Doctoral Studies

Past Dissertation Titles

Outstanding Dissertation Award Winners

Last Name First Name Year of Award Dissertation Chair Dissertation Title Program Title Department
Lewis Heather 2007 Jonathan Zimmerman Protest, Place and Pedagogy: New York City's Community Control Movement and its Aftermath, 1966-1996 History of Education Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions
Montgomery David 2007 Philip Taylor Living An Arts Partnership: The Experience Of Three Middle School Classroom Teachers In A Drama Residency Educational Theatre - Colleges Music and Performing Arts Professions
Picower Bree 2007 Suzanne Carothers The Unexamined Whiteness Of Teaching: Will The Cycle Be Unbroken? Teaching and Learning Teaching and Learning
Blaisdell Gayla 2008 John Gilbert A Feminist Examination of the Role of Women and Their Musical and Narrative Treatments in the Opera Central Park Music Performance and Composition Music and Performing Arts Professions
Magaldi Nicole 2008 Harriet Klein Prelinguistic Behaviors of Children With Specific Language Impairment: An Analysis of Home Videos Made in Infancy Speech Pathology and Audiology Communicative Sciences and Disorders
Burkholder Zoe 2008 Jonathan Zimmerman "With Science As His Shield:" Teaching Race and Culture in American Public Schools, 1900-1954 History of Education Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions
Black Jennifer 2009 James Macinko Assessing the Neighborhood-Level Determinants of Obesity in New York City Nutrition and Dietetics Nutrition, Food Studies, & Public Health
Aronczyk Melissa 2009 Aurora Wallace Branding the Nation: Mediating Space, Value, and Identity in the Context of Global Culture Media, Culture, and Communication Media, Culture, and Communication
Bang Hee Jin 2009 Carola Suarez-Orozco Role of Homework in the Academic Lives of Immigrant Adolescents Teaching and Learning Teaching and Learning
Palamar Joseph 2010 Perry N. Halkitis The Role of Perceived Stigma, Stigmatization and Religiosity in Explaining Lifetime Use of Illicit Drugs in Emerging Adults Public Health Nutrition, Food Studies, & Public Health
Carhill-Poza Avary 2011 Carola Suarez-Orozco English Language Development in Context: The Peer Social Networks and Interactions of Spanish-Speaking Adolescent Immigrant Students TESOL Multilingual Multicultural Studies Teaching and Learning

All Past Dissertation Titles

You can browse and search past disseration titles from NYU Steinhardt students.  Abstract and full text is available in from the NYU Libraries