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Student Theses


These are the theses produced by students in the Master's in History Program:

2002

Carolyn Inserra. Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz: The Catholic Church and Women's Political Expression. 2002.
     Advisor: Professor David Traboulay.

Jessica Rose Kratz. Commemorating Immortality: The 1953 Golden Anniversary of Flight. 2002.
     Advisor: Professor Richard Powers.

Paul Morando. Politics of Identity: The Secession Movement on Staten Island. 2002.
     Advisor: Professor Howard Weiner.

Donna Scimeca. The Vietnam War and the Demise of the Great Society. 2002.
     Advisor: Professor Luther Carpenter.

Ursula VanWart. Beyond the Household: Quaker Women's Expanded Sphere in Colonial America. 2002. (Most Outstanding Thesis Prize, 2002)
     Advisor: Professor Catherine Lavender.

2003

John S. Comfort. The Richmond County Gazette as a Reflection of Life on Staten Island During the Civil War. 2003.
     Advisor: Professor Catherine Lavender.

Gregory J. Grasso. The Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee: New York City's Antiwar Apparatus. 2003.
     Advisor: Professor Michael Foley.

Edward Thomas Hynes. The Chief and the Tiger: Big Bill Devery and Boss Croker's Tammany Hall. 2003.
     Advisor: Professor Richard Powers.

Harold Mahecha. The Politics of Fresh Kills: The Closing of the Landfill, 1996-2001. 2003.
     Advisor: Professor Catherine Lavender.

Michael Henry Stavola. Why The South Richmond Plan Failed: The Politics of Development on Staten Island. 2003.
     Advisor: Professor Howard Weiner.

2004

Natalia Brennan. The Political Struggle in England During the Signing of the Utrecht Peace Treaty. 2004.
     Advisor: Professor Stephen Stearns.

Brian Dorph. The Richmond Parkway: A Highway Dividing Staten Island. 2004.
     Advisor: Professor Catherine Lavender.

Mariann Kosovych. The Business and Professional Women's Club of Staten Island: The Formative Years in a Time of National Transition, 1935-1943. 2004.
     Advisor: Professor Catherine Lavender.

2005

Brian Middendorf. An Icon of Prosperity Crumbles: An Economic Study of Stapleton (1940-1980). 2005.
     Advisor: Professor Howard Weiner.

Peter Sacco. The Emergence of the United States as an Imperialist World Power. 2005.
     Advisor: Professor Catherine Lavender.

Irene R. Tidona. The New York Italian American Community's Responses to Benito Mussolini and Fascism from the 1920s to the 1940s. 2005.
     Advisor: Professor Howard Weiner.

2006

Edmund Nkansah. Evolving Democratic Process in Africa: A Case Study of Ghana Under John Jerry Rawlings (1979-2000). 2006.
     Advisor: Professor Donald Omagu.

Artemida Tesho. Italian Futurist Women. 2006.
     Advisor: Professor Howard Weiner.

Copies of theses are available for viewing in the History Department Office, 2N-215.


 Prepared for the Department of History by Prof. Catherine Lavender (lavender@mail.csi.cuny.edu)
 Last modified: 20 September 2006.