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 2012
Midgut transporter gene expression and RNA interference in the larvae of Manduca sexta, Aaron Yeoh
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Exploring a Novel Enamine/Enal Cycloaddition and Its Application to Natural Product Synthesis, James Beckett
Nationalsozialistische Homosexuellenverfolgung im Kontext der Konstruktion von Männlichkeit im Europa des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts, Cole Dachenhaus
Plant community assembly and the role of species identity, abundance, and intraspecific functional trait variability in alpine meadows, Amanda Henderson
Reading Novels: Romance Residue & The Early Novel, Tracey Hutchings-Goetz
“Sexy Young Things”: What Dressing “Sexy” Means for Young Girls, Alexandra Kirsch
Theatrics of Invention: Performing Gender and Nation in Three Novels by Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Kremer
The effect of larval stage, midgut region, and dietary protein concentration on Aminopeptidase N isoform mRNA expression in Manduca sexta caterpillars, Emily Lewandowski
The Patronage of Lodovico Capponi, Stephen Mack
À côté de l’Afrique Une étude historique, sociologique, et littéraire de l’écriture et l’identité malgache, Rachel Martin
The Interplay Between English Ability, Enclaves, and Earnings for Chinese Immigrants, Cloie McClellan
The Grotesque Nude in Contemporary Art: Jenny Saville, Robert Gober, Renée Cox, Benjamin McMillan
Evidence of Staggered Inflation in the Cosmic Microwave Background, Evan Pease
Steady-State Kinetic Characterization of Sarcoplasmic Calcium-Binding Protein Variants from Procambarus clarkii, Suzanne Rohrback
Ludwig Feuerbach and the Religion of Humanity, Julia Smith
Development of a Robust Expression System for E. coli Maltose-Binding Protein and a Novel Fluorescence Assay to Characterize Ligand Binding, Margaret Taylor
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center: Zaha Hadid’s Response to the White Cube Ideology and the Advancement of the Museum Design Dialectic, Peter Dumbadze
Female athletes and the sport environment: positive and negative influences on body image and weight management, Nora Erickson
Al-Jazeera: the origin and transformation of the global news network, Laura Garland
Accessing the Cyclopenta[c]pyridine substructure: development of an Enamine/Enal Cycloaddition-Pyridine formation methodology, Benjamin Kester
Soul-searching in South America: political learning in Chile during the age of Pinochet, Ryan Lloyd
You could try the Crane: Vocal music and the preservation of community in a Galway pub, Kaitlyn Myers
Hydrogen production by Hydrogenase-3 contributes to the anaerobic extreme acid survival of Escherichia coli, Ken Noguchi
Se toman de la mano y caminan, caminan: Reconstrucciones de la Malinche en la conciencia feminista mexicana y chicana, 1964-1983, Grace Rosenthal
Modeling metabolism, growth, and assimilation in Manduca sexta larvae: variation across individuals and instars, Katie Sears
Federally-funded abstinence-only-until-marriage programs: constructing deserving and undeserving citizenship, Lindsay Stevens
Steel of the north: the Viking age in Britain, Geoffrey Toy
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Traditional Liberalism: Civic Education and the American Citizen, Christopher J. Blaine
A fight back into paradise: exploring primitivism, sexuality and gender in works by S.H. Lawrence, Mary Bloom
Honest signaling by structurally based plumage coloration in the eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis), Elizabeth Carlton
Protector of the poppies: American Cold War policy and the Southeast Asian opium trade, 1945-1973, Rebecca Fischman
White trash mother: the shaming and control of poor women in the United States, Risa Griffin
Understanding young women's attitudes toward birth: the development of the medicalized childbirth acceptance scale, Arianna Herman
The future of Nepal: civil society organizations, Millennium Development Goals, and development strategies, Shrochis Karki
Report cards on state maternity leave laws: do higher grades reduce the family wage gap?, Melissa King
Unity amid diversity: The Southern Baptist controversy as a social drama, Thomas Lewis
T.F. Buxton and the age of British humanitarianism: slave trade suppression, the Niger Expedition, "legitimate commerce," and Christianity, 1841-1864, Christopher Myers
Lower regional monoamine levels and activity in BTBR T+tf/J not C57BL/6J (B6) mice, Nora Pencheva
Laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it: Langston Hughes, black humor, and politics, Johanna Ralsten
The problem of prerogative: several examples from the American presidency, Rebecca Riddell
Walking through Austen, Patricia Robinson
Oma, Helle Slutz
Bandit states: robbery, resistance, and redemption in the literature of highwaymen, Patrick Smyth
Tyranny of taste: the effects of regulating interior designers, Suzanna Stroganova
The blood of relevant meaning: circulation and the body politic in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Samantha Tett
Eye movement while reading: a comparison of first and second language processing, Emma Wampler
The Potential Role of Fish in the Diet of Neanderthals: Ecology, Nutrition and Microscopic Residue Analysis, Rebecca Mae Warren
The effect of cold exposure on the expression of Ca2+ binding proteins in the freshwater crayfish, Procambarus clarkii, Alexandra White
To compare small things with greatest: reflourishing heroism in Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, Elizabeth Woolley
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Moderation and Socratic Examination: An Interpretation of Plato's Charmides, Ariel Helfer
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Building Community: the Relationship of Neotraditionalism and community in the Case Study of Middleton Hills, Wisconsin, Gayle Jeannette Christiansen
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Re-Conceptualizing Adolescent Childbearing Among the High-Risk Population, Sarah Jayne Buek
Contesting Modern Consciousness: Albert Camus and Max Weber, John Haynal West
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Entrepreneurship Among Black Americans: an Historical Sociological Perspective on Business Development, Amanda Jocelyn Feld
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Classy Theater: The American Theater Arts Audience and Socioeconomic Stratification, Lauren R. Johnson
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Identity and Socialization in Identical Twins, Kathleen Anne Knoll
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Critical Ingredients: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Jurgen Habermas' Diskursethik, Alfred Snyder
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
The Genesis of Genocide: Social Elements of the Rise of Nazism in Germany, Benjamin Albers
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
The Idea of Reason in Richard Hooker's Of The Laws of Eclesiastical Polity, John C. Bauerschmidt
The Normalien Influence in Pre-War France, Elizabeth D. Brain
T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets: A Poet's Resolution, David B. Bunner
Density, Interference, and Performance Standards: Do They Affect Perceptions of Crowding and Task Performance, John H. Cline
Private Self-Consciousness, Self-Observation and Self-Knowledge, Tod Harris Colbert
Thomas Carlyle and the Industrial Era, Richard King Danforth
To the Manor Born: Gentry Values in Nineteenth-Century England, Lenore B. Johnson
Thermal Deposition of Tin, James Ray Kent
Imperial Trilogy: The Evolution of the Imperial Ideology and the Official Mind in Late Victorian Britain, Clark Sargent Kinlin
The Power of Imagined Wonder: An Affirmation of Fantasy Literature, Debra Ann Ziehm Lilly
The Effect of Adipic Acid in the Reaction between Alpha-Hydroxyalkyl Ethers and Hydriodic Acid, Michael David Marcus
Toward an Interactive Sociology, Heather Lehe Moir
The Effects of Sociodramatic Play Tuition on Social-Cognitive Development, Rondah Y. Moore
The Religious Sonnets of John Donne and Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Influence of St. Ignatius and St. John of the Cross, Lynn Marie Oscarson
Quebec: Conflict and Change -- A Sociological Analysis of the Cultural and Poltical Conflict between English and French Canadians in the Province of Quebec, Mark Eugene Packer
Plato's Use of Myth: Myth and its Audience, Nickolas Pappas
Achievement Motivation: Review of Classic and Contemporary Related to Females, Patricia Pfouts
A Determination of the Latent Heat of Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) using Adiabatic Compression, Victoria Anne Post
British Political Parties and the Common Market, Diana J. Poznanski
John Locke: A Crucial Figure in the Emergence of Liberal Economics, Brian D. Rance
The Role of Triethylenetetramine Complexes of Cobalt (III) in the Catalysis of Methyl Phosphate Hydrolysis, Janet Jennifer Richardson
The Urban Crisis in America: A Political Perspective, E. Graham Robb Jr.
The Urban Crisis in America: A Political Perspective, E. Graham Robb Jr.
Nietzsche's Political Project, Diana Jo Schaub
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Ternary Complexation in Aqueous Solutions: Theory and Applications, Scot Anderson
On 'Good': A Consideration of the Views of Hare and Urmson, Gregory J. Bell
A Linguistic Study of Beowulf, J. Stephen Bolhafner
Ideas on the Necessity, Role, and Resolution of Violent Conflict, Robert Brauer
Order of Presentation Effects in the Courtroom: Study in Applied Psychology, David Richard Cohen
The Appeal of Flannery O'Connor's Distorted Vision, Thomas M. Daniel
Inelastic Electron Tunnelling: Superconductivity and Spectroscopy, Scott B. Evans
The Concept of Creative Genius: Caspar David Friedrich, Clyfford Still, and Mark Rothko, Leslie Suzanne Gepfert
"A Music of Grace or Gratefulness:" The Poetry of Galway Kinnell, Juliana Grace Hanson
Literary Versions of Eighteenth-Century Women in Clarissa, Tom Jones and Evelina, Stephanie K. Happer
Tradition and the Individual Talent in C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, Julia E. Heldman
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy as a Tool for Studying Long Range Order in Liquid Crystals, Roger Ikeda
The Philosophical Antecedents to the Right of Privacy: A Study of the Mill-Stephen and Hart-Devlin Debates, Michael Joseph Kaufman