Theses from 2012
Manipulating Taxes to Influence Economic Growth: An Effective Public Policy?, Daniel Sheehan
Beethoven's Thematic Processes in the Piano Sonata in G Major, Op. 14: "An Illusion of Simplicity", Kara F. Valliere '14
The Car Craze in China's Booming Economy, Thomas Wilde
Theses from 2011
Identity Status of Obese Adolescent Females: The Role of Stigma and Social Interaction, Julianna R. Aguilar
What Are the Main Impediments to Democracy in the Middle East?: An Analysis of Democratic Theory and History in Egypt, Iran, and Jordan, Katherine Andrew
Chilean Protected Democracy: An Analysis of the 1980 Constitution as an Impediment to the Democratic Transition of the 1990's., Christopher Bergan
For It Will Stop Tormenting Me as It Has Done and Otherwise Will Do": Women's Ghost Stories, Erin Carpenter
The Promise and Curse of Oil: An Analysis of State Transitions to Oil Dependency, Selina E. Carter
2011 Proceedings of the 18th Annual Summer Research Symposium, College of the Holy Cross
Embodied Social Coordination in Autism, Rachel Diorio
The role of syndecan-1 and E-cadherin in Breast Cancer: An Investigation of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT), Kerry Elizabeth Drury
Spanish Bullfighting: Perspectives on the Ban of a Cultural Tradition, Wan-Yi Fang
Meal, Metaphore, and More: Food in the Old Testament, William A. Grebe
Beyond a Sunset Ending: the Social and Political Propagandist Nature of Fairy Tales, Margaret A. Kelly
Conflict Economics: A Wealth Perspective, Christopher F. Kopp, Jr.
APOBEC3G: a Characterization of its anti-HIV Function, Sarah Lingjie Meng
A Conceptual and Methodological Analysis of Hydrogen Bonding Catalysis and its Application in Organic Synthesis, Anthony J. Metrano
Imagining Oxbridge, Margaret Molloy
Mapping Yoknapatawpha: Imagination and Cartography in Selected Works of William Faulkner, Colin Poranski
The Other Lost Generation: The Economics and Social Impact of Growing Old in China, Abigail Chorlton Riskind
The Effects of Disasters on State Population, Francis Sanzari
The Literary Warrior: Conceptions of the Hero in European and Japanese Literature, Carrie Staab
The Unknown Self: Fragile Identities in Eating Disordered Women, Allison Wagner
Leaders Vs. Followers: The Patterns of Genocide in the Nazi Holocaust and Rwanda, Sarah Q. Weinstein
L'Evoluzione dell'Amore: Filia, Eros, e Agape nelle Opere di Ada Negri, Sarah Margaret Wright
Theses from 2010
The Analysis and Characterization of Glutamine and Glutamine-based Peptides Using Infrared Spectroscopy, Marianne Bauer
What Went Wrong: The SEC & the Crisis of '08, Gregory J. Bennici
Ceremonial Observances: A Collection of Poetry, Sarah Brown
Proclaim Liberty: The Year of Jubilee in Ancient and Modern Contexts, Tia Carley
Identifying APOBEC3G domains as targets for therapeutiic intervention, Patrick C. Cheney
2010 Proceedings of the 17th Annual Summer Research Symposium, College of the Holy Cross
Off this Corner in the Wild: An Analysis of Metaphor in Robert Frost's and Elizabeth Bishop's Nature Poetry, Amy Garvey
Exploring the Effects of Leadership on African Democracies, Elizabeth M. Green
Propertius and the Elegiac Labor, Connor Hayden
The "I" in Platonic Irony: The Platonic Call to Autheniticity, Andrew Jussaume
The Conception of Mental Illness: What it is, what it means, and what it should be, Elizabeth A. Kayajian
"I Ain't Yo' Uncle:" The Masculine Rhetoric of Resistance of Frederick Douglass and Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr., Shala Murray
Social Class Embodied: Understanding Body Image, Power, and Resistance Across Socio-Economic Class, Emily A. Panza
An Analysis of the Piano Etude "Fanfares" by György Sandor Ligeti, Samuel Partyka
Effect of Arousal in Cognitive Control over Behavior, Neha Patel
Polygamy and Power: Mormon Plural Marriage and Religious Authority, Brian D. Regan
Loyal Harbors: Tory Social Networks in the Revolutionary Atlantic World, Laurel Richardson
Chasing and Ideal: The Baby M Case and Conceptions of Motherhood in Modern American History, Jennifer Scro
A Study of Television Writing: A History of the Sitcom, an Exploration of 30 Rock, and the Creation of a Spec Script, Victoria Strahl
Безумне: Differing Portrayals of Insanity in Russian Literature, Brendan M. Sullivan
The Courtly "I" of the English Renaissance: A Study of Selfhood and Rhetorical Alienation in the 16th Century Verse, Alexandra C. Sweeney
Third Parties in Presidential Politics, Christopher R. Szkutak
The Without World: A Collection of Poetry, Justin Winn
Submissions from 2009
2009 Proceedings of the 16th Annual Summer Research Symposium, College of the Holy Cross
The Use of a Lock-In Amplifier to Stabilize the Frequency of a Laser Diode, Jose M. Juarez
Submissions from 2008
2008 Proceedings of the 15th Annual Summer Research Symposium, College of the Holy Cross
Theses from 2007
Rhenium (I) Compounds with Tripod Ligands as Models for Radiopharmaceuticals, Christopher T. Aquina
Sactuary: A Collection of Short Stories, Cristina Baldor
The Mafia and the Fascist Regime, Andrea Canuel
"When This You See Remember Me" A Study of American Civil War Soldiers and the Death Culture of the Nineteenth Century, Nacie Elizabeth Carson
2007 Proceedings of the 14th Annual Summer Research Symposium, College of the Holy Cross
The Politics of Immigration Policy Reform, Megan M. Conti
Theatricality and Dramatic Expression in Monteverdi's Fourth and Fifth Books of Madrigals, Sarah D'Angelo
The "Pro-Family" Movement and Social Injustice: A Feminist Liberation Theological and Ethical Analysis of the Christian Right's Ideology of the Family, Taylor Anne Denis
A Remote and Non-Contact Method for Obtaining the Blood-Pulse Waveform with a Laser Doppler Vibrometer, Candida L. Desjardins
The Influence of an Intein on the Activity of the Methanococcus jannaschii UDP-Glucose Dehydrogenase, Matthew Drago
Parental Reaction to Child Death in Nineteenth-Century New England, Lauren P. Gearty
Congressional Barriers to Effective Reform of the U.S. Intelligence Community, Stephen Hansen
Light on the Floor, Christina Imrich
"A clear light": Courage and Fantasy in The Lord of the Rings, Kyle R. Koerber
In the Shoebox, Lindsey Konkel
Matrix Groups: A Confluence of Algebra and Geometry, Renee A. Laverdiere
The Summer Country, Rosemary Virginia Lee
Spectating Illness and Death in the Novels of the Brontё Sisters, Katherine Makowski
Telling a Good History: Narrative and History in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Kara L. McShane
Storytelling in Action! Oral Tradition Alive in History and Contemporary Experience, Sara Meyer
The Mathematics of Patterns: Symmetry in the Plane, Amy Morbely
Representations of the Exotic in Opera, Anoosua Anita Mukherjee
Media, Mags, & Muscles: A Look Into The Boundaries of Weightlifting, Brenden Murphy
Multivariate analysis of Drug Mixtures using Raman spectroscopy, Kathryn Y. Noonan
A Brief Explanation of Quantum Theory, and Bohm's Reinterpretation., Daniel O'Connor
Wired or Tired? Caffeine & Sleep in Adolescents., Bosky Patel
Our Boys: An Analysis of the American "Boy Crisis," Gender Privilege, and Academic Ethic within Higher Education, Kara M. Pipoli
Psychotropic Effects of Estrogen, Lesley Russell
You Are What You Eat: Embodying Gender and Morality in Eating, Anna Vannucci
Morphology and Taxonomy of the Kaiparowits Ornithomimid Manus, Ivan Vrcek
Vulnerability and Masculinity in Adopted Versus Non-Adopted Adolescent Boys, Laura A. Walsh
Submissions from 2006
2006 Proceedings of the 13th Annual Summer Research Symposium, College of the Holy Cross
The Lady and the Two Cities: The Concept of Fortune in Ancient and Medieval Views of Roman History, Kathleen Derrig
Poland in the U.S.: Understanding the Birth of Solidarity through American Eyes, Brenna Dion
Imagined Nación: Mexican Settings and Ethnic Identity in Four Chicana/o Novels, Keridan Doyle
From Court to Collar: Post-Elizabethan Poetics and the Submissive Stance, Timothy J. Duffy
Collateral Source Rule: Special Interest Groups and their Effects on Jurisdictional Statutes, Andrew Feeley
Strange New Universe: A Study of Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries, Ellen K. Gasparovic
"Enemy Aliens:" FBI Domestic Surveillance of Japanese in The World War II Era, Andrea N. Isabella
Religious Thinking and Philosophy: The Influence of Kierkegard on Heidegger's Conception of Inauthenticity in Being and Time., Timothy Jussaume
The Politics of Violence: The Impact of ETA Terrorism on Spanish Democratization, Samantha P. Kingsbury
Green Solutions to Arsenic Contamination, Suzanne E. Kulevich
A Connecticut Yankee in King Leopold's Court: Mark Twain's Congo Crusade, 1904-1906, Michael C. McLaughlin
The Constitution of Self-Development: The Jurisprudence of Anthony M. Kennedy, Timothy W. O'Brien
Women Motorcyclists: Rolling the Throttle, But Riding Under the Radar, Kimberly N. Richardson
Playing Politics with the Policy Process: The Pitfalls of Public Policy Reform, Erin B. Robert