BA Thesis Presentations Spring 2025
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 – Friday, May 9, 2025Multiple Locations
This semester's Senior Thesis Presentations are taking place from April 22 to May 9. The presentations are an essential step towards graduation for every senior, and they are an established and cherished event in the BCB academic year.
Tuesday, April 22 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1
Evangelia Dalton, "A Form of Perpetual Relation: Water and The Feminine in the works of Ana Mendieta, Roni Horn, and Pipilotti Rist"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall
Miyu Sasaki, "The Ominous in the Mundane: the Entrapment of Daily Life in Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park"
Tuesday, April 22 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1
Aria Hadziosmanovic, "Do you feel what I feel: from God to Emo"
Tuesday, April 22 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, P98 SR1
Clara Lieber, "The Fifth in the Tetrad: The Digital Age, The Artist, The Storyteller, and The Innocent through The Spongebob SquarePants Movie (2004)"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Vasko Popchevaliev, "European Union Enlargement Policy: Analyzing the Case of Macedonia"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P24 SR8
Claudia Schlomer, "The American Cowboy Hero: An Exploration of Regenerative Violence in The Myth of the Frontier"
Wednesday, April 23 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11
Zofia Polak, "Resistance and Community-Building Through Textile Art in Contemporary Poland"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall
Sabrina Pierce, "Civil Disobedience in Time and Space: Carnival as a Form of Global Dissent"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11
Lex Hill, "Trans-ing Bodies, Ink-ing Relations: Transness, Tattoos, & Collaborative Reflections on Collective Body-Making"
Wednesday, April 23 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe
Gabi Cangussu Dos Santos, "Recent Changes in Brazilian Soy Exports and Associated Deforestation: Lessons for Future Policy Implementation"
Wednesday, April 23 | 2:00-2:30pm, W15 Cafe
Charles Hamilton, "Eco-Economics: Advanced Bahamian Global Leadership in the Blue Economy through Carbon Trading and Concomitant Innovation"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:00am-11:30am, W15 Cafe
Misi Hoogvliets, "Dream Wild, Child: Envisioning New Representations in Film Through the Use of Queer Afrosurrealism and the Black Radical Imagination"
Thursday, April 24 | 11:45am-12:15pm, W15 Cafe
Robin Schubert, "Archiving: Methodologies of Resistance"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1
Theresa Steinbeis, "The Disguise of the Beggar in the Odyssey"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, W15 Cafe
Marton McCue, "Whose Tablet Is It Anyway? The Politicization and The Plundering of Iraqi Cultural Heritage in The Context of The Second Gulf War"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall
Elena Chiavazza Prieto, "Erotic Resistance against Augusto Pinochet's Dictatorship: Queer Mythification and Re-narration of Chile in Pedro Lemebel's Tengo Miedo Torero"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P24 SR8
Dayana Milieva, "Can Life Still Be Sweet Without Sugar? Psychosocial, Ethical, and Financial Considerations in Government Assistance for Children With Type 1 Diabetes"
Thursday, April 24 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2
Mishel Jovanovska, "The Possibility of Forgiveness (and its Threat) in Hobbes's Leviathan"
Friday, April 25 | 11:45am-12:15pm, K24 SR11
Annika Julien, "When Children Love Ugly Animals: An Evaluation of Depictions of Non Charismatic Species in Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Children’s Literature as an Approach to Nature Conservation"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Cosma Bolis, "A New Renaissance in Italy: The Legacy and Prospects of Atomic Energy"
Friday, April 25 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11
Rowdy Kram, "From Navigators of the Stars to Navigators of Their Own Sovereignty: Māori Mana in Dialogue with Cherokee Duyuktv"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11
Doaa Althawr, "Local mediation: Exploring the role of Yemeni tribes in conflict resolution"
Friday, April 25 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall
Tazo Shavgulidze, "Is organic farming economically feasible on a large scale, and if so, what policy tools could support this transition?"
Monday, April 28 | 12:00pm-12:30pm, Lecture Hall
Ritta Hamida, "Dalouna's Dabke Relatives across time and boarders"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Celeste Lucci, "Re-imagining Space: Architecture Photography Today"
Monday, April 28 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR2
Zykkii Cubukcuoglu, "Cyborg Mythologies; Social and Political Imaginaries within Cyberpunk"
Monday, April 28 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2
Meredith Lynch, "it pretty much feels like heaven: extremity, exploitation, & digital spectres in Toad Road (2012)"
Tuesday, April 29 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11
Luna Miccoli, "Bridging Identity and Materiality: Mark Bradford's transformation of Painting using Collage and Decollage"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11
Simone Rae Kyle, "Book Relations: The Book Object's Formal Capacity for Agency and Exchange in Walter Benjamin and Beyond"
Tuesday, April 29 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR2
Max Suvorov, “'On the Ways to Liberty': Lessons from the Unsuccessful Attempt of Russian Liberals to Lead the Revolution in the Memoirs of Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams"
Wednesday, April 30 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, K24 SR11
Hanene Bergaoui, "Privatization and Employment: Analyzing the IMF and State-Owned Enterprise Reforms in African Economies"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11
Maya Calleja Scott, "Canadian Labour: A History of Dispossession and its Impacts on Transnational Union Organizing"
Wednesday, April 30 | 1:30pm-2:00pm, W15 Cafe
Yelyzaveta Sokolova, "Caring in Displacement: Ukrainian Mothers in Berlin"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:00pm-2:30pm, W15 Cafe
Gali Har-Gil, "The Political Trigger Points of Theater: Challenging Collective Memory on Stage"
Wednesday, April 30 | 2:30pm-3:00pm, W15 Cafe
Muhammad Sadiq, "Teachers Matter: Measuring Teacher Quality and Implications for Policy in Pakistan"
Friday, May 2 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Athina Manou, "Environmental Attitudes and Willingness to Pay for Renewable Energy: The Case of Greece"
Friday, May 2 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall
Frosina Kekenovska, "What’s Behind the Brain Drain? A Survey-Based Analysis of Youth Emigration in North Macedonia"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Chaya Kimbell, "The Numbers Speak for...whom? Examining the discursive function of quantitative objectivity in the United States' 'post-truth' political disputes"
Tuesday, May 6 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1
Dina Zoffoli, "The Response to and Significance of the Aestheticized Death"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11
Yasmine El Hafidi, "Mapping Memory and Listening to Silence: Contemporary Artistic Approaches to Italy's Colonial Time"
Tuesday, May 6 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall
Faye Dudukovich, "Connection, Fantasy, and Empathy: Mahjong as a Remedy for Whosspels’ Alienation"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, P98 SR1
Mykyta Vorobiov, "Russian Pro-War Posters in 2022-2025: a Critical Analysis"
Wednesday, May 7 | 12:30pm-1:00pm, Lecture Hall
Joan Kacyira, "Queering the German Colonial Archive: Finding Alternative Histories of Rwandans and their Land"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, Lecture Hall
Abdullah Naseer, "Democratization of Video Art through (re)generative AI"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, P98 SR1
Dorien Schoenmaker, "'Never Play with Fire next to a Haystack': Populism and Rural Resentment in the Netherlands"
Wednesday, May 7 | 1:15pm-1:45pm, K24 SR11
Violet Smith, "Reasoning behind the Seasoning: the Politics of Cultural Identity through Culinary Preservation, Using Recipes as Archives to Maintain Identity in Mexican Diaspora Communities Located in the U.S."
Wednesday, May 7 | 3:30pm-4:00pm, Lecture Hall
Bruno Munoz-Oropeza, "Democracy's Final Frontier: Populism and Vigilantism in the Americas"
Friday, May 9 | 12:45pm-1:15pm, P98A Lecture Hall
Aleksandra Vartsaba, "Investigating Bucha: The Role of Investigative Journalism in Times of Crisis"