Senior Independent Study Theses from 2014
But the Heart is Still Indian: Hindutva and the Imagined Nation in Post-Partition Hindi Cinema, Rachel A. Rothenberg
Department: History; Religious Studies
“A Cause Worth Fighting For:” The Ohio Veterans Home Museum, a Web Project, Megan E. Smeznik
Department: History
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
“We Are People:” Black Student Movements and the 1971 Homecoming Boycott at The College of Wooster, Ruby Summers
Department: History
“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
Klotzen, Nicht Kleckern (Strike Together, Not Divided!): the Panzer Divisions As New Dominating Strategy of Modern Warfare, Stefano Alianelli
Department: History
Anti-Appeasement: Exploring Opposition to Great Britain's Interwar Appeasement Policy, Robert Bansberg
Department: History
Re-Framing the Slaughter: Remembering the Rwandan Genocide, Jordan C. Broutman
Department: History
Putin and the Russian Federation: Securing Power at the Expense of Democracy, William F. Burkhart
Department: History; Russian Studies
Every Citizen a Soldier: World War II Propaganda Posters and the American Home Front, Benjamin Caroli
Department: History
Gettysburg: The Speeches, Reunions, and Monuments that Rewrote History After the Battle of Gettysburg, Shawn Chaffee
Department: History
Mogadishu....We Have a Problem: How Decolonization Set Up the Democratic Republic of Somalia to Collapse, Rachel R. Craddolph
Department: History; International Relations
The Foundation of a Leader: the Education of Benjamin E. Mays, Dexter Davis
Department: History
Picture Perfect: The Evolution of Photojournalism During the Second World War, Kenneth Joseph Davis
Department: History
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
Mastering the Patrol: a Look at the Importance of Training For American Pilots in the Battle of the Atlantic, Ethan M. Feinstein
Department: History
Resisting Colonialism: Cultural Syncretism, Indigenous Agency and Exploition in Colonial Potosí, Isaac Galef-Brown
Department: History
American Quaker Activism: Emerging Leadership, Evolving Faith, and Extraordinary Change, Catherine Gillette
Department: History
The Global City of New York: Neoliberalism, Occupy Wall Street, and the Polarization and Repoliticization of Denationalized Space, Daniel Grantham
Department: History; Political Science
Chicago's Wall: Race, Segregation and the Chicago Housing Authority, David T. Greetham
Department: History
Tupac Amaru, Pachacuti: Un Análisis De Las Causas, La Estructura Y El Discurso Del Gran Levantamiento (1780-1781), Christopher R. Marshall
Department: History; Spanish
Syrians, Sectarianism, and Assimilation: Divergent Conceptions of Early Arab Nationalism in the Old World and New, Leo Mayhew
Department: History
Ohio Curriculum of the Sixth Grade: Creation and Historical Analysis, John McFarren
Department: History
With Strong Arms and Callused Hands: a Study of Mexican Racial Identity in the Bracero Program From 1942-1964, Maricela Metraux
Department: History
The Disintegration of An Open Economy: the Economic History of Argentina, 1880-1976, Beth Milne
Department: History
Shooting An Elephant: How the British Became the Leading Imperialist in Africa and the World, Katherine Montgomery
Department: History
Pocket Full of Posies, a Comparative Study of the Plague in Florence and London, Caitlyn Murphy
Department: History
Lady Rochford: Always Remembered As a True Courtier of Henry VIII, Jacqueline O'Dell
Department: English; History
It's a Good Day to Be Indigenous: the Quest For American Indian Identity Through Activism and Film, Keely Pearce
Department: History
Ethnoscapes and Nationalism in the Cherokee Nation's Constitutional Law, 1960-2013, Richard Tadd Pinkston
Department: History; Political Science
Remaining Elite: Patriarchy and Advice in Renaissance Florence, Christina Polet
Department: History
The Media versus Major League Baseball and its Superstars: A Comparison of the 1927 and 2009 New York Yankees, Johnathan Ray
Department: History
Broke City, Broke Schools: Desegregation of Public Schools and the Economic Decline of Akron, Ohio, Abigail S. Rider
Department: History
Talking Black and Sleeping White... Talking White and Sleeping Black: A Socio-Legal Examination of Interracial Marriage in America, Kailey J. Schwallie
Department: History
The "Woman Question": the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Intersections of Race and Gender in the 1960S, Kelsey Smith
Department: History
Monarch of the Plains: a Cultural and Environmental History of Buffalo in the West, Alexander Strapp
Department: History
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
For the General Diffusion of Knowledge: Social, Juvenile and Mercantile/Mechanic Libraries in Colonial America and the Early Republic, Gwenlyn Symons
Department: History
Singing Against the Grain: Exploring the Effects of National Identity & History on Counter Cultural Musical Output, Matthew Eulberg Taylor
Department: History
The Great Matter: the Role of Environment and Queenship in the Decline of the Catholic English Monarchy, Margaret Trainor
Department: History
An Artificial Eden: Experiencing the Suburban Landscape in Postwar American Literature, Elyse Vukelich
Department: English; History
Unraveling the Toilet Paper Tax Revolt: An Investigation Into the Demise of Politics in the Garden State 1989-1993, Richard Walter
Department: History
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
Evolution of the National Football League: the Coaches That Changed America's Game, Thomas Adams-Wall
Department: History
Hurrah Hurah Look Who's Rising? It's the Frelinghuysens!: a Select History of New Jersey's Frelinghuysen Family, John Anderson
Department: History
Soldier's Perspective: a Chronological and Thematic Analysis of the Vietnam War Through Oral History, Alexandra Armstrong
Department: History
Timekeepers of Progress: Buffalo and the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, Bonnie Berg
Department: History
On the Origins of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Jameson Brown
Department: History
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