Theses from 2024
“Neither Here nor There”: Formal Alterity in Vietnamese American Narratives from 1997-Present, Anna Lee
Broadway Theatre and the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Pre-Shutdown Longevity Impacted Production Success, Emmeline A. Lignowski
Streaming’s Sonic Revolution — The Impact of Streaming Services on the Music Industry: Evidence from Spotify, Nicholas Lupone
Interpretatio Romana: How Names Can Influence Myth and Belief, Jude Lynch
Mother Athena & Royal Blood, Jude Lynch
A Veritable Garden Genius: An Assessment on the Work and Techniques of Dr. Wilhelmina F. Jashemski, Matthew MacDonald
The Fear of too Much Justice? Limiting the Equal Protection Clause in the Post-Civil Rights Era, Liam Martin
Investigating the function and evolution of two putative de novo evolved genes essential for Drosophila melanogaster fertility, Kerry McDermott
She Has Green Eyes & Trauma: Problematic Depictions of Mental Illness in Young Adult Novels, Diane G. McDonough
Stability or Opportunity? A Cross-Regional Analysis of Elections in Hegemonic Authoritarian Regimes, Aidan McGahey
Lightness and Exactitude in Andrea Palladio's Redentore, Audrey McGrail
Milton’s Exploration of the Demonic Consciousness, Niall McKenna
Moving “Passed” Life for Death, Gwyneth Morrissey
Building Loyalty: Hezbollah’s Hybrid Nature of Social Services & Military Warfare in an Unstable Lebanon, Rea Nassif
Nostos, Kleos, and "Great Responsibility": Homeric Reception in the Spider-Verse, Matthew Nickerson
The Loss of a Generation, Marisa O'Malley
Downfall to Friendliness?: Analyzing Common Tropes in The Boy Who Loved Too Much, Heather Paglia
Title IX on the Hill, Riley Peck
Belonging on the Hill: BIPOC Student Experiences with DEI Initiatives at Holy Cross, Jailanny Pena
ABCs: American Born Chinese Stories, Ethan Peng
Rhetorical Punishment: The U.S. Incarceration System, Shanil Perez Lantigua
Violence on Stage and in the Streets: Women Reflect on the Troubles in 1980’s Northern Irish Theatre, Natalia Powers
Selfish Incapacity: The Deceptive Dynamics of Amores 1.4, Samuel Reed
Electrochemical Analysis of Self-Assembled Monolayers of Thiols on Gold, Emma Robinson
Breakin’ Down Flow State: An Analysis of The Flow State Within Breakdancing, James Rogus
The Configuration of Society in "The Dispossessed" and "Blindness", Patrick Ryan
Beyond the Myth: Uncovering Mental Health Research Gaps in Asian American Communities, Maile Sit
Exploration of Historic Inequities in Government Funding Programs Towards Native Americans with Contemporary Analysis, Nathaniel S. Snyder
Toil and Trouble: The Symbolism of the Cauldron Simile of Book VII of the Aeneid, Isabel Sullivan
Thyestes, or Devouring the World, Yuyao Sun
Scaling of red sea urchin (Mesocentrotus fransiscanus) spines, Sarah Synan
Immigrant Narratives: Exploring the Discrepancies Between Better Lives, Meaningful Lives, Happiness, and Meaning, Deysi Lupe Tirado Rosillo
Garum: Pompeii's Claim to Fame, Meagan Warren
An Overview of the Water Systems of Pompeii, Andrew Whinney
Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) to Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA): More than a New Acronym?, Catherine Yackira
The Politics of Impiety and the Soul in Plato's Laws, Caroline Zientek
Submissions from 2023
Tension in the Eye: Milton and Surveillance, Joseph Abrams
Machiavelli on Necessity: Expansion, Founding, and Renewal, Kevin Akalski
The Philosophic Way of Life in Plato’s Republic, Kevin Akalski
Enigmatic Nashe and The Subversion Of Romance, Louie Alexandris
Constructing the Social Self: Painting with Data, Brooke Bailey
Camilla, Éowyn Bailey
How Catholic are Milton’s Angels? An Analysis of Angelic Substance and Hierarchy in Paradise Lost in the Light of Catholic Angelology, Christian Alexander Barkman
Apollo at Rest on Mount Parnassus. Palazzo Altemps – Museo Nazionale Romano, Alexandra Berardelli
Clodia: A Threat to the Republic, Alexandra Berardelli
Letter from the Editors, Alexandra Berardelli and Stacey Kaliabakos
Scholarly Debates Surrounding the Ravenna Mosaics, Griffin Blood
The Exile Enigma and The Cycle of Haunting, Caroline Boardman
What is the Right Feeling? Keat's Poetic Representations of Agentive Femininity, Brendan Bonner
Body Stigma and Food Insecurity: How the Cultural Attitude Towards Weight Amplifies Hunger and Perpetuates Disordered Eating Pathology, Emily Mason Bouzan
Heurodis's Body: Reading "Sir Orfeo" with Three Significant Losses, Grace J. Bromage
Narratives of Feminist Resistance: Women's Bodily Autonomy and the Dystopian Mode, Grace J. Bromage
Vergilian Renovation: Diomedes Quelled, Lucy Campbell
The Gift That Never Stops Giving: A Comparison of US Aide and Reconstruction in Afghanistan, Post-War Europe, and Ukraine, John Chadwick Canty Jr.
The Creation and Removal of Iron and Manganese Oxides on Terracotta Surfaces, Charles Cassidy
Family First: Kinship Care as a Gold Standard, Ava Cloghessy
The Gendered Shackles of Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith, Abigail Coburn
Awareness in Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush", Caroline Coffey
2023 Proceedings of the 29th Annual Summer Research Symposium, College of the Holy Cross
Parnassus Classical Journal (Volume 10, 2023), Parnassus Contributors
“Tell Your People I’m Coming to Your Funeral”: Older Adult Relationships as Contextualized by the Assisted Living Setting, Olivia Curnen
Limitation and Creativity: A Rock Album Inspired by Mathematical Constraints, Mark Czerwinski
Reinvest in US: Reimagine the Role of Police in the U.S., Jamil Davis
Fated by a Fallen World, Danielle Dentremont
θυμὸς in Homer’s Iliad, Book XXII: What it Means for the Greek Warrior, Alison Emery
Brotherly Nations? Russia, Ukraine, and a Crisis of Identity, Teresa J. Esquivel
Rhythm and Verse: Reimagining the Massachusetts K-12 English Language Arts Curriculum, Brianna Fisher
Industrial Policy and Innovation in the 21st Century: Policy Lessons for US Strategic Industries from the East Asian Tigers, Riley F. Flint
Respecting a Person’s Dignity: Kantian Approaches to Morality, Carina Gregori Asadourian
HIV/AIDS: Science and Society. The Needs of AIDS Service Organizations and the Potential of APOBEC3G, Tianci Guan
The Influence of Surface Residues on the Structure and Activity of a Salt-Dependent Halophilic Enzyme, Michelle K. Haigbea
Uplifting an Invisible Population: How We Can Combine Psychology and Policy to Improve the Educational and Mental Health Outcomes of Homeless Youth, Melissa Hamilton
Intricacies of Agency: Rational Choice, Behavioral Economics, and Our Normative Commitments, Max Hendrix
Perpetrators of the Holocaust in a Social Psychological Context: Contrasting Motivations, Amanda Hickey
A Literature Review of the Odyssey Landscapes, Rebecca R. Kaczmarek
The Trojan War on Roman Walls, Rebecca R. Kaczmarek
Classical Influences on Anti-Federalism in Late18th-Century America: An Analysis of References to The Roman Republic, “Cato,” and Caesar in the Anti-Federalist Papers, Anastasia Kaliabakos
Josephus and the Law, Stacey Kaliabakos
Love, Ladies, and Lucretius, Stacey Kaliabakos
The (Ir)Reverent Social Roles of Religion in the Work of James and Wharton, Jannette Kazlauskas
Bawdy Works: Vulgar Humor and Bodily Autonomy in Austen's "Mansfield Park" and Fielding's "The History of Tom Jones", Sloane Larsen
Through Her Eyes: Learning and Teaching about Racism through "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Bluest Eye", Sloane Larsen
The Spectrum of Federal Funding's Impact: A Texas-Vermont Case Study, Nicholas Lupone
Framing the American Abortion Debate: A Comparative and Longitudinal Study of Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Framing Techniques, Melanie Lytle
The Struggle over Patroclus’s Body and the Stretching of Leather, Alison Maloney
You Have the Right to Remain Uneducated: The Role of Lobbying in Subverting Anti-Racist Curricula, Liam Martin
The Rise, the Resurgence, and Resilience of the Left in Latin America, Maria Valentina Maza Izarra
In the Shadow of Cyril of Alexandria: An Ecumenical Treatment of the Chalcedonian Schism, Christopher McCormack
Ownership is Power, Madeleine Moino
Dog Days are Here: Canine LMSCs as a Novel Model System, Patrick Molluso
From Carbon Dioxide to Methane: Reframing the Fight Against Climate Change, Margaret O'Leary
Life, Death, and Recycling in the Homeric Simile, Briana Oser
Bridging the Gap: Understanding and Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Deaf Communities, Catherine Pellini
How the Homeric Age Looked in the Medieval Age, Stephen Pittman
The Kalevala Melody for an English Odyssey, Stephen Pittman
Forging a Catholic Modernity: American Catholic Reactions to Anticlericalism in Mexico and Spain: 1920-1945, Evan Poellinger
The Progression of Affective Polarization on Twitter: Case Studies in U.S. Presidential Politics, David Pritchard