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 1979
Matter Made Even: As You Like It, Paul Nadler
Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes: Feminist Leaders in the Twentieth Century Struggle for Birth Control, Carolyn Pratt
Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov: And the Determinist Marxism of the Second International, Edward Shlasko
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
The Euclid Avenue Elite Cleveland, Ohio, 1860-1910: Work, Life, and Architecture, Jan Cigliano Hartman
An Analysis of Faunal and Human Osteological Remains from the Eiden Site (33 Ln 14) of Sheffield, Ohio, Karen Elizabeth Dennis
Referrals to Mental Health Treatment Facilities, Laura A. Dummit
Protestant Women Missionaries and the Elevation of Womanhood in Japan 1920-1940, Elizabeth A. Gans
Women in an Evangelical Community: Oberlin 1835-50, Lori D. Ginzberg
"For the General Good…": Changing Institutions in the Town of Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1620-1700, Emily Harris
A Legal History of Affirmative Action, Timothy J. Hoy
The Heart and Mind of Simone de Beauvoir, MaryAnn Janosik
Student Peace Union, Five Years Before the New Left, Howard Metzenberg
The Changing Universe of "Civic Interest" and the Course of Municipal Reform in Chicago, 1886-c.1900, Keith Schlesinger
Post-Industrialism and Normative Technocracy, Allen Shabino
The New Liberalism, 1906-1914: An Analysis of its Impact Upon Britain's Politics, Policies, and People, Nancy Thompson
Occupational Socialization in Two Service Organizations, Doniel E. Weil
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
The Politics of Destruction: The Emergence of Joseph R. McCarthy, Michael H. Barr
Kinship and Community Among Some Black Families in Oberlin, Michael Bobker
Cuban Race Relations and Afro-Cuban Political Activity, 1933-1959, Steve Burkholder
The Nigerian - Bifran Civil War and the American Press: Images and Realties, Linda J. Chiswick
Social Change in the Late Eighteenth Century: Three New Jersey Towns, John B. Gilmour
The Notion of Complexity in the Study of Interest-Group Pluralism, William Frank Jeffers
Uses of Language in Politics: Sequences in Political Campaign Speech Events, Sally Ballog Staruch
Ibsen and Shaw: A Comparison, Katherine Waldbauer
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
An Analysis of Voter Turnout in Cuyahoga County, 1840-1860, Jean M. Anderson
When Boom Town Goes Bust: The Impact of the Great Depression in Lorain, Ohio, Daniel Hoffman
The U.S. - U.S.S.R. Nuclear Balance: Present and Future, Bruce Levinson
British Military Thinking, 1902-1914, Lawrence R. Maxted
The Feasibility of Using Thermography to Detect Subsurface Voids in Painted Wooden Panels, Bruce Frederick Miller
The Effect of Failure on Self-Concept, Merle Sprinzen
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Parody and Vision in the Designs of Blake's Jerusalem, Adrienne Atkinson
Playing for Real: The Experience of Drama at Medieval York, Christopher Baswell
Occupational and Geographic Mobility in San Francisco, 1870-1890, Jill Siegel Dodd
The Geochemistry and Origin of Volcanic Features in the Quezaltenango Area, John R. Easter
Head Studies by Balthasar Denner, Gail Feigenbaum
Fresh Dreams to Deliver, Melissa Fay Greene
Called Back, Patricia Y. Ikeda
Black Nationalism: The Dubois Perspective, Lillie M. Johnson
The Process of Vision: Lambert Strether and Henry James, Judy Karasik
The Dialectic of Tragedy in "Hamlet," "Macbeth," and "Othello", Andrew Kaufman
Building a Vanguard Party: Social Democrats and the Russian Workers' Movement 1900 to 1903, Susan L. Kaufman
Two Jobs: Family and Work of Immigrant Women In New York City 1909-1913, Molly Ladd-Taylor
Past and Present: Influences on European Attitudes Toward the Turk in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Stanley Maharam
Geological Reconnaissance of the Lake Atitlan Area, Glen T. Penfield
Comparison of Two Minorities: New Zealand Maoris and Australian Aborigines, Janet Noel Regan
Ultranationalism in the Japanese Military: General Araki Sadao and His Ideology, Susan Weiner
The Battles of King Arthur, Susan Zimmer
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Studies in the Comunero Revolution 1520-1521, James S. Amelang
The Origin of Granites, Barbara Eisenstein
John Calvin's Eucharistic Doctrine, Martha L. Johnson
Francois Hotman and Jean Bodin. Political Activity in Sixteenth Century France, Joan C. Tronto
The Years After: Jews, Germany, and the Intercession of American Jewry 1945-1951, Harold Waldman
Harbor Light: Organization on Skid Row Today, Alison Evelyn Woodward
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
A Study of Bilingualism and Self-esteem Among High School Children of Chinese Decent in New York City, Siew-Keok Chua
Aspiring Performers and Aspiring Teachers: Some Aspects of the Socialization of Music Students, Stephen Robert Couch
Mailer's American Dream, Charles D. Ettelson
Daniel Deronda: A Consideration of George Eliot's Concept of Culture, Candyce Golis
A Close Reading of Tennyson's Maud, Lucy Marks
How Foreigners Saw Nazi Germany, 1933-1936, Newfeld
The Evacuation of the Rhineland: An Economic Accomplishment, Cheryl Arlette Parham
Nature, Reason, and Eternity: Images of the Divine Vision in The Four Zoas, Cathy Shaw
Ideological Tension Within the French Resistance, Yvette Sheahan
Justice Strong and the Supreme Court: 1870-1880, J.D. Watts
The Cult of Al Capone, Paul Zarefsky
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Sherwood Anderson and the Art of American Autobiography, Linda S. Bergmann
The Group Theatre: A Reflection of the Theatre in the Thirties, Abby Eiferman Schor
Comparative Regional Integration and Development: A Substantive and Methodological Inquiry, Andrew Nelson White
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
The Embodying Image: A Design for a Computer-Aided Analysis of Distorted Body Imagery in Gulliver's Travels, Mary S. Erbaugh
To Maintain the Sublime: Art, Reality, and Society in the Work of Ezra Pound, Camilla Bunker Haase
American Labor and the Election of 1948: The Political Alternatives For the Labor Movement, 1945-1950, Robert B. Shapiro
Report on Honors Research: An Exploratory Study of Puerto Ricans in Lorain, Ohio, Karen Beck Skold
An Alternative Approach to Second Language Teaching, Carol Yorkievitz
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Social Class, Significant Other Supports and Academic Performance, Margaret Rhile-Wilhite
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
A Two-Part Research Report: Xray Florescence Methods, David Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
A Theory of Social Control, Lynne Clemmons Morris
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
Priests and Prophets Negro Ministers and Civil Rights (An Investigation of a Cleveland Sample), Gerhild Framhein-Peisert
The Tragic Sense of Life: The Philosophy of Miguel de Unamuno, John C. Morgan
The Reference Groups for Educational Achievement Among Culturally Deprived Junior High School Students: A Theoretical Discussion and Preliminary Data Review, Theodore L. Reed
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
Contemporary Chinese Painting in Taiwan, Linda Margaret Graves
Theses/Dissertations from 1964
Saint Sebastian Attended by Irene: An Iconographic Study, Carolyn Kinder Carr
Social Stratification and Political Behavior: An Emphasis upon Structural Dynamics, Christopher Bates Doob
Integration and Consensus: A Tentative Exploration, Kent Warren Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 1963
A History of the Evangelical Alliance: Pioneer in Christian Co-operation, Glenn E. Besco
Oberlin College and World War I, Todd Isao Endo
A Negro Look at the World, Avery Mason Guest
A Paleontological Study of the Gunflint Microfossil Assemblage, J. William Schopf
Theses/Dissertations from 1962
A Study of Depth Representation in Pictorial Art: the Psychology of Development as Basis for a Theory of Art Instruction, Patricia Tool McHugh
Theses/Dissertations from 1961
Sales and Investment: Behavior of Manufacturers 1949-1957, James G. Scoville
Theses/Dissertations from 1959
The Shiner, and Its Use as a Source of Income in Worcester, and Southeastern Worcester County, Massachusetts, Robert William Spayne
Theses/Dissertations from 1957
A Study of Some of the Factors Involved in the Friendship Selections of Juniors in High School, Delno Tyree Perkins
Theses/Dissertations from 1954
Caste in the Churches of South India in Madurai, Joseph Walter Elder
Theses/Dissertations from 1953
The Voodoo Gospel and The Christian Gospel, William Dewitt Burton
Theses/Dissertations from 1951
The Origin of Asymmetry of Position of Longitudinal Subsequent Streams in the Folded Appalachians, Andy Joe Broscoe
The Main Trade Ports on the Coasts of the Indian Ocean, Anton Luger
An Analysis of the Effect of the Army Engineer Program on the Economic Geography of the Ohio Valley, Zita Anne Mueller
Theses/Dissertations from 1950
The Sociological and Social-Psychological Functions of the Urban Protestant Church, Lois Chambers
Theses/Dissertations from 1949
The Design and Execution of a Mural, Patricia Finley
Theses/Dissertations from 1948
A Phase of the Upper Devonian of Western Highland County, Virginia, Helen Pulver Foreman
Geographic Interpretation of Land Use in Lorain County, Ohio, George M. Howe
