Theses / Directed Study Projects
Student |
Project Director |
Project Title |
Date |
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2024 | |||
Cian Jonah Larison |
Hilaria Cruz (Humanities) |
“Takagi Oriemon: A Samurai’s Mythic Legacy” |
12/2024 |
Katie Cross Gibson |
Felicia Jamison (Humanities) |
“Finding Edward, Louisa and Miranda: How Descendants of Enslaved Kentuckians Are Remembering Their Ancestors' Stories” |
05/2024 |
Rebecca Thiele |
Karl Swinehart (Humanities) |
“Undermining Equality: Marginalizing and Binary-Enforcing Language Use in State Laws” |
05/2024 |
2023 | |||
Chelsea Giovacchino |
Natalie Polzer (Humanities) |
“Japanese Purity and Pollution Beliefs as Indicators of Social Change” |
05/2023 |
2021 | |||
Scott Bonham |
Elaine Wise (Humanities) |
“Comprehension of and Engagement in Socio-Scientific Issues” |
12/2021 |
Mary Griffin |
Hilaria Cruz (Humanities) |
“Documenting a Spoken Language: Encountering Chatino in an Endangered Languages Course” and Chatino Children’s Book Project |
|
Magdalena Welch |
Michael Williams (Humanities) |
“American Modernism: An Introductory and Interdisciplinary Approach” |
|
Hollyn Barr |
Karl Swinehart (Humanities) |
“Voice and Media: A Course on Language, Society and Media” |
5/2021 |
2020 | |||
Jordan Neumann |
Patrick Pranke (Humanities) |
“The View of No Views: Doxographical Distinctions between the Svatantrika and Prasangika Schools of Nagarjuna’s Madhyamaka ‘Middle Way’ Philosophy” |
12/2020 |
Daniel Dunbar |
Michael Hagan (Humanities) |
“Black Lives Matter as Modern Identity and Justified Anger” |
08/2020 |
Lauren Olson |
Karl Swinehart (Humanities) |
“The Pulaar Poetry of Kaaw Elimane Touré: A Voice Intervening in History to Restore the Human Dignity of a Nation” |
05/2020 |
Cyrus Otana |
Elaine Wise (Humanities) |
“Dystopian Literature and Language Determinism” |
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2019 | |||
Jessica Fletcher |
Simona Bertacco (Humanities) |
“Belt” |
12/2019 |
Ian Stamper |
Natalie Polzer (Humanities) |
“A Freudian Perspective of Voltaire’s Oeuvre” |
05/2019 |
2018 | |||
Lee Ann Speck |
Elaine Wise (Humanities) |
“Children and Childhood in the Art and Literature of Early Western Humanities” |
12/2018 |
Christopher Mitchell |
Thomas Maloney (Philosophy) |
“To Be or Not to Be: Why Anselm's Ontological Argument for the Existence of God Is Still Intriguing” |
05/2018 |
Rebecca Pierce |
Elaine Wise (Humanities) |
“Lillian Hellman: Child Characters in The Children’s Hour, The Little Foxes, and Another Part of the Forest” |
|
Jennifer Snyder |
Karl Swinehart (Humanities) |
“Narrating the ‘Asian American Woman’ in Stand-Up Comedy and New Media” |
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2017 | |||
Jeremiah Cunningham |
Mike Hagan (Humanities) |
“Religious Ritual and Practice of Indigenous Societies of North America” |
12/2017 |
Sarah Pennington |
Simona Bertacco (Humanities) |
“Outlaw Masculinity vs. Profamily Femininity in Contemporary Antihero Series” |
|
Hayder Sayedhasan |
Karl Swinehart (Humanities) |
“Diglossic Code-Switching as a Salient Language Behavior in Shiite Muslims’ Sermons: A Case Study” |
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