Capstone Projects

January 2023

• We shall not be moved:  Black Autonomy, Black Rural Education, and Black Women Educators as a Means of Resistance Against Jim Crow in Cedar Cree, Texas, a Microhistory – Chermaine Hayward 
• The Surfaxin Trial and the Ethics of Exploitation in Global Clinical Research – Patrick Mcguinness 

May 2023

• The Viability of a Meaningful Existence: Between Nothingness and Nothingness – Ben Colandrea 
• Not a Maiden Fair:  A Memoir of Feminism, Cancer, and Control in the Post-Roe America – Melissa De Fino (will be updated as Capstone becomes available)
• Mining the Humor in the Work of Jean Rhys to Reveal Societal Truths – Jessica Elkin (capstone will be updated as it becomes available)
• Second Wave Feminism’s Impact on Women – Lydia Green (capstone will be updated as it becomes available)
• Sustainable Futures:  Intellectual Freedom, The Value of Philosophic Contemplation, and the Process of Creating Religion – Theodore Mack 
• Shades of Lilith:  An Analysis of Representations of Lilith in Popular Modern Culture and Associations with Male Anxieties – Monica Pleasants (capstone will be updated as it becomes available)
• A Critique of Catholicism:  The Cultural Erasure of Native Life During the Period of Westward Expansion – Bennet Sage (capstone will be updated as it becomes available)
• The Consequences of the Pandemic for Working Women in General and Working Women in Color – Lei Lei Win.  (capstone will be updated as it becomes available).

January 2022

• The American Monster – David Lunsford
• The Surfaxin Trial and The Ethics of Exploitation in Global Clinical Research – Patrick Mcguinness
• Poetic Expressions of Queer Love: Challenges and Rewards  – Alexis Miller
• Exploring historical power in Nicaragua to explain the 2018 uprising – Jorge Victor Ovando Jr. 
• We Were Never Meant to Survive The Imperilment of Black Women’s Health in the Twentieth and Twenty First Centuries –  Lisa M. Waldron

October 2022

• Which Consequences Matter Most? An Analysis of Utilitarianism as a Guide for the Treatment of Disabled Persons in a Pandemic – Georgina E. Pinsley
• Embracing the Inner Wholeness:  An Androgynous Dimension to Classic Creation Myths – Jue Wang

May 2022

• Exploring the Impact of Evangelical Christians in Republican Politics with Regards to the Candidacy of Donald Trump and White Supremacy – Johnpaul Iwu
• Intimate Partner Violence Against Women and Lethal Intimate Partner Violence– Donna Marie Polizzi Spagna

October 2021

• Emotions on Social Media in a Pandemic – Chia-I Lei
• Which Consequences Matter Most?  An Analysis of Utilitarianism as a Guide for the Treatment of Disabled Persons in a Pandemic – Georgina Pinsley
• Building a Monument, but Laying a Seedbed” Exploring the Shaker Song Tradition at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village – Sara Thibeault

May 2021

• Trauma:  A look at generational curses that plague the black child – Victoria Aston 
• Sacred Sound: The Thread of Sound, Language and reality in Hinduism – Pamela Chappelle
• American Medusa: the perpetuation of a patriarchal society – Corey Melacon
• Asperger’s, abandonment, and grief –  Jacqueline Perkel-Joseph
• Does playing Division III basketball help or hurt the overall GPA of students athletes? – Daniel Roibal
• Changing portrayal of a woman in Bollywood cinema: special reference of movies of Vidya Balan – Saher Zaidi

January 2021

• Microaggressions:  a necessity – Allison Pohorence
•  A change is gonna come:  a critical analysis of the benefits of musical activism in the civil rights movement – Erin Neal
• Make America hate again: a quantitative analysis on the effects of presidential rhetoric during the Obama and Trump administration – Victoria Morgante
• Fairy tales: socialization through archetypal patterns & symbols – Danielle Kellar
• The art of the zine and the DIY aesthetic: exploring and experimenting with multimodal storytelling – Aaron Delarosa

 October 2020

• The origin of A Canadian philosophy demonstrated through literature – Sharon Sawchuk

May 2020

• Transforming Trauma into Post-Traumatic Growth through Art Therapy – Gloria Baker 
• The Affects of Anxiety and Depression on Collegiate Athletes –  Robert Brosh 
• The Arab Republic of Egypt and the Coptic Orthodox Population – Meriam Kalada
• Dynamic Duo:  Using Formative Assessment and Differentiated Instruction to Foster Inclusion for Students with Disabilities – Christine Saponara-Adams
• Genji’s Toxic Femininity – Adreyo Sen (Thesis will be linked once available)
• Ecological Feminism and Do-It-Yourself Subculture as Mutual Reciprocation in Neoliberal Information and Resources – Aaron Taslitz (Thesis will be linked once available)
• Challenging the Myths of Reunification in Adoption – Valerie Whitaker

January 2020

• Art for the people, by the people: the role of artistic expression in American democracy –  Angela Irene Hefka

May 2019

• An Analysis of Mass School Shootings and School Security in America:  The Promise of the School Resource Officers  – John Brach
• The Loss of a Child and How it Effects a Family – Abigail Iannotti
• Jung, The Shadow, and the X-Files – Jenifer Jensen
• The Danube Swabians:  Settlement, Expulsion, and Building a New Heimat in the Post-1945 Germany – Sibylle Pearce

January 2019

• Family in Three Stories and an Examination of Influences – Erika Haines Zucker
• How are Social Media Sites (SNS) Affecting the Mental Health of Our Youth? – Kevin Grek
• Post-traumatic Stress and American Veterans:  A Historical and War Literature Analysis Leading to Art as a Potential Therapy – Gregory Hannon

October 2018

• Personal Views on Cultural Appropriation – Asia P. Morton
• Does the Development of the Character Strength of Resiliency Affect our Response to Grief and Loss? – Deborah Nicholson

May 2018

• FAITH AND THE FACE-OFF:  JOHN F. KENNEDY, RELIGION, AND AVERTING NUCLEAR WAR DURING THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS- Alison Davis
• Gender Disparity for Women in Collegiate Sport Administrative Positions, Examining Candidate Pools and the Selection Process – Annette Reiter
• Identity Politics, Social Media and the 2016 Presidential Election – Eric Urban

January 2018

• Closing the Generation Gap – Shaun Brock
• Japanese Jazz – Edward Landsberg
• Finding Samolinska – Renata Martin

October 2017

• Healing the Warrior’s Soul – Jane Berry
• A Comparison of Celebrity and Non-celebrity NGOs Funding Water Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa – Imani Carroll
• The U.S. Culture of Intelligence – Dennis Danieluk

May 2017

• America’s Sterilization Laws: An Essential Guide – Christian Malatesta
• Contemporary Iranian Women Artists; Virtual Exhibition and Catalogue – Sima Shabani
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Veterans: Risk Factors and Preventative Interventions – Dinan K. Amin
• The Autism Binary: Finding the Cause and Cure/Accepting the Affected Population – Making the Case for Neurodiversity – Steven Walker

January 2017

• Let the Seuss Loose:  The Limitations of Standarized Testing – Anthony Rapps

October 2016

• Residents of Exposure – William Lanehart
• Julia Alvarez & Junot Diaz – Vanessa Coleman

May 2016

• Demanding Difference – Justin Biggs
• The Urgent Need for Prison Parenting Programs – Qiana Jackson
• Failed States and the Effects of Instability – Matthew Lisner
• The Promise of Feminist Liberation Theology to Address Women’s Oppression in Latin America – Adriana Rodenheiser

January 2016

• The Impact of Social Media on Intercollegiate Athletics – Katelyn P. Miller

October 2015

• Accessing Art Through Technology: Digital Transformations and the University Art Museum – Janet M. Strohl-Morgan

May 2015

• A changed climate created by title IX within HBUS: Institutional Response – Sheena Pierce
• Franz Grillparzer’s Der Arme Spielmann: A Search for Value and Meaning in the Life of a True Artist – Daryl Ponder-Rynkiewicz
• The new generation of Cajun musicians – Kova Herrick
• The traditional arts and crafts of turnery or mashrabiya – Jehan Mohamed
• The portrayal of African Americans in situation comedies – Caroline Watts

January 2015

• The Preservation of the Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Heritage – Cassandra Belton
• Harrasment of Women in the Military by Male Military Personnel – Margarita Eva Urgiles
• Social Media and the Arab Spring – Samira Hassan
• A Denial The Death of Kurt Cobain, the Seattle Police Department Substandard Investigation and the Repercussions to Justice – Bree Donovan
• Healthcare Reform in the US: Conservative Criticism and its Effect on Public Opinion – Megan Gilbride

May 2014

• The Evangelical Gender Dilemma: From Traditionalism to Feminism and the Spaces in Between (Advisor: Professor Charmé) – Danielle Dela George
• Terrorism in Africa: How US Covert Operations Have Shaped Terrorism in the North Africa Region (Advisor: Professor Ayubi) – Maria Yates
• Corruption in Africa: Systemic Trends and Proposed Solutions (Advisor: Professor Ayubi) – Robert Kelly
• “Counterinsurgency in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq: A Critical Analysis” (Advisor: Professor Clemis) – Brian Darling
• The Continuing Relevance of Ernest Hemingway for 21st Century America (Advisor: Professor Drucker) – Sean Pattwell
• Male Performance in Nella Larsen’s Passing (Advisor: Professor Green) – Zahirah Sabir

October 2014

• Beyond Work-Family Balance in Academia: A Reconstructive Feminist Perspectives – Edyta Joanna Kalwinska

May 2013

• The Canary in the Post-Racial Coal Mine: The 21st Century Mulatto in American Fiction – Roxanne Huertas
• Pre-Biblical and Old Testament Rape Law Parallels: Recurring Androcentric Themes in Historic Biblical Text – Jake Jones
• Mass Incarceration: The Nuances and Complexities Behind its Causes and the Gaps in the New Jim Crow Analogy – Paul Turkot
• A Review of Fatal Child Maltreatments by Parents – Robin Woner

January 2013

• The Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Several Middle Eastern Countries – Ahmed Adam
• Not All Feminists are Created Equal: The Colored Women’s Struggle – Lilliana Rios
• Islamic Democracy from Egypt’s Arab Spring – Jules Scalisi

October 2012

• Jewish Feminist Writers of the 20th Century – Michael Zerr

May 2012

• Who says It’s Still a Man’s World? Questioning The Myth of Male Privilege In America – Tina D. Currado
• Team Players To Spiritual Warriors: The Images of the Jewish male in Selected Novels of Philip Roth. – Amy Marie Lopez
• Marketing and Its Narratives. – Dariusz S. Malinowski
• Adolescent Body Dissatisfaction and the Media. – Lisa M. Forberg

January 2012

• Death At Denshawai: A Case Study In The History of British Imperialism in Egypt. – Marc J. Carcanague

October 2011

• Hannah Arendt, In and On America: An Emigre From Germany In The Promised Land. – Lois Genovese

May 2011

• Radical Change in the Genre of the Detective Novel: Raymond Chandley and Paul Auster – Devon Allen
• A Life at War and the Heroic Illusions Created to Cope with War: A Study of Stephen Crane and Tim O’Brien – Gaye Allen
• Religion, Myth, Magic, And Folklore in Rabbit, Run And Song Of Solomon – Rachel Bogatin
• The Disneyland of the Jersey Shore: The Legacy of William C. Hunt – Erin Leswig
• Heminingway: For Whom the Bell Rarely Tolls in College Curricula – Michael Mullaney
• Biculturalism: A Search for Self Through Life Experiences and the Interaction of the People that Influence it – Allene Patterson
• Immigration Atrocities in the “Land of Opportunity”: The Path to Social Justice – Amir Seliman
• Evidence From Near-Death Experience for the Existence of Conciousness Outside the Brain – Marianne Sheehan
• First Corinthians Spiritual Gifts Chapters 12-14 and Pentecostal of Today – Sandra Taliafero

January 2011

• Housing First/Harm Reduction Model: The Philadelphia Project – John J. Lambert
• Vatican II and the Liturgy: Revisiting Lost Traditions – Mary L. Zimmerman
• The Disparities of Obesity and African American Women – Kiyia M. Harris

October 2010

• Do Murals Really Leave an Impression? – Julia Meluso

May 2010

• Can You Dig It? The Ethics and Politics of Cultural Property – Jeanne DeColle
• Welfare, As American As Baseball – Jenna McKinney
• James Joyce’s Ulysses and the German Language – Jon Parker
• Educational Philosophy: What’s Relevant in Contemporary Times? – Corissa Swinton

January 2010

• The Modernization of the Gothic Heroine: From Anne Radcliffe to Stephenie Meyer, a Feminist Perspective – Jamie T. Corson
• The Internet and MySpace in Connection with Music: The Various Promotional Tools of the Music Industry – Priscilla M. Pujols

May 2009

• Religious Activism and the Civil Rights Movement – Dana M. Forde
• Observations of the Hip Hop Music Culture – Michael A. Green
• Modern American Counterinsurgency Doctrine and the Roots Behind It: An Examination of How Western Nations Fight Insurgencies – Omar J. Vazquez

May 2008

• Poems of the New Archetypes: Madonna, Venus, Eve, and the Witch – Roseann Brownell
• In Spite of Themselves: A.O. Neville, William Henry Pratt, and the Assimilation of the Aborigine and the Native American – Seth Friedlander
• The Impact of Camden’s Religious Institutions on Neighborhood Revitalization – Frank Fulbrook
• Countering the Secularization of the Discourse on Evil: An Augustinian Theological Perspective – Lynda Hitchman
• Ambivalence Toward Converts in Judaism – Arthur Johnston
• Inconvenient Women: In Search of History’s Warrior Women – Particia Meeder
• 1898: From Isolationism to Imperialism: How the United States Gained the Title of Empire – Karen O’Neil
• The Problems of Shame and Guilt in Sartre’s The Flies – Noelle Panichella
• No to Children, Yes to Childfreedom: Pronatalism and the Perspectives and Experiences of Childfree Women – Patricia Vesper

May 2007

• Michelangelo’s Complex Relationship with Classical Antiquity – Rachel Crescenzo
• Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Gentle Boy” Bourgeois Perspectives with Puritan Foundations – Danielle Polimeni

May 2006

• Post-Feminism and Women’s Return to Relgion – Peggy Gorman
• Travel Writing and Social Theory – Bruce Soboleski
• The Evolution of Shinto – Steve Berman
• Lillian Matilde Genth: An American Painter – Christine Rendell
• Homeless Families – Regina Sillitti
• Hogarth, Defoe, Fielding, and Richardson Parallels in 18th Century English Art & Literature – Bianca Nagy
• Family under the Institution of Slavery – Radwa Elhadidy
• An Argument for the Inclusion of Ecological Literacy in the High School English Curriculum in the State of New Jersey – Elizabeth Everette

May 2005

• Understanding the Deterioration of Naum Gabo’s Construction in Space: Two Cones – Beth Price
• The Dual Condition of Womanhood in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening – Kerry Meehan
• The Division of Labor at Home – Jauna Dawson
• State of the Union: Social Rape and the Childhood Dilemma – Kevin Cummines
• Rights after 911 – Baba Jallow
• Menacing Strangers, Ineffectual husbands, Vacations from Hell: Lifetime TV as the New American Domestic Gothic – Vibiana Bowman
• Doing Environmental History…in the Highschools – Stephen F. Fortis
• Course Curriculum Development Tolerance in a Multicultural Society – Lori Ayers
• If I Speak in the Tongues of Men and Angels: A case study analysis of the psychosocial impetus for adolescent Pentecostal glossolalia – Christopher Carpenter
• Abbott Cases and New Jersey’s Educational System – Thomas Noel
• “Gnostic” Mary Magdalene – Barbara Menna

May 2004

• Will the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 Get Left Behind? – Ivan R. Cartagena
• The Art of Manipulation in Literature – Elaine Winder
• Recognizing Though Reform in Cult Groups – Janice Viola
• Jihad in Early Islam – Ruth Parker-Bey
• From Whitman to Wilde: A cultural Perspective on Individualism at the Fin-de-Siecle – Keith Carson
• Deconstruction Aunt Jemima: A Black Feminist Approach – Rosemary Banks
• Behold The “Burning” Bush: Manipulation, Lies, and Doublespeak – David Nastasi
• A Solution to Managed Care Issues in Pediatrics – Tina Cressman

May 2003

• The Rise and Fall of Willow Grove Park: 1896-1976 – Thomas Stranc
• Revolution and Realism: The French Revolution and the American Civil War – Janet Hoerst
• Police Brutality and African Americans: A historical perspective of the socioeconomic relationships between blacks and whites, and the concept of the race, in relation toits assault on Black America. – Stephanie Hightowers
• King Richard III – Caluated Killer of Courageous King? A Journey Shakespeare and Modern-Day Historians – JoAnn Mower
• Body Image and The Workplace – Caroline Towsend
• Between Two Fires: The Role of Native America in the French-Indian War – Adam Smith

May 2002

• Yemenite Jews in Israel – Megan Fitzgerald
• The Wounded Earth: Milton’s Deconstruction of Christianity – Ken Hiltner
• Educational Reform: Charter Schools – Ector Quiles
• Pearl (a short story) – Timothy Hassell
• Hardy as an Anti-Arnoldian: Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Eun-Young Koh
• An Examination of Heroism in the American Private Detective – Kitty Hoover

May 2001

• The Rebirth of Main Street America: Revitalizing the Old Downtown – Natasha Tursi
• Rationality and the Supreme Court: The Capital Punishment Controversy – Jennifer Pantano
• Creating a High School Curriculum Introducing Students to Women’s Studies – Lisa Anne Cooper
• Cathedrals: Microcosms of the Universe – Catherine Spraque
• Black Theology and its Role In the African American Community – Alecia Caldwell
• May 2000
• The Thought of American Individualist William Graham Sumner – Gregg Walkes
• The Reception of the Deputy: A continuing Controversy – Aileen Gergely
• The Rational of Serial Killers – Melissa Mclaughlin
• The Last Taboo-Perspectives on Voluntary childlessness – Patricia Armitage
• Sword of Justice: The Story of Judith – Peggy Russell
• Spirit Possession in the Shaker and Baptist Traditions – Nia Abuwi
• Recovered Memories V. False Memories – Jayne Ulmer
• Examining the American Dream in Literature – Michele De Fulvio
• A Visual Approach tot he Architecture of Sacred Buildings – Theresa Giandomenico
• Three-Quarter Time – Gerald Williams
• Sampling Along The Continuum of Feminist Thought: Enlightenment to the 20th Century – Elizabeth E. Johnson

May 1999

• Walt Whitman’s Poetry through Music – Loretta Wood
• The Theater District of London Gives Rise to A Childhood Fairy Tale – Sandra Wilson
• Melodies and Mayhem: A Social History of Music and War – Jayne Vautour
• Children’s amd Adolescents’ Behavior at Funerals: An Observational Account – James Ridge
• Charles M. Schwab – Angelo Iossa
• Attention Disorders: from Cause to Treatment – Tamara Angelino
• Allopathic, Ethnocentric and Alternative Medicine Use Among Pediatric Patients in an Urban Emergency – Barbara Duffy
• Grounding Affirmative Action – Christopher Harty

May 1998

• The Black Church: Purpose and Function – Wade Stevens
• Science and Nonsense: The Genesis of Darwinisticism – Dennis McGrath
• Resurrecting the Great Mother: The Quest for the Modern Madonna – Carole Diamond
• Faerielore: A Comparison of Faerieland Representation Between Poetry and Music – Annette Holba
• Christa Wolf on Depressions, Death and Dying in Society – Blanca Figueroa
• Addiction: Its Possible Causes, Symptoms and Recovery From – James Gordon

Jan 1997

• Metamorphosis: The Journey of Initiation – Jackie Morfesis