dissertation
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Critics dug out and posted his dissertation, which was pilloried by other academics for a simplistic chart that placed terrorism on a spectrum somewhere between “peacekeeping” and “thermonuclear war.”
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026
Arendt had written her dissertation on St. Augustine, who held curiosity to be dangerous, often tempting one to sin because of an insatiable hunger for one sight after another.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
She wrote her dissertation about serial killers decades ago, and as an author gravitates to storytelling about marginalized women.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
Meanwhile Caroline Cronjaeger, a 25-year-old student, is writing her dissertation on Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway - a book she found on YouTube.
From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026
His name is Ongah, and he is an exchange student from Kenya who is writing a dissertation at N.Y.U. on the French symbolists of the 19th cent.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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