Theses / Directed Study Projects

Student

Project Director

Project Title

Date

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”

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”

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”