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.

Follow


Theses/Dissertations from 1991

PDF

The Friends of the Indians and Their Foes: A Reassessment of the Dawes Act Debate, Christopher J. Love

PDF

The Politicization of Maternal Care: The Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912, Mary-Beth Moylan

PDF

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

PDF

All Work: An Evaluation of Worker's Attitudes, Worker's Behavior and Productivity in the U.S. Automobile Industry, Todd M.R. Baker

PDF

An Antislavery Mission: Oberlin College Evangelicals in "Bleeding Kansas", John Edward Clayton

PDF

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

PDF

The Evolution of American Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia, Geoffrey Stephen Hudson

PDF

Strain and Volume Loss in a Second Order Buckle Fold, Central Appalachian Valley and Ridge, U.S.A., Michelle J. Markley

PDF

Gravity's Rainbow: Modernist Discourse Vineland: Postmodernist Discourse, Ted Mouw

PDF

Frowning Babe or Brightening Glance? Blake and Yeats's Particular Uses of Metaphor, Daniel Muir

PDF

The Fiction of Truth: Intergenerational Conflict in the Life and Works of Flannery O'Connor, Elizabeth Reed

PDF

Production, Consumption, and Consciousness, Warren Sprouse

PDF

"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

PDF

Oberlin Local Legend, Laura Naomi Albert

PDF

Paleoenvironmental History of the Middle Ordovician Rugosa of Eastern North America, Gretchen Hampt Andreasen

PDF

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

PDF

The Foreign Policy of William Gladstone in the 1860s: The Limits of Liberalism in Victorian England, Orlando W.G. Knauss

PDF

The Reinscription and Qualification of the Feminine in Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons, Jeffrey Mihok

PDF

The Sinagua and Aggregation: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cultural Development, Joshua Aaron Piker

PDF

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

PDF

Comparisons Across Countries: Public Policy and the Performing Arts in the 1980's, John Kirtley Glenn

PDF

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

PDF

Oedipus Fallen: Irony in the Fiction of Milan Kundera, Douglas Lauen

PDF

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

PDF

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

PDF

Devaluation, Short-Run Supply Response, and the J-Curve, Alexander L. Brown

PDF

The Fool As a Provisional Role in Shakespeare: Three Examples, Santha Cassell

PDF

Predictors of Reliance on Children's Self-Care by Urban Black and White Families in the United States, Carol Hoffman Culbertson

PDF

The Commercialization of the Colloquial Voice: Raymond Carver and the Minimalist Aesthetic, Cara Diaconoff

PDF

The Presidential Business Cycle in the U.S.: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination, Ranjit S. Dighe

PDF

Listener Comments: A Form of Collaboration in Conversational Narrative, Cynthia Dunn

PDF

Journeying Towards America: An Anthropological Inquiry Into What We Think is Real, Jonathan Freiman

PDF

Giving Up the Ghost: Death in the Depression, Victoria Getis

PDF

An Analysis of the Effect of Airline Deregulation upon the Demand for Intercity Bus Service, Daniel G. Greenberg

PDF

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

PDF

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

PDF

The Function of Forest in The Faerie Queene: Seeing the Woods for the Trees, Nicholas Randell

PDF

The Sensitivity of Brazil's Balance of Payments and Foreign Debt to Future Changes in World Economic Conditions: 1987-1991, David Rostov

PDF

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

PDF

"Are You Speaking?": A Speech Act Analysis of Pinter's A Kind of Alaska and No Man's Land, Brian M. Britt

PDF

Four Voices of Pound in Cantos I-XVII, Malcolm D. Childress

PDF

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

PDF

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

PDF

Visionary Excitability and George Eliot: Judeo-Mythic Narrative Technique in Daniel Deronda, Barbara Stufflebeem

PDF

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

PDF

Austrian National Socialism and the Anschluss, George R. Bent

PDF

From Social Reform to Social Science: The Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston, 1877-1912, Charlotte H.L. Briggs

PDF

History, Action and Identity in "Upon Appleton House": Andrew Marvell and the New Historicism, Theodore Chen

PDF

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

PDF

Energy Sustainability: The Case of Photovoltaics, Abram Walden Kaplan

England and the Eastern Question: A Shift in Policy, Amanda Martinsek

PDF

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

PDF

The Spanish University: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Institutional and Political Change, Julia A. Nichols

PDF

A New Topography: Elizabeth Bishop's Late Poems, Jennifer Soalt

PDF

The ISS on Campus: The Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 1905-1921, John Wertheimer

PDF

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

PDF

An Empirical Study of Property Tax Capitalization in the Cleveland Area, Kevin Adler

PDF

Social Ethics in the Novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alison A. Case

Tom L. Johnson and Progressive Municipal Reform, 1901-1909, Steven J. Davis

PDF

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

PDF

Determining the Consumption Effects of Announced Permanent and Temporary Tax Cuts in Accordance with the Permanent Income Hypothesis, Aileen Liu

PDF

Madeline Neroni and the Moral Design of Barchester Towers, Jennifer A. Low

Spain and the Strength of the West: American Foreign Policy Toward Spain, 1936-1953, Abbe J. Lubell

Voltaire, Rousseau and The Revolution in Geneva: 1763-1770, Thomas Luckett

PDF

Leon Blum: Socialist and French Premier During the Spanish Civil War, Gail Schechter

Bankers, Diplomats and Oilmen: The United States' Response to Mexican Revolutionary Nationalism, 1917-1927, James F. Siekmeier

PDF

A Raid on the Inarticulate: The Problem of Language in the Poetry of W.S. Merwin, Anthony G. Stocks

PDF

Figurative Language and Speech Play: A Study of First Grade Children, Dena Weiss-Tisman

PDF

Political Language and Trust: A Study in Machiavelli and Hobbes, Lauren Wenzel

PDF

Real People Tell the Whole Story: Dialogue and Characterization in Malory's Morte Darthur, Anne Woehrle

PDF

Social Drama, Rites of Passage, and The Winter's Tale, Aaron Zitner

Theses/Dissertations from 1983

PDF

Mrs. Brook: Confidence Woman and Mother Usurper, Rebecca L. Berg

PDF

Jewish Women Reformers and Jewish Immigrant Women: The Columbian Council of Pittsburgh, 1893-1920, Eileen Chotiner

The Secret War of British Intelligence: A Retrospective Study, Frederick S. Downs

PDF

From Trusteeship to Containment: American Involvement in Vietnam 1945-1950, Sarah E. Dranoff

Mexican Migration to the United States: An Historical and Contextual Analysis, Jonathan H. Fischer

The Charleston Convent Riot of 1834, Timothy M. Flynn

In Pursuit of Economic Opportunity: Persistence and Mobility in the Rigid Socio-economic Structure of Logansport, Indiana, 1850-1880, Owen R. Glendening

PDF

Products and Processes: Levels of Art in Pale Fire, Jon Hamilton