Senior Independent Study Theses from 2005
Search For a Fair and Just Society: Regulating Deviancy From Puritan America to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines of 1987, Timothy S. Cline
Department: History
Scarlet Women of the Emerald Isle: Convent Operated Female Institutions in Ireland, Rebecca J. Dieleman
Department: History
Tum the Beat Around: a Discursive History of Music Criticism, 1978-1984, David J. Drake
Department: History
Adjusting the Dials: Primetime Television of the 1970s as a Reflection of Social History, Vanessa Georgeson
Department: History
Shadow Cast Forward: the Austrian Pan-German Movement, 1800-1918, and Its Influences on Hitler's Political Vision and Worldview, Colin James Grindall
Department: History
"What Do You Mean, I Can't Drink the Milk?": the Psychological Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident, Annabell Christin Haessler
Department: History
Inmates Have Taken Over the Asylum: a Study of Argentina's Grassroots Worker Cooperative Movement, Katherine Harold
Department: History
Women of Watergate, Kelley M. Hubbell
Department: History
Nothing New About Nafta: How Maquiladoras Paved the Way For Mexican Neo-Liberal Economics, Felicia Lambe
Department: History
Development and Evolution of the Army Air Force and its Bombardment Strategies Employed in the Pacific During World War II Through the Example of the 11th Bombardment Group's History, Cyrus Nathaniel Lawyer
Department: History
Du Plein Emploi Aux 35 Heures: Repenser La Place Du Travail Dans La Societe Francaise Depuis Les Trente Glorieuses, Andrew Michael Le Blanc
Department: French and Francophone Studies; History
Churchmen As Resisters: the Public and Secret War Waged By Protestant Pasters Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Niemöller, J. David Lyle
Department: History
The Sugar Plum Fairy's Christmas Tradition: An Americanization of the Nutcracker, Jessica K. Metcalf
Department: History
America's Hang-Up: a Social History of the Telephone From Bell to Cell, Anne Elizabeth Michaels
Department: History
Claus Stauffenberg, Ludwig Beck, Hans Oster and the Construction of a Model For a Military Resister to Adolf Hitler, Michael T. Morris
Department: History
En El Nombre Del Trabajador Explotado: a History and Discussion of the Bracero Program, Andrea B. Nelson
Department: History
United States Operations Mission: Economics and Technical Aid to South Vietnam Before the Second Indochinese War, 1950-1960, Parke Nicholson
Department: History
I Don't Want to Be the Assistant: Black Leaders in Major League Baseball Since 1947, Ross K. Nickel
Department: History
Political, Social, and Community Oriented Purposes of the Grange, Denzel G. Peterman II
Department: History
From the Boers to Berlin: How the British Commandos Helped End the Second World War in Europe, Matthew Ryan Rahde
Department: History
Fall of the House of Rubber: Wooster and Rubbermaid, 1808-2004, Dane Ralph Robbins
Department: History
"I Am in Hell!": the Bounty Mutiny and the Memory of William Bligh, Michael James Ruttinger
Department: History
I Feel a Sin Coming On: the Effects of the Pill on Women and Society in the 1960s, Allison L. Urbanek
Department: History
Invisible Bonds: the Remarkable Ability the Amish Have to Enduring Modern Intrusions of the Outside World, Hester Van Hooven Ward
Department: History
Resorting to Violence: Lessons From the History of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Julie Mansfield Vavricheck
Department: History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2004
How and Why Comic Book Superheroes Are the Greatest of All Religious Saviors, Bradley D.T. Adamczyk
Department: History
A 'Troubled' History of Northern Ireland: Communities Making Peace in Times of War, Colleen E. Call
Department: History
Putting Down That Rubber: A History of the Rubber Industry and the Goodyear Rubber Tire and the Rubber Company During World War II, Scott A. Chouinard
Department: History
The Vietnam War: A Better Understanding, Carl E. Davis
Department: History
Zwischen Diaspora Undsozialistischer Utopie: Probleme Judischer Identitat in Der Deutschen Demokrastischen Republik, Kristin Dill
Department: German Studies; History
Pulse of the Continent: the Railroad in Nineteenth Century American Art, Literature, Thought, and Song, Peter N. Durbin
Department: History
Heroes of a Lost Cause: An Historical Inquiry of American Myth, Matthew. D. C. Elrod
Department: History
Unexpected Revelations: the Relationship Between the Third Reich Era and the Reception of Black Germans After World War II, Amika J. Gibbons
Department: German Studies; History
Agriculture, Agents, Assimilation and Assassination. An A+ Guide to Teaching Colonial America, Benjamin M. Gillig
Department: History
Experiences of Company H, 2nd Battalion, 172nd Infantry Regiment of the 43rd Infantry Division of the United States Army in the South Pacific During World War II: 1943-1945, Drew W. Gittus
Department: History
Motherhood in Black and White: How the National Organization For Women and the National Welfare Rights Organization Politicized Motherhood From 1966-1975, Rachel-Amelia M. Glickel
Department: History
The End of An Era: the Reform of the CIA, 1945-1975, John Goss
Department: History
Georgia O'Keeffe and Willa Cather: The Exploration of Women, Art, and Identity in Twentieth Century America, Jacquelyn R. Gulick
Department: History
The Japanese Control of the American Video Game Industry, Justin I. M. Hart
Department: History
Is Baseball Still America's Game? Historical Thoughts on a National Pastime and Its Most Celebrated Franchise, Mark A. Lucas
Department: History
Contributors to the Success of the Great Highland Bagpipe Throughout the World and the College of Wooster: A Macro and Micro Historical View, George C. Morrison
Department: History
North Korean Defectors in South Korea: Their Own Experiences, and South Koreans' Views of Them, Meeri C. Park
Department: History
Myths, Monuments, and Materialism: the American Search For a National Identity Through National Park Tourism, 1865-2005, Heather A. Reed
Department: History
Lenny's Legacy: How a Star Athlete's Death Helped Shaped American Drug Policy, Joseph Rogers
Department: History
Courts in Order: Why Inequities in Public School Funding Have Become a Litigious Issue Since 1968, Kevin Shelly
Department: History
Factors That Contribute to Professional Football Dynasties, Erickson L. Shipe
Department: History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2003
'One Ring to Rule All Men' The Historical Culture of J.R.R. Tolkien, Jennie K. Bachelor
Department: History
It's a Wonderful Holiday: An Examination of Christmas Films and the Family From 1945-1999, Elizabeth S. Brashear
Department: History
"All Dude Ever Wanted Was His Rug Back": American Men Reacting to American Ambition, From the 'Founding Brothers' to the Coen Brothers, Brendan Callahan
Department: History
King Charles I and the Ship Money Tax, Jessica Clark
Between History and Memory: the Commemoration of Frédéric Chopin in Poland, Paris and Mallorca, Caroline D. Eaton
Department: History
Tradition and Determination: the United States Air Force During the Opening Months of the Korean War, Eric E. Fillinger
Department: History
Tiger, Tiger Woods Y'all: the Past, Present, and Future of the Game of Golf in America, Ryan J. Flynn
Department: History
The Sphere of Influence of a Religious Cult: Why the Aztecs Never Achieved Empire, David C. Gash
Department: History
Dealing in Diamonds: the Consequences of Conflict Diamonds in Africa, Hannah Rayclar Gilman
Department: History
Baseball Pioneers: Jackie Robinson & Larry Doby, the Lives They Led and the People Who Made It Possible, Jennifer Green
Department: History
Cultural Differences in American Baseball and Japanese Besuboro, Nickolas R. Hajjar
Department: History
"But I Don't Have Any Boot Straps" Fashion, Gender, and Social Mobility in Eighteenth Century Britain, Anne C. Medlock
Department: History; Theatre and Dance
The Pearl Harbor Survivors Association: How History Is Remembered, Beth Moore
Department: History
A Way, the Truth, and the Life: Sojourner Truth An the Search For Community, Crystal R. Moore
Department: History
Girls Girls Girls: Girlhood and Its Construction in the 1950s, Molly Moreland
Department: History
Pink Celluloid: An Examination of the Views and Experiences of Ex-Communist Film Directors Elia Kazan and the Edward Dmytryk With the House Committee of Un-American Activities Expressed Through a Selection of Their Motion Pictures, John Daniel Oswalt
Department: History
The Business of the National Pastime: the Commercialization of Baseball, Daniel A. Pursel
Department: History
The Study of Japanese Atrocities During the Pacific War: Rape of Nanjing and Unit 731, Yi Ming M. Roberts
Department: History
Technological Evolution of the Law: Law.Com, Nicholas Robinson
Department: History
Razing the Dead: the Issues of Cemetery Preservation in Wayne County, Carolyn L. Speros
Department: History
Born to Be Wild: the Image of the Outlaw Motorcyclist, Brian P. Thomay
Department: History
Thomas De Quincey and Irvine Welsh As Mirrors of Subculture: Continuity in the Discussion of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drug Discourses, Matthew D. Trent
Department: History
"Primitive, Uncivilized, and Backward:" the Influence of the Media on Negative Stereotyping of Hispanics and Latin Americans, Pilar F. Velasquez
Department: History
Animating Japanese History: Indelible Truths and Malleable Fictions, Matthew Wagner
Department: History
National Collegiate Athletic Association (N.C.A.A.): Its Inception As a Benefactor to Student-Athletes and the Vicissitudes of Its Business Control From 1968-1979 and Its Evolution Through Today., Nathan A. Weakland
Department: History
As Lived By Me: An Innovative Yet Academic Look at Late Twentieth Century Grrrlhood, Trish L. Whittington
Department: History
Woman Warriors: a Contemporary Examination of the History, Contributions, and Areas of Controversy of the American Servicewoman From World War I to Present Day, Lindsay M. Zella
Department: History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2002
Clash of the Titans: a Study of the Commercial Airlines in a Deregulated Environment, Douglas A. Birkey
Department: History
Ouch!: the Emergence of Men in the Field of Midwifery, Elisabeth L. Boyce
Department: History
Muhammad Ali: a Controversial American Hero, Christopher R. Cabot
Department: History
"We Live For Dying". The HIV/AIDS Epidemic's Effect on Commercial Sex Workers in Thailand and South Africa, Women's Struggle to Protect Themselves Against Infection, Katherine R. Dunne
Department: History
Entactment of and Implications of Sex Offender Laws in the United States, Catherine M. Dwyer
Department: History
The Aggression of Chinese Communism Towards the Tibetan State and Its Religion From the 1950s to the Present, Eric R. Ferguson
Department: History
To See the Sky in Blood: Poetry As Witness to Stalinism, Schuyler M. Gilmore
Department: History
Striking a Balance in the War on Terrorism: An Analysis of the Bush Administration's Anti-Terror Policies and American's Civil Liberties in the Post-9/11 Era, Alexander H. Hastie
Department: History
A Silent Pen Is Wakened: Reviving the Voices of Women Humanists of Late Quattrocento Italy, Helen C. Henderson
Department: History
Lorain, Ohio's Neighborhood House: a 'Small Town' Example of How Female Empowerment Hanged Patriarchal America's Settlement Movement and City Spaces, Dawn M. Hirth
Department: History
As the Baseball Team Goes, So Goes the City: the Revitalization of the Cleveland Indians, John J. Kelly
Department: History
The Mysterious Maya Revealed, Paul Brendan Kingston
Department: History
Primary Steps of Evolution of the Submarine and the End of Traditional Naval Warfare, Chad D. Kraus
Department: History
The Sreaming Eagle and the Hidden Dragon: Analyzing the Future of Sino-American Relationship Through Historical, Economic, and Political Patterns and Trends, Nicholas P. Kuhns
Department: History
Women's Sexuality in America, 1890-1920: An Investigation of Working-Class Women in Cities, Elizabeth Lawrence
Department: History
"Strange" Relationship Between the United States and Spain: 1936-1975, Katherine A. McCoy
Department: History
The Fraternity Question: the Prohibition of National Greek Letter Societies at the University of Wooster, Brian R. H. Mitchell
Department: History
Nineteenth Century Abortion and Bourgeois Normalcy: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Reproduction, R. David Mowry
Department: History
International Terrorism and the Affects on the United States, Timothy G. Pellman
Department: History
British Participation in the Spanish Civil War, Jacob Charles Ruttinger
Department: History
Domestic Servants in Nineteenth Century New York, Pamela Scherphorn
Department: History
Tension Decreased, Interaction Achieved: the Eruption of Spontaneous Community in Postwar America, Hallie Shapiro
Department: English; History
A Nation on Fire: the United States Response to the Vietnamese Buddhist Protest Movement, 1963, Daniel F. Shortridge
Department: History
Kpanlogo: Ghana's Inspirational Movement, Marion A. Smith
Department: History
The Wrong Man Out: a Look at the Life and Career of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and the 1919 World Series, Brandon J. Thomas
Department: History
Failure at Los Alamos: An Alternate Conclusion to World War II, Kevin West
Department: History
Attica Prison Riot and the Effect on Prison Reform in the United States, Emily M. White
Department: History