Senior Independent Study Theses from 2017
Finding Salvation Through Pilgrimage: Dante’s Influences on Hell scenes and Chaucer and the Relationship to Salvation, Alexandra Wendt
Department: Art and Art History; English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2016
Amassing Subsistence: Creating an Environment Through Objects and Time, Matilda J. Alexander
Department: Art and Art History
Near and Far: A Series of Paintings Exploring the Concept of Home, Hannah Ayers
Department: Art and Art History
Serendipity in Liminality: A Photographic Study of the Liminal Space in Music Performance, Chelsea B. Carlson
Department: Art and Art History
Making and Mindfulness: How Process-Oriented Tasks Encourage Reflection and Lead to Recovery, Devin DeLaney
Department: Art and Art History
Home Is Where…? : A Visual And Textual Exploration Of Home, Nostalgia, And Persona, Dallas K M Dickey
Department: Art and Art History; English
Dynamic Beauty: The Journey to Perfection, Jenna L. Hunkins
Department: Art and Art History
Custom Framing: An Analysis of Camille Pissarro's "Les Turpitudes Sociales" within a Base-Superstructure Model, Robin S. Klaus
Department: Art and Art History
Stress Induced Deterioration of the Human Form, Anna Kruse
Department: Art and Art History
"Let Them Eat Crack": A Look at Street Art Culture and Banksy’s Epitomizing Role in the Advancement of Graffiti as Art, Melissa K. Ladd
Department: Art and Art History
It Started With a Blank Piece of Paper: the Making of a Children’s Picture Book, Joyce A. Lee
Department: Art and Art History
The Solid Russian Iconostasis as Unifier of Hesychasm and the Eucharistic Celebration, Katherine E. McCombs
Department: Art and Art History
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
Street and Elite, William Owen
Department: Art and Art History
Guatemala: A Buried History, Collin J. Perez
Department: Art and Art History
Art Making as an Ecofeminist Exercise in Understanding Species Extinction and Animal Farming, Adrian Rowan
Department: Art and Art History; Environmental Studies
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
Exploring the Unknown: A Ceramic Journey Through the Sea of Imagination, Kaitlin N. Starr
Department: Art and Art History
Exposing Mental Illness in New Light, Isabel R. Taccheri
Department: Art and Art History
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
Beyond the Binary, Petr Wiese
Department: Art and Art History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2015
Mycenae and Cultural Memory: 150 to 2015 CE, Elora A. Agsten
Department: Art and Art History; Classical Studies
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
Discussions in and of Conceptual Art: Different Modes of Conveying Experience, Anthony J. Black
Department: Art and Art History
Our Children: A Documentation of Modern Day Lynching in America, Adam Brinson
Department: Art and Art History
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
Art or Artifact? African Objects in the Museum, Elizabeth Chamis
Department: Art and Art History; Sociology and Anthropology
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
Technomorphis: Artistic Explorations of Humanity’s Dynamic Relationship with Technology, Julia M. Cropper
Department: Art and Art History
Visions of Progress: Ohio's New Deal Post Office Murals, Curtis J. Davies
Department: History; Art and Art History
The Developement of Craft, Samuel S. Donnroummo III
Department: Art and Art History
A Portrait A Day Keeps The Doctor Away, Jessica D. Friesen
Department: Art and Art History
Exposure of the Self: Expressions of Internal Conflict Through Fashion, Melissa G. Hackett
Department: Art and Art History
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
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
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
Exploration of Form and Technique in Functional Ceramics, Grace Lawton
Department: Art and Art History
Lost and Found: An Exploration of Design in Urban Cartography, Chloe McFadyen
Department: Art and Art History
Blurred Lines: "Should an Artwork have Toilets", Matthew A. Miklavcic
Department: Art and Art History
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
Inside the Black Box: Relationships Between Structure and Natural Spaces, Bjorn Olsen
Department: Art and Art History
Venus and the Salon of 1863: Allegorization, Transformation, and The Gaze, James L. Parker II
Department: Art and Art History
An Exploration of Self: Continued, Aniecia L. Patridge
Department: Art and Art History
Investigating Intrigue: Past and Imagined, Lauren D. Perrino
Department: Art and Art History
A Fool's Comedic Cavalcade of Heads, Young Jae Oliver Shin
Department: Art and Art History
Anglo-Saxon and Viking Ship Burials as Indicators of Status and Power, Meagan Shirley
Department: Archaeology; Art and Art History
History in the Hand Through Functional Ceramics, Katherine E. Stephens
Department: Art and Art History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2014
Serving Up a Cup, Mattie R. Cannon
Department: Art and Art History
Women in Water: The Drowned Female Victim in Victorian Painting, Catherine Everett
Department: Art and Art History
Power, Sex, and Intrigue: An Examination of Mistress Portraiture at the Court of Charles II, Margaret S. Frick
Department: Art and Art History; History
Consummation of the 'Good Life' through Aesthetics, Christina M. Haupt
Department: Art and Art History; Philosophy
Belonging(s): A Short Story Cycle and Artworks, Maria Janasz
Department: Art and Art History; English
This Product is 100% Unofficial, Paige M. Madden
Department: Art and Art History
A World of Make-Believe, Sarah K. Michels
Department: Art and Art History
Documenting Qualities of Natural and Artificial Forms of Beauty, Arianna G. Priddle
Department: Art and Art History
Journey to Recovery, Sarah A. Ragosta
Department: Art and Art History
A Functional Family, Anna G. Regan
Department: Art and Art History
Fresh Boundaries, Seung Ryong Riew
Department: Art and Art History
(dis)Appearance, Caroline R. Wensel
Department: Art and Art History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2013
Tussen Droom En Werkelijkheid: Between Dream and Reality, Karin Barend
Department: Art and Art History
A Bestial History, Brittany Bounds
Department: Art and Art History
Encaustic Internal Organs Paralleling the External Industrial World, Betsy J. Elderbrock
Department: Art and Art History
Disidentifying Performance of Freedom, Laura Haldane
Department: Physics; Art and Art History
The Weathered Nude: Topographic Maps Paved By the Intricacies of Memory, Time, and Emotion, Emily Koelmel
Department: Art and Art History
Lost and Found: the Life and Art of Vivian Maier, Emily L. Mitchell
Department: Art and Art History
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
The Transparent Self, Jessica Pisani
Department: Art and Art History
The History of the Americanization of Sushi and its Application as an Art Form, Margaret Graham Roberts
Department: Art and Art History
Architectural Interventions, Abigail Aloe Sandberg
Department: Art and Art History
Dream Worlds, Madeleine Socolar
Department: Art and Art History
Leaving It to the Streets: An Examination of the Consequences of Memorializing Street Art, Emily Timmerman
Department: Art and Art History
Welcome to the Jungle: A Hallucinogenic Phenomenological Experience, Ashle S. Williams
Department: Art and Art History
Experiencing the Change of Home, Hava K. Yoast-Hull
Department: Art and Art History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2012
Evolving to Explore: the Potential in Land Art, Nora Byrne Armstrong
Department: Art and Art History
Experiences in Vietnam, Interpreted Through Art: Creating New Process and Technique, Lida C. Bilokur
Department: Art and Art History
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
The Eloquence of Stone: Propagandistic Function of Monumental and Funerary Art in Nineteenth Century Paris, Lauren Close
Department: Art and Art History; History
Extended Family, Will Ehrenreich
Department: Art and Art History
Cracks in the Sidewalk: An Examination of "Freaks" and Women in Garry Winogrand's Volatile Sixties, Charlie Fanelli
Department: Art and Art History
Exploration of Hyperbolic Geometry/ Mathematics and Studio Art, Rachel Frank
Department: Art and Art History; Mathematics
Johnny Appleseed: Exploring a Cultural Landscape, Brenna Hatcher
Department: Art and Art History
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
Goddess of Mercy: the Gender Transformation of the Bodhisattva Guanyin, Hawwah LaRoche
Department: Art and Art History
Time Travelin' Is Dino-Mite!: the Development of an Original Sequential Art Narrative, Ann Elizabeth Lewis
Department: Art and Art History
Come to the Table, A. Greer Morgan
Department: Art and Art History
Seen and Unseen Face of God: An Artist's Exploration of Patua Art and Religion, Julia Murphy
Department: Art and Art History; Religious Studies
Terrain, Rebecca Newhouse
Department: Art and Art History
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
Not So Innocent: Little Red Riding Hood's Corrupted Past and the Constructs of Victorian Childhood, Jennifer Singer
Department: Art and Art History
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
Untitled, Abiose Spriggs
Department: Art and Art History
Destructive Creation, Marissa Stover
Department: Art and Art History
Contemporary Merrymakers, Kelley M. Waickman
Department: Art and Art History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2011
Portraits and Figures of Women at Yuli Mental Institution in Hwalien, Taiwan, Feng-Ju Chien
Department: Art and Art History
IMPRO-VIBES 17X: The Visual Expression of Hip-Hop Lyrics, Nina R. Dine
Children and Nature, Adria Hankey-Brown
Camille Pissarro's View of a Modern City: Paintings in Paris, 1893-1903, Laura Hazlett
Department: Art and Art History
Fear of ...., Kathleen Mazzei
Department: Art and Art History
Babel, Nicholas Ouellette
Department: Art and Art History
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