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.
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Making Space: Sacred, Public and Private Property in American National Parks, Adina Langer
The Gods Within: Checkhov, Lorca, and the Internalization of Tragic Fate, Gabriela A. Nirenburg
Petrographic Investigation of the Anomalous Age of a Precambrian Tuff in the Nauga Formation of South Africa, Maxwell Rudolph
"Life into Dry Bones": Emergence of the Female Artist and Community Integration in L.M. Montgomery's Novels of Development, Laurie Elizabeth Stein
Activist Anthropology: An Ethnography of Asian American Student Activism at Oberlin College, Ashley R. Suarez
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Hidden Meanings: A Search for the Historical Worldview in the Oberlin College Ethnographic Collection Organizational Systems, Erin Evangeline Allen
Polar Measurements of Mesospheric CO, Susannah Burrows
Small-Scale Biodiesel Production: A Feasibility Study, Isabel Call
Production Cost Structure and Commercial Success in the New Film Industry, Daniel Hatkoff
Nonlinear Optics and an Experimental Test of Bell’s Inequality, Michael Herbst
Does the Type of Legal Representation Affect Sentencing Outcomes?, Lawren Elaine Hill
The Mistakes of the Infallible: The Internal Conflict of Eastern European Communist Intellectuals, Monica M. Lee
What's Really in Alaska?, Renata Perri Silberblatt
The Quantum Dynamics of H2 in a C60 Lattice, Christie Simmons
Post Merger Performances in Japan, Mami Suzuki
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
A Test of Bell’s Inequality for the Undergraduate Laboratory, Burton A. Betchart
Epibiont Guilds as Paleoecological Tools in Environmental Analysis: An Example From Modern and Ordovician Shell Substrates, Stacy M. Boore
In Need of Nature's Nourishment, Anna Gardner-Andrews
Probing the Interstellar Medium on AU Size Scales Using Pulsar Scintillation, Alexander S. Hill
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
The Effects of Regulatory Threats and Strategic Bargaining on Firms' Voluntary Participation in Pollution Reduction Programs, Claire M. Jahns
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
Yoga 'Holistic' Exercise in Ohio, Theresa Schmidt
"Stuff You Really Want to Read:" Pleasure and Negotiation in Teen Magazine Reading, Margaret E. Troyer
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Rural Whiteness, Realizing Race: White Race Identity in Rural Northwestern Pennsylvania: A Critical Review, Gloria Adams
The Roma of Eastern Europe in Transition: Historical Marginalization, Misrepresentation, and Political Ethnogenesis, Michael Bobick
Do Exchange Rate Regimes Affect Countries' Economic Growth and Inflation?, Yen Shern Chew
All Hands Withdrawn: Touch and the Failure of Intimacy in A Passage to India and The Pisan Cantos, Douglas Diesenhaus
Marital Happiness and Family Economics, Bryan Eldon Engelhardt
Word is Born: Critical Gaps and the Poetics of Hip-Hop, Kabir Hamid
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
Impact Spherules From Western Australia: A Textural Analysis of Really Old Tiny Rocks, Dawn C.S. Ruth
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
A Moment of Transcendence: Encountering Each Other In and Beyond the Fiction of Raymond Carver, Amy Lynn Leo
Shaping the Thin Blue Line: American Police Reform from the London Model to Community Policing, Philip Rosenbloom
Canons, Culture Wars and History: A Case Study of Canonicity Through the Lens of The Blithedale Romance, Daniel L. Shiffner
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Phylogenetic Inference and Neanderthal Mitochondrial DNA: Comparison of Parsimony and Distance Models, Menahem Baguio Doura
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
Metametascience Towards Reconciliation, John P. Kennedy
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
Bad-Boy Bryozoan Biomarkers: Cheilostome Distribution Patterns Along a Bahamian Depth Gradient, Christopher J. Nytch
Gendering Bodies in Preschool: The Importance of the Interconnectedness of Race, Class, and Gender, Abigail D. Paine
The US School Breakfast Program: Short- and Long-Term Academic Effects, Chris Rohlfs
Time-Variant Institutions: Implications for European Unemployment, Nathaniel Stankard
Brownfield Redevelopment and Effects on Community: A Study of the Collinwood Neighborhood in Cleveland Ohio, Mike Wallerstein
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Environmental Clean-Up and Property Price Change, Emily Aronow
Hold Your Tongue: Language, Culture, and the Power of Teacher Bias in the ESL and Bilingual Classroom, Maria E. Barajas
Bridger Formation Sandstones Used as an Indication of Tectonics in the Green River Basin and Western Wyoming, Lisa S. Novins
An Analysis of the Traveler's Dilemma with Experimental Evidence, Eduard A. Pelz
Perceptions of Income Inequality: An Exploratory Study, Susanna Henighan Potter
A Comparative Study of Microstructures and Rheology From Two Thrust Fault Settings, Matthew Strine
Olivine Petrofabric Analysis from the Leka Ophiolite Complex, Sarah J. Titus
Looking Through a Lens: A Viewer's Story about Love and the Movies, Jennifer Waldo
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Human Cesspools by Design?: The Inherent Contradiction in Public Housing, Melissa Calivis Green
The Place of the Answering Machine in Institutional Interaction, Julia Neikirk
Household Saving Behavior and the Real Interest Rate: An Empirical Study, Harsha Thirumurthy
The Petrography of the Buck Creek Dunite Body, Clay County, NC: Implications about its Origin and Emplacement, Trista L. Thornberry
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Status Attainment Among Children of Single Mothers: The Roles of Parenting and Economics, Sarah Barfels
Amazight Identity in the Post Colonial Moroccan State: A Case Study in Ethnicity, Morag E. Boyd
Mother Ireland: Women, the State and the Abortion Referendum in the Republic of Ireland, Jennifer K. DeWan
Science Fiction: Rhetoric, Authenticity, Textuality and the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Jeremiah Dyehouse
The 'Schizoid' Nature of Modern Hebrew Linguistics: A Contact Language in Search of a Genetic Past, Devon L. Strolovitch
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Urban Squatting: An Adaptive Response to the Housing Crisis, Rimma Ashkinadze
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
"Nyatiti is my people": Music and the Reconstruction of Culture Among the Luo of Western Kenya, Ian Eagleson
Crossed Wires, Noisy Signals: Language, Identity, and Resistance in Caribbean Literature, Barry Eidlin
Foreign Direct Investment in Eastern Europe: Applying Traditional Models of FDI to the Transitional Countries of Eastern Europe, Jonathan Austin Kerr
Viability of Traditional Banking Services: Evidence from the Regional Level U.S. Banking Industry, Sofia Xinchen Lou
Meat and Potatoes: Recipes for a Range of Egalitarianism in Three Hunter-Gatherer Societies, Amy Vlassia Margaris
Deep R-Band Surface Photometry of NGC891, Eric Miller
Feminist Social Research: Epistemological and Methodological Implications, Molly Moloney
An Analysis of Foreign Direct Investment and Portfolio Investment Into Developing Countries, Sunaina Kilachand Patel
"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
Financial Intermediation and Growth in Developing Countries, Asim Husain
Relating to the Rood, Christopher C. LeCluyse
Estimating the Demand Structure of Housing Characteristics: A Nonparametric Approach, Christopher Ngai
Modern Marine Sediments of Bahia Concepcion: Patterns, Processes, and Potential Analogues to Neogene Rift Basin Deposits of Baja California, Timothy William Reardon
Exchange Rates and the Trade Balance in Argentina and Peru: Is There a J-curve?, Steven C. Trost
Scarlett's Sisters: The Privileged Negotiations of Plantation Women, Nancy Weissman-Galler
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
The Association Between Racial Group and Levels of Conservatism Concerning Attitudes Toward Women, Julie Chambers
Faith and Banishment: The Artistic Credo of Katherine Anne Porter, Paul Richard Jaskunas
State Anti-Smoking Legislation and the Demand for Cigarettes, Jean McIntire
Rape Law Reform's Limits, Beth Ann Richman
Flow and Fantasy: An Exploration of Role-Playing Games, Andrew Roy
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Using Fourier Transform Analysis to Extract Information From the Shapes of Folded Layers, Thomas Billiard
Capital Flight and Exchange Restrictions, Kazi Zhain S. Hasan
Foreign Debt Rescheduling and Private Investment in LDCs, Zeeshan Hasan
"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
