Senior Independent Study Theses from 2023
Molding a New You: Exploring the Therapeutic and Healing Properties of Clay, Lucy Agurkis
Department: Art and Art History
Hair, Food, and Relationships, Inethia M. Allen
Department: Art and Art History
Making My Body My Own: The Innate Queerness of Tattooing, Jay Daigle
Department: Art and Art History
"Through the Veil", Noor Ul Hannan
Department: Art and Art History
The Persistent Illusion of the Medici Reality, Isabelle C. Hoover
Department: Classical Studies; Art and Art History
Journey: Exploring Animation Through Story, Helen Kohlmetz
Department: Art and Art History
The Cowboy Way, Morgan C. Kromer
Department: Art and Art History
According to Plan: An Introspection, Vanessa Morris
Department: Art and Art History
A Home for People and Planet: Assessing the Feasibility of Sustainable Affordable Housing by Designing a Proof-of-Concept, Jennifer Teare Mynard
Department: Art and Art History; Environmental Studies
Architectural Style Changes in Arizona Homes: How a Place Becomes a Home During Different Times Periods, Hayley Nash
Department: Art and Art History
Working Women: How Early Modern Women Artists Generated Empowering Self-Portraits in Male Dominated Italian Culture, Jessica R. Olson
Department: Art and Art History
Red Sword-White Canvas: The Past, Present, and Future of the Avant-Garde and Avant-Garde Aesthetics, Ben Read
Department: Art and Art History; Philosophy
Soothed by the Sublime, Janette R. Seaton-Evans
Department: Art and Art History
The Beauty and Solace in Loneliness: Using Light, Design, and Iconography to Showcase Acceptance and Edification, Olivia Medaglia Watling
Department: Art and Art History
All the Lonely People: Edward Hopper's Imagery of Isolation and the Impact of his Work, Jane C. Wight
Department: Art and Art History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2022
"What Is The Recipe For Emotion?", Ivan M. Akiri
Department: Art and Art History; Theatre and Dance
Rockin' Cities Underground: An Urban Morphological Lens In The Archaeological Cavate Sites Of Derinkuyu And Naours, Anabelle Valeur Andersen
Department: Archaeology; Art and Art History
Mortal Bones: An Exploration Into The Use Of The Skeleton As A Mirror Of The Self In European Symbolist Art, Lili E. Bosler
Department: Art and Art History
Tactilely Tubular Passageways: A Sculptural Exploration Of Accessible Play Spaces, Griffin Morgan Rose Carnett
Department: Art and Art History
Clifton Canidae: An Anthropological And Sculptural Exploration, Sydney D. Clifton Ms
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Art and Art History
Honk For Milk! A Nod To My Nostalgia For Not-Nowhere, Ohio, Etta Rain DeMartino
Department: Art and Art History
An Inspired Disease: On Making Art, its Pitfalls, its Consequences, its Rewards, Max H. Johnson
Department: Art and Art History
Spiritual And Sexual Simultaneity: The Fourteenth-Century Psalter Of Bonne Of Luxembourg, Zoe Johnson
Department: Art and Art History
Living In The Ruins Of Utopia: The Collapse Of The Soviet Union And The Formation Of Russia's Postcolonial Identity, Erik G. Livingston
Department: Art and Art History
Exploring Classical Techniques Through Portraiture As A Combination Of Image And Object, Maya McDonald
Department: Art and Art History
Botanical Reverie: Radical Transcendentalism Grown From Water, Ancestry, And Light, Catie M. Rogan
Department: Art and Art History
Integrating Art History Into K-5 Social Studies Classrooms, Kate L. Schlegel
Department: Art and Art History
Euripides' Medea In Sculptural Performance, Patrick K. Wellman
Department: Art and Art History; Theatre and Dance
Women, Autonomy, Authenticity, And Motherhood, Rebecca Wu
Department: Art and Art History; Philosophy
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2021
The Art of Atmosphere in Stop-Motion Animation, Abigail Fisk
Department: Art and Art History
Angels and Saints in a Modern Renaissance, Elena Hart
Department: Art and Art History
Bursting at the Seams, Piper Hamilton Hartman
Department: Art and Art History
Preserving Keith Haring’s Legacy of “Art for All” through the Study of the Chemical Degradation of Daylight Fluorescent Paints and their Constituent Rhodamine Dyes, Georgia L. Hopps-Weber
Department: Chemistry; Art and Art History
Visualizing Concepts: Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) visuals synthesized from semantic vectors, Alayt Abraham Issak
Department: Art and Art History; Mathematics
The Art of Reconciliation: The Influence of the Black Community on the Detroit Institute of Arts, Jillian Kouayara
Department: Art and Art History
Adding to the Narrative: Stories of the Holocaust through Portraiture and the Museum, Marloes Krabbe
Department: Art and Art History; Sociology and Anthropology
American Dragon: A Story of an Asian American Woman Finding Her Way Home, Hannah Langer
Department: English; Art and Art History
Dissociation, Maria Martinez
Department: Art and Art History
Wide Open, Lila Miller
Department: Art and Art History
As The Looking Glass: An Introspection at Minority and Traumatized Identities, Indigo A. Quashie
Department: Art and Art History
Whatever Happens Tomorrow, At Least I Existed: A Journey of Self Discovery Through Self-Portraiture, Alexa B. Rakosky
Department: Art and Art History
Artifacts of Culture: Encounters with Multivocal Objects in Margaret of Austria’s 16th-Century Library, Jonas Short
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; Art and Art History
The Tel Kabri Wall and Floor Paintings: Microcosms of Mediterranean Middle Bronze Age Trade and Representations of a Canaanite Palatial Economy, Christine Weber
Department: Archaeology; Art and Art History
The Self in the Context of Social Media, Leslie Weekley
Department: Art and Art History
Seeing Red: Investigation of the Color’s Use in Early Baroque Art and Stability Based Upon Pigment Preparation, Lilly Woerner
Department: Chemistry; Art and Art History
Dragon Nest: Immersive Experience Design, Mika Yonaha
Department: Art and Art History; Computer Science; Theatre and Dance
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2020
I Made This With My Hands, Andrea Arts
Department: Art and Art History
Monet and the Western Kimono: The Creative Reasoning and Critical Legacy of La Japonaise, Katarina Margaret Baltisberger
Department: Art and Art History
Wood, Paper, and Glue: Studying the Book Beyond Its Bindings, Jack R. Felch
Department: Art and Art History
The Symbolist Inheritance of the Celtic Revival (1880-1930): Female Illustrators and Printmakers as Codifying Agents of Irish Visual Expression, Claire M. Jennings
Department: Art and Art History
Nascent Archaeology: The Reception of Classical Antiquity During the Renaissance, Lauren Ashley Kozlowski
Department: Art and Art History; Archaeology
Exploration of Cultural Identity Among Chinese Avant-Garde Artists: An Analysis of Xu Bing, Gu Wenda, and Huang Yongping, Qingyue Li
Department: Art and Art History
Character: A Study in Kinship, Gloria Murray
Department: Art and Art History
Through the Looking Glass: A Self Portraiture Exploration of Selfhood and Identity, Kelsey M. Nolin
Department: Art and Art History
Appropriation: Black Hair & Black Culture, Donyea M. Ruffin
Department: Art and Art History
Chasing Gold Statues: A Study of Kanye West and the Case for Abstract Minimalism in the Digital Age, Sarah Stutler
Department: Art and Art History; English
The Surge of Religious Polychrome Sculptures in the Golden Age of Spain as Vivid Artistic Responses to the Call of the Counter Reformation, Samantha Tromba
Department: Art and Art History
Inventing Christine de Pizan: Art and Authorship in Late Medieval France, Adria Leigh Woodruff
Department: Art and Art History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2019
The Witch’s Apprentice: An Original Graphic Novel, Lorelei KM Carrier
Department: Art and Art History
Thus Come: The Making and Seeing of the Buddha in China, Julia S. Cavallo
Department: Art and Art History; Chinese Studies
Liminal Souls, Liminal Bodies: Michelangelo’s Non Finito and the Poetics of Liberation, Mackenzie Clark
Department: Art and Art History; English
In the Act of Witnessing Art, Regan Concannon Clark
Department: Art and Art History; English
Opening Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise: The Work of Art and its Contexts between Renaissance Florence and Modern Museum Culture, Ilaria Novella Crum
Department: Art and Art History; Sociology and Anthropology
Dancing with Wooster: Strengthening Community through Self-expression and Collaborative Art, Juliana Davis
Department: Art and Art History
“Marblescape of Memory”: An Examination of Aesthetics, Identity Construction, and Museum Display through the Appropriation of Ancient Greek Sculpture in Neoclassical England, Presley Feezell
Department: Art and Art History; Sociology and Anthropology
When Science and Art Collide: Learning the Methods Like a Scientist in Order to Break the Rules Like an Artist, Marissa Bailey Fiume
Department: Art and Art History; Biology
The Process of Mending: A Cathartic Exploration of Personal, Social, and Familial Relationships, Reagan N. Kazyak
Department: Art and Art History
A Rubbish Affair When Art Met Tech: Dissecting How Consumerism’s Recycling Exploits Southeast Asian Environment Through a Virtual Art Experience Using Leap Motion Technology for Gestural Commands and Physical Interactions, Thanh Nguyen
Department: Computer Science; Art and Art History
Yogyakarta 1948: National Identity and the Indonesian National Revolution (1945-1949), Emily J. Root
Department: Art and Art History; History
The African Female narrative explored through art: A transnational Generation of Women, Toshiko Tanaka
Department: Art and Art History; Communication Studies
Intersections, Hao Tang
Department: Art and Art History
Pyae Thein's Life: A Visual Representation Using Pufferfish and Octopus, Pyae Thein
Department: Art and Art History
Pursue This Discourse Instead: Deconstructing Settler Colonialism and Climate Change Through Art, Carolyn S. Webster
Department: Art and Art History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2018
A Visual Analysis of the Medical Profession as Portrayed Through Nineteenth Century Painting and Photography, Caroline A. Click
Department: Art and Art History
Wine, Women, and Woodcuts: the Maintenance of the Isolated Landsknechte Marginalized Society in Sixteenth-Century Germany, as Shown through the Dissemination of Military Genre Prints, Kathryn Connors
Department: History; Art and Art History
The Role of Children in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintings: Social Distinction and National Identity, Helena Enders
Department: Art and Art History
Illuminate: Nightlight Lamp & Lantern Series, Kari Everson
Department: Art and Art History
Help! She’s Fallen and She Can’t Get Up!: Pre-Raphaelite Depictions of the Fallen Woman and the Consequences She Faces, Specifically in the Works of William Holman Hunt, Lander McCarthy
Department: Art and Art History
Locality Test of the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA) in the Bering Strait, Jacob Nowell
Department: Art and Art History; Geology
The Importance of Children's Literature: Combating Children's Understanding of Gender Roles/Biases Informed From Meida, Ashley Christine Plassard
Department: Art and Art History; Education
Influences Throughout the Generations, Jessy A. B. Pojman
Department: Art and Art History
Cosmopolitan Love: Contextualizing and Reimagining Race in America, Vy Vu
Department: Art and Art History; English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2017
A Lens of Our Own: A Feminist Photovoice Exploration of LGBTQ+ Experience at The College of Wooster, Foster J. Cheng
Department: Art and Art History; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Dead Cultures, Imagined Contexts: The Ogtogmaní-khün, Emily Brett Glickman
Department: Art and Art History
Plays with Words: Understanding Visual Interpretation through Ed Ruscha's Text Works, Claire E. Ilersich
Department: Art and Art History; Philosophy
The Science of Art- Exploring the Gum Bichromate Process- Landscape Microscopy and Geo-Photography, Cassidy D. Jester
Department: Art and Art History
Self Portraits, Mariah Joyce
Department: Art and Art History
The Art of Function: An Exploration in Reclaimed Furniture Design, Abbey E. Partika
Department: Art and Art History
Beach Haven: A Photographic Exploration of Long Beach Island, Theresa M. Spadola
Department: Art and Art History
Great Camp Sagamore: An Integration of Nature, Architecture, and the Sublime, Allison Turner
Department: Art and Art History
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