2009-2019 Comparative Studies MA Degrees
2019
Charlie Birge (MA)
Thesis: “The Addiction of Transparency: Observations on the Emotional Neurophysiology of Whiteness”
Advisor: Maurice Stevens
Anh Ho (MA)
Thesis: “Self-Consciousness and Responsibility: Limitations and Beyond”
Advisor: Philip Armstrong
2018
Kate Kaura
Thesis: "The Body of the Goddess: Religious and Political Power of the Indian Female Body and Ruptures of Resistance"
Advisor: Hugh Urban
2016
Dawn Combs (MA)
Thesis: Cartesian Duality and Dissonance in the American Dying Experience”
Advisor: Katherine Borland
J. Caroline Toy (MA)
Thesis: “Constructing the Fannish Place: Ritual and Sacred Space in a Sherlock Fan Pilgrimage”
Advisor: Hugh Urban
Accepted into Comparative Studies PhD Program
2015
Katherine Fitzgerald (MA)
Thesis: “An Outline of the Bibliographic History of Nangsa Ohbum”
Advisor: Hugh Urban
Accepted into Comparative Studies PhD Program
Ziqi Yuan (MA)
Thesis: “‘Isms’ and the Refractions of World Literature in May Fourth China”
Advisor: Nina Berman
Nicholas Flores (MA)
Thesis: “DREAMing the "Right" Way: The Cultural Politics of the DREAM Act and UndocuQueer Social Movements”
Advisor: Maurice Stevens
Accepted into Comparative Studies PhD Program
2014
Maria Barbero (MA)
Thesis: “DACA, Immigrant Youth, and Education: An Analysis of Elite Narratives on Nationhood, Citizenship, and Belonging in the U.S.”
Advisor: Theresa Delgadillo
Accepted into PhD program, Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University
Matthew O'Malley (MA)
Thesis: “Such Building Only Takes Care: A Study of Dwelling in the Work of Heidegger, Ingold, Malinowski, and Thoreau”
Advisor: Leo Coleman
Accepted into PhD Program, Anthropology, Yale University
Divya Sundar (MA)
Thesis: “Saving ‘America's Iconic Liberal City’: The Late Liberal Biopolitics of Anti-gentrification Discourses in San Francisco”
Advisor: Leo Coleman
Accepted into PhD program, City and Regional Planning, Berkeley
Kelly Schultz (MA)
Thesis: “Toward Rangzen, Through Rang and Zen: Contextualized Agency of Contemporary Tibetan Poet-Activists in Exile”
Advisor: Hugh Urban Degree
2013
Matt Brenn (MA)
Thesis: “Reinterpreting (Bio)Politics: Potentiality, Profanation, and Play in the Thought of Giorgio Agamben”
Advisor: Philip Armstrong
Ethan Finley (MA)
Thesis: “In Dreams: A Freudian Analysis of David Lynch's Mulholland Dr. and Lost Highway”
Advisor: Eugene Holland
Christos Gegas (MA)
Thesis: “C.P. Caavafy: (Homo)erotics and (re)constructions”
Advisor: Philip Armstrong
Amy Picknell (MA)
Thesis: “The American Art Museum and the Internet: Public Digital Collections and Their Intersections of Discourse”
Advisor: Philip Armstrong
2011
Seth Josephson (MA)
Thesis: “For the Benefit of the Many: Resignification of Caste in Dalit and Early Buddhism”
Advisor: Hugh Urban
Accepted into Comparative Studies PhD Program
Kay Clopton (MA)
Thesis: “Coffee and Infidelity: a Feminist Close Reading of Yoshizumi Wataru's Cappuccino as Scanlation in the Context of New Media”
Advisor: Ruby Tapia
Accepted into Comparative Studies PhD Program
2010
Keith Padgett (MA)
Thesis: “Sufferation, Han, and the Blues: Collective Oppression in Artistic and Theological Expression”
Advisor: Thomas Kasulis
Talia Weisz (MA)
Thesis: “Voices from Israel/Palestine: A Documentary Video Exhibition”
Advisor: Amy Shuman
Lee Wiles-Op (MA)
Thesis: “If you Could Hie to Kolob: Mormonism and the World Religions Discourse”
Advisor: Hugh Urban
2009
Damon Berry (MA)
Thesis: “Blood Right: Racial Protectionism and the Problem of Christianity in American White Nationalism”
Advisor: Hugh Urban
Accepted into Comparative Studies PhD Program
Sumiko Eguchi (MA)
Thesis: “Being a Person: Ethics of Watsuji Tetsurō and Immanuel Kant”
Advisor: Thomas Kasulis
Carlotta Blackmon (MA)
Thesis: “Routed Sisterhood Black American Female Identity and the Black Female Community”
Advisor: Kwaku Korang
Andrew Culp (MA)
Thesis: “Producing Pacification: The Disciplinary Technologies of Smart Bombs and National Anti-war Organizing”
Advisor: Eugene Holland
Accepted into Comparative Studies PhD Program
Nicole Rearick (MA)
Thesis: “Food is Something That We Gather Around”
Advisor: Maurice Stevens