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 2026
How Phenotypic and Behavioral Traits Predict Parental Care in Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica erythrogaster), Mira Allen
The Medium is the Monster: Frankenstein’s Economic, Public, and Domestic Lives, Sophia Boyd
Transforming Community Development: A Cultural Sociology of the Kensington Corridor Trust, Max Fishman
An Undoing: Ghost Stories, Grace E. Galligan
Communication with the Incommensurable: A Case Against Davidsonian Semantics and for Untranslatable Languages, Xuning (Alina) Gao
Gauge Preheating with Charged Particles & Other Nonlinear Physics, Christine Kessens
How I Love [Our] Coat of Many Colors: Pastiche, Secularism, and American Judaism in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Amanda C. Kuo
Sketching Stillness: Intermedial Still-Life Aesthetics in Modernist Women’s Writing, Brittany Lin
Navigating Politics on the Path to Perfection: How Disciples of the Budshishiyya Interpret Sufi Practices and Shape Moroccan Politics, Thomas Richard Metcalf
The Many Endings of Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters, Annie Mitchell
The Lay of Leithian: A Singable Translation of the Russian Musical, Robin Pratt
Batch Culture Evolution of Marine Bacterium Vibrio natriegens at Acidic and Alkaline pH, Slaybrina Raphael
Angel Baby, Charlie Redd Sacha
under the underbelly, Celia Schwartz
The World Ends Where it Begins: Apocalyptic Maternity and Autonomy in Contemporary Feminist Dystopian Literature, Caeleigh Ryan Stamper
Learning American Sign Language: An Examination of Image Format on Recall of Iconic and Arbitrary Signs, Isabella B. Strickland and Tabitha W. Payne
‘New words to an older melody’: Contemporary Folk Music in America, Olivia Stripling
‘A Blend of Science and Wisdom:’ An Imperial History of Irish Community Midwives and Handywomen, Kate Tucker
Mate Guarding, Parental Investment, and Extra-pair Paternity in North American Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica erythrogaster) During Laying and Incubation, Sarah E. Verner
A Mercurial Queer Genealogy, Elianajoy Volin
Bound By Law, Trapped By Status: Migrant Farmworker Vulnerability in the United States, Minh Chau Vu
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
“I Drew Breath, and Spoke my Word”: The Development of Female Voice and Agency in Circe and The Penelopiad, Ellis Copley
THE HARM OF LEGAL PEDAGOGY IN ELITE LAW SCHOOLS, Emma Covino
Motasem Abu Hasan's "In The Line of Fire": A Translation, Katie Genzer
Momento a Moment: A Travelogue, Kate Haydel-Brown
To Tether a Floating Woman: Chicana Theory, Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry in the Borderlands, Mia Huerta
OCTN Expression Varies with Xenobiotic Exposure in Aedes aegypti, Naomi Renee Kennel
Spot the Differences: A Multivariate Exploration of Frontal-Midline Theta Power, H Knoell
Implementing Density Functional Theory and Ellipsometry to Analyze Films, Samuel J. Kovach
Aujourd’hui, Camus est encore vivant : La notion d’un patrimoine réfracté dans trois œuvres postcoloniales, Stella Menkov
Over, Under, Through, Estlin Miller
Mary Beatrice of Modena: Royal Reproduction, Catholic Conspiracy, and the Question of Queenship, Elizabeth Redmond
The Right to a Healthy Environment: A "New" Human Right, Emerson Salome
Developing a Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect Apparatus to Study Magnetic Semiconductors, Dilara Sen
Determining the role and necessity of mecr in Caenorhabditis elegans, Katherine Spilsbury
The Metamorphosis of Memoir, Carlin A. Steere
Francis Bacon's Politics for Science, Tobias Straus
Links between Floristic Characteristics and Carbon Dynamics in Wetlands Restored through the USDA Conservation Reserve Program, Rachael Tomasko
Fabricating Femininity: Interwoven Threads of Gender, Race, and Empire in Burney and Brontë, Kathleen Turk
Identification of Novel Multidrug Resistance Breakers in Escherichia coli K-12, Andrew Van Horn
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Amongst the Hounds, Emma Abate
Telling a Cautionary Tale: Film's Tragic Story of the American Sex Worker, Lily Ader
Regeneration of Lumbriculus variegatus is dependent upon post-amputation production of reactive oxygen species, Freya Rose Beinart
Chichikov’s Journeys: Gogol’s Dead Souls and Russian Literature in English, 1854-1967, Sam Bowden
The Immanuel/Jade Model: A Tool for Addressing Desire Conflicts in Contentious Modification Cases, Lucas Dunst
CONTRAFUEGOS, Anna Fahey
The “Other” in Nineteenth-Century French Automata: Technology, Domestication, and Imperialism, William Gerhardinger
“There is Nothing Known Beyond This.” Gog, Magog, and Humanity’s Furthest Extents, Alejandro Gonzalez
A Study in Wreckage, Jessica Horwitch
From Struggle to Resistance: Contemporary Arab American Christian Protagonists' Hybridity and Interfaith Solidarity, Olivia Hynes
Sojourn in Gambier, Valerie Kakos
Testimonio de los tiempos / Testimony of the Times, Madeline Kwasnick
North American barn swallows (Hirundo rustica erythrogaster) pair, mate, and interact assortatively, Omar J. Morosse
“Living Blood, that the Linen Drinks Up”: Consent and Desire in the Modernist Bedroom, Rebecca Renner
Characterizing the Coherence of Three-Atom Entangled States near Förster Resonance, Lucy Shamel
Antibiotic Resistance Gene Abundance and Characterization of Bacterial Taxa and in Four Pond Ecosystems, Maya Vaccaro
DEAR ADA: An Archive of Memory, Migration, and Mooring, Ocean Wei
For I Know That Nothing Good Dwells in Me., Taylor Womack
Otem in Paradise, Emily Yourman
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Making Your Voices Heard? The Tajik Civil War, the Kyrgyz Revolutions, and the Development of State-Society Relations in Post-Soviet Central Asia, Christopher Bechtol
The Forgotten Battlefield: Orthodox Church Politics, Nationalism, and Russian Propaganda in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Christopher Bechtol
Authoring the Subaltern Voice: Storytelling as Pathways to Reconstructing Truth in Postcolonial Literature, Lily Beeson-Norwitz
Criticizing Cartographies: James Rennell’s Maps of India, Brooke Brown
CHILE DESPERTÓ: Culture, Memory, and Deliberation in the Struggles for Authentic Democracy, Liam Crisan
Exploring Friendship: An Interpretation of Plato's Lysis, Garrett Culbertson
“I Just Donated, and You Should Too!”: Examining the Effects of Moral Emotions on Donation-Related Prosocial Behavior on Instagram, Katherine M. Ellis
Sing, Goddess: Contemporary Female Novelistic Retellings of the Iliad, Molly Fording
'The Spoils of the East': Science and Orientalism in A Voyage into the Levant, Abigail Foster
The Exchange of Goods and the Construction of Identity: A Comparative Analysis of Byzantium and Al-Andalus, Samantha Goldenson
Telomere and Plumage Dynamics in Adult Barn Swallows, Yujie (Serena) Liu
Mechanisms Underlying Emergence of a Sub-G1 Population of Cells in a Mutant Xenopus laevis Line Lacking AHR1α, Paige Milhon
Unpacking Rural Resource and Social Networks: A Case Study of Center of Hope, Elliot Moore and Austin H. Johnson
Elizabeth Inchbald: Popular Appeal and Morality on the Eighteenth-Century Stage, Zoe Neirink
Organizing Voices: Examining Indigenous Representation Organizations in Japan and New Zealand, George Novotny
Effects of Membrane-Permeant Organic Compounds, pH, Growth Phases, and their Interactions on mRNA Expression of PMF-Driven Drug Efflux Pumps in Escherichia coli, Minh Pham and Joan Slonczewski
Ink and Oil-Spills: Eco-Art in Contemporary Chinese Art, Ian Prescott
On Social Positions and Social Influence: Society’s Impacts on White, Male Serial Killers, Lilly Richart
Cultural Differences in Holistic Processing: A Behavioral and EEG Study, Zhixing Sun
Antagonism of the Xenopus laevis Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptors, Alexandra Thoms
An Inclusive Black Nationalism: An Examination of Ideological Diversity During the Black Arts Movement, Benjamin Weiner
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Does Visual Working Memory Predict Learning of Japanese Script? A Comparison of Logographic and Syllabary Script, John Apsley
Probing the functions of COP1-like genes in seasonal reproduction of the moss Physcomitrium patens, Jo Bùi
Deforestation and Tree Kinship in Medieval Iceland, Lynn Butzlaff and Lynn Butzlaff
Dislocated: A Three Stage Approach to Translation using Natsume Sōseki’s Ten Nights’ Dreams for the 2020’s, Nathan Chu
What Kind Of People Do We Need To Be? American Political Thought: 1776-1788, John Conway
Tags temporarily decrease takeoff velocity and trajectory in House Sparrows (Passer domesticus), Katherine Crawford
Spring in Gambier, Bella Creel
Sexual dimorphism in avian flight structures is predicted by mating systems and parental investment, Jonah S. Dominguez
Simulating the high-energy Universe, from the Big Bang to black holes, Ericka Florio
Numerical Simulations of Nonlinear Physics in the Universe, Mary Gerhardinger
Characterizing Sphagnum spectral physiology across a 3000km latitudinal transect., Chris Goodall
Atmospheric Deposition and the Ecosystem Impacts Along an Agricultural-to-Urban Gradient in Ohio, U.S., Ansley Grider
THE HEROIC MEDICAL PRACTITIONER AND SYSTEMS OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN VICTORIAN NOVELS OF THE MIDCENTURY, Dylan Hartman
The Cultural Interaction of Material Objects Between Eighteenth Century France and India, Olivia Hoffmann