Senior Independent Study Theses from 2007
Big Business Vs. Public Interest: the 1978 Default of Cleveland, Christina Rokakis
Department: History
George Washington's Character and Religion, Grant M. Simmons
Department: History
Evolution of Poison Gas in Germany From World War I to World War II, Andrew Stebbins
Department: History
Defend Yourself, While Your Hands Are Still Yearning: Norwegian Civilian Resistance to German Occupation and National Socialism, Elisabeth Stove
Department: History; German Studies
"No Place For Children in a War:" the World War II Evacuation of British Children in History and Chidren's Fiction, Julia Stuckman
Department: English; History
Fighting the Blues and Coping With Depression: a Historical Perspective, Linda M. Studer
Department: History
Perceptions of Ethnicity in the Yugoslav Wars, Kristin Triebel
Department: History
Influence of the Ringling Brothers on the Culture of the American Circus: An Analysis of Their Desire, Morality and Triumphs, Michael Robert Vyrostek
Department: History
Johnnie Armstrong's Last Goodnight: the Impact of the Life and Death of a Scottish Border Thief, Amy Wadsworth
Department: History
Six Day War: a Turning Point, Roy Edward Woodring
Department: History
Fields of the English, They Are Buried Here': the Road to Culloden and Beyond, Broede D. Young
Department: History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2006
Rum-Running, Organized Crime, and Corruption in Detroit Helped Contribute to End Prohibition in 1933., Joe Agler
Department: History
Smile: the Evolution of Orthodontics, Mark Alan Ballinger
Department: History
Zaire and the Ebola Pandemic, Melanie Barkalow
Department: History
Assessing the Assessments: the Continuning Failures of U.S. Strategic Intelligence, Will Behrendt
Department: History
"Other Than That, He Was Completely Normal:" a History of the Tattoo in the United States, Julie S. Blodgett
Department: History
Ramifications of Kloster-Zeven Revisited: As a Cause of British Victory in the Seven Years' War, Jack Boyd
Department: History
Ukurikurakiza: a Journey Into the Heart of Rwandan Conflict, Kelly Brannan
Department: History
Neoconservative Movements: Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, and the Rise of Neoconservatism, Michael D. Broda
Department: History
Resistance to Reconciliation: the Study of Healing Among Chilean Survivors of the Pinochet Regime, Emily Brooks Brown
Department: Spanish; History
A Silent Minority No Longer: The Korean-American Community, Park Peter-David Chong Woo
Department: History
We Were Brothers: Mandate and Monarch in Iraq and Jordan, 1918-1958, Bethany A. Comella
Department: History
Public Opinion and the Presidency, Ryan Dobroka
Department: History
A Measure of Humanity or Feeding the Guilty? Neutrality's Effect on the Humanitarianism of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Katherine C. Dunham
Department: History
Prison Models and Organizational Agendas: A Reflection on the Historical Development of the American Prison System, Shawn Joseph Handy
Department: English; History
Happily Ever After? Three Modern Day Fairytales, Jayna Hanson
Department: History
How Has the Russian Identity Been Portrayed Through Film Since the Fall of Communism and the Onset of Perestroika and Glasnost?, Helena M. Iaquinta
Department: History
Historical Role of the Federal Emergency Management Agency: Preparing For Disaster in a Post-September 11th Nation, Alexander R. Junker
Department: History
While in BeTween: An Examination of Tween Fashion and its Implications on Tween Development in Society, Crystal Justice
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; History
Understanding America's Not So Simple Reaction to the 1919 White Sox World Series Scandal, Daniel Joseph Kremer
Department: History
"Just Say No" to Being "Tough" on Drugs: a Historical Analysis of Drug Abuse and a Cost-Effectiveness Study on Mandatory Minimum Sentences and Drug Courts, Samuel D. Langley
Department: History; Economics
Laura Ingalls Wilder and Little House Ethos of Food, Christine Elizabeth Moffett
Department: History
Jesus + Folk - Son of God = Bob Dylan, David J. Orr
Department: History
From Innocence to Corruption: An Analysis of the 1960s Through Presidential and Civil Rights Leaders' Obituaries, Jayson T. Rogers
Department: History
The 1948 Cleveland Indians Influence on Cleveland's Economy and Society in the Post-War Era, Robert R. Romick II
Department: History
Give Me a Penny & I'll Make You a Fortune, Ashley G. Sturtevant
Department: History
Masculinity and "The Greatest Generation:" An Oral History, Austin Ernest Taylor
Department: History
Heroes Without Wings: Rescue, Redemption, and the Persistence of Western Myth, Elizabeth Weiss
Department: History; English
Uzbekistan on the Threshold of Revolution? Radical Islam and the Threat to the Post-Soviet State, Andrew White Whitner
Department: Political Science; History
Spreading the Word: the Promise and Disappointment of the Nicaraguan Literacy Crusade, Angela Winningham
Department: History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2005
Struck Out: the 1919 World Series, Robert L. Andreoli
Department: History
Pillage the Village! The Sources of Viking Perceptions, Ian Barrett
Department: History
SALTing the Nukes: The Effectiveness of the Nixon and Carter Administrations to Conclude a Strategic Arms Limitations Agreement, 1969-1979., Amanda K. Bonus
Department: History
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: the Mythic Trials of Jesus of Nazareth, William Burton
Department: History
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