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 | |||
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2010 |
Beryl Johns and Michael Harris | “The Talented Tenth: African American Artists and Musicians of the Harlem Renaissance, the W.P.A and Beyond” |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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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 |