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 The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies : Doctor of Letters
    

2024

Cynthia A DiTaranto
Who Will Be Queen?

Andrew Forrest
Meanwhile the World Goes On: Provincetown's Place in an Age of Trauma

Fredrica Bearg Glucksman
Place as a Participant in Mid-Twentieth Century American Literary Nonfiction

David Hunscher
Mythic Mentoring: The Structure and Dynamics of Mentoring in the Odyssey

Leah Jerome
The Civilian Conservation Corps from the Meadowlands to Bear Mountain: An Evaluation of Race, Gender, and Labor in the New Deal’s Effort to Employ America and Plant Trees

Rodger Thomas Kraft
You Are Where You Sit Lessons In Compromise

Bonnie J. McCorkindale
Recovering with a Mindful Spirit: Integrating Mindfulness and the Twelve Steps

Donna Thompson Ray
Talkin' to Books: Photographing Black Education During Reconstruction and Its Aftermath

Frank Sedita III
Hope and Healing in the Gutter: The Graphic Narrative as a Source of Agency, Identity, Voice, and Social Justice for the LGBTQIA+ Community in Fascist and Contemporary Italy

Stefanie Rose Shapiro
Finding Home: A Personal Quest for Self, Belonging, and Body Acceptance

Suzanne Venezia Vrancken
Company Town Girl: An Ethnological Examination and Creative Exploration of Coal Town Culture in Southern West Virginia, 1937-1952

Kate Zemetis Zimmerbaum
In Extremis: An Aesthetics of Excess in Fiction of the Troubles in Northern Ireland

2023

Anne Ingrid Abrams
Stitching the Wounds: A Literary Response to Trauma

Carolyn Woodland Boulware
Laughin' It Up and Lyin' in the Unpublished Plays and Skits of Zora Neale Hurston (An Analysis of Zora Neale Hurston's Humor)

Angelina Brown
The Price of Admission: Survivor Guilt and Cultural Mismatch in First-Generation College Students

Sharon Y Feigin
To The Warehouse

Yessenia Guglielmi
White Magic: The Intersection and Application of Magical Realism And Transpersonal Psychology

Daniel Thomas Jennings
Irish Impact on the American Revolution and its Role in Irish Acceptance in the United States

Kristina Kenny
Lessons in Literary Activism: Works of Influence in Postmodern Women's Literature (1960-1979)

Wayne B Miller
Eugenics and the Immigration Restriction Movement in the Progressive Era

Rebeca C. Rivera-Robayo
Cuéntame: Tell Me Their Story

Georgeanna Spagnolo
Art that is Not So New: Tracing Aesthetics and Thematic Elements of the Pre-Raphaelites, Arts and Crafts, and Art Nouveau Movements

2022

Jessica A. Brosnan
The Drowning of Hope

Daniel Butler
The Impact of History, Culture and Structures and Responses of State and National Governments on the Civil Rights Movements in Northern Ireland and the United States: A Comparative Study of Divergent Paths to Social Reform

Danyel M. Cicarelli
Map Pins: A Memoir of Maywood, NJ

Shirley Frances Hollie-Davis
The Sweetest Mango

Christine Morrison Johnson
A Micro-Level Study of New Jersey's Amistad Legislation

Therese M Mullaney
Thirteen Thursdays

Frank Anthony Nardi
Stakeholders' Perceptions of the Resettlement Community in Morris and Union Counties: A Study of the Reflexive Impact of Engagement

Daniel Anthony Papa
Action Inspired Learning: Empowering Students to Make History

Emily A. Phifer
Grief and Loss: The Healing Potential of Literary and Artistic Expressions

Richard G Rosell
Just or Unjust: The Global War on Terror

Passi Malka Rosen-Bayewitz
The Story of Jewish Staszów: Its History, Memory, and Representation 1525-2021

Lisa A Sisler
The Purgatory Project

Aylin Denise Solu Brandon
The Responsible Party

Sharon Kimberly Williams
Breath | Voice | Fire: A Collection of Creative Non-Fiction Essays

2021

Mohammed Obaid Alotaibi
Globalization in Saudi Arabian and North American Novels

Marie Caniglia-Robiolio
Arts Education: An Essential Experience

Theodore Hart
Shakespeare's Ecopolitics of the Garden

Scott L. Kent
Letters from the Western Front: The Correspondence of American Doughboys and American Censorship during the Great War 1917-1918

Renata Renee Kessler
The Flowers and Bones of Georgia O'Keeffe: A Research-Based Dissertation Culminating in a Full-Length Play: Days with Juan

Christina I. McGrath
Saint Patrick: Issues of Translation and His Enduring Pastoral Message

2020

Elizabeth Anne Agostin
The Vanishing Gardener

Mohammad Abdulhadi Althobaiti
Searching the Identity in the Minds of Some Israeli and Palestinian Authors

Tiernan Sykes Close
Pursuing Peace: Examining Alternative Dispute Resolution Practices Throughout The World's Religious Traditions

Michael J. Conklin
Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: Jazz as Social Commentary in Harlem of the 1920s

Bruce Dalziel
Roadside America

Michael S. Fletcher
Hunting the Holy Man

Christina Klotz Kales
The Myths of Identity: Correcting the Legacy of Berthe Morisot

Laura Moody
Appreciating Dahl: A Re-Evaluation of Roald Dahl's Adult Fiction and its Place in the Gothic Literary Canon

Charity Nicole Robertson
Guns and Grit: The Women of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol

Morissa Schwartz
What is Life? An Examination of Nihilists Within Libertarian Western Modern Literature and Film

Sloan Sweeney Scully
Visual Thinking Skills and Elementary Students' Writing

2019

Johanna Gauer Edge
From the Steamboat to Harlem to Main Street and to Bodymore: Satire and Subversion in Novels of Passing

Clifford W. Evan
The Last Weinrip

Jennifer Susan Gromada
"I Have Something Vital to Do Here": The Modernist Mode in the Writings of Mary Borden

John Joseph Hagadorn, Jr.
The Role of the Holocaust Docent-Educator: A Guide for Those Wishing to Serve and Teach in a Holocaust Museum

Sheree Loalbo
The Prize of Prizes: The History and Development of the Caldecott Prize

Elizabeth Mary McKenna
Shadow Fathers and Surrogate Sons: Patrilineal Relationships in Virgil's Aeneid and James Joyce's Ulysses

Ruth E. Schmidt
Telling Stories - Empowering Generations: Minority American Women and Their Cultural Stories

Peter Michael Talarico
"I Still Think There's Hope:" Racial Tension Depicted Through Form, Text, and Structure in Spike Lee's 'Do the Right Thing,' 'Jungle Fever,' and 'Clockers'

Christopher H. Tamburro
Faith at the Crossroads: The Impact of Religious Plurality, Church Leaders, and Community Structures on the American Revolution in New Jersey

Kyra Eden Whitehead
Ambassadors for Peace: A Literature and the Arts-Based ESL Classroom Model

2018

Andrew Joseph Clapham
Purification Rituals in the Beowulf Manuscript

Dawn Francine DeMartino
Cosmos and Polis: The Good City in the Orestia and the Divine Comedy

Willow DiPasquale
Myth-Making and Sacred Nature: J.R.R. Tolkien's and Frank Herbert's Mythopoeic Fiction

Samara Lisa Grossman
Children and Art: Stephen Sondheim's Influence On the Current Prolific Generation of Broadway Composer/Lyricists

Christopher John Lipnick
Victims of the Past: Walter Groβ, the RPA and the Nazi Propaganda War Against the Disabled

Evelyn Mamman
The Bard of Our Time: Teaching Shakespeare in an Urban Secondary Classroom

Elizabeth Jane Myers
Trauma in Young Adult Dystopia: Purpose and Potential

Rebeccah Christie Newman
From Soldier to Civilian: Redefining Identity and Purpose after Serving in the Military

Robert David Putnam
"Blest Be the Tie that Binds" Catastrophically Confused Calvinism (Will America Detest to its Own Demise?)

Margaret Terry
Channeling Cathleen: Crossing the Threshold from Mother Ireland to Spinster Sean Bhean Bhocht

Bryan Michael Toth
Phantom Gettysburg: The Gettysburg Ghost Stories, Dark Tourism, and a Memory of the Civil War

2017

Heather Lynn Althoff
Caregiving with Cather: Aging, Illness, Diminishment, and Dying in Modern America

Carol Lynn Biederstadt
Paradoxical Orientalism: Gender and Power in George Orwell's Burmese Days

Sean Patrick Dineen
An Analysis of Four Counterinsurgencies with Attention to the Inclusion of People with Disabilities and the Arts

Joseph G. Farias
Dare to Pray, Dare to Be Church: The Impact of Liturgy on Ecclesiology Since Vatican II

Salena Fehnel
Lovely but Deadly: Women as Killers in 20th Century Fiction and Film

Jared Fowler
An All-Right Town

John Stephen Hier
Battle and Balance between the Masculine and the Feminine: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Young Adult Fiction of America's Nineteenth Century

Lacey P. Hunter
Made in His Image: The Origins of African American Women's Jeremiad

Jane Jameson
Tracing the Archetypes of the Legend of Saint George through the Epochs

Pamela Klurfield
Cracking Open the Sky: How the Modernism of New York City Skyscrapers Paved the Way for a New American Modern Art

David Laurence McMillan
The Impact of Containerization on the New York City Region

Peter Joseph Moccia
"Nobody Owing Nobody Nothing": Reading Flannery O'Connor Anew Through the Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas

Rafael Rosa
Abraham Lincoln and Women: A Psychohistorical Analysis

Alice Marguerite Terrell
Themes of Blackness: Commonality and Unity in Selected African Heritage Literature

Lisa J Todd
The Impact of Regional Archival Development on Guyana's National Archives and its State Institutions

William Joseph Tooma
The Black Eagle of Harlem

Joseph F. Trad
The Immigrant Writer

Michael K. Walters
On Quests for Independence: Evolutions of Haiti, Ireland, and Colonialism

Lindsay M. Warren
The Kazet Theatre: A Bridge from Death to Life

Jenelle Woodrup
Adolescent Literature and the Human Condition: The Protagonist's Journey of Growth and Self-Discovery

2016

Wendy Barnes
Wetlands Rise: Poems and a Critical Introduction

Tara Brugnoni
Ink Evolution: From Freakish to Fine Art

Brigid Burke
Devaluing the Earth: Salvation, Immortality and the Status of Women in Religion: a Depth Psychology Approach

Judith E. Campbell
A Fenian Marriage: The Life of Mary Jane O'Donovan Rossa with Her Husband Jeremiah

Michael Dee
Roots of Charles Darwin's Creativity

Jay M. Eisenberg
John Stuart Mill's Philosophy of History

Gabriel Ertsgaard
Saint Brendan's Green Voyage: Sustainable Insights from a Medieval Irish Legend

Jaclyn Renee Harte
In Search of Lost Women

Patrice Marie Kelly
Harvesting Sketches from a Community of Gardeners

Maximillian Joseph Orsini
The Buddhist Beat Poetics of Diane di Prima and Lenore Kandel

Renee Ann Pistone
Humanities in Film: A Reflection on Cinematic Characters' Grief Responses

Christopher Jacob Reiss
The History of Academia: From the Cradle of Civilization to Plato’s Academy, the University, Departmentalization, Interdisciplinary Programs, International Affiliates and Strategic Business Solutions

Susan Kaye Rothbard
How Not to Pack a Suitcase

Helena Ann Swanicke
How Women are Portrayed in Romantic Comedies Pillow Talk (1959) and When Harry Met Sally (1989)

2015

Tracey Lynne Carroll
The Wisdom of Tragedy: Contemporary American Psychology and the Ancient Greek Tragedians

Deshawn Michael Cook
Advocacy and Remembrance: The Impact of the Artist Community During the Onset of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic 1981-1996

Alan Bernard Delozier
State of Faith: Irish-Catholic Church Hierarchy of New Jersey and Reactions to Civil Government Initiatives, 1946-1962

Kimberly Flynn
The Anchorhold: Sovereignty in Solitary

Adrienne Wardy Griffin
The Anniversary

John David Healy
Joseph Holt: Savior of the Union

Earle Raymond Hitchner III
What We Dare Confide: A Canonical Case for the Poetry, Literary Criticism, and Public Arts Advocacy of Dana Gioia

Susan Mary Kenney
Other by Design: Constructions of Otherness and Recognition of the Self as Other in Latino Diasporic Fiction in the United States

Sarita Melkon Maldjian
Mind over Music: An Analytical Approach to Teaching the Beginner/Intermediate Piano Student

Gregory Matlosz
The Political Symbiosis of Rutherford B. Hayes & William McKinley

Jeannine Connelly Morse
Silence No More: Domestic Violence

Gene Richard Nasser
Time, Transcendence and Reality in the First Volume of Schopenhauer's The World as Wille and Representation

Joseph E. Petta
Fishmachine

Melissa Noel Sorge
Ordinary Women a Century Apart: Virginia Woolf's Average Woman Writer and her Twenty-First Century Counterparts

Susan Eileen Speidel
Gods of the Theater, Smile On Us: Elements of the Greek Chorus in the Musicals of Stephen Sondheim, as Influenced by Rodgers and Hammerstein's Allegro

Anthony Alfred Valentino
Finding Happiness in the Poor, Humble Cottage "Contented Poverty" in Irish Novels From Famine to Free State

Andrea Vecchione
Teaching Reading "Outside the Box": The Graphic Novel in the Secondary High School

2014

Hee Sook Ahn
The Soup of Salvation: John Wesley's Recipe for Conversion

Edwin Arenas
Pope John Paul II's Papal Encyclical On Human Labor Labor, Solidarity's Blueprint

Carol M. Barnett
Paradigm Shift in Public Education: Ridge and Valley Charter School 2000 - 2014

William Lyman Bradley
The Lives Of Saint Patrick: An Original Screenplay

Mark Richard DeBiasse
The Founding Fathers and Politics in the Early Republic: Mythmaking in the Educational Community

Christopher John Feeley
Fifteen Years On: An Eeamination of the Irish Famine Curricula in New York and New Jersey

Luke Frangione
Back to Ithaca

Daniel Cube Gunn
Hugh Hefner's God: Religion in Playboy Magazine

Tracy Renee Handerhan
Spiritual Tyranny?: An Examination of Post-Famine Clerical Influence in the Lough Mask Region

Patrick Ketch
"Such Persuasive Influence": The Irish Influence on Boxing and Baseball in America

Kurt R. Kilanowski
Isabella Stewart Gardner and 'The Spirit of Place': A Spiritual Journey Through the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Francis Xavier Klose
"No Rigid Uniformity?" Music in the American Roman Catholic Liturgy Since the Second Vatican Council

Sarah Doris Lawler
Visions and Revisions: Isolation, Marginalization and Infanticide in Euripides' Medea and Toni Morrison's Beloved

Sophia Melanie Manning
Milk and Honey, A Metaphor for Power and Money

Julie Ann McWilliams
The Other Side of the Canvas - George Mueller: his life and work through the aesthetic lens of John Dewey

Ann McKinstry Micou
Here in New Jersey: Place in the Fiction of Philip Roth, Richard Ford, and Junot Diaz

Robert James Murray
A Man Called Gall

Anthony Michael Orlando
The Great Divorce: Love and Marriage in Great War Literature

Lawrence Evan Schneider
Fighting Jews: The Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Early Twentieth Century

2013

Colleen L. Harvan
Voices from the Void: Lewis Carroll, Samuel Beckett, and Language

Cleolene Eugenie Jones
The Anglophone Caribbean: Whither Unity

Barbara Judith Kayser
Politics or Piety, The Women of Pakistan

Steven R. Racine
The Henderson Family of Stained Glass Craftsmen

2011

Earl Groner
Toward a Study of the Conductor's Art: The Description of Charles Munch Through Naturalistic Inquiry