2016 Master's Theses

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AUTHOR: "Abdel-Rasoul, Ismail"
TITLE: When a Stranger Calls: The plight of Eritrean refugees fleeing to Europe
ADVISOR: "Maharidge, Dale"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Ahmed, Sieraaj"
TITLE: At War with Race: South Africa's opposition struggles with change as election looms and anger grows
ADVISOR: "Grueskin, William"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Anny, Joshua Osabutey"
TITLE: Lost Royals: Young Ghanaian-American turn away from tradition
ADVISOR: "Beckerman, Gal"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Armstrong, Eric"
TITLE: Anonymous Speaks: The secret life of an undercover filmmaker and how his work is forcing the world to remember the silent heath of Indonesia
ADVISOR: "Beckerman, Gal"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Ashok, Sowmiya"
TITLE: The Others: What race means to America
ADVISOR: "Lemann, Nicholas"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Beck, Liza Leonora"
TITLE: "Inside the Great, Truly Bizarre Japanese Las Vegas Investment Scandal: How a tyrannical, Ferrari-obsessed money manager duped investors in an alleged $1.5 billion Ponzi scheme."
ADVISOR: "Serwer, Andrew"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Berardi, Francesca"
TITLE: The Old Men and the Sea: A journey across a demographic revolution in Italian small towns
ADVISOR: "Stille, Alexander"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Biltoft-Knudsen, Kirstine"
TITLE: Mortal Sin: The flight for abortion rights in Latin America
ADVISOR: "Massing, Michael"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Bregman, Alexandra"
TITLE: Modigliani Money: Art as currency for blue-chip collectors
ADVISOR: "Stewart, James"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Brostrom, Nina"
TITLE: 26 Seconds
ADVISOR: "Nasar, Sylvia"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Brown, Lovanda"
TITLE: Bad Mind: The exploration of Jamaica's Psychiatric Development
ADVISOR: "Sicha, Choire"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Damarwala, Sholeen"
TITLE: Incomplete: One Woman's quest to reverse the effects of female genital mutilation
ADVISOR: "Bennett, Laura"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Diller, Whitney Clay"
TITLE: From Hell to Healing: How survivors of sex trafficking recover and reclaim their lives
ADVISOR: "Sicha, Choire"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Ehidiamen, Jennifer"
TITLE: "A Make or Break Moment for Africa's Oil King: The future looked bright for Adewale Tinubu, founder and CEO of Oando Group, Nigeria's biggest oil company. Tinubu had become a player in the world's energy markets and had just made a number of huge bets, including the purchase of ConocoPhillips's Nigeria assets for about $1.65 billion. But then oil prices tanked and Oando reported the biggest loss ever for a Nigerian company. How did Tinubu come to this place and will he and Oando survive the tumult?"
ADVISOR: "Serwer, Andrew"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Esguerra Miranda, Cristina"
TITLE: The Man Who Stole His Own Painting: A fight for a confiscated Picasso and a claim of restitution for Klimt's masterpiece
ADVISOR: "Sicha, Choire"
FORMAT: Print
 

AUTHOR: "Furfaro, Hannah Rose"
TITLE: Their Own True Grit: The deadly mental health disorder that medicine abandons
ADVISOR: "Weiner, Jonathan"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Garcia, Eduardo"
TITLE: On Not Knowing Clouds at All: The missing pieces in the puzzle of climate change
ADVISOR: "Weiner, Jonathan"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Gibson, Eloise"
TITLE: The Red Barn Paradox: Cow Belch and climate change
ADVISOR: "Holloway, Marguerite"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Gray, Billy"
TITLE: Breaking Through a Breakdown: The directors shooting the future of American Indie film
ADVISOR: "Harris, Mark"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Greve, Victoria"
TITLE: Treasure Hunt: How an Indian idol was tracked to New York and the struggle to return it
ADVISOR: "Lemann, Nicholas"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Griffith, Keith"
TITLE: Exit From the Top
ADVISOR: "Stewart, James"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Hepworth, Shelley"
TITLE: The Unborn Identity: How the technology we make is making us
ADVISOR: "Roberts, Fletcher"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Hsu, Carleen L."
TITLE: Grub
ADVISOR: "Holloway, Marguerite"
FORMAT: Print and DVD

AUTHOR: "Hunt, Michael"
TITLE: The Culture of the Compact Cassette
ADVISOR: "Hajdu, David"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Iyengar, Radhika"
TITLE: Bound by Birth to Death: A young Dom's journey
ADVISOR: "Beckerman, Gal"
FORMAT: Print and Photos

AUTHOR: "Jeyathilagar, Prashanth Perumal"
TITLE: Martin Shkreli Thanks the FDA
ADVISOR: "Stewart, James"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Kauflin, Jeffrey"
TITLE: Start-up. Cash out. Repeat. The making for successful serial entrepreneurs
ADVISOR: "Stewart, James"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Keitz, Anders"
TITLE: Judgment Day: How the government lost the landmark criminal case against Wall Street
ADVISOR: "Nasar, Sylvia"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Kuchler, Adriana"
TITLE: "Guns, Ducks, and Country"
ADVISOR: "Sicha, Choire"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Kullving, Carl-Johan"
TITLE: 15 Years Underwater: How the Swedish government sunk German ThyssenKrupp's contract for the new generation submarine A26
ADVISOR: "Stewart, James"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Love, Shayla"
TITLE: "Ancestral Markings: The traumatic legacy of the cultural revolution, 50 years later"
ADVISOR: "Holloway, Marguerite"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Loza, Pierre"
TITLE: Clown Matters
ADVISOR: "Serwer, Andrew"
 

FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Marten, Peter"
TITLE: "Playing Instrumental Roles: When an American musician and a Norwegian violin maker reimagine a traditional fiddle, it resonates on both sides of the Atlantic"
ADVISOR: "Roberts, Fletcher"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Masih, Niha"
TITLE: Inside Beziers: France's far-right lab
ADVISOR: "Maharidge, Dale"
FORMAT: Print and Photos

AUTHOR: "Mittal, Pavni"
TITLE: The Holy Tycoon: How a yoga guru built India's fastest-growing consumer goods company
ADVISOR: "Grueskin, William"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Olsen, Carlene"
TITLE: Gaga: A Lingua Franca of dance
ADVISOR: "Franklin, Ruth"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Paluch, Gabrielle Sarah"
TITLE: The weak Link
ADVISOR: "Nasar, Sylvia"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Parga de la Maza, Monica"
TITLE: "Arts, Stat: Helping young patients cope with the hospital experience"
ADVISOR: "Roberts, Fletcher"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Peled, Shachar"
TITLE: Home Tweet Home: Social media as a refuge for the homeless
ADVISOR: "Franklin, Ruth"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Radhakrishnan, Sairam"
TITLE: "A Divisive Peaceā€¦United during the war, the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora finds peace to be divisive"
ADVISOR: "Stille, Alexander"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Santur, Hassan Ghedi"
TITLE: Ordinary Yearning
ADVISOR: "Lemann, Nicholas"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Sarle, Ben"
TITLE: "Running for President's New Precedent: You know your candidate, but they know you better"
ADVISOR: "Lemann, Nicholas"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Sauras, Javier"
TITLE: Mother and Children Frist: Bolivian indigenous doctors pioneer a model to tackle maternal mortality
ADVISOR: "Massing, Michael"
FORMAT: Print and Photos

AUTHOR: "Shefler, Gil"
TITLE: The Upstart Unit Behind the Startup Nation: Behind the scenes at Israel's NSA and how it spawns legions of programmers and entrepreneurs that have taken the tech world by storm
ADVISOR: "Serwer, Andrew"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Sheikh, Abdi Latif"
TITLE: "Dreams Deferred: Living in Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp"
ADVISOR: "Stille, Alexander"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Smiley, Stephen"
TITLE: End of the Line: Australia's last generation of carmakers
ADVISOR: "Lemann, Nicholas"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "So, Ching Yan"
TITLE: "Lights, Cameras, Accents: Inside the long, fraught evolution of the Asian voice on TV"
ADVISOR: "Bennett, Laura"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Strum, Rebecca"
TITLE: Nightmare on 59th Street Manhattan's iconic Plaza Hotel and its millionaire residents were posed for a gilded age-but got years of sleepless nights instead
ADVISOR: "Nasar, Sylvia"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Thirani Bagri, Neha"
TITLE: "Where Women are Hunted: Gender, power and superstition in India"
ADVISOR: "Coll, Steve"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Thomas, Selin"
TITLE: Merchant of Democracy: The volatile politics of Burma's transition from dictatorship
ADVISOR: "Stille, Alexander"
FORMAT: Print

AUTHOR: "Thornton, Alexandrea"
TITLE: Faith and Fat in the Bible Belt: Why the church seems to scream at sex but shrug at gluttony
ADVISOR: "Weiner, Jonathan"
FORMAT: Print