2006 - 2009 Master of Arts Theses
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Author: Akram, Ayesha
Title: The White Face of Islam in America
Advisor(s): Samuel Freedman & Akeel Bilgrami
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Ax, Joseph
Title: Target Acquired: Somewhere, inside a political database, your name - and everything about you - is on a list. What does it mean for the future of democracy?
Advisor(s): Nicholas Lemann & Robert Shapiro
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Baker, Katie
Title: The Metaphysical Club: Children's literature authors Madeleine L'Engle and Philip Pullman take on fate, free will and the moral nature of our mysterious universe
Advisor(s): Michael Janeway & Deirdre Baker
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Bartosiewicz, Carol Petra
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Advisor(s): Alexander Stille
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Day, Adrienne
Title: The BAM Plan
Advisor(s): Samuel Freedman & Reinhold Martin
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Del Toro, Natasha
Title: Cuban Artists and the Capitalist Exception
Advisor(s): Elizabeth Fishman & Alisa Solomon
Format: TV
Year: 2006
Author: DeWitt, Sunshine K.
Title: Beyond Cholesterol: The Heart Disease Theory that Could Lead to a Cure in our Lifetimes
Advisor(s): Sylvia Nasar & Frank Lichtenberg
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Duricka, Tamara
Title: Celibacy and the City
Advisor(s): John Dinges
Format: Radio
Year: 2006
Author: Enríquez Flores, Ana Cristina
Title: Shipping the Mexican Way: Live in NY, Have a House in Mexico
Advisor(s): Alexander Stille & Robert Courtney Smith
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Ford, Ruth
Title: Across the great divide: In the Methodist Church today, one issue threatens the church's future: What role, if any, can gays play in the life of the church?
Advisor(s): Dale Maharidge & Randall Balmer
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Gale, Ivan Emmanuel
Title: Climate Fix: Can Burying Carbon Save Us?
Advisor(s): Marguerite Holloway & Robert Socolow
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Grogan, Jennifer
Title: Balancing Science and Security: The Dilemma of Dual-Use Research
Advisor(s): Nicholas Lemann & Jonathan Cole
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Keim, Brandon
Title: Unclear Waters: Power Plants, Fish Kills & The Hudson River
Advisor(s): Jonathan Weiner & John Waldman
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Kiviat, Barbara
Title: The Town That Wal-Mart Left: How Livingston, Alabama, fought for - and lost - its most important store
Advisor(s): James Stewart & Bruce Greenwald
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Lang, Thomas J.
Title: In Transit
Advisor(s): James Stewart
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Latiak, Ted
Title: A Lifetime of Service to the Nation: The Individual Ready Reserve and the Class of '98
Advisor(s): Sylvia Nasar & Michael Adler
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Lye, Bethany R.
Title: Big Charity
Advisor(s): Jonathan Weiner & Barry Collier
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Maloney, Jennifer
Title: All-American Muslim Girls
Advisor(s): Evan Cornog & Louis Cristillo
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Niknejad, Kelly G.
Title: Media and the Search for Democracy: The Story of the Iranian Diaspora
Advisor(s): Alexander Stille
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Ou, Han
Title: A Global Entrepreneur
Advisor(s): James Stewart & Bruce Greenwald
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Poolos, Alexandra
Title: Putin vs. NGOs
Advisor(s): David Klatell & Edward Beliaev
Format: Print & TV (DVD not available)
Year: 2006
Author: Quinn, Vonnie
Title: Risky Business: How Universities are Blithely Betting their Futures on Hedge Funds
Advisor(s): Sylvia Nasar & Perry Mehrling
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Ramirez, Elva
Title: Security & Design: Post 9/11 Influences on New York City Streets
Advisor(s): Samuel Freedman & Ethel Sheffer
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Schlesinger, Victoria
Title: Saving the World Never Seemed So Simple
Advisor(s): Marguerite Holloway
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Shafrir, Doree
Title: Mixtape Nation
Advisor(s): Alisa Solomon & Farah Griffin
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Upson, Sandra
Title: Endless Plasticity: Animals, Environments and a Self-Doubting Science
Advisor(s): Jonathan Weiner
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Velasquez-Manoff, Moises
Title: At the Wrong End of a Hair Trigger
Advisor(s): Jonathan Weiner
Format: Print
Year: 2006
Author: Aguila, Justino Jr.
Title: The World of Ugly Betty
Advisor(s): Alisa Solomon & Frances Negrón-Muntaner
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Akin, Stephanie
Title: Poor Choices: A new trend in health care pits doctors against hospitals, and could squeeze uninsured patients in the middle
Advisor(s): Alexander Stille & Michael Gusmano
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Benios, Thania
Title: Are There Too Many Scientists? A Look at the Postdoc Bottleneck
Advisor(s): Jonathan Weiner & Josh Gordon
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Breidthardt, Annika
Title: Is Germany Hemorrhaging? The Myth of the Brain Drain
Advisor(s): Sylvia Nasar & Bruce Greenwald
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Chan, Megan H.
Title: Bridge to change: kunqu opera in America
Advisor(s): Alisa Solomon & Shang Wei
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Chandrashekhar, Vaishnavi
Title: Seeing the Light
Advisor(s): Jonathan Weiner & Jeri Nieves
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Cui, Rong
Title: Going West: Fewer Chinese Students Fit the Familiar Mold
Advisor(s): Sylvia Nasar & Bruce Greenwald
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Cunningham, Jaime Ann
Title: Parasite Hunting: The Scientific Community's Quest for a Malaria Cure
Advisor(s): Jonathan Weiner & Elizabeth Nardin
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Davis, Ryan
Title: Specialized Cinema: Niche Film Festivals in New York
Advisor(s): Diane Solway & Richard Peña
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Dodd, Scott
Title: From Hammerheads to Hair Cells: Hunting a Cure for Hearing Loss
Advisor(s): Jonathan Weiner & A. James Hudspeth
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Fernandes, Deepa
Title: The new New Orleans
Advisor(s): Alexander Stille & Sudhir Venkatesh
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Fishburn, Alice
Title: Sex Sells: Gender Selection and the American Baby Business
Advisor(s): Alexander Stille & Carole Vance
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Freedlander, David
Title: The New Cacophonists: Spectacle Reclaims New York Streets
Advisor(s): Alisa Solomon & Reinhold Martin
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Ganeshananthan, V. V.
Title: Relative Rebellion: Writers on the Weather Underground
Advisor(s): Sam Freedman & Ann Douglas
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Huber, Michael B.
Title: Making the Leap: New York Musicians and the Transatlantic Jazz Network
Advisor(s): Alisa Solomon & Robert O'Meally
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Jin, Bo
Title: Curse of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Film's Fate in the United States
Advisor(s): Alisa Solomon & Richard Peña
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Johnson, Gene Bryan
Title: From August Wilson to Tyler Perry: Crossing Paths on the Way to Tomorrow
Advisor(s): Sam Freedman & Margot Jefferson
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Landau, Elizabeth Rosa
Title: Evolving Exhibits: The Presentation of Evolution and Creation in American Museums
Advisor(s): Alexander Stille & Robert Pollack
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Lazo, Alejandro
Title: A Spring Street Investigation: How the Los Angeles Times Discovered Its Future on The Web
Advisor(s): James Stewart & Bruce Greenwald
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Lewis, Richard C.
Title: Windmills in the sea
Advisor(s): Marguerite Holloway & William Menke
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Malone, Matthew J.
Title: The Prodigal Son
Advisor(s): James Stewart & Bruce Greenwald
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Marder, Jenny
Title: This Is Your Brain On Stress
Advisor(s): Jonathan Weiner & Darcy Kelley
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Mead, Julia C.
Title: Collateral Damage: Mefloquine, Madness and the U.S. Military
Advisor(s): Marguerite Holloway & Awash Teklehaimanot
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Millner-Fairbanks, Amanda
Title: The Movement
Advisor(s): LynNell Hancock & Dorothy Shipps
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Nanda, Tanmaya Kumar
Title: In the Shadow of Steel: The transformation of a small town in India
Advisor(s): Sylvia Nasar & Bruce Greenwald
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Peer, Basharat
Title: After Afghanistan: Lives and Longings of Afghan Refugees in New York
Advisor(s): Ari Goldman & Miriam Ticktin
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Sanati, Cyrus
Title: Hunting Hunter: The Amaranth Saga
Advisor(s): James Stewart & Bruce Greenwald
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Shapiro, Lanie
Title: Stuyvesant Town, Petering Out: The Golden Era That Already Ended
Advisor(s): Nicholas Lemann & Ester Fuchs
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Sharrock, Justine
Title: A Nation of Torturers
Advisor(s): Maharidge, Dale
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Umansky, Eric
Title: Laws of Unintended Consequences: Have the U.S.'s chief anti-terrorism laws - the so-called "material support" provisions - gone too far?
Advisor(s): Tom Edsall
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Yefimov, Natalia
Title: Doing Lines: What Scientists Say About Waiting and What Waiting Says About Us
Advisor(s): Evan Cornog & Sudhir Venkatesh
Format: Print
Year: 2007
Author: Aguilar, Andrea
Title: The New Fiction Wave on the Spanish Civil War
Advisor: Cornog, Evan
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Amusa, Malena
Title: Shopping for Africa: How Bono Learns from Famine, Apartheid, and Hip-Hop
Advisor: Hajdu, David
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Bahney, Anna
Title: Walking Away: Worth Millions and in Foreclosure
Advisor: Nasar, Sylvia
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Braverman, Beth
Title: Touring Foreclosures
Advisor: Stewart, James
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Brue, Alexia
Title: A Crisis in LEEDership: How America's de facto Green Building Standard Settles for Mediocrity
Advisor: Hajdu, David
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Buric, Mirsada
Title: From Bosnia to Barcelona: The Odyssey of Terror
Advisor: Cornog, Evan
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Crane, Kristine
Title: Black Ribbons
Advisor: Epstein, Randi; Costello, Amy
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Dailey, Kate
Title: Changing Direction: Women Filmmakers in Hollywood
Advisor: Pierpont, Claudia
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Duncan, Don James
Title: Exhumed in Lebanon - Rebuilding Nahr al Bared: Memory, Anxiety and National Security
Advisor: Edsall, Tom
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Duncan, Don James
Title: A Tale of Two Camps - Palestinian Unity Unraveling in Exile
Advisor: Cooper, Ann
Format: Radio
Year: 2008
Dworin, Caroline
Title: The Ladder Business
Advisor: Freedman, Samuel
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Feder, J. Lester
Title: Saving the Earth for Christ: The Greening of the Evangelical Grassroots
Advisor: Cornog, Evan
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Flynn, Kathleen Nye
Title: Dr. Phil, For the Homeless: A Zealous White House Czar is Out to Make Us Feel Very Good About Very Little
Advisor: Edsall, Tom
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Friedman, Joshua J.
Title: The Louisville Story: Will School Desegregation Get a Second Chance?
Advisor: Lemann, Nicholas
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Gagnon, Milan
Title: Nativist Pop Culture
Advisor: Freedman, Samuel
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Heckbert, Denise
Title: The Bolivarian Oil Company: Venezuela's PDVSA under Hugo Chavez
Advisor: Stewart, James
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Hoyt, Jennifer
Title: The Bolivarian Oil Company: Venezuela's PDVSA under Hugo Chavez
Advisor: Nasar, Sylvia
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Ibanez, Graciela
Title: The Dinner Party
Advisor: Nasar, Sylvia
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Jose, Vinod K.
Title: Burmese in America
Advisor: Maharidge, Dale
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Juskalian, Russ
Title: The Psychedelic Renaissance
Advisor: Weiner, Jonathan
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Limperis, Anja
Title: The Asthma Conundrum
Advisor: Seideman, David
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Lin, Wei-Hsuan
Title: The Man Who Lost Six Languages: And Other Snapshots of the Bilingual Brain
Advisor: Weiner, Jonathan
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Menasche, Jacques
Title: Stoned in Kabul (an 83-minute documentary film)
Advisor: Harris, Melissa
Format: TV
Year: 2008
Merina, Dorian Sanae
Title: Rizal: The Story of a Poem, a Revolution and Filipinos Today
Advisor: Pierpont, Claudia
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Mizead, Abdulla
Title: The State of Black Churches in Harlem
Advisor: Lemann, Nicholas
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Norman, Brett
Title: Selling the Soul
Advisor: Seideman, David
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Oynar, Hande
Title: What Lies Beneath: Art in New York City Subway
Advisor: Freedman, Samuel
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Peters, Justin
Title: The Emotion Machine: How Empathetic Computers May Help Unlock the Capabilities of the Autistic Mind
Advisor: Epstein, Randi
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Salzman, Avi
Title: Health Care, Cheap: One Doctor's Mission to Save American Medicine
Advisor: Stewart, James
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Schopen, Fay
Title: Agroterrorism - a threat to the American way of eating?
Advisor: Seideman, David
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Shin, Laura
Title: The Green Gowanus: Can Post-Industrial Cities Become Sustainable? A Test Case.
Advisor: Weiner, Jonathan
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Soults, Franklin
Title: Flip-Flop & Fly: Blueprint, Brother Ali and the changing racial dynamic of the Midwest hip-hop underground
Advisor: Hajdu, David
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Strauss, Karsten
Title: McClatchy and the Newspaper Conundrum
Advisor: Stewart, James
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Sulaiman, Tosin
Title: United Nations On Air: Keeping the Peace through Radio
Advisor: Edsall, Tom
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Tangel, Andrew
Title: Financial Therapy: Could an Illinois Counseling Program Have Prevented the Credit Crisis?
Advisor: Nasar, Sylvia
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Twarowski, Christopher
Title: Through the Rabbit Hole: Inside the Colorful Underworld of the Contemporary Art Market
Advisor: Nasar, Sylvia
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Walls, Seth Colter
Title: Show Some Initiative: How a Progressive Era-footnote can influence our contemporary politics
Advisor: Edsall, Tom
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Walters, Ben
Title: Arrested Development: How Orson Welles tried to Revolutionize Television, and Why Television Wouldn't Let Him
Advisor: Harris, Melissa
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Whitaker, John
Title: Abandoned to the State
Advisor: Cornog, Evan
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Woodward, Tali
Title: Clean Genes: The Quest for a Risk-Free Baby
Advisor: Holloway, Marguerite; Rothman, Sheila
Format: Print
Year: 2008
Author: Allen, Jonathan
Title: Creating Hindues with Backbone: The Hindu-Nationalist Movement in America
Advisor: Courtney Bender & Evan Cornog
Year: 2009
Author: Atal, Maha
Title: Wheels of Change: One Car's Struggle to Survive Detroit
Advisor: Sylvia Nasar
Year: 2009
Author: Bibawy Salib, Amir M.
Title: The Yale Jackpot!
Advisor: James Stewart
Year: 2009
Author: Burnette, II, Daarel
Title: Ghana Issues National Identification Cards
Advisor: Nicholas Lemann
Year: 2009
Author: Colarusso, Laura
Title: Warbots
Advisor: Thomas Edsall & Stuart Johnson
Year: 2009
Author: Deutsch, Abigail
Title: Taking the Measure: Poetry in the Wake of September 11, 2001
Advisor: Claudia Roth Pierpont & Alice Quinn
Year: 2009
Author: Dubgaard, Ulla
Title: State of the Arts in the News - How The New York Times balances news and views in the arts
Advisor: David Hajdu & Michael Schudson
Year: 2009
Author: Edwards, Haley Sweetland
Title: Paradise Lost? Youth, nonviolence and the role of technology in the changing shape of Kashmir
Advisor: Evan Cornog
Year: 2009
Author: Egan, Ryan Alfred
Title: THE SWORD OF SPECULATION: How Goldman Sachs went to the brink and watched competitors jump
Advisor: R. Philip Giles & James Stewart
Year: 2009
Author: Fau Blimming, Erik
Title: Altercation at the Altar: The Musical Schism between Traditional Genres and Liturgical Pop in the Catholic Church
Advisor: Susan Boynton & David Hajdu
Year: 2009
Author: Franco, A. Cheree
Title: United We Stand, Divided We Dance: Wilcox County's Proms in Black and White
Advisor: Alisa Solomon & Kendall Thomas
Year: 2009
Author: Ghose, Anindita
Title: Wall Street's Windfall: How the market's collapse could stimulate cinema's indie spirit
Advisor: Stacy Cochran & Charles Taylor
Year: 2009
Author: Gottfried, Miriam
Title: Betting on a Borrowed Dime: The Saga of a Subprime Lender
Advisor: Sylvia Nasar
Year: 2009
Author: Hauslohner, Abigail
Title: ALLIES TO IMMIGRANTS: A bittersweet ending for the Iraq War's intermediaries
Advisor: Evan Cornog
Year: 2009
Author: Hawkes, Alison
Title: Toxic Protection: Uganda's Experiment with DDT to Fight Malaria
Advisor: Brian Mailloux, David Seideman & Julianne Welby
Format: New Media
Author: Hearn, Josephine
Title: Silent streams: A story of frog extinction in Panama
Advisor: Darrel Frost & Marguerite Holloway
Year: 2009
Author: Herath, Anuradha
Title: The Red-Dead: A Project in Political Engineering
Advisor: Marc Levy & David Seideman
Format: New Media
URL:http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/masters/2009/akh2120/index.htm
Year: 2009
Author: Kahya, Damian
Title: The Problem With Clean Coal
Advisor: Sylvia Nasar & Julianne Welby
Format: New Media
Year: 2009
Author: Kashyap, Arjun
Title: THE SALLIE MAE BUYOUT SAGA
Advisor: Sylvia Nasar & James Stewart
Year: 2009
Author: Kirsh, Keren
Title: I'm Bailedout, So what?
Advisor: James Stewart
Year: 2009
Author: Kissee-Wilder, Anita
Title: Dirty Little Secret: What the News Business is not Saying About the Effects of Trauma on the Journalists who Cover it
Advisor: Evan Cornog, Jack Saul & Abi Wright
Format: TV
Year: 2009
Author: Mahoney, Jill
Title: The shocking controversy: One family's landmark lawsuit and the debate over the safety of Tasers
Advisor: Marc Dickstein, Thomas Edsall
Year: 2009
Author: Major, Mandy
Title: Making the Cut: Female Film Editors in Hollywood
Advisor: Richard Peña, Charles Taylor
Year: 2009
Author: Marx, Greg
Title: Whose Land is it, Anyway? Sprawl, smart growth and suburban politics
Advisor: Dale Maharidge
Year: 2009
Author: McLean, Christine
Title: Something's Coming: West Side Story, Kingdom and the emergence of Puerto Rican identity in American musical theater
Advisor: Oscar Andy Hammerstein & Claudia Roth Pierpont
Year: 2009
Author: Rex, Erica
Title: ALL THAT AILS US
Advisor: Marguerite Holloway
Year: 2009
Author: Rothstein, Craig
Title: War & Peace of Mind: How the rave drug is healing soldier's heads
Advisor: Randi Epstein & Joy Hirsch
Year: 2009
Author: Rubin, Nadine
Title: DUMILE FENI: Rethinking the oeuvre of a South African artist in exile
Advisor: Melissa Harris & Jonny Steinberg
Year: 2009
Author: Schattner, Elaine
Title: Democracy in the Doctor's Office: the internet opens dialogue and care choices for cancer patients
Advisor: Marguerite Holloway & Michael Schudson
Year: 2009
Author: Schmall, Emily
Title: The American Dream Deferred: The fallout from the real estate boom in a gentrifying Chicago neighborhood
Advisor: Sylvia Nasar & James Stewart
Year: 2009
Author: Scott, Aaron
Title: How the Mayor Changed Normal and Other Small-Town Stories
Advisor: Marguerite Holloway & Rebecca Young
Year: 2009
Author: Sethi, Aman
Title: For Whom The Bell Curves: A Story of Risk, Reward and Ruin.
Advisor: Perry Mehrling & Sylvia Nasar
Year: 2009
Author: Sharma, Betwa
Title: Peace and Justice in Sudan
Advisor: Nicholas Lemann
Year: 2009
Author: Shoichet, Catherine E.
Title: Al Otro Lado: Mexican Migrants, the Economic Crisis and the Other Side of Remittances
Advisor: Milena Gómez & Evan Cornog
Year: 2009
Author: Thogersen, Andreas
Title: THIS AMERICAN RACE
Advisor: Thomas Edsall & Gene Roberts
Year: 2009
Author: Tisak, Allyn-Patricia
Title: When Inspiration Becomes Imitation: Counterfeiting and Design Piracy of Luxury Handbags
Advisor: David Hajdu
Year: 2009
Author: Voosen, Paul
Title: The Stir of Waters: Low-Dose Radiation and the Radon Spa of Jachymov
Advisor: Randi Epstein & Stephen Ostrow
Year: 2009
Author: Wang, Shanshan
Title: Underground China in Manhattan: Life and struggle of illegal immigrants
Advisor: Thomas Edsall & Robert Erikson
Year: 2009
Author: Xia, Xiaoming
Title: A Better Way To Build: The Queens Botanical Garden's Green Example
Advisor: Stuart Gaffin & David Seideman
Year: 2009
Author: Xu, Donghuan
Title: Is Chinese Herbal Therapy the Magic Elixir?
Advisor: Randi Epstein & Judith Jacobson
Year: 2009
Author: Yelsey, Kenneth
Title: The Criterion Canon: The Criterion Collection in American Film Culture
Advisor: Richard Peña & Claudia Roth Pierpont
Year: 2009