CDP Final M.A. Project Topics

2009 Graduates and their Topics

Carl Baniszewski
A Small Business Collaborative: The SHOTT Model

Devin Chausse
The Routes of a New Discussion: An examination of transit’s place in New England’s second largest city

Courtney Croteau
Culture, Consumers, and Bars: Eclectic Urban Development in the Canal District, Worcester

Jamekaa Flowers
The Historical and Contemporary Institutional Creation and Maintenance of the Achievement Gap

Caitlin Fritz
Cultivating Environmental Justice: Community Gardens as an Organizing Tool for Environmental Justice

Jaime Haber
Chapter 40R: Is Smart Growth Housing Affordable Everywhere in Massachusetts? Looking at the Compatibility between M.G.L. Chapter 40R and Rural Massachusetts Towns

Kate Holzman
Parent Involvement and Social Justice Family Development

Margaret Madigan
Listening Past the Jazz: A Study in the Cultural Economy of New Orleans

Gregory Paskach
Creating Appropriate Evaluation Measures for an Employment Program Targeted at Young Men at Risk of Violence: The Role of Monitoring Relationships

Misty Perez
Movement Building in U.S. Feminist Anti-pornography Movement in Early 21st Century American Society

Elisa Ramos
2009 Theory-based Evaluation for REC YouthGROW

Erica Richmond
Barbie-ric’ Girls: Supporting Gender Sensitive Youth Programs and Promoting Advocacy

Quinton Sankofa
Linked by our Past, Bound Together for our Future: An Analysis of the Social Tensions between Africans and African-Americans in Worcester, Massachusetts

David Schmidt
Biodiesel: An Effective Alternative Fuel for the Municipal Fleet of Worcester, Massachusetts?

Melissa Walsh
The Bank on Initiative from San Francisco to Providence: Creating Opportunities for Social Equity
 
Deena Zakim
Housing First and Home Again: A Look into Past and Present Approaches to Homelessness

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Angeline Bilotta-Sousa (CDP/M.A. '08): Worcester’s Arts District: Contributing Influences, Factors, and Recommendations for Sustainability

Etel Capacchione (CDP/M.A. '08): Transforming Urban Education: The Lone Vision That Started It All

Amar Cid (CDP/M.A. '08): Health of a Community Trying to Undergo an Economic Renaissance in West Sacramento, California: Who is in and who is out?

Kwabena Owusu-Ansah (CDP/M.A. '08): Eliminating Health Disparities among Minorities, a Case Study in Worcester, Massachusetts – A Community Planning Approach using Healthy People 2010

Sarah Parmenter (CDP/M.A. '08): Enhancing Health Promotion through Community Collaboration: Working with Ghanaian and Liberian Immigrants in Worcester, MA

Fauna Shaw (CDP/B.A./M.A. '08): A Nonprofit Merger Success: Board Transformation, Geographic Differences and Fundraising Prospects

Dana Sillers (CDP/M.A. '08): The Relationship Between Management’s Attitudes and Financial Performance in Mixed Housing Communities: A Case Study of AvalonBay, Inc Mixed-Income Multifamily Housing Communities in Massachusetts

Sheryl-Ann Simpson (CDP/M.A. '08): Recovering Communities: Resident-Led Alternatives to Contemporary Trends in Public Housing Redevelopment

Kristen Wilson (CDP/M.A. '08): The Housing Needs for Young Professionals in the Region: Northborough, Southborough and Westborough, Massachusetts

Erin Anderson (CDP/M.A. '07): “Change starts here:” Participatory Oral History for Community Development

Rebecca Dezan (CDP/M.A. '07): Youth Making Change: A Case Study of a Social Justice Youth Development Program in Worcester, MA

Traci McCubbin (CDP/M.A. '07): The Study of the Somali U.S. Workforce Insertion Process

Timothy Dzurilla (CDP/M.A. '06): The Voices of Mainsouthspeaks.Com: Representation Issues of a Working Class Urban Neighborhood. Read more about Tim's continued collaboration with the Main South Speaks project and his current research in Colombia.

Matt Hertel (CDP/M.A. '06): What is its Worth – A Cost Benefit Analysis of Career Development for Worcester’s GED Youth

William Holbrook (CDP/M.A. '06): A Consultancy Report for the Boys & Girls of Worcester, Massachusetts: An Organizational Assessment of the Need for Two-Way Communication and Participatory Management

Sara Kathleen Marie Kilroy (CDP/M.A. '06): Youth Voice Mechanisms: Students Ability to Create Real Change in Small Learning Communities

Catherine Rose Lowe (CDP/M.A. '06): Putting Principles into Practice: Everyday Collaboration in a Community Based Research Project

Patricia C. Mallios (CDP/M.A. '06): Volunteer Recruitment and Retention Strategies for the Girl Scouts of Montachusett Council, Inc.

Lauren Burkert (CDP/M.A. '05): The Federal Brownfield Tax Incentive

Michael Colan (CDP/M.A. '05): "The Role of Advocacy and Coalition Building on the Establishment of Inclusionary Zoning Legislation in Highland Park and Evanston, IL"

Kate Driscoll (CDP/M.A. '05): Mapping Local Knowledge

Erin Ellison (CDP/M.A. '05): The Political Economy of Problematic Decision Making in the International Monetary Fund and Sri Lanka

Oriana Eversole (CDP/M.A. '05): United Teen Quality Center Program Evaluation Consultancy

Brandy Finley (CDP/M.A. '05): African Americans and Differential Police Treatment

Garrick Harmal (CDP/M.A. '05): CDCS: Greening Affordable Housing

Heather Kamyck (CDP/M.A. '05): Preparing for an Aging Population

Stephen Metts (CDP/M.A. '05): Mapping Local knowledge: GIS as a New Mode of communication in Post - Industrial Urban Neighborhood.

Meredith Milesi (CDP/M.A. '05): Utopian Visions for a Dying Mill Town

Corrine Robinson (CDP/M.A. '05): Warren Metropolitan Resident Council

Colleen E. Schacht-Adams (CDP/M.A. '04): Access to Continuity of Care: A Community Look at Vulnerable Populations in Worcester, M.A. (Advisor: L. Ross)

Amy R. Mosher (CDP/M.A. '04): "Expressive Capital" in U.S. Community Development: Making the Case for Creative Self-Expression as a Tool for Sustainable Communities (Advisor: L. Ross)

Angel Elizabeth Riepe (CDP/M.A. '04): Developing a Culture of Student Voice: Facilitating a Student Research Initiative (Advisor: L. Ross)

Anna Marie Terry (CDP/M.A. '04): Structural Impediments to Mobility: A Community Analysis of Binghampton, Tennessee (Advisor: L. Ross)

Mia Joy Davis (CDP/B.A./M.A. '03): Transforming Brownfields into Public Green Open Space (Advisor: L. Ross)

Anna Gorski (CDP/M.A. '03): Dynamics in Collaborative Neighborhood Planning: An Assessment of the University Park Partnership Planning Process in Main South, Worcester, Massachusetts (Advisor: L. Ross)

Josephine Ann Shagwert (CDP/B.A./M.A. '03): High Mobility Rates in the Chandler and Elm Park Elementary Schools of Worcester, Massachusetts: A Case for Why the Geography of Mobility Matters in Urban Community Development and a Strategy for Reducing It (Advisor: L. Ross)