Doctoral candidates to present dissertation proposals, defenses

salvetoday Posted On March 15, 2018
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Faculty, staff and graduate students are encouraged to attend any or all of the dissertation proposal and defense presentations scheduled this semester. In addition, any undergraduate students who may be considering the pursuit of a Ph.D. are welcome to attend.

All presentations will be held in the McKillop Library, Room 109. The schedule is:

  • Jonathan Gourley will present his dissertation proposal at 2 p.m. Monday, March 19. The proposal is titled “How to Fail in Micronesia: Cultural and Economic Entanglement on Pohnpei in the 19th and 21st Centuries.”
  • Michael Junge will defend his dissertation at 3 p.m. Monday, March 19. The dissertation is titled “Pillar to Pillory: Crimes of Command in the U.S. Navy 1945-2015.”
  • Todd Mele will defend his dissertation at 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 23. The dissertation is titled “Marx’s Materialist Sociology of Knowledge: Colliding Empirical Frameworks of Consciousness.”
  • Teresa Testa will present her dissertation proposal at 1 p.m. Monday, March 26. The proposal is titled “The Ontological Problem of Secularity and Christianity: American Challenges and Responses, 1949-1989.”
  • Gary Vaspol will defend his dissertation at 10 a.m. Friday, April 6. The dissertation is titled “Abiding the Postmodern World: An Ethical, Existential and Cinematographic Examination of ‘The Big Lebowski.'”
  • Lamont Slater will defend his dissertation at 1 p.m. Friday, April 6. The dissertation is titled “Reframing the Herero/Nama Genocide: An Examination of the Genocide through the Theories of Foucault and Athens.”
  • Chelsea Buffington will defend her dissertation at 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 6. The dissertation is titled “Techno Humanity: Films as a Lens for Examining How Humans and Technology Co-Shape the World.”
  • Cheryl Bailey will defend her dissertation at 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 9. The dissertation is titled “Through the Lens of Accelerationist Utopia: The Critical Role of Science Fiction in the Transition to a Post-Capitalist World in Kim Stanley Robinson’s ‘Mars’ Trilogy.”
  • Norah Schneider will defend her dissertation at 10 a.m. Friday, April 13.
  • Don Thieme will defend his dissertation at 1 p.m. Friday, April 13. The dissertation is titled “Nation-States & Biopower: Impacts on Individuals, Empowerment, and the Limitations of Liberty.”
  • Al Antosca will defend his dissertation at 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 13. The dissertation is titled “Singularitarianism and the New Millennium: Techno-theology in the Transhumanist Age of Re-enchantment.”
  • Ryan Marnane will defend his dissertation at 6 p.m. Friday, April 13. The dissertation is titled “Consider the Audiobook, or The Hermeneutics of Close Listening: Literary Sound Studies and David Foster Wallace’s Literary Journalism.”