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Dissertations

Program Overview: Dissertations Completed (2009-2013)

Title	Author	Committee
*Commemorations and Protest in the Zócalo: A History of Performance in Mexico's Central Square from the Colonial Era to the Present*	Ana Martinez February 2013	*Jean Graham-Jones, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Marvin Carlson* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Judith Milhous* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Rehearsing "The South": Sicilian Constructs of Representation on the Stage 1863-1917*	Janice Capuana February 2013	*Marvin Carlson, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Judith Milhous* The Graduate Center, CUNY *David Savran* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Woman's Work: Ruth Maleczech as Mabou Mines Performer, Director and Manager*	Jessica Brater February 2013	*Marvin Carlson, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *David Savran* The Graduate Center, CUNY *James Wilson* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*"This Theatre is a Battlefield": Political Performance and Jewish-American Identity, 1933-1948*	Garrett Eisler September 2012	*David Savran, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Marvin Carlson* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Morris Dickstein* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*The Commodification of US Acting as Seen Through the League of Professional Theatre Training Programs, 1968-1987*	Peter Zazzali September 2012	*David Savran, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Judith Milhous* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Marvin Carlson* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Thomas Chaundler and Academic Drama: Performance Practices in the Medieval English University*	Thomas Meacham September 2012	*Pamela Sheingorn, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Judith Milhous* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Michael Sargent* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*The Social Lives of Playscripts: Nick of the Woods from Inkwell to Internet*	Katherine Wilson May 2012	*Judith Milhous, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Marc Dolan* The Graduate Center, CUNY *David Greetham* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Ghosted Towns: Performing Tourism, Place, and Cultural Memory in the United States*	Lindsay Livingston May 2012	*Marvin Carlson, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Jean Graham-Jones* The Graduate Center, CUNY *David Savran* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*The Urban Geography of Theatre in the New South City: Memphis, 1890-1920*	Stephen Huff May 2012	*Judith Milhous, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY Marvin Carlson The Graduate Center, CUNY *Jean Graham-Jones* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Tragic Practice: Participatory Democracy and Activist Theatre in the U.S., 2006-2010*	Linell Ajello May 2012	*Jean Graham-Jones, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *David Savran* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Judith Milhous* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Rhythmic Juggling: Tracing the Disembodied Voice of Richard Foreman's Ontologic-Hysteric Theatre, 1968-2009*	Patricia Coleman May 2012	David Savran, Chair The Graduate Center, CUNY Marvin Carlson The Graduate Center, CUNY *James Wilson* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Theatres of Absence: Seville , 1248-1575*	Christopher Swift May 2012	*Pamela Sheingorn, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Jean Graham-Jones* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Marvin Carlson* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*The Pleasure Gardens of Antebellum America and the Performance of American Identities*	Naomi Stubbs February 2012	*Judith Milhous, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Marvin Carlson* The Graduate Center, CUNY *David Savran* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Heather Nathans* University of Maryland
*The Roots of American Improvisation: Play, Process, and Pedagogy*	Margaret M. Duffy May 2011	*Jane Bowers, Chair* John Jay College, CUNY Daniel Gerould The Graduate Center, CUNY *Claudia Orenstein* Hunter College, CUNY
*Displaced Conversations: A Genealogy of Feminist Performance*	Constance Zaytoun May 2011	*David Savran, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Jean Graham-Jones* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Alisa Solomon* Columbia University *Julie Malnig* New York University
*"Real American Entertainment": Performance and Nationalism in Branson, Missouri*	Jennifer Worth May 2011	Marvin Carlson, Chair The Graduate Center, CUNY *David Savran* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Jean Graham-Jones* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Fashioning Performance Careers in New York, 1869-1899: How Female Performers Negotiated Changing Ideas of Womanhood*	Celia Braxton May 2011	*Judith Milhous, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *David Savran* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Kathleen McCarthy* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*The Actor and the Playwright : Adaptation on the Early Eighteenth-Century, English Stage*	Ellen B. Anthony-Moore May 2011	*Judith Milhous, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Marvin Carlson* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Mario DiGangi* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Without Papers: Legal Identity, Legal Consciousness, and Performance*	Gad Guterman February 2011	*Jean Graham-Jones, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Judith Milhous* The Graduate Center, CUNY *David Savran* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Sally Engle Merry*, NYU
*Devouring Metaphors: Neoliberal Consumption in Argentine and Brazilian Theatre*	Elisa Legon February 2011	*Jean Graham-Jones, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Judith Milhous* The Graduate Center, CUNY *David Savran* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Exporting America: Theatre, Gay Male Identities, and Anti-Americanism in Denmark and West Germany*	Ken Nielsen February 2011	*David Savran, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Judith Milhous* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Marvin Carlson* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*"A Spectacle to the World:" The Performance of Christian Virgins and Monks in Late Antiquity*	William Conte October 2010	*Pamela Sheingorn, Chair* Emerita, CUNY *Judith Milhous* The Graduate Center, CUNY *David Savran* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Staging the Volk: Nazi Policy and the Reality of Theatrical Production in Three Berlin Theatres, 1933-1944*	Hillary Rosenberg October 2010	*Marvin Carlson, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Judith Milhous* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Daniel Gerould* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*The Circulation of Blackface: Nostalgia and Tradition in US Minstrel Performance of the Early 1920s*	Kevin Byrne May 2010	*David Savran, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Marvin Carlson* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Jean Graham-Jones* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Synesthetic Landscapes in Harold Pinter's Theatre: A Symbolist Legacy*	Graca M. Correa May 2010	Daniel Gerould, Chair The Graduate Center, CUNY *Jean Graham-Jones* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Mary Ann Caws* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*The Foundations of American Regional Theatre*	Tomoko Aono May 2010	*Judith Milhous, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *David Savran* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Pamela Sheingorn, Emerita* The Graduate Center, CUNY
Contemporary Site-Specific Theatre in New York City: Performance, the City, and Spatial Politics	Bertie Ferdman May 2010	*Judith Milhous, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Marvin Carlson* The Graduate Center, CUNY *David Savran* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Staging Fat: Dramaturgy, Female Bodies, and Contemporary American Culture*	Jennifer Scott Mobley May 2010	*Judith Milhous, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Pamela Sheingorn*, Emerita The Graduate Center, CUNY *Maurya Wickstrom* Coll., of Staten Island CUNY *David Savran* The Graduate Center CUNY
*A Quest Beyond Enlightenment: Buddhism as Counter-Enlightenment and Modernity's Other Being in the Practices of* Antonin Artaud, John Cage, Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, and Xingjian Gao	Yu-Shian (Ivy) Lin October 2009	*David Savran, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Judith Milhous* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Claudia Orenstein* Hunter College, CUNY
The Lost Apple Plays: Performing Operation Pedro Pan	Kimberly Ramirez May 2009	*Jean Graham-Jones, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *David Savran* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Marvin Carlson* The Graduate Center, CUNY
Carmen Rivera: Theatre of Latinidad	Jason Ramirez May 2009	*Gloria Waldman, Chair* Emerita, The Graduate Center, CUNY *David Savran* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Juan Flores* The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Race and Realism in Edward Harrigan's Mulligan Guard Series*	Michael Aman May 2009	*David Savran, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Daniel Gerould* The Graduate Center, CUNY *John Graziano* The Graduate Center, CUNY
Sensation, Spectacle, and Reform in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Theatre	Amy Hughes May 2009	*Marvin Carlson, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Judith Milhous* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Daniel Gerould* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Heather Nathans* University of Maryland
*Performing the 'Ben Comune': The Political Functions of Performance in the Republic of Siena (1260-1555)*	Jenna Soleo-Shanks May 2009	*Pamela Sheingorn, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Marvin Carlson* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Judith Milhous* The Graduate Center, CUNY *James Saslow* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Ronald Herzman* Geneseo College, SUNY
*The Powerful Voice of Women Dramatists in the Arab American Theatre Movement*	Dalia Basiouny May 2009	*Marvin Carlson, Chair* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Jane Bowers* John Jay College, CUNY *Pamela Sheingorn* The Graduate Center, CUNY *Alisa Solomon* Columbia University

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Dissertations

Program Overview: Dissertations Completed (2009-2013)