George Mason University – Cultural Studies Ph.D. Program
Forthcoming Dissertation
Forthcoming Dissertation Proposal
Field Statements
CULT-802: Histories of Cultural Studies (Prof. Dina Copelman)
- Introductory Essay
- Essay 1: Concepts of Culture from Arnold, Marx, and Weber
- Essay 2: Concepts of Commodification from Gramsci, Williams, and Eagleton
- Essay 3: Cultural Studies from the Birmingham Center through Hebdige and Gilroy
CULT-804: Contemporary Cultural Theory (Prof. Denise Albanese)
- Presentation: Foucault’s Discipline and Punish
- Paper 1: Concepts of the Public Sphere, the Market, and the Internet
- Paper 2: On the Concept of Method in Society of the Spectacle
- Paper 3: Agamben’s Concept of Sovereignty
- Paper 4: Contemporary American Subalternity
CULT-806: Research Methods (Prof. Paul Smith)
- Full Research Proposal
- Significance/Reflection
HIST-615: Consuming History, Mediating the Past (Prof. Alison Landsberg)
- Weekly Response Papers
- In-Class Presentation: Rosenzweig and Thelen, The Presence of the Past
- Final Paper: Wikipedian Historiography
CULT-812: Documentary and the Visual Cultures of Late Capitalism (Prof. Tim Kaposy)
- Response 1: Benjamin’s Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
- Response 2: Barthes’s Camera Lucida
- Response 3: Ranciére’s “Are Some Things Unrepresentable?”
- Documentary Response: Death in Gaza
- Theorization: New Media, First Person, We Live In Public, and Singularity
- Final Paper: Visuality, Value, and Hip Hop: Graffiti in DC
CULT-816: Science and Technology (Prof. Roger Lancaster)
- Weekly Response Questions
- Book Review: America by Design
- Book Review: Making the Mexican Diabetic
- Book Review: Life Exposed
- Final Paper: Internet Architecture, Social Media, and the Arab Awakening
CULT-820: After Colonialism (Prof. Paul Smith)
- Paper 1: Proletariat and Colonized in Cesaire’s Discourse on Colonialism
- Paper 2: A Discussion of a Statement by Fanon in Wretched of the Earth
- Paper 3: On Spivak’s Methodologies
CULT-860: War and Media (Prof. Hugh Gusterson)
- Media Artifact: Close Reading of AP Story
- Final Paper: Insurgency and Media
- Addendum: Timeline
CULT-860: The Frankfurt School (Prof. Paul Smith)
- Meditation: Adorno on cultural criticism
- Final Paper: Schmitt-Adorno-Derrida Genealogy; Towards Post-Modernity
CULT-870: Information and Communication Technologies and Policies in West Africa
- Weekly Reflection / Review Papers
- Case Studies
- Final Paper: Nationalism and Internet Architecture Policy in Western Equatorial Africa
Georgetown University -Communications, Culture, and Technology (CCT) M.A. Program
CCTP-627: Looking at Photography (Prof. James Schaefer)
- Final Paper: looking at non-representational photography
- Appendix to final paper
CCTP-687: History of the Book/Technologies of the Text (Prof. Michael Macovski)
- Literature Reviews/Annotated Bibliography
- Final Paper: Prison Literature, Print Censorship, and Political Ipseity
CCTP-704: Gender, Sexuality, and the Body (Prof. Michael Coventry)
- Poster on Foucault’s History of Sexuality
- Annotation of Luce Irigaray’s This Sex Which Is Not One (requires Sophie Reader)
- Final Project (Poster on David Wojnarowicz)
CCTP-719: Film Theory (Prof. Melissa Goldman)
- Weekly posts to course blog
- Midterm: short essays: marxism, effects of CGI
- Final: short essays: post-feminism, Dark Days
CCTP-721: Critical Theory and Contemporary Media (Prof. Matthew Tinkcom)
- Midterm: Barthes online, Benjamin/Mumia
- seminar on Foucault
- seminar on debord
- final paper: Thinking the Digital Figure: on Mumia Abu Jamal Online
CCTP-738: Contemporary Visual Art: Theory, Practice, and Institutions (Prof. Martin Irvine)
- weekly posts to course wiki
- Final Project: the limits of the art world
CCTP-745: Communication Technology and Organizations (Prof. Jeanine Turner)
- weekly posts to course blog
- Review of Pierre Bourdieu’s On Television
- Final Paper: establishing presence
CCTP-748: Media Theory and Visual Culture (Prof. Martin Irvine)
- weekly posts to course wiki
- Final Project: on media literacies
CCTP-754: Networks and International Development (Prof. D. Linda Garcia)
- weekly posts to course blog
- Final Paper: emergent African educational models
CCTP-787: Designing Interdisciplinary Research (Prof. Michael Coventry)
- thesis prospectus
- working bibliography
- completed IRB training for research with human subjects
- disciplinary assessment
- lit review draft for thesis