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Senior Theses

2011

  • Cárdenas, Marieugenia - Image through Film, Testimony and Verse: Representations of the 1968 Tlatelolco Student Massacre
  • Edmiston, Robert J. - Perceptions of the United States in Cuban Rap
  • Gallegos, Adrian G. - Pedro Páramo Excerpt Translated
  • Heitjan, Phyllis L. - Living Ghosts and Time Warps: Art Remembering Argentina's Last Dictatorship
  • Kroll, Cynthia L. - El acceso al agua en las colonias de Laredo, Texas: Salud, Representación e Incertidumbre
  • Mehta, Kinneri - Appearance and Reality: An Analysis of Tuberculosis as Portrayed in 19th and 20th Century Argentine Literature
  • Nalikka, Pauline K. - O Baile Todo: Representations of Women in Funk Carioca
  • Ramirez, Isabel - Music, Miscegenation and the Mulata in the Tropics: Analogous Expressions of Fascination in the Poemas negros of Jorge de Lima and Luis Palés Matos
  • Rose, Santelia S. - The Spanish Health Care System and Treatment of Immigrants
  • Rothaus, Philip M. - Madness in Translation: Language, Laughter and Loucura in "O Alienista"
  • Sever, Patricia M. - La vaga coherencia del mundo: Perception and Creation in Adolfo Bioy Casares' La invención de Morel and Plan de evasión
2010

  • Arán, Fernando S. - The Disparity in Health Care for Spanish-speaking Immigrants in the United States
  • Best, Alexandra D. - Medical Tourism and Its Role in Transforming Costa Rica into a Competitive Global Force
  • Dickerson, Daniel S. - The Influence of Moorish Conquest on Southern Spain's Architecture
  • Meigs, Helen - Interaction Between Environmentalism and Indigenous Movements in the Amazon and Andes
  • Perez, Alejandro Rafael - A Devious Odyssey: Roberto Bolaño's Anti-Epic
  • Pérez, Andres - Demiurge Detectives: A Study of the Works of Leonardo Padura Fuentes and Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza as New Works of Latin American Detective Fiction
  • Segal, Andrew M. - Imaginação geográfica: An Examination of the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro's 19th-century Efforts to Territorialize Brazil
  • Tai, Avion A. - The Youth Go to Church, The Church Goes to the Youth: Young, Brazilian Evangelicals, New Media, and General Representations in Two Churches in São Paulo
2009
 
  • Adams, Laura Leland - Banco Compartamos and Its 2007 IPO: Transforming Microfinance in Mexico and Latin America 
  • Alban, Dylan - The Wandering Musicians: A Translation, History and Commentary 
  • Chasser, Yvonne - La salud reproductiva de las coumunidades indígenas y marginadas en Latinoamérica: Un argumento para la re-incorporación de la partería tradicional  
  • Edmiston, Christine P. - José Martí: Lasting Legacy
  • George, David M. - Moacyr Scliar, Alberto Gerchunoff, and Jewish Colonization in Argentina and Brazil: Memories of Immigration, Colonization, and Assimiliation from Imperial Russia to Urban Brazil
  • Norton, Diana - Jorge Negrete in Spain: The First Certamen Cinematográfico Hispanoamericano, Jalisco canta en Sevilla and the Discourse on Hispanidad
  • Smith, Alexandra - Surreal Salvador Dali: The Paranoiac Critical Challenge
  • Whitehead, Lauren Ashley - La herencia agridulce: "Bittersweet Inheritance" Race and Ethnicity from Early Iberia to Modern Latin America

2008 

  • Baker, David - Luis Sepúlveda: ¿Una voz literaria representativa del medio ambiente en Chile?
  •  Diggs, Jason -  Traumatic Memories: An Analysis of Testimonio Concerning Representations of the Argentine Dirty War  
  • Frydman, Julia L. -  Authoring Memory: Elena Poniatowska's La Noche de Tlatelolco and Carlos Monsiváis' Días de Guardar, Accounts of the 1968 Mexican Student Movement
  • Hidalgo, Michael - Rebellious Rhetoric: Intellectuals and Guerillas in Mexico and Colombia
  • Niu, Nina -  Health Behavior of Prostitutes in Spain: A Case for Legalization
  • Pardo, Marta - Supresión y rebelión en la vida de la mujer: An Analysis of Women's Gender Roles in Siglo de Oro Literature
  • Ripp, Alexandra - The Politics of the Avant-Garde: Daniel Veronese and the Teatro Joven
  • Washburn, Elizabeth -  Boricua Blends: Coffee in Puerto Rican Cultural Expression

2007

  • Jacobs, Stephanie N.  - From Journalism to Militancy: Operación Masacre and Transformation in Rodolfo Walsh
  • Landrón, Camillie  - Las fronteras de la ficción: Borges como lector de Cervantes
  • Wright, Grace Rachel - ¡Pobre Aguacate! A study of 1950s Puerto Rican hurricane perceptions in documentary and news media

2006

  • Arnold, Sara Camp - Rewriting history in Reinaldo Arenas.
  • Brune, Krista - From Peñas to Pinochet: The Evolving Social and Political Roles of the Nueva Canción Chilena.
  • Chase, Kathryn Dianne - Moroccan Immigration and Education in Spain.
  • Haston, Nicole Louise - Liberating Music: Exploring Puerto Rican Identity and Politics Through 20th Century Music.
  • Howerton, Ashley - Twilight and Dew, Shadow and Rain: An Intersection of Imagery From Neruda and Vallejo (Selected Poems Translated).
  • Iannuzzi, Andrew Marshall - Formulating the Mexican National Identity: A Reading of Pedro Páramo, El laberinto de la soledad and Amores perros.
  • Sarnak, Dana Olivia - Gender Violence in Spain: The unique Spanish evolution of the universal phenomenon.
  • Satterfield, Daniel H. - Latin American Perspectives on Globalization. 

2005

  • Fraga, Mariana Nóbrega - Hugo Padeletti: Ars Poetica.
  • Grover, Jason Bradley - Discovering Multicultural Dance: A Review of Grupo Corpo, DanceBrazil, and Related Companies and Their Works.
  • Lesser, Christopher Neilson - José Martí: The Poetics and Politics of Translation.
  • Negron, Esmeralda - Pelé: The Social Construction of a Hero.
  • Oodally, Muhammad Rumi - Adiós, Companheiros? Memory & Revolution in Sergio Ramírez and Fernando Gabeira.
  • Woodman-Maynard, Emily Jean - Logos, silencio, cuerpo: El límite de la palabra en la poesía de Olga Orozco.

2004

  • Ellis, Adrienne N. - A Journey to the Other Side of the River: An Anthology of the Work of Alejandra Pizarnik.
  • Lodge, Allynn M. - Becoming Another: Initiation in Four Works of Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film.
  • Martínez, Rinaldo - El Diván del Tamarit de Federico García Lorca.
  • Robinson, Katrina A. - The Popular, Avant-Garde and Caribbean Poetry of Nicolás Guillén: Orality, Self Acceptance and Mulatez.
  • Szalewicz, Eva Agnieszka M. - Paradoxes of Masculine Hegemony in Guadalajara, Mexico.

2003

  • Carter, Jennifer Lauren - Memory, Myth, and the Making of Modernity: Political Cinema in Post-Franco Spain.
  • Davenport-Harris, Crystal J. - Race and Revolution in Cuba: Literary Expressions of the Afro-Cuban Voice.
  • François, Marie B. - País de ida y vuelta: Economic, Cultural, and Social Implications of Migration in Modern Spain.
  • Hantman, Daniel H. - Maquinaciones narrativas: Plot, Desire, and the Machine in Adolfo Bioy Casares' La invención de Morel.
  • Jeppson-Gámez, Laura Christina - The American Reception of el Nuevo Cine Mexicano: 1991-2003.
  • Moore, Sean Michael - 20th Century Interpretations of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

2002

  • Boateng, Andria Marie - La mujer que sale de las páginas: un análisis de la presencia femenina en la prensa diaria.
  • Stramandi, Danielle Nicole - Curanderismo and its Relationship to Mexican American Health Care.

2001

  • Rafal, Alysia Megan - Reading El obsceno pájaro de la noche: A Study of Creative and Critical Interpretations of a "Boom" Novel.
  • Schaefer, Susan - The Drama of Disappearance: Antigona Furiosa and Argentina's "Dirty War". 

2000

  • Cazel, Brittany Mae - Literary and Cinematic Modes of Consciousness: Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez and Francesco Rosi's cinematic adaptation.
  • Moran, Maria Renee - The Influence of Las Casas on Montaigne.
  • Perez, Mariella - Literatura e identidad nacional: un estudio de La guaracha del Macho Camacho de Luis Rafael Sánchez.
  • Price, Penelope Pamela - Expressions of Emancipation: The Evolution of Cultural Identity within Cuban and Guyanese Poetry.
  • Whitehead, Amanda Post - Delinear una sombra: escribir el "self elusivo" en la obra de Elena Garro.

1999

  • Warren, Tanya Michelle - Pride, Pain, and Passion: A porteño Identity through the Lyrics of the Tango and Argentine Rock Music.

1998

  • Craig, Jennifer - Objectives, Realities, and Challenges of Bilingual Education in Guatamala: A Case Study of Chuixtoca, Totonicapan.

1997

  • Day, Greer Mary - Elena Garro's "La dama boba": Exploring the Necessity for the Integration of Western and Indian Knowledge.
  • Edwards, Crystal Sheree - Literature and Memory: The Narratives of Afro-Cubans Juan Francisco Manzano and Esteban Montejo.
  • Grubb, Mary Connell - Santa Evita? Religious Dimension in the Cult of Eva Perón.
  • Hermosilla, Andres Ivan - Magical Rivers, Dreams and Reality: José Maria Arguedas' Vision for the Uncertain Future of Peruvian Peoples.
  • McGuinn, Katherine Willoughby - Emergence from Violence: The Politicization of Women in Chile during the Military Regime.
  • Morales, Esther Morales - Practices of Seeing the Figure of Flamenco.
  • Rolla, Andrea - Dual Immersion: A Symbol in Need of Definition and Evaluation.
  • Smith, Michael Joseph - Borges and his Critique of Language.