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Certificate Students

Senior Theses or Final Paper

(current students)

CLASS OF 2011
Alexia Inglessis	History	"Argentina and Greece: Populism Declared and Military Regimes Established"
Percy Julian	Psychology	"The Role of Philhellenism and Neo-Hellenism: a Journey from Greek Independence to Recognition" (Final Research Paper)
Melina Meneguin-Layerenza	Politics	"Cyprus: Bargaining Failures in theShadow of Great Powers"

CLASS OF 2010
Lucas P. Barron Hellenic Studies Senior Thesis Prizewinner	Classics	“Philosophy as a Way of Death: Prophyry and the Strains of an Ancient Discipline”
Thomas F. Blair	Economics	“Albanian Immigration and the Greek Contagion:A Study of Immigration’s Effects onGreek Immigrants, Economics and Health Care” (Final Research Paper)
Lizzie A. Presser	Classics	“Directing Medea in the Chapel” (Final Research Paper)
Sherry Zhang	Classics	"Alumnaesophia: Princeton Women in the Classical Tradition, 1960-2009"

CLASS OF 2009
Matthew James Prisco Hellenic Studies Senior Thesis Prizewinner	Sociology	“A Sociological Approach to Language Death and Language Revitalization in Grecia Salentina'
Elizabeth Sucuyan	Psychology	“Rebetiko: A Bridge Between Turkey and Greece" (Final Research Paper)

CLASS OF 2008
Joanne Cathy Dekis	Molecular Biology	“Parade on 5th: Photographs of the Greek Independence Day Parade”
Melis Evcimik	Politics	“Repercussions of Involuntary Migrations: A Case Study of the Compulsory Population Exchange of 1924 Between Turkey and Greece"
Emma Nell Harper	Near Eastern Studies	“Inflexible Images: The Effects of Ethnographic Maps on Macedonian Nationalism 1878-1906”
Michael John Kotsakas Kratsios Hellenic Studies Senior Thesis Prizewinner	Politics	“Economics and Voting in the Third Hellenic Republic: An Aggregate and Individual-Level Analysis of the Greek Electorate, 1985-2007"
Whitney Beth Mosery Hellenic Studies Senior Thesis Prizewinner	Classics	“Classical Paradigms in Markopoulos’ The Illiac Passion”
Maria S. Picone	Philosophy	“A Dark Matter: The Problem of Evil in Plotinus and Proclus”

CLASS OF 2007
Aikaterini Kotsaka Kratsios	Art and Archaeology	"The Art Protest: Jannis Psychopedis, 1967-1974"
Lindsay Erin Lough	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	"Ecological Perspectives on the Microbial Community Structure of Shipwrecks: Evidence for a Temporal Succession"
Alexandra Sage Mehta	English	"Beauty Incarnate: Representations of Helen"
Christian Casey Sahner Hellenic Studies Senior Thesis Prizewinner	Art & Archaeology	"Heaven on Earth in Late Antiquity: Rome, Constantinople, and the New Jerusalem"

CLASS OF 2006
Henryk Jaronowski Hellenic Studies Senior Thesis Prizewinner	Classics	"Justinian's Laws Against Heresy and the Closing of the School at Athens"
Godze Kucuk	Politics	"Diplomacy of Seismic Waves: Greek-Turkish Earthquake Diplomacy, 1999-2002"
Lillian Samet	History	"A Grecian Drama: Setting the Stage for the Cold War: The Evolution of American Foreign Policy in Greece 1945-1947"

CLASS OF 2005
Jonathan Hepburn	Religion	"In the Hidden Space Between: Approaching Gregory J. Markopoulos's Temenos"
Sarah Kiernan	History	"William Milligan Slaone: Torchbearer of the Olympic Movement"
Virginia A. Pourakis	Anthropology	"Being Greek and Greek Orthodox in America: An Identity Crisis?"

CLASS OF 2004
Cynthia Romero	Woodrow Wilson School	"Balkan Patron or Balkan-Style Patronage? The Evolution of Greece's Foreign Policy Interests in the Balkans" (Final Research Paper)

CLASS OF 2003
Jason D. Mastoris	Economics	"A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Implementation of Telemedicine in the Aegean Islands of Greece"

CLASS OF 2002
Annie Correal	Comparative Literature	"Hard Water: Poetry and Travelogues"
Maria Livadiotis	Economics	"The Economic Implications of Hosting the Olymic Games: A Study of Host Cities from 1988-2004"
Efstratios Minakakis	Music	"The Greek National School of Music: A Case Study of Papaioannou's 'Ho Vasiles Ho Arvanites'"
Kelli C. Rudolph	Classics	" Understanding in Heraclitus"

CLASS OF 2001
Christopher Gibson Bradley	Classics	"Meaning What You Say: The Problem of Praise in Classical and Late Antiquity"
Tanya Eleni Kalivas	History	"Voices of Protest: Greek Women in Opposition to the Colonels' Rule, 1967-1974"
Peter Constantine Nomikos Hellenic Studies Senior Thesis Prizewinner	History	"Philanthropy and Imperialism: The Historical Precedents of the Greek Refugee Loan, 1923-24"

CLASS OF 2000
Karen Emmerich Hellenic Studies Senior Thesis Prizewinner	Comparative Literature	"Translation (with an Introduction) of Margarita Karapanou, Rien ne va Plus"
Joshua Halpern	History	"Investigating the Role of the Shahs Kavad I (486-531) and Khusroe I (531-579) in the Advent and Suppression of the Mazdakite Revolt"
Robert C. Hill	Classics	" / The Face of War: The Byzantine Soldier in the Balkans 867-1025"
Hans Leaman	History	"Religion and Rhetoric in Early Pennsylvania Education"
Jed Seltzer	History	"Constantine the Great and Religious Crisis Moments in His Reign"
Christopher Turner	Politics	"Deadlock: Analysis of the Obstacles to an Integrative Negotiation on Cyprus"
John Wilson	Chemistry	"The Expansion and Development of Byzantine Studies at Princeton During the Twentieth Century"

CLASS OF 1999
J. Atu Darko	Classics	"I Said, You Said, He Said, She Said - The Pragmatic Representations of the Pronouns"
Amelia R. Brown	History	"Middle Byzantine Thessalonii: Art, Architecture and History of the Ninth Through Twelfth Centuries"
Nancy A. Khalek Hellenic Studies Senior Thesis Prizewinner	History	"The Significance of the Gestures of Prayer: Late Antique Holy Men Meet the Followers of Early Islam"

CLASS OF 1998
John Pantelis Maris Hellenic Studies Senior Thesis Prizewinner	Woodrow Wilson School	"Democracy and European Integration: Accession and Democratic Consolidation in Central and Eastern Europe"

CLASS OF 1997
Jacqueline Gigantes Hellenic Studies Senior Thesis Prizewinner	History	"Crossing the Aegean: The Transmission of Greek Studies from Byzantium to Italy in the First Half of the Fifteenth Century"
Katie Katsigera Hellenic Studies Senior Thesis Prizewinner	Woodrow Wilson School	"In Deep Water: The Greco-Turkish Dispute over the Aegean Continental Shelf"
Corey Samaras	Religion	"Evil in the Greek Orthodox Church: Official and Unofficial Myth of the Evil Eye"

CLASS OF 1996
Grigorios Giannakopoulos	Politics	"Structural Aspects of the Greek State: Reasons for Greece's Economic Underperformance the past Fifteen Years"
Emmanuela Kantzia Hellenic Studies Senior Thesis Prizewinner	Comparative Literature	"The Year I Wrote In, A Confessional Box"
Dorothea Yessios Hellenic Studies Senior Thesis Prizewinner	Woodrow Wilson School	"Unity or Disunity? The Case of Cyprus and the European Union"
Susan Bramley	Anthropology	"Uncovering a Myth of Progress: Time and Tradition in Ethnographies in Modern Greece"

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