Theses from 2007
"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
The Oppression of Silence: Young Women Coming of Age in Poverty, Kathryn Scheinberg
A New Sense of Self: Exposing the Subject in Renaissance Sonnet Sequences, Whitney E. Schmitt
When a Reporter 'Becomes the News': Judith Miller's Contribution to the Journalists' Privilege Debate, Heidi Stack
Images of God in Postmodern Literature, Emily Sweeney
Calculating Heading from a Video Camera: A Computational Model of Motion Perception, Robert Truxler
Pubs, Swans and Leprechauns: Exploited Icons of Irish Literature, Sarah Wetherbee
The Impact of Charter Schools on Fifth Grade Student Engagement Levels, Maggie Zweiben
Theses from 2005
Effects of the Internship Experience on Recruitment of Women and Minorities at Public ccounting Firms, Bridget Anne Blazek
Daniel and Philip Berrigan: Peacemaking Priests in Times of War, Molly E. Bobek
We Wear the Mask: Unveiling the Strategy of Passing, Julie A. Brennan
Little Women and the "True Woman" Unmasked: Nineteenth-Century Ideals, Feminine Literary Recourse and the Domestic Guise of Louisa May Alcott's Subversive Fiction, Lindsay E. Degnan
Courts and the Struggle for Civil Liberties during Wartime, Matthew DelMastro
Models of the Church in Latin American and Feminist Liberation Theologies, Francesca Errante
Coincident Genetic Events in Yeast, Kate Freeman
The Road to Modernity: Security and Reform Under Catherine II of Russia, Jennifer Hughes
Forest Composition and Land-Use History at Moore State Park, Paxton, Massachusetts, Meredith Irwin
Order from Chaos: Bismark's Policy Toward the Balkans in the 1880s, Sean Kelleher
Mixing Up the Masks: Gender and Genre in Aristophanic Comedy, Katie Lamberro
Orthographic-to-Phonemic and Phonemic-to-Orthographic Consistencies Effects on Spelling and Reading, Sarah N. Liang
Rock Journalism: Critical Methods for Understanding Popular Music, Victoria McCabe
The "Authenticity" of the Speeches in Thucydides' History, James McGovern
Language for Us All, Adam D. Musser
Latinas Encounter the U.S. Medical System: Barriers to Care, Alternative Approaches, Nicole Nadeau
Green Bohemia: Absinthe & the Iconography of Intoxication, Jeanne Thérèse Normand
The "Other" East Asian Miracle: Democratization in South Korea and Taiwan, Justin Reidy
To Languish Amid Strangers: Exile at Home and Abroad in Irish Song, Deirdre Blaize Rodgers Sweeney
On the Kauffman-Harary Conjecture., Elizabeth M. Sennott
Lower Frequencies, Lindsey M. Veautour
The British Woman Beyond Boundaries: The romantic Allure of Italy, Erica Wraight
Projects from 2004
Beginning Reading Instruction in Massachusetts Public Schools: Research, Policy, and Teachers' Knowledge and Beliefs, Shayne B. Piasta
Theses from 2003
Critique of an Art Form: Adorno's Philosophy of Jazz, William Andersen
"Imagine Adam Everett" and other stories, Todd Barosky
The Role of Syndecans in the Attatchment of the Neurofibromatosis Tyle II Protein Merlin to the Cell Membrane, Katherine A. Beckwith
Forgive Us Our Debts: A History and Analysis of Third World Debt Relief, Charles J. Boulier, IV
Negotiating with Patriarchy: Contrasting Strategies of Three Nineteenth-Century Feminists, Amy J. Brundage
Realistic Fiction for Children: Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume in Text and Memory, Regina D'Addario
A screening system for protein trans-splicing in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803, Alicia M. Garcia
Rewriting Shakespeare in Contemporary Contexts: the verse drama, Right on Time, Christine Mae Hanson
The Effects of the WTO on the Relationship Between China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, Sean Harrington
The Role of Tourism in the Ethnic Identity of Irish-Americans, Colleen E. Higgins
La Survivance and the Franco-Americans of Worcester, Massachusetts, 1850-1910, Timothy Holahan
Wound and Cure: Creativity and Depression, Emily R. Hunter
"Backward, Forward, Outward, Inward, Bottom to the Top:" Somethings of Fiction, Suzanne M. Kelley
The Bard of Newark: Philip Roth and the Fiction of Place, Justin J. Kiczek
The Development of Muscle Memory in a Fine Motor Task, Timothy Levine
Constructing Gabriel, J. J. Mammi
Towards a Common Foreign and Security Policy for the European Union, Marina Moriarty
Synthesis of Chiral Ligands for Use in Asymmetric Catalysis of Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation Reactions, Danielle M. Nihan
The History of American Immigration Policy and the Willingness to Assert Soverignty on the Borders: 1891-1996, Jeffery Nathan Nunez
Half Measure: Imitation as Art, Katie Perry
Le Donne Fasciste del Duce: Women, Corporatism and Charisma in Mussolini's Italy, Inez Cristina Russo
Time Propogation and Scattering of a Guassian Wave Packet, Bradley W. Schuller
A Violent Mind? A Multi-method study of the Association between Schizophrenia and Violent Behavior, Alisha R. Taylor
The Voices of the Beatles: An Examination of the Aesthetics of Voice in Rock, Tara Trudel
Theses from 2002
Getting Married and Staying Married: What's Love Got to Do With It? College students' general schemas and idealistic expectations of marriage., Bethany Abbate
True Believers, Skeptics and Others: Uncovering the Mysteries of Jerusalem through Generations of Primary Accounts, Marianne S. Bellino
Providing the Muses: An Inquiry Into Creativity and Creation, Erica Buswell
America Strikes Out: Jackie Robinson, Racism, and the Limits of Integration, 1945-1947, Thomas Cadigan
Development of a Screening Method for Mutanats Affecting Fe (III) Reduction in Thermotoga maritima, Carolynn Cavicchio
Are Prescription Drug Producers Greedy Money-Makers?, Gregory Dadekian
Finite Reflection Groups in Two and Three Dimensions, Thomas J. Emmerling
Investigation of Laser Cooled Atoms, Kendy Hall
A Comparative Study of mechanisms and Strategies For Hypoxia Resistance in the Animal Kingdom, Emily K. Hogan
A Fool's Challenge: Folklore's Ivan-the-Fool in the Poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Elizabeth Hume