TITLES OF DISSERTATIONS AND THESES COMPLETED:  1998-2005

Ph.D:

Rosati, Clayton
“The Image Factory: MTV, Geography and the Industrial Production of Culture,” (2005)

Ketchum, Jim
"Journey to the Surface of the Earth: Recent Contemporary Art, the Geoaesthetic Trace, and the Production of Alternative Geographic Knowledge" (2005)

Diver, Kim
Biogeography of Island Flora in the Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, Ontario (2004)

Madsen, Michael
"Mormon Meccas: The Spiritual Transformation of Mormon Historical Sites from Points of Interest to Sacred Space” (2003)

D'Arcus, Bruce
“The Wounded Knee Occupation and the Politics of Scale: Marginal Protest and Central Authority in a Media Age” (2001)

Dhanda, Karen
“Indentured Labor and Trinidad’s Integration into the World Economy” (2000)

Lin, Wei-Zen
“The Transformation of Hainan’s Historical Geography: From 110 BCE to 1947” (1999)

Herrera, Marta
“Ordenamiento Espacial y Control Político En Las Llanuras Del Caribe y en Los Andes Centrales Neogranadinos. Siglo XVIII” (1999) 

Giordano, Alberto
“Using the GIS for Nuclear Risk Communication: The View from Oswego County, NY” (1999)
 

Masters:

McDaniel, Michael
“Questioning the Decline of the Nation State: The case of petroleum development in Central Asia.” and “The Use of Maps in Newspaper Coverage of Nuclear Waste Storage and Transportation.”  (2003)

Adams, Catherine
“Defending Our Place: Protest on the Southside of Syracuse” (2003)

Dolmatch, Anna
“Subnational Mobilization and Regional Development: The Case Of Catalonia” (2002)

Gianella, Natalia
“Harvests of the War: Peasant Communities after Political Violence in Ayacucho, Peru” (2002)

Rodríguez, Laura
“Urban agriculture: a missing gendered cultural practice in the Latino neighborhood, Syracuse NY” and “Urban Latino Realities and Re-Making Spaces” (2002)

Buckman, Stephen
“The Geopolitics of Downtown Megastructure Development The Case of Bank One Ballpark and Phoenix.”  (2002)

McLeod, Hilary
 “The Geography of California Water Resources Management: an Exploration of the Power of Place.” (2001)

Lahood, Albert
“Decolonization, Independence, and the Production of a Sovereign Congolese Nation-State”.  (2001)

Essex, Jamey
“Economic Restructuring, Agrarian Organization, and Regional Transformation in Kentucky and Tennessee’s Black Patch, 1873-1914” (2001)

Daniels, Ellen
“Nature and Conflict: Shaping the Future of Maine’s Forest” (2001)

Breitbach, Carolyn
“Urban Growth and Social Change in Sioux Falls, South Dakota” (2001)

Cushing, Keith
“Society and the Persistence of Nature: The Falls of the Ohio River, 1750 – 1830” (2000)

Muldoon, Heather
“Latins in Manasquan: A Geography of Immigrant Life in Small Town New Jersey.” (1999)

Metz, Mary
“Economic Integration and Minority Nationalism” and “The North American Free Trade Agreement and Agriculture” (1999)

Hankewych, Daria
“Ukranians in Chicago: A Study of Place and Ethnic Identity” (1999)

Boniche, Armando
“Relationship Between Immigration and Editorial Content in El Nuevo Herald, 1976-1997” and “The Geographic Foundations of Detroit Newspapers Strike” (1999)

 
Some Current SU Geography Graduate Students and their Thesis and Dissertation Topics:, 2003-2004

Baur, Brigit (Ph.D., Adviser:  Mitchell)  “Making and Regulating Public Spaces in Guadalajara: State Regulation and Non-State Participants in Post-Revolutionary Mexico”

Birge-Liberman, Philip (Ph.D., Adviser:  Mosher)  “Restoring the Vision, Preserving the Legacy:  Ecology and History in Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace”

Call, David (M.A., Adviser:  Mosher)  “Inches from Disaster?  An Historical Analysis of Upstate New York Cities' Responses to Snowstorms”

Castillo, Gerardo (Ph.D., Adviser:  Bridge)  “Political and Discursive Struggles over Natural Resources in Northern Peru:  The Integration of the Region to National and International Circuits.”

Choi, Christina (Ph.D., Adviser:  Mullings)  "Undocumented North Korean Migrants' Mobility and Human Rights in Changing Geopolitics."

Delgado, Elvin (Ph.D., Adviser:  Robinson)  “Environmental Degradation of Lake Maracaibo: A Geographical Analysis”

Hae, Laam (Ph.D., Adviser:  Mitchell)  “Zoning Out Dance Clubs in New York City:  Neoliberalism and Changing Landscape of Alternative Culture”

Luthra, Aman (M.A., Adviser:  Perreault)  “Revisiting Shangri-la: Conservation, Development and Landscape Representation in Bhutan”

McNeil, Brenden (Ph.D., Adviser:  Read)  "Spatial Variation of Foliar Nitrogen in the Adirondack Park, NY: An Approach to Mapping Sinks for Nitrogen Pollution in a Complex Ecosystem."

Mosiane, Ben (Ph.D., Adviser:  Western)  “South Africa: In Search of an Alternative Development Strategy.”

Mukherjee, Sanjukta (Ph.D., Adviser:  Mullings)  “Globalization and the changing gender of work and workplaces in the Software Industry”

Stackhouse, Jill (Ph.D., Adviser:  Robinson)  “The Urbanization of Santiago de Chile during the Pinochet Years”

Van Deusen, Richard (Ph.D., Adviser:  Mitchell)  “The Image Technicians: Urban Designers and the Production of Public Space in Belleville, Paris”

Vitale, Patrick (M.A., Adviser:  Mosher)  “Changing Spatialities of Working-Class Life in Post-War McKeesport, PA”. 

Wheeler, Michael (Ph.D., Adviser:  Monmonier)  “Construction under Urban Competition: Railroads in the Empire State, 1825-1860”

Yurkosky, Peter (M.A., Adviser:  Bendix) “Evaluating the Impact of Suppression on Wildfire Perimeter Complexity