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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2023

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Seeds of Liberation or Spheres of Domination: Role-Playing Games and Alternative Social Formation, Peter Barker
Department: History; Philosophy

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Into the Mythopoeia of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: Exploring Memories of War through Fantasy Literature, Claire Berlin
Department: History

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“Forever On My Mind:” Blues Songwriting in the 1960s, Shane Byrne
Department: History

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U.S. Military Intervention in Ukraine: Modern Warfare, Postcolonial Conflict, and The Russo-Ukrainian War, Patrick Colwell
Department: History

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The Revelations of Roman Tombs, Evan M. Daggett
Department: History

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Have A Nice Trip: Psychedelics and Spirituality in 1960s Haight-Ashbury, Lily Kate Harpham
Department: History

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Chief Wahoo: The Decline of Native Imagery in Professional Sports, Charles Franklin Henegar
Department: Education; History

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Imperial Shadows that Yet Remain: Examining the Transnational Impact of History on Contemporary Japanese and South Korean Relations, Milo Hoff
Department: History

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More Than Stories: An Oral History of Dungeons & Dragons Players in the 1970s and 1980s, Laura E. Jentes
Department: History

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Cash Flow, Justin L. Jones
Department: History

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Becoming HOA: Constructing A Virtual Realistic Webxr Archive To Imagine And Unimagine The HOA Identity In Present-Day Vietnam, Minh Nguyen
Department: Computer Science; History

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Imperialism in Action: A High School Unit Designed to Teach Core Concepts of Imperialism During the Scramble for Africa, Nathaniel Perry
Department: History

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Nuclear Power Plays: An Examination of US Opinion on the Nuclear Energy Industry through Film, Samuel William Powers
Department: History

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Teaching the Long Civil Rights Movement: A Construction of Lessons That Dive Further In-Depth Than What the Ohio Standards Require, Nicholas Rabaut
Department: Education; History

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A Portal to Transcend the Spaciotemporal Realm: A Queer Utopian Schemata for (re)Considering Emotion and Community Formation in 1970s Lesbian Feminist Periodicals, Aspen Rush
Department: History; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Islands In an Indian Sea?: The Story of British Spaces in Colonial India, Dylan Strickland
Department: History

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Secluded in the Snow, Emma Swindell
Department: History

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The Evolution of Black of Black Freedom Through Political Power, Quincy A. Taylor
Department: History

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From the Dim and Shadowy Past to the Computer Screen: Digitally Centering Indigenous Voices in Wayne County, Ohio, Glenna Van Dyke
Department: History

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The Science of Using Women and The Art of Eating Italian: Italian Food Culture From 1848 to Today, Theresa E. von Wallmenich
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2022

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The Evolution Of Chinese Media In Africa: From Kung Fu Movies To Television And Internet, Frank Adams
Department: History

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Desperate Democrats In The Reagan Revolution: A Party Determined To Win The White House, Matthew Maxwell Akins
Department: History; Political Science

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Sioux Resistance: How The Lakota, Dakota And Nakota People Maintain Their Fight Against The United States For Sovereignty And Land, Natalie Bean
Department: History

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Chevy: Like A Rock, Dylan Lee Carr
Department: History

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Ascent Of Giants: Using Historical Fiction As An Accessible And Comprehensive Format For Teaching History Within The Classroom And Beyond, Katie Fields
Department: History

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Misconceptions In Parallel: Belligerent Perceptions Of Mediator Bias In The Chinese Civil War, Spencer Gaitsch
Department: History; Political Science

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Cultural Destruction: An Analysis Of Ulysses S. Grant And Theodore Roosevelt’s Native American Policies And How They Connect To Twenty-First Century Injustices, Cole David Hissong
Department: History

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Bosch, Triptychs, And Mystery, Aleksander Joseph Kowalchuk
Department: History

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Motor City Madness: Class Race And Postwar Suburbia, Brendan C. Linn
Department: History

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The Play’s The Thing: An Analysis Of Professional And Amateur Queer Theater From 1967-1987 Through The Lens Of Star Trek: The Original Series Fandom, Cat Moreschi
Department: History; Theatre and Dance

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Grotesque Cultural Exchange: A Study Of Japanese Fashion History, Brimmer D. Morrison
Department: History

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Conjuring Authenticity: The Coven, Buckland Museum, And The Representation Of Magic Behind Glass, Ellen M. Nikirk
Department: History; Sociology and Anthropology

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Thomas Aquinas And Participation Metaphysics, Nathaniel Hunter Olson
Department: History; Philosophy

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The American Reception Of Alexander Solzhenitsyn As A Writer And An Ideologue, Zach Paul Scott
Department: History

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A Gag Tied Too Tight Becomes Liberty’s Noose: A Linguistic Analysis Of Vagueness In Spain’s Ley Mordaza, Jacob Ray Shelton
Department: History; Spanish

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Propaganda, Print Culture, And Popular Opinion: Newsletters And Pamphlets In Seventeenth-Century England, Zdena Gillianne Sinkhorn
Department: History

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A Call To Lights, Camera And Action: How Hollywood Woke America To The Nazi Threat, Jackson Ewing Stuff
Department: History

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Of Power, Plurality, And Prejudice: Political Realignment In The United States, 1932-2020, Thomas Henry Tuten
Department: History; Political Science

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Stinette: Women Aesthetic And Decadent Writers In Fin De Siècle England And France, Deena Williams
Department: French and Francophone Studies; History

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Let Sleeping Queen's Rise: A Study Of The Life, Memory, And Memorials Of Empress Matilda, Jordan E. Wilson
Department: Classical Studies; History

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A Short Treatise In Support Of Theatre During The Cromwellian Regime, Meriadoc J. Wixsom
Department: History; Theatre and Dance

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America And Spain In The Cold War: A Complex Relationship During A Complex Time, Joseph Zagales
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2021

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The Female Perspective: An Investigation Into How the Reconstruction and Efficacy of a Gynecological Fertility Recipe Unveils Female Voice in the Hippocratic Corpus, Randa Elie Abboud
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Classical Studies; History

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"Othering" the Irish: English Vilification of the Gaelic Irish during the Tudor Conquest, Owen T. Arace
Department: History

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More than a Memory: The Complex Relationship Between Living History and Slavery, Sofia Sequoia Biegeleisen
Department: History

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In the Trenches vs. In the Theater: Comparing Henri Desagneaux’s WWI Diary to WWI on Film., Brendan Burke
Department: History

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Picking Up the Pieces: Small-Town Revitalization of Lancaster, Ohio in the Wake of the Deindustrialization of the Anchor Hocking Glass Factory, Jacob M. Cook
Department: History

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The Fight Against Cultural Colonization in New Zealand, Eliza A. Cullen
Department: History

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The Nana Yaa Asantewaa War: Analysis of the Political Institutions of the Asante during The War Of The Golden Stool and the Existing Narratives, Angela Danso Gyane
Department: History; Political Science

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Visit which Scotland? Political Events Illuminating Two Competing Visions of re-emerging Scottish Identity since the late Twentieth-century, Erin W. Delaney
Department: History

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The History of the English Longbow- An Analysis of the Transformative Longbow in the Military, Society, and Identity Throughout British History, Elena Franzusova
Department: History

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Civil Commitment to Minimal Adequacy: A Study of the Deinstitutionalization of Minnesota, Jack Ryan Galle
Department: History

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Noticing Narratives: An Evaluation of Holocaust 'Lessons' Portrayed By American Museums, Rachel D. Ginsburg
Department: History

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The Music of the People: Appalachian Ballads and the Search for the Authentic in the 1960s American Folk Music Revival, Anna Halgash
Department: English; History

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The History of Black Resistance from the 1950s to the 21st Century: The Lack of Credibility in Roles of Gender, Sexuality, and the Youth, Mark Anthony Herron Jr.
Department: History

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Conserving America: A History of America’s Conservation Movement and the Establishment of the National Park Service, Jack Jones
Department: History

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Protecting The Sabbath: A Look at Sunday Baseball and how Protestant leaders Tried to Prevent It, Elijah Keith Lohrey
Department: History

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We're All A Little Bit Gay: Female Homoeroticism in Greek Art, Devon A. Matson
Department: Archaeology; History

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A Breech in Time: Identifying and Dating Historical Textiles using ATR-FT-IR and HPLC-UV/Vis, Brianna M. McKeen
Department: Chemistry; History

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From Protest to Politics to Moving Pictures: How the Black Power Movement Inspired Blaxploitation, Peyton D. O'Laughlin
Department: History

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Whose Line is it Anyway? Rhetoric, Pathology, and the Jewish Race in Late Victorian England, Stephanie G. Pokras
Department: History

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“The Knight and the Demon”: Intersecting Poetry, Demonology, and the Middle Ages, N Praml
Department: English; History

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Helen of Troy? A Reexamination of Helen's Speech in the Iliad, Erin A. Robichaud
Department: Classical Studies; History

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The Hough Rebellion: The Difficulties with Remembering, William G. Ruebsteck
Department: History; Education

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Sweet Home Chicago: The Movement of the Blues from Mississippi to Chicago and How that Changed the Music, Andrew D. Scherson
Department: History

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Stem Cell Research from 1990s – Present: The Development of iPSCs as a Response to Ethical Dilemma Surrounding Extraction of hESCs and Elucidating the Effect of Mechano-sensitivity during the First Differentiation Event of ESCs using Boolean Modeling., Hikmet A. Sherief
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; History

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A Whole New Ball Game: Examining How College Basketball Coaches Adapt to Change, John L. Stevens
Department: History

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From Peach Baskets to a Global Sport: How the NBA has used Race, Gender, and Corporatization to become a Global Phenomenon, Beausejour James Tally
Department: History

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Whitewashed: A Look into the Evolution of Race Conversations in American Classrooms, Lily M. Walters
Department: History

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Tracing the Evocation and Conceptual Transformation of Geisha Across Japanese Modernity, Shahroz Zaman
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2020

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Cinema, Memory, and the Russian State: Representation of the Past in Contemporary Russian Film, John Costley Barrow IV
Department: History

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Pedagogía Política: Un análisis de la enseñanza de la dictadura de Pinochet y los derechos humanos en Chile, Emily Elizabeth Xiubei Beuter
Department: History; Spanish

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Project Documerica: How Environmental Photography Captured an Era, Ingrid E. Buckley
Department: History

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Lights, Camera, Busing: An Analysis of Differing Media Perspectives Surrounding the Boston Busing Crisis, Jacob P. Bueter
Department: History

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Modern Women in Popular Periodicals and Films in Shanghai, 1920-1930, Churou Chen
Department: History

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The Trials and Corruption of Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamster Union, Adam Clark
Department: History

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The Tactics and Tech of the Pacific Theater: Ingenuity in a New Kind of War, Jacob L. Cohen
Department: History

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The Atypical Summer '69 Story: The Football War of 1969, William A. Collis
Department: History

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Redemption of the Gàidhealtachd: The Formation of Highlandism from 1745 to 1822, Isaiah Corso-Phinney
Department: History

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Sun, Sea, Sand, and Sangria: The Development of Working-class Holiday Experience from the 19th to the 20th Century, Dylan Cox
Department: History

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Remembering the City: An Augmented Reality Reconstruction of Memory, Power, and Identity in Ho Chi Minh City through Cartography & Architecture, Thuy Dinh
Department: Computer Science; History

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“Sometimes You Want to Just Run Away”: Participation and Mobilization of the New Sanctuary Movement, Elyse Echegaray
Department: History; Sociology and Anthropology

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Commercializing Lifestyles: An Analysis of Lifestyle Brand Identities and Consumer Engagement in Post-War Mass Media, Daniel Engel
Department: Communication Studies; History

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Pope Pius XII and Moral Ambiguity, Ryan D. Farrell
Department: History

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Meaningful Military Experiences: A Look Into Congressional Members Who Have Served in Combat, Daniel Grant Fraser
Department: Political Science; History

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A Concrete Asylum: How the Issue of Immigration Embodies the European Union's External Identity Crisis, Nicholas Groves Gargaro
Department: History

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Boy Meets War: A Critical and Creative Analysis of Civilian Masculinities in Britain During the Second World War, Savanna Hitlan
Department: History

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The Deterioation of Public Opinion in the Vietnam and Iraq War, Tyler Iversen
Department: Political Science; History

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Yijing and Its Mathematical Thinkings, Yifan Jiang
Department: History; Mathematics

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Contested Commemoration: The Relationship Between Politics and the Memorialization of the Second World War in Polish Literature, Cinema, and Museums (1945-Present), Alexandria Joyner
Department: History

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Britain First: The British Union of Fascists’ Peace Campaign, 1932-1940, Cormac Kelly
Department: History

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Do Cheaters Prosper? Examining How Organizations Use Sports Cheating to Achieve Institutional Advancement, Cullen Kuhn
Department: History

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Cheap Thrills and Moral Guidance: The Limitations of Subversive Themes in Mid-Nineteenth Century Urban Literature Centered on New York City, Victoria McCaslin
Department: English; History

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An Overview of the Playing Sappho Project, Conclusions and Findings, Mary G. McLoughlin
Department: Classical Studies; History

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East Germany’s West: the Indianerfilme and Identity in German Film and Culture, Fred F. Prichard
Department: History

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Life and Letters of Mary Compton Rice, Rachel Tomei
Department: History

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The Sword and Its Place in Norse Story and Society, Andrew J. Williams
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2019

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The Drum Break: Using the Poetics of Hip Hop as a Lens to Observe the Black Freedom Movement Post-Civil Rights & Black Power, Andrew Aldridge
Department: English; History

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Pardon My Black Power! The Root of Black Stigma, Antonio G. Bailey
Department: History

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Deadly Tail: The Rise, Fall, and Long-term Consequences of the Dalkon Shield IUD, Eleanor Barker
Department: History