Theses from 2022
Synthetic Studies on Diospongin B: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Natural Products, Pamela Kote
Juvenal Essay, Aidan Largey
A Quest for Dignity: Colored Women’s Anti-Slavery Resistance in the Eighteenth Century British Jamaica and the Reconceptualization of Human Rights, Yuwei (Ada) Liu
Cornel West: Self and Community, Rachel Mallett
18th Century Theater and the Legitimacy of the Lower Classes, Nina Masin-Moyer
Performance, Theatricality, and Identity in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, Nina Masin-Moyer
Lifting Off into Apollo’s Universe: An Exploration into NASA’s Reception of Apollo, Audrey McGrail
Apollo & Daphne in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Isabella Miko-Rydzaj
Juno & the Aeneid, Isabella Miko-Rydzaj
Labor Unions in the United States, Argentina, and the United Kingdom: A Comparative Study, Jake Mozeleski
Bob Dylan and American Folk Music: The Pigeonhole Effect, Thomas J. Murray
High Glucose Has Sex-Specific Effects on Amyloid-β Accumulation in Alzheimer's C. elegans Model, Monica Nakhla
Analysis of Equations of State for Neutron Star Modeling, Joseph E. Nyhan
Women, Writing, and Storytelling in Medieval England and The Canterbury Tales, Sadie O'Conor
Circe and the Necessity of the Female Voice, Mairead O'Hara
Fantasized Masculinity Performed in American War Narratives, Shea O'Scannlain
Divinity in Book I of the Histories, Stephen Pittman
The 1001 Nights: How Compilation, Translation, and Adaptation Influenced a Global Work of Literature, Mary Evelyn Quinlan
A Pair of Horatian Odes Translated into English Verse, Carl Quist
Ode to Athene, Carl Quist
Vaccine Hesitancy: A Deep-Dive into the Decision-Making Processes around Vaccination, Matthew Robertson
Family Life During Covid-19, Ellen B. Rogers
Lavinia: The Weaver and the Mother Wolf, Anne-Catherine Schaaf
Nature, Glory, Lineage in Iliad 6.145-151, Anne-Catherine Schaaf
Woven Words in the Iliad: Gender, Narrative, and Textile Production in the Scholia of the Venetus A Manuscript, Anne-Catherine Schaaf
Species Delimitation in the Pseudanophthalmus robustus Species Group Using DNA Barcoding, Frank Spano
Opportunity Calls: The Moral Economy During Existential Economic Transition in the Ural Mountains and Appalachia, 1991 - 2008, Nora Springer
Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping Read through the Conceptual Prism of “Tethers”, Sarah Street
Transforming Trees, Transcending Binaries: Gender in Augustan Poetry, Kendall Swanson
The Potential for Non-Addictive Analgesics to Address the Opioid Crisis, Emily Taylor
The United States Military’s Role in Maintaining National Security During the Height of the “War on Drugs”, Sara Terrien
Allumination: Inquiries into an Understanding of Power, Oppression, and Connection, Hannah Thompson
Cover Image: Leather Book Map, Paul Topazio
Finding Human Rights in Higher Education: A History of Federal Financial Aid and Discrimination in the United States, Andrew J. Toritto
Metamorphosing Metamorphosis in the Metamorphoses, Zachary Tympanick
Sappho 31 and Catullus 51, Zachary Tympanick
The Daily Life of Penelope, Zachary Tympanick
Interactive Effects of Food Availability and Salinity on Phenotypic Plasticity of Echinarachnius parma Larvae, Isabelle Q. Uong
Language and Cognition: A Comparison of Spatial and Mathematical Cognition in Visual and Auditory Languages, Lauren Vitelli
The Sunflower Movement of 2014: How Commitment to Democratization Drives Activism in Taiwan, Katherine Ann Wagner
Salty Enzymes: Protein Splicing Dependence on Salt Concentrations, Diana Wall
Ceres, Mary Whitney
Minerva, Mary Whitney
Introduction, Ryan Wynn and Holly Tente
Shakespeare’s Staging and the Self in the Sonnets, Xiani Zhu
The End of the 7: Chinese Catholic Immigrants in Flushing, Xiani Zhu
Submissions from 2021
Othering: An Analysis of Expression in Hip-Hop and South Asian Literature Through Post-9/11 Discourse, Syed Tareq Alam
Primaried from the Left: The Role of a Progressive Campaign Network in Congressional Primary Challenges, Grace C. Burke
Transfer and Transitions: Exploring First Year Writing at Holy Cross, Elizabeth Casavant
2021 Proceedings of the 26th Annual Summer Research Symposium, College of the Holy Cross
Doppelgängers and Doubles in Literature: A Comparison of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, Meghan E. Cooper
Anti-Anarchist Legislation and the Road to the 1919 Red Hysteria, Evan Crumb
High Tide: A Novella, Anna Davis
A Year in Syntropy: Exploring Syntropic Agriculture, Ajah Eills
Biomedical Ethics in the Medical School Curriculum: Lessons Learned from the Holocaust, Emma Flanagan
«Cuida tu alma y tu cuerpo por Dios y la Falange»: Women’s Education and la Sección Femenina in Franco’s Spain, Madeleine Fontenay
Inflammation, Diet, and Depression, Kareem F. Hamada
Wish in One Hand, Amber John
Voices of the Wandering, Grace Manning
Ecology and Vegetation in a Passively Managed Urban Park in Worcester, MA, Raphaella Mascia
Presidential Rhetoric and Media's Contribution to the Subjective Nature of Truth in American Democracy, Bianca Miccolis
The Car Ride Home, Jonathan Rivera
The United States and its Coercive Democratization Attempts in Japan and Iraq, Noah Shepardson
Submissions from 2020
Parnassus: Classical Journal (Volume 7, 2020)
The Green Poem: An Original Play in Two Acts, Emily Arancio
Writing Revolution: Tracing the Origins of Liberty and Tyranny in English and American Literature, Seamus Brennan
The Many Paths of Thoreau’s Writing: A Response to Buranelli’s Critique, Stephen Conde
Maternal Love Shown Through Punishment, Megan Donaty
User Experience as a Rhetorical Medium: User at the Intersection of Audience, Reader and Actor, Áine Doyle
The Poetry of History: Irish National Imagination Through Mythology and Materiality, Ryan Fay
Interiority and Narrative Temporality in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Margaret Flahery
“The Roommates”: Television Screenplay Writing in the Streaming Era, Maggie Flahetry
Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii, Italy, Alexa Furnari
Narrator’s Attitudes Toward Slavery in Oroonoko and Robinson Crusoe, Meghan Gavis
Suicide According to Socrates and Camus, Meghan Gavis
The Responsiveness of Household’s Charitable Donations to Income Changes Across Religious Groups, Mitch Grenier
Audience and Narrative in Female-Authored Diaries of the Twentieth Century: Analyzing Diaries As Modernist Texts, Rose Grosskopf
Light and Darkness in the Epiphanies of Henry James’ Heroines, Rose Grosskopf
Analytic Exoplanet Transit Analysis, and Investigation into WASP, Kepler, and Qatar Systems, Colan Gulla
Targeted Terror: A Historiography of the Nazi Police State, Jordana Irzyk
The Qur’ānic Doctrine of the Divine Names and the Muslim Understanding of the Divine, Sibgha Javaid
Bust of Mythological Figure, Rebecca R. Kaczmarek
Ceres Holding Staff and Grain, Rebecca R. Kaczmarek
David by Michelangelo, Rebecca R. Kaczmarek
Laocoön and His Sons, Rebecca R. Kaczmarek
Perseus and Medusa, Rebecca R. Kaczmarek
The Pantheon, Rebecca R. Kaczmarek
The Achaean, Benjamin Kelly
Examining Fatherhood Through Historical Empathy in Tristram Shandy, MaryGrace King
Sex, Lies, and Murder: Feminized Detective Fiction and the English Estate Novel, Meaghan Lanctot
A Comparative Analysis of the Politics of Gun Control in the United States and Australia, Nicholas Leone
Forum of Pompeii, Hui Li
Theater of Taormina, Hui Li
Trajan and the Moon, Hui Li
Matrons, Mothers, and Monsters: The Heroine in Beowulf, Grendel, and The Mere Wife, Grace Lucier
Free Will and the Purpose of Man in Nature, Helena Lyons
The Battle for Love Under the Governance of Strict Social Codes, Nina Masin-Moyer
Connecting Ancient Philosophers’ Math Theory to Modern Fractal Mathematics, Colin McCormack