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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2012
Cowboy Mythology in National Politics: The Pre-Presidential Political Career of Lyndon Johnson, Alyson Bujnoski
Department: History
Seams You Wear, Alec Burns
Department: English
Preserving the Past: A Comparison Between the United States and India, D. Claire Burns
Department: Archaeology
Democracy and Political Citizenry: Wolin From Student Revolt to Superpower, James Bush
Department: Political Science
Sailing on the Edge: a World-Systems Analysis of Pirates and Privateers in the Atlantic and Caribbean in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Emily Butcher
Department: Archaeology
Prediction of Professional Basketball Games Using Artificial Neural Networks and Linear Models, Keshia Butler
Department: Mathematics
Air Drag and External Ballistics, Patrick Butler
Department: Physics
Artist Francesco Clemente's Understanding of Tantrism As Demonstrated By the Unfolding of Female Genitalia in His Works, Eliza Cady
Department: Art and Art History
Assessing the Conservation Status of the Critically Endangered Caribbean Frog, Mannophryne olomonae, Travis L. Calkins
Department: Biology
Mom, What Are We? Culture Contact Between Maya and Olmec in Pre-Columbian Honduras, Anarrubenia P. Capellin Ortega
Department: Archaeology
Clinical Predictors of Neuropsychological Outcomes in Persons With Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in An Outpatient Rehabilitation Setting, Madison Jane Carey
Department: Psychology
Daily Show: Jon Stewart's Comic Court, Kevin Carpenter
Department: English
American Dream: a Foucauldian Analysis of the American Discourse on Education, John P. Carter
Department: Political Science
Mind the Gap, Willa Cary
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Procedurally Generating Everything, Micah Caunter
Department: Computer Science
Landmark Legislation and Models of Presidential Power: a Case Study of the 2010 Health Care Reform Bill, Chris Caventer
Department: Political Science
Effexor® Concentrations in Bluegill Sunfish Liver, Brain, Muscle and Plasma Samples, Nita Chavez
Department: Chemistry
Discovering the Nameless Soldier: a Social History of Union Volunteer Infantry Soldiers in the Civl War, Benjamin H. Christ
Department: History
Corporate Hedging and Firm Value: Before and After the Financial Crisis, Duc M. Chu
Department: Economics
They Will Lie to You: a Solution For Interorganizational Conflict Through a Quantitative Analysis of the Communication Patterns Between Law Enforcement and Journalists in Small Town America, Julia Chunglo
Department: Communication Studies
Hello, I Love You, Won’t You Tell Me Your Name?: An Anthropological Investigation of Naming, Haley Lisa Close
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Eloquence of Stone: Propagandistic Function of Monumental and Funerary Art in Nineteenth Century Paris, Lauren Close
Department: Art and Art History; History
Radical Absurdity: Reinterpreting Camus For a Better Absurdism, Michael Lee Cohen
Department: Philosophy
Comparison and Analog-Based Analysis of Sinuous Channels on the Rift Aprons of Ascraeus Mons and Pavonis Mons Volcanoes, Mars, Andrew Collins
Department: Geology
Social Relevance of Speakeasies: Prohibition, Flappers, Harlem, and Change, Joseph Collins
Department: History
The Effects of Male Seminal Fluid Proteins on Female Receptivity to Re-Mating in Southern House Mosquitoes, Culex quinquefasciatus, Della Connelly
Department: Biology
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
Finding Peace Through Religious Difference: Healing the Wounds of Violent Conflict Through Interfaith Dialogue, Kristen J.E. Connors
Department: International Relations; Religious Studies
Is Altruistic Behavior Rational? a Test of Garp on Social Preferences, Samuel G. Cook
Department: Economics
Breaking Down the Bones: Understanding the Occupation of Forensic Anthropology, Maria L. Cox
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Which Is Better, Democracy or a Traditional Government?; Fiafia i Malo Democracy o i Aganu'u Malo Matai? Customized Democracy in the South Pacific: Theory, Opinions, and Understanding, Christine Marie Crites
Department: Political Science
Jihad Calling: a Rhetorical Fantasy Theme Analysis of Al Qaeda's Online Magazine Inspire, Gregory Crocker
Department: Communication Studies
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
Using Mathematical Models to Evaluate NFL Field Goal Kicking, Kyle Cunningham-Rhoads
Department: Mathematics
Catalytic Dechlorination of Persistent Environmental Contaminants Via Swellable Organically Modified Silica With Sequestered Palladium, Allison Curtze
Department: Chemistry
Multivariate Statistics, Joshua A. Dailey
Department: Mathematics
Progress Toward Using An Optical Tweezer to Make Scattering-Based Size Measurements, Matt Damon
Department: Physics
The Effects of Testosterone and Corticosterone in Rats on Nociception and Recovery Times Following Minor Cutaneous Injury, Cameron J. Daniels
Department: Biology
The Wooster Model: A Staff Scheduling Problem With An Application to Student Activities, Hannah Dauber
Department: Mathematics
During the Time of Non-Stop Creation, You Travel to the Past and the Future: An Exploration of Beijing’s Underground Music and Its Relationship with Modern China, Charlie W. Davis
Department: Chinese Studies
Effect of Athletic Media Images on Women's Body Dissatisfaction and Drive For Muscularity, Gwen Davis
Department: Psychology
My Child, Your Child, Our Child? the Nature of Children, Elders, and the Obligation to Educate, Molly Davis
Department: Philosophy
An Investigation of the Effects of Estrogen on Anxiety and Hippocampal-Dependent Fear Conditioning, Ashley Dawes
Department: Neuroscience
Synthesis and Characterization of Pt(II) and Re(V) Complexes As Potential Anti-Tumor Complexes, Michael DeBord
Department: Chemistry
Hitting Eject: a Study on the Use of Frames to Influence Public Opinion of the United States Automotive Industry Bailouts, James DeCrispino
Department: Political Science
Introduction of Streptomycin Resistance through Repeated Exposure in Pseudomonas chlororaphis: an Environmental Model for Acquired Resistance in the Clinical Pathogen, Kevin A. DeGroot
Department: Biology
Pornographic Influence: Men's Perception of Women and Their Relationship Reflections, Caroline B. Denzer
Department: Psychology
The South Will Rise Again! A Study of the Effectivnes of South-South Trade Blocs, John Derksen
Department: Political Science
Absurdity with God: Faith in Walker Percy's Novels, Emily DeTar
Department: English; Philosophy
The Lethal and Sublethal Effects of Dinotefuran on Apis mellifera Hives, Jordan E. Dieterle
Department: Biology
How We Seem "To Be": English- and Spanish-Speaking Children's Susceptibility to the Fundamental Attribution Error and Actor-Observer Bias, Mary E. Dixon
Department: Psychology
Behavioral Effects of Intraguild Predation by Harmonia axyridis on Aphidoletes aphidimyza and the Biological Control Services of Shared Prey, Ethan M. Doherty
Department: Biology
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
No Child Will Be Left Behind in My Classroom!: NCLB's Effects and Elementary Teachers' Strategies to Beat the Test, Logan Dunn
Department: Communication Studies
Music and the Brain: Exploring the Effects of Music on Spatial Learning and BDNF Protein Expression in the Mouse Hippocampus, Gideon P. Dunster
Department: Biology
Bindis and Blue Jeans, Saris and Starbucks: An Analysis of Identity Among First and Second-Generation Indian Immigrants, Cassie Dutton
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Impacts of Military Expenditure Upon Economic Growth Under Varying Circumstances Through the Lenses of the Realist Paradigm and the Solow Growth Model, Castine L. Echanis
Department: International Relations
Extended Family, Will Ehrenreich
Department: Art and Art History
Caring About Stories: A Conceptual Investigation of Narrative Art and Moral Understanding, Nicholas Alexander Ehrhardt
Department: Philosophy
Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the Soeginina Beds (Paadla Formation, Lower Ludlow, Upper Silurian) on Saaremaa Island, Estonia, Richa N. Ekka
Department: Geology
Incentivizing Developed Country Foreign Direct Investment: An Efficient Means of Closing the Gap For Developing Countries?, Charles Erhart
Department: Economics
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
Cracks in the Sidewalk: An Examination of "Freaks" and Women in Garry Winogrand's Volatile Sixties, Charlie Fanelli
Department: Art and Art History
Refusing the Voice of the Mother: The Generative Failure of French Feminist Thought in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, Jordan E. Farrar
Department: English
I Never Thought Black and White Before I Came to Wooster: An Investigation of Diversity at the College of Wooster, Madeline Fauser
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Wenlock/Ludlow Boundary at Saaremaa Island, Estonia, Nicholas Fedorchuk
Department: Geology
Gender Divide: Re-Examining the Feminization of Teaching in the Nineteenth Century with Emphasis on the Displaced Male Teacher, Matthew Fegan
Department: History
Now I Walk in Beauty: A Comparative Examination of Historical and Contemporary Native American Religious Traditions Through the Lakota and Shoshone-Bannock Sun Dances, Jessie Felling
Department: Religious Studies
Male Dark-Eyed Juncos (Junco hyemalis) Respond Aggressively to Song Playback Without Modulating Plasma Testosterone or Corticosterone, Stephen M. Ferguson
Department: Biology
Single Moment: The Effect of Gender and Other Social Factors on a Student Athlete's Performance Under Pressure, Jason Filatov
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Authenticity and Art: Towards a New Conception of Authenticity and its Application to Art, Jared Fink
Department: Philosophy
Reading Sesame Street: a Study of Literary Structures in Children's Educational Television, Geoffrey T. Fisher
Department: English
Effect of Power and Accountability on Cognitive Performance, Abigail J. FitzSimons
Department: Psychology
Effects of Short-Term Creatine Monohydrate Supplementation on Body Composition, Skeletal Muscle Strength During Anaerobic Exercises, Salivary Testosterone, & Urinary Creatinine in “Non-Active” Indiviudals at the College of Wooster, Robert Flagg
Department: Biology
Culture Et L'Enfance : Les Mysteres De La Litterature De Jeunesse, Frances Flynn
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Testing the Limited Resource Model and Its Effect on Task Performance in Tufted Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus Apella), Courtney Chase Foster
Department: Psychology
Chechnya: Death, Journalism, and History, Samuel Foulkes
Department: English; Russian Studies
Isolation of Bacterial Strains in Wastewater Sludge Capable of Degradation of Sertraline, Venlafaxine and Triclocarban, Jonathan Fox
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Exploration of Hyperbolic Geometry/ Mathematics and Studio Art, Rachel Frank
Department: Art and Art History; Mathematics
Disaggregation Is Key: Using Alternative Growth Models to Evaluate the Impact of AIDS on Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, Elizabeth Freeman
Department: Economics
Marshallese Time: A Critical Reflection of the Magazine, H. Kris Fronzak
Department: English
Does BMI Correlate With the Time Interval Between An Injury and a Joint Replacement?, Brianna S. Fulmer
Department: Biology
Exploring Opinion Dynamics From a Computational Science Perspective, Trisha Fultz
Department: Mathematics; Computer Science
Gender Differences on a Change Blindness Task, Rebecca Furspan
Department: Psychology
Unnecessary Catastrophe--The Irish Potato Famine: 1845-1852, Nora Furstenberg-Carroll
Department: History
From Apples to Zucchini: Bridging the Gap Between Students and Local Producers Through the Implementation of a Farm to School Program, Emily Gallivan
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Need to Reform the Human Rights Regime: Various Disagreements With Human Rights, Michael Garcia
Department: History
Backstory-'Without It, It's Just a Game', Michael Gellert
Department: English
A Novel Study For the Detection of the Fungus Histoplasma capsulatum in Mice from Wayne and Holmes Counties, Ohio Using PCR, Melissa E. Glick
Department: Biology
Effect of Language of Origin on Improvisational Jazz, Harrison Goldberg
Department: Psychology
What Science Says: Popular Science Rhetoric in Contemporary American Society, Emily Alanna Graham
Department: English
Walking With a Ghost, Nell C. Gram
Department: English
Let's Do the Time Warp Again: a Study of Rituals and Themes That Keep the Cult Phenomenon of the Rocky Horror Picture Show Alive, Selena M. F. Gray
Department: Theatre and Dance
Along Came a Spider: a Biological Assessment of Spider Communities in Urban Gardens and Vacant Lots and an Anthropological Investigation of Attitudes Toward Spiders, Kelsey Greathouse
Department: Biology; Sociology and Anthropology
Rift Valley Racers: a Study of the Cultural Causes of Kalenjin Distance Running Success From 1968 to the Present, Casey Green
Department: International Relations