Many academic departments at Oberlin have honors programs which provide selected students an opportunity to pursue in-depth research under faculty supervision. Each department establishes its own requirements for the format and deposit of completed projects. In addition to undergraduate honors theses, this collection includes some graduate theses from the periods when Oberlin offered masters degrees, as far back as 1924. Some theses are only available by request.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Identity and Incentives: Black Representation by Black and White Members of Congress, Grace Anderson

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Towards “Safe Spaces to Do Dangerous Things”: Safety and Accountability in Educational Theatre, Julian Anderson

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Eurydice Never Liked Music: Reading Artistry in Aucoin and Ruhl's Eurydice, Kenji Anderson

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Why Do Ideas Fail? Harry Haywood and the Black Belt Nation Thesis, Sam Beesley

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Biochar has positive but distinct impacts on root, shoot, and fruit production in beans, tomatoes, and willows, Sunniva Bratli Sheffield, Taylor Hoefer, and John E. Petersen

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Distinguishing the Doxa: Exploring Preschool Curricular Constraints, Audrey Burkey

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Birdcage: A Story of Generational Trauma and Trying to Be Better, Gabriela Castillo

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State of Decay: A Theory of Fungal Organizing, Brandon Denton

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Let’s Have a Stitch ‘n Bitch: The Resurgence of Western Women’s Involvement in Textile Work, Annabel Dobbyn

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Sound Design: Spatialization in Theater, Lucas Draper

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Multi-abled Community in a Precarious World: Living, Funding, and Caring in Camphill Village, Miriam Entin-Bell

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Minimal Generating Set of an Integer Cone, Augustine Fisher

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Stand-up and Cancel Culture: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Samson Hahn-Madole

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Vicarious Dissonance: Impacts on Group Identification and Ingroup Member Likability, Emma Hart

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“Still a Better Love Story than Twilight”: Camp, The Twilight Renaissance, and Contemporary Queer Youth Culture, Catherine Horowitz

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“I go to a crazy competitive HS and I hate it”: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of High School Competitive Suffering Using Reddit, Ish Houle

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Matisse, Modigliani, and Maidenform - Body as Sculpture - An Examination of the AMAM’s Bissett Collection’s Reclining Nudes, Ursula Ilona Hudak

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Changelings– Turn and Face the Strange: Folklore, Identity, and Imperialism in 19th Century Ireland, Natalie Ivy

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We Don't Need No Education: The Impact of Electing a College-Educated Mayor on Educational Outcomes, Hannah Kris

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery: Vocal copying responses of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) to auditory playbacks of signature and non-signature T. truncatus whistles, Larissa K. Michel

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Vivir en resistencia del olvido: Las personas mayores víctimas del conflicto armado colombiano, Caroline Morehouse

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Process: Calypso from Page to Performance, Jordan Muschler

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Buddha in a Box: Exploring Museum and Ritual Meanings of Animate Himalayan Sculpture, Parker Niles

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Emotion Word Use by English Speakers: An Analysis of Speaker Status, Extraversion, and Vocabulary Size, Jessica Norris

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The Morality of Suicide: A Utilitarian Perspective on Death, Cecilia Owen

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Canceled but not Forgotten: An Examination of the E↵ects of Online Shaming on Music Streaming, Özüm Sabiha Pamukçu

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"Here Comes Trouble!" An Exploration of Digital Technology in History, Gunja Sarkar

A two-screen model of the variable scintillation of pulsar B1737+13, Sammy Siegel

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The effects of behavioral synchrony on Theory-of-Mind among collaborative music-makers, Harriet C. Skowronek

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Psalters and Penitence: Forgiveness and Religious Violence in the First Crusade, Lucia Soman

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Francesco Bertos’ Demons: Inscrutability, Self-Reference, and the Sculptor’s Dark Arts, Lucy Soth

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The Unintended Consequences of Ohio's Environmental Remediation Law of the Oil and Gas Industry, Samuel Topper

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Gas-puff Z-Pinch Simulations Using the FLASH Code, Niels Vanderloo

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Beyond the Red Demise: An Examination of Modes of Mythic Discourse in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, Oziah Wales

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“This Here is a Lesbian Museum”: Exploring Queerness Narratives in U.S. Historic House Museums, 1932-Present, Meredith Warden

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Structure Theorems for Distributions and Tempered Distributions, Jingxuan Zhu

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Migratory Stories: Building Ethical Immigration Policy, Lucca D. Abele

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“I am a Hindu; I am an Indian and I am a Man” A Rhetorical Analysis of Contemporary Hindu Nationalist Political Ideology, Julia Binder

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The Imperial Gothic: Contact Tracing Narratives of Disease, Disorder, and Race in Global American Literature, Emma Brownstein

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The Personal Must Always Be Political: A History of Survivors' Narratives in Anti-Sexual Violence Zines, Jeannine Colby Fortin

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La mirada masculina en Nadie me vera llorar de Cristina Rivera Garza: Reflejos e imagenes fragmentadas del cuerpo y de la mente femenina, Riley T. Davis

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Contractible 4-Manifolds, Alexandra Du

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Japaneseness For Western Audiences in Video Games: How the West Came to Desire Japanese Cultural Marks in their Video Games, Benjamin Echikson

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(In)valid Vaginas: Overcoming the Shame of Vaginismus and Rejecting the Idea of Sexual Failure, Emily Anne Fiorentino

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"Kill the State in Yourself": Totalitarianism and the Illiberal Dissidence of Egor Letov, Katherine Frevert

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Demons of Analogy: The Encounter Between Music and Language After Mallarme, Joshua Tasman Girardeau Reinier

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The Practice and Purpose of Adaptation of Classical Texts, Cassandra J.S. Gutterman-Johns

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Building a Morally Respectable Nation: Examining Japanese Foreign Policy through Ebara Soroku; 1913-1922, Shogo Ishikawa

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Universal Preschool and Maternal Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Florida and Vermont, Hannah Keidan

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Characterizing AGN Influence on the Calculated Metallicities of Adjacent Star-Forming Spaxels, Aidan Khelil

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Artistic Agency, Feminine Labor, and the Female Body in Buddhist Hair Embroideries of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Chloe Y. Lai

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Racial Domination Through the Grey Areas: The Categorization of Mixed-Race in the United States and Brazil, Arman Luczkow

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Eros as Interpretation: Isaac ibn Sahula's Commentary on the Song of Songs and the Invention of a Kabbalistic Hermeneutics, Jesse Noily

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From Moral Panic to Permanent War: Rhetoric and the Road to Invading Iraq, Kai Philippe

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Error Handling Approaches in Programming Languages, Joey Aldrin Rees-Hill

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Moving the Chains on Men's Sports: An Analysis of Successful Female Coaches, Kira Widran

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Jacobi's Four Squares Theorem, Arman Yagci

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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Open Multiagent System, Tianxing Zhu

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Love in the Time of Corona: Changes to Oberlin Hookup Culture During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Sophie M. Aaron

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Autoridad subversiva: la construcción de poder y conocimiento intergeneracional y transatlántico en círculos femeninos durante la Inquisición española, Eliza Honor Braverman

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Proper 3-colorings of cycles and hypercubes, Emily Cairncross

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Community, Connection, and Conflict; The Liminal Spaces of the Regents Canal and the Industrial Transition of London (1812-1900), Maya Pearl Colman

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Where Do You Go When You Go Home? Narrative Studies of Gender Euphoria, Silas Crewe-Kluge

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In the Shadow of the Carceral State: The Evolution of Feminist and Institutional Activism Against Sexual Violence, Bethany MunYeen Gen

Plasticity and the Art of Recovery: Wangechi Mutu’s Praxis of Afrofeminist Reassemblage, Madi Goetzke

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Collaborative Game Mosaics, Xiaoyun Gong

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Assessing Barriers and Benefits to a Food Waste Composting Pilot Program in Oberlin, Ohio, Julia Halm

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Petrology of an oxidized blueschist cobble from the San Onofre Breccia, California, USA, Alaina A. Helm

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The Mathematics of Mutual Aid: Robust Welfare Guarantees for Decentralized Financial Organizations, Christian Ikeokwu

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Quality of SQL Code Security on StackOverflow and Methods of Prevention, Robert Klock

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The Compromises Progressive Prosecutors Must Make: Three Case Studies, Alexander John Kott

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Retributive Justice: A Review of the Ethical Considerations Surrounding Capital Punishment and Solitary Confinement as used in United States Correctional Facilities, Adelaide Marie Laros

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From Transnormativity to Self-Authenticity: Shifting Away From a Dysphoria-Centered Approach to Transgender Identity, Matty LaValley

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Energy and Greenhouse Gas Savings for LEED-Certified U.S. Office Buildings Using Weighted Regression, Tian Liang

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The History of Afro-Asian Solidarity and the New Era of Political Activism, Jasmine N. Mitchell

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The Relationship between School Shootings and Gun Acquisition Rates, Sun-il (Sun) Moon

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The Worst First Citizen, Sarah Nicole Passannante

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Increasing the Value of Information During Planning in Uncertain Environments, Gaurab Pokharel

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Belief in the Unbelievable: Yakov Druskin and Chinari Metaphysics, Patrick D. Powers

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Representation, Narrative, and “Truth”: Literary and Historical Epistemology in 19th-Century France, Samuel A. Schuman

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Dancing on the Dead: Death, Entertainment, and Respectability in Victorian London, Noa H. Segal

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Avoidance Behavior Due to More Stringent Environmental Standards: Evidence From The LEED Certifcation, Spencer Tu

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Interpersonal Forgiveness: An Approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gianna S. Volonte

A Critical Analysis of Stereotypes, Patrick Wai

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Impact of Race, Tracking and Advanced Course Experiences on Self-Esteem, Identity and Access to Higher Education Among Students of Color, Katharine A. Ware

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Blurring the Boundary between Play and Ritual: Sugoroku Boards as Portable Cosmos in Japanese Religion, Jingyi Yuan

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Grotesque, Bodily, and Hydrous: The Liminal Landscapes of the Underworld In Homer, Virgil, and Dante, Sophia Zandi

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Courcelle's Theorem: Overview and Applications, Samuel Frederic Barr

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Memoirs of Wehrmacht Soldiers —— From Survival to Victimhood, Jiahao Cao

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The Stock Connect Programs: A Study of their Impact on Chinese Stock Returns and Global Stock Markets Integration, Jiadi Cheng

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Noise Traders in Large-cap and Small-cap Portfolios: Impact of Sentiments on the Mispricing, Eunjun Choo

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Curving Towards Bézout: An Examination of Plane Curves and Their Intersection, Camron Alexander Robey Cohen

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Las “brujas” en las carceles clandestinas de Argentina: La prisionera politica embarazada y otra madres en la imaginaria cultural del terrorismo estatal, Brianne Cotter

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The Rise and Fall of Qigong, William J. Cramer

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The ACA's Dependent Coverage Mandate: An Investigation of its Effects on Mortality with Regard to Race, Jack W. Derwin

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Neoliberalism, Rationality, and the Politics of Congestion Pricing in New York City, Max Finkelpearl

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Machine Learning? In MY Election? It's More Likely Than You Think: Voting Rules via Neural Networks, Daniel Firebanks-Quevedo

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Friends, Barbarians, Future Countrymen: Clientela and Caesar’s De Bello Gallico, J.T. Godfrey

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The Politicization of Water: Transboundary Water-Conflict in the Indian Subcontinent, Ananya Gupta

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The Experience of Guatemalan Women who Seek Asylum in United States Courts: A Legacy of Paternalism and Gendered Violence, Nina E. Harris