Each student who writes an honors thesis at Kenyon College deposits a copy in our archives. This collection contains electronic copies of those papers, beginning with the those submitted in Spring, 2009.

The archives is currently scanning and digitizing printed theses prior to 2009. This is an ongoing project that will eventually make all honors theses in the archive collection available on Digital Kenyon.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2025

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“I Drew Breath, and Spoke my Word”: The Development of Female Voice and Agency in Circe and The Penelopiad, Ellis Copley

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THE HARM OF LEGAL PEDAGOGY IN ELITE LAW SCHOOLS, Emma Covino

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Motasem Abu Hasan's "In The Line of Fire": A Translation, Katie Genzer

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“Gentile Rules”: American Jewish Masculinity and the Manosphere, Ellie R. Greenberg

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To Tether a Floating Woman: Chicana Theory, Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry in the Borderlands, Mia Huerta

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OCTN Expression Varies with Xenobiotic Exposure in Aedes aegypti, Naomi Renee Kennel

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Spot the Differences: A Multivariate Exploration of Frontal-Midline Theta Power, H Knoell

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Implementing Density Functional Theory and Ellipsometry to Analyze Films, Samuel J. Kovach

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Aujourd’hui, Camus est encore vivant : La notion d’un patrimoine réfracté dans trois œuvres postcoloniales, Stella Menkov

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Over, Under, Through, Estlin Miller

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Mary Beatrice of Modena: Royal Reproduction, Catholic Conspiracy, and the Question of Queenship, Elizabeth Redmond

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The Right to a Healthy Environment: A "New" Human Right, Emerson Salome

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Developing a Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect Apparatus to Study Magnetic Semiconductors, Dilara Sen

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Determining the role and necessity of mecr in Caenorhabditis elegans, Katherine Spilsbury

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The Metamorphosis of Memoir, Carlin A. Steere

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Francis Bacon's Politics for Science, Tobias Straus

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Links between Floristic Characteristics and Carbon Dynamics in Wetlands Restored through the USDA Conservation Reserve Program, Rachael Tomasko

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Fabricating Femininity: Interwoven Threads of Gender, Race, and Empire in Burney and Brontë, Kathleen Turk

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Identification of Novel Multidrug Resistance Breakers in Escherichia coli K-12, Andrew Van Horn

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Characterization of functionally important residues in the transport mechanism of Aedes aegypti cation chloride cotransporter 2 (aeCCC2), Ryan Yarcusko

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Against the Chinese Dream and Behind the Loss of Hope: Civil Narratives and the Existential Crisis of Chinese Youth, He Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Amongst the Hounds, Emma Abate

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Telling a Cautionary Tale: Film's Tragic Story of the American Sex Worker, Lily Ader

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Regeneration of Lumbriculus variegatus is dependent upon post-amputation production of reactive oxygen species, Freya Rose Beinart

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Chichikov’s Journeys: Gogol’s Dead Souls and Russian Literature in English, 1854-1967, Sam Bowden

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The Immanuel/Jade Model: A Tool for Addressing Desire Conflicts in Contentious Modification Cases, Lucas Dunst

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CONTRAFUEGOS, Anna Fahey

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The “Other” in Nineteenth-Century French Automata: Technology, Domestication, and Imperialism, William Gerhardinger

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“There is Nothing Known Beyond This.” Gog, Magog, and Humanity’s Furthest Extents, Alejandro Gonzalez

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A Study in Wreckage, Jessica Horwitch

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From Struggle to Resistance: Contemporary Arab American Christian Protagonists' Hybridity and Interfaith Solidarity, Olivia Hynes

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Sojourn in Gambier, Valerie Kakos

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Testimonio de los tiempos / Testimony of the Times, Madeline Kwasnick

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North American barn swallows (Hirundo rustica erythrogaster) pair, mate, and interact assortatively, Omar J. Morosse

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“Living Blood, that the Linen Drinks Up”: Consent and Desire in the Modernist Bedroom, Rebecca Renner

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Characterizing the Coherence of Three-Atom Entangled States near Förster Resonance, Lucy Shamel

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Antibiotic Resistance Gene Abundance and Characterization of Bacterial Taxa and in Four Pond Ecosystems, Maya Vaccaro

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DEAR ADA: An Archive of Memory, Migration, and Mooring, Ocean Wei

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For I Know That Nothing Good Dwells in Me., Taylor Womack

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Otem in Paradise, Emily Yourman

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Making Your Voices Heard? The Tajik Civil War, the Kyrgyz Revolutions, and the Development of State-Society Relations in Post-Soviet Central Asia, Christopher Bechtol

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The Forgotten Battlefield: Orthodox Church Politics, Nationalism, and Russian Propaganda in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Christopher Bechtol

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Authoring the Subaltern Voice: Storytelling as Pathways to Reconstructing Truth in Postcolonial Literature, Lily Beeson-Norwitz

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Criticizing Cartographies: James Rennell’s Maps of India, Brooke Brown

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CHILE DESPERTÓ: Culture, Memory, and Deliberation in the Struggles for Authentic Democracy, Liam Crisan

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Exploring Friendship: An Interpretation of Plato's Lysis, Garrett Culbertson

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“I Just Donated, and You Should Too!”: Examining the Effects of Moral Emotions on Donation-Related Prosocial Behavior on Instagram, Katherine M. Ellis

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Sing, Goddess: Contemporary Female Novelistic Retellings of the Iliad, Molly Fording

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'The Spoils of the East': Science and Orientalism in A Voyage into the Levant, Abigail Foster

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The Exchange of Goods and the Construction of Identity: A Comparative Analysis of Byzantium and Al-Andalus, Samantha Goldenson

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Changeling Girlhoods: Fairy Folklore and Proto-Feminist Explorations of Childhood and Education In Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, Clara Kempf

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Telomere and Plumage Dynamics in Adult Barn Swallows, Yujie (Serena) Liu

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Mechanisms Underlying Emergence of a Sub-G1 Population of Cells in a Mutant Xenopus laevis Line Lacking AHR1α, Paige Milhon

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Unpacking Rural Resource and Social Networks: A Case Study of Center of Hope, Elliot Moore and Austin H. Johnson

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Elizabeth Inchbald: Popular Appeal and Morality on the Eighteenth-Century Stage, Zoe Neirink

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Organizing Voices: Examining Indigenous Representation Organizations in Japan and New Zealand, George Novotny

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Effects of Membrane-Permeant Organic Compounds, pH, Growth Phases, and their Interactions on mRNA Expression of PMF-Driven Drug Efflux Pumps in Escherichia coli, Minh Pham and Joan Slonczewski

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Ink and Oil-Spills: Eco-Art in Contemporary Chinese Art, Ian Prescott

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On Social Positions and Social Influence: Society’s Impacts on White, Male Serial Killers, Lilly Richart

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The ‘Fallen Woman’ in a Falling City: The Social and Civic Policing of Prostitution in Victorian Bristol, United Kingdom, Alice Riley

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Cultural Differences in Holistic Processing: A Behavioral and EEG Study, Zhixing Sun

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Antagonism of the Xenopus laevis Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptors, Alexandra Thoms

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An Inclusive Black Nationalism: An Examination of Ideological Diversity During the Black Arts Movement, Benjamin Weiner

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Does Visual Working Memory Predict Learning of Japanese Script? A Comparison of Logographic and Syllabary Script, John Apsley

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Probing the functions of COP1-like genes in seasonal reproduction of the moss Physcomitrium patens, Jo Bùi

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Deforestation and Tree Kinship in Medieval Iceland, Lynn Butzlaff and Lynn Butzlaff

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Dislocated: A Three Stage Approach to Translation using Natsume Sōseki’s Ten Nights’ Dreams for the 2020’s, Nathan Chu

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What Kind Of People Do We Need To Be? American Political Thought: 1776-1788, John Conway

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Tags temporarily decrease takeoff velocity and trajectory in House Sparrows (Passer domesticus), Katherine Crawford

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Spring in Gambier, Bella Creel

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Sexual dimorphism in avian flight structures is predicted by mating systems and parental investment, Jonah S. Dominguez

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Simulating the high-energy Universe, from the Big Bang to black holes, Ericka Florio

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Numerical Simulations of Nonlinear Physics in the Universe, Mary Gerhardinger

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Characterizing Sphagnum spectral physiology across a 3000km latitudinal transect., Chris Goodall

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Atmospheric Deposition and the Ecosystem Impacts Along an Agricultural-to-Urban Gradient in Ohio, U.S., Ansley Grider

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THE HEROIC MEDICAL PRACTITIONER AND SYSTEMS OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN VICTORIAN NOVELS OF THE MIDCENTURY, Dylan Hartman

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The Cultural Interaction of Material Objects Between Eighteenth Century France and India, Olivia Hoffmann

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Examining the Effectiveness of a Feminist-Inspired Video Intervention for Women’s Body Dissatisfaction, Adrienne Kvaka

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Defining the role of tcf15 in Danio rerio peripheral nervous system patterning, Lauren Limbach

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Who is Guarding the Guardians? Tracking Changes in Civil-Military Relations in the United States from Vietnam to the Forever Wars, Ayla Gayle McBreen

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Sport in the German Democratic Republic: Unpacking Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc, Clare McMahon

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Seeds of Sovereignty: Contact, Agency, and Ecological Power in Haudenosaunee America, Zoë Packel

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Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of DIO2 regulation in response to cortisol in a human extravillous trophoblast cell line, Rodaba Rahim

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Chronic Prenatal Maternal Stress in the Mouse Alters Type II Iodothyronine Deiodinase Expression and Thyroid Hormone Bioavailability in the Placenta, Salome Shubitidze

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The Effect of Social Support From Parents, Friends, and Professors on College Students’ Perceptions of Academic Success, Lauren Smith

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Identification of nerve development factors via gene expression profiling of stl159 zebrafish mutants, Sierra Smith

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Understanding the American Expressionist Anti-Heroine: Chrononormativity and the Deviant Bodies of Pinwheel, The Subway, and Machinal, Katie Stevenson

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GIRLKUNSTPOLITIK: jennicam.org and the evolution of digital portrayal, pornography and play, Rebecca Turner

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Early life factors affect telomere length and dynamics in nestling barn swallows, Charlie Voirin

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Coherent Control of Processes That Break the Dipole Blockade, Tomohisa Yoda

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“Shall I At Least Set My Lands in Order?” Gender, the Grotesque, and the Waste Land Cycle of Rejuvenation in James Joyce’s Ulysses, Sydney Zimmerman

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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"When Goths were Goths and Tamora was Queen": Gothic Worlds and Shakespeare's Spectre in Walpole and Radcliffe, Alexia Mandla Ainsworth

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Between Chastity and Heresy: A Study of Female Mystics, Hannah Aronson-Paxton

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The Nearsightedness of Media Spectacles: Measuring Appraisals of Aggression through Psychological Distance, Henry Biedron

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Machiavelli and Hobbes: The Fox and Lion on Ambition, Philip Brain

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“All of the Work and None of the Enjoyment”: College Instructors’ Diminished Occupational Well-Being in the COVID-19 Crisis, Paige Bullock

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Functional characterization and immunolocalization of insect sodium-dependent cation-chloride cotransporter 2 (NaCCC2), Phu Duong

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Siegfriedism: Myths Behind Mirrors, Hanna P. Feuer

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Sarah Kane's Poetics of Subjectivity, Katherine Franco

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Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Activation Disrupts Endocrine Control of klf9, a Gene Central to Metamorphosis, David Han