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 2010
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 1979
The Roles of Education, Religion and Morality within the Lockean and Rousseauean Communities, Pamela Addison
French and American Perspectives on the Indochina War 1945-54, Paul Rudolph Bardos
And Called it Macaroni: American Patriotism 1900-1928, Sarah C. Bates
The Legal Status of Slaves in Colonial Virginia, Thomas F. Benson
A Kinetic Study of the Osmium Tetroxide-Catalysed Oxidative Cleavage of trans-Stilbene by Hydrogen Peroxide, Stephen George Bird
Six Women Artists of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Elizabeth Boatwright
Optical Activity Measurements in the Cholesteric Blue Phase of Cholesteryl Decanoate, Terrence Kenyon Brog
Can Variants in the Constitutive Heterochromatin of Human Chromosomes be Detected Consistently?, Michelle F. Browner
Cartoons: White on Black - Graphic Impressions of Racism in American History, Kevin C. Chartrand
The Art of Life: Esthetics and Religion in the Works of James Joyce, Arthur Selwyn Goldwag
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Amos N. Guiora
Copper (II) Complex Catalyzed Hydrolysis of Potassium Ethyl Oxalate, Daniel Anthony Gulino
Anti-Modernism in Bismarckian Germany: Anti-Semitism and Volkish Thought, Jonathan A. Helitzer
Hearing the Grass Grow: Hardy's Jude the Obscure as Tragedy, Robin Louise Inboden
The Italian Communist Party and Democracy: Nascence or Miscarriage, Thomas Kemler
The Militia Heritage in America: "Intrepid, Rural Sons of Freedom", Peter Reid Kendrick
Longrange Orientational Order Versus Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Liquid Crystals, Wai-Kwong Kwok
Liquid Crystals in Gas-Liquid Chromatography, Sharon Fay Lando
Staging of the Molt Cycle in Horseshoe Crab Larvae, Limulus Polyphemus, Sandra E. Lane
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Theologian of Reality, John Clayton Lentz Jr.
Thematic Differences in the Poetry of the Troubadors and the Trobaritz, Gail Matthews
The Study of Capitalism: A Framework for Historical Inquiry, Kathleen P. McDonald
Rousseau on the Arts and Sciences, Daniel Bernard McGroarty
The Baader-Meinhof Gang and Individual Bourgeois Terrorism, Robert B. O'Connor
Locke on Christianity, Daniel J. Reagan
Political Augustinianism and Charlemagne, Mark R. Rennie
Houses of Decay: The Family in Dubliners and Ulysses, Douglas J. Robillard Jr.
Truth's Smiling Countenance: Comedy and Providence in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, Richard A. Rosengarten
The Lost Colony of Roanoke: A Study of English Expansion and New World Colonization, 1497-1590, Martin A. Secrest
Father-Infant Interaction: Holding Patterns of Parents of Newborns, Kent West Seibert
Faulkner's Caddy: The Unknown Woman, Amy Shoolman
The Effects of Father-Absence on the Moral Development of Boys With and Without Surrogate Fathers, Michael Allan Smith
Pressure-Volume-Temperature Measurements in Nematic Liquid Crystals, Joseph Jay Sparks
Life on Beacon Hill: Three Victorian Women, Tracy A. Teweles
Congress and the Principle of Racial Equality: A Comparative Examination of the Congresses Which Shaped the First Reconstruction Act of 1867 and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Mary Frances Thomas
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Cicero and the Nature of Political Philosophy, Jeffrey Miller Bond
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877: An Ohio Perspective, Robert Cohn
A Study of Limb Regeneration in Horseshoe Crab Larvae, Limulus Polyphemus, Francis Robert Glasser Jr.
The Conservative Course of Nineteenth Century German Education and its Relation to Twentieth Century Democracy, Alfred H. Gollwitzer Jr.
Locke and Christianity: The Predicament of the Christian Citizen of a Lockean Society, Mark D. Haverland
"The Crowned Knot of Fire": A Study of the Significance and Music of Theology in T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, John Benson Kryder
A Prose for Our Time: Ernest Hemingway Early Style, Paul B. Lukacs
The Search for Tir-Nà nOg: An Exploration of Sean O'Casey, Ann Malaspina
Juvenile Delinquency, Ego Development, and Perception of Facial Expressions of Emotion, William George McCown
The Little Steel Strike of 1937, Mark Foster Rhein
The Inducement of Microtubule and Microfilament Formation in Hybrids Resulting from the Cellular Reconstitution of Rana Pipiens Lymphocyte Nuclei and Human Erthyrocytes, Richard Lawrence Stein
Topographical Enigmas in the Republican Campus Martius, Bruce V. Thomas
Carbonate Anion Penetration in Aluminum Hydroxide Precipitates, Gregory Alan Watts
The Cabana, Louis Weiss
Cognizance and the Half-Said Words, Michelle Andrea Werner
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Brown v. Board of Education: A Revolution in Equal Justice, John Niles Adams
A Study of the Effects of Solvents and Triplet Quenchers on the Photosubstitution of Biphenyl with Cyanide Ion, Iftiker K. Ahmed
Alkylation of the Allyltrimethylsilyl Anion, Munther Adil Al-Aseer
Integrity and the "Terrestrial Scheme": Changing Definitions, Susan Anne Allen
A History of the English Legal Profession Before the Eighteenth Century, Susan Andrews
Suspension Feeding in the Shipworm Bankia Gouldi Bartsch (Mollusca; Bivalvia), Geoffrey Gabriel Back
Preliminary Studies on the Hydrolysis of Phosphate Esters, Matthew Edward Bagamery
The Evolution of Berlin: From Cold War Symbol to Victim of Détente, Katherine Olsen Bingley