Dissertations Accepted, 2013–2015
Literature
Hilary Elizabeth Finley
Genesis and the Garden: Nature and Natural Law in The Brothers Karamazov, directed by Professor Bainard Cowan
Matthew Tracy Mehan
The Life, Death, and Art of Good Counsel in Sir Thomas More, directed by Professor Gerard Wegemer
Stephen Francis Shivone
Donne’s Songs and Sonnets: The Forms and Deformations of Human Love, directed by Professor Robert Scott Dupree
Philosophy
Michael Jason Colebrook
Eric Voegelin’s Critique of the End of History Thesis, directed by Professor Robert Wood
David Michael Cudnik
The Scientific and the Aesthetic in the Philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer and Gabriel Marcel, directed by Professor Robert Wood
Allison Postell
What Comes Naturally: The Metaethical Foundations of Virtue Ethics, directed by Professor Lance Simmons
Politics
David Oliver Azerrad
Clearing the Ground for Modernity: The Basis and Extent of Freedom in John Locke’s First Treatise, directed by Professor Thomas West
Matthew Daniel Post
Prudence and Transcendence in Plato’s Symposium, Republic, and Timaeus, directed by Professor Joshua Parens
Stephen Lonsack Shipp
Liberty Despite Equality: Publius and Tocqueville’s New Science of Politics, directed by Professor Richard Dougherty
Christina Villegas
Reshaping the Federal Response to Violence: The Theoretical Foundations and Legislative History of the Violence Against Women Act, directed by Professor Tiffany Jones Miller
Braniff Graduate Student Association (BGSA) Conference Stipends
The following students were awarded conference stipends during the 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years for use in presenting papers at academic conferences.
Francis Fast, IPS Politics, “Petruchio's Paper Crown: Marital Roles in Taming of the Shrew,” Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, Houston, Texas, September 2013.
Emily Katherine Ferkaluk, IPS Politics, “"Alexis de Tocqueville's Defense Against Political Religion,” Northeastern Political Science Association's 46th Annual Conference, Boston, MA, November 2014.
Amy Freeman,"Boethius in Hamlet: A Shakespearean Source." Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis, Missouri, June 2014.
Brandon Garcia,IPS Politics, “Like Hot, Cold, Bitter, and Sweet: The Problem of Injustice in Cicero's De Republica,” Northeastern Political Science Association's 46th Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2014.
Kimberly Heil, IPS Philosophy, “Sir Thomas More's Wit and Wisdom,” 48th Annual European Studies Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, October 2013.
Serena Howe, MA Literature, “Beauty in Action: 'Conversion and the Purpose of Poetry in Hopkins's 'To what serves Mortal Beauty?,” Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. Conference, Denver, Colorado, March 2015.
Serena Howe, MA Literature, "Interpretation, Fidelity, and the Problem of Allegory in The Winter's Tale,” Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis, Missouri, June 2014.
Angela Lill,IPS Politics, “Neither Beast nor God: The role of the philosopher in Aristotle's polis,” Tenth Annual Marquette Summer Seminar on Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 2015.
Rosemary Johnson, IPS literature, “The Narrative Structure of Troilus as an Analogy for Divine Foreknowledge,” Southeastern Medieval Association 2014 Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2014.
Tiffany Niebuhr, IPS Literature, “Reverential Mirth: Allegory as Holy Play in the Confessions,” Sewanee Medieval Colloquium: Medieval Emotions, Sewanee, Tennessee, April 2014.
Pavlos L. Papadopoulos, IPS Politics, "Plato's Laws: The Political Philosopher as Author," Association for Core Texts and Courses 21st Annual Conference, Plymouth, Massachusetts, April 2015.
Alex Slaughter, MA Psychology, “ Ban Boss? Perceptions of Bossiness, Assertiveness, and Likability in Males and Females,” International Convention of Psychological Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 2015.
Spenser Kyle Smith, IPS Literature, “‘This kind, keen self-feeling': Selving and the Will in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins,” The Hopkins Conference, Denver, Colorado, March 2015.
Michael Terranova, IPS Literature, “Unexpected Solutions of Continuity’: Narrative Technique, Causality and Human Agency in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent,” Joseph Conrad Society Annual Conference, Rome, Italy, July 2013.
Hannah Venable, IPS Philosophy, “Situating Melancholy in Kierkegaard’s The Concept of Anxiety,” Baylor Symposium for Faith and Culture, Waco, Texas, October 2013.
Hannah Venable, IPS Philosophy, “The Dialectic of ‘Meaning’ in Merleau-Ponty’s The Structure of Behavior,” North Texas Philosophical Association, Denton, Texas, April 2014.
Moryam Vanopstal, IPS Politics, “Faith, Prudence, and the Captains of Men: Discerning Shakespeare's Henry Monmouth Through the Book of Joshua,” Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, Houston, Texas, September 2013.
Eliot Wondercheck, IPS Literature, “The Taming of the Shrew and the Work of Love,” 39th Annual European Studies Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, October 2014.
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