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 1980
Tolkien's Moral Vision in The Lord of the Rings, Mona H. M. Koh
The Origins of Swedish Neutrality, Erica Sames Lindberg
DNA Late Replication Patterns in Two Standard and One Nonstandard Human Chromosomal Complements, Laura Irene Long
Frequency of Suicidal Thought and Self-Destructive Behavior Among College Students, Paula Markowitz
Host Plant Finding and Oviposition Behavior of Three Butterflies, Valerie Merkel
The Rise and Fall of Materialism, and the Spectrum Theory, David Cameron Miller
The Process of Salvation in the Writings of Clement of Alexandria, Mark Maurice O'Connell
The Historical and Theoretical Development of Keynesian Economics in Great Britain (1800-1946), John Michael Palffy
The Catalysis of Methyl Phosophate Hydrolysis of Cobalt(III) Complexes, Stephen Mallory Penn
André Gide and the Politics of Humanism, Lynn Virginia Prothro
Two Portraits of Modern Consciousness: The Portrait of a Lady and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stacy Spence Remke
British Policy Toward Palestine 1915-1947: Motivations and Consequences, Diana H. Richman
Gee!, Elizabeth C. Schaefer
Mechanistic Studies of the Osmium Tetroxide Catalyzed Oxidative Cleavage of trans-Stilbene, Phillip Paul Smith
The Political Philosophy of Locke, Jefferson, and Dewey: A Study of the Evolving Conceptions of Education in the Liberal Regime, Terrell Brooke Snyder
Victorian Medievalism, Kevin R. Spence
Patterns of Chromosomal Aberration Formation in X-Irradiated Peripheral Human Lymphocytes as Reflection of Interphase Chromatin Arrangement, John Gaylord Teeter
Economic Concentration and the Historical Corporation, Robert W. Thomas
Extraction and Purification of a Hyperglycemic Factor from Limulus Polyphemus, Douglas Keith Trask
The Unconscious Rise of an Urban Consciousness: New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, 1625-1720., Michael R. Vaselaney
Eugene O'Neill: A Desperate Optimism, John Palmer Weir Jr.
The Role of Epithelial Cell Dedifferention in Hydraregeneration, David Nelson Wright
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
Julius Caesar in Shakespeare and Shaw: Poetry vs. Political Philosophy, Kathleen Kirk Wilson
The Development of Conrad's Marlow, Daniel Brian Yeager
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
The Founding of the New School for Social Research, Nancy Ruth Bolotin
E.H. Carr and Albert Camus: Historicism and Transcedence, Laurence Bousquet
The Unknown Quantity, William J. Burke
The Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide by Copper Isocitrate in a Basic Environment, Samuel Chen
The Changeling, Vol. 1, Anne M. Connell
The Changeling, Vol. 2, Anne M. Connell
America's Relations with the Non-European World from Woodrow Wilson to Henry Kissinger, David Keith Conrad
James T. Farrell: A Re-Examination, David Louis Dink
European Images of Asia, Paige Dunlap
Yeats and Nietzsche: A Study in Correspondence, John Andrews Ferguson
Cultural History and an Historiographic Analysis of Some of the Works of Huizinga and Burckhardt, Edward Hammerstein
A Study of Several Complexes for the Spectrophotometric Determination of Silver, Kim A. Hawkins
A Still Point in the Evolving Structure of T.S. Eliot's Poetry, Bradley Todd Hughes
Language Acquisition and the Critical Period, Constance R. Kendall
Saying and Disbelieving: An Investigation of the Logic of Propositional Attitudes, Peter Overton King
Probing Pinter, Trice Koopman