The full text of Senior Independent Study Theses submitted during and after 2012 are available to download only by College of Wooster users. Unless listed as an exemplar, all other theses are restricted.

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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2016

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It Started With a Blank Piece of Paper: the Making of a Children’s Picture Book, Joyce A. Lee
Department: Art and Art History

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The Solid Russian Iconostasis as Unifier of Hesychasm and the Eucharistic Celebration, Katherine E. McCombs
Department: Art and Art History

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Strange Reflections and Obscured Bodies: the Presence of the Surrealist Unconscious in Paul Delvaux's the Break of Day, Rebecca L. Osborne
Department: Art and Art History

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Street and Elite, William Owen
Department: Art and Art History

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Guatemala: A Buried History, Collin J. Perez
Department: Art and Art History

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Art Making as an Ecofeminist Exercise in Understanding Species Extinction and Animal Farming, Adrian Rowan
Department: Art and Art History; Environmental Studies

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What You’ll Miss Just Driving By: A Visual History of My Family's Relationship with Industry, Natalie Renee Shreeve
Department: Art and Art History

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Exploring the Unknown: A Ceramic Journey Through the Sea of Imagination, Kaitlin N. Starr
Department: Art and Art History

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Exposing Mental Illness in New Light, Isabel R. Taccheri
Department: Art and Art History

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The Queen’s Serpent: An Examination of the Serpent Vessel from Burial 61 from El Perú-Waka’, Sarah Van Oss
Department: Archaeology; Art and Art History

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Beyond the Binary, Petr Wiese
Department: Art and Art History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2015

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Mycenae and Cultural Memory: 150 to 2015 CE, Elora A. Agsten
Department: Art and Art History; Classical Studies

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Two Gods, a Dancer, and a Skeleton Walk into a Bar: an exploration of created space through puppetry and performance, Colin Bauman
Department: Art and Art History

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Discussions in and of Conceptual Art: Different Modes of Conveying Experience, Anthony J. Black
Department: Art and Art History

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Our Children: A Documentation of Modern Day Lynching in America, Adam Brinson
Department: Art and Art History

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A Neopagan Renaissance: Appropriation of Medieval Imagery and Pre-Christian Folklore in the Magazine Covers of Harvest, Jennifer C. Caventer
Department: Art and Art History; Sociology and Anthropology

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Art or Artifact? African Objects in the Museum, Elizabeth Chamis
Department: Art and Art History; Sociology and Anthropology

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The Function of Masochism in Performance Art of the 1970's: A Psychoanalytic Examination of Performances by Chris Burden, Marina Abramović, and Abramović/Ulay, Philip W. Chung
Department: Art and Art History

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Technomorphis: Artistic Explorations of Humanity’s Dynamic Relationship with Technology, Julia M. Cropper
Department: Art and Art History

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Visions of Progress: Ohio's New Deal Post Office Murals, Curtis J. Davies
Department: History; Art and Art History

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The Developement of Craft, Samuel S. Donnroummo III
Department: Art and Art History

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A Portrait A Day Keeps The Doctor Away, Jessica D. Friesen
Department: Art and Art History

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Exposure of the Self: Expressions of Internal Conflict Through Fashion, Melissa G. Hackett
Department: Art and Art History

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The Canyon as Home: Accessing food, water, education, and employment in Tijuana's former municipal landfill, Morgan E. Hughes
Department: Art and Art History; Sociology and Anthropology

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Photographing Experience in Natures of united States and South Korea: Construction of Landscape Sceneries with Cubism Approach, Min Sung Kim
Department: Art and Art History

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Stopping Power Analysis of 37K, 44Cl, and 71 Br Incident on a He:CO2 (9:1) Gas Target, Min Sung Kim
Department: Art and Art History; Physics

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Exploration of Form and Technique in Functional Ceramics, Grace Lawton
Department: Art and Art History

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Lost and Found: An Exploration of Design in Urban Cartography, Chloe McFadyen
Department: Art and Art History

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Blurred Lines: "Should an Artwork have Toilets", Matthew A. Miklavcic
Department: Art and Art History

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Do You Ever Get Nightmares?: A photographic journey through the lives of wounded, ill, and injured service members and veterans, Gabrielle M. Morrison
Department: Art and Art History

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Inside the Black Box: Relationships Between Structure and Natural Spaces, Bjorn Olsen
Department: Art and Art History

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Venus and the Salon of 1863: Allegorization, Transformation, and The Gaze, James L. Parker II
Department: Art and Art History

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An Exploration of Self: Continued, Aniecia L. Patridge
Department: Art and Art History

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Investigating Intrigue: Past and Imagined, Lauren D. Perrino
Department: Art and Art History

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A Fool's Comedic Cavalcade of Heads, Young Jae Oliver Shin
Department: Art and Art History

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Anglo-Saxon and Viking Ship Burials as Indicators of Status and Power, Meagan Shirley
Department: Archaeology; Art and Art History

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History in the Hand Through Functional Ceramics, Katherine E. Stephens
Department: Art and Art History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2014

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Serving Up a Cup, Mattie R. Cannon
Department: Art and Art History

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Women in Water: The Drowned Female Victim in Victorian Painting, Catherine Everett
Department: Art and Art History

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Power, Sex, and Intrigue: An Examination of Mistress Portraiture at the Court of Charles II, Margaret S. Frick
Department: Art and Art History; History

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Consummation of the 'Good Life' through Aesthetics, Christina M. Haupt
Department: Art and Art History; Philosophy

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Belonging(s): A Short Story Cycle and Artworks, Maria Janasz
Department: Art and Art History; English

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This Product is 100% Unofficial, Paige M. Madden
Department: Art and Art History

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A World of Make-Believe, Sarah K. Michels
Department: Art and Art History

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Documenting Qualities of Natural and Artificial Forms of Beauty, Arianna G. Priddle
Department: Art and Art History

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Journey to Recovery, Sarah A. Ragosta
Department: Art and Art History

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A Functional Family, Anna G. Regan
Department: Art and Art History

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Fresh Boundaries, Seung Ryong Riew
Department: Art and Art History

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(dis)Appearance, Caroline R. Wensel
Department: Art and Art History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2013

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Tussen Droom En Werkelijkheid: Between Dream and Reality, Karin Barend
Department: Art and Art History

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A Bestial History, Brittany Bounds
Department: Art and Art History

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Encaustic Internal Organs Paralleling the External Industrial World, Betsy J. Elderbrock
Department: Art and Art History

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Disidentifying Performance of Freedom, Laura Haldane
Department: Physics; Art and Art History

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The Weathered Nude: Topographic Maps Paved By the Intricacies of Memory, Time, and Emotion, Emily Koelmel
Department: Art and Art History

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Lost and Found: the Life and Art of Vivian Maier, Emily L. Mitchell
Department: Art and Art History

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From Renaissance Entertainment to Occult Divinitory Practice: An Iconographic Study of the Sexual Female Image in Tarot, Megan Mary Piemonte
Department: Art and Art History; French and Francophone Studies

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The Transparent Self, Jessica Pisani
Department: Art and Art History

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The History of the Americanization of Sushi and its Application as an Art Form, Margaret Graham Roberts
Department: Art and Art History

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Architectural Interventions, Abigail Aloe Sandberg
Department: Art and Art History

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Dream Worlds, Madeleine Socolar
Department: Art and Art History

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Leaving It to the Streets: An Examination of the Consequences of Memorializing Street Art, Emily Timmerman
Department: Art and Art History

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Welcome to the Jungle: A Hallucinogenic Phenomenological Experience, Ashle S. Williams
Department: Art and Art History

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Experiencing the Change of Home, Hava K. Yoast-Hull
Department: Art and Art History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2012

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Evolving to Explore: the Potential in Land Art, Nora Byrne Armstrong
Department: Art and Art History

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Experiences in Vietnam, Interpreted Through Art: Creating New Process and Technique, Lida C. Bilokur
Department: Art and Art History

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Artist Francesco Clemente's Understanding of Tantrism As Demonstrated By the Unfolding of Female Genitalia in His Works, Eliza Cady
Department: Art and Art History

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The Eloquence of Stone: Propagandistic Function of Monumental and Funerary Art in Nineteenth Century Paris, Lauren Close
Department: Art and Art History; History

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Extended Family, Will Ehrenreich
Department: Art and Art History

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Cracks in the Sidewalk: An Examination of "Freaks" and Women in Garry Winogrand's Volatile Sixties, Charlie Fanelli
Department: Art and Art History

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Exploration of Hyperbolic Geometry/ Mathematics and Studio Art, Rachel Frank
Department: Art and Art History; Mathematics

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Johnny Appleseed: Exploring a Cultural Landscape, Brenna Hatcher
Department: Art and Art History

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Gift That Keeps on Giving: Exploring the Role of Scenes Involving the Offering of Gifts on Egyptian Non-Royal Coffins and Tombs, Renee Hennemann
Department: Archaeology; Art and Art History

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Goddess of Mercy: the Gender Transformation of the Bodhisattva Guanyin, Hawwah LaRoche
Department: Art and Art History

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Time Travelin' Is Dino-Mite!: the Development of an Original Sequential Art Narrative, Ann Elizabeth Lewis
Department: Art and Art History

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Come to the Table, A. Greer Morgan
Department: Art and Art History

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Seen and Unseen Face of God: An Artist's Exploration of Patua Art and Religion, Julia Murphy
Department: Art and Art History; Religious Studies

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Terrain, Rebecca Newhouse
Department: Art and Art History

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Effects of Emerald Ash Borer Beetle Induced Habitat Disturbance on Spider Community Structure in Southeastern Michigan and Reflections on Biological Research, Sarah E. Rudawsky
Department: Art and Art History; Biology

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Not So Innocent: Little Red Riding Hood's Corrupted Past and the Constructs of Victorian Childhood, Jennifer Singer
Department: Art and Art History

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Masquerade of Gender: the Study of the Power and Influence of the Female Gender Through the Visual Culture of Sande Masks and Performance, Claire Smith
Department: Art and Art History

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Untitled, Abiose Spriggs
Department: Art and Art History

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Destructive Creation, Marissa Stover
Department: Art and Art History

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Contemporary Merrymakers, Kelley M. Waickman
Department: Art and Art History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2011

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Portraits and Figures of Women at Yuli Mental Institution in Hwalien, Taiwan, Feng-Ju Chien
Department: Art and Art History

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IMPRO-VIBES 17X: The Visual Expression of Hip-Hop Lyrics, Nina R. Dine

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Children and Nature, Adria Hankey-Brown

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Camille Pissarro's View of a Modern City: Paintings in Paris, 1893-1903, Laura Hazlett
Department: Art and Art History

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Fear of ...., Kathleen Mazzei
Department: Art and Art History

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Babel, Nicholas Ouellette
Department: Art and Art History

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Le Paris Moderne : Trois Axes Selons Lesquels Paris a Modernisé À La Fin Du 19Ème Siècle, Emily Popovich
Department: French and Francophone Studies; Art and Art History

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Blood, Spit, and Tears: Art As a Model For Feminist Theory and Dialogue, Zoe Van Dyke
Department: Art and Art History; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2010

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The Face in the Looking Glass: An Examination of Self Through Character Traits in Lewis Carroll's Stories of Alice, Alice O. Case
Department: Art and Art History

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Title, Benjamin Katz
Department: Art and Art History

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Philip is My Best Friend (Being the Story of a Girl and Her Duck), Lindsay Lutz

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Sometimes I Feel Like I'm a Twisted-Out Creature, Sarah Manning
Department: Art and Art History

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Captivation Through Repetition, Hannah Matthews
Department: Art and Art History

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The Peninsular War: An Artistic Response to Napoleon Bonaparte; Jacques-Louis David & Francisco De Goya Y Lucientes, Eli M. A. Woods
Department: History; Art and Art History

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Taking Back the City: a Study of the Political Murals in Belfast, North Ireland, Jaimie K. Wroten
Department: Art and Art History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2009

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Art in the City, Art For the City: Murals and Prints Produced in Cleveland Under the Aegis of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, Caitlin J. Ament
Department: Art and Art History

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Art As Revolution/One Bullet 40 Pigs: the Black Panther Party and the Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas, Katherine C.S. Brausch
Department: Art and Art History; History