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Program Overview: Dissertations Completed (2003-2008)

Title	Author	Committee
*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, Chair, The 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 Diane Taylor, NYU Laura Edmonson, 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
*Queer Dramaturgies: Contemporary Gay Male Theatre, Culture, and Politics*	Jay Plum October 2005	Jill Dolan, Chair, University of Texas at Austin Alisa Solomon, Baruch College, CUNY George Custen, deceased, College of Staten Island, CUNY
*"Such Fantasy, Such Harlequinade": Ziegfeld, Class and the Cultural Hierarchy*	Marion Wilson October 2005	David Savran, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Marvin Carlson, The Graduate Center, CUNY Jane Bowers, John Jay College CUNY
*The Mind's Stage: Monodrama as Historical Trend and Interpretive Strategy*	Kurt Taroff October 2005	Daniel Gerould, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Marvin Carlson, The Graduate Center, CUNY Jane Bowers, John Jay College CUNY
*Rewriting the Troubles: Language, Gender and Agency in Contemporary Plays by Women in Northern Ireland*	Deirdre O'Leary May 2005	Marvin Carlson, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Daniel Gerould, The Graduate Center, CUNY David Savran, The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Melodrama, Parody, and the Transformation of an American Drama*	James Cherry May 2005	Daniel Gerould, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY David Savran, The Graduate Center, CUNY Jane Bowers, The Graduate Center, CUNY
*This Thing of Darkness: Reclaiming the Queer Killer in Contemporary Drama*	Jordan Schildcrout May 2005	David Savran, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Judith Milhous, The Graduate Center, CUNY Alisa Solomon, Baruch College, CUNY
Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Concepts of Performance	Sharon Aronson-Lehavi September 2004	Pamela Sheingorn, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Marvin Carlson, The Graduate Center, CUNY Daniel Gerould, The Graduate Center, CUNY
*Toward an Urban Stage: Law and Performance in Paris, 1515-1559*	Nadine Pederson July 2004	Judith Milhous, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Marvin Carlson, The Graduate Center, CUNY Miriam D'Aponte, Baruch College, CUNY Pamela Sheingorn, The Graduate Center
Sacred Play: Parable, Myth, Morality: W.H. Auden as Dramatist	Michael Bolus March 2004	Marvin Carlson, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Daniel Gerould, The Graduate Center, CUNY Jane Bowers, The Graduate Center, CUNY
The Faces of Masculinity and Femininity on the Early Restoration Stage: A Study of Five Actors	Jennifer Renee Danby March 2004	Judith Milhous, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Marvin Carlson, The Graduate Center, CUNY Pamela Sheingorn, The Graduate Center, CUNY David Savran, The Graduate Center, CUNY
The Dance Dramas of Ruth St. Denis, 1910-1931: Spectacles of the "Orient", American Style	Susan Tenneriello December 2003	Samuel Leiter, Chair, Brooklyn College, CUNY Judith Milhous, The Graduate Center, CUNY Daniel Gerould, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Staging Local and Oral History in America: Maryat Lee's EcoTheater, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, and Tectonic Theater Project	Terry Stoller May 2003	Marvin Carlson, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Jane Bowers, The Graduate Center, CUNY Jonathan Kalb, Hunter College, CUNY
Joseph Chaikin and the Winter Project: Ways of Working	Roger Babb March 2003	Daniel Gerould, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Marvin Carlson, The Graduate Center, CUNY David Willinger, City College, CUNY
Cyborg Theatre: Corporeal/Technological Intersections in Multimedia	Jennifer Parker-Starbuck February 2003	Daniel Gerould, Chair, The Graduate Center, CUNY Marvin Carlson, The Graduate Center, CUNY Peter Hitchcock, The Graduate Center, CUNY David Savran, The Graduate Center, CUNY
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Program Overview: Dissertations Completed (2003-2008)

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

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