Senior Independent Study Theses from 2012
Cowboy Mythology in National Politics: The Pre-Presidential Political Career of Lyndon Johnson, Alyson Bujnoski
Department: History
Discovering the Nameless Soldier: a Social History of Union Volunteer Infantry Soldiers in the Civl War, Benjamin H. Christ
Department: History
Social Relevance of Speakeasies: Prohibition, Flappers, Harlem, and Change, Joseph Collins
Department: History
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
Whose Britain Is This Anyway: Questioning Race, Class, Immigration and Nationality in Great Britain Between 1948 and 2011, Christina Jayne Cruce
Department: History
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
Echoes of Silence: The Japanese-American Experience in the 20th Century, Helen Doherty
Department: History
Surviving War, Surviving Memory: An Oral History of the South Vietnamese Civilian Experience in the Vietnam War, Leann Do
Department: History
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
Game For the Ages Forever Changed By the New Age: How Hip Hop Changed the Game of Basketball, Michael Evans
Department: History
Bilateral Misunderstanding: A Historical Analysis of the Obama "Reset" and Post-Cold War American-Russian Relations, Timothy Robert Faerber
Department: History
Gender Divide: Re-Examining the Feminization of Teaching in the Nineteenth Century with Emphasis on the Displaced Male Teacher, Matthew Fegan
Department: History
Unnecessary Catastrophe--The Irish Potato Famine: 1845-1852, Nora Furstenberg-Carroll
Department: History
Need to Reform the Human Rights Regime: Various Disagreements With Human Rights, Michael Garcia
Department: History
Unorganizable and the Unrepresented: the Evolving Relationship of Hispanics and the American Labor Movement, Daniel Hanson
Department: History
Illustrating a Conflict: Belfast's Murals Throughout the Troubles, Katherine M. Hennessey
Department: History
Charles and Charlemagne As King, Emperor, and Renaissance Man, Raymond Horn
Department: History
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
St. Augustine's Influence on the Roman Catholic Church, Shawn Knopp
Department: History
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
Foundations of Stone: Discerning Spiritual and Economic Influences on the Construction of Cistercian Monasteries in England, Daniel Lehman
Department: History
Unattainable Perfection: Masculine Identity and Bodybuilding Culture From 1890 to the Present, Erin McArdle
Department: History
From Profit Driven Slaveholders to the California Gold Rush: An Economic History Curriculum Designed For Grade 8, Katherine Jennings Moser
Department: History
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
Development Assistance Redefined: the Rise of the University of Chicago and the Establishment of Neoliberal Foreign Aid Policies, Michael Peters
Department: Economics; History
Separate and Unequal: An in Depth Analysis of Tule Lake Internment and Segregation Camp and the Unification and Separation of Japanese Internees, David Scott Rudick
Department: History
Fear, Flames and the "Other": the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and Urban Tension in the Press and Popular Media, William Schoenfeld
Department: History
First Indochinese War and the Evolution of American Foreign Policy in Vietnam From 1945-1954: The Evolution of American Foreign Policy throughout Indochinese War, Matthew Schulz
Department: History
Enigmatic Magic: An Analysis of the Role of Codes and Ciphers Within American Intelligence, Ian Sharp
Department: History; Mathematics
Academies of State: Monarchy and the Universities in Tudor England, Anthony J. Simmons
Department: History
On the Account: An Investigation of Piracy through Living History, Joseph Skonce
Coffeehouse Paradox: London Coffeehouses from 1652-1714, George Frederick William Stephan
Department: History
Making of a Second-Class Citizen: a Case Study of the Institutionalized Oppression of Blacks in New Orleans, Andrew Stowe
Department: History
Mary Tudor: Bloody Zealot or Female Trail Blazer?, Hallie B. Swidler
Department: History
Watergate's Test of Values: The Role of John W. Dean III in the Most Infamous Presidential Scandal in History, Taylor Trout
Department: History
Baseball and American Society Following World War II: An Examination of the Cleveland Indians As a Reflection of Baseball's Larger Role in Postwar American Society, Gregory Van Horn
Department: History
Responsibility to Protect Responsibly: Lessons From Kosovo and Sierra Leone, Mary Elizabeth Walters
Department: History; Political Science
Je Voulais Être Homme, Rien Qu’Homme: An Analysis of the Intersection of Communism and Masculinity InThe Negritude Movement, 1930-1939, Kristen Weischedel
Department: French and Francophone Studies; History
America the Automatic Empire: Roads, Highways, and the Consolidation of American Capitalism, Robert West
Department: History
Rex Quondam, Rexque Futurus: Arthurian Legends As Indicators of British National Identity Throughout History, Audrey Ellen Wimbiscus
Department: History
Metaphorical Halo-Halo, Matt Wong
Department: History; East Asian Studies
Interracial Analysis of Expatriate "Americanization" in the City of Paris-- An Examination of a Shared Space Occupied By White Male Authors and Intellectuals and African American Performers and Artists, Cassandra Zavis
Department: History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2011
Shaken But Never Stirred: a Historical Analysis of American Masculinity Through the James Bond Films., Ethan Arenstein
Department: History; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Defining Episodes in the History of the Russian Moderate Activist, Kaitlin Ball
Department: History; Russian Studies
The End of a Nation: Russian Nationalism As a Reaction to Westernization, Jeremy Bervoets
Department: Russian Studies; History
Nihil Sub Sole Novum: the Struggle of Latin in the Twentieth Century, Kurt A. Brown
Department: Education; History
The American Dragon: the Influence of Hollywood on Martial Arts in America, Mackenzie E. Brown
Department: History
Civil Rights of the Developmentally Disabled: a Study of Apple Creek Developmental Center, Jeannette Coleridge
Department: History
IMPRO-VIBES 17X: The Visual Expression of Hip-Hop Lyrics, Nina R. Dine
The Historic Built Landscape of The College of Wooster: An Investigation into Architecture, Curriculum, and Memory, Jacob L. Dinkelaker
Breakthrough? a Comparison of Civil Rights Era and 21st Century African American Mayors in Washington, D.C., and Newark, New Jersey, Sally Dorman
Department: History; Political Science
The Driving Forces of the Ohio State-Michigan Rivalry: How Media and Television Shaped "The Game", Ian Franks
Department: History
They Did What to Their Junk: Roman Views of Greek Athletic Nudity, Kaylin Gaal
Department: Classical Studies; History
A Crash Course in Riding Philosophy: Why Zen & Motorcycles Really Do Go Together, Alexandra Gioiella
Department: Philosophy; History
Blood, Money and Power: How Piracy Challenged the Legitimacy of a Government, Michael Haggerty
Department: History
Children and Nature, Adria Hankey-Brown
Subjugating Sex: the Sexual Categorization of Women in Ancient Rome, Andrew Heironimus
Department: History
A Battle For Grass; E. R. Fryer and the Navajo Livestock Reduction, Audrey Hudak
Department: History
The Cleveland Oil and Steel Industry: the Making of Industrial Cleveland, c.1870-1900, Charles W. Kamen
Department: History
Tempting Treats and Bootleg Booze: a Working Class Woman's Story on Life and Crime From 1920-1933, Elizabeth Kaplan
Department: History
The Eagle Flew Over the Mountain: the History of America and Afghanistan Since 1945, Joshua Kime
Department: History
The United States in the Age of Anxiety : How Atomic Technology Impacted American Society, Jacob Kubasta
Department: History
From Bland to Delicious: Beer and Its Implications on American Consumption and Identity, Alexandria MacKay
Department: History
Marijuana Prohibition Costs, Contradictions and Rhetoric, Scott MacKenzie
Department: History
The Russian Civil War of 1917-1920: Need the Reds Have Won?, Joseph McCarthy
Department: History
Mistake By the Lake: the History of the Cleveland Browns, Art Modell's Controversial Decision to Move the Team to Baltimore, and Its Impact, Justin McDowell
Department: History
America's 'Pass' Time: How Football Has Grown in Popularity and Helps to Define American Culture, Christopher Perez
Department: History
A Study of Marguerite De Navarre (1492-1549) Through Her Personal Relationships and Literary Accomplishments, Emma Reiss
Department: History
Guns and Glory: the National Rifle Association From Rifle Hobby Club to Political Lobbying Force, 1968-1975, Fidelia Shaw
Department: History
Fort Ross: the Eastern Frontier of the Russian Empire, Catherine Trainor
Department: History
No Child Left Behind: the Influence of Hidden Children on Catholic Jewish Relations, Jordan White
Department: History
Segregation in Columbus, Ohio Did It Ever Leave, Bryan Wickliffe
Department: History
Measuring Success: the Phoenix Program and Its Lessons For Modern Day Counterinsugency, Graham Walbridge Zimmerman
Department: History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2010
Reparations in "Post-Racial" Society: What Makes a Winning Case, Tobias Bokum-Fauth
Department: History
Cultivating Discontent: Colonial Forestry in Mandate Palestine, 1920-1939, Daniel Buckler
Department: History
A Human Being Can Be Forced to Be Free: the Study of Individualism in North Korean Human Rights, Esther S. Chhakchhuak
Department: History
Fears, Riots and Rebellions: the Civil War Draft Riots in New York City and the Holmes County Rebellion, Sarah C. Coffin
Department: History
From "Big Jack" to "Bugsy": Jewish Gangsters and the Jewish Immigrant Communities of Chicago and New York City, 1900-1933, Amy Cohen
Department: History
The Role of the MLBPA in Creating the Steroid Era in Major League Baseball, Patrick Coyne
Department: History
The Origins and History of Parole in California, Daniel Feutz
Department: History
Black, Brown, and Blue in 1942: Ethnic and Stylistic Tensions to Zoot Suit Riots in Wartime Usa, Maxim W. Gillespie
Department: History
From Socio-Cultural Confinement to Literary Freedom: the Short Stories of Emilia Pardo Bazan, Laura Jennifer Herb
Department: Spanish; History
The Nutritious Factory: Nutrition, Processed Foods and the American Food Consumer, Mihran Kazandjian
Department: History
George W. Bush and Tony Blair: Educational Reform From 1997 to 2008, Lauren Michelle Kosanovich
Department: History
Please Pay Them More: An Examination of Women's Interest Groups and Pay Equity From 1980-1992 and 1992-2009, Alexander Osman Lans
Department: Political Science; History
Plant Closings and Community Crisis, Kenneth M. Libben
Department: History
Philip is My Best Friend (Being the Story of a Girl and Her Duck), Lindsay Lutz
Deterrence Theory and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1969-1974, John J. McKeegan
Department: Political Science; History
Vietnam: the Role of a War Correspondent During Vietnam, Alexander S. Mies
Department: History
Can Tradition and Progress Coexist: a Case Study of the Impact of the Modernization of China on the Minority Societies, Brittany E. Montgomery
Department: History
Fomenting Extremism: the Alternative Media of the Far Right, Eleanor C. Newman
Department: History
From a Worn Suitcase to International Bestseller Lists: Irène Némiovsky's Suite Française Considered in Various Contexts, Sonja Ruppel
Department: History; French and Francophone Studies
Termanites: a Comparison Between Frederick Terman and Law Firms in Adaptive Work Practice in Silicon Valley, Martin Schneider
Department: History
Afghanistan: the Achilles Heel of Superpowers, Thomas Spangler
Department: History
Agricultural Practices of Indians in Pre-Colonial California: How Farming Can Encourage Biodiversity, Ben Strobridge
Department: History
Technology's Effect Throughout History on the Music Industry, Luke Sutton
Department: History
Battle of Stalingrad: a Case Study and Analysis of How Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin's Leadership Characteristics Affected Their Decision-Making During the Battle of Stalingrad, Michael Brian Swan
Department: History
Evolution of Sports Agents, Christopher Louis Wood
Department: History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2009
Transformation of American Isolationism to Full Mobilization on the Home Front: the Propoganda of World War II, Katie Baker
Department: History
European Foreign and Security Policy: a History of Reluctant Progress, Ross Buchanan
Department: History