Honors Projects

Honors Projects by Year

• 2017

  Markus Hoeckner, Standing Rock https://macalester.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/1004280611?queryString=Markus%20Hoeckner&databaseList=2229%2C1524%2C2285%2C638%2C1638&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false&scope=sz%3A32184&changedFacet=scope

  Michael Griffin, advisor

• 2015

  Isaac Mathison-Bowie and Simona Zappas, Scopophiliacs: season 1
  Morgan Adamson, advisor

• 2013

  Hanna Backman, Productive resistance, nihilist production, and the fetish of negation
  A. Kiarina Kordela, advisor

  Rebecca Isabel Jackson, Decolonization and community media : fostering a decolonial imaginary in El Alto, Bolivia
  Michael Griffin, advisor
  Available online via digital commons

• 2012

  Caroline Karanja, The RED revolution from the perspective of visual cultural studies
  Leola Johnson, advisor
  Available online via digital commons

• 2011

  Jonathan S. Branden, Mythical bodies, colonial ideologies: Josephine Baker and her public image
  Michael Griffin, advisor

• 2010

  Omolara Adekola Drop it like it’s hott : responses to video vixens in rap visual culture
  Leola Johnson, advisor

  Hannah Rivenburgh, Undue Burden: A Feminist Analysis of the Discursive and Material Realities of Breast Cancer and Obesity in the United States
  Stephanie Rutherford, advisor
  Available online via digital commons

  Ross Shields, The Biopolitical Unconscious: Not-All Persons Are Political
  A. Kiarina Kordela, advisor
  Available online via digital commons

• 2008

  Sophie Smith, ‘Because I Could Not Stop For Death’: The Biopolitics of Mortality in America
  A. Kiarina Kordela, advisor

• 2006

  Tamara Olson, Popular Representations of Jewish Identity on Primetime Television: The Case of the O.C.
  Leola Johnson, advisor
  Available online via digital commons

• 2005

  Milena Batanova, Deconstructing Drug War Mythology: How did Modern Television News Dramatically Stage and Legitimate Reagan’s Spectacle of a War? 
  Michael Griffin, advisor

  Angela Espinoza, Writing Subjects: Narratives of Discontinuity in Douglass, Poe, Kafka, Lacan and Canetti
  David Martyn, advisor

  Laura McLam, Film Festivals and Alternative Distribution in the United States
  Clay Steinman, advisor

  Amelia MacRae, Guatemalan Media: From Civil War to Global Context
  Michael Griffin, advisor

• 2004

  Karl Dahlquist, Critique of Pure Internet: Immorality and Perversion
  A. Kiarina Kordela, advisor

• 2002

  John Pearson, Selling the crisis: the new hegemony of patriotism and consumption
  A. Kordela, advisor

  Jessica Wallendal, Translating the language of God : science, discourse, and truth in mass representations of the human genome project
  A. Kiarina Kordela, advisor

• 2001

  Ben Davis, The Game of the Scene: Philosophy, Fiction and the Theory of Wreading
  A. Kiarina Kordela, advisor

• 1997

  Julie Wilson, (Re)Constituting black authorship: calling for a new imaginary
  Clay Steinman, advisor

  Sarah Zeller, Acceptable pleasures: feminist film criticism and pornography
  Clay Steinman, advisor

• 1995

  Stephanie Welch, Female spectatorship and The Piano
  Clay Steinman, advisor