Graduate Student Committees (* = chair) PhD Dissertations: Complete • *Kang, Yoona. “Deconstructing the Ideology of Nature and Childhood in Korean Child Narratives.” 2015. • Dobosiewicz, Troy L. "Constructivism in the Acting Classroom: A Comprehensive Approach to Teaching Practical Aesthetics, Voice, and Movement." 2014. • Giannone, Enza. “But Now You Can See Me: Devising theatre with youth artist-researchers in search of revelations and docutheatricality.” 2014. Arts Research Dissertation Award from AERA • Kosnik, Craig. "The Adolescent's Voice: How Theatre Participation Impacts High Schoolers and College Students." 2014. • *Minarsich, Teresa. “Girl-becomings: Girls Theorizing Girlhood through Visual Art, Theatre, and Digital Communication” 2014. Distinguished Dissertation Award AATE • *Sunni-Ali, Asantewa. "Performing New Afrikan Childhood: Agency, Conformity and The Spaces In Between." 2014. • *Bliznik, Sean. “Constructing the Youth in Commercial Musical Theatre: An Intersectional Case Study.” 2013. • Tsai, Yi-Ren. "The Representation of Taiwanese Childhood as Reflected in Taiwanese Theatre for Young Audience of the Taipei Children's Arts Festival 2000-2011." 2012. • Ikemire, Heather. “Putting Culture to Work: Building Community with Youth through Community-Based Theater Practice,” 2010. • *Davis Freed, Dena Michelle. “Exploring "The Prodigal Son" through Augusto Boal's Forum Theatre with Seventh-day Adventist academy drama students.” 2009. • Verner Chappell, Sharon. “Evidence of utopianizing toward social justice in young people's community-based art works.” 2009. Arts Research Dissertation Award from AERA • *Chappell, Andrew Rees. “Colonizing the Imaginary: Children’s Embodiment of Cultural Narratives.” 2008. • Romine, Jamie. “Where the West Stays Young: Child Re-enactors in Contemporary Wild West Shows.” Diss. Arizona State University, 2007. Print. Dissertations In Process • *Hill, Michelle • *Trent, Tiffany • *Schildkret, Elizabeth • *Schoenfelder, Joseph • *Waldron, Andrew MA & MFA Applied Projects/Theses: 2007: Chiara Lovio Michele Cable 2008: Jeremiah Neal Crystal Mercado *Mariah Keko 2009: Tiffany Pust Blake Wilson 2010: *Xanthia Walker *Zosia Cassie Anne Negri *Margaret McLaughlin 2011: *Rachel Hamilton Aimee Reid *Sarah Sullivan 2012: *Brianna Stapleton-Welch *Ebony Tucker 2013: *Leslie Stellwagen Kathleen Pennyway *Ashley Hare *Riley Braem 2014: *Megan Flod Johnson *Megan Hartman Bradford Forehand Vicki Holden 2015: Miranda Giles Lindsay Vanegas Elizabeth Sullivan *MA social/cultural pedagogy student Dana Keller 2016 *S. Rivka Rocchio *Ashley Laverty *Haley Honeman