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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2002
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
Hope & Strength: Images of Women in Ivan Klíma's Work, Laura Tobin
Department: Russian Studies
Growing Up in a Contradicting Nation: a Critical and Creative Analysis of American Identity in Fiction, Emily Van Oeveren
Department: English
Britons, Wholly Sundered From All the World: Diet and Identity on the Northern Frontier of Roman Britain, 43-400 C.E., Michael A. Vidmar
Department: Classical Studies
Exploring the Personal Traits of Tito and Milosevic: Ethnic Unifier or Divider?, Kristin Walley
Department: Political Science
The Siloxymethylation of beta-D-Glucose Pentaacetate: Progress Towards the Synthesis of the C-linked Retinoyl beta-Glucuronide, Tracy Ward
Department: Chemistry
Una Exploración De La Metodología Y El Dresarollo De Un Plan Del Curso Comunicativo Para La Enseñanza Del Español Al Nivel Primario, Audra E. Warner
Department: Spanish
"Out of Hope Comes Prophecy": a Critical Analysis of the Scholarly Prophet Paradigm in Defining Native American Spiritual Leaders, Betsey A. Watson
Department: Religious Studies
A Feminist Analysis of Women's Low Representation in Physics: Scientific "Objectivity," Contextual Bias, and Barriers to Women's Inclusion, Michelle Anna Waugh
A Feminist Analysis of Women's Low Representation in Physics: Scientific "Objectivity", Contextual Bias, and Barriers to Women's Inclusion, Michelle Anna Waugh
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Un Estudio Sociolingüístico Del /S/ En Posición Final Absoluta Y, Cuando Se Elimina, La Percepción De Los No Nativos, ¿Todavía Plural?, Andrew J. Weaver
Department: Spanish
A Theoretical Study of Carbonyl Chemisorption on Platinum and Platinum Titanium Surfaces, Matthew Wellons
Department: Chemistry
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
Transcending the Roadblocks: Northern Irish Writers and the Troubles, Meghan E. Wills
Department: English
The Marital Satisfaction of Interfaith Couples Compared to the Same Faith Couples, Janie Winston
Catch Me When You Can, Jaime L. Wolfe
Department: English
Spatial Organization and Residential Satisfaction: a Study of How the Spatial Organization of a Suburban Neighborhood and a Planned Unit Development Affect Residential Satisfaction, Nathan A. Zahn
Department: Urban Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2001
False Promises: the Impact of Structural Adjustment on the Quality of Life For Women, Natasha Abbas
Department: Political Science
Sex, Lies, and the Presidency: From Camelot to Clinton, the Changing Face of Journalism and the Politics of Personal Destruction, James B. Allardice
Department: Political Science
I'm a Man: A Look at Masculinity in Highway 61 Revisited, What's Going on, Born to Run, and Me Against the World, Bryan C. Appel
Department: English
What Is Becoming of Me: Personal Agency As National Possibility in the Post-Apartheid Narrative, Karen Auble
Department: English
The Provision of Benefits Environmental Interest Groups Offer As Membership Inducements, Sarah Ann Bandomer
Department: Political Science
Crises in Africa: An Examination of U.S. Foreign Policy Agenda Setting, Betsy L. Bare
Department: Political Science
Anglo-Saxon and Romano-British Burial Practices: Signs of Migration and Cultural Interaction, Christopher Jeremy Barney
Department: Archaeology
Reflectiveness, Creativity, and Spirituality: Can Reflectiveness and Imagination Revitalize Spirituality and Religious Belief?, Stephen B. Baughman
Department: Religious Studies; Psychology
Opening Childrens' Minds: The Implications of a Multicultural Education in Kindergarten through Second Grade, Lisa Erin Beam
Une Exploration De Théâtre De L'Absurde Une Autre Vue De Fin De Partie, Elise M. Becchetti
Department: English; French and Francophone Studies
Use of Infrared Spectroscopy to Detect Disease, Jennifer Elisabeth Becker
Department: Chemistry
Redefining American Conservatism, Karl A. Bekeny
Department: Political Science
Ethnographic Fiction Revisited in the Age of the South Asian American Diaspora, Priyanka Bhalla
The Determination of Atrazine in Surface Waters of Eastern Wayne County, Ohio, Eric Scott Bodle
Department: Chemistry
Return of the Black Hundreds: Antisemitic Social and Political Trends in Russia, 1988-1999, Daniel B. Borsody
Department: History; Russian Studies
Letters From Home: a Novel, Siddhartha Bose
Department: English
Implications of Ptolemaic Rule on Traditional Egyptian Culture, Matthew J. Breznai
Department: Archaeology; Classical Studies
Voice 'In-Between': Oral Dialogues Within Written Texts, Ashley C. Brister
Department: English
Tools of the Second Chemical Revolution: Instrumental History and Design, Christopher J. Brubaker
Department: Chemistry
Functions of the Internet in the People's Republic of China, Kristin Buemi
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Translating Between Cultures in Novels by Bhara Ti Mukherjee and Chitra Div Akaruni, Elizabeth A. Byrer
Department: English
The Ghost Story: It's Not Just For Kids, Michelle Cady
Department: English
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
NV: The Making of a Fashion Magazine, Sarah C. Chazan
Department: English
Modernizing China's Medical Elite: the Medical Missionary Movement in China From 1834-1951, David Chidester
Department: History
Seeking Slam, Erika Joy Chouinard
Department: English
Anger's Call to Arms: An Application of Sociological Theories to School Shootings, Marie Clare Christiansen
Junior High Girls' Experience with Sexual Harassment, Talley Burk Clyde
Origins of Gambling in American Society, Sean E. Conway
Department: History
George Eliot's Realism and George Sand's Idealism: a Comparative Study, Marjorie D. Cooper
Department: French and Francophone Studies; English
Synthesis of an Active Monomer of Rabbit Muscle Creatine Kinase Using Site-Directed Mutagenesis, Julia Cox
Department: Chemistry
Brown V Board of Education An Investigation of the Progress of African-American Education Since 1954, Katherine A. Daly
Department: History
St. John's Wort: Determination of Antidepressant Efficacy of Commercial Hypericum perforatum Extracts Using a Learned Helplessness Paradigm, Joseph Davis
Department: Chemistry
How Many Tears? How Many Smiles? The Perceived Effects of Raising Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults, Amanda Gray Dieterich
The Same Thing Every Night: A Collection of Poems, Tim E. Drouhard
Department: English
Tales of Disjunction: a Collection of Short Stories, Craig E. Duff
Department: English
Politics of Rationality?: Habermas and Foucault on Contemporary Political Reason, Kevin D. Egan
Department: Political Science; Philosophy
Common Ground of Peace: Using Pluralism and Nonviolent-Theologies As Tools For Change, Kristen L. Elkington
Department: Religious Studies
The Expression, Purification, and Oligomerization of Mutant sHSP 18-9 CTrl from Zea mays, Christine Marie English
Department: Chemistry
Coenzyme B12: Finding the Smoking Gun, Anne Fischer
Department: Chemistry
The Synthesis of Mixed-Multidentate Cobalt (3) Complexes, Ashley Fisher
Department: Chemistry
Communist and Democratic Answers to the "Women's Question": Gender Equality in the Czech Republic, Emily S. Fleming
Department: Political Science
Analysis of Two Rival Theories of Integration in Post-WWII Europe: Can There Ever Be a United States of Europe?, Marcus J. Fowler
Department: Political Science
Verbatim: a Behind the Scenes Look, Matthew H. Frank
Department: English
Combining Archaeological Databases, Geographic Information Systems, and Multimedia Digital Reconstruction; An Application of the Modern Archaeology Lab in Settlement Pattern Analysis, Aaron Fuleki
Department: Archaeology
Revisionist History of Pearl Harbor, Nathan Gaubatz
Department: History
Kinetic Analysis of Active Site-Arginine Mutants of Rabbit Muscle Creatine Kinase and of Glycocyamine as an Alternative Substitute for the Native Enzyme, Paul Geiss
Department: Chemistry
Simple Procedure, Kate Kutina Gessler
Department: English
Bedtime for Daytime TV: A Study of Television Talk Shows and the Mediation of Everyday Life, Jason Scott Gillespie
Affliction Among the Affluent: a Case Study of Increasing Conflict as a Result of the Tear-Down Phenomenon, Kevin B. Gray
Department: Urban Studies
The Influences of Young Athletes into Sports, Michael S. Griffith
A Quantitative Model and Test of Journalistic Writing Quality, Jeffrey R. Guciardo
Department: English
The Characterization and Reduction of Methyl-alpha-(2-nitrobenzylidene)-acetoacetate to Synthesize 2-Methyl-3-carbomethoxyquinoline, Christopher Gulgas
Department: Chemistry
The Hunted: Francis Marion and Partisan Warfare in Occupied South Carolina During the American Revolution, Brian W. Gulotta
Department: History
Transgressing Limitations, Timothy B. Hagen
Department: Art and Art History; English
Cholesterol Conjugated Antisense Oligonucleotide Uptake in Paramecium Tetraurelia, Nizar Palestine Hallak
Department: Chemistry
Reasons to Riot: a Closer Look at the Rodney King Incident and the Los Angeles Riots in 1992, Douglas R. Harper
Department: History
More Popular Than Sex: An Analysis of A&M Records v. Napster, Rayanne L. Hawkins
Department: Political Science
Feminism in Art: An Analysis of the Exclusion of Women in History Through The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago, Margaret Maus Hazlett
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Tressie Mcintosh Site, Clinton, Ohio: Using Nineteenth Century Ceramics As Indicators of Socioeconomic Status and Consumer Choice, Aileen Heiser
Department: Archaeology
Le Role D'Une Langue Etrangere Au College En Plein Centre-Ville Aux Etats-Unis, Signe Helgeson
Department: French and Francophone Studies
Anti-Haitianism: the Literary Expression of Dominican Racism, Ana I. Hilton
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Splendor: A Magazine - Concerning Politics of Women's Magazines in American Culture, Stephanie A. Hoffman
Department: English
Lithic Analysis of the Action Site (33KN345) and the Millwood Rockshelter (33KN395), Knox County, Ohio: a Study in Methodology, Kimberly House
Department: Archaeology
Brown and Reed Vs. Cleveland in the Twentieth Century: a Study of the Supreme Court and Social Reform, Jacob D.R. Johnson
Department: Political Science
Archaeology of Mummification and Its Significance in Egyptian Culture, Thomas Frederick Johnson
Department: Archaeology
The Preparation of a Catalytically Active Monomer of Rabbit Muscle Creatine Kinase by Site-Directed Mutagenesis and Gel Filtration Chromatography, Andrea Jorjorian
Department: Chemistry
Who Owns the Past? An Analysis of the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act, Kathryn Joynt
Department: Archaeology
Conflict Resolution and Christian Values: a Pilot Program With High School Students in a Parish Setting, Christina L. Jureller
Department: Religious Studies
The Desi Divide: The Effects of Class Variation Amongst Indian Immigrants in the United States, Nithin Kalvakota
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Journalism Ethics and the Outing of Oliver Sipple A Discussion About the Importance of Incorporating Feminine Ethics into the Practice of Journalism, Amelia Kays
Department: English; Philosophy
I Never Knew It Had a Name: Experiences of Trichotillomania, Erin R. Kollar
Department: English
Walls Broken: Poetry and an Interview with Authors of the Former East Germany, Naomi R. Kresge
Department: English; German Studies
"My Task Which I Am Trying to Achieve Is, By Power of the Written Word,... to Make You See": Apocalypse Now, a Clockwork Orange, and Lord of the Flies As Adaptations of Three Modern Novels, Lauren E. Kulchawik
Department: English
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
Bargaining For German Unification: a Study of Diplomacy and Negotiation, Eric Yong-Sun Lee
Department: Political Science
MyMarx.com: What's Your Revolution? - Signs of Modernity in Literary Fiction at the 20th Century's End, Johathan G. Lindsay
Department: English
The Synthesis and Characterization of a Di-Substituted Quinoline Derivative Using an Iron Hydride Reagent, Candace Lovejoy
Department: Chemistry
Bulky Molecules: A Computational Investigation of Halogenated Products, Meris Mandernach
Department: Chemistry
Elements in Measured Balance: An Analysis of the First Movements of Béla Bartók's String Quartets, Jeffrey VanVoorhis Mansell
Department: Music