Rachel Debuque
MFA candidate, Sculpture
Major Professor: Larry Millard
Project Description: For the completion of my degree, I will create a large-scale installation that will be exhibited at the Georgia Museum of Art from March 16 through Aprill 22 as part of the Lamar Dodd School of Art MFA Thesis Exhibition. My installation will include salvaged building materials from structures in Georgia and local plant life. These materials will create a set-like version of a house front that will highlight our complex relationship to our dwellings.
Kylie Horney
PhD candidate, History
Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Award Winner
Major Professor: Peter C. Hoffer
Project Description: My dissertation reexamines the American Revolution from an Atlantic World perspective through the lens of privateering. I aim to explain the significant role privateers played in the Revolution and to trace their lives from port to the Atlantic and beyond and back home again. My study will also explore the legacy of privateers and how they were perceived, treated, and remembered in the aftermath of the Revolution. Through an investigation of these marauding merchants, historians will come to understand the American Revolution not only as a war of wills between the British and American colonists, but as an Atlantic World conflict which affected England and her colonies, as well as Spain, France, the Netherlands, and the Caribbean.
Matthew Hulbert
PhD candidate, History
Major Professor: John Inscoe
Project Description: My dissertation explores the intersection of Civil War memory and guerrilla warfare in Missouri and the Border South. This includes the ways in which Americans have remembered, misremembered, and re-remembered alternative, guerrilla-based narratives of the Civil War and their most notorious antagonists in personal reminiscences, historical scholarship, film, and literature from the 1860s to the present. Ultimately, the project is designed to underscore Missouri’s unique Civil War experience and to renovate our broadest narratives of the Civil War and Reconstruction accordingly.
Joshua Hussey
PhD candidate, English
Major Professors: Andrew Zawacki, Jed Rasula, Doug Anderson
Project Description: The project is research at the Thomas J. Dodd Special Collections at the University of Connecticut. The collection houses the papers of American postwar poet Charles Olson, whose epic poem The Maximus Poems figures largely into my dissertation.
Gabriel Alexander Lovatt
PhD candidate, English
Major Professor: Jed Rasula.
Project Description: I will visit Clark Library at UCLA to work in the Oscar Wilde and the Fin de siècle collection. My project tracks the reception of Wilde’s 1882 American tour and considers how these responses to Decadence (with which Wilde’s name would become increasingly associated) as contagion offer a provocative model of interpretation for the discomfort, a century later, with the aesthetic excess that New York artists such as Charles Ludlam and David Wojnarowicz employ in confronting public reaction to the AIDS epidemic.
Rachel Paparone
PhD candidate, Romance Languages
Major Professor: Jonathan F. Krell
Project Description: I will be travelling to Paris in March 2013 in order to complete archival research at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. My dissertation considers how French author and humanitarian Jean-Christophe Rufin uses fiction to magnify how both climate change and radical environmental movements infringe on human rights. This is a problem that has been extensively examined by French environmentalists, but which has received relatively little attention in the United States.
Danielle Peters
MFA candidate, Printmaking
Major Professor: Jon Swindler
Project Description: I will be constructing a large-scale paper installation entitled “Writhe.” It will be installed in the Georgia Museum of Art and exhibited on the evening of Friday, March 22, 2013 for the Lamar Dodd School of Art MFA Thesis Exhibition. For images of similar paper structure please visit my website at www.daniellepeters.com.
David Thomson
PhD candidate, History
Major Professor: Stephen Berry
Project Description: I am conducting research on diplomatic and international financing of the American Civil War. Through an examination of the prominent financiers Jay Cooke and August Belmont, I hope to illustrate a heavily religious “capital citizenship” that emerged during the war and impacted the actions of these prominent men.