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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.
Students in Ari Goldman's Covering Religion seminar traveled to Israel and Palestine for a Spring Break reporting trip. Their many stories are featured on the course website:
Covering Religion
As part of the Fall 2018 Reporting class, Chaewon Chung, '19 M.S., wrote about the K-pop industry and the Korean government’s efforts to monetize on its international popularity despite critics who accuse its stars of misogyny. The piece was published in Korea Exposé.
BTS: Generational Icons or Misogynists?
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.
Natasa Bansagi, '16 M.S., reports on how regulations turned "vapers" into activists.
Read how her article came to be published in Motherboard.
Sara Elkamel, '15 M.A. Arts & Culture, reviews the performance of Auction in Hungary.
Read her review.
Marybel Gonzalez, '16 M.S., writes her Master's Project on the Quinceanera in transition.
Read how her project got published in The New York Times.
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.