawicz, 1996: “The Wall and the Tempest: Translation from Spanish into English of Contemporary Latin American Short Stories from Julio Ortega's El muro y la intemperie ”

SENIOR PROJECTS IN LAIS AND ART HISTORY

Projects directed by Professor Aberth:

• Alessandra Duarte, 2007. Tunga's Experiential Transformation of Worlds.
• Angelo Aponte, 2006. Santeria Reclaimed: Cuban Identity
• Shlomit Dror, 2006. Re-encountering Jewish identity in Latin America: The Art of José Gurvich, Moico Yaker, and Elena Climent
• Elizabeth Prairie Belle Murphy, 2005. Re-visioning Enchantment: Cultural Hybridity and Appropriation in the Arts of Luis Tapia, Ray Martin Abeyta, and Diego Romero
• Olivia Tamzarian, 2005. Visions of Mexico: A Bilingual Curriculum in Mexican Art of the Twentieth Century
• Brooke Tami Borg, 2004. Racial and Spatial Identifiers: Changing Depictions of Women and Food in Mexican Painting, 1830-1950
• Thomas Paul Scott, 2004. Flayed Cyborgs and Other Social Heroes: the Art of the Third-Generational Muralist Arnold Belkin
• Gabrielle Lauren Kammerer, 2004. Under Mexican Skies: Sixteen-Century Open-Air Churches and the Franciscan Building Program
• Anne Flammang Killefer, 2003. An Unearthing of the Presence and Power of Women in the Mixtec Codices: A Feminist Reading of the Zouche-Nuttal
• Reuben Traite, 2003. Revolutionary Art. The Life of Luis Quintanilla, A Gramscian Perspective
• Eleanor Marie Woods Strehl, 2003. Some Spanish Dancers: An Exploration of the Theme of the Spanish Dancer in the Works of Manet and Sargent.

Projects directed by Professor Merriam:

• Lesley Kanner, 2005. Collection and Perception: A Mule-back Ride through Northern Spain and the Hispanic Society of America
• Jessica Blau, 2005. Semana Santa: Identifying Sevillians

SENIOR PROJECTS IN LAIS AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Projects directed by Professor Brown:  

SENIOR PROJECTS IN LAIS AND SPANISH

Projects directed by Professor Carrion:

• Tullah Sutcliffe, 2008 (in progress). "El exilio en la poesía de Cristina Peri Rossi y Juan Gelman: Un viaje del trauma a la regeneración?"
• Anja Savic, 2008 (in progress). "The Ingenious Reader: The Art of Reading in Cervantes's Don Quijote"
• Morgan Gibney, 2008 (in progress). "A Child's Subversive Secret: Analysis and Translation of Silvina Ocampo's La naranja maravillosa"
• Francisco Salinas, 2005. "Filosofía literaria: Sobre el signifícado de la vida por medio de la distinción entre la realidad y la aparienci en Calderón, Descartes, y Darío"
• Wesley Mathewson, 2005. "Translation of Los santos inocentes by Miguel Delibes"
• Meghan Ennis, 2005. Translation of Sin noticias de Gurb by Eduardo Mendoza"
• Ana Cáceres, 2005. "Hipocresía religiosa y crítica social en tres textos literarios: Lazarillo de Tormes, Tartuffe, Marta la Piadosa"
• Karen Benezra, 2004. "Signos del silencio, gestos del habla: La representación subalterna y el lugar del intelectual en las obras de Clarice Lispector, Sergio Chejfec, y Diamela Eltit"

SENIOR PROJECTS IN SPANISH AND LATIN AMERICAN AND

IBERIAN STUDIES
Projects directed by Nicole Caso:

• Alyssa McVey, May 2007, Spanish.The Miraculous Cures of Doctor Aira.  A Translation of Cesar Aira's Las curas milagrosas del Doctor Aira
• Julia Patinella, May 2007, Spanish. The Colonial Disease in Zeno Gandía's La Charca: A Study of Colonized Puerto Rico, Yesterday and Today
• Sandra Camacho, May 2007,Spanish. El disfraz de la vida
• Edwin Paul Campoverde, December 2005, Spanish.
  La masculinidad: un concepto sin definir
• Mara Elizabeth Bond, May 2005, Literature.The Madre Program: What Makes Women Migrate to the United States to be a Mother?
• Mariel Fiori, May 2005, Spanish. Romanticismo, surrealismo y posmodernismo: tres miradas sobre la Argentina de Juan Manuel Rosas

• Abigail Morgan, May 2005, Literature. Devil's Drool or Angel's Filaments? Interpretive Culpability and the Ethics of Representation from "Babas del Diablo" to "Apocalipsis de Solentiname:" An Analysis of Two Short Stories by Julia Cortáza         

SENIOR PROJECTS IN LAIS AND POLITICAL STUDIES
Projects directed by Professor Encarnación:

• Risa Grais-Targow, 2005. "Economic Sanctions and the Promotion of Legitimacy: Cuba, Castro and El Bloqueo"
• Erin Juarez, 2005. From Converts to Consolidation: The Effects of Pentacostalism on the Consolidation of Brazilian Democracy
• Salim Morsey, 2005. "The Legacy of Authoritarian Market Reforms in Chile"
• Elisabeth Ann Pellegrin, 2004. "The Political Consultant Industry and Democratic Politics in Argentina and the United States"
• Hannah H. Janal, 2004: "Anti-Semitism, the Argentine Military and the Dirty War, 1976-1983"
• Karla López, 2004. "In Search of Monsters to Destroy: Coercive Democratization under Wilson and Bush"
• Salvador José Sara Delgado, 2004. "The Disability Movement and Transition Politics in Chile"
• Monique Roberts, 2003. "The Politics of Land in South Africa and Brazil"
• Mneesha I. Gellman, 2003. "Mazes of Maize: The Marginalization of Mexico's Rural Farmer"
• Pierpaolo Vidali, 2003. "Creativity in Civil Society Resistance: Artists and Intellectuals in Chile, 1973-1990"
• Emma Furguson, 2003. "Bilateral Agreements as a Path of Immigration Control in Spain"
• Mauricio Mora, 2002. "Politics and Fiction in Argentina"
• Matthew Aho, 2002. "Fair Trade Initiatives: A Bridge Towards Global Free Trade"
• Emma Schneider Kreyche, 2002. "The Domestic Underpinning of the Sandinista Agricultural Cooperative Movement"
• Jaxira E. Rodriguez, 2002. "Dynamics of U.S. - Dominican Relations"
• Brian Paul Foote, 2002. "Domestic Consequences of Disparate Development in Brazil"
• Maria Elena Maso, 2002. "The Convergence of a Nation: The Privatization of the Puerto Rican Telephone Company"
• Wendy Cuesto, 2002. "Healthcare Politics and Political Legitimacy in Cuba"
• Joshua Barfield, 2001. "The Cuban Enigma: Defying Theories of Economic Liberalization and Political Reform"
• Maria Halkias, 2001. "Prebish, Piñedo and Perón: The Political Economy of Argentina"
• Sara Tashker, 2000. "Localizing Global Citizenship: Local and Global Change in the Struggle Against Neoliberalism"
• Noya Tanç, 2000. "State Autonomy and the Struggle for Equity in Zimbabwe and Cuba"

 

Projects directed by Past Professors:

SENIOR PROJECTS IN LAIS AND HISTORY
Projects directed by Professor Tavárez:

• Zachary Martin, 2003. 
• Alexander Mignolo, 2003.
• Leslie Holland, 2002 "Treading Into Undiscovered Country: Champlain in New France" (American Studies with LAIS component): in progress.