This collection contains Honors in the Major theses completed in Arts & Humanities.
Theses from 2018
Storms Named After People, Sarah E. Ballard
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
Anything but Crazy: How American Musical Theatre Can Change Societal Stigmas Against Mental Illnesses, Benjamin Walton
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
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
Queen Isabella and the Spanish Inquisition: 1478-1505, Lori Nykanen
Ten-Minute Playwriting: A Study of Design, Method, and Structure, Jeffrey Peacock
Positive Individualism, Rebecca Perdomo
The Girl in 14G: Analyzing Solutions for Vocal Issues Through Vocal Pedagogy, Catherine Pires-Fernandes
Levinas on the 'Origin' of Justice: Kant, Heidegger, and a Communal Structure of Difference, Olga Tomasello
Cohabitation: Looking Through a Keyhole, Mary Joy Torrecampo
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The relationship between consciousness and intentionality, Jordan Bell
The Uncanny and the Postcolonial in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, Molly Brown Fuller
Gridlocks and Padlocks, Rachel Chapman
Direct Reference and Empty Names, Benjamin Cook
Buried in the dust, Jessica Farrell
Ebbing Winds: Life Rituals at Home and Abroad, Asya Fergiani
The Ambivalence of Science Fiction: Science Fiction, Neo-imperialism, and the Ideology of Modernity as Progress, Graham Hall
Reflections on when the sun hits, Sebastian Jones
The Meaning of Being in Speech: Language, Narrative, and Thought, Leah Kaplan
Maid for Man, Elyse Kelly
Scientific motherhood: a positivist approach to patriarchy in fin-de-siècle Argentina, Aubrey Kuperman
Lucidity: A Novella, Rafael Lancelotta
Upbuilding Oppositions: Kierkegaard, Camus, and the Philosophy of Love, Jesus Luzardo
An intersectional comparison of female agency in Toni Morrison's Sula and Wang Anyi's Song of Everlasting Sorrow, Jordan Lynton