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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2013
Professional Perceptions of Auditory Rehabilitation Specialists Regarding Which Components of Music Training Programs Designed For Adult Cochlear Implant Recipients Are Most Effective in Improving Music Enjoyment, Maria Ballentine
Department: Communication Studies
From the Outside In: a Comparative Analysis of Performance Techniques, Mark Banks
Department: Theatre and Dance
Anti-Appeasement: Exploring Opposition to Great Britain's Interwar Appeasement Policy, Robert Bansberg
Department: History
Tussen Droom En Werkelijkheid: Between Dream and Reality, Karin Barend
Department: Art and Art History
Education Movements in the South: Choice Education in the 20th and 21st century, Marcel Baugh
Department: Africana Studies
Deconstructing Biological Determinism: An Exploration of the Interrelations Between Gender, Monogamy, and Infidelity Among College Students, Alexandra Beard
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Characterization of Two Contiguous-Dimer Taurocyamine Kinases From the Parasitic Trematodes Schistosoma Japonicum and Clonorchis Sinensis, Brittany Begres
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Call of the Wild (And the Caged): The Impact of a Zoo's Exhibition Styles on the Attitudes of Its Human Visitors, Erin S. Behn
Department: Psychology
LeBron James: The Modern Day Michael Jordan and Nike's New Headliner, Jordan Bell
Department: Communication Studies
A Comparison of the Frequency of Print Focused Strategies Implemented By Preschoolteachers During Story Time Reading Across Classroom Type and Book Type, Elizabeth D. Benckart
Department: Communication Studies
Human Rights or Strategic Pragmatism: An Examination of Human Rights Organization Naming and United States Military Assistance, Maxwell Bent
Department: International Relations
Route 28, Ilana R. Ben-Zvi
Department: English
From High-Fashion Runway to Street-Style: The Uses and Gratifications of Fashion-Based Blogs by Individuals, Mary Billingsley
Department: Communication Studies
// : Study of the Gravitational Interaction Between Two Line Masses, Andrew Blaikie
Department: Mathematics; Physics
Arming the Homeland: Ethnic Interest Group Influence on U.S. Arms Sales, Daisy Bledsoe-Herring
Department: Political Science
Towards the Synthesis of Fret-Hairpin Polyamide Conjugates, Sarah Louise Blosser
Department: Chemistry
Bad Kids These Days: Behavior Modification and Parental Perceptions of Children With Behavioral Disorders, Abena Boamah-Acheampong
Department: Psychology
A Bestial History, Brittany Bounds
Department: Art and Art History
Pray the Gay Away: An Examination of Masculinity in the Ex-Gay Movement, Christina Bowerman
Department: Religious Studies; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The Art of Gangs: How Law Enforcement Identifies and Responds to Symbols of Gang Activity, Including Non-Verbal Communication, Brittany Braun
Department: Communication Studies
The Aesthetic Spaces Between Artistic Freedom and Cultural Traditions: New Methods For the Curation of Contemporary African Art, Isabelle Briggs
Department: Africana Studies
Drug Abuse Explored in Mice: Tolerance and Cross-Tolerance in Nicotine and Ethanol Using Siegel's Model, Hope Brill
Department: Psychology
Re-Framing the Slaughter: Remembering the Rwandan Genocide, Jordan C. Broutman
Department: History
Breaking (Amish) News: Citizen Journalism in the Digital Age, Leah M. Brown
Department: English
Putin and the Russian Federation: Securing Power at the Expense of Democracy, William F. Burkhart
Department: History; Russian Studies
Economic Capability and Its Role in Determining Compliance With International Law, Kees C. Burns
Department: Political Science
The Good Farmer, the Productive Farmer: Paradigms and Worldviews in Contemporary U.S. Agriculture, Luke Butcher
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Pre-G.I.L.S. (Guided Inquiry Learning Sessions): Supplemental Instruction For Introductory Chemistry 110, Cassidy Erin Calkins
Department: Chemistry
Every Citizen a Soldier: World War II Propaganda Posters and the American Home Front, Benjamin Caroli
Department: History
Breaking Patriarchy: the Utopias and Discontents of Gilman, Atwood, Le Guin, and Burgess, Milo Carpenter
Department: English
Ballistics Analysis of Volcanic Ejecta: Miter Crater, Ice Springs Volcanic Field, Black Rock Desert, Utah, William Cary
Department: Geology
Get Back to Work, Sir: An Empirical Study of CEO Compensation with Regards to Company Monitoring, Glenn Caventer
Department: Business Economics
Gettysburg: The Speeches, Reunions, and Monuments that Rewrote History After the Battle of Gettysburg, Shawn Chaffee
Department: History
Synthesis of Monomeric Precursors for an Electroluminescent Polymer-Crown Ether: Polymerization via Acyclic Diene Metathesis, Michael Chido
Department: Chemistry
The Effects of a Magnetic Field on a Conical Bead Pile, Lilianna Christman
Department: Physics
Comedy Tomorrow, Tragedy Tonight: Euripides' Choral Innovations in Greek Tragedy, David Chu
Department: Classical Studies
The Curse of the South: Using Trauma Theory to Examine Faulkner's the Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!, Evelyn M. Clarke
Department: English
Violent Sex Crime and Federal Legislation: the Effects of Federal Sex Crime Legislation Implementation, Crime Expenditures, and Population Demographics on State Level Forcible Rape Rates, Joshua Claytor
Department: Political Science
Goin' to the Chapel, Gonna Get Married: An Examination of Why Young Adults Want to Get Married, Amanda Collins
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Unique Value of Autonomy, Daniel Copfer
Department: English; Philosophy
The Flâneuse in Film: Female Flânerie in the French New Wave and Contemporary Indie Cinema, Emily Corwin
Department: English
The Strength of Neighborhoods' Mosaic: An Empirical Analysis That Examines the Relationship Between Community Based Assets and Physical and Social Disorder, Devin Cotten
Department: Urban Studies
Measuring Inequality: a Sociological Look at Alternative Schooling, Theodore D. Cox
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Mogadishu....We Have a Problem: How Decolonization Set Up the Democratic Republic of Somalia to Collapse, Rachel R. Craddolph
Department: History; International Relations
Kinetics and Mechanism of the Reaction Between Oxalic Acid Species and Hydroxyl Radical, Rebecca L. Craig
Department: Chemistry
What is the Goal? Nationalist Mobilization Through Football and Regional Government in Three Spanish Autonomous Communities, Kathryn Marie Dengiz Crawford
Inequality and Influence on Cheating Behavior, Stephen Crozier
Department: Economics
The Roles of Individual Personality and Statewide Personality on Individual Corporal Punishment Beliefs, Katherine E. Darling
Department: Psychology
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
The Torus and Graph Theory, Kyla Davis
Department: Mathematics
Quaternions and Octonions, Erin Davison
Department: Mathematics
Max Weber Meets Michel Foucault, and Society Ensues: "Charisma" and "Parrhesia" in Societal Evolution, and Other Musings, Edward Alter Day
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
If My Kids Aint Got Me, They Got Nobody Parents' Perceptions of Their Child's High School, Roxie Deer
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Leadership. Empowerment. Gender: a Sociological Examination of the Effects of Emotional Intelligence and Empowerment on Female Leadership, Jacqueline DeFrancesco
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Monkey See Monkey Do: Imitation and Tool Use in Cebus Apella Monkeys, Human Children, and Infants, Anna Divis
Department: Psychology
The Grey Area: Using Film to Educate Independent Music Artists in Practices of Branding and Promotion, Darius Dixson
Department: Communication Studies
Lazarene, Mary K. Donnelly
Location, Location, Location: An Empirical Study of the Factors That Determine the Location of Natural and Organic Grocery Retailers in the United States, Alexis Donnorummo
Department: Business Economics
The Effects of Head Motion on Mood, Life Satisfaction, and Future Expectations, Abigail Douglas
Department: Psychology
Optimization of BEEM Techniques Through the Analysis of GaN Nanowires and Au: GaAs, Lorenzo Dumancas
Department: Physics
Cracks Between the Cobble: France and the World Out There, Joseph Dziedziak
Department: English; French and Francophone Studies
Only For Honest Men: A Survey of Voting Theory, Anna C. Easterday
Department: Mathematics
Monitoring Theory Within Governmental Decision-Making: a Panel Data Analysis of Domestic Terrorism Between 1997 and 2008, Simon Kantor Ebbott
Department: International Relations
Transnational Advocacy Networks and Human Rights Issue Emergence Amidst Internet Repression: a Case Study of Syria and Egypt, Kurt Eicher
Department: International Relations
La Vie Des Réfugiés Ivoriens Au Libéria : Des Obstacles Sans Solution ?, Samira El-Adawy
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Encaustic Internal Organs Paralleling the External Industrial World, Betsy J. Elderbrock
Department: Art and Art History
Senior Independent Study in Composition: Claire and Annette; Thanatopsis; Notes from Undergrad, Frederick Evans
Department: Music
Chekhov: a Response to Romantic Solopsism in the "Little Trilogy", Briana Ewing
Department: Russian Studies
Exploring the Microhabitats of Marsupial Frogs: a Study of the Forces Driving Habitat Selection For Flectonotus Fitzgeraldi Within Herbaceous Xanthosoma Jacquinii Populations of Tobago, Meredith M. Eyre
Department: Biology
From Compost to Gram's Kitchen: a Cultural History of Food, Elizabeth Jean Fackler
Department: English
LenORE: Poe and Baudelaire at Play, Carolyn Martha Fado
Department: Comparative Literature
Can Incentive Influence Susceptibility to Inattentional Blindness?, Tristan D. Fava
Department: Psychology
The Lost Letters of Calpurnia: An Epistolary Novella Based on the Life of Pliny the Younger's Wife, Lisa Marie Favicchia
Department: Classical Studies; English
Increasing the Salience of Inadmissible Evidence to Decrease Its Effect on Juror Judgments, Brandon Fay
Department: Psychology
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
Ears, Hooks, Hunchbacks, and Fins: An Ideological Analysis of Physical Disability in Disney Animated Films, Dana L. Feit
Department: Communication Studies
From Cold Warrior to Peace Advocate: How John F. Kennedy Utilized Epideictic Progression in His June 10, 1963, Commencement Address at American University, Shawna Ferris
Department: Communication Studies
Sport As a Vehicle For Fostering Environmental Consciousness: An Examination of Ultimate Frisbee in the United States, Noah Fisher
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Action, Normativity, and Desire: Reflections on Reasons Internalism, Quentin Andrew Fisher
Department: Philosophy
Blaming Victims: the Effects of Sexual Orientation, Provocation, and Gender on Perceptions of Domestic Violence, Gillian Fiske
Department: Psychology
Use of Bibliotherapy in a First Grade Classroom and Its Efficacy in Positively Impacting Perceptions of Disabilities and Increasing the Knowledge of Students, Morgan Foster
Department: Communication Studies
The Orchestration of Persuasion: An Analysis of the Audible and Prosodic Features of American Television Ads, Alexandra Francis
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Consumption of Visual Art in Contemporary American Society, Sarah Frecker
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Machete Number, David Freund
Department: Mathematics
Grand Forks Kept the Faith, Gustave Fuguitt
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Fashion Blogs... the New Black: the Creation of Identity and Use of Consumption Through Fashion Blogs Within the Millennial Generation, Brenna Fujimoto
Department: Communication Studies
The Seven Deadly Sins, Kathryn Furbee
Department: English
Lower Leg Compression Shows Promise to Improve Prolonged Peroneus Longus Reaction Time in Individuals With Functional Ankle Instability, Hanna Gabriel
Department: Neuroscience
Resisting Colonialism: Cultural Syncretism, Indigenous Agency and Exploition in Colonial Potosí, Isaac Galef-Brown
Department: History
Measurement of Glacial Meltwater Outflow Through Water Analysis For Geohazard Recognition, Laura Lynne German
Department: Chemistry
An Economic Analysis of Discrimination in Hiring Practices With Regard to Physical Attractiveness, Devin Giles
Department: Economics
American Quaker Activism: Emerging Leadership, Evolving Faith, and Extraordinary Change, Catherine Gillette
Department: History
The Effects of the Norm of International Election Monitoring on Voters' Confidence Levels in Francophone West Africa's Presidential Elections 1990-2011, Lauren E. Gilliss
Department: International Relations
Manipulation of Transverse Photonic Degrees of Freedom Via Classical and Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference, Thomas F. Gilliss
Department: Physics
I Have to Own That! Exploring the Relationship Between Impulsivity and Internet Shopping Behavior, Amanda Leigh Gittleson
Department: Psychology
Exploration of Play Behaviors of Children with Autism and Typically Developing Children as Perceived by College Students, Amanda Kay Graeser
Department: Communication Studies
Go Greek or Go Home: Investigating Greek Versus Non-Greek Perceptions of Fairness, Devin B. Grandi
Department: Psychology
The Global City of New York: Neoliberalism, Occupy Wall Street, and the Polarization and Repoliticization of Denationalized Space, Daniel Grantham
Department: History; Political Science