Student Theses and Career Placement

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