Senior Independent Study Theses from 2002
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
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2001
Return of the Black Hundreds: Antisemitic Social and Political Trends in Russia, 1988-1999, Daniel B. Borsody
Department: History; Russian Studies
Luso-Brazilian Studies: An Exercise in Curriculum Design, Antonia E. Cassarino
Department: History
Evolving Relationship Between American Society and American Football: Focusing on the Victorious Struggle of African Americans in Professional Football, Felix H. Catheline
Department: History
Modernizing China's Medical Elite: the Medical Missionary Movement in China From 1834-1951, David Chidester
Department: History
Origins of Gambling in American Society, Sean E. Conway
Department: History
Brown V Board of Education An Investigation of the Progress of African-American Education Since 1954, Katherine A. Daly
Department: History
Revisionist History of Pearl Harbor, Nathan Gaubatz
Department: History
The Hunted: Francis Marion and Partisan Warfare in Occupied South Carolina During the American Revolution, Brian W. Gulotta
Department: History
Reasons to Riot: a Closer Look at the Rodney King Incident and the Los Angeles Riots in 1992, Douglas R. Harper
Department: History
The Journey to the American Dream: The Patterns and the Developments of Chinese Immigrants into the United States From the 1850's to the Present, Yukha A. Lam
Department: History
American College Football: the Black Experience, Seth T. Mastrine
Department: History
We'll Make Heaven a Place on Earth: An Examination of Three Millenarian Societies in Nineteenth Century America, Angela B. Merritt
Department: History
Ecofeminism and History: Making Connections, Elizabeth B. Palchak
Department: History
Turning the Tide: Creating Successful HIV/AIDS Public Health Policies in South Africa?, Everett J. Peachey
Department: History
Hail the Holy Innocents: May 4, 1970, Justin C. Rath
Department: History
Wiseguys and Good Guys: An Investigation of the Mafia's Infiltration of Legitimate Business and Federal Responses, Michael D. Ray
Department: History
Pennsylvania Goes to War: a Study of a State's Participation in the American Civil War, Kyle Rooker
Department: History
"All-Out War:" The Evolution of Violence in Professional Football, Stephen P. Thompson
Department: History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2000
An Investigation of the Curse of King Tutankhamen, Katie E. Aldrich
Department: History
Medieval Literature As Historical Source: the Le Morte D'Arthur of Sir Thomas Malory and the Fifteenth Century, Jacob O. Burt
Department: History
"Dear Father:" How Gender Construction Among Emigrants to Liberia in the Nineteenth Century Compared to Gender Constructions in the Antebellum South, As Revealed Through Letters Written By Freed Slaves to Their Former Owners, Marjorie J. Clayman
Department: English; History
Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Great Society", Frank Galati
Department: History
Who Cared? The Role of the Chinese Off-Shore Islands of Quemoy and Matsu in the Presidential Debates of 1960, Elizabeth K. Gill
Department: History
Major League Baseball Integration Focusing on the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cleveland Indians, Jennifer L. Green
Department: History
Irish Republican Prisoner's Effects on Irish Nationalism, Timothy Robert Harrison
Prescriptions For An Integrated Medical System: The Value of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Sarah P. Hibler
Department: History
Pearl Harbor: What Is the Truth and Who Is Responsible, Daniel J. Maurer
Department: History
Off the Top Rope Reflections of Society in Accordance With Professional Wrestling, Chad Peterman
Department: History
Fastballs Overseas: A Historical Analysis of Baseball in Japan, Nicholas P. Sanyk
Department: History
The Battle of Lake Erie: What We Don't Know, Bryan J. Solomon
Department: History
How Tuscarawas County, Ohio Contribution to World War I and II, Brian Watkins
Department: History
The British Ruling Elite and Hong Kong: A Perspective of Chinse Foreign Relations, Max Alec Wilson
Department: History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1999
A Man Among Men: A Critical Analysis of the Life and Teachings of Marting Luther King, Jr., Daniel W. Broehl
Department: History
Slave Rebellions in the American South, Carl Crumbaker
Department: History
A Detailed Analysis of a Hastily Called Presidential Investigation into the Reasons for the Pearl Harbor Disaster: the Roberts Commission of 1941-1942, Todd K. Grubich
Department: History
The Militia Movement in America, Nicholas Lacy
Department: History
World Wide Web War: An Examination of Information Warfare, Samuel Howe Lincoln
Department: History
"Ange Ou Demon, Qu'Importe?" Napoleon Bonaparte vu a Travers Six Hommes De Lettres Français de XIXe Siecle, John R. Lytle
Department: French and Francophone Studies; History
In the Beginning There Was the Word?, Christopher T. Mace
Department: History
The Evolution of the Jazz Guitarist, William F. Marcell II
Department: History
The Evolution of the Jazz Guitarist, William F. Marcell II
Lacrosse: the Fastest Growing Game on Two Feet, Jared R. McKee
Department: History
An Examination of Vaclav Harvel's Synthesis of Theater and Politics, David J. Moore
Department: History
A Patchwork of Quilt Stories: Using Cherokee Histories As Cultural Narratives, Margaret F. Odle
Department: History
Identity Through Communalism: Politics and Religion Among Indian Muslims in the Century Before Partition, Dawn M. Packer
Department: Religious Studies; History
Authority and Opposition in Austrian Politics, 1933-1945, Matthew Sondre Peterson
Department: History
Dinosaurs and Memory Wars: A Dialogical Interpretation of Historical Experience in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Graham Swift's Waterland, and Bradley Me. Rank's Untitled, Bradley M. Rank
Department: English; History
What Were Animals Like When You Were Little?, Nathan P. Renkes
Department: History
The Americanization of Golf, Matthew M. Riva
Department: History
The Role of Air Power in Operation Desert Storm, Todd Seney
Department: History
Nazi Germany on Trial: a Historical and Philosophical Analysis of the Nuremberg Trial, Aaron Veith
Department: History; Philosophy
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1998
A Study of the U.S. Army Special Forces From 1952 to the Present, Adam D. Cornett
Department: History
Viking Women: An Exploration of Female Roles and Activities in Late Iron Age Scandinavian Society, Ann-Catherine Frederick
Department: History; Archaeology
Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: The Forgotten Victims of Prostitution and Rape during World War II and the Vietnam War, Eliza M. Gerlach
A Historical Investigation of American Society During the Establishment of the Consitution From a European Perspective, Brian M. Grindall
Department: History
Mexica (Aztec) and the Maya Religious Beliefs and Their Role in the Practice of Human Sacrifice, Ian V. Kopf
Department: History
A Critical Study of Hip-Hop and the Messages That Hip-Hop's Music Express, Bernard L. McGinley III
Department: History
Snakes and Ladders: a Study of Indian Democracy in the Context of Emergency Powers, Zaheer Nooruddin
Department: History; Political Science
Why the M-16 Rifle: a Case Study of Infantry Small Arms During the Vietnam War, Timothy A. V. B. Pollard
Department: History
Russia Under Ivan the Terrible: a Widowed Nation, Frank L. Reutter
Department: History
Subversive Dreams: An Historical Analysis of the Evolution of French Feminist Consciousness With Specific Emphasis on Enfranchisement, 1789-1914, Kristen S. Schermer
Department: History
The Reluctant Exodus: The Last China Missionaries and American Culture, Church, and State, Jonathan A. Seitz
The Civil Rights Movement: Events That Changed the Movement, Sylvester S. Slaughter
Department: History
The ETA and the Continual Struggle For Basque Independence, Sarah L. Soroos
Department: History
Kids Far From Home: International Adoption, 1948-1998, Catherine M. Swartz
Department: History
The Role of Mothers As Portrayed in the Ladies' Home Journal During Three Decades: 1920, 1950, and 1980, Jennifer L. Toll
Department: History
If the Grass Is Greener on the Other Side, Kill It!!! or the Ecological Impact of the Vietnam War, Richard L. Updegrove II
Department: History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1997
To Compute or Not to Compute?: An Historical Analysis of Past Experiences and Modern Opinions About the Role of Computer Technology in Education, Chris Comito
Department: History
The Water Is Wide: An Analysis of Maine Folktales and How They Define a Coastal People, Sarah L. Farley
Department: History
Black and White: a History of the Racial Theology of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1845-1995, Wade C. Halva
Department: History; Religious Studies
Chick Flicks: Reinforcing Gender Roles Through Film, Leslie E. Hammer
Department: History
An Artistic Exploration of the South American Art Form, Arpilleras, Amy Hansen
The Negro Leagues: the Catalyst For Change, Matthew R. Jackson
Department: History
Pray Love, Remember: a Novella, Antonia Mandry
Department: English; History
Christian Line of Authority From the Apostasy to the Restoration, Carrie A. Zuro
Department: History