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Class of 2008 - Graduating Seniors and Senior Theses


Laura Barker
Program:
Spanish Language and Literature
Thesis: Amor, salvación, y libertad: El rol de la mujer en Don Juan Tenorio de Zorilla y Fausto de Goethe
Mentor: Dr. Carey Kasten

Alexander Baum
Program:
International Political Economy
Thesis: The 'Helicopter Parent' Problem: Why State-Building Authorities Won't Let Developing Countries Grow Up on Their Own
Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Crystal

Sarah Cascone
Program:
History
Thesis: Sarah and Her Sisters: The Peale Family and Early American Art
Mentor: Dr. Elaine Crane

Faye Cassell
Program:
Middle East Studies
Thesis: A Minority in Crisis: Coptic Christians and the Islamization of Modern Day Egypt
Mentor: Dr. Doron Ben-Atar

William Cerbone
Program:
Medieval Studies
Thesis: Kings,  Heroes, and Conduct: On the Mildness of King Beowulf
Mentor: Rev. Martin Chase, S.J.

Anthony Damelio III
Program:
Sociology
Thesis: The Influence of Religion on Latino Immigration to New York, in Three Phases: Desicion, Journey, Settling
Mentor: Dr. Arancha García del Soto

Michael Esposito
Program: Classical Languages
Thesis: Longas condimus Iliadas: Homeric Reference in the Propertian Corpus
Mentor: Dr. Matthew McGowan

Jonathan Hogan
Program:
Communication and Media Studies
Thesis: Understanding Iron Man: An Examination of the Relationship Between Technology and Humanity in a Popular Comic Book Series
Mentor: Dr. Lance Strate

Maciej Kasperowicz
Program:
English
Thesis: Jes Grew: Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo and the Anti-Plague Narrative
Mentor: Dr. Yvette Christiansë

Francis Marsico III
Program:
Philosophy
Thesis: Transcendence through Synthesis: Immanuel Kant's Place in Early Modern Epistemology
Mentor: Dr. Judith Jones

Amy Maselli
Program:
Chemistry
Thesis: Studies of Amino Acid Polymerization under Conditions Mimicking Those Believed to Have Existed on Primordial Earth
Mentor: Dr. Christopher Bender

Megan McCabe
Program:
Theology
Thesis: Mary, Model of Woman? An Essay Marking the 20th Anniversary of Mulieris Dignitatem
Mentor: Dr. Jeannine Hill Fletcher

Matthew Mihaly
Program: Economics
Thesis: The Dollar is Always Greener on the Other Side: A Study of the National Debt and its Implications
Mentor: Dr. Bartholomew Moore

John Milner
Program:
Computer Science
Thesis: Music Information  Retrieval by Singing and Humming
Mentor: Dr. Frank Hsu

Danielle O'Connor
Program:
Chemistry
Thesis: Direct Leuckart-Type Reductive Amination of Aldehydes and Ketones: A Facile One-Pot Preparation of Secondary and Tertiary Amines
Mentor: Dr. Shahrokh Saba

Arun Ravindranath
Program:
Mathematics/Economics
Thesis: Martingale Approach for Pricing Financial Derivatives
Mentor: Dr. Janusz Golec

Paul Ryan
Program:
Computer Science
Thesis: The AI in Faith: A Study of Religion Using Artificial Agents
Mentor: Dr. Damian Lyons

Marianne Stracquadanio
Program:
Philosophy
Thesis: Challenging Tradition: The Life and Ethical Writings of Peter Abelard
Mentor: Dr. Giorgio Pini

Marc Tambini
Program: Biological Sciences
Thesis: Drug Mediated Alternative Splicing in Parkinson's Disease Associated Genes
Mentor: Dr. Berish Rubin

Quang Tran, S.J.
Program:
Philosophy
Thesis: Selfless Self and Selfless Non-Self: Implications of Buddhist and Thomist Metaphysics in the Burmese Monks' Protests
Mentor: Rev. Richard Viladesau

John Waldron
Program: Art History
Thesis: New York City's Contemporary Public Art: Public? Art?
Mentor: Dr. Jo Anna Isaak


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