Faculty Senate Dissertation-Year Fellowships 2001-2002

Margaret Setje-Eilers, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures

Thesis Title: Faces: Maps, Masks, Mirrors, Masquerades in German Expressionist Literature, Film, and Visual Arts


June Griffin, Department of English

Thesis Title: Composition Inverted: Understanding Coherence from the Top Down


Devery Mock, Curry School of Education

Thesis Title: Identifying Learning Disabilities in Reading: A Comparison of Clinical and Statistical Judgment


Todd Summers, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Thesis Title: Wireless Communication Technology: How to Utilize Antenna Arrays in Both Transmitters and Receivers for Enhanced Overall Performance


Fred Tillman, Department of Civil Engineering

Thesis Title: Design and Testing of a Chamber Devise to Measure Organic Vapor Fluxes From the Unsaturated Zone Under Natural Conditions


James Kim, Department of English

Thesis Title: Irony, Authority, and Sentimentality in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel


Patrick McGuinn, Department of Politics

Thesis Title: The National Schoolmarm? the Politics and Evolution of Federal Education Policymaking, 1989-2002


Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Department of History

Thesis Title: Soldier Citizens: Virginians in the Civil War


Daniel Druckenbrod, Department of Environmental Sciences

Thesis Title: Forest Dynamics in the Virginia Piedmont


Christopher Colvin, Department of Anthropology

Thesis Title: Storytelling and the World Market: Anxious Memory-Making in Post Apartheid South Africa


Samuel Amago, Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese

Thesis Title: True Lies: Narrative Self-Consciousness in the Contemporary Spanish Novel