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Senior Independent Study Theses from 1999
Drama of Her Own: J.M. Synge and the Quest For National Identity in Ireland, 1903-1909, Brooke Bulkeley
Department: English
Etruscans and Rome: A Relation of Influences, Gabriel Califano
Department: Archaeology
Examining the Holocaust Through Stricken Eyes, Christoph M. Cantwell
Department: German Studies
Unemployment and Nationalism: A Case Study in the United Kingdom, Matthew G. Carpenter
Department: Political Science
The Horror, The Horror; Horror Films: Directors' Visions and Audience Reactions, David R. Celebrezze
Creating and Implementing an Effective Elementary Reading Program: A Discussion of a Whole Language, Literature Based Reading Program, Laura J. Chazan
Department: English
Spice: The Making of a Magazine, Amy M. Chidiac
Department: English
Testing the Possibilities: A World-Systems Perspective on Interaction Between Mesoamerica and the Southeastern United States and the Development of the Mississippian Culture, Jody Clauter
Department: Archaeology
Reparing Broken Windows: The Role of the Police Officer in Community-Oriented Policing, Robert B. Clayton
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
House of the Vetii at Pompeii, Sarah Conway
Department: Archaeology; Art and Art History
Writing From the Belly of a Paradow: Thomas Merton and the Recovery of the Christian Experience Through Zen, David J. Cooper
Department: Religious Studies; English
Color at the Final Curtain: The Creation of Mood Through Color in Europides Medea and Dassin's Dream of Passion and How the Ancient and Modern Audiences Responded, Danielle M. Coppola
Department: Classical Studies; English
Effects of Hellenization on the Oral and Written Tradition of the Sefer Yetzirah and the Beginning of the Kabbalah, Christopher A. M. Coughlin
Department: Religious Studies
Transcendentalism of Gatsby's Dream: Illusions of Time and the Material, Jonathan N. Crawford
Department: English
Slave Rebellions in the American South, Carl Crumbaker
Department: History
Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments, James F. Cubie
Department: Religious Studies; Philosophy
Film Adaptation As Autoethnography: Three Cinematic Offspring of Oliver Twist, Dan Darling
Department: English
Differential Mobilization of Black and White Churches For Political Action: Presbyterian Churches in the Pittsburgh Area, Andrew J. Dawson
Department: Political Science
Ya-Ya Mamas and Women Warriors, Kristen Demaline
"If I Could Be Like Mike": Professional Athletes as American Role Models, Lisa Marie DeWitt
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Gender, Age, Education, Size, and Race as Indicators of the Thematic Content of High School and College/University Bathroom Graffiti, Jennifer E. Diehl
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Wooster in Pella: a History of the Site, the Excavations, and the Collection, E. Michael DiPaolo
Department: Archaeology
Conflict Deconstruction Theory: a Case Study of the Northern Ireland Peace Process, 1981-1998, Nicole E. Dodds
Department: Political Science
Under the Rim: a Sportswriter's Season With the 1998-99 Scot Men's Basketball Team, Neil Domer-Shank
Department: English
Pleasure Unto Death, Colleen V. Dunn
Department: English
Modern Christian Fiction: Bridging the Gap Between the Believer and the Unbeliever, Rachel E. Evans
Department: English
Dirty Tricks and Dirty Dresses: Newspapers and White House Scandal, Sarah C. Fenske
Department: English; Political Science
Canonized Sexuality? Exploring Women's Sexuality within the Context of the Song of Songs, Elizabeth L. Feroe
Can Courts Produce Social Change? An Analysis of Ohio's Third Wave School Finacne Litigation, Erick D. Gale
Department: Political Science
Community Development Corporations and the Urban Regime: a Study of New York City Development Politics, Alessandra T. Garber
Department: Political Science
"Hey!...Look What Zog Do!": A Revealing Look Inside Gary Larson's The Far Side, William Drew Gibson
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
"Do We Get to Win This Time?": The Changing Portrayal of the Vietnam Veteran In Major Motion Pictures, Zachary J. Goode
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Decade of Terror: a Study of Political Violence in El Salvador and Honduras in the 1980s, C. Curtis Gore
Department: Political Science
The Changing Meanings of Fairy Tales, Karen Grimwood
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Changing Meanings of Fairy Tales, Karen Grimwood
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
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
Impact of Financial Crises Upon the Sovereign State, Travis L. Grundke
Department: International Relations
Photography and Text: a Meaningful Conversation, Micheal L. Hahn
Department: English
We Have Paid Our Dues: Black Women And Their Perceptions of Labor Organizations in the United States, Deidra Haygood
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Irony in Selected Short Stories of O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: 1890-1910, Andrea J. Hiner
Department: English
Dula: An Acoustical, Lucien G. Holmes
Department: English
Quality of Life V. the Fundamental Rights of the Constitution a Theoretical Analysis of the City of Chicago V. Jesus Morales and the Prediction of the United States Supreme Court, Brett J. Holmgren
Department: Political Science
The Quality of Life v. The Fundamental Rights of the Constitution: A Theoretical Analysis of the City of Chicago v. Jesus Morales and the Prediction of the United States Supreme Court, Brett James Holmgren
Rise of Legal Fiction, Elizabeth B. Howard
Department: English
"Where Are You From?" Third Culture Kids: An Evaluation of Reentry Programs, Elissa A. Irish
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Scout's Honor: Ethnography of Girl Scout Gender Ideals and Practices in Contemporary American Society, Amanda L. Johnson
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
The Rave Experience: An Ethnographic Study of the Cleveland, Ohio Rave Scene, Janice L. Kazimir
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
"Yes, There Are Homeless People in Wooster": Memoirs of Invisible Women, Kathryn A. Klonowski
Department: English
Towards a More Progressive Theme: the Democratic Party Between 1988-1992, Leslie A. Knapp
Department: Political Science
http://sww.Vote4Me.com: Creating Evaluative Web Site Design Principles to Study U.S. Congressional Election Candidate Us of the World Wide Web, James W. Koller
Department: Political Science
The Militia Movement in America, Nicholas Lacy
Department: History
"I Should Kick Your Ass Just For Wearin' Them Ugly Shoes:" An Exploration Into the Popularity of Professional Wrestling, Matthew R. Lang
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
"Everything I Do, I'm Seen as a Black Person": An Interpretive Study of the Racial and Class Consciousness of the Black Middle Class, Jesse B. Larson
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
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
Humor In The Workplace: A Study of the Differences in the Use of Humor By Gender and Status, Gretchen L. Maier
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Implications of St. Augustine's Use of Virtus in Book XIX of the City of God, Sean P. Malone
Department: Classical Studies
Perceptions of the Black Underclass Analysis of William Julius Wilson's Theory of the Inner-City in a Changing Economy, Mathias D. Manner
Department: Political Science
The Evolution of the Jazz Guitarist, William F. Marcell II
The Evolution of the Jazz Guitarist, William F. Marcell II
Department: History
Seconds Anyone? An Exploration of the Secondhand Consumer Market and its Consumers, Katharyne L. Marcus
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
"Many Faces of God: Individual Images of the Christian Deity and Their Interactions With Society", Rebecca J. McClintock
Department: Religious Studies
Lacrosse: the Fastest Growing Game on Two Feet, Jared R. McKee
Department: History
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