2018 Master's Theses

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AUTHOR:             Adalbjornsson, Tryggvi

TITLE:                    Power and Ice: The battle over Iceland's melting wilderness       

ADVISOR:            Holloway, Marguerite   

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AUTHOR:             Anvari, Haleh    

TITLE:                    Framing Iran: Revolution, War, Memory: The making of modern photojournalism in Iran               

ADVISOR:            Solomon, Alisa

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AUTHOR:             Aurisicchio, Paola            

TITLE:                    Italy's Lost Generation: The new mass migration and brain drain               

ADVISOR:            Stille, Alexander              

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AUTHOR:             Baggi, Guia         

TITLE:                    A Transforming Sound: An urban estuary on the frontlines of climate change     

ADVISOR:            Holloway, Marguerite

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AUTHOR:             Baydakova, Anna            

TITLE:                    Holier than Them: Families that became small obstacles on a big road to wealth and power for the Russian Orthodox Church              

ADVISOR:            Matloff, Judith

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AUTHOR:             Berner, Anna-Sofia        

TITLE:                    After the Storm               

ADVISOR:            Neyfakh, Leon

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AUTHOR:             Carranca Carrea, Adriana             

TITLE:                    The Last Frontier: How a committee of U.S. Christian Evangelists led by the late Billy Graham ignited a movement that sent thousands of missionaries from the Global South into the fields after September 11, to convert Muslims          

ADVISOR:            Stille, Alexander              

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AUTHOR:             Carville, Olivia   

TITLE:                    Billion Dollar Gunfight: Who's making money from massacre?    

ADVISOR:            Stewart, James

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AUTHOR:             Cassidy, Martin

TITLE:                 Hot Mess: When major league soccer chose Nashville   

ADVISOR:            Serwer, Andy   

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AUTHOR:             Fouraker, Clark

TITLE:                    The Bitcoin Club: A surge of young people are diving head first into cyrptocurrency,                                         craving technological revival       

ADVISOR:            O'Leary, Lizzie

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AUTHOR:             Correa de Carvalho Gomes, Luciani         

TITLE:                  The Battle Over Rent Regulation in New York City            

ADVISOR:            Gessen, Keith and Eleanor Bell Fox         

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AUTHOR:             Cousins, Keith  

TITLE:                    In Sheep's Clothing: How Utah's Mormon population faces white collar threats from within  

ADVISOR:            Neyfakh, Leon

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AUTHOR:             Covington, Abigail           

TITLE:                   Haunted Halls: Honor and fear at Washington and Lee University             

ADVISOR:            Hajdu, David     

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AUTHOR:             Fitzsimons, Tim

TITLE:                 They Hate You: Making America's proud boys    

ADVISOR:            Stille, Alexander              

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AUTHOR:             Friscia, Suzannah             

TITLE:                    The Culture of Whiteness           

ADVISOR:            Roberts, Flecher              

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AUTHOR:             Gupta, Diya       

TITLE:                 Fighting Reality with Fiction: LARP in the West Bank        

ADVISOR:            Solomon, Alisa

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AUTHOR:             Hubbell, Diana  

TITLE:                  Speaking Up: Misrepresented by the Mainstream Media, Thai queer female filmmakers and their allies are telling stores their own way

ADVISOR:            Solomon, Alisa

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AUTHOR:             Iversen, David  

TITLE:                 Killing Gods: Ukraine's 25-year fight against corruption gains traction      

ADVISOR:            Feildman, Cassi and Eleanor Bell Fox      

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AUTHOR:             Kallestrup, Cecilie and Kathrine Jo Anderson      

TITLE:                    Shades of Sobriety         

ADVISOR:            Woodward, Tali and Nicholas Lemann

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AUTHOR:             Kamm, Anat      

TITLE:                 Correcting the Correction System: Rehabilitation and reentry programs in the realm of  for-profit prisons    

ADVISOR:            Serwer, Andy   

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AUTHOR:             Khawaja, Noorulain       

TITLE:                 The Ghost Warrior: One woman's fight for Kenyans with Albinism           

ADVISOR:            Matloff, Judith and Jennifer Janisch       

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AUTHOR:             Knott, Matthew              

TITLE:                 Selective Delusion: Competition is fierce to win a place at the nation's elite public highschools, but do those who attend really benefit?             

ADVISOR:            Woodward, Tali and Nicholas Lemann   

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AUTHOR:             Kurve, Varada  

TITLE:                 On the Frontlines of Fake News               

ADVISOR:            Stewart, James

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AUTHOR:             Lenharo, Mariana           

TITLE:                    Zika's Legacy: Brazilian physicians and scientists are working to answer urgent questions about the epidemic-while waiting for the next one         

ADVISOR:            Weiner, Jonathan           

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AUTHOR:             Lin, Annette      

TITLE:                   La Ciudad Nos Inventa: The rebranding of Mexico City   

ADVISOR:            Solomon, Alisa

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AUTHOR:             Lin, Serena         

TITLE:                    From Robot Town to Startup Delta, China's Ambition to Dominate Global Artificial                                             Intelligence       

ADVISOR:            O'Leary, Lizzie

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AUTHOR:             Lynch, Justin     

TITLE:                    Again    

ADVISOR:            Coll, Steve          

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AUTHOR:             Mehrishi, Karen               

TITLE:                  What Lurks Beneath: Is the Federal Reserve making the US recovery a source of emerging market pain?

ADVISOR:            Glader, Paul      

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AUTHOR:             Miller, Maya T.

TITLE:                    Behind the Signposts    

ADVISOR:            Epstein, Randi  

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AUTHOR:             Moran, Greta   

TITLE:                    The Right to Fall: For decades it has been a widespread practice in nursing homes to use personal alarms-without consent or medical order-in the name of protecting residents from falling        

ADVISOR:            Weiner, Jonathan           

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AUTHOR:             Okoth, Edwin    

TITLE:                    The Bridge on the River Nzoia: How a Chinese bridge in Western Kenya collapsed to expose Africa's dirty dance with the dragon       

ADVISOR:            Stewart, James

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AUTHOR:             Ornaghi de Aguiar, Tiago              

TITLE:                 BribeNation- Brazil's fall-back story         

ADVISOR:            Stille, Alexander and Thor K. Neureiter

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AUTHOR:             Parks, Casey      

TITLE:                 Pomp and Circumstances            

ADVISOR:            Lemann, Nicholas and Taliesin Woodward           

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AUTHOR:             Pastrano, Mozart Anthony T.     

TITLE:                The Sin of Singing            

ADVISOR:            Hajdu, David     

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AUTHOR:             Popeda, Agata

TITLE:                 Smolensk: How a tragic plane crash revitalized the Polish Right  

ADVISOR:            Gessen, Keith

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AUTHOR:             Raj, Ali

TITLE:                   The Curious Case of 'Coke Studio': How an international cola giant expanded its footprint in Pakistan      

ADVISOR:            Roberts, Flecher              

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AUTHOR:             Salotra, Vichitra               

TITLE:                    The Rise, Fall-And Possible Rise Again- of Cricket in America       

ADVISOR:            Serwer, Andy

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AUTHOR:             Shankar, Soumya            

TITLE:                    Fly Home Like Birds to My Country: Inside India's persecution of the Rohingya   

ADVISOR:            Gezari, Vanessa               

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AUTHOR:             Shetty, Disha    

TITLE:                    Slipping through the Gaps: The story of a broken healthcare system       

ADVISOR:            Epstein, Randi  

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AUTHOR:             Singh, Pooja      

TITLE:                    Dying Words: What a culture loses when its language disappears             

ADVISOR:            Hajdu, David     

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AUTHOR:             Sun, Mengqi     

TITLE:                    Epic Fail: How the bad business of a nuclear power plant savages South Carolina- and made bankers rich          

ADVISOR:            Serwer, Andy

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AUTHOR:             Tibble, Christopher        

TITLE:                 The Reggaeton Remedy: How the Caribbean genre become Medellin's chief export       

ADVISOR:            Solomon, Alisa

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AUTHOR:             Trautwein, Catherine    

TITLE:                  A 'Boarderless Crime': Abortion in the modern age         

ADVISOR:            Woodward, Tali and Nicholas Lemann and Jay Vanasco

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AUTHOR:             Trautwein, Catherine    

TITLE:                 The Man Raided for Abortion Pills           

ADVISOR:            Woodward, Tali and Nicholas Lemann and Jay Vanasco

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AUTHOR:             Uribe, Monica Ortiz        

TITLE:                  Battle at the Border: The 12-year struggle over the future of downtown El Paso               

ADVISOR:            Gimein, Mark   

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AUTHOR:             Wang, Echo Jing               

TITLE:                    The Visible Hand of Beijing in E-Commerce Development: A Chinese official's quest to the country's poverty alleviation recipe        

ADVISOR:            Stewart, James

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AUTHOR:             Whitman, Elizabeth        

TITLE:                  Paradox of Plenty: Local farms and local hunger, side by side in rural Maine         

ADVISOR:            Holloway, Marguerite

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AUTHOR:             Yi, Dian

TITLE:                   The Secretive Chinese Owner of NYC's Landmark            

ADVISOR:            Stewart, James

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