MA Dissertations
| Name of Alumnus | Year of graduation | Title of dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Elisabeth Castelli | 2020 | |
| Crystal Eves | 2020 | |
| Chris Harris | 2020 | |
| Jay Laville | 2020 | |
| Mayaan Medzini | 2020 | |
| Nicole Montag-Keller | 2020 | |
| Melissa Seymour | 2020 | |
| Liesel Wilkes | 2020 |
| Name of Alumnus | Year of graduation | Title of dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Ilaria Cristofaro | 2019 | A Journey to the Late Bronze Age Minoan Underworld: The Reflection of Sunlight on the Sea as an Axis Mundi |
| Chris Layser | 2019 | Can an Iconological Analysis of a Classic Period Vase (K1485) Further our Understanding of Ancient Maya Skyscapes? Alumni Dissertation Prize Winner |
| David Rubin | 2019 | Astrology in the Torah: A Comparative Study of Astrological Themes in the Hebrew Bible and Babylonian Talmud |
| Name of Alumnus | Year of graduation | Title of dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Teresa Alfonso | 2017 | An exploration of the Sun and Moon in the mythology of the /Xam San of South Africa, by comparing Gideon R. von Wielligh's original Boesman-Stories Deel I: Mitologie en Legendes [Bushman Stories Part I: Mythology and Legends], (1919) with Wilhelm H.I. Bleek and Lucy C. Lloyd's Specimens of Bushman Folklore, (1911) |
| Janet Carrol | 2017 | Golden Ages and Utopianism in Modern Astrology |
| J. Anna Estaroth | 2017 | Scotland's Clava Cairns and the Midsummer Full Moon |
| Judy Jibb | 2017 | Giving voice to Akiko: Do the Chaudière Falls serve as a sacred site in contemporary northeastern Canada? |
| Akindynos Kaniamos | 2017 | Human and Divine Interaction in Iamblichus' De Mysteriis: Astrology as a Paradigm of the Interaction with the Divine |
| M. A. Rashed | 2017 | Cosmic Chaos in Islamic Apocalyptic Eschatology |
| Melanie Sticker | 2017 | A New Look at Old Temples: Augusta Raurica and its Skyscape in the 1st and 2nd Centuries CE |
| Rafal Wasowski | 2017 | The Survey and 3D Reconstruction of the Valle Crucis Abbey in Relation to its Landscape and Skyscape |
| Name of Alumnus | Year of graduation | Title of dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Stevi Gaydon | 2016 | Alan Leo's Astrology for the New Era: How did Leo present and reform astrology so that it reflected his theosophical belief and was also seen as modern? |
| Kevin Marley | 2016 | The Sky in the Lives of People Interested in Astronomy |
| Mara Steenhuisen | 2016 | Capturing the relationship between heaven and earth in the digital imaging of orbs: an investigation of their contemporary phenomenal occurrence in the cosmological worldviews of orb-enthusiasts |
| Daniel Enrique Zagari | 2016 | The assimilation of the planet Uranus into the practice of astrology in England in the period 1781-1890. Alumni Dissertation Prize Winner |
| Name of Alumnus | Year of graduation | Title of dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Ada Blair | 2015 | An exploration of the role that the night sky plays in the lives of the Dark Sky island community of Sark |
| Alison Chester-Lambert | 2015 | Phallic Solarism from Egyptian Imagery, the Derveni Papyrus and Possible Reflections in Early Christian Texts and Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century Annunciation Art |
| Margot Diederen | 2015 | A Review of the Experiences of Dutch Astrologers with an Academic Education: Why have they chosen to pursue an Astrological Career? |
| Jarlath Fenton | 2015 | To what extent was Shakespeare's use of astrology, astronomy and the occult a reflection of Renaissance thought? |
| Andre Henriques | 2015 | Seidr Cosmologies: What is the relationship between practices of oracular seidr and the personal cosmologies of contemporary Pagans and neo-shamans who practice it for their communities? |
| Joyce Lambert | 2015 | Is the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the Site of the London Olympics 2012, Sacred Space? A Critical Exploration of the Situation and Traditions of the 2012 Olympics |
| Astrid Leimlehner | 2015 | Psychological Dimensions Of Early 20th Century Astrology: An investigation of four German astrology books of the 1920s and 1930s. Alumni Dissertation Prize Winner |
| Reinhard Mussik | 2015 | Why do People connect presumed Prehistoric Sacred Places and celebrate the summer solstice in virtual space via the Internet today? |
| Paula van Kersbergen | 2015 | The Divine feminine and astrology against the background of the New Age in the Netherlands |
| Name of Alumnus | Year of graduation | Title of dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Pamela Armstrong | 2014 | Does the archaeoastronomic record of the Cotswold Severn region display a transition from a lunar to a solar allegiance? |
| Mauro Fenu | 2014 | Dante's Divine Comedy as a theurgic act, a guide for the blessed reader from a state of misery to a state of bliss |
| Gaia Somasca | 2014 | Are there possibilities for an individual to connect with Nature according to an Earth-focused cosmology in a city like New York? |
| Maria Paap | 2014 | The use of outer planet cycles in modern astrology as a survival of Zoroastrian astrological history |
| Name of Alumnus | Year of graduation | Title of dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Fenella Dean | 2013 | An exploration of personal cosmologies through the investigation of individual world views |
| Tore Lomsdalen | 2013 | Is there evidences of intentionality of sky involvement in the prehistoric megalithic sites of Mnajdra in
Malta? This dissertation has now been published as Volume 2 in the Sophia Centre Master Monographs, entitled Sky and Purpose in Prehistoric Malta: Sun, Moon and Stars at the Temples of Mnajdra. A review of this book is available here. |
| Janet Markham | 2013 | Did the Hopewell Culture (100 BCE - 400 CE) of the Middle Woodland Period build a pilgrimage trail between the Newark Earthworks and High Bank Works sites in Ohio? |
| Name of Alumnus | Year of graduation | Title of dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Claire Chandler | 2012 | What can the astrological symbolism found in the papyrus known as p leid j 395 tell us about greco-roman egyptian cosmology and the place of magic within it? |
| Marielle Churaqui | 2012 | An Examination of James Hillman's Views on Astrology |
| Name of Alumnus | Year of graduation | Title of dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Laura Andrikopoulos | 2011 | Do the beliefs of contemporary astrologers offer evidence for the theory of secularisation? |
| Aidan Foster | 2011 | An appraisal of why Silbury Hill was built from a contemporary perspective |
| Liz Henty | 2011 | An Examination of Possible Solar, Lunar and Stellar Alignments at the Recumbent Stone Circles of North-East Scotland |
| Rosemary Senior | 2011 | Megalithic Sites: Why do they still inspire us? A study of the stones at Stanton Drew in Somerset in relation to the people for whom they have meaning |
| Name of Alumnus | Year of graduation | Title of dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Jennifer Fleming | 2009 | Entering the Matrix: A Contemporary Cosmological Journey: Can evidence of gnostic thought in contemporary culture be found in the Matrix Trilogy? |
| Name of Alumnus | Year of graduation | Title of dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Chris Mitchell | 2008 | Did the division of the year by the Babylonians into twelve months lead to the adoption of an equal twelve-sign zodiac in Hellenistic astrology? |
| Name of Alumnus | Year of graduation | Title of dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Frances Clynes | 2007 | The Effect of IT on Astrology |
| Cat Cox | 2007 | The Astrologer as Magician or Shaman: How far can contemporary astrological practice be understood within a cosmological paradigm of participation with the divine? |
| Sue Farebrother | 2007 | Were there links between astrology and tarot in the 19th century? |
| Teresa Moorey | 2007 | An investigation into the sky as a source of enchantment in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries |
| Chrissy Philp | 2007 | Is There Anything in Astrology Independent of Culture? |
| Alex Trenoweth | 2007 | Was Christianity's hostility toward paganism sufficient to explain its hostility to astrology? |
| Mary D. Wehunt | 2007 | The Experience of Solar Eclipses in the Context of Cultural Astronomy |
| Name of Alumnus | Year of graduation | Title of dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Catriona Javor | 2006 | To what extent did the signs, symbols and methods of astrology inform the practices of late 19th - early 20th century occultists? |
| Judith Levy | 2006 | Credibility, Professionalism and Value: exploring the cultural interface between the worlds of business and astrology |
| John Wadsworth | 2006 | Towards an Embodied Astrology - Embodiment as a Paradigm for Astrological Practice |
| Name of Alumnus | Year of graduation | Title of dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Bernadette Brady | 2005 | Can astrology be viewed as an expression of chaosmos and is this the same phenomena currently
being described by Chaos and Complexity theories? This dissertation has now been published as Volume 1 in the Sophia Centre Master Monographs, entitled Cosmos, Chaosmos and Astrology. A review of this book is available here. |
| Steve Judd | 2005 | Can The Crop Circle Community Be Described As A Religion, Sect, Cult Or Ufo/Et Group? |
| Name of Alumnus | Year of graduation | Title of dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Faye Cossar | 2004 | The Life Cycle of a Company |
| Rosalind Park | 2004 | Looking into the Dendara Zodiac, or Whose Zodiac is it? |
| David Charles Rowan | 2004 | Can Astrology be used as a tool in Modern Applied Psychology? |
| John Booker | - | To what extent were astronomy and astrology significant features in the medical texts of Hippocrates and Galen? |
| Helen Beers | - | Do Dreams, Visions or Mystical Encounters Bear on an Individual Sense of Destiny? |
