Potential Research Topics

Below is an ongoing list of potential topics that one could use as the springboard for his, her, or their research in the coming months... You may suggest a topic or many topics by adding comments below.

• generational trauma 
• perpetuation of trauma via the media (i.e., movies, music, video games)
• comparison of literature from the Cold War between the Western world, Russia, and Eastern Europe 
• exclusion of trans individuals from the American military 
• the rise of prison shows in our current media
• manipulation and mind-control
• the Stanford Prison Experiment
• the Milgram Experiment 
• masculinity and masculine violent energy, the tragic flaw of humanity 
• how reconcilable is the self after committing violence, the resulting trauma causes irreparable damage within the self 
• military/police training, the process of dehumanization, the revoking of the self
• how media inoculates the public against our nation's imperialism 
• what leads one to become a violent person? to disconnect our inherent empathy for another...
• dynamic v. static characters 
• the draft of Vietnam, backlash against military v. our present respect 
• the spectacle, news coverage of war, citizen reportage, media control, programming 
• social change, enacting it or the suppression of it 
• the state of constant war
• the Cold War and the isolationism of the US
• propaganda and the propaganda machine 
• the perceived status quo v. the real status quo - deconstructing the norm as the established default 
• the marketplace of ideas, the free-press
• school shootings 
• individualism as a major disease in our country 
• the nuclear family as a mechanism of American hegemony 
• just war, the official declaration of war... when was the last? is it possible in our technological world? presidential powers... executive order to begin/engage in a conflict 
• the treatment of women who are raped 
• medical oath, esp. in regards to "do not harm clause" (chemical and biological weapons)
• the increasing role of science and technology in the development in weaponry and "defense"
• imperialism, economic imperialism, colonization, and postcolonialism