Graduates

BACHELOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREES AWARDED IN APRIL 2005

Justin Eichenlaub

English Literature, Neuroscience, and History and Philosophy of Science

"Where Perception Ends: Robinson Jeffers, Phenomenology, and the Eco-Modernist Perception"

Thesis Advisor: Philip E. Smith, Department of English, School of Arts and Sciences

Renee Gondek

Classics and History of Art & Architecture

"Horologium Augusti: An Expression of the Established Peaceful Empire"

Thesis Advisor: Anne Weis, Department of History of Art and Architecture, School of Arts and Sciences

Jocelyn K. Horner

Urban Studies and Sociology

"Activists, Agents, and Mothers: A Study of African American Women Leaders in Pittsburgh"

Thesis Advisor: Liann Tsoukas, Department of History, School of Arts and Sciences

Samantha Hryciuk

History and Russian

"A Mayakomorphist World View: Man as Savior in the Pre-Revolutionary Poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky"

Thesis Advisor: Jane Harris, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, School of Arts and Sciences

Ajinkya Joglekar

Music and Physics and Astronomy

"Ghanaian Music for the Western Musician"

Thesis Advisor: Nathan Davis, Department of Music, School of Arts and Sciences

Barbara Diven Machamer

English Writing and Film Studies

"A Reading of 'Metropolis': Vampenstein and the Revenge of Reactionary Modernism"

Thesis Advisor: Lucy Fischer, Department of English, School of Arts and Sciences

Cara L. Margherio

Sociology and Psychology

"Integrating Feminist Discourses and Locating Revolutionary Potential: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Shulamith Firestone's 'The Dialectic of Sex'"

Thesis Advisor: Kathleen Blee, Department of Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences

Kevin P. McCarthy

Political Science and Economics

"Raising the Celtic Tiger: Politics and Public Policy in Ireland's Economic Development"

Thesis Advisor: Alberta Sbragia, Department of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences

Gwendolen Ann Morton

Environmental Studies and Political Science

"'The Donora Wife': The Dramatization of a Forgotten Environmental Tragedy"

Thesis Advisor: Mark Collins, Department of Geology, School of Arts and Sciences

Paul Richard Ohodnicki, Jr.

Engineering Physics and Economics

"Offroading with MFM: The Application of Magnetic Force Microscopy to Bulk Equiatomic L10 FePd"

Thesis Advisor: Jorg Wiezorek, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Engineering

Clare S. Sierawski

Environmental Studies, Political Science, and Chinese

"Environmental NGOs in China: Laying the Foundations for Democratic Institutions"

Thesis Advisor: Wen Fang Tang, Department of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences

Brett Wiewiora

Psychology and History

"Achievement Flow vs. Empathetic Flow: The Case for Different Flows"

Thesis Advisor: Erik Reichle, Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences

Jeff K. Wuenschell

Engineering Physics

"Point Defects and Resonant Cavities Formed in 2D Photonic Crystals"

Thesis Advisor: Hong Koo Kim, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Arts and Sciences