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STUDENT THESES AND CAREER PLACEMENT

Updated November 8, 2011

 

Student Theses and Projects

Year

Thesis

Project

2011

Student

Title

Student

Title and location

Nettie Roche

The Benin Bronzes in the British Museum: Repatriation or Not?

Miroslav Brekalo

“The Evolution of the New Orleans Police Department in the 19th century.”   New Orleans Police Department District 8

Theresa Butler

Day of the Dead: Celebrating Life and Death through Religious and Spiritual Rituals and Symbolic Elements

Donnie Sampson

“Woman: How Identity Is Shaped.”  SUNO Multiple-purpose Building

Beryl Hunter

Black Photographers in Late Twentieth-Century New Orleans – Documentarians of Social History

Letitia Hopkins

“Keepers of the Mysteries.”  McKenna Museum of African American Art

Derrick Napoleon

Facilitating, Educating, and Innovating:  African-American Museums in Atlanta, Georgia That Tailor to Visitor’s Experiences

Nikka Carter

“A Handful of Photographs: Photographic Exhibit with the Subject of Hands.” New Orleans McKenna Museum of African American Art. 

Mervin Crump

Exploring Images, Texts, and Subject Matters: A Documentary Film Treatment on Comic Books and Films

Patricia Flowers

“A Journey into Quilting: An African American Tradition.”  Southern University at Baton Rouge Museum of Art

 

 

Roberta Wilson

“Portrait Gallery of African Masks from the Bertrand Collection.”  New Orleans McKenna Museum of African American Art

2010

 

 

Beryl Johns and Michael Harris

“The Talented Tenth: African American Artists and Musicians
of the Harlem Renaissance, the W.P.A and Beyond”

Latoya Devezin

The Kara Walker Effect: The Impact of Her Controversy on the Presence of African American Women in the Art Museum

 

 

Adwale Adenle

Managing Traditional and Religious African Art in Western Collections:
The Synthesis of Inclusions and Exclusions

 

 

2009

Stacey Roberts

Reclaiming and Retelling History by Black Curators: The Continued Struggle to Assert Solid Ground in America's Society

 

 

2009

Cherie Cazenavette

Prelude to a Museum: The Edgar Degas Historic House

 

 

 

Student Career Placement

Student Name

Graduation Year

Current Position

Derrick Napoleon

2011

Ph.D. student at the African-American Studies Program, Clark Atlanta University

Morgan Mbeky

2011 (transferred)

Ph.D. student at the Graduate Program in African Studies, Virginia Tech

Adwale Adenle

2010

M.A. Student in Studio Art, School of Fine Arts, Miami University, Ohio

Latoya Devezin

2010

The Historical New Orleans Collection; The Graduate Program in Library and Information Science, Louisiana State University

Stacey Roberts

2009

Ph.D. student at the Program in Urban and Regional Planning, Jackson State University

Cherie Cazenavette

2009

Independent scholar

Haitham Eid

2008

Ph.D. Student, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Gaynell Brady

2006(?)

K-12 Educator, Louisiana State Museum