This collection contains Honors in the Major theses completed in Arts & Humanities.
Theses from 2019
Music and the Presidency: How Campaign Songs Sold the Image of Presidential Candidates, Gary M. Bogers
Displays of Medici Wealth and Authority: The Acts of the Apostles and Valois Fêtes Tapestry Cycles, Madison L. Clyburn
Of Martyrs and Minstrels, Trevon J. Coleman
Direct Discourse and Female Archetypes in Chrétien de Troyes's Romances, Raquelle A. Crotty
Spiteful Houses, Sweet Homes: Analyzing Denver's Traumatic Space in Beloved, Tyler Dick
An Ecofeminist Analysis of the Ready-made Garment Industry in Bangladesh, Yasmin Fakhoury
La Sufrida: An Analysis of the Social and Literary Archetype, Meleena Gil
Farm Women as Producers & Consumers in the 20th Century U.S. South, Joseph J. Kaminski
Artful Bionics: Pushing the Limits of Visual Expression in Prosthetic Design, Anna Kester
"Worse Than Guards:" Ordinary Criminals and Political Prisoners in the GULAG (1918-1950), Elizabeth T. Klements
The WOW Factor: Lesbian Representation and Impact in Late-20th Century Theatre, Brenna L. Maginness
The OSI and the Nazis: America's Struggle to Expel Nazi War Criminals and Their Allies Decades After the Second World War, Evan S. Murray
Black Feminist Articulations of Race & Gender Within the Horror Film Genre, Katherine M. Ortiz
LATCHKEY: A Memoir in Essays, Nicole C. Pendleton
Open World Translation: Localizing Japanese Video Games for a Globalizing World, Emily Suvannasankha
Collective Nobility: Spinoza and the Politics of Emotion, Ethan K. Uhlig
Theses from 2018
Storms Named After People, Sarah E. Ballard
'No Home Here': Female Space and the Modernist Aesthetic in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Julianna N. Cherinka
Deconstruction of the Romantic Comedy in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Mary E. Crivelli
Esther Reed's Political Sentiments and Rhetoric During the Revolutionary War, Kennedy Harkins
Bursting the Filter Bubble: Information Literacy and Questions of Valuation, Navigation, and Control in a Digital Landscape, Komysha Hassan
Leviathan: Ontogeny of Salvation, Faren L. LeJeune
Unificación: The Things That Bind Us, Kaylani E. Muriel
Amidst a Bottled Word: Poetry & Prose, Carlos J. Peralta
Anything but Crazy: How American Musical Theatre Can Change Societal Stigmas Against Mental Illnesses, Benjamin Walton
Blogging for Profit in the 21st Century: An Autoethnographic Analysis, Samantha L. Warren
Apoikia in the Black Sea: The History of Heraclea Pontica, Sinope, and Tios in the Archaic and Classical Periods, Austin M. Wojkiewicz
The Power in Multiplying: Growth in New Religious Movements, Nicole Wrobel
Theses from 2017
Examining the Efficacy of French Asylum Policies and Refugee Integration Effects, Roberto Cordero
This Must Be the Place, Jesse S. Feinman
American Viragos: Depicting Heroines in Public Art, Cara Henry
Faith in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Star Wars as Religion, Darryl B. Hunter II
Blankets of Memory: Short Stories, Kyle S. Kubik
Metamorphosis of Love: Eros as Agent in Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary France, Jennifer N. Laffick
Flocks, Swarms, Crowds, and Societies: On the Scope and Limits of Cognition, Zachariah A. Neemeh
The Evolving Emancipator: An Analysis of Abraham Lincoln and the Progression and Development of His Emancipationist Impulse, Sharon N. Rodriguez
The Rhetoric of Transgression: Reconstructing Female Authority through Wu Zetian's Legacy, Rachael Rothstein-Safra
The Rhetoric of Inmates: Identification Processes in the San Quentin News, Alexandra Stepanov
Panorama of Popular Haitian Music and Folklore, Jean Wilner S. St Jean
Connecting Theory and Evidence: A Closer Look at Learning in the Writing Center, Alexandra M. Valerio
Subjects of the Gaze: Rubens and his Female Portraits, Gabrielle C. van Ravenswaay
Theses from 2016
To Be Magic: The Art Of Ana Mendieta Through an Ecofeminist Lens, Elizabeth Ann Baker
Situating Political Obligation in Political Ontology: Ethical Marxism and the Embedded Self, Chris A. Chambers
The History of Inequality in Education and the Question of Equality Versus Adequacy, Diana Carol Dominguez
Destabilizing Identity: The Works of Dorothy Cross, Aileen Dowling
Slough: Revealing the Animal, Clay Dunklin
It Will Turn Vicious: An Exploration of the Cycle of Audience Ridicule in French Drama, Stephanie C. Elfont
Excerpt from: Won, a Novel, Jenna Ellenbogen
Two Terms of the Cuban Counterpoint: Transculturation in the Poetry of Nicolás Guillén, Alanna L. Fulk
Reason is King and Science is his Crown: A Study of French Science-Fiction for the Dissemination of Philosophical Thought, Lauren A. Gandy
Five Degrees: A Short Story, Cassia E. Hinds
De Neruda a Parra: un análisis de los aspectos estéticos y socio-políticos que construyen la chilenidad en la época contemporánea, Julia M. Lindberg
Process and Mind: Exploring the Relationship Between Process Philosophy and the Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Science of Cognition, Larry A. Moralez
Gendered Virtue: A Study of its Meaning and Evolution in Early Modern France, Mariela Saad
Left Brain vs. Right Brain: An Analysis of Cervantes' Don Quixote, Michael D. Scimeca
Migrant Child, Nicholas Sheperd
The Social Impact of the Hundred Years War on the Societies of England and France, Kody E. Whittington
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Lost Voices of Ancient Israel Reclaiming Eden: An Ecocritical Exegesis, Nazeer Bacchus
A Diplomat's Portrait: The United States Department of State's View on French Imperial Policy Regarding Syrian Religious Minorities of 1918-1922, Dominic Charles
Musical Autodidacts, Can We Do it Ourselves?: Exploring the Histories of Those Who Have, Abigail Cline
The Roman Conquest of Britain, Jason Delaney
The Brevard Chronicles: Short Stories, Joshua Dull
Controlling Randomness: Using Procedural Generation to Influence Player Uncertainty in Video Games, Travis Fort
Drama Has Issues: A Brief Retrospective on the American Theatre Critic in New York from 1925 to Present, Teresa M. Kilzi
The Death Penalty Debate: A Critical Examination of the Moral Justifications for Capital Punishment, Whitley Mann
Reimaging Desire: Queer Time, Liminal Space, and Narrative Anxiety, Aidan Mitchell
The Third Island: A Novella, Iris Mora
The Early Modern Space: (Cartographic) Literature and the Author in Place, Michael C. Myers
Colloquia Education: An Examination of Roman Second Language Education for Social Implications, Jennifer Newton
Between Psyche and Reality: An Investigation of Contemporary Landscape, Shanna Stiles
The Repressive Role of Technology in American and British Dystopian Novels of the Cold War, Gabriela Wolk
Direction of Reflection: The Means by which One Establishes Directorial and Choreographic Proficiency, Nicholas J. Wood Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
An Examination of the Instability and Exploitation in Congo From King Leopold II's Free State to the 2nd Congo War, Baldwin Beal
An Overview of the Medieval Iberian Peninsula Culture: From the Pages of the Literature of Medieval Spain to its Cultural Context, Matthew Burner
An Empire on the Brink of Destruction: The Stability of the Seleucid Empire Under Antiochus IV (175 B.C. - 164 B.C.), Tyler Campbell
The Search for Truth in the Digital Cinematic Space and Green Screen Performances, Kade Dalton
Setting the Stage for a Sober Community on Campus, John DeLisa
The Accompanied Experience and the Aesthetics of Memory, Allyson Dickerson
Animal-Like and Depraved: Racist Stereotypes, Commercial Sex, and Black Women's Identity in New Orleans, 1825-1917, Porsha Dossie
Investigating Flow, Presence, and Engagement in Independent Video Game Mechanics, Jon Dunaj
Need: Stories, Megan Ellis
Home Nowhere: Assorted Prose, Rebecca Fortes
The Incompatibility of Freedom of the Will and Anthropological Physicalism, Ariel Gonzalez
The Hellenic Axel: The Greek Hellenization of Central Asia and its Impact of the Development of Buddhism, Ledio Hysi
King Leopold II's Exploitation of the Congo From 1885 to 1908 and Its Consequences, Steven Johnson
Migrant Labor, Development, and HIV in Botswana, William Kearns
The Scattered Brain Convalesces, Sam Lamura
Imago Dei: Stories, Benjamin Langevin
A Longer Spoon: A Novel, Elizabeth MacDonald
Representation and Imagination of the Holocaust in Young Adult Literature, Amelia Mackarey
Islam, Sacrifice, and Political Theology in John Milton's Samson Agonistes, Renee Marvin
African-American Men and a Journey Through Musical Theatre and Opera, Shonn McCloud
Orange Blossoms, Edward Montalvo
Bite Me: Sadomasochistic Gender Relations in Contemporary Vampire Literature, Shelby Nathanson
Madama Butterfly: The Mythology; or How Imperialism and the Patriarchy Crushed Butterfly's Wings, Adriana Nieves