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 2004

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A Test of Bell’s Inequality for the Undergraduate Laboratory, Burton A. Betchart

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Epibiont Guilds as Paleoecological Tools in Environmental Analysis: An Example From Modern and Ordovician Shell Substrates, Stacy M. Boore

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In Need of Nature's Nourishment, Anna Gardner-Andrews

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Probing the Interstellar Medium on AU Size Scales Using Pulsar Scintillation, Alexander S. Hill

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Microstructures and Deformation in Some Fault Rocks From The McConnell Thrust at Mount Yamnuska (Alberta): Implications for Fluid Flow and Faulting and Cycles of Strain-Hardening and Softening, Lowell Miyagi

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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The Effects of Regulatory Threats and Strategic Bargaining on Firms' Voluntary Participation in Pollution Reduction Programs, Claire M. Jahns

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Dramatic Relocation: The Time and Place for Shakespeare on Film, Lydia Lunning

Strontium Variations in a Speleothem from Crevice Cave, Missouri: Potential for High Resolution Paleoclimate Reconstruction, Jessica Oster

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Yoga 'Holistic' Exercise in Ohio, Theresa Schmidt

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"Stuff You Really Want to Read:" Pleasure and Negotiation in Teen Magazine Reading, Margaret E. Troyer

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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Rural Whiteness, Realizing Race: White Race Identity in Rural Northwestern Pennsylvania: A Critical Review, Gloria Adams

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The Roma of Eastern Europe in Transition: Historical Marginalization, Misrepresentation, and Political Ethnogenesis, Michael Bobick

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Do Exchange Rate Regimes Affect Countries' Economic Growth and Inflation?, Yen Shern Chew

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All Hands Withdrawn: Touch and the Failure of Intimacy in A Passage to India and The Pisan Cantos, Douglas Diesenhaus

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Marital Happiness and Family Economics, Bryan Eldon Engelhardt

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Word is Born: Critical Gaps and the Poetics of Hip-Hop, Kabir Hamid

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Inheriting a Jewish Consciousness: Reading with a Sense of Urgency in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, Joshua Mason

Textural Characterization of Microlites in Rhyolitic Obsidian: Implications for Crystallization, Eruptive Time Scales, and Degassing in the Inyo Volcanic Chain, Eastern California, Celestine N. Mercer

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Impact Spherules From Western Australia: A Textural Analysis of Really Old Tiny Rocks, Dawn C.S. Ruth

The Role of Biological Processes in Modem Microbialite Morphogenesis: A Field and Experimental Approach to the Stromatolitic/Thrombolitic Subtidal Mounds near Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas, Rebekah N. Shepard

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

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A Moment of Transcendence: Encountering Each Other In and Beyond the Fiction of Raymond Carver, Amy Lynn Leo

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Shaping the Thin Blue Line: American Police Reform from the London Model to Community Policing, Philip Rosenbloom

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Canons, Culture Wars and History: A Case Study of Canonicity Through the Lens of The Blithedale Romance, Daniel L. Shiffner

Theses/Dissertations from 2000

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A Narrative Epistemology of Sacred Frame Constructedness and Deconstruction: Exploratory Analyses of Ways of Knowing Sacred Interpretation and Understanding Through Context, Symbol/Concept, and Role, Joshua M. Aerie

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Phylogenetic Inference and Neanderthal Mitochondrial DNA: Comparison of Parsimony and Distance Models, Menahem Baguio Doura

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Asset Price Inflation- Theory, History, and an Alternative Model, Christian Fitchett

Deformational Styles of Transpression: Three Areas Along the Southern San Andreas Fault, Luke Jensen

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Metametascience Towards Reconciliation, John P. Kennedy

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Disarticulation and Dissolution of Crab Remains Across a Depth Gradient in the Bahamas: A Taphonomic Study, Rebecca A. Lincoln

The Microstratigraphy of the Meadville Member of Lodi, Northeastern Ohio: A Lithofacies Analysis, Andrew S. Madof

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Bad-Boy Bryozoan Biomarkers: Cheilostome Distribution Patterns Along a Bahamian Depth Gradient, Christopher J. Nytch

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Gendering Bodies in Preschool: The Importance of the Interconnectedness of Race, Class, and Gender, Abigail D. Paine

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The US School Breakfast Program: Short- and Long-Term Academic Effects, Chris Rohlfs

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Time-Variant Institutions: Implications for European Unemployment, Nathaniel Stankard

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Brownfield Redevelopment and Effects on Community: A Study of the Collinwood Neighborhood in Cleveland Ohio, Mike Wallerstein

Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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Environmental Clean-Up and Property Price Change, Emily Aronow

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Hold Your Tongue: Language, Culture, and the Power of Teacher Bias in the ESL and Bilingual Classroom, Maria E. Barajas

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Bridger Formation Sandstones Used as an Indication of Tectonics in the Green River Basin and Western Wyoming, Lisa S. Novins

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An Analysis of the Traveler's Dilemma with Experimental Evidence, Eduard A. Pelz

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Perceptions of Income Inequality: An Exploratory Study, Susanna Henighan Potter

A Comparative Study of Microstructures and Rheology From Two Thrust Fault Settings, Matthew Strine

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Olivine Petrofabric Analysis from the Leka Ophiolite Complex, Sarah J. Titus

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Looking Through a Lens: A Viewer's Story about Love and the Movies, Jennifer Waldo

Theses/Dissertations from 1998

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Human Cesspools by Design?: The Inherent Contradiction in Public Housing, Melissa Calivis Green

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The Place of the Answering Machine in Institutional Interaction, Julia Neikirk

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Household Saving Behavior and the Real Interest Rate: An Empirical Study, Harsha Thirumurthy

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The Petrography of the Buck Creek Dunite Body, Clay County, NC: Implications about its Origin and Emplacement, Trista L. Thornberry

Theses/Dissertations from 1997

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Status Attainment Among Children of Single Mothers: The Roles of Parenting and Economics, Sarah Barfels

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Amazight Identity in the Post Colonial Moroccan State: A Case Study in Ethnicity, Morag E. Boyd

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Mother Ireland: Women, the State and the Abortion Referendum in the Republic of Ireland, Jennifer K. DeWan

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Science Fiction: Rhetoric, Authenticity, Textuality and the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Jeremiah Dyehouse

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The 'Schizoid' Nature of Modern Hebrew Linguistics: A Contact Language in Search of a Genetic Past, Devon L. Strolovitch

Theses/Dissertations from 1996

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Urban Squatting: An Adaptive Response to the Housing Crisis, Rimma Ashkinadze

Petrography and Sedimentology of the Nauga Tuffs, Campbellrand Subgroup, Griqualand West, South Africa: Implications for Magma Composition, Volcanism, Depositional Mechanisms and Setting, Darian Davies

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No Longer Children, Not Yet Adults: Adolescence in the Fiction of L.M. Montgomery, Cathlin M. Davis

Paleoenvironmental Interpretation of the Messinian Kalavasos Formation, Kato Moni, Cyprus, Allison L. Dunn

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"Nyatiti is my people": Music and the Reconstruction of Culture Among the Luo of Western Kenya, Ian Eagleson

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Crossed Wires, Noisy Signals: Language, Identity, and Resistance in Caribbean Literature, Barry Eidlin

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Foreign Direct Investment in Eastern Europe: Applying Traditional Models of FDI to the Transitional Countries of Eastern Europe, Jonathan Austin Kerr

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Viability of Traditional Banking Services: Evidence from the Regional Level U.S. Banking Industry, Sofia Xinchen Lou

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Meat and Potatoes: Recipes for a Range of Egalitarianism in Three Hunter-Gatherer Societies, Amy Vlassia Margaris

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Deep R-Band Surface Photometry of NGC891, Eric Miller

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Feminist Social Research: Epistemological and Methodological Implications, Molly Moloney

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An Analysis of Foreign Direct Investment and Portfolio Investment Into Developing Countries, Sunaina Kilachand Patel

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"Yes, friends, these clouds...Are...stage machinery": An Exploration of Subject in John Ashbery, Shauna Sutherland

Theses/Dissertations from 1995

Taphonomy of Holocene and Pliocene Molluscan Assemblages in Bahia Concepcion and the Loreto Basin, Baja California Sur, Mexico, Christina Empedocles

Molluscan Assemblages of Bahia Concepcion: Holocene Analogs to Pliocene Marine Rift Basin Faunas of Baja California, Mexico, Chris Gustafson

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Financial Intermediation and Growth in Developing Countries, Asim Husain

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Relating to the Rood, Christopher C. LeCluyse

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Estimating the Demand Structure of Housing Characteristics: A Nonparametric Approach, Christopher Ngai

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Modern Marine Sediments of Bahia Concepcion: Patterns, Processes, and Potential Analogues to Neogene Rift Basin Deposits of Baja California, Timothy William Reardon

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Exchange Rates and the Trade Balance in Argentina and Peru: Is There a J-curve?, Steven C. Trost

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Scarlett's Sisters: The Privileged Negotiations of Plantation Women, Nancy Weissman-Galler

Theses/Dissertations from 1994

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The Association Between Racial Group and Levels of Conservatism Concerning Attitudes Toward Women, Julie Chambers

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Faith and Banishment: The Artistic Credo of Katherine Anne Porter, Paul Richard Jaskunas

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State Anti-Smoking Legislation and the Demand for Cigarettes, Jean McIntire

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Rape Law Reform's Limits, Beth Ann Richman

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Flow and Fantasy: An Exploration of Role-Playing Games, Andrew Roy

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Kendal at Oberlin: An Examination of Desires, Expectations, and Concerns of Residents and Management and Staff in the Formation and Development of a New Continuing Care Retirement Community, Megan A. Schulte

Theses/Dissertations from 1993

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Using Fourier Transform Analysis to Extract Information From the Shapes of Folded Layers, Thomas Billiard

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Capital Flight and Exchange Restrictions, Kazi Zhain S. Hasan

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Foreign Debt Rescheduling and Private Investment in LDCs, Zeeshan Hasan

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"As If I Could Do Anything Except Just Sit and Stare": A Gaze of a Viewer/Reader in Psycho and To The Lighthouse, Stephanie Hunt Hegstad

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Social and Political Discourse in America: The Civil Republican Revival in American Legal Theory and the Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas, Daniel Hope

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The American Public Library Building: A Social History and Feminist Critique, Shirley J. Lincicum

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Factors Effecting Bangladesh Jute Prices, Naeem Mohaiemen

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Classifying Gilbert and Sullivan, Joshua Rutsky

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Spaces Between: Towards Depolarized Readings of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Bethany Suzanne Schneider

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Say What I Mean: Metaphor and the Exeter Book Riddles, Sarah L. Thomson

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Testing for Speculative Bubbles in Foreign Exchange Markets, Akila Weerapana

Shell Concentrations and Their Genesis: Case Studies in the Middle Devonian of Ohio and the Lower Pliocene of Baja California Sur, John Warren Williams

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Resistance and the Possibility of Freedom: Foucault, Merleau-Ponty and Subjectivity in Tension, Joshua Ziady

Theses/Dissertations from 1992

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Preference Reversal and the Independence Axiom, Dan Adelman

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"Nobody Said Anything" Issues of Communication in the Short Stories of Raymond Carver, Darren Bosch

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The Evolution of Women's Intercollegiate Athletics at Oberlin College, Leland J. Brandt

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The Prevalence of Abuse and Battering Among Homeless Women, and an Assessment of Current Services Provided for Battered Women: Should Homeless Women Receive Such Services?, Liza Oktay Hicks

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The Mythmaking Self (or the Myth Making Self): Fiction and Experience in Galway Kinnell's The Book of Nightmares, Michael Patrick Robertson

Theses/Dissertations from 1991

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Liberation Theology: Social Impact and Change in Brazil and Columbia, Jennifer D. Bickham

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Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein, and the Powers of Creation, Danielle Kolker

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Gardening the Desert, Deserting the Garden: Culture, Agriculture and Ecology on the Northern Plains, 1830-1930, Ben Larson