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J-School students have produced wide-ranging reporting on the pandemic, 2020 election and more. Visit Columbia News Service to read more of their work. Photo: Reed Young, '22 Part-time M.S.
Student Work
For the M.A. Arts & Culture Fall Seminar with Prof. Alisa Solomon, students wrote wide-ranging reviews and reports covering the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) Crossing the Line Festival. Their work was published by the website Hyperallergic.
Haleh Anvari, '18 M.A. Arts & Culture, wrote her M.A. thesis on the photos that defined the Iranian Revolution. It was published on the Aperture blog.
The Photographs that Defined the Iranian Revolution
For her thesis, Hannah Moore, '19 M.A. Arts & Culture, explored a movement by the Kingston, Jamaica dancehall community to protect their work from appropriation by foreign pop artists.
Dancehall Is Fighting to Protect – and Copyright – Its Dance Moves
For her thesis, Abigail Covington, '18 M.A. Arts & Culture, examined the legacy of Robert E. Lee at Washington & Lee University following the 2017 riots in Charlottesville. Her story was featured in The Delacorte Review's longform journalism magazine and podcast.
Jeremy Olds, '17 M.A. Arts & Culture, tells the story of an unlikely art collective on Tennessee's death row in his Master's Thesis, which was published by The Marshall Project.
Sara Elkamel, '15 M.A. Arts & Culture, reviews the performance of Auction in Hungary.
Read her review.
Mona Lalwani, '14 M.A. Arts & Culture, wrote her Master's Thesis on how banning club drugs hasn't made users safer.
Read the published article in Vox.
Vanessa Quirk, '15 M.A. Arts & Culture, wrote her Master's Thesis about an underground park called the Lowline in New York City. It was published in Atlas Obscura.
Read about how the work came together.
Carmen Graciela Díaz, '15 M.A. Arts & Culture, wrote about theater in Hungary during a funded reporting trip with 12 other students.
Read her feature article.
Brian Mastroianni, ’14 M.A. Arts & Culture, turned a curiosity about miming into a thesis published in The Atlantic.
Read about his path to publish in The Atlantic magazine.