Honors Theses


2020

  • Emily Depew: "Dole’s Decisions: How Elizabeth Dole Saved Over 400,000 Lives Through Safety Belts, Air Bags, and Raising the Drinking Age to Twenty-One."

2019

  • Kayleigh Anderson: "Breaking the Cycle: The Toxic Rhetoric around Menstruation."

2017

  • Anne Marie Foley: "Illicit Sexuality: Analyzing Devadasis in the Twenty-First Century."
  • Daniel Whedon: "Drunk or Sober: Students’ Thoughts About Ambiguous Sexual Activity When Level of Intoxication Varies."

2016

  • Valerie J. Kutchko: "Bystanders of Sexually Coercive Situations: Real-Life Experiences."

2015

  • Emma Halling: “Closing A Door But Opening A Window: How College Transfer Admissions Policies Leave Students Vulnerable to Sexual Assault, and Insular Records Policies Enable Rapists.”

2013

  • Taylor Hersh: “Religiosity and Space in Early Modern Spain.”

2012

  • James Castle: "The Effect of Respondent Sex, Gender Ideology, Political Ideology, and Religious Guidance on Heterosexual Support for Gay Male Couple Adoption."
  • Hahna Curtin: "The 'Delicious' Deviance of the Betwixt-and-Between: Birds, Boys, and Ambiguity in J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan."
  • Mary Hopkins: "How People Learn About Sex."

2011

  • Caitlin Frances Thornbrugh
  • Meredith Pavicic: "A Feminist Analysis of the Medicalization of Intimate Partner Violence."

2010

  • Corey Flanders: "Sexual Situations Without Orgasm Reciprocity: What Happens When Only One Partner Orgasms?"
  • Elise Higgins: "Public Funding for Abortion and Rhetorical Battles: A Case Study."

2009

  • Kelsey Sewell: "Examining Heterosexual Sexual Scripts and Satisfaction Ratings as a Function of Orgasm Sequence During Sexual Encounters."

2008

  • Stacy Lynn Burke