The Willson Center Graduate Research Award provides support toward research‐related expenses for arts and humanities projects that are essential components of a graduate degree program. Application is open to any humanities and arts graduate student registered for an advanced degree.
For further details and application guidelines, please see Graduate Research Award under Fellowships and Grants.
PhD Candidate, Philosophy Major Professor: Christine Cuomo Project Description: Islamization of Facebook
PhD Candidate, Creative Writing Major Professor: Andrew Zawacki Project Description: “Entering the Valley of Dreams”: View-Master, Souvenir, Imperial Kitsch
DMA Candidate, Hugh Hodgson School of Music Major Professor: David Fung Project Description: Discovering Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins the Composer – Recording Project + Research Document
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Mo Costello Project Description: “Soliloquy” Thesis Installation
MA Candidate, Art History Major Professor: Asen Kirin Project Description: Interpreting the Mosaics of The Villa of Piazza Armerina
PhD Candidate, Communication Studies Major Professor: Belinda Stillion Southard Project Description: Radium’s Rhetorical Force: Labor, Environment, and Gender in Ottawa, Illinois
MA Candidate, Art History Major Professor: Mark Abbe Project Description: The Vatican Runner: A Unique Depiction of Female Athleticism
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: Stephen Mihm Project Description: Marconi, the State, and the Struggle between Private and Public Interest
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Ted Saupe Project Description: Like Milk from a Stone
MFA Candidates, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Jon Swindler Project Description: Twin Realms
MA Candidate, Art History Major Professor: Nell Andrew Project Description: Manifestations of German Expressionism in Dance in the 1920s and 1930s
PhD Candidate, Textiles, Merchandising & Interiors Major Professor: Katalin Medvedev Project Description: Felt as Other
MFA Candidate, Entertainment and Media Studies Major Professor: Sanghoon Lee Project Description: Poppy
MHP Candidate, Historic Preservation Major Professor: Wayde Brown Project Description: Storied Pasts: Reinterpreting Andalusia Farm: Home of Flannery O’Connor
MFA Candidate, Film, Television and Digital Media Major Professor: Neil Landau Project Description: Black Butterfly: A Cinematic Exploration of Black Male Trauma
PhD Candidate, Theatre and Film Studies Major Professor: David Saltz Project Description: Before the Hedges: Experiencing UGA History through Augmented Reality
MA Candidate, Philosophy Major Professor: Christine Cuomo Project Description: National American Association for Philosophy and Education Conference Presentation: Voluntourism and Epistemic Injustice: How Educational Institutions Benefit Credibility Excess
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Benjamin Britton Project Description: Navigating through Blackness with Painting and Sound
PhD Candidate, Textiles, Merchandising, and Interiors Major Professor: Katalin Medvedev Project Description: The Revolution will be Embodied
PhD Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Christina Hanawalt Project Description: Envisioning Paradigm Shift in Art Education: Provoking Homebody as a New Norm in Pandemic
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: Cindy Hahamovitch Project Description: The Roots of Global Citrus in Florida and São Paulo
PhD Candidate, Philosophy Major Professor: Christine Cuomo Project Description: National American Association for Philosophy and Education conference presentation: Colorblindness, Hermeneutical Marginalization and Hermeneutical Injustice
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: James Enos Project Description: The end of a movement you have not yet made
DMA Candidate, Music Major Professor: Peter van Zandt Lane Project Description: USB to DMX for Interactive Lighting in Music Composition
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Melissa Harshman Project Description: The Ubiquity of the Lost Identity
PhD Candidate, Linguistics Major Professor: Chad Howe Project Description: Gender-Neutral Pronouns in Use: a comparative study of genderqueer pronoun application
MM Candidate, Hugh Hodgson School of Music Major Professor: Liza Stepanova Project Description: Identity through Sound
DMA Candidate, Hugh Hodgson School of Music Major Professor: Angela Jones-Reus Project Description: Backstory: An Album of Innovative Electroacoustic Flute Music
PhD Candidate, Sociology Major Professor: Dr. Patricia Richards Project Description: Mestizaje Undone: A Qualitative Social Media Analysis of Afro-Latinx Identity & Social Movements
PhD Candidate, Communication Studies Major Professor: Roger Stahl Project Description: Redressing Whiteness in America through Black Popular Culture
MFA Candidate Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Ben Briton Project Description: Throw Blanket
PhD Candidate, Department of Communication Studies Major Professor: Jiaying Liu Project Description: Understanding How Features of Fitspiration Posts Contribute to Body Image and Exercise Intentions
PhD Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Dr. Lynn Sanders-Bustle Project Description: Everyone’s Invited: Community and Care in Relation with Arts Education
PhD Candidate, English, co-recipient Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Research Award Major Professor: Ed Pavlic Project Description: Living with Wildfire: Oral Histories of Northern California
PhD Candidate, English, co-recipient Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Research Award Major Professor: Cody Marrs Project Description: The Orange and the Palm: Writing Florida into the American Dream
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Martijn van Wagtendonk Project Description: Thesis Show Material Support
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Demitra Thomloudis Project Description: Subversion of Medicine through Dissemination of Wearable Art
PhD Candidate, College of Environment and Design Major Professor: Eric A. MacDonald Project Description: Overtourism and Authenticity in World Heritage Site — the Case of Suzhou Classical Gardens
PhD Candidate, Communication Studies Major Professor: Thomas Lessl Project Description: Archival Study of the Mont Pelerin Society at the Hoover Institute
PhD Candidate, English Major Professor: John Wharton Lowe Project Description: Pilgrim Shadow: Pursuing Utopia in the Fictional American Small Town
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Eileen Wallace Project Description: Exploring the Act of Remembering Through Handmade Paper
PhD Candidate, Linguistics Major Professor: Lewis C. (Chad) Howe Project Description: Latino English in Georgia: A Sociophonetic Study of the Latino Southerner’s Identity
PhD Candidate, Communication Studies, Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Research Award Winner Major Professor: Celeste Condit Project Description: Investigating the Rhetoric of Higher Orders in the Court Martial of William Calley Jr.
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Mark Callahan Project Description: A Momentary Visceral Sound Experience: During a Global Pandemic
MFA Candidate, Theatre and Film Studies Major Professor: George Contini Project Description: Immersive Digital Theatre: Creating Connection Between Actor and Audience in a Virtual Performance
PhD Candidate, Romance Languages Major Professor: Nicolas Lucero Project Description: Fictions of Nazism in 21st Century Colombian Literature: Global Ideologies and Literary Markets
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Benjamin Britton Project Description: MFA Student Exhibition Materials Funding
PhD Candidate, English and Creative Writing Major Professor: LeAnne Howe Project Description: De Soto, Un-Redacted as Told by the Lady of Cofitachequi
PhD Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Research Award Winner Major Professor: Mark Abbe Project Description: The “Petra, Jordan Garden and Pool Project” Archaeological Dig and Field Research
PhD Candidate, Romance Languages Major Professor: Elizabeth Wright Project Description: License to Steal: Dialogues on the Spoils of War in Don Quixote
PhD Candidate, Integrative Conservation and Anthropology Major Professor: Roberta Salmi Project Description: Re-articulating Pathways to Human-Wildlife Coexistence in Sri Lanka’s North Central Dry Zone
PhD Candidate, Hugh Hodgson School of Music Major Professor: Susan Thomas, Naomi Graber (Faculty Advisor) Project Description: Barbers, Belles, & the Ties that Bind: Music, Citizenship, & Class in the American South, 1865-1895
PhD Candidate, English Major Professor: Jed Rasula Project Description: The Annotated Songs: A Digital Guide to Mina Loy’s “Songs to Joannes”
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Marni Shindelman Project Description: ONE LGBT Archives Research Trip
MA Candidate, History Major Professor: Stephen Berry Project Description: The Cromwell Brothers: Two New York Quakers and the Civil War
PhD Candidate, Geography Major Professor: Amy Trauger Project Description: Fire & Flood Film: Visualizing Queer and Trans Climate Resilience Solutions
MFA Candidate, Theatre and Film Studies Major Professor: David Zucker Saltz Project Description: Project Mapping Workshop
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Demi Thomloudis Project Description: Social Fabric: Exploring Cultural Narratives Through Sewn Language and Object
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Demi Thomloudis Project Description: Thesis Funding 2019
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Melissa Harshman Project Description: Shaped by Play – Thesis Project Materials and Travel
PhD Candidate, Anthropology. Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Research Award Winner Major Professor: J. Peter Brosius Project Description: Indigenous Cosmology and Climate Activism in the Ecuadorian Amazon
MHP Candidate, College of Environmental Design Major Professor: Wayde Brown Project Description: Who Tells Your Story: An Analysis of Historic Site Interactions with Artistic Cultural References
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Demi Thomloudis Project Description: Cryptic Encounters
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Eileen Wallace Project Description: Shifting Encounters Through Multi-Media Art Installations
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: Stephen Berry Project Description: Armed, Drunk, and Dangerous: White Paramilitary Violence in the Civil War Era South, 1840-1877
PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Major Professor: Don Nelson Project Description: Historicizing the Biofuel Boom: Gendered Identities and Plantation Agriculture in Northeast Brazil
PhD Candidate, English Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Research Award Winner Major Professor: Reginald McKnight Project Description: The Perimeter of Eden
MM Candidate, Hugh Hodgson School of Music Major Professor: Peter Lane Project Description: Premiering New Music at Alba Music
PhD Candidate, Enlgish Major Professor: Magdalena Zurawski Project Description: Sound and Light Ecology – Listening to Poetry in the Natural World
PhD Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Shelley Zuraw Project Description: Titian as Ovid: Afterlife of the Metamorphoses
PhD Candidate, English Major Professor: Susan Rosenbaum Project Description: Solving Feeling: Modernist Middlebrowisms, Art, Affect, and Queering Detective Fiction
PhD Candidate, Romance Languages Major Professor: Sarah Blackwell Project Description: A Study on how Rape Myths Shape the Courtroom Discourse in Puerto Rico
PhD Candidate, Theatre and Film Studies Major Professor: Marla Carlson Project Description: Research Trip to the Fales Library, Elizabeth Robins collection
PhD Candidate, Anthropology Major Professor: Don Nelson Project Description: The Multiple Dimensions of Water in a Water Insecure Place
MA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Research Award Winner Major Professor: Shelley Zuraw Project Description: Diana and the Hunt: Myth and Allegory in Early Modern French Courts
PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Major Professor: Laura German Project Description: Gendered Property Relations and Displacement in Sierra Leone
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: Stephen Berry Project Description: Old Age in the Old South: Senescent Women’s Health and Relationships, 1850-1870
PhD Candidate, Anthropology Major Professor: Jennifer Birch Project Description: Ethnohistoric Analysis of Economy, and Materiality on the Canadian Plateau, British Columbia
DMA Candidate, Hugh Hodgson School of Music Major Professor: Evgeny Rivkin Project Description: Osaka International Music Competition
PhD Candidate, English Major Professor: Andrew Zawacki Project Description: Future Perfect: A Proposal for Research on the Edward A. Feigenbaum Archive at Stanford University
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Mary Pearse Project Description: Cast Away in Life and Death
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Melissa Harshman Project Description: Weaving Connections – A Social Exploration of Craft as the Intersection of People, Nature, Politics
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Ben Britton Project Description: Large Handmade Paper Deckle Box with Presence
PhD Candidate, Romance Languages Major Professor: Chad Howe Project Description: Borrowing Strategies from Quechua to Spanish in Cusco, Peru
DMA Candidate, Hugh Hodgson School of Music Major Professor: Daniel Bolshoy Project Description: Margins Guitar Collective
PhD Candidate, Linguistics Major Professor: Margaret E. L. Renwick Project Description: It’s all in how you say it: The Prosody of Emotion
PhD Candidate, Linguistics Major Professor: William Kretzschmar Project Description: Ideological discourse in American News Editorials
PhD Candidate, Romance Languages Major Professor: Chad Howe Project Description: Language Contact in the Andes: An Analysis of Past Temporal Reference in Cusco, Peru
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Research Award Winner Major Professor: Stefanie S. Jackson Project Description: The Problem Body
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Michael Marshall Project Description: Hive Mind Behavior at Georgia Prisons
PhD Candidate, Anthropology & Integrative Conservation Major Professor: Laura German Project Description: Translating Indigenous Rights in Peru: Identity and Resistance around Peru’s Prior Consultation Law
PhD Candidate, English Major Professor: Adam Parkes Project Description: The Critical Legacy of Rebecca West
PhD Candidate, English Major Professor: Reginald McKnight Project Description: Stricken: The Art & Illness of Tanaquil Le Clercq
PhD Candidate, Theatre and Film Studies Major Professor: David Saltz Project Description: Alternative Confederate Monuments
PhD Candidate, Linguistics Major Professor: Chad Howe Project Description: Korean American English in the South: Language, culture, and the making of a new dialect
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Margaret Morrison Project Description: “We”: American Thanksgiving, Conflict, and Communion
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: John Morrow Project Description: ‘Please Remember Me Most Kindly’: British Letter-Writing and Memory of the First World War
PhD Candidate, Geography Major Professor: Amy Ross Project Description: Locating the International in Hybrid Justice
PhD Candidate, Geography Major Professor: Amy J. Ross Project Description: “Family Residential Center” or “Baby Jail”?
PhD Candidate, Anthropology Major Professor: Virginia Nazarea Project Description: Evolving Knowledge, Sustaining Memory: Latinx Immigrant Farmers’ Agricultural Practices in the U.S.
PhD Candidate, English Major Professor: Cynthia Camp Project Description: Devouring Patrilineal Society: A Consideration of Siggeir’s Mother
DMA Candidate, Hugh Hodgson School of Music Major Professor: Peter Lane Project Description: The Alba Music Festival – Professional Development and Research
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: John H. Morrow, Jr. Project Description: Lost Causes and Tragic Futures in Nazi Bavaria and the Jim Crow South
MM Candidate, Hugh Hodgson School of Music Major Professor: Peter Lane Project Description: Kayaking Through Sound
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Chris Hocking Project Description: Domestic, Light, & Cold
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Marni Shindelman Project Description: The Extended Self(ie): How to Coexist with Yourself
PhD Candidate, Anthropology Major Professor: Jennifer Birch Project Description: Life Among Early Plains Villagers within The Middle Missouri Trench: A New Chronology
PhD Candidate, Theatre & Film Studies Major Professor: David Saltz Project Description: Within These Walls: Conundrums of Establishing Self-Identification of Chinese Americans
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Marni Shindelman Project Description: Battle Cry in a Soundproof Room
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Research Award Winner Major Professor: Jennifer Crenshaw Project Description: Crime of Passion: The Drewry Project
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Demitra Thomloudis Project Description: Rapid Prototyping and the role of the Public Sculpture
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: PMichael Oliveri Project Description: Topolographies: What Makes a Body?
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Demi Thomloudis Project Description: Box Truck Gallery
PhD Candidate, Linguistics Major Professor: Chad Howe Project Description: Intra-Family Language Variation in Utah County, Utah
MS Candidate, Textiles, Merchandising, and Interiors, College of Family and Consumer Sciences Major Professor: Katalin Medvedev Project Description: Examining the Values of Sustainable Fiber Cooperatives in Uruguay via Participatory Observation
PhD Candidate, Anthropology Major Professor: Bram Tucker Project Description: Family Farm, Family Land: The history and dynamics of a collective family farm in Sierra Leone
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: John Inscoe Project Description: Andrew Johnson’s Greeneville: A Community Study in Loyalty
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Christopher Hocking Project Description: Souvenirs of Humiliation
PhD Candidate, English Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Research Award Winner, Spring 2017 Major Professor: Tricia Lootens Project Description: Gender and Affect in 19th-Century Spaces of Art
MA Candidate, Religion Major Professor: Kenneth Honerkamp Project Description: The Zūrkhāna: Identities, Figures and Symbols
PhD Candidate, Romance Languages Major Professor: Chad Howe Project Description: Investigating Language Change in a Georgia Latino Community
PhD Candidate, Romance Languages Major Professor: Rachel Gabara Project Description: Reading Feminine Literary Narratives as History in the Francophone World
PhD Candidate, Anthropology Major Professor: Donald Nelson Project Description: Underlying Causes and Indicators of Vulnerability to Hurricanes: Lesson from Rural Haiti
PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature Major Professor: Peter O’Neill Project Description: The Traces of Catastrophe in the Twentieth Century Armenian and Turkish Literature
PhD Candidate, Romance Languages Major Professor: Mark Anderson Project Description: The Porosity of the Border: Physical and Immaterial Negotiations in the Amazon Tri-Border Region
PhD Candidate, Theatre and Film Studies Major Professor: Marla Carlson Project Description: Warriors, Partners, Enthusiasts: Transnational Gender Performance in the Eighteenth Century
MA Candidate, Romance Languages Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Research Award Winner, Fall 2016 Major Professor: Margaret Lubbers Quesada Project Description: The Miskitu-Spanish Bilingual Community in Nicaragua
PhD Candidate, English Major Professors: Susan Rosenbaum Project Description: Making Jam in Marjorie’s Kitchen
PhD Candidate, English Major Professor: Tricia Lootens Project Description: The Matter of Time-Space in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing
MFA Candidate, Drawing and Painting, Art Major Professor: Melissa Harshman Project Description: Artist books for Mozart’s Sonata K. 570 Adagio and Schubert’s Ständchen
MA Candidate, Art History Major Professor: Alisa Luxenberg Project Description: Not a Picnic: The Issue of Class in Monet’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe
MFA Candidate, Art Major Professor: Jon Swindler Project Description: Minimalism and Spatial Encounter
MA Candidate, CED: Historic Preservation Major Professor: Eric MacDonald Project Description: Cultural Landscape Mgmt. in the Chattahoochee National Forest: A Case Study of Lake Winfield Scott
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: Akela Reason Project Description: Making Atlanta: Civil War Memory, Identity Politics and Tourism, 1958 – 1996
MFA Candidate, Theatre & Film Studies Major Professor: Mike Hussey Project Description: “Silent Dating”: An Short Animation with Pencil-drawn Characters in a 3D digital world
PhD Candidate, English Major Professor: Tricia Lootens Project Description: Feminist Recovery: Investigating the Archives of June Arnold
PhD Candidate, Music Major Professors: David Haas and Susan Thomas Project Description: Schoenberg’s Voices
PhD Candidate, Anthropology Major Professor: Jennifer Birch Project Description: Household Economy and Market Participation Among the Petun, A.D. 1550-1650
MA Candidate, Linguistics Major Professor: Joshua Bousquette Project Description: Walhalla: Language Shift in the Garden of the Gods
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: Shane Hamilton Project Description: Growth Industry: Unearthing the Origins of Fertilizer-Fueled Agriculture in the United States
PhD Candidate, Anthropology Major Professor: Stephen Kowalewski Project Description: Reconnaissance of the Steiner and McGlashan Archaeological Collections, Smithsonian Institution
PhD Candidate, Theatre and Film Studies Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Research Award Winner Major Professor: Marla Carlson Project Description: Beyond Kinship: Performing Korean American Adoptee Theater
PhD Candidate, Romance Languages Major Professor: Mark Anderson Project Description: Political Ecology and Cultural Activism in Nahua Literature of Mexico
PhD Candidate, English Major Professor: Miriam Jacobson Project Description: Folger Library Dissertation Research Proposal
PhD Candidate, Art History Major Professor: Nell Andrew Project Description: Handheld Cinema: Ephemerality and the Photographic Avant-Garde (1917-1944)
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: Claudio Saunt Project Description: Singing the Holy Ghost: Theology, Hymnody, and Race in Three Moravian Communities, 1763-1838
PhD Candidate, Anthropology Major Professor: Laurie Reitsema Project Description: Bioarchaeological Perspectives on the Individual Lives Associated with the Battles of Himera, Sicily
MA Candidate, History Major Professor: Bethany Moreton Project Description: “I Hope They Don’t Come to Plains”: Race, ‘Undesirability,’ and the Mariel Boatlift
PhD Candidate, Romance Languages Major Professor: Pilar Chamorro Fernandez Project Description: Time reference in a tenseless language and neighboring languages
MM Candidate, Music Major Professor: Cynthia Johnston Turner Project Description: Love, Marriage, and Death: An Interdisciplinary Recital
MFA Candidate, Theatre and Film Studies Major Professor: John Kundert-Gibbs Project Description: Love Bites
MA Candidate, Art History Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Award Winner Major Professor: Nell Andrew Project Description: Suzanne Duchamp’s Diversion from Man’s Machine Aesthetic
PhD Candidate, English Major Professor: Andrew Zawacki Project Description: Agnès Varda: a Woman Moving in Pictures
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: Peter Hoffer Project Description: A Founding Friendship: James Wilson and James Iredell
PhD Candidate, Creative Writing Major Professor: Andrew Zawacki Project Description: Helen or My Hunger: Memory and Forgetting in Helen in Egypt
MFA Candidate, Art, Painting and Drawing Major Professor: Benjamin Britton Project Description: Painting Soundtrack
PhD Candidate, Linguistics / Romance Languages Major Professor: Margaret Renwick Project Description: Rebel time speech in the 21st century: Five Gullah-Geechee dialects
MFA Candidate, Art Major Professor: Christopher Hocking Project Description: The Digital Gaze
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: Allan Kulikoff Project Description: This World in a Tea Cup: Sino-American Tea Trade in the Nineteenth Century
PhD Candidate, Theatre & Film Studies Major Professor: Marla Carlson Project Description: The Final Archive
PhD Candidate, English Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Award Winner Major Professor: Ed Palic, Susan Rosenbaum Project Description: The Danko Hoax
PhD Candidate, Journalism & Mass Communications Major Professor: Janice Hume Project Description: Science and Useful Arts: Inventors, Artisans, and American Copyright Law
PhD Candidate, English Major Professor: Susan Rosenbaum Project Description: Cosmopolitanism in the Lowcountry Lyric
PhD Candidate, Art Major Professor: James Woglom Project Description: Interaction, Art and Conversation
PhD Candidate, Romance Languages Major Professor: Dana Bultman Project Description: The Monstrous Other: Medieval Iconographic Precedents for “Monstrous” Amerindians
PhD Candidate, English Major Professor: Elizabeth Kraft Project Description: Pathetic Temporality in the Eighteenth-Century Women’s Epistolary Tradition
PhD Candidate, English Major Professor: Valerie Babb Project Description: Transnationalism and African American Literature
PhD Candidate, Journalism & Mass Communications Major Professor: Janice Hume Project Description: The Forgotten Children of Bath: A Case Study Exploration of the Media’s Role in Public Memory
PhD Candidate, Romance Languages Major Professor: Betina Kaplan Project Description: Gender, Violence, and Memory in Contemporary Central American Women’s Narrative
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: John Inscoe Project Description: Ginseng on the Virginia Frontier
PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature Major Professor: Joel Black Project Description: Ai Weiwei Alcatraz Art Installation/William T. Vollmann Art Show and Interview
PhD Candidate, Anthropology Major Professor: Jennifer Birch Project Description: Transforming and Performing Identity in Colonial Quebec, AD 1700-1900
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: Robert A. Pratt Project Description: National Archives Trip
PhD Candidate, Theatre & Film Studies Major Professor: David Saltz Project Description: We Hold These Memories Inside a We
MFA Candidate, Art Major Professor: Georgia Strange Project Description: Erosion
PhD Candidate, Philosophy Major Professor: Edward Halper Project Description: From Image to Reason: Reconstructing Spinoza’s Theory of Imagination
MFA Candidate, Art Major Professor: Mary Hallam Pearse Project Description: Portable Tintype Photograph Studio
PhD Candidate, Art Major Professor: Isabelle Loring Wallace Project Description: Imaging the In-between: The Art of Richard Tuttle
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: Stephen Berry Project Description: Of Methods and Madness: A Spatial History Approach to Guerrilla Violence in Civil War Missouri
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: William Stueck Project Description: U.S.-ROK alliance after the Korean War
MFA Candidate, Art Major Professor: Margaret Morrison Project Description: Phantasmagoria – MFA Thesis Exhibition
MA Candidate, Religion Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Award Winner Major Professor: Kenneth Honerkamp Project Description: How Narratives Have Protected Malerkotla
MFA Candidate, Art Major Professor: Jon Swindler Project Description: A Succession of Discrete Moments – Kinetic Art Installation
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: Allan Kulikoff Project Description: The Purdah of the Southern Plantation
MFA Candidate, Theatre & Film Studies Major Professor: David Saltz Project Description: Light Cube One Act Fest
PhD Candidate, Art Major Professor: Alisa Luxenberg Project Description: Friendship in Philadelphia
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: Stephen Barry Project Description: Textual Healing: Female Readers, Self-Writing, and Sensibility in the American South, 1840-1920
PhD Candidate, Romance Languages Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Award Winner Major Professor: Susan Canty Quinlan Project Description: The Representation of Female Guerrillas: Challenging Discourses of Gender and Memory in Literature and Film in Brazil and Argentina through the dictatorships of the 1960’s and 1970’s
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: John Inscoe Project Description: Smuggling Chaos: Black Market Mayhem and Confederate Defeat
PhD Candidate, English Major Professor: Channette Romero Project Description: The Sovereign Other: Encountering Difference in Native American Science Fiction
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: Claudio Saunt Project Description: The Battle of a Thousand Slain
PhD Candidate, History Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Award Winner Major Professor: Stephen Berry Project Description: “The Living Souls, the Bodies Tragedies”: Mental Illness and the American Civil War
PhD Candidate, English Major Professor: Jed Rasula Project Description: What Most Vividly (A Choral Work)
PhD Candidate, English/Creative Writing Major Professor: Ed Pavlic Project Description: Hard Sand: an H.D. play
PhD Candidate, English Major Professor: Susan Rosenbaum Project Description: The Epic and Catastrophe
MFA Candidate, Theatre and Film Studies/Dramatic Media Major Professor: Michael Hussey Project Description: The Pregnant Tree (Stage Play)
MFA Candidate, LDSOA/Drawing and Painting Major Professor: Margaret Morrison Project Description: Vessel, a fine art installation
MFA Candidate, LDSOA Major Professor: Chris Hocking Project Description: “Artifice Destiny”– Visual Thesis Project
MFA Candidate, LDSOA/Printmaking Major Professor: Melissa Harshman Project Description: IN OUT IN
MA Candidate, Art History Major Professor: Janice Simon Project Description: Theresa Bernstein’s Images of American Women in the City
PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature Major Professor: Thomas Cerbu Project Description: The Rhetoric of Cultural Patrimony
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: John C. Inscoe Project Description: The Religious Self-Definition and Expression of Elite White Women in the Nineteenth-Century South
PhD Candidate, English/Creative Writing Major Professor: Andrew Zawacki Project Description: Poetry Exchange Project
PhD Candidate, History Major Professor: Stephen Berry Project Description: Dueling Cultures: Southern Honor, Religion, and Manhood in the Civil War Era
MFA Candidate, LDSOA/Photography Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Award Honorable Mention Major Professor: Michael Marshall Project Description: Historical Wet-plate Collodion Research
MFA candidate, Painting and Drawing Major Professor: Christopher Hocking Project Description: Lady Beasts: An investigation of womanliness
PhD candidate, History Major Professor: Stephen Berry Project Description: A Brotherhood Adrift: Boat Burners, Naval Guerrillas, and the Brown Water Confederate Navy
MA candidate, Religion Major Professor: Carolyn Medine Project Description: Feeling Muslim
PhD candidate, Romance Languages Major Professor: Lorgia García-Peña Project Description: Afro-Ecuadorian Identity: a Re-examination of Foundational Narratives
MFA candidate, Theatre and Film Studies Major Professor: David Zucker Saltz Project Description: Trash: A Love Story
PhD candidate, Anthropology Major Professor: Peter Brosius Project Description: Learning and Landscape Change in the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement
DMA candidate, Hugh Hodgson School of Music Major Professor: Martha Thomas, Hugh Hodgson School of Music Faculty Advisor: Lisa Fusillo, Dance Project Description: Research on accompaniment for ballet class
PhD candidate, Hugh Hodgson School of Music Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Award Winner Major Professor: Jean Kidula Project Description: “Our New Silence” – Performance
PhD candidate, Department of Romance Languages Major Professor: Lesley Feracho Project Description: Diasporic Links: African-Americans and Afro-Cubans in Transnational Dialogue
MFA candidate, Sculpture Major Professor: Larry Millard Project Description: Home Front
PhD candidate, History Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Award Winner Major Professor: Peter C. Hoffer Project Description: From Vigorous & Bold Operations
PhD candidate, History Major Professor: John Inscoe Project Description: Ghosts of the Guerrilla War: Civil War Memory in Missouri
PhD candidate, English Major Professors: Andrew Zawacki, Jed Rasula, Doug Anderson Project Description: Travel to the Thomas J. Dodd Special Collections at the University of Connecticut
PhD candidate, English Major Professor: Jed Rasula Project Description: Flaming Creatures: Oscar Wilde and the Legacy of American Decadence
PhD candidate, Romance Languages Major Professor: Jonathan F. Krell Project Description: Understanding Self and Nature: reviving the “Bildungsroman” in the works of Jean-Christophe Rufin
MFA candidate, Printmaking Major Professor: Jon Swindler Project Description: Writhe
PhD candidate, History Major Professor: Stephen Berry Project Description: August Belmont and the Struggle for Fiscal Diplomacy
Ph.D. candidate, English Major Professor: Fran Teague
PhD candidate, English-Creative Dissertation Co-Major Professors: Edward Pavlic and Reginald McKnight Project Description: American (post)
MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Michael Marshall Project Description: EAT WHITE DIRT (documentary film)
PhD candidate, Art Education Major Professor: Tracie Costantino Project Description: Transmission of knowledge within a Hopi Indian jewelers
PhD Candidate in Art, Art History, Lamar Dodd School of Art Major Professor: Janice Simon Project Description: Dissertation research in Charleston, SC
PhD Candidate, Department of History Major Professor: James C. Cobb Project Description: Research at the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, NY
PhD candidate, Musicology/Ethnomusicology, Hugh Hodgson School of Music with graduate certificates in Women’s Studies & Interdisciplinary University Teaching Major Professor: Jean Kidula Project Description: Study of music at U.S. Civil War re-enactments during sesquicentennial celebrations
PhD candidate, Department of History (Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Award winner) Major Professor: Bethany E. Moreton Project Description: Conservatism and the Great Commission