05/24/2019
So proud of the following Bard MAT Los Angeles graduates will be honored this weekend at Commencement ceremonies on Bard's New York campus.
ANNA MINERVA ACOSTA, Los Angeles, California, “The Afterlife of Slavery: A Journey Through the Atlantic Slave Trade” (Literature), B.A. UC Davis
MARTHA CHARLOTTE CHUDY, Stonington, Connecticut, “Finding Balance Through Beauty: Zadie Smith's On Beauty and the Call for Ever-Evolving Identity” (Literature), B.A. University of Rochester; B.M. Eastman School of Music
ELISA CONTRERAS, El Sereno, California, “Intersectionality of Race and Gender in Nella Larsen's Quicksand: The Negotiation of Space” (Literature), B.A. Kalamazoo College
ELIZABETH ACCOLA CRAWFORD, New York, New York, “Daughter to Mother, Present Selves: The Role of Relationships in WHEREAS” (Literature), B.A. Bard College
DANIEL A. CRUZ-DAVALOS, Los Angeles, California, “Sociolinguistics: Oppressive and Violent Language, Stereotypes, and Microaggression in Kindred” (Literature), B.A. California State University, Los Angeles
AUDREY SUSAN EDHOLM, Orem, Utah, “Knowledge is Power: Finding the Ability to Move in Tropic of Orange” (Literature), B.A. Brigham Young University
JENIFER GUTIERREZ, Los Angeles, California, “Women, Gangs, and the Search for Agency” (History), B.A. UC Santa Barbara
ELIZABETH ASHLEY HERMOSILLO, Lancaster, California, “Protecting Our Rights: Using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to Assess History” (History), B.A. UC Berkeley
YESSICA HERNANDEZ, Los Angeles, California, “Leading Through Language Identity and Cultural Empowerment: Women’s Zapotec Literature” (Literature), B.A. Kalamazoo College
ARI (HARRY) KARPEL, East Brunswick, New Jersey, “‘Let America Be America Again’: Langston Hughes and a Nation's Ongoing Struggle” (Literature), B.A. University of Wisconsin
VERNON KEEVE, III, Oakland, California, “Continued Enslavement: An Exploration into the Gendering of African-Americans Post Slavery as shown in Alice Walker's The Third Life of Grange Copeland” (Literature), B.A. George Mason University, M.F.A. California College of the Arts
ARIELLA RUTH KIRSCHBAUM, Mission Viejo, California, “Gender Disruption: A Historical Discourse on the Igbo Women’s War in Pursuit of a Pedagogical Shift in High School Education” (History), B.A. Bard College
JESSICA LUTZKER, Auburn, California, “In the Land of Cotton: Bernard Baruch and the Making of a Southern Jew” (History), B.A. Brigham Young University, M.A. Claremont Graduate University
LEONEL TORRES-MAGAÑA, Inglewood, California, “Questioning White Supremacy: Critical Ethnic Studies Within the Works of Audre Lorde” (Literature), B.A. Vassar College
NELSON MIRANDA , Hawthorne, California, “Remembering the Revolutionaries: Recapturing the Fire of the Civil Rights Movement in the Classroom” (History), B.A. St. Edward’s University
DAVID JOSEPH MORAN, Minneapolis, Minnesota, “A Litany Seeking Its Text: Ishmael Reed’s Neo-HooDoo” (Literature), B.A. Carleton College
JOHN O’HAGAN, Davis, California, “Speaking As Catharsis: Moving Past The Trauma of the Greensboro Massacre” (History), B.A. UC Santa Cruz
VANESSA ORELLANA, Los Angeles, California, “The Forgotten Leaders in the United Farm Workers Movement” (History), B.A. Beloit College
CHRISTINA ROSETTI, Los Angeles, California, “‘Psychological Distance’ and Objectification in Wright's Black Boy” (Literature), B.A. Bard College
RUBY SMYTH MEYERS-MCENROE, New York, New York, “‘It's a Freakshow to Them’: Exploring the Intersection of Class and Sexuality in Dog Day Afternoon” (Literature), B.A. Bard College
CAMERON TOWNE, Fontana, California, “Schoolyard Empiricists: The Making of Social Efficiency and Corporate Citizenship in Progressive Education Reform” (History), B.A. UC San Diego
COURTNEY VAN PETTEN, Los Angeles, California, “Feminism Fettered: Interpreting Mrs.MacMahon’s Secretarial School” (History), B.A. California State University, Los Angeles
