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 1977
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
Hesed in the Book of Psalms, Steven Lebow
The Theory and Limitations of Friedrich Nietzsche's Revaluation of Values, Nancy Sue Love
Women and Freedom: A Novelistic Approach, Shari Miller
Effect of Solutes on the Miscibility of Hydrocarbon-Alcohol-Water Mixtures, Michele Ann Moisio
Light Responses of the Caudal Photoreceptor of Cave and Epigean Crayfish at Different Temperatures, David Leo Morris
The Psychology, Ethics and Politics of Freud's Psycho-Analysis and Sartre's Existentialism, John P. Powell
Historiography of the French Enlightenment, Richard Hillel Rosenfeld
Liberal Egalitarianism: A Study of Dewey and Rawls, Michael Swiger
The Anarchists in France: 1881-1906, Stephen F. Taylor
The Transformation of the Johnstown Mennonite Community 1790-1970, Janette Kaye Thomas
Encoding Specificity and Recognition Failure, Dennis Wipper
Albert Camus' Conception of Human Nature and History as Developed from his Early Essays to l'homme révolté, Victoria Wyatt
Aristotle and Rousseau on the Concept of Community, John Bosley Yelott Jr.
An Assessment of the Behavioral and Physiological Effects of a New Antipsychotic Drug, Clozapine, Kimberly Rose Zimmerman
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
The Aristotelian and Nietzschean Views of Human Excellence, Andrea Balaban
Utopian and Dystopian Elements of Post World War II Short Science Fiction, Steven Jay Balaban
A Comparative/Thematic Study of the Philosophy of Frederick Douglass, Shirley E. Burrell
In Landlessness Alone: Mody-Dick as Myth, William Cooper
Control of the Male Reproductive Form in the Crayfish Orconectes Sanborni, Henry Gamble Dudley Jr.
A Statistical Analysis to Permit Detection of Variants in Human Constitutive Heterochromatin, David Effron
The Lonely Humanists: The Pursuit of Nature in American Thought, Diane Louise Ewart
Hindu Liberation: Separation or Integration?, Mark C. Fox
Religious Language: A Study of its Symbolic Character, Lynn Goodwin
The Eden Saga; The Age of Names. Book the First., Paul Jackson Hammond
A Man Made Out of Words, Bill Hanner
The Kinetics and Mechanism of the Henkel Reaction: The Thermal Reaction of Potassium Benzoate to Potassium Terephthalate in the Solid State, James Robert Kaiser Jr.
The October Horse, James Kraft
The Idea of Time in Pre-War France, Fran Abby Kurtis
By the Waters of Babylon, David H. Lynn
Juvenile Delinquency and the Self, Elizabeth M. Merian
A Comparative Anaylsis of Trypsin-Giemsa Bands in a Hyperploid Population and a Diploid Population, Craig Charles Porter
The Epistemological Problem of Mysticism, Lynn Rittenhouse
The English Reformation, Peter Ross
The Utopianism of Herbert Marcuse, Benjamin B. Segel
Freedom: Its Nature and Purpose as Discussed by Benedetto Croce and Jose Ortega y Gasset, Charles D. Strandburg
The Community of Value, Eric Edward Stroo
The Still Waters, Bill Stuckey
Impetus to Reich and War: Personal and Ideological Motivations and Means of Hitler, William Thomas
Interface of the Word/Juncture of Meaning: The Fiction of William Burroughs, Joel E. Turner
Wittig Reaction with 1,2,3,4-Tetraphenylfulvene, Marc W. Whitsett
The Political Thought of Albert Camus, Barbara Wickham
Evidence of a Functional Caudal Photoreceptor in a Blind Cavernicolous Crayfish, Orconectes inermis, William Robert Wilson Jr.
The 19th Century Utopian Origins of Sir Ebenezer Howard's Garden City, Anthony C. Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
The Effects of Sulfur Dioxide and Ozone on the Metabolic Rates of Lunged versus Lungless Salamanders, William Edward Baubie III
Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Peguy: The Artistic Conception of Freedom in Late Nineteenth Century France, Marian S. Block
A Technique for Chromatographic Analysis of the Nucleutide Pools in the Developing Microspores in Tradescantia Paludosa, Alan Samuel Brody
The Effects of Kibbutz Child Rearing and the Project Method of Education on Social, Emotional and Personality Development, Barrie C. Byrnes
Nihil Ex Nihilo or, Reference, Counterfactuals, and Negative Existential Presumptions, James J. Cappio
Nihil Ex Nihilo or, Reference, Counterfactuals, and Negative Existential Presumptions, Gintaras Eduard Degesys
Scar of Light: On The Poetry of W. S. Merwin, Steven Durning
Tories, Jacobites, and Country Gentlemen in Early Georgian England, Andrew J. Federer
Humor and the Arousal Jag as a Function of Social and Cognitive Factors, Leonard Felder
The Victim, Leonard Felder
Abigail Adams, A Woman of Eighteenth Century America, Elizabeth Friedberg
Reproductive Physiology of the Captive Female Kangaroo Rat, (Dipodomys Ordi), Kenneth Stan Friedman
Weimar and the Imperial Legacy, Bruce Guter
Aspects of Sophocles' Philoctetes and Trachiniae, Michael Ros Halleran
Corneille: The Ethics of Gloire, Mary Hatherly
"Give Me Chastity and Continence, Only Not Yet." (St. Augustine, Confessions, VIII,vii) or Weakness of Will and Moral Judgements, Caroline Herzfeld
The Effects of Depth of Processing on Integration of Semantically Related Sentences, Constance A. Howes
The Religious Thought of Martin Buber, Barbara A. Kahn
Food Chain Transfer of 109Cd in a Terrestrial Microcosm, Howard M. Leaman
Self-Control as Learning Set, David E. Lopatto
The Emotional Pattern of Italian Nationalism Before the War, Thomas Lucas
Failures in the Eighteenth Century's Idea of Progress, Elizabeth K. Parker
Side Views of Pressed Flesh, Angus Paul
The Effects of 20-Methylcholanthrene on the Regenerating Epidermis of Amphibian Forelimbs, David Mark Perliman
The Effects of H1 and H2 Histamine Antagonists on Limb Regeneration in Triturus Viridescens, Curtis Taylor Poor
Reproductive Physiology of the Male Kangaroo Rat, (Dipodomys), Miles Robert Poor
John Dos Passos: The Man, the Myths, and the Writer, Patrick D. Reagan
The Political Philosophy of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Nature of his Rule, Marc Speiser
John Rawls and his Theory of Justice, Brent Allan Stubbins
Rhetoric and Character in Four Episodes of Ulysses, Jonathan J. Towle
A Psychohistorical Investigation of the Personality of Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Thomas W. Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
The Comic Vision of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, John A. Adams
Moral Objectivity, V. Antonio Aninao
The Effects of a Few Selected Antihistamines Upon Tail Regeneration in Xenopus Laevis Larvae, Stuart H. Anness
Gabriel García Márquez: Magic Realism in Cien Años de Soledad, Lucy Bixby
Temperature Dependence on the Diffusion Coefficient of Cadmium Ion in a CaCl2 - H2O System, David H. Brown
Petronius the Satirist, Michael G. Danchak
Sensational Errors & Phenomenal Mistakes, Robert S. Daniel
The Hypostasis of Wisdom in Hellenistic Biblical Literature, Mary P. Dean
Meanings and Statements of Meaning, John A. Harper