The College of Arts and Sciences

Entering Cohort

Name

CUT Recipient

Graduate Award

Thesis Title

Fall 2005

Adam Carpinelli

CUT Recipient

Fighting "modern slavery" securing land rights for the Saramaka people of Suriname. 2007

Cynthia L. Dorsey

L’Africain Saccharin’ Ballad : for the African whose journey led to Paris-the shared experience of the African in Paris. 2007

Fumilayo  Showers

No longer invisible : African immigrant women in the United States labor force

Melissa Y. Watts-Benjamin

Stand tall: introducing the Kati Jamii Model and reclaiming African Americans’ educative heritage. 2008

Robert Webb

(aka SUNDIATA SALAAM)

The spirit within: spirituality and resistance: a case study of Mekatilili and the Giriama. 2007

Simeon Saunders

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Stephanie Dickerson

The mask of cool : a historical and critical analysis of "masking" as a significant behavior utilized by African American males as reflected in history and literature. 2009

Fall 2006

Anne Abaho

(aka Anne Muhirwe)

From 6 years to 100: examining post-traumatic stress disorders among former child soldiers. 2008

Asha Best

Undesirable immigrants: migrant as subject and agent in the works of Edwidge Danticat. 2009

Lillian Baker

The effects of perceived racism on Black women’s health: our voices, our health, our strategies. 2008

Mathias Sajovitz

CUT Recipient

Graduate Prize: MA thesis

The African diaspora in the Austrian political economy: a Marxist analysis. 2008

Michael Orwa

CUT Recipient

Debt-slavery and social sabotage: IMF, World Bank, and women’s health in Kenya. 2008

Pierce Freelon

Sankofa: Pan-African migrations in Hip-Hop music and culture. 2008

Fall 2007

Adnan Ajsic

Pan African language policy in an age of globalization: an African Lingua franca for all? 2009

Ingrid M. Butler

Amongst Mardi Gras beads and holy rosaries: exploring how Black lesbians negotiate space and sexuality in New Orleans. 2009

Jessica Ann Mitchell

Graduate Prize: MA thesis

Invisible women melting: connecting climate change and women of African descent through African Orature. 2009

Marcus Hill

CUT Recipient

Paul R. Burgman

CUT Recipient

Negro como yo (black like me): constructions of blackness in Venezuelan social movement organizations. 2009

Ryan Hope Travis

(aka Ryan Smith)

June 16 (a one-man play): using dramatic text to explore how low-income African-American men become non-participatory fathers. 2009

Zakiya Lasley

CUT Recipient

Bifurcated Existences: Christian Evangelicalism and Black LGBT communities. 2009