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Senior Independent Study Theses from 1999
Impact of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 on Native American Reservations in the State of Arizona, Megan D. McKinney
Department: Political Science
The Odds Against Us: Self-Esteem Levels of Women Working In and Out of the Home, Kate Messer
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Odds Against Us: Self-Esteem Levels of Women Working In and Out of the Home, Kate Messer
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Serial: Fixations...Ratings...Objects, Hope E. Miller
Department: English
Once Upon the Lawsuit: Narrative Coherence and Legal Metaplots in the Microsoft Antitrust Case, Benjamin C. Mizer
Department: Political Science
Trees or Fees, Hugs or Thugs: An Exploratory Study on the Evolution of India's Chipko Movement, Bhavana Mody
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Examination and Detection of Drug Samples Using Microscopic Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, Krystal Louise Mohn
Department: Chemistry
Abomination: a Controversy of Homosexuality in the Church, A. J. Moore
Department: Religious Studies
An Examination of Vaclav Harvel's Synthesis of Theater and Politics, David J. Moore
Department: History
Examination of Animals in Literature: What They Are Saying About Us and Why, Yael Moore
Department: English
"Taking Care of Hopes and Dreams in a Plastic Box" The emotional labor of a nurse when communicating with parents in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Erica J. Moser
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Ideology and Foreign Policy: the Soviet Union's Foreign Aid Policy in Africa, Anna M. Navis
Department: Political Science; Russian Studies
Software Pirates, Music Pirates and Computer Cracks. The Thieves of Cyberspace: A Study Ascertaining the Extent and Discussing Predictors of Computer Crimes Among College Students, Matthew B. Neely
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
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
Explaining Variations in the Severity of United States Foreign Policy Response to State-Sponsored Terrorism, James M. Pilachowski
Department: Political Science
The Influence of African Rhythm and Percussion in the Americas, John Pollack
Department: Music
Ist Die Geographische Grenze Zwischen Ohio Und Pennsylvania Auch Eine Sprachliche Grenze? Eine Vergleichende Studie Des Pennsylvania-Deutschen, Michael T. Putnam
Department: German Studies
Digging Up the Streets and Other Stories, Lorraina Raccuia
Department: English
Creation of a New Genre: Fusing the Elements of the Gothic and Grotesque Elements to Examine the Works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Conneor, Karen J. Rafferty
Department: English
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
Modern Influences in Shaping Children's Museums, Amanda M. Refshauge
What Were Animals Like When You Were Little?, Nathan P. Renkes
Department: History
Multiculturalism in the Classroom: a Look at Creation Stories and English Literature, Heather N. Reynolds
Department: English
Playing Chicken in Amish Country: Globalization, Latino Migrant Workers, and the Poultry Industry of Millersburg, Ohio, Kathleen A. Reynolds
Department: Political Science; Spanish
Hummingbird of the Dead, Kirsten Rich
Department: English
The Americanization of Golf, Matthew M. Riva
Department: History
Use of Attenuated Total Reflectance Infrared Spectroscopy in the Analysis of Polymeric Degredation, Brenten D. Robson
Department: Chemistry
The Study of the Individual and the Chat Room as a Community, Jessica Rene Roe
It's All God: the Religiousness and Spirituality of Generation X, Heather K. Schario
Coalition Policy Making and International Bargaining: the Logic of Two-Level Games Revised in the European Union, Zachary P. Schwing
Department: Political Science
The Role of Air Power in Operation Desert Storm, Todd Seney
Department: History
B6560, Shayna N. Sharpe
Department: English
Exploring Wilderness (And Returning Home), Caitlin F. Shipps
Department: English
Talking About the Body: a Collection of Poems, Kristen Silver
Department: English
Preservation of American Heritage, Carrie Simmons
Department: Archaeology
You Say You Want a Revolution? The Impact of the Professionalization of Movement Building on Low Income Political Activity: A Theoretical Development of Determining Efficacy, Marsha Simpson
Department: Political Science
Chicks in 007 Flicks: the Relationship between Women, Film, and Society, Sara-Rebecca Smith
Education As Transformation: Connecting the Head and Heart Through a Pedagogy of Spirituality, Dana Sommers
Department: Religious Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
Velvet and Blood the Breakups of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, Joshua F. Stubbins
Department: Political Science
Economic Growth and Economic Development in the Third World: a Quantitative Approach to An Analysis of the Chasm, Divya R. Thadani
Department: International Relations; Mathematics
Frau Mutter Mädchen Kind Bürgerin Die Frauen Der Nationalsozialistischen Spielfilmen 1933-1945, Julie A. Theisen
Department: German Studies
Corinth and Saint Paul: a Study of Cultural and Economic Influences, Heather A. Turnbull
Department: Classical Studies
Does Policy Stringency Equal Success?, Heather Van Almen
Department: Political Science
Nazi Germany on Trial: a Historical and Philosophical Analysis of the Nuremberg Trial, Aaron Veith
Department: History; Philosophy
La Política Racial En Cuatro Obras Cubanas, Lindsey Walsh
Department: Spanish
Reimagining Beauty: Challeging Societal Images of Black Women in Two Novels of the Harlem Rennaisance:; Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun and Wallace Thurman's Blacker the Berry, Catriona A. Ward
Department: English
Cooperation and Relative Gains: the Puzzle of Britain and European Cooperation, Patrick M. Watts
Department: Political Science
Holy Spirit: a Means of Empowerment and Relationship in The
Pentecostal Movement, Allen L. Weaver
Department: Religious Studies
Couples Only: Reasons For the Two-Party System in the United States, in Comparison to Canada and the United Kingdom, Stephen L. Wirzylo
Department: Political Science
Oh Mother, What Shall I be-a Gibson Girl or a Grind? Or, Two Generations of Winsome Wooster Women, Julia B. Woodward
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1998
Terminal Bliss: the Wrath of Mortality on Ernest Hemingway and the Garden of Eden, Brooke S. Abernethy
Department: English
"Die Helden Aus Dem Untergrund." Deutsche Rockmusik Der 60er Und 70er Jahre, Ryan M. Banach
Department: German Studies
Testing the Waters: Bill Clinton and Environmental Policy, Nathaniel D. Barr
Department: Political Science
Misuses of Statistics in the Social Sciences: A Quantitative Approach to the Manipulation of Numbers, Christopher J. Becker
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Busted: the Story of Campaign Finance Reform, Rebecca K. Bender
Department: Political Science
Why Boobz, Wende Bitler
Department: English
Practical Politics is Rubbish: Examining Nationalism in Scotland and Quebec, Jonathan Blume
Department: Political Science
The Role of U.S. Foreign Policy Concerning the Drug Flow Across Borders Including Mexico and Colombia and the Outcomes of Such Policy, James A. Boxall III
Department: Political Science
An Exploration of Television's Impact on Burnham's Theory of Critical Elections, Frederick P. Brodie Jr.
Department: Political Science
La Casa En Mango Street: Traducción Y Anáiisis De the House on Mango Street, Novela De Sandra Cisneros, Rachel L. Brown
Department: Spanish
Mulingi's Belt, David Bryant
Department: English
Winnie-The-Pooh For Adults, Jessica Buell
Department: English
A Study of Han Shan Poems: Songs of Cold Mountain in the Context of Chinese Religious Thought and Practice, Edward A. Burger
Department: Religious Studies
Women Sleuths: Identifying a New and Empowering Female Protagonist, Dawn Michelle Carpenter
People and Poverty: A Study of the Relationship Between Population Growth and Economic Development, Ryan L. Catteau
Department: Political Science
Examining the Affects of Sexual Motifs on Mother-Daughter Relationships in Three East-Asian American Novels: Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club," Lan Cao's "Monkey Bridge," and Nora O. Keller's "Comfort Woman.", Lasaly Changkachith
Department: English
Marxism, Patriarchy, and "Bourgeois Feminism": the Position of Women in Soviet Russia, Beth Ciha
Department: Russian Studies
Military Influence on Political Decision-Making in Argentina and Brazil, Mark A. Coates
Department: Political Science
Matriarchy, Maternity, Monogamy, and Black Women's Empowerment in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Emily M. Coleman
Department: English
A Study of the U.S. Army Special Forces From 1952 to the Present, Adam D. Cornett
Department: History
Examination of Astronomical Alignments As Related to Public and Religious Structures in the Maya Region, Rebecca Crane
Department: Archaeology
Job Satisfaction, Alienation and Anomie in the Nursing Profession, Jeremy J. Dadzie
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
This Slower Death: a Collection of Poems, Nicole Donnelly
Department: English
Democracy? the Roma in the Czech Republic, Kalima J. Drga
Department: Political Science
Voyage à Travers La Modernité, Jan M. English
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Inbetween Spaces Le Cas De La Littérature Postcoloniale de l'Afrique Occidentale, Helen Aine Flewelling
Department: English; French and Francophone Studies
"Why Vodka?: Understanding the Russian's Obsession With Alcohol", Heather Foster
Department: Russian Studies
A Critical Examination of the Role of Art in the Lives of Australian Aborigines, Jesse M. Fowler
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Viking Women: An Exploration of Female Roles and Activities in Late Iron Age Scandinavian Society, Ann-Catherine Frederick
Department: History; Archaeology
"Entartete" Kunst im Dritten Reich: Eine Studie über das Schicksal Monderner Kunst und ihrer Künstler in Nationalsozialistichen Deutschland, Victoria J. Ganz
Department: German Studies
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 Critical Exploration of African Oppression and Subsequent Means of Liberation, Tobey Esther Goldfarb
A Critical Exploration of African Oppressions and Subsequent Means of Liberations, Tobey Esther Goldfarb
Sur Le Chemîn De La Révolution Tranquille: Bonheur D'Occasion Et Au Pied De La Pente Douce, Julie A. Good
Department: French and Francophone Studies
A Historical Investigation of American Society During the Establishment of the Consitution From a European Perspective, Brian M. Grindall
Department: History
Beyond the Horse-Race: A Study of the Media and the Presidential Nomination Process, David L. Halpin
Department: Political Science
Faith-Based Community Development Organizations: a Study in Social Production and Social Capital, Elizabeth D. Hansburg
Department: Urban Studies
The Power of the Presidential Team, Brian J. Hansen
Department: Political Science
Ordination of Women, Benjamin E. Harpster
Department: Religious Studies
Role of Hegemonically Based Racial Constructs in the Social, Political and Economic Interactions of Developing Countries: Hispanola a Case Study, Jana T. Harris
Department: Africana Studies; Spanish
Phoenician-Punic Tophet: An Analysis of the Evidence Concerning Child Sacrifice, Sarah Harris
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Gender Biases of the Middle Ages Indicated By the Narrative Cycles of Two Thirteenth Century Italian Hagiographical Altarpieces Depicting Saint Francis and Saint Clare, Melanie Hartman
Department: Religious Studies
We Must Use What We Have to Invent What We Desire: Poetics and Politics in the Later Poems of Adrienne Rich, 1978-1995, Heidi R. Haverkamp
Department: English
"Finally", Charles W. Hayes II
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
School Vandalism: Strain, Control, and Differential Association, Dan Howard
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
"No Madder Than the Queen of England": Representations of the Nineteenth-Centruy Madwoman in Twentieth-Century Literature and Popular Journals, Kristin E. Hundertmark
Department: English
Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods: Observations and Analysis of a Musical and Its Music, Deborah Jacobson
Department: Music
Cultural Representation of the !Kung San in Film and Ethnography: Implications of Our Perceptions About the Cultural "Other", Nikoo R. Kasmai
Department: Sociology and Anthropology