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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Browse Honors Theses by decade:
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
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
John Stuart Mill's Liberalism and the Problem of Obscenity, Carole Supowitz
William Faulkner's The Hamlet: A Comedy, Emily Woodville Wells
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
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.