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 2017

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Songs of Change: How Music Helped Spark the Arab Spring Revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, Brendan Thabo Eprile

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Rethinking Redevelopment: Neoliberalism, New Urbanism and Sustainable Urban Design in Cleveland, Ohio, Julian Geltman

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Pretrial Attitudes and Their Influence on Interpretation of Case Evidence and Mock Juror Decision-Making in Insanity Defense Cases, Justine M.L. Gonzales

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Towards a Relative-Pitch Neural Network System for Chorale Composition and Harmonization, Samuel P. Goree

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Glaciovolcanic Megapillows of Undirhliðar, Reykjanes Peninsula, Southwestern Iceland, Rachel Heineman

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Digital Morphologies: Environmentally-Influenced Generative Forms, Sage Jenson

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Social Movement Unionism: Through Teachers Unions' Mobilization in Opposition to Corporate Education Reform, Peter McNeel LaFreniere

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From the Circle to the Square: Symmetry and Degeneracy in Quantum Mechanics, Dahyeon Lee

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Official Rebrand and the Importance of Queer Adornment, MI Leggett

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Dealing with the Digital: Literary Media, Mediated Narratives, and Sketchy Politics, Amanda A. Leopold

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Old Fields and New Fields: Ceramics and the Expanded Field of Sculpture, Robert J. Lewis-Nash

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Artin Presentations and Closed 4-Manifolds, Jun Li

"This is DC, RIAlized:" Brookland Manor as a Site of Rebranding from Above and Resistance from Below, Clara Lincoln

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E-Cigarette Use among Individuals Diagnosed with an Eating Disorder, Alexa Mary L'Insalata

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I Am the Luchadora: Countering Exotification through Printed Installation, Margaret Landa Middleton

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A Brisk Tour of (Enriched) Category Theory, David Jaz Myers

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Remaking "Public" Space: Neoliberal Spatial Management and the Criminalization of Homelessness in San Francisco's Union Square, Sophie Newman

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Vegetarianism In Historical and Contemporary China: Tracking Transitions In Discourse Through Rhetorical Idioms of Entitlement and Endangerment, Brendan Nuse

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Experimental Biomechanics of Trinucleid Fringe Pits (Trilobita), Kirk Pearson

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Codeswitching in Hiaki Conversational Discourse: An Evaluation of Myers-Scotton's Matrix Language Frame Model, Sofia Gottlieb Pierson

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Does Training Enhance Entraining? Musical Ability and Neural Signatures of Beat Perception, Kira Pinard-Welyczko

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“Head Start Works,” But Why? Understanding the Persistence of an American Welfare Program, Leah Rich-Awkward

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Sound and Silence in the Forge: Work, Space, and Communication in Early Cistercian Monasticism, Jacob Bradley Roosa

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Fearless Foreign Women: Exploring Tamar and Ruth as Characters Within a Post-Exilic Debate on Intermarriage, Rachel Sacks

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Symphonies of Horror: Musical Experimentation in Howard Shore's Work with David Cronenberg, Vikram A. Shankar

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Hyphenated Japan: Cross-examining the Self/Other dichotomy in Ainu-Japanese Material Culture, Jonathan Chira Shapiro

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The 1973 Oil Embargo and US-Saudi Relations: An Episode in New Imperialism, Nathaniel David Sher

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Infrared and Thermal-Desorption Spectroscopy of H2 and D2 in Metal Organic Frameworks, Kai Shinbrough

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The Abortion Burden: Examining Abortion Access, Undue Burden and Supreme Court Rulings in the United States, Tyler E. Sloan

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"This is a Closed Space for Queer Identifying Folx": Queer Spaces on Campus, Tory Adna Sparks

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Metaphorically Framed Stereotypes, Victim Race, and Attitudes Toward Police: Factors Influencing Juror Cognition and Decision-Making in Police Force Cases, Aliza Jo Spruch-Feiner

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Improving the Sensitivity of a Pulsar Timing Array: Correcting for Interstellar Scattering Delays, Jacob E. Turner

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Crafting Wendla Bergmann in Spring Awakening, Amy R. Weintraub

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Race, Ethnicity and the Legacy of Baseball in the Americas, Darren Brett Zaslau

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Seeking Redemption in a World of Waste: A Comparative Analysis of Bottle Deposit Systems and Campaigns and a Consideration of Their Comprehensive Sustainability, Zoe Bluffstone

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Life-cycle Cost Analysis of Nutrient Reduction Technologies Employed in Municipal Wastewater Treatment, Colin Barrett Brown

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Contested Land, Contested Representations: Re-visiting the Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine, Gabriel Healey Brown

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Metaphor and Memory: How Metaphors Instantiate Schemas in and Influence Memory of Narrative, Sarah Elizabeth Cox

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Trauma and Free Speech in Higher Education: Do Trigger Warnings Threaten First Amendment Rights?, Jordan Doll

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To Come Alive in Our Experience: The Sounds of Listening in Sigurd F. Olson, Allison Fulton

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The Munich Visiting Program, 1960-1972, Jesse Gamoran

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Power Dynamics in Conversation : The Role of Gender, Caitlyn Grubb

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"Music-making in a Joyous Sense": Democratization, Modernity, and Community at Benjamin Britten's Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, Daniel Hautzinger

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Managing Racist Pasts: the Black Justice League’s Demand for Inclusion and Its Challenge to the Promise of Diversity at Princeton University, Tomoyo Joshi

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Biophilic Architecture, Connectedness to Nature, and the Importance of Environmental Issues, Sarah Michelle Kahl

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Attracting Foreign Direct Investment in Pakistan: The Role of Governance, National Security and Global Investment Trends, Sakina Lavingia

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Age of Immigration and Adult Labor Market Outcomes: Childhood Environment in the Country of Origin Matters, Aaron Watson McCartney

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Icon of Heroic “Degeneracy”: The Journey of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Self-Portrait as a Soldier, Meghan E. Mette

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Inverted Quarantine: Individual Response to Collective Fear, Katherine Parker Moncure

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Drawing DNA Sequence Networks, Julia Olivieri

Frequency Responsive Beam Tracing, James R.A. Quintana

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Parental Advisory, Explicit Content: Music Censorship and the American Culture Wars, Gavin M. Ratcliffe

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Paleoenvironmental analysis of Cretaceous mudstones at Slope Mountain, Alaska using carbon stable isotopes, Ashley Ratigan

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Steiner Tree Games, Samuel Rossin

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Waging Wars in Cyberspace: How International Law On Aggression And Self-Defense Falls Short Of Addressing Cyber Warfare. Could Iran Legally Retaliate For The Stuxnet Attack?, Willa Rubin

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Prosperity in the On-Demand Economy: Reinvigorating the American Labor Force, Ziya Mehmet Smallens

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Perceived Essentialism, Group Relative Deprivation, and Collective Action, Barbara Toizer

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An Investigation of AMS in Oman Ophiolite Gabbros, Sarah D. Trutner

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Storytelling, Community and Dialogue: The Making of And Yet We'll Speak at Grafton Reintegration Center, Lillian W. White

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A Comparative Analysis of an Interior-point Method and a Sequential Quadratic Programming Method for the Markowitz Portfolio Management Problem, Zhifu Xiao

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Selfish Routing on Dynamic Flows, Christine Marie Antonsen

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The Tomb of Ny-ankh-nesut: A Contextualized Study of Looted Fragments, William L. Austin

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Chaos and Learning in Discrete-Time Neural Networks, Jess M. Banks

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Performance and Resilience: Performance, Storytelling, and Resilience Building in Post-Katrina New Orleans, Sophia Colette Becker

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Taking Up Space: Community Formation Among Non-Urban LGBTQ Youth, Madison Bishop

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The Electoral Influence of Teachers’ Unions on Democratic Education Policy Priorities, Molly Ziek Brand

Gendercomic, Anne H. Buckwalter

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Healing and Belonging: Community Based Art and Community Formation in West Oakland, Pablo Miguel Cerdera

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“The Whole Vexed Question”: Seamus Heaney, Old English and Language Troubles, Una A. Creedon-Carey

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Living in an (Im)material World: Consuming Exhausted Narratives in New Grub Street, Emma C. Eisenberg

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Into the Fray: Norman Jacobson, the Free Speech Movement and the Clash of Commitments, Kai Gardner

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The Complicated Relationship Between Music and Foreign Language Learning: Nuanced Conditions Required for Cognitive Benefits Due to Music, Talia Greenberg

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The Chicago Women's Liberation Union: White Socialist Feminism and Women's Health Organizing in the 1970s, Lara Griffin

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La Guerra Civil Española en la memoria histórica: Una conversación continua con el pasado, Jordan C. Hensley

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Rethinking the Ill Body in Phallocentric Western Culture: A Critical Engagement with Luce Irigaray, Sarah E. Kahn

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Can Bình Speak?: Marginalization, Subversion, and Representation of the Subaltern in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt, Joanne Eun Jung Lee

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Pillars and Buttes: A Petrologic Comparison of Modern and Ancient Hydrocarbon Seep Rock, Erica C. Morelli

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The Effects of Foreign Language Acquisition on Wages for US College Graduates, Christopher Nguyen

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Partnerships and Mandates: Power Relations Between Donor and Recipient Organizations Promoting Gender Equality in Nicaragua, Alyssa Katherine Phelps

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Misreading the River: Heraclitean Hope in Postmodern Texts, Nancy Lee Roane

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Arrow: A Modern Reversible Programming Language, Eli Rose

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A Trickster in Disguise: Reading a New Type of Satan in 2 Corinthians, Miranda Julia Rutherford

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The Impact of the State Children's Health Insurance Program on Educational Outcomes in the United States: A Two-Fold Analysis, Olivia Simuoli

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Reconstructing Seville: Translating Eduardo del Campo’s Capital Sur, Hannah Lynn Varadi

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“La storia mia è breve”: reading Puccini’s La Bohème beyond the obvious, Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit

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Effect of Water Levels and Beach Availability on Waterfront Homes, Benjamin Towson Whitener

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Science and Medicine in Liudmila Ulitskaia’s Kazus Kukotskogo, William D. Wise

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Tropical Linear Algebra: Notions of Rank Over the Tropical Semiring, William D. Wise

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Minds, Bodies, and Political Selves: Embodying Pro-Choice Activism, Samantha Leah Aisen

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An Arbitrary Death? Capital Punishment and the Supreme Court, Truman Braslaw

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The Mechanical Aspirations of Written Things in Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Maxwell Harrison Cohn

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Anomie: Concept, Theory, Research Promise, Max Coleman

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La influencia de Don Quijote en la música clásica europea 1605-1935, Julia Connor

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Hegemonic Masculinity and Misconceptions of Gender and Mental Health in Violent Criminality, Mina Dailami

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The Accessibility of a Classical Music Education to Youth in the United States, Josie Davis

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How Unusual is Tropical Storm Irene? A Case Study of Storm Deposition in Littleville Lake, Huntington, MA, Catherine Dunn

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CELEBRATING EXTINCTION? The Disconnect Between Reality and Media Representation of Bluefin Tuna in Japan, Gene Fukui

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"The Nurceryes for Church and Common-wealth": A Reconstruction of Childhood, Children, and the Family in Seventeenth-Century Puritan New England, William C. Gautier

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Full of Hot Air: Heat Flow at the Medicine Lake Volcano Hot Spot, Modoc County, California, Katrina D. Gelwick

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The Rise and Fall of Social Problems: Alcohol and Tobacco in Oberlin, Jung Han Guel