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 2014

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Jesus Saves: Branding Theology and Image in Twentieth Century Los Angeles Evangelicalism, Morgan W. Clark
Department: History

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A Body of Commodity: an Analysis and Story of the Weimar Prostitute, Audrey V. Creamer
Department: German Studies; History

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The Holocaust in Jewish American Collective Memory: A Study of Holocuast Memorials in American Synagogues, Sarah Crosswy
Department: History

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Overlooked and Underappreciated: The Impact of Organized Crime in Cleveland, Ohio on the American Mafia, Brett L. DeWester
Department: History

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Adventures in Time and Race: A Study of the Acceptance of Multiculturalism in Doctor Who, Meredith A. Farley
Department: History

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Fashion, Flappers and Freedom?: Women and Personal Expression in 1920s Dress, Lynn R. Fortney
Department: History

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An Unexpected Alliance: Haiti and Great Britain after the Haitian Revolution, 1804-1865, Emily Frank
Department: History

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Windy City Radicals: Sister Carrie, Organized Labor, and the Problem of Chicago, Ben Fuqua
Department: English; History

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Revolution on Stage and Screen: Historical Narrative through Cuban Film and Spanish Theatre, 1959-1971, Kevin J. Glass
Department: History; Spanish

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More than Cows and Plows: Exploring the Role of Government, Women, and Corporations in Farming through Oral Histories, Seth A. Goodwin
Department: History

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Students Teaching Students: An In-depth Look at Domestic Student Exchanges between Predominately White Institutions and Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the 1960's, Kendall Grace
Department: History; Sociology and Anthropology

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Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down: A Narrative of the Black Death in Siena, Sarah J. Hammond
Department: History

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What Does Modernity Smell Like: An Analysis on Fragrance Advertising in Modern China - An Analysis on Fragrance Advertising in China, 1911-2013, Adriana E. Hoak
Department: Chinese Studies; History

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Impoverished Bodies: The Politics of Sterilization Abuse and the Marginalization of Low-Income Women of Color, Njeri A. Jennings
Department: History

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Lessons Learned from the Fight for Integration at the Lovett School: Atlanta, Georgia 1963-1966, Lauren C. Klingshirn
Department: History

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If You Were Buried In A Ship, You Might Be A Viking: An Investigation of Scandinavian Influence Over Anglo-Saxon Identity in Mortuary Practices, Kathryn Z. Libby
Department: Archaeology; History

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Internal and External Factors: Connecting the Participation Trends of African Americans and Latin Americans in Major League Baseball, Zachary J. Mathie
Department: History

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King Henry VIII and Queen Anne Boleyn: An Examination of How Tudor Court Politics Led to the Rise and Fall of a Queen of England, Calla E. McCabe
Department: History

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The "Other": An Exploration of the Fear of Mormonism in the 19th Century, Mariah A. McGovern
Department: English; History

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With or Without the State's Consent: Female Sexuality in the Soviet Union During WWII, Allison K. Miraldi
Department: History; Russian Studies

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The Quest for Ålander Identity: Reshaping Sovereignty at an Imperial Crossroads in the Baltic 1808-1921, Landon L. Moore
Department: History

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Pearls of Wisdom: The Black Female Student Experience at The College of Wooster, 1970-1990 and 2014-2014, Deja A. Moss
Department: History

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"What's Race Got To Do With It?" A Feminist Analysis of Anti-Rape Discourse from Susan Brownmiller and Angela Davis to the Modern Feminist Blogosphere, Angela M. Neely
Department: History; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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A Better and Truer Self: The Harris Brothers in Reconstructed North Carolina, Aviva H. Neff
Department: History

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“They See a Free Individual, it’s Gonna Scare ‘Em:” Hitchhiking, Fear, and the Decline of Community in 20th Century America, Zane S. Polston
Department: History

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Rising from the Ashes: Hansen’s Disease, Carville, and Patient Identity in 20th Century America, Lauren Quimby
Department: History

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The Story That Would Not Grow Old: The Evolution of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Rebecca F. Roper
Department: History

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But the Heart is Still Indian: Hindutva and the Imagined Nation in Post-Partition Hindi Cinema, Rachel A. Rothenberg
Department: History; Religious Studies

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“A Cause Worth Fighting For:” The Ohio Veterans Home Museum, a Web Project, Megan E. Smeznik
Department: History

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Pertusiss, Pellagra, and Poverty: A Historical and Scientific Analysis of Whooping Cough's Associations with Poverty and Pellagra, and the Nicotinate Degradation Pathway in Bordetella Pertussis, Jacob Sprano
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; History

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“We Are People:” Black Student Movements and the 1971 Homecoming Boycott at The College of Wooster, Ruby Summers
Department: History

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“Go West, Young Man, Go West” Whiteness, Masculinity, and Wilderness in Gilded Age Boys Literature, Ariel N. Veroske
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2013

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Klotzen, Nicht Kleckern (Strike Together, Not Divided!): the Panzer Divisions As New Dominating Strategy of Modern Warfare, Stefano Alianelli
Department: History

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Anti-Appeasement: Exploring Opposition to Great Britain's Interwar Appeasement Policy, Robert Bansberg
Department: History

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Re-Framing the Slaughter: Remembering the Rwandan Genocide, Jordan C. Broutman
Department: History

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Putin and the Russian Federation: Securing Power at the Expense of Democracy, William F. Burkhart
Department: History; Russian Studies

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Every Citizen a Soldier: World War II Propaganda Posters and the American Home Front, Benjamin Caroli
Department: History

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Gettysburg: The Speeches, Reunions, and Monuments that Rewrote History After the Battle of Gettysburg, Shawn Chaffee
Department: History

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Mogadishu....We Have a Problem: How Decolonization Set Up the Democratic Republic of Somalia to Collapse, Rachel R. Craddolph
Department: History; International Relations

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The Foundation of a Leader: the Education of Benjamin E. Mays, Dexter Davis
Department: History

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Picture Perfect: The Evolution of Photojournalism During the Second World War, Kenneth Joseph Davis
Department: History

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Warlordism, Opium, and Party Purges: the Guomindang's Use of Shanghai's Green Gang in Efforts of National Unification During the Late 1920s, Mark Samuel Federman
Department: Chinese Studies; History

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Mastering the Patrol: a Look at the Importance of Training For American Pilots in the Battle of the Atlantic, Ethan M. Feinstein
Department: History

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Resisting Colonialism: Cultural Syncretism, Indigenous Agency and Exploition in Colonial Potosí, Isaac Galef-Brown
Department: History

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American Quaker Activism: Emerging Leadership, Evolving Faith, and Extraordinary Change, Catherine Gillette
Department: History

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The Global City of New York: Neoliberalism, Occupy Wall Street, and the Polarization and Repoliticization of Denationalized Space, Daniel Grantham
Department: History; Political Science

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Chicago's Wall: Race, Segregation and the Chicago Housing Authority, David T. Greetham
Department: History

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Tupac Amaru, Pachacuti: Un Análisis De Las Causas, La Estructura Y El Discurso Del Gran Levantamiento (1780-1781), Christopher R. Marshall
Department: History; Spanish

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Syrians, Sectarianism, and Assimilation: Divergent Conceptions of Early Arab Nationalism in the Old World and New, Leo Mayhew
Department: History

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Ohio Curriculum of the Sixth Grade: Creation and Historical Analysis, John McFarren
Department: History

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With Strong Arms and Callused Hands: a Study of Mexican Racial Identity in the Bracero Program From 1942-1964, Maricela Metraux
Department: History

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The Disintegration of An Open Economy: the Economic History of Argentina, 1880-1976, Beth Milne
Department: History

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Shooting An Elephant: How the British Became the Leading Imperialist in Africa and the World, Katherine Montgomery
Department: History

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Pocket Full of Posies, a Comparative Study of the Plague in Florence and London, Caitlyn Murphy
Department: History

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Lady Rochford: Always Remembered As a True Courtier of Henry VIII, Jacqueline O'Dell
Department: English; History

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It's a Good Day to Be Indigenous: the Quest For American Indian Identity Through Activism and Film, Keely Pearce
Department: History

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Ethnoscapes and Nationalism in the Cherokee Nation's Constitutional Law, 1960-2013, Richard Tadd Pinkston
Department: History; Political Science

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Remaining Elite: Patriarchy and Advice in Renaissance Florence, Christina Polet
Department: History

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The Media versus Major League Baseball and its Superstars: A Comparison of the 1927 and 2009 New York Yankees, Johnathan Ray
Department: History

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Broke City, Broke Schools: Desegregation of Public Schools and the Economic Decline of Akron, Ohio, Abigail S. Rider
Department: History

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Talking Black and Sleeping White... Talking White and Sleeping Black: A Socio-Legal Examination of Interracial Marriage in America, Kailey J. Schwallie
Department: History

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The "Woman Question": the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Intersections of Race and Gender in the 1960S, Kelsey Smith
Department: History

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Monarch of the Plains: a Cultural and Environmental History of Buffalo in the West, Alexander Strapp
Department: History

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Young People Don't Vote: An Investigation of the Methods and Motivations of Contemporary and Past Student Political Activists, Brandon Sutton
Department: History; Sociology and Anthropology

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For the General Diffusion of Knowledge: Social, Juvenile and Mercantile/Mechanic Libraries in Colonial America and the Early Republic, Gwenlyn Symons
Department: History

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Singing Against the Grain: Exploring the Effects of National Identity & History on Counter Cultural Musical Output, Matthew Eulberg Taylor
Department: History

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The Great Matter: the Role of Environment and Queenship in the Decline of the Catholic English Monarchy, Margaret Trainor
Department: History

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An Artificial Eden: Experiencing the Suburban Landscape in Postwar American Literature, Elyse Vukelich
Department: English; History

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Unraveling the Toilet Paper Tax Revolt: An Investigation Into the Demise of Politics in the Garden State 1989-1993, Richard Walter
Department: History

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With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: the Historical and Social Relevance of Comic Books in the United States, Devin Warner
Department: History

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2012

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Evolution of the National Football League: the Coaches That Changed America's Game, Thomas Adams-Wall
Department: History

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Hurrah Hurah Look Who's Rising? It's the Frelinghuysens!: a Select History of New Jersey's Frelinghuysen Family, John Anderson
Department: History

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Soldier's Perspective: a Chronological and Thematic Analysis of the Vietnam War Through Oral History, Alexandra Armstrong
Department: History

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Timekeepers of Progress: Buffalo and the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, Bonnie Berg
Department: History

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On the Origins of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Jameson Brown
Department: History

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Cowboy Mythology in National Politics: The Pre-Presidential Political Career of Lyndon Johnson, Alyson Bujnoski
Department: History

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Discovering the Nameless Soldier: a Social History of Union Volunteer Infantry Soldiers in the Civl War, Benjamin H. Christ
Department: History

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Social Relevance of Speakeasies: Prohibition, Flappers, Harlem, and Change, Joseph Collins
Department: History

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Voice of the Voiceless Ones: the Culture of Nuevo Canto, Nueva Canción, and Nueva Trova; and the Polarization of Argentina, Chile, and Cuba, Samuel Connor
Department: History

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Whose Britain Is This Anyway: Questioning Race, Class, Immigration and Nationality in Great Britain Between 1948 and 2011, Christina Jayne Cruce
Department: History

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Chilean Cultural Identity: a Case Study of Contemporary Mapuche Poetry, La identidad cultural chilena: un caso de estudio de la poesía mapuche contemporánea, Christopher Culbertson
Department: History; Spanish

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Echoes of Silence: The Japanese-American Experience in the 20th Century, Helen Doherty
Department: History

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Surviving War, Surviving Memory: An Oral History of the South Vietnamese Civilian Experience in the Vietnam War, Leann Do
Department: History

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Di Renjie and the Mystery of the Imposter Judge Dee: An Analysis of Di Renjie's Career As a District Magistrate and His Fictional Counterpart, Robert Tyler Dowdell
Department: History

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Game For the Ages Forever Changed By the New Age: How Hip Hop Changed the Game of Basketball, Michael Evans
Department: History

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Bilateral Misunderstanding: A Historical Analysis of the Obama "Reset" and Post-Cold War American-Russian Relations, Timothy Robert Faerber
Department: History

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Gender Divide: Re-Examining the Feminization of Teaching in the Nineteenth Century with Emphasis on the Displaced Male Teacher, Matthew Fegan
Department: History

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Unnecessary Catastrophe--The Irish Potato Famine: 1845-1852, Nora Furstenberg-Carroll
Department: History

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Need to Reform the Human Rights Regime: Various Disagreements With Human Rights, Michael Garcia
Department: History

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Unorganizable and the Unrepresented: the Evolving Relationship of Hispanics and the American Labor Movement, Daniel Hanson
Department: History

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Illustrating a Conflict: Belfast's Murals Throughout the Troubles, Katherine M. Hennessey
Department: History

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Charles and Charlemagne As King, Emperor, and Renaissance Man, Raymond Horn
Department: History

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History of the Fifteenth Air Force in World War II Through the Eyes of One Man: the War Story of Second Lieutenant Winthrop Sargent Worcester, Jr., Heidi M. Klise
Department: History

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St. Augustine's Influence on the Roman Catholic Church, Shawn Knopp
Department: History

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What Makes Her ‘New?’ Reexamining Weimar’s ‘New Woman’ in Das Künstseidene Mädchen, Der Skorpion, Pandora’s Box, and Girls in Uniform., Muriel L. LaMois
Department: German Studies; History

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Foundations of Stone: Discerning Spiritual and Economic Influences on the Construction of Cistercian Monasteries in England, Daniel Lehman
Department: History

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Unattainable Perfection: Masculine Identity and Bodybuilding Culture From 1890 to the Present, Erin McArdle
Department: History

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From Profit Driven Slaveholders to the California Gold Rush: An Economic History Curriculum Designed For Grade 8, Katherine Jennings Moser
Department: History

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Bourbon Whiskey: the History and Development of America's Native Spirit, and the Making of the Number One Bourbon, Jim Beam, Kevin Orris
Department: History

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Development Assistance Redefined: the Rise of the University of Chicago and the Establishment of Neoliberal Foreign Aid Policies, Michael Peters
Department: Economics; History