Salve Regina to award 10 doctorates during Commencement

Salve Regina will award doctorates in humanities to 10 candidates during the 65th Commencement ceremony Sunday, May 17. The doctoral program provides an interdisciplinary investigation of the question: “What does it mean to be human in an age of advanced technology?”

Fully accredited in 1994, the program was developed to integrate philosophical and humane insights into the educational process while addressing current and anticipated technological challenges.

• Kelly M. Alverson: “Contagion of Kindness: Observability, Recognition and Shared Experience as Motivation for Online Prosocial Behavior”
• Stephen Leal Jackson: “Beneath the Surface: An Examination of the Characterization of African-Americans in Submarine-Themed American Film”
• James Arthur Lamberti: “Romano Guardini on Technology, Existence and the Human Person: An Introduction, Exposition and Appraisal”
• Brett James Morash: “The Rise and Fall of the Union of Islamic Courts”
• Prudence Pelissier Ngarambe: “Civil-Military Relations and the Challenges to Human Security and Democracy in Rwanda: A Sociopolitical Perspective”
• Claudine Perreault: “A Heideggerian Reading of ‘Revolutionary Road’: Understanding the Human-Technology Relationship in 1950s Suburbia”
• James Ryan: “Salvaging the ‘Caroline’: An Examination of States’ Use of Force in Self-Defense Against Non-State Actors”
• Rory Elizabeth Senerchia: “Academic Success and Academic Culture Shock: Do International Students Benefit from Acculturation Intervention?”
• Paul E. Sylvestre: “Society’s Automaton: An Existential Perspective on Police Training and Stress-Management Education”
• Donna J. Tocco-Greenaway: “Assisted Reproductive Technology, Bioethics, and Literature: Progenitors and Others’ Relatedness to Embryos, Androids, and Children”