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HUX
Student Winners of the CSUDH Graduate Thesis/Project of the Year
HUX
student success in the annual, university-wide CSUDH Office of Graduate
Studies Thesis/Project of the Year competition is a tribute to the
academic excellence of our students. This is a competition between
all of the graduate programs in the university in which students
produce theses or projects as the "capstone experience"
in their degree.
In
every year since entering the competition (2000), a HUX student
has won outright or tied for first place in at least one of the
separate competitions for outstanding thesis and outstanding creative
project.
2006
- Eric
Sandberg won CSUDH Outstanding Graduate Thesis of the
Year for "Unity and Isolation in the Novels of Virginia Woolf."
His mentor was Stephen Clifford (Literature).
- Dianne
Drayse Alonso won CSUDH Outstanding Graduate Project
of the Year for "The Linocut: A One-Hundred Year History
and Redemption of a Marginalized Medium." Her mentor was
Patricia Gamon (Art).
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From
left: CSUDH Provost Allen Mori, Dianne Drayse Alonso, and HUX
Professor Patricia Gamon. |
2005
- Daniel
Stewart won CSUDH Outstanding Graduate Thesis of the
Year for "General Sherman in Fayetteville, North Carolina:
Impact on a Community." His mentor was Dr. Judson Grenier
(History).
- Rosie
Taravella won CSUDH Outstanding Graduate Project of
the Year for "Mother of Frankenstein," a two-act play.
Her mentor was Dr. Hal Marienthal (Literature).
2004
- Michael
Carlos (HUX 2003 alumnus) won CSUDH Outstanding Graduate
Thesis of the Year (Arts and Letters category) for "The Political
Implications of Modernism: The Brecht-Lukacs Debate." His
mentor was Dr. Thomas Giannotti, Jr. (Literature).
- Jonathan
Clark (HUX 2003 alumnus) was runner-up for CSUDH Outstanding
Graduate Project of the Year for "Photogravure: Art and Technique."
His mentor was Dr. Louise Ivers (Art).
2003
- Chris
Conkling (HUX 2003 alumnus) won the CSUDH Outstanding
Graduate Project of the Year, 2003, for “’Twa Corbies’:
An Original Stage Play Based on the Historic Sir Thomas More/William
Tyndale Debates.” Chris wrote the screenplay for the animated
version of The Lord of the Rings.
About the HUX program brochure, he remembers saying to himself,
“You mean I can get a degree in all the things I’m
interested in anyway and for reading books I want to read?”
2002
- Marchelle
Brain (HUX 2002 alumna) tied for the CSUDH Outstanding
Graduate Thesis of the Year, 2002, for “Implications of
the Children in The Brothers Karamazov: Searching for Unity in
the Polyphonic Novel.” Her faculty mentor was Dr. Thomas
Giannotti, Jr. (Literature). Her husband is also a graduate of
the HUX program, and is pursuing a Ph.D. in History at U.C. Berkeley.
- Teri
Robertson (HUX 2002 alumna) tied for the CSUDH Outstanding
Graduate Project of the Year, 2002, for “The Creation of
a Single-Panel Cartoon Series” (called Snapshots).
Her mentor was Professor Bernard Baker (Art). She has found the
comic strip to be a great way to communicate the Humanities: “The
comic strip talks about who we are every single day in a completely
honest way. It’s kind of a diary of our times—a two-second
pleasure that everyone takes with their breakfast.”
2001
- Kristin
Weber won the CSUDH Outstanding Graduate
Thesis of the Year, 2001, for “A Jungian Study of
Violence and Grace in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor.”
- Wayne
Wesley Ignalls won the CSUDH Outstanding
Graduate Project of the Year, 2001, for “Bosworth,
1485: A Tactical Level Simulation of the Battle of Bosworth.”
His mentor was Dr. John Auld (History).
2000
- Andrew
Cox (HUX
2000 alumnus) tied for the CSUDH Outstanding Graduate Thesis of
the Year, 2000,
for "The Criminal Trial of O.J. Simpson and Enlightenment
Rationalization of Knowledge."
- John
Deaderick (HUX
2000 alumnus) won
honorable mention in the CSUDH Outstanding
Graduate Project of the Year, 2000 competition.
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