Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Graduate Seminars
Titles of Recent Degree Paper Projects
"A Plausible Witness:" Helen of Troy and the Problem of Truth and Representation in Early Greek Literature
American Frontiers: Historical and Literary Representations of Gauchos and Cowboys
An Abundance of Deficits (creative writing)
Arendt's Empirical Theory of Judgment
Bob Moses's Voter Registration Work and the Algegra Project: Organizing to Create Political and Economic Access for All Citizens
Claude Lefort and the Illegitimacy of Modernity
Death and Wellbeing: a Reply to the Epicurean Puzzle
Documenting Louisiana: Rural and Industrial Photographs of Elemore Morgan 1942-1952
Du-Partzufim: Androgyny in Antiquity and Early Midrashic Literature
Elevators for Freight and Disabled Only: Making the Case for a Strong Disability Culture in Defining the Disability Experience
Engaging Music: The Ernste Gesänge of Hanns Eisler and How One Cycle Affects Another
Form of One’s Own: A Study of Playwright Maria Irene Fornes Accompanied by an Original Play
Galileo: His 17th-Century Trials and 20th-Century Rehabilitation
Garcilaso de la Vega’s Incas as Civilizers of the Andes and Quasi-Christians: Defending the Incas through Reason and Natural Law
Image and Controversy: Brother Elias and the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi
Looking for Homosexuality as “Disease” in Thomas Mann
Moral Imagination and Compassionate, Just Attention in Iris Murdoch’s The Good Apprentice
Observations of Resilience and Defeat in Arthur Runquist’s Paintings of Labor and the Land
Orphan of the Camus Storm: The Poetics of Bob Kaufman
Paracelsus and the Decline of Galenism
Plato's Lost Lecture "On the Good." Normative Ethics and Intellectual History
Redeption Songs, Rebel Music: Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, and a History of Reggae as Resistance
Reenvisioning the Marketplace: A Radical Redesign of the Modern Supermarket
Rethinking the Imperial Archive: The Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee (COVIC) Digitalo Photographic Archive, Powered by Omeka and WordPress
Selfhood and the Problem of Authenticity: the Politics of the Personal in Rousseau's Second Discourse
Still Unredeemed: On the Centennial of Herbert David Croly's The Promise of American Life
The Black and Blue Collar Blues: Examining Notions of Labor in Langston Hughes’ Poem Good Morning Revolution
The Decline of Wild Salmon and the Industrialization of Aquaculture: How the Trend toward the Adoption of Transgenics in Aquaculture Threatens Wild Salmon
The Domestic Roles of the "Flax Mother of Oregon": Juliette Montague Lord and the Politics of the Oregon Fiber Flax Industry
The Language of the Making: Nominative Conflict in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea
The Mormon Stories (creative writing)
The Southern Oregon Chautauqua Association: Building the Foundation of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
The Work of Art in the Age of Nuclear Enchantment
The Xianglian run se: A Late Ming Beauty Manual
Transgressing the Boundaries: South Seas Hybridity in the Work of Paul Gauguin and Robert Louis Stevenson
Virna Haffer: Regional Artist and Photographer
"You've Got to be Carefully Taught": Messages of Tolerance in Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1949 Broadway Musical South Pacific