Theatre Ph.D. Program: Overview

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Program Overview: Dissertations Completed (2006-2009)

Title	Author	Committee
*A Quest Beyond Enlightenment: Buddhism as Counter-Enlightenment and Modernity's Other Being in the Practices of* Antonin Artaud, John Cage, Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, and Xingjian Gao	Yu-Shian (Ivy) Lin October 2009	David Savran, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Judith Milhous, The Graduate Center, CUNY Claudia Orenstein , Hunter College, CUNY
The Lost Apple Plays: Performing Operation Pedro Pan	Kimberly Ramirez May 2009	Jean Graham-Jones, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY David Savran, The Graduate Center, CUNY Marvin Carlson, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Carmen Rivera: Theatre of Latinidad	Jason Ramirez May 2009	Gloria Waldman, Chair, Emerita, The Graduate Center, CUNY David Savran, The Graduate Center, CUNY Juan Flores, The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Race and Realism in Edward Harrigan's Mulligan Guard Series*	Michael Aman May 2009	David Savran, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Daniel Gerould, The Graduate Center, CUNY John Graziano, The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Sensation, Spectacle, and Reform in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Theatre*	Amy Hughes May 2009	Marvin Carlson, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Judith Milhous, The Graduate Center, CUNY Daniel Gerould, The Graduate Center, CUNYHeather Nathans,University of Maryland
*Performing the 'Ben Comune': The Political Functions of Performance in the Republic of Siena (1260-1555)*	Jenna Soleo-Shanks May 2009	Pamela Sheingorn, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Marvin Carlson, The Graduate Center, CUNYJudith Milhous, The Graduate Center, CUNY James Saslow, The Graduate Center, CUNYRonald Herzman,Geneseo College, SUNY
*The Powerful Voice of Women Dramatists in the Arab American Theatre Movement*	Dalia Basiouny May 2009	Marvin Carlson, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Jane Bowers, John Jay College, CUNY Pamela Sheingorn, The Graduate Center, CUNY Alisa Solomon, Columbia University
*Staging Alterity: The Ethics of Performing Difference(s)*	Joshua Abrams October 2008	Marvin Carlson, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY David Savran, The Graduate Center, CUNY Peter Hitchcock, The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Human/Nature: Eco-Theatre Politics and Performance*	Sarah Standing May 2008	Marvin Carlson, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY David Savran, The Graduate Center, CUNY Jane Bowers, John Jay College, CUNY Una Chaudhuri, New York University
*The Pays The Thing: Intellectual Property and the Political Economy of Contemporary American Theatrical Production*	Kimon Keramidas May 2008	David Savran, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY William Boddy, Baruch College, CUNY Richard Maxwell, Queens College, CUNY Stuart Ewen, Hunter College, CUNY
*The Plays of Ricardo Monti and the Production of Space*	Milton Loayza May 2008	Jean Graham-Jones, ChairThe Graduate Center, CUNY David Savran, The Graduate Center, CUNY Gloria Waldman, Emerita, The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Crowd Pleasing Moves: Acting Technique, Social Performance, and the Popularization of the Nineteenth-Century American Theatre*	Samuel T. Shanks February 2008	Marvin Carlson, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Daniel Gerould, The Graduate Center, CUNY David Savran, The Graduate Center, CUNY Bruce McConachie, University of Pittsburgh
*Nyoriquenas in the House: Performing Identity Through Hip Hop, Poetry, and Theatre*	Patricia E. Herrera October 2007	David Savran, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Gloria Waldman, Emerita, The Graduate Center, CUNY Jane Bowers, John Jay College, CUNY Diana Taylor, NYU Laura Edmondson, Dartmouth College
*Reframing Bollywood*	Ajay Gehlawat May 2007	Peter Hitchcock, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Judith Milhous, The Graduate Center, CUNY Giancarlo Lombardi, The College of Staten Island, CUNY
*Reflexive Songs in the American Musical, 1898 to 1947*	Michael G. Garber May 2006	David Savran, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Marvin Carlson, The Graduate Center, CUNY Judith Milhous, The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Sensual Bodies and Devotional Encounters: The Influence of Performance on Lay Visual Piety in Late Medieval York*	Jill Stevenson May 2006	Pamela Sheingorn, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Marvin Carlson, The Graduate Center, CUNY Judith Milhous, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Danjûrô Girls: The Ichikawa Family and Women on the Kabuki Stage	Loren Edelson May 2006	Samuel Leiter, Chair, Brooklyn College, CUNY Marvin Carlson, The Graduate Center, CUNY Judith Milhous, The Graduate Center, CUNY David Savran, The Graduate Center CUNY
*The New Religious Movements of Europe and America from the Nineteenth Century to Present*	Edmund Lingan May 2006	Pamela Sheingorn, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Marvin Carlson, The Graduate Center, CUNY Daniel Gerould, The Graduate Center, CUNY
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Program Overview: Dissertations Completed (2006-2009)

Marvin Carlson, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Daniel Gerould, The Graduate Center, CUNY David Savran, The Graduate Center, CUNY Bruce McConachie, University of Pittsburgh

Marvin Carlson, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Daniel Gerould, The Graduate Center, CUNY
David Savran, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Bruce McConachie, University of Pittsburgh