Catalog | Conferences | Departments | First Year | Handbook | Honors | Learning Spaces | Off Campus | - Research - | Support | Writing Center

Student Research

Student Research Projects

Division: Humanities
Elyse Akhbari, 2007
Our Nature, Under God
Division Humanities
Funding Nancy and Henry Schacht Endowed Fund for Woodyard Summer Fellowships
Major Religion
Anne Barngrover, 2006
A Wailing in the Streets: Gender and Cultural Implications of La Llorona
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major English-Creative Writing and Spanish
Anne Barngrover, 2007
The Quiet Beauty of a Place: A Collection of Creative Writing Pieces Inspired by Travels in Scotland
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major English
Michael Bayer, 2007
Ecce America
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major English
Keith Brammer, 2006
Sin and Paul
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major Religion
Anna Brawley, 2005
Humor and the British Experience in the First World War
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major History
Alexandra Campbell, 2006
Women and Children: An Analysis of Portrayals of White and American Indian Women and Children in Indian-Captivity Narratives
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major English Literature
Katherine Connelly, 2006
Helping Hands Garden of Hope: You Eat What You Grow
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major English Writing
Nathan Dailey, 2007
The Role of Rationality in Kant's Moral Theory
Division Humanities
Funding The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
Major Philosophy
Stephanie Dixon, 2006
Catholicism in South America: The Impact of the Church on Chilean Ethics and Politics
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major Religion and Spanish
Greta Donley, 2006
Examples of Chivalry in Late Medieval Manuscripts
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major English
Greta Donley, 2007
Finding Virtue Among Scattered Leaves: Reassembling the Manuscripts of Otto F. Ege
Division Humanities
Funding Edith von Arps-Aubert Endowed Fund
Major English
Fulya Ercan, 2005
Christianity and Homosexuality
Division Humanities
Funding Nancy and Henry Schacht Endowed Fund for Woodyard Summer Fellowships
Major English Literature
Lee Fischer, 2005
"Open Arms or Closed Doors? The United States' Immigration Policy Before, During, and After World War Two."
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major History
Bethany Flaherty, 2007
Art as Propaganda and Political Subversion in Communist China
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major East Asian
Megan Henricks, 2007
Reclaiming our Relinquished Self: Ludwig Feuerbach's Philosophy of Religion
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major Philosophy
Amber Hopkins, 2005
In the Eye of the Beholder:The Evolving Perceptions of African American Women's Beauty in American Culture
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major Women's Studies
Margaret Jaus, 2007
Calling Our Dominant Consciousness Into Question
Division Humanities
Funding Nancy and Henry Schacht Endowed Fund for Woodyard Summer Fellowships
Major Religion
Timothy Johnson, 2005
Reasserting Ayn Rand's Literature
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major English Literature, History
Cherie Lee, 2006
The Development of the Romanticized Image of Asian Women into a Literary Mode in Contemporary Literature and Film
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major French
Catherine Mehta , 2007
"The Vulnerable Observer": A Study of Contemporary Spanish Culture from a Foreign Perspective
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major Spanish
Matthew Miller, 2007
Blued and Rusting and Other Poems: A Study on Power and Form in Poetry
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major English
Susan Moser, 2005
Contemporary Urbanist Perspectives on Issues of Public and Private Space in Renaissance Florence
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major Art History
Halle Murcek, 2007
Metafiction and the Fairy Tale
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major English
Katlin Peverall, 2007
Religious Tensions Within the Body Politic: The Industry of a Stigmatized Faith
Division Humanities
Funding Nancy and Henry Schacht Endowed Fund for Woodyard Summer Fellowships
Major Religion
Laura Pippenger, 2006
The Relationship between Religion and Poverty: A Look at whether Religious Conviction Pulls Americans out of Poverty
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major Religion
Steven Rockoff, 2006
Linear Narrative in Japanese Video Games: The Evolution of a Genre
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major East Asian Studies
Leigh Rogers, 2005
Christianity "Coming Out of the Closet:" Reevaluating Homosexuality in Today's Culture*
Division Humanities
Funding Nancy and Henry Schacht Endowed Fund for Woodyard Summer Fellowships
Major Religion
Emily Severy, 2007
The Female Wits in a Man's World: Women as Playwrights and the Women in their Plays
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major English
James Sheppard, 2007
Veteran Experiences in World War II: Oral History and Memory in Recalling War and Combat Experience
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major History
Alana Slezak, 2007
Unveiling the Rise of Women's NGOs: A Comparative Analysis of Egypt and Morocco
Division Humanities
Funding International Paper Company Foundation Research Scholarship
Major Women Studies
Katherine St. Clair, 2007
Public Policy and Catholic Tradition
Division Humanities
Funding Nancy and Henry Schacht Endowed Fund for Woodyard Summer Fellowships
Major Religion
Ryan Stevenson, 2007
Confessions, Connections, Conversions
Division Humanities
Funding The William G. Bowen and Mary Ellen Bowen Endowed Fund
Major Classics
Elliott Stixrud, 2006
James Dobson and the rise of the religious right in modern American politics
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major Religion
Halle Thompson, 2006
Religion as Making Sense of the World: The Examples of French Laïcité and Protestantism
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major French and English Literature
Carlin Twedt, 2007
Flaubert, Manet, and Ekphrasis in the 19th Century and Today
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major English
Lauren Volpe, 2007
I Now Pronounce You Man and Wives: Examining the Patriarchy of Polygamy Through the Narratives of the Women Who Live/d It
Division Humanities
Funding Nancy and Henry Schacht Endowed Fund for Woodyard Summer Fellowships
Major Religion
Zachery Walters, 2005
Genesis of a Fictoinal Setting
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major English (Creative Writing)
Morgan Wells, 2006
Christian Anxiety: Depictions of the Devil in British and American Gothic Fiction
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major English Writing
Alexandra Wilson, 2007
Richard Wagner: An Examination of Operatic Output in the Context of His Political Values and Anti-Semitism
Division Humanities
Funding The Young Scholar Program
Major History
Rachel Wise, 2005
Christianity "Coming Out of the Closet:" Reevaluating Homosexuality in Today's Culture
Division Humanities
Funding Nancy and Henry Schacht Endowed Fund for Woodyard Summer Fellowships
Major English