Senior Research

2012 

• David Baskin - A Family's Struggle for Identity "Interfaith Marriage: The Dilemma of the American Jew"
• Sarah Burns - The STEM Delemma: How Women in STEM Fields Negotiate the Tension Between Family and Career
• Shelly Butters - Treating Alcoholism in the 49th State: Facilitating Healing through community, Interdependence and Spirituality among Alaska Natives
• Kerrigan Dopp - Then and Now: the Structure of the Battered Women's Shelter
• Meryl Duff - Contemporary Irish Travellers in Ireland and the United Kingdom
• Meg Gaertner - The Role of Education in Conflict and Peace: Lessons from Northern Ireland, South Africa, and the United States
• Melissa Grannetino - The Fight for The Ancient One: Differencees in Culture and Understanding Regarding the Kennewick Man Case
• Olivia Gray Bé - Emancipation in Dance: Exploring the Social and Cultural Emergence of Contact Improvisation
• Anna Hammersmith - Interracial Relationships: Acceptance and Involvement among College Students
• Derrick Hearns - Racial Residential Segregation in Chicago
• Melissa Henry - Making Our Opinions Count: Sustainable Agriculture Movement Organizations' Relationship with the U.S. Farm Bill
• Chelsea McGill - The Image of the Village in Bangladeship Culture and Society
• Sinclair Miller - Where are All the Trees? Representations of the Natural Environment in Advertising Directed at Children
• Hannah Mugel - Transnational Adoption: Socialization Practices and Identity Formation
• Elvira Nunez - Weekends at Daddy's: Gender Bias in Child Custody Determinations
• Ben Peek - Is Winning Everything? How Organized and Unorganized Sport Form Community
• Lauren Pyle - Specialty Coffee and the "Imagined Community"
• Jerry Walsh - Tourism and Truth: Constructing Authenticity, the Exotic, and the Other in South Asia
• Joy Wang - How Do Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Workers Choose Housing?
• Jessica Wilson - The Role of the Spanish-English Interpreter in the Primary Care Medical Encounter
• Alfie Wu - "The Imagined West" Study Abroad and erceived Class Mobility Among Chinese Students

2011 

• Carly Baird - Is the Need Being Filled? Sex Education for Individuals with Mental Disabilities
• Lydia Boote - Homeless Veterans in the United States
• Hanyun Cai -Neoliberalism and the Infant Feeding Choice in Urban China
• Fritz Chery - Restaveks
• Debora Cuellar-Paragon - Dental Health Intervention in Rural Communities in Boaco, Nicaragua
• Marge Curtis - Contraception and Mexican-American Women: Situating Behavior through Acculturation Theory
• Kelly Eisele - A omparative Study of Eco-Tourism Projects in the Brazilian Amazon
• Rachel Goldhamer - Personal Conviction in Platform Heels: The Positives and Perks of a Career in Exotic Dance
• Mark Heckmann - Sorry We Are Not Sorry: Power, Sovereignty and Apology following Japanese Internment in the United States
• Megan Keaveney - Can Waste Be Productive: Purity and Pollution Among Scavenger Livelihoods in Urban India
• Tom Mitchell - Modernity in Transition: An Examination of the Chinese Moral Education Curriculm
• Kimberly Oshita - The Makings of a Medalist: Examining Factors that Predict College Success
• Melissa Phineus - What is "Black Love"? A contextual analysis of black intimacy in situation comedies.
• Lauren Sabo - Ann Kanpe (Stand Up): An Assessment and Critque of Community Health Clinics in Rural Haiti
• Belkis Schoenhals - Changes and Constants: Women's Empowerment and Autonomy in American Childbirth
• Jennifer Sloan - An Investigation of Vaccine Compliance in Licking County, Ohio
• Maggie Snyder - Crafing Art: American Conceptions of "Art" and "Craft"
• Kelsey Sullivan - Recidivism, Reentry, and Recycling: How the United States Sentences and Resentences Offenders
• Ellie Thompson - "Coloured" Identity in the Context of Contemporary South Africa Society
• Prescott Woolley - 'Social Identity through Automobile Advertisements"

2010 

• Kristen Bauman - Building Community and Communicatin through Participatory Action Reseach: A Study of Licking County Habitat for Humanity
• Trish Brauer - McDonald's and the Chinese "McMoment": The McDonaldization of Consumer Identity in Post-Socialist China
• Ashlene Brown - Multiracial Feminism & Teen Pregnancy Prevention
• Leigh Courtney - Quechua and the Politics of Language in Peru
• Anna DeMartini - "Let's Talk About Sex": Perceptions of Sexual Health Interventions on Denison University's Campus
• Megan Faerber - "Connecting the Online and the Offline": An Analysis of the Role of Demographic Distinction in Our Perceptins of and Interactions On Social Networking Sites
• Benjamin Gillette - "Oberservation of Police Officer and Citizen Interaction in Precinct 5 of Columbus, OH
• Emily Haidet - "Walk with the Ancients": A Contemporary Study of People, Purpose, and Pilgrimage in Central Ohio
• Reyna Jagtiani - Part Fiction Partition: A Socio-Literary Analysis of the Partition of India and Pakistan
• Kayla Jerome - Forever 17: 65 Years of Contradictions in Seventeen Magazine
• Anna Kostial - Interpreting Fantasy: The Power of the Romance Novel and the Female Construction of Reality
• Stephen Lancaster - Institutionalized Racism in U.S. Drug Enforcement
• Jessica Leary - "KIPP-notizing": How the Transfer of Scholastic Capital Aids Underserved Students in "Climbing the Mountain to College" at KIPP Charter Schools
• Emily Macko - "It's Not Just Spelling Tests Anymore": Conceptualizations of Literacy in Two Ohio Elementary Schools
• Hannah Miller - 'KIPPnotizing": The Social Reproduction of Children in Charter Schools
• John Murphy - Raw Milk in Ohio
• Jerelle Reverack - Where Do We Go From Here?: Minority Displacement and the Social Copnsequences of Gentrification
• Jon Ross - Christian Men's Reactions to Changes in Traditional Gender Roles: A Case Study of the Granville Chapel
• Katherine Summers - Can I Buy Your Culture? Commodification, Conflict and Change in Aboriginal Australia
• Danny Taylor-Shaut - This Land is My Land: This Land is Your Land - Disputes of Land, Identity and Autonomy of the Mapuche Peoples of Chile
• Rachel Voelkle - The Road to Recovery: An Examination of the Goals, Activities, and Services for consumers at the Main Place
• Amelia Webb - Identity and the Intergration of the Internet: Examining the Intersection between Actual and Virtual Worlds through Facebook
• Lucy Wojtaszek - Therapy Through Tarot: An Exploration of Identity and Interaction in Contemporary Fortunetelling Practices