College Honors Program
The College Honors Program brings together academically accomplished and highly motivated students to pursue multidisciplinary studies in the natural sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. This highly selective and challenging program is composed of sophomores, juniors, and seniors from any major, and incorporates special seminars, an honors colloquium and a thesis.
The College Honors Program, established in 1962, is one of the oldest programs providing distinctive educational opportunities at Holy Cross culminating in the senior honors thesis, and the intellectual excitement of a multidisciplinary classroom, where students from all majors address significant matters with faculty who are experts in integrative teaching and scholarship.
Theses from 1998
The Sleep and Mood of First-Time Mothers: The last trimester through four months postpartum, Jennifer L. Bassett
Of Labor Wars and Astronomical Salaries: Free Agency and Our Changing National Pastime, William Benedict
Beethoven's Essay on Transcendence: A Study of Op. 111, Yves C. E. Calderone
Towards a New Paradigm: Female Revisions of the Readitional Love Story, Melissa J. Carrick
Articulating Joyce..., Gavin P. Clancy
Potential Pharmacological Treatment for Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia: Prenatal Clucocorticoids and Vitamin E in the Nitrofen-Rat Model, Gregory M. Coté
From Crisis to Crisis: The Gaullist Challenge to the Viability of the European Economic Community, 1963-1965, Joseph-Allodin L. Cruz
The Question of History in James Joyce's Ulysses, Timothy C. E. Doherty, Jr.
Op. 21 "Thank You", Elizabeth Dunn
The Impact of Managed Care on Hospital Quality, Joseph Forget
A Synthesis of 7-norbornadienol and Anti-7-norbornenol for a 13C-13C Coupling Constant Study, Peter Furmonavicius
The Decline of Democratic Statesmanship: Polling and Policy Making in Modern America, Kathleen M. Grammatico
Building the Federal Branch: An Instututional History of the Federal Judiciary, 1789-1842, Robert J. Hume
How Were Her Sentiments to Be Read?: Examining Subjectivity and Questioning Narrative Authority in Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion, Tricia E. Hurley
Out of Mozart's Shadow: Re-Envisioning Beethoven's Fidelio, Vanessa Lynn Kabash
Revolutionaries in Conspiracy with History: Leaders of the Easter Rising, 1916, Nicholas A. Kenney
A study of the non-English-speaking patient-physician-interpreter triad, Maryanne Makredes
The Presence of A Cultural Agenda in the Writings of Louisa May Alcott and Judy Blume, Elizabeth McCusker-Concannon
Modulation of the Chromosome Damaging Effects of Bleomycin in Human Lymphocytes, Miriam S. Merz
Creating the Female Self through Diary-Keeping, Andrea Nicolay
Imperfect Justice: An Analysis of the American Jury System, Aimee J. O'Rourke
Mathematics and Music: Symmetry in Bach's Later Works, Erin Ronan
Reforming Campaign Finance: A Multidimensional Exploration of the Role of Money in Politics, Andrea Santoriello
Power to the People: Economic Reform in Post-Soviet Russia, Damian S. Schaible
"My labor will sustain me": Radical Christian-Heroism in John Milton's Paradise Lost, Brian Lucas Spadora
The Forest or The Trees? Public Management of our National Forest Lands, Stacy Strongarone
Using Control to Explain a Loss of Control: A Look Into the Class Differences in Child Abuse, Heather Grace Zierak
Theses from 1997
Muscle Bound: The Weight of Cultural Fictions of Maculinity On America's Young Men, Darrin R. Berard
Part Time Work Options: Are They Mutually Beneficial to Both Large Public Accounting Firms and Professionals?, Erin Carberry
"The Strip:" A Search for Place in Modern Day America, Susan M. Coddaire
"Truthtellers": Journalists From the War in th Former Yugoslavia, Margaret Katherine Collins
The relationship between level of feminist identity and power in heterosexual dating relationships., Ellen G. Connell
"Equal" Education for All? The Influence of School Environment on Children's School-Related Beliefs and Academic Performance, Rebecca C. Fauth
"This Fair Conjunction": The Historiography of Shakespeare's History Plays from Richard II to Richard III, Brian Fodera
Amide Acylolysis: Steric Effects, Michael Charles Hewitt
The Ascent of a Poet: Place, Poet, and State in the Works of Joseph Bradsky, Catherine M. Hobbs
To Honor and Obey: Gender Ideals and the Normalization of Marital Violence in America, 1600-1900, Sharon Karg
Study of Electron Attatchment to C6F8Cl2 and C6F8Cl2 in the Gas Phase Using the FALP Technique, Donna M. Kerr
Morality, Politics, and History: Coming to Terms with the Past in West Germany and Austria during the 1980s, Sarah A. Maney
Behind the Group Facade: A Study of Friendship and Gender at Holy Cross, Laurel Molloy
John Michael Montias's Perspective of Art in Seventeenth Century Holland: On the Integration of Economics and Art History, Julie A. Moran
Hyacinth Girl, Catherine A. Mulligan
Total Quality Management: A Case Study of its Place in the Construction Industry, Tom Oneglia
Consuming the Body: Female Literary Representations of dis-Empowerment, Angela Marie Quaranta
The Differentiation of C2C12 Myoblasts and the Expression of the Gap Junction Protein, Connexin-43, at the Level of the mRNA, Jennifer J. Schneider
The Effects of Ouabain and Gap Junctional Communication in Mouse BALB/3T3 Fibroblasts, Stacey L. Valentine
John F. Kennedy and the Rhetoric of Optimism, Thomas L. Weber
Defending the Status Quo: The Second Massacre of Wounded Knee. 1973-1976, Benjamin E. Zawacki
Theses from 1996
The Effects of Stimulation of the A2 Adenosine Receptor on Myocardial Contractility Perfused Rat Heart, Thomas Stacey Monahan
Theses from 1995
The Disappearance of Song Culture in Ancient Greece, Kristin K. Barkett
"Screaming from the Top of Your Lungs" Voice Development in a High School Creative Writing Class, Michelle M. Bertolino
Bedtime Stories, Heather Brooks
A Mind of their Own: Empowerment and Enchanted Objects in Children's Literature, Nicole Birgit Cloeren
Through the Eye of a Needle: Using Scripture to Determine the Proper Use of Wealth in Today's World, Andrew Contreras
The Problem of Liberalism, Christopher Green
Elizabeth Bishop: "The Art of Losing", Margaret Hermes
Eighteenth Century Feminist Literature of Seduction, Keaghan K. Kay
Visual Form and Narrative Encounter: Concerning the Experience of Art in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and To The Lighthouse, Nathaniel Kilcer
Gender Variations in Physician Stress in Managed Care Environments, Amanda Matlak
Alcoholics Anonymous's History, Ideology and Practice: What Research Reveals, James P. Mullins
The Effects of Ethanol Consumption on Monocyte and Lymphatic Cell's Apoptosis Rates, David Andrew O'Donnell
The Phillips-Van Heusen Union Drive in Guatemala: A Model for Future International Labor Solidarity Work, Brendan D. Sharkey
Antimutagenicity of the Aminothiols WR-1065 and Cysteamine in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Rose A. Shorter
The Nature of Religious Questing in Later Life, Genine C. Swanzey
The Roots, Realities and Repurcussions of Journalistic Sensationalism During the Spanish-American War, Elizabeth Taylor
Communities and Power: Congregation-Based Community Organizing as a Means to Local Empowerment, Paula Marie Tusiani
The Development of Modern Physics and Architecture: Comparison of an Aesthetic, David Vimont
"Breaking Down the Barriers": David I. Walsh and the Irish-American Community of Worcester County, Sheila York
Theses from 1994
Isis Multinominis: Allusions to Isis in Augustan Poetry, Michelle M. Bien
A Body of Paradigms: A Textual Analysis of the Social and Societal Revolutions Emerging from Andreas Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica, Kate C. Dawson
Constructing History: Literary Historians, Culture and Gener in Late Nineteenth Century America., Christine E. Doyle
Is Speech "Special"?: What Deaf Populations and Animals Tell Us, Theoretically Speaking, Stephanie S. Frommer
Some Results in the Global Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, Meghan A. Gillin
The Role of Prenatal Testasterone in the Development of Sexually Differentiated Vasopressin Dependent Behaviors in Adult Rats, Richard David Hollister
Problematics and Possibilities: The Questions of Community for African-American Women in the Novels of Gloria Naylor., Sharon Kasok
The Revolt Against the Absurdity of Our Experience, Michael Lenahan
Thyroidectomy and Brain Gabaa Receptor Sensitivity Predict Behavior in Animal Models of Depression and Anxiety, Jennifer A. Lindwall
Reciprocal Participation: A New Approach to Health Development through United States Non-Governmental Organizations, Marie E. McDonnell
The Role of Prenatal Testasterone in the Development of Sexually Differentiated Vasopressin Dependent Behaviors in Adult Rats, Barbara M. O'Brien
The Importance of Metaphor in Philosophy., Erin K. O'Brien
Wavelet Analysis and the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe, Jon Pilon
A Radical Indictment of Imperialism in Africa: A New Look at Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"., Amy Polacko
Life as a Work of Art, Joel P. Poudrier
Effect of Aminothiols on the Induction of Mitotic Recombination by Bleomycin in Yeast, Joseph L. Quaranta
Rhetoric and Politics of Marriage in Three Eighteenth Century Poems, Amanda M. Roberts
The American Indian Movement (AIM): A Study of the Continuing Struggle for Self-Determination, Miriam K. Smyth
Hippocratic Pharmacology: Investigations into the Theoretical Assumptions and Function of Drug Therapy in the Corpus Hippocraticum, Edward G. Soltesz
Biosensors: An Investigation into their Physical Chemical Properties, Steven Joseph Stack
William Faulkner and the Confessions of Quentin Compson, Stacy Treuber
Intrinsic Motivation within the Classroom: A Comparative Study in Cooperative Learning and Traditional Schools, Donna M. Whitehouse
Religion as a Coping Strategy: Do Children Find God Helpful in Dealing with Stress?, Janie A. Whitehouse
Speak the Language: The Problem of Academic Discourse and the Basic Writer., Susannah L. Wince
Theses from 1993
The Rise and Fall of Jimmy Carter: Miracles, Prophesy, Politics, and the 1977 Energy Policy, Paul C. Burke
Logos Kai Polemos: The Dramatization of Language's Corruption in War, J. Phillip Calabrese
"Listen tuh me": The Emerging Voice of the African American Woman in the Texts of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, Judith A. Cannistraro
When the Party Throws a Party: The Social Life of the Communist Party of Massachusetts 1928-1938, Thomas R. Cincotta
An Examination of Strand-Specific DNA Repair on Bacteriophage Lambda, David J. Crowley
Blood and Money: Terrorism, the Mafia, and the Italian Political System, John C. Demers
Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Normal and Abnormal Gait Patterns, Sarah Fallon