This collection contains Honors in the Major theses completed in Arts & Humanities.
Theses from 2021
Catherine the Great and Her Empire in British and American Newspapers, Arlen B. Cordero
Systemic Inequalities for Afro-Brazilians, Teya De Oliveira
The Language of Personas: Poetic Masks in Confessional and Black Arts Poems, Grecia Espinoza
An Anthropological Analysis of Ancient, Historic, and Modern Anatolian Cities, Genevieve S. Hall
Northerners' Perspectives on American Emancipation and the End of Russian Serfdom, Mariana S. Kellis
Resurrecting an American Archive: A Mid-20th-Century Case Study of Louise Amory (1892-1979), Barbara A. Marquis
The Spanish Inquisitorial Process in Latin America and Racial Profiling Today: A Comparative Legal Study, Samantha M. Miller
The Hidden Secrets of Historical Artistry, Jennifer B. Musser
Rule-Following, Enculturation, and Normative Identity, Nicholas Odom
Memoria: Re(member)ing How to Heal, Vilma E. Portocarrero
Documenting the Undocumented: Understanding Identity and Displacement Through U.S. Latinx Experiences, Thelma B. Quintanilla
"There Was Also the Music": A Literary Analysis of Puerto Rican Identity in the Works of Sandra Maria Esteves and Judith Ortiz Cofer, Keyla A. Robles
The Fall of Sir Thomas Wolsey: The Contingent Circumstances and Events That Led to His Demise, Jeremy M. Rodriguez
Crime/Mystery: Reinventing Tropes, Gabrielle Santiago
Vergissmeinnicht: An Inderdisciplinary Study of Holocaust Trauma Literature, Medical Experimentation Discourse, and Narratives of Denial, Tiffany Sidders
The Lived Experience of Chronic Pain: On the Contributions of Phenomenology in Understanding Chronic Pain Disorders, Riley C. Smith
The "Information Pandemic": Technical Communication and False Information on Social Media in the Age of COVID-19, Mia M. Stephens
Hemingway Drunk: A Study of Prohibition, Medico-Legal Rhetoric, and The Autonomy of Masculinity, Graham P. Studdard
Maritime Lacunae, Miriam S. Taveras
The Role of Placemaking in Universities and Their Surrounding Communities: A Literature Review, Natalie R. Verdiguel
A Third Culture Kid's Quest for Belonging: Ephemeral, Eternal, and the Space in Between, Simona Darshani Wiig
A Literary Analysis of Magic: A Dissection of Medieval Icelandic Literature, Jordan T. Williams
Combat Music, Usability, and Presence in Video Games, Jedidah Wong
The Sound of Identity: Audios and Hashtags as Nexuses of Practice on TikTok, Lindsey Wright
Theses from 2020
Visual Rhetorics and Rally Signs: A Study of Feminist Theory and Progression, Rachel Casey
A Tale of the Terminally Fey: A Modern Take on Collaborative Folklore, Olivia Damm
Les Représentations de Napoléon Bonaparte : le héros romantique, Christian G. Del Villar
Viral Stories in Spanish and English: A Qualitative Analysis of Narrative Perceptions Regarding Infant Immunizations Across Major Ethno-linguistic Communities, Zeynep H. Elshaer
Doctors and "Dopefiends": Perspectives on the U.S Opiate Crisis, 21st Century, John C. Foerster
Monster in the Closet, Sean Glatch
A Transnational Look at the Modern Women, Isabella Hardesty
Macho Remixes: A Collection of Writings, Daniel A. Hernandez
A Pre-structural Center: Deconstructing Classical Social Theory, Darius F. Irani
Pestilence and Poverty: The Great Influenza Pandemic and Underdevelopment in the New South, 1918-1919, Andrew Kishuni
Addressing the Elephant on the Stage: Mental Health in Theatre Education, Alexandra M. Meridionale
Empress Theophanu: The Politics of Power at the Intersection of Byzantium and the Ottonian Empire, Harper J. Norris
This Woman's Work: Corrosive Power Structures, Gendered Labor and Weariness in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake, Taylor J. Pryor
La Mano e il Braccio: Comparing Italian Immigrant Communities in Louisiana and Florida, 1880-1914, Keith Richards
Rethinking Causality: Thomas Aquinas' Argument From Motion & the Kalām Cosmological Argument, Derwin Sánchez Jr.
Sparks of Service: The Fuel We Need to Fan the Flames of Student Service-Learning and Effective Civic Engagement, Christian E. Tabet
Representation in the Story: The Social Impact of Diversity in Transmedia, Tiffany S. Tanaka-Cooper
The Eyes and Ears of the Nation: America's First Spy Ring, Eric Topolewski
Gender Disparity of Women in Theatre Design, Madison M. Valesky
Theses from 2019
Culture, Power, and Control: A Discussion of Autonomy and Responsibility, Loren A. Alonso
A Project for a Translation into Guarani Based on an Analytical Interpretation of a Medieval Apologue, Nathalie Amato
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
The Study of Free Will in the East and the West, Nicholas J. Colecio
Of Martyrs and Minstrels, Trevon J. Coleman
Direct Discourse and Female Archetypes in Chrétien de Troyes's Romances, Raquelle A. Crotty
The Exploration of a Nonbinary Gender Identity in the Visual Work of Claude Cahun, Miranda DeBrine
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
A Deconstruction of Puritan Ideology Through the Works of John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, and Mary Rowlandson, Rocco S. Fazzalari
Women's Work: Materializing Feminist Thought in Lucy Lippard's c.7,500 Exhibition, Francesca Felicella
La Sufrida: An Analysis of the Social and Literary Archetype, Meleena Gil
The Americanization of the Holocaust: Reconsidered Through Judaic Studies, Brie Green-Rebackoff
The Metaphysics of the Collective Unconscious, Oscar B. Jablon
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
If The Shoe Fits: Cinderella and Women's Voice, Farrah V. Kurronen
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
Borrowing Time: The Classical Tradition in the Poetic Thoeries of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Nicholas Odom
Black Feminist Articulations of Race & Gender Within the Horror Film Genre, Katherine M. Ortiz
LATCHKEY: A Memoir in Essays, Nicole C. Pendleton
Explaining the 1096 Massacres in the Context of the First Crusade, Sam Pynes
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