a list of thesis titles

MLA Theses
Daniel Alegria
Advisor
1999
Marsh McCall
Anandi Anandavalli
Advisor
2009
Aishwary Kumar
Sarah Anderson
Advisor
2009
Albert Gelpi
Tenisha Armstrong
Advisor
2006
Clayborne Carson
William L. Baeck
Advisor
2005
Scott Delp
Trisha Ball
Advisor
2008
Ron Rebholz
Lee Bangerter
Advisor
2004
Robert Polhemus
Sarah E. Bates
Advisor
2004
Janice Ross
Garnet Ayers Batinovich
Advisor
2005
Ken Fields
Bradley Bauer
Advisor
2010
Russell Berman
Bob Baxley
Advisor
2000
You Were My Mentor”: the Influence of Rainer Maria Rilke and
Robert Duncan on Denise Levertov’s Aesthetic Ethics, in the
Poem “Staying Alive"
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Rural Organizing in Southwest
Georgia, 1962-1963
Psalm 23: A Near-East Hero Tale
“This Machine of Ours”: The Role of Biomechanics and
Ergonomics in Leonardo da Vinci’s Machine Designs
Adapting Arden: Transformation and the Forest in Thomas
Lodge's Rosalynde, William Shakespeare's As You LIke It,
Charles Johnson's Love in a Forest and James Carrington's The
Modern Receipt
Margery's Good Words: Orality in The Book of Margery Kempe
Hester Gelber
Anne Bass
Advisor
2007
From Within and Without: Corporeal Counter-Narratives and the
Female Body in India’s Partition
Bob Gregg
Aline A. Baeck
Advisor
2005
The Agon in Aeschylus' Prometheus, Sophocles' Antigone, and
Euripedes' Medea
Paula Findlen
To Have and to Hold: George Eliot, Romola and the Question of
Marriage
Movement and Mythology: A Study of Martha Graham's
Retellings of Greek Tragedies
“Her Position in the Universe”: The God Factor in Kate Chopin’s
Life and Works
Good Germans and Bad Intellectuals: Franz Schoenberner and
the Role of the Exile as a Public Intellectual, 1933-1946
A Desperate Mission: The Origins, Meanings, and Purpose of
Recreation, Science, Education, and Conservation in Modern
Zoos
MLA Theses
Leda Beck
Advisor
2010
Phyllis Brown
Blair Beebe
Advisor
2007
Marc Bertrand
Milada Belaya
Advisor
1998
Russell Berman
Theodore Biagini
Advisor
2003
Paul Robinson
David Blazevich
Advisor
2011
Clifford Barnett
Tonya Booker
Advisor
2003
Luis Fraga
Brenda R. Borovoy
Advisor
1999
George Dekker
Jean Bozman
Advisor
1999
Linda Paulson
Lynn Briody
Advisor
2003
Machiavelli in a World of Furbi and Fessi
The Victorian Marriage of Richard and Isabel Burton: Fact,
Fiction, and Fantasy
Socrates Satisfied: The Platonism of John Stuart Mill
Death Management: Forging the Last Link in the Health Care
Paradigm
Reconciling Multiracial Identity in America: The U.S. Census and
the Biracial Experience
The Jane Austen "Revival": Reading and Misreading in a
Contemporary Cultural Context
Richard Gottheil, Reluctant Leader of Early American Zionism
Mark Mancall
Maureen Breakiron-Evans
Advisor
1996
Gustav Freytag's Soll and Haben and the German Bourgeois
Ethic
Paul Robinson
Leonard D. Boenig
Advisor
1998
Approaches to Reality in the Paintings of Salvador Dali
Paula Findlen
Lou M. Bilter
Advisor
1998
Balzac's Rubempre Cycle: A Social History of Early 19th Century
Paris
James March
Jane Beule
Advisor
2008
Mirror for Princesses: Philippa of Lancaster (1360-1415) and Her
Roles as Cultural Agent, Political Player, and a Member of a
Female Dynasty
Gerald Dorfman
Berthe Morisot: Nineteenth-century Woman and Professional
Artist
The Partition of Ulster: The English Answer to the Irish Question
MLA Theses
Judith Brodsky
Advisor
1998
Bill Durham
Jennifer Swanton Brown
Advisor
2012
Gavin Jones
Kevin Bruce
Advisor
1999
Alex Nemerov
Katherine Buchanan
Advisor
2002
Jane Emery
Jennifer J. Burton
Advisor
2005
Martin Evans
Aaron Cantrell
Advisor
2009
Richard Schupbach
Robert W. Capps
Advisor
2009
Paula Findlen
Alice Carter
Advisor
1997
Linda Paulson
Alice Cekleov
Advisor
2004
Marc Bertrand
Sheila Chandrasekhar
Advisor
2003
Estelle Freedman
Stan Chism
Advisor
2003
A Necessary Brief But Duly Serious Look at the Poetry of John
Steinbeck
Narrative Illusionism: The Extraordinary Trompe-l'oeil Murals of
John Pugh
Making an Ending: Hazel Barnes, Simone de Beauvoir, and the
Final Project
Making Room for a View: Tourism and the Search for
Authenticity in E.M. Forster’s Italian Works
A Horse Upon the Road: Equine Imagery in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s
Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamaov
Magic Metal: How the Nineteenth-Century Obsession with the
Legend of Damascus Steel Led to the Birth of Materials Science
The Red Rose Girls: A Cooperative of Women Illustrators,
Philadelphia, 1900
A Pleasure of One's Own: Female Sexuality in Pablo Picasso's
Painting Le Reve
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name Just Got a 20 Share!
("Not That There's Anything Wrong With That"): How TV Writers
are Normalizing the Queer
The Biology of the Past Tense
Tom Wasow
Judith L. Chovan
Advisor
2001
The Domestic Poetry of Eavan Boland: Image and Form
Albert Gelpi
Robert Brown
Advisor
2010
Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle: Turning Point for Charles Darwin
Hester Gelber and Christy
Junkerman
Breaking the Mold: Artistic Experimentation with Sacred and
Secular Imagery in Trecento Sienese Maestà Paintings
MLA Theses
Gay Clyburn
Advisor
2007
Ken Fields
Melanie M. Cole
Advisor
1998
Tom Mosen
George Coombe
Advisor
2005
Advisor
2012
Constance Cramer
Hester Gelber
Lisa Daidone
Advisor
2000
Cheri Ross
Michael Delaney
Advisor
2009
Gordon Chang
John Devine
Advisor
2009
Caroline Winterer
Tamara DiGregorio
Advisor
2003
Albert Gelpi
Katherine Dunlap
Advisor
2003
"Ladies of All Time": Contemporary Adaptations of Euripedes'
Medea
Culture and Religious Expression: The Voices and Visions of
Joan of Arc
William Carlos Williams, The Early Years: Portrait of an
American Avant-Garde Modernist
Robert Franklin Williams: The Making and Mellowing of an
American Radical
Cato's Echo: A Roman's Influence on the American
Revolutionaries
Terrorism and U.S. National Security in the New World Order
William Carlos Williams and the Spirit of the Frontier:
Individualism, Violence, and Pioneering in In the American Grain
A Rising Tide: California Educational Reform
Luis Fraga
Fred Dusel
Advisor
1998
Wilfred Owen: War Poetry and the Advent of Modernism
Larry Diamond
Lisa Domitrovich
Advisor
2006
American Dream or American Tragedy: An Analysis of Myth in
The Great Gatsby and Absalom, Absalom!
Ken Fields
Sarah Cox
Advisor
2000
The Garden Parlors of Gertrude Jekyll
Linda Paulson
Robert E. Cook
Advisor
1997
Literary Alchemy: Raymond Chandler's Unintended Harmonic
Convergence
Michael Jameson
Pharmakos: Myth, Ritual, and Reality
MLA Theses
Marie Earl
Advisor
1998
Nancy Packer
Karen Ely
Advisor
2010
Peter Stansky
Trina Enriquez
Advisor
2012
Van Harvey
John Farnsworth
Advisor
2007
Charles Junkerman
Oscar Firschein
Advisor
2000
Ernle Young
Martin Gagen
Advisor
2009
Peter Stansky
James G. Gamble
Advisor
1997
Denis Philips
Dawn Garcia
Advisor
2008
Luis Fraga
Joan Garvin
Advisor
1997
Arnie Eisen
Bliss Goldstein
Advisor
2003
What Does the Desert Say? A Rhetorical Analysis of Desert
Solitaire
The Hypertext Novel: A New Way of Reading and Writing
Reading Woolf Under the Influence of Einstein
The Sheep in Lamb’s Clothing: An Ethical Analysis of Cloning
Experimentation
Myth and Reality in the Second World War: The Question of
Churchill’s Advance Knowledge of the Bombing of Coventry by
the German Luftwaffe on Nov. 14 – 15, 1940
Out of the Mainstream: A Social History of People with Physical
Disabilities
Spanish-Language Media, Text Messaging and MySpace: The
Creation of a New Counterpublic Sphere in California
Caveat Judex: Let the Juror Beware
Marsh McCall
Kathryn Gillam
Advisor
2003
Sexuality and the Search for Identity: A Reading of Egon
Schiele's Portraiture
Dick Terdiman
John Franco
Advisor
2001
James Tissot in England 1871-1882: A French Artist's Aesthetic
and The English Critical Response
Tim Lenior
Mary Ellen Foley
Advisor
2004
The Geography of Hope in Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose
Alex Woloch
Dag Hammarskjöld's Markings: A Narrative in Aphorism and
Poem
The "Truth" Behind the Dream-child: Viewing Alice through
Freud’s Looking-glass
MLA Theses
Gail Curtis Graham
Advisor
2005
Rae McDermott
Denise Green
Advisor
2001
Jim Fox
Clayton Hamilton
Advisor
2009
Barbara Gelpi
Richard Harris
Advisor
2007
Paul Robinson
Heidi Heilemann
Advisor
2003
Paula Findlen
Susan Henderson
Advisor
1998
Estelle Freedman
Ron Hera
Advisor
1996
Tim Lenoir
Mary Lou Heslet
Advisor
1998
Barbara Gelpi
Constance Howard
Advisor
2010
Charlotte Brontë’s Explanation of Abandonment: Motherless
Children and Neglected Women
Women, Gender, and Hysteria in the 19th Century: A Study of
Alice James
Envisioning the Unborn: Art, Anatomy, and The Printing Press in
the Early Modern Era
Music Hall in High Victorian Britain: A New Art for a New Life
Representations of Women's Wartime Contributions in Film, 1942
-1946: Perpetuating the Cult of Domesticity
From Artificial Intelligence to Cognitive Science: Changing
Concepts of Intelligence and the Mind
Self-Starvation and Charlotte Bronte
Iris Litt
Sally Lindsay Honey
Advisor
1997
What You Know Can Hurt You: Why Science Becomes Politicized
Linda Paulson
Molly Henrikson Kerr
Advisor
2008
Of Two Minds: Language Reform and Millennialism in the
Deseret Alphabet
Donald Kennedy
Megan E. Hansen
Advisor
2005
The Sistine Chapel Gamble
Gordon Bloom
Andrew Grose
Advisor
2001
Students Teaching Sudents: Celebrating the Quality of Learning
from Both Sides of the Desk
Russell Berman
Three Poets: Structural Changes in Perception and Technique
from the Romantic to the Modern Period
Elfriede Jelinek's Muse: The Influence of Music in The Piano
Teacher
MLA Theses
Terry Hunt
Advisor
2000
Paul Seaver
Naomi S. Hunter
Advisor
2004
Barbara Gelpi
Sheila Hunter
Advisor
2009
Dr. Abbas Milani
Jean Collier Hurley
Advisor
2011
Jay Bhattacharya
Suzanne Hoey Jachinowski
Advisor
2011
John Rickford
Kenneth Jensen
Advisor
2010
Bliss Carnochan
Aarti Johri
Advisor
2012
Peter Stansky
Beth Karpas
Advisor
2005
Aron Rodrigue
Kathleen Kearney Keeshen
Advisor
1995
Gerald Dorfman
Elizabeth A. Kern
Advisor
1996
Edie Gelles
Kara Kirk
Advisor
2001
The Two-State Solution from Two Perspectives: An Israeli and a
Palestinian Look at the Middle East
Patient Autonomy and End-of-Life Care: How the Freedom to
Decide Limits the Choices for a Good Death
Law and Oedipus: From Sacred Right to Public Burden
The Ann Arbor Black English Case and the Oakland Ebonics
Controversy: What Have We Learned?
From Patronage to Profit: William Strahan and the Rise of the
Publishing Entrepreneur During the British Enlightenment
Peternalistic Politics and Feminine Fates: The Legacies of Rani
Laxmibai of Jhansi and Begum Hazrat Mahal of Oudh
Reflection in a Burnt Mirror: A Case Study of Early Modern
Ashkenazi Jewish Women Seen Through the Lens of Enclave
Theory
Palais Royal: Witness to History
Marc Bertrand
Kurt Keilhacker
Advisor
2002
Finishing a Conversation Between Friends: Elizabeth Gaskell and
The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Rush Rehm
Katrina Alison Jaggears
Advisor
2000
The Fiscal Restructuring of the English State in the 1640's and
the Genesis of England as an Imperial Power
Wanda Corn
A Tarnished Strategy? Five Economic Tests and the Political
Contest Behind the Scrapping of the British Pound Sterling
The Minister, the Mother, the Midwife, and the Physician:
Childbearing in Colonial and Revolutionary New England, 1620
-1820
Grace McCann Morley and the Modern Museum
MLA Theses
Jack R. Kirkpatrick
Advisor
1995
Robert Weisberg
Carla Kirschenbaum
Advisor
2003
Barbara Gelpi
Betje Black Klier
Advisor
1998
Marc Bertrand
Kathy Klotz-Guest
Advisor
2008
Luis Fraga
Nancy Krajewski
Advisor
2009
Paula Findlen
Karen B. Letendre
Advisor
1998
Richard Fendeman
Ronald Lewis
Advisor
2011
James Agee: the Film Critic as Performance Artist
Charles Dickens and Jeremy Bentham
John Singer Sargent: Portraitist in Search of Experimentation
Swiss Neutrality: An Instrument of Peace at War with Itself
Jerry Dorfman
Kristin Leo Swanson
Advisor
2003
David Hume, Essayist
Al Gelpi
Ines Leifer
Advisor
2001
The Hollywood Songbook: Hanns Eisler’s Exile Song Cycle
Nadeem Hussain
Jean Marie Layton
Advisor
2005
Thomas Nast and Jon Stewart: Public Intellectuals and Civic
Idealists
Ken Fields
Rich Lane
Advisor
2004
The Myth of Champ d'Aisle: The Iconography of a Bonapartist
Colony in Texas, 1818
Bliss Carnochan
Andrew Lachman
Advisor
2007
"Those Dreadful Hammers": Wuthering Heights and the Ecology
of Eternity
Paul Robinson
Belinda Krohmer
Advisor
2007
Revocation and Recidivism of M-Case Parolees: the Santa Clara
County Experience, August 1988 to December 1993
David Palumbo-Liu
The Sforza Equestrian Monument: Interpreting the Monument
that Never Was
A Modernist Reconstruction of Reality in Proust's Swann's Way
and Monet's Rouen Cathedral Series
The Examined Past: The Life Review in Wallace Stegner's Joe
Allston Stories
MLA Theses
Barbara Waite Little
Advisor
1995
Marsh McCall
Peter Lord
Advisor
2002
Arnold Rampersad
John Lowry, III
Advisor
1995
Albert Gelpi
Wanda Luke
Advisor
1998
P. J. Ivanhoe
Mary A. MacKinnon
Advisor
1997
Hans Gumbrecht
William Marken
Advisor
2012
Don Kennedy
Lindsay Marshall
Advisor
2009
Paul Robinson
Jeanne G. Martin
Advisor
1997
The Ultimate Beta Test
John Milton: A Portrait in Microeconomics
Has the U.S. Become a Ritalin Nation?
The Dynamics of Failure: Francisco Goya's Los Caprichos and
the Fate of Enlightenment in Spain
California Tomorrow 1961-1983: An Enduring Environmental
Legacy
After After The Truth: Daniel Goldhagen, German Cinematic
Historiography, and Vergangenheitsbewaltigung
Women on the Overland Trail
Edith Gelles
Albert Martin
Advisor
1998
Friendship: The Bridge Between Modern Individualism and
Community Within the Liberal Society
Clifford Barnett
Shannon Marimón
Advisor
2006
The Zones of War and Poetic Expression: Private Rosenberg's
Vision
Martin Evans
Denise M. Shea Malcolm
Advisor
2000
Blues Socrates: On the Conversion from Rhetoric to Philosophy
in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Tim Lenoir
Kerry MacLennan
Advisor
2004
Dante's guiding Light: The Astronomy of The Divine Comedy
John Freccero
Doug Lowney
Advisor
2008
Dike in the Oresteia
Marc Bertrand
The Political Evolution of Eighteenth-Century Lawyers
MLA Theses
Heather Martin Maier
Advisor
2008
Russell Berman
Susan C. Matheson
Advisor
1999
Joe Corn
John P. McCaskey
Advisor
1997
Ted Glasser
Kayleen McDonald
Advisor
2006
Luis Fraga
Jean McIntosh
Advisor
2010
Paula Findlen
Evelyn McMillan
Advisor
2001
Ernle' Young
Maura McNamara
Advisor
2011
A Woman's Place: How Jeannette Rankin Broke the
Congressional Gender Barrier
Pirro Ligorio's 'ANTIQVAE VRBIS IMAGO': A Renaissance Visual
Historian and his Ekphrasis of the Ancient Roman Cityscape
A Bioethical Analysis of the Case of David, "The Boy in the
Bubble"
William Morris and the Architecture of the Book
WK Clifford vs. William James: The Right to Believe
Jazz or Ersatz? The Criteria of Authentic Jazz Singing
Kennell Jackson
Martha E. Mertz
Advisor
1997
Realizing John Dewey's Vision: From Public Journalism to Citizen
Journalism to the Next Newsroom
Denis Phillips
Joan Merrill
Advisor
2000
Chronology and Causes of the Ancient Mystery Religions
Peter Stansky
Kathleen K. Melonakos
Advisor
1997
"These Pushful Days": How the Speed of the Railroad and the
Internet Accelerated Everyday American Life
Mark Edwards
Jennifer McClure
Advisor
2008
If Art Could Tell: Intentional Failure in Paradise Lost
Martin Evans
Ann McArtor
Advisor
2002
Iola Brubeck's Contributions to Jazz
Diane Wood Middlebrook
Ronald Kim Maxwell
Advisor
2000
Metafiction and Morality; What a Difference a Decade Makes:
Martin Amis's Time's Arrow and House of Meetings and Ian
McEwan's Black Dogs and Atonement
Van Harvey
Egon Schiele: The Soul Mirrored in Art, Seen Through a Glass
Darkly
MLA Theses
Jonathan M. Metzl
Advisor
1995
Paul Robinson
Christopher Meyercord
Advisor
2000
Arnold Rampersad
Julia G. Michael-Charnes
Advisor
2002
Monika Greenleaf
Dare T. Michos
Advisor
1995
Joe Manning
John C. Miller
Advisor
2007
Gerald Dorfman
Laura Moorhead
Advisor
2010
Gordon Chang
Marianne Mueller
Advisor
2012
Clayborne Carson
Animesh Mukherjee
Advisor
2011
Outsmarting the System: Transformations Through Fashion in
Nineteenth-Century France
Distributed Power: The New Tyranny?
"The Queen of Egyptology": Amelia B. Edwards, British
Egyptology, and Egyptian Archaeology, 1873-1892
A Lovely Nuisance: Ethics and Eucalyptus in California
Hal Mooney and Julie
Kennedy
Shokooh Miry
Advisor
2006
Telling Stories About Skinny Mules and Flying Africans: Folklore
in the Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison
Paul Robinson
Sandra Miller
Advisor
2002
Idem the Same: the Poetics of Repetition in Mental Illness
Jay Bhattacharya
Coup d'Etat: Regime Change and Modern Islamic
Fundamentalism
Norwood Allman and the Third Force: From a Movement of
Moderation to an Anti-Communist Crusade
Freedom Songs from the Civil Rights Movement and Before: The
Power of Singing in Grassroots Organizations
Colonization by Experts: Western Dominance in Indian Health
Care
Cynthia Neuwalder
Advisor
2011
Claudia Newbold
Advisor
2001
Ernle Young
Sharon Niederhaus
Advisor
2001
Cliff Barnett
Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Rx Phamaceuticals: An Ethical
Analysis
The Accessory Apartment: A Viable Housing Option for the New
Longevity
MLA Theses
Sheryl Nonnenberg
Advisor
2000
Wanda Corn
Mark C. North
Advisor
2005
Gerry Dorfman
Denise Osborne
Advisor
2007
Peter Stansky
Alan Page
Advisor
2011
Peter Stansky
Prabhu Palani
Advisor
2009
Shelley Fisher Fiskkin
Mary L. Perry
Advisor
2006
David Tyack
Patricia Perry
Advisor
2006
Joseph Manning
Maximilian Pollak
Advisor
1996
Peter Stansky
Sharon Prager
Advisor
1996
An Intersection of Technology and Culture: Dickens, Fairbairn,
and Boiler Explosions in the 19th Century
Politicians as Economists: The 1846 Debate on The Repeal of
the Corn Laws in Britain's House of Commons
English and Empire: The Case of the Madras Presidency
Redacting Tillie Olsen: Biographical Silences and the Stigma of
Communism
The Educational Philosophies of Theodore Sizer: A Vision for
Student Learning in the American High School
Sources of Power in Predynastic Hierakonpolis: Legacies for
Egyptian Kingship
Virtual Communities: Postmodern Playgrounds
Tim Lenoir
Natalie Powell
Advisor
2009
Spain in Transition: from Franco's Dictatorship to the
Consolidation of Spanish Democracy Under Juan Carlos
Peter Stansky
Barbara Palmer
Advisor
2008
Geoffrey Chaucer: Religious Critic and Humane Reformer
George Brown
Phoebe A. Olcott
Advisor
1997
Michael Oakeshott’s "Place of Learning"
Chris Bobonich
Maurice V. O'Flynn
Advisor
1994
Women's Culture In The West: The Philanthropy and Art
Patronage of Jane Stanford and Alma Spreckels
Gerry Dorfman
Landlord-Tenant Relations in Nineteenth-century Ireland and the
Murder of Major Denis Mahon
Mining in Today's Environment: A New Paradigm
MLA Theses
Linden Press
Advisor
2003
Marsh McCall
Greg Priest
Advisor
2011
Tim Lenoir
Cynthia Reed
Advisor
2004
Illustration as Strategy in Charles Darwin's The Expression of the
Emotions in Man and Animals
Margery Kempe: Pilgrimage as a Means to Spiritual Maturity
Hester Gelber
Robert P. Reklis
Advisor
1995
Charles Darwin's Tree of Life: Image, Metaphor, and Model
Denis Philips
Phillip B. Prodger
Advisor
1994
Transgressions Against Xenia in Fifth-Century Greek Tragedy
(The Unkindness of Strangers)
Hester Gelber
The Life of Saint Wilfrid and the Coming of Christianity to AngloSaxon England
Jonathan David Robbins
Advisor
2011
Evangeline Rocha
Advisor
2001
Hank Greely
Corinne S. Roe
Advisor
1998
Carolyn Lougee-Chappell
Julia Roever
Advisor
2012
Paula Findlen
Diane Rogers
Advisor
1999
Ellen Neskar
Ian Rogoff
Advisor
1996
Peter Stansky
Frank Rovitto
Advisor
2003
A Tale of Two Villages: Huguenot Settlements in Colonial New
York
A Physician's View of Law: Paolo Zacchia and Medical Errors in
Early Modern Rome
Korean Comfort Women in World War II: Aided and Abused by
the United States Military
The Threat of the Microsoft Corporation to Silicon Valley
Tim Lenoir
Kirsten Romer
Advisor
2004
Iceland’s Decode Genetics: Bellwether for Population Genomics
Research
Ken Fields
Reconciling the Conflict Between Masters and Men: Christian
Socialism and the Evolution of Elizabeth Gaskell's Industrial
Novels
James Jones and the Eternal Strife
MLA Theses
Allen Rudolph
Advisor
2003
Jack Rakove
Lisa Hampton Schmidt
Advisor
2007
Ken Fields
Maxine R. Schur
Advisor
1999
David J. Holloway
Wendy Shattuck
Advisor
2000
Alex Nemerov & Scott
Bukatman
Alissa Shaw
Advisor
2012
Allyson Hobbs
Loren Shufton
Advisor
2007
Ken Fields
Marie Sigan
Advisor
2002
"I'm Not a Woman, I'm a Senator": The Political Career of
Margaret Chase Smith
Food for Thought: the Significance of Meals and Dining in PostWorld-War I Novels by Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf
Freud, Schoenberg, Brecht: Three Minds Tell the Story of Moses
Albert Camus: A Philosopher Interrupted
Theodore Parker: Abolitionism as Religious Duty
The Character of the Detective
Linda Paulson
Odile Sullivan-Tarazi
Advisor
2005
"It's the Life That We Want": Frank Norris, Erich von Stroheim,
and the Art of Truth in Fiction and Film
Charles Junkerman
Peter Stevens
Advisor
1994
Emerging Laser Isotope Separation Technology and the Future of
Nuclear Proliferation: An Interdisciplinary Exploration
Joshua Landy
Kevan H. Spence
Advisor
2009
Stem Cells: Scientific, Moral and Political Dimensions
Paul Robinson
David C. Soward
Advisor
2004
Geroges de La Tour: A Singular Artist
Ernlé Young
Ruben Serrato
Advisor
2010
Multiple Layers of Ambiguity as Literary Device in Cormac
McCarthy's Blood Meridian
Marc Bertrand
Christopher Scott
Advisor
2005
A Most Unintended War: The New England Powder Alarms and
the Coming of the American Revolution
Marsh McCall
Reshaping the Families: Narrative Ends and Means in
Agamemnon, Alcestis, and Philoctetes
MLA Theses
Trisha Terrell
Advisor
2009
Thomas Grey
Philip S. Thompson
Advisor
2009
Paul Robinson
Tamara Tinker
Advisor
2008
John Perry
James P. Toomey
Advisor
1997
Advisor
2012
Phyllis Villec
George Barth
Bonnie Volkman
Advisor
1996
Emma Martin: Pioneer Female Atheist
Sacred Affirmation of Life in the Writings of Friedrich Nietzche
The King's College Controversy and the Development of the
Separation of Church and State in New York
A Magnificent Synthesis: Mozart's Transformation of
Entertainment to Drama in His Piano Concertos
Augustine's Mother: Monica in The Confessions
Robert Gregg
Sara Wadhwani
Advisor
2008
The Politics of Constitution-Making
Chris Bobonich
Michael Ungar
Advisor
2000
The Irish Republican Movement in America
Tim Lenoir
Bonnie Turman
Advisor
2008
An Expanded View of Common Sense in the Modern Philosophy
of Mind
Jack Rakove
William M. Tucker
Advisor
1998
The Impiety of Ahasuerus: Percy Shelley's Wandering Jew
Gerry Dorfman
James Torre
Advisor
2001
The Flame of a Single Lamp: Sir Edwin Arnold's The Light of Asia
and the Victorian Roots of Western Enlightenment
Barbara Gelpi
Mason Tobak
Advisor
2002
John William Polidori: A Most Unmeasured Ambition
Barbara Gelpi
Joyce Anne Thompson
Advisor
2003
Music’s Narrative Function in Baz Luhrmann’s William
Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet
Gerald Dorfman
Ben Gurion’s Opportunity: Why United Nations Resolution 181
Was Not Implemented
MLA Theses
Daniel J. Walsh
Advisor
1996
Paul Robinson
Xiao-Wei Wang
Advisor
2010
Gordan Chang
Marguerite J. Watt
Advisor
1997
Francois Bar
Cy Ashley Webb
Advisor
2011
Rebecca Lyman
Kathleen Weber
Advisor
1993
Diane Wood Middlebrook
Roberta S. Weinman
Advisor
1994
Francisco Ramirez
Stuart Wells
Advisor
2005
Robert McGinn
Suzanne West
Advisor
2001
Wanda M. Corn and
Christy Junkerman
Hon. Rebecca Westerfield
Advisor
2008
Russell Berman
Blake White
Advisor
2006
An Uneasy Collusion: The Relationship Between the Martyr and
the Roman State as Seen Through Perpetua and Cyprian
Seize the Fire: A Journey into the Spiritual Meaning of William
Blake's The Tyger
The Wife of Bath's Prologue: From Sovereignty to Self
The Price of Admission: Student Athletes at Academically
Selective Schools
Integrating Ethics with Strategy and Creativity in High Technology
Industries
(Re)Constructing Susanna: The Framing of Meaning in Paintings
of Susanna and the Elders from 1500 to 2000
Pearl Fishing: Diving for Fragments, Hannah Arendt's
Contribution to the Aesthetics and Justice Connection
The Requirements of Justice Arising from the 'Digital Divide'
Immersion in Wildness: Thoreau and the Mythological Mind
Albert Gelpi
Christopher Wolf
Advisor
2005
The New Web Press: Print Journalism's Role and Responsibility
in Digital Media
Robert McGinn
Bryon Williams
Advisor
2009
Shanghai Abandoned: The Rockefeller Foundation's Failed and
Forgotten Medical Mission
Mary Wach
Matthew Weiss
Advisor
2008
Freud's Psychology: A Critical Assessment
Jorge Ruffinelli
Current Cuban Film as Seen Through the Bakhtin
MLA Theses
Mary Kate Wood
Advisor
2009
Christy Junkerman
Whitney Wood
Advisor
2003
Ernle Young
Stephen L. Wullschleger
Advisor
2010
Bliss Carnochan
Jenine K. Young
Advisor
2008
Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall; Eighteenth-Century Britain
and the Happiness of the Antonines.
Elizabeth Gaskell, Radical Reformer
Leo Strauss, Neo-Conservatism, and the Politics of Philosophy
Russell Berman
Lawrence I. Zaroff
Advisor
1997
No Justice Without Universality: Fair Equality of Opportunity and
the Need for Comprehensive Health Care Reform
Barbara Gelpi
Steven V. Zabriskie
Advisor
2005
Mirror on the Piazza: Representation of Construction of the
Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in the Allegory of Mercy
Fresco
Bliss Cannochen
Medicine and Poetry in George Crabbe