This collection contains Honors in the Major theses completed in Arts & Humanities.
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
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
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
Methods Short of War: The United States Reacts to the Rise of the Third Reich, Kenneth Negy
Reason Leads: A Reconciliation in Ethics, Stephen Oldham
Little women: study of female representations in teen films and how those representations have affected gender perceptions, Maillim Santiago
Female Collaborators and Resisters in Vichy France: Individual Memory, Collective Image, Katherine Thurlow
Gukundana, Lindsay Van Stone
In the Cards: A Collection of Short Stories and Poetry, Alise Vick
Shaming the love plot: inconvenient women navigating conventional romance, Brittan Wilkey
Threads of Identity: Marisol's Exploration of Self, Emily Williams
From Pre-Islam to Mandate States: Examining Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Bleed in the Levant, Gabriel Willman
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Social media and its effect on privacy, Brittney Adams
...and then, Claire an indie-rock monologue; integrating the independent music scene into American musical theatre, Mickey Bahr
The pastel medium communicating sexuality and promiscuity in late nineteenth-century Paris, Adee S. Benartzy
Civilizing the metropole the role of colonial exhibitions in universal and colonial expositions in creating greater France, 1889-1922, Michael Brooks
A marxian concept of human nature in defense of alienation a revolutionary exegesis of a revolutionary philosophy, Christopher Byron
Samphire a novella, Hillary Casavant
Brown study an original musical recording, Alan Clark
The influence of beliefs on people's perception of illness in the spanish golden age, Nicole Cruz
Legitimizing the "republican monarch" a reexamination of French foreign policy in the Atlantic Alliance, 1958-1960, Drew Fedorka
The mayor and early Lollard dissemination, Angel Gomez
Savage in limbo a study in lighting design, Kenneth Haines
Stingray : an exploration into the art and craft of playwriting, Samantha Liguori
A crimson trail, Caitlin McGill
The farm a hippie commune as a countercultural diaspora, Kevin Mercer
and it's also the smell of laundry, Rachel Miranda
Pestilence and prayer saints and the art of the plague in italy from 1370 - 1600, Jessica Ortega
Art as a questioning process, Elizabeth Perez
Embodied abstraction in cinema virtual prosthesis and forests of light, Jon M. Perez
The effect of music on physiological responses and self-perceived mood, Robert-Christian Sanchez
A case of double conciousness americo-liberians and indigenous liberian relations 1840-1930, Genesys Santana
Towards the finite a case against infinity in Jorge Luis Borges, Esteban Santis
The nature of love a phenomenological approach, Samantha Schroeder
The importance of education from a global perspective teaching don quixote in the 21st century, Natalia Sepulveda
American revolutionary thinkers unjust wars, limited government and natural rights, Adam Spera
My peace i give unto you christianity's critique of roman and american exceptionalism, Ryan Tindall
Resurrecting Inanna: lament, gender, transgression, Kimberly Torres
Depictions of women in stalinist sovet film, 1934-1953, Andrew Weeks
Navigating authenticity in the age of the internet a phenomenological exploration of the existential effects of social media, Douglas Zimmerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Aristotle on mind, Rachel R. Adams
Two conceptions of the mind, Benjamin J. Aguda