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 1993
The American Public Library Building: A Social History and Feminist Critique, Shirley J. Lincicum
Factors Effecting Bangladesh Jute Prices, Naeem Mohaiemen
Classifying Gilbert and Sullivan, Joshua Rutsky
Spaces Between: Towards Depolarized Readings of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Bethany Suzanne Schneider
Say What I Mean: Metaphor and the Exeter Book Riddles, Sarah L. Thomson
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
Resistance and the Possibility of Freedom: Foucault, Merleau-Ponty and Subjectivity in Tension, Joshua Ziady
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Preference Reversal and the Independence Axiom, Dan Adelman
"Nobody Said Anything" Issues of Communication in the Short Stories of Raymond Carver, Darren Bosch
The Evolution of Women's Intercollegiate Athletics at Oberlin College, Leland J. Brandt
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
Liberation Theology: Social Impact and Change in Brazil and Columbia, Jennifer D. Bickham
Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein, and the Powers of Creation, Danielle Kolker
The Friends of the Indians and Their Foes: A Reassessment of the Dawes Act Debate, Christopher J. Love
The Politicization of Maternal Care: The Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912, Mary-Beth Moylan
Long Horizon Movements in Exchange Rates: Great Expectations, Minsok Pak
Cataclasite Formation Along the McConnell Thurst and Its Implications to Deformation, Susan E. Van Gundy
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
All Work: An Evaluation of Worker's Attitudes, Worker's Behavior and Productivity in the U.S. Automobile Industry, Todd M.R. Baker
An Antislavery Mission: Oberlin College Evangelicals in "Bleeding Kansas", John Edward Clayton
In Pursuit of "Our Heroine's Biographer": A Study of Narrative Method in Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady & The Ambassadors, James C. Davis
The Evolution of American Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia, Geoffrey Stephen Hudson
Strain and Volume Loss in a Second Order Buckle Fold, Central Appalachian Valley and Ridge, U.S.A., Michelle J. Markley
Gravity's Rainbow: Modernist Discourse Vineland: Postmodernist Discourse, Ted Mouw
Frowning Babe or Brightening Glance? Blake and Yeats's Particular Uses of Metaphor, Daniel Muir
The Fiction of Truth: Intergenerational Conflict in the Life and Works of Flannery O'Connor, Elizabeth Reed
Production, Consumption, and Consciousness, Warren Sprouse
"As If She Had No Secrets": Approach, Recognition, and Coming of Age In Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women, Catherine Laura Sweeney
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Oberlin Local Legend, Laura Naomi Albert
Paleoenvironmental History of the Middle Ordovician Rugosa of Eastern North America, Gretchen Hampt Andreasen
Multiple Identities/Multiple Narrative Strategies: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Gabrielle N. Dean
The Jews of Southern and Central Illinois and Western Kentucky, Steve E. Jablon
The Foreign Policy of William Gladstone in the 1860s: The Limits of Liberalism in Victorian England, Orlando W.G. Knauss
The Reinscription and Qualification of the Feminine in Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons, Jeffrey Mihok
The Sinagua and Aggregation: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cultural Development, Joshua Aaron Piker
Breaking and Connecting in the Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor: "The Look of This Fiction is Going to be Wild" (Grace Minus Nature Equals Mystery), John Benjamin Schwartz
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
The Feminist Thought of Simone de Beauvoir, Jennifer Gay
Comparisons Across Countries: Public Policy and the Performing Arts in the 1980's, John Kirtley Glenn
Survivals of Paganism in Christian Medieval Iceland as Evidenced by the Icelandic Family Sagas, Deborah Grossman
Colonial Reaction to British Policy, 1766-1770: The Non-Importation Movement, Timothy A. Hacsi
Oedipus Fallen: Irony in the Fiction of Milan Kundera, Douglas Lauen
History of Jews at Oberlin College: A Mirror of Change, Andrea R. Meyer
The Petrogenesis of the Red Hill Alkaline Igneous Complex, New Hampshire, USA, Seth Charles Moran
The Justiciarship in the Reign of Richard I: An Exercise in Self-Rule, Lisa Ann Murray
A Generation's Experiment: Oberlin Womanhood, Coeducation, and The Ladies' Board of Managers 1835-1879, Rachel Filene Seidman
Women, and Health in Rural India: An Anthropological Perspective, Kelly S. Ward
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Boss Rule: Charles F. Murphy and the New York City Mayors, 1902-1924, Jeffrey A. Auerbach
Devaluation, Short-Run Supply Response, and the J-Curve, Alexander L. Brown
The Fool As a Provisional Role in Shakespeare: Three Examples, Santha Cassell
Predictors of Reliance on Children's Self-Care by Urban Black and White Families in the United States, Carol Hoffman Culbertson
The Commercialization of the Colloquial Voice: Raymond Carver and the Minimalist Aesthetic, Cara Diaconoff
The Presidential Business Cycle in the U.S.: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination, Ranjit S. Dighe
Listener Comments: A Form of Collaboration in Conversational Narrative, Cynthia Dunn
Journeying Towards America: An Anthropological Inquiry Into What We Think is Real, Jonathan Freiman
Giving Up the Ghost: Death in the Depression, Victoria Getis
An Analysis of the Effect of Airline Deregulation upon the Demand for Intercity Bus Service, Daniel G. Greenberg
An Album of Caricature Drawings by Pietro de Rossi, Richard Hemphill
The Evolution of Camus' Political Philosophy, Eric LeBlanc
The Role of Higher Education in the Construction of the "Feminine Mystique" In Post-War America, Stephanie L. Maxwell
The Belgian Rexist Movement Before the Second World War: Success and Failure, Gabriella Newes-Adeyi
Economics and the Ratification of the Constitution in Pennsylvania and Virginia, Eric Phillips
The Function of Forest in The Faerie Queene: Seeing the Woods for the Trees, Nicholas Randell
The Sensitivity of Brazil's Balance of Payments and Foreign Debt to Future Changes in World Economic Conditions: 1987-1991, David Rostov
Petrographic Criteria for the Recognition of 'Magadi-Type' Cherts, Kathryn A. Schubel
Backroom Boys: The Evolution of British Cryptography 1914-1945, Andrea Van Hook
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
American Intellectuals and the Problem of Ideology, Steven Betensky
"Are You Speaking?": A Speech Act Analysis of Pinter's A Kind of Alaska and No Man's Land, Brian M. Britt
Four Voices of Pound in Cantos I-XVII, Malcolm D. Childress
A Study of Erasmus's Editions of the Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Robert B. Hardy
England, Napoleon and the Peace of Amiens: 1801-1803, Ken Jassie
Extra-Legal Factors in the American Legal System, Peter W. Mayer
As Old as New: The Search for the Rural Community in Depression Years, Karen R. Merrill
Visionary Excitability and George Eliot: Judeo-Mythic Narrative Technique in Daniel Deronda, Barbara Stufflebeem
A Cross-Cultural Comparative Analysis of Levels of Social Development and Gender Stratification, Helen Elisabeth Wells
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Napoleonic Tactics, Thomas F. Arnold
Austrian National Socialism and the Anschluss, George R. Bent
From Social Reform to Social Science: The Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston, 1877-1912, Charlotte H.L. Briggs
History, Action and Identity in "Upon Appleton House": Andrew Marvell and the New Historicism, Theodore Chen
American Women's Intellectual History in the Revolutionary and New Republican Era: Charting a Shift in Feminist Theory, Holly B. Fechner
Classes and Masses in English Education, Alex Franklin
Energy Sustainability: The Case of Photovoltaics, Abram Walden Kaplan
England and the Eastern Question: A Shift in Policy, Amanda Martinsek
Women in Ministry: 1853-1984, Leah Matthews
Bay of Islands Ophiolite Complex Western Newfoundland, Brian McAninch
Disraeli: The Search For and Handling of Power: A Study in Creativity, Courage, and Consistency, Grace E. Mueller
The Spanish University: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Institutional and Political Change, Julia A. Nichols
A New Topography: Elizabeth Bishop's Late Poems, Jennifer Soalt
The ISS on Campus: The Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 1905-1921, John Wertheimer
Ritual and Beyond: A Field Study of Black Pentecostalism, Jeanette Word
The Role of Bismarck's Flexible Polity in the Unification of Germany 1862-1871, Karl A. Zillgitt
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
An Empirical Study of Property Tax Capitalization in the Cleveland Area, Kevin Adler
Social Ethics in the Novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alison A. Case
Tom L. Johnson and Progressive Municipal Reform, 1901-1909, Steven J. Davis
Progress, Process and the Critique of Development: The Interplay of Gender and Genre in The Morgesons, Janet E. Graber
The Campaign to Repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts in Victorian England, 1864-1886, Sharon Harless
Madeline Neroni and the Moral Design of Barchester Towers, Jennifer A. Low
