The University Archives at Butler University houses all physical copies of the University’s student theses, including both graduate and undergraduate works. Select digital copies—which include most contemporary, copyright-cleared, and public-domain theses—are available below.
For more information on how to search this digital collection, check out this guide: A Quick Guide To Accessing + Searching Butler University Thesis Collections.
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The Racial Disparities in the Foster Care System as Explained by Professionals Working Within the System, Vanessa Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Gary, Indiana and the US Steel Corporation: An Examination of Race, Class, and Environmental Injustice in Early Twentieth Century Urban Planning, Laura Rose Allaben
The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: A New Radio Play, Sarah Michelle Ault
KAMILA Clustering for a Mixed-Type Data Analysis of Illinois Medicare Data, Heather Elizabeth Baldacci
Completing College in a Covid Moment -- Expectation vs. Reality for the Class of 2021’s College Experience, Elizabeth Page Bishop
Implementing a Food Pantry at Butler University, Brooke Blevins
Deconstruyendo narrativas coloniales en relatos cortos latinoamericanos, Olivia Gabrielle Bradley
Subversion of Form: Mixing Poetry and Prose, Darby Alexandria Brown
Development and Evaluation of a Diabetes Themed Escape Room for Students Completing an Ambulatory Care Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience, Katherine Frances Brown
The Dark Side of the Moon: Unpacking Civil Rights and Student Antiwar Criticism of the Apollo Program, Victoria R. Combs
Signaling Organizational Identity-Safety Through The Use Of Gender Pronouns, Roua Daas
Love in the Time of Cinema: A Queer Feminist Analysis of Reviews of Four Mainstream Queer Films, Corinne Ebner
Securing Equal Relations: An Addition to Elizabeth Anderson's Democratic Equality, James Richard Ewing
Kicking the Way Through a Global Pandemic: How NCAA Division I Soccer Players and Institutions Have Responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Related Protocols, Celia Clare Gaynor
Dynamics of Power in Indiana's Voter Identification Law, Zachary Gossett
"An Advocate and Exponent of the Common and Equal Rights of Humanity": Defining and Assessing the Values of North Western Christian University, 1855-1880, Allison Lindsay Griffin
Optimizing the Use of Digitization Technologies in Museums, Emma Gunst
How is Technology Being Used to Impact Those with Autism Spectrum Disorder?, Nathaniel T. Hillebrand
The Effects of Documentary Interviews on Perceptions of Interrogations, Katherine Hussey
Measuring the Night Sky Brightness of Butler University, Austin Thomas Jacks
The Benefits of Outdoor Education and Guidelines for Implementation in an Elementary Classroom, Jacqueline Jordan
Ministry in Medicine: Patient Perceptions of Healthcare Professionals Praying in the Workplace, Allison Carole Kinsinger
Using Improvisational Theater to Evaluate Reciprocal Communication in Neurodivergent Adolescents, Mariesa Christina LaRosa
The Student Experience in a COVID-19 World: An Ethnographic Inquiry into the Experience of Butler University Students During a Pandemic, Ben Christopher Martella
“IDOL”: Examining the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in boybands, Grace Maynard
Into the Streets: The Residuality of 'Otherness' and Material Representation in the Cityscape, Addison Elizabeth McKown
Whose Classroom is it, Anyway: A study of teacher films' influence on pre-service teachers' beliefs about education, Erin Michelle Morrisey
A Changing Landscape: Teachers' Perceptions of the Urban Public High School Student Experience, Colleen Wellford Morrison
An Analysis of Factors that Impact Utilization of Indianapolis Emergency Departments, Josey Ann Noel
Incorporating Real World Geometry Problems Into Geometry Classrooms, Heather Renee Postier
Equal Access to Higher Education Institutions: An Analysis of Big East Universities' Web Accessibility, Libbie Adele Rammage
Investigation of FSHR-1 site of action and signaling initiation at the C. elegans neuromuscular junction, Alyssa Lynn Ritter
Characterization of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Attachment Protein Mucin Domains, Molly Kathleen Roe
Reshaping the Canon: How “Insta-Poets” Are Creating a New Literary Space for Readers Using Social Media, Hannah Salsbery
Painting a Pretty Picture: The Role of Social Desirability in the Memory Self-Efficacy of Young and Older Adults, Keegan Grace Sawin
Unique Needs, Barriers, and Discrimination Experienced by Spinal Cord Injury Patients in Dental Facilities, Lindsey Brooke Schuler
Bulldogs in Crisis: How Butler University Strategically Leverages its Live Mascot Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Emilene Jean Smith
Effects of Personal Relevance and Consensus Information on Feminist Self-Identification, Mary Allison Stazinski
Two Pandemics - Making Meaning of Illness through the Works of Thomas Mann and Thomas Glavinic, Samuel Stucky
Masked Emotions: Studying the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic On the Emotional Regulation in College Students and Beyond, Sara Katherine Taft
The Effects of Consensus Information on Perceptions of Children with Autism, Kaitlyn C. Thornton
Determinants of Subjective Memory In First-Degree Relatives and Care Providers of Individuals with Dementia, Cassidy Marie Tiberi
The Vulnerability of the Acetabulofemoral Joint: Examining Acetabular Labral Tears in Classical Ballet Dancers, Rebecca Tschan
Home Sweet Home: A Statistical Analysis of Home Court Advantage in Division I College Basketball, Lauren Isabel Turnbull
Toward a More Holistic Worldview: Environmental Values in Context, Erica Lynne Walters
Perpetuating the stereotype: dramatization and the portrayal of cults in fictional media, Hannah Lynn Willmore
Cultural, Political, and Choreographic Developments of Feminism in Classical Ballet, Lydia Mariya Wirth
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Terrible Am I, Child?, Camille Arnett
On the Use of Past and Present Values in the Marketing of Butler University, Kathleen Berry
Fashion Corporate Social Responsibility on Instagram, Brittany Bluthardt
An Analysis of the Representation of Black Men in Modern U.S. Television Commercials., Jackson Borman
Impairment or underestimation? Negative illusory bias in depressive symptoms and theory of mind, Jaclyn Boyer
FIR: A Close Up Look at Butler University’s Faculty-in-Residence Program, Sarah Braunstein
Language-Deprived Environments: Neonatal Intensive Care Units and Hearing Loss, Margaret Caesar
A New Happiness?: Reading Literature with Deleuze and Guattari in 2020, Fiona Connolly
Anxiety-Inducing Effects of Alcohol and Caffeine in C57BL/6J Mice, Melissa Evans
Paternalism and Autonomy in Transgender Healthcare, Charles Finley
Evaluating the impact of Verigene® organism identification on antimicrobial stewardship recommendations, Rebecca Gerske
Characterization of heavy metal bioremediation pathways in local moss species, Zachary Hanquier
Women’s Rights as Human Rights: A Study of Muslim Women’s Reproductive Justice in Contemporary Saudi Arabia and Egypt, Sophia Harris
Personal and Professional Connections are Premium: An Assessment of Mandatory Waiting Periods in the American States, Brittany Head
Counseling on Exercise: The Pharmacist's Role, Katelyn Hettinger
Emergent Shift to Telepractice during the COVID-19 Pandemic by School-based Speech-Language Pathologists, Charlotte May Hilker
Analytical Variables Leading to the Involvement of Consumers and Farmers in Sustainable Urban Agriculture in the Indianapolis Region, Olivia Holabird
Media & Trust: Exploring the Differences Between Traditional and New Media Forms, Alexandra Jones
The Effect of Natural Extracts on Border Cell and Centripetal Cell Migration in the Developing Drosophila melanogaster Egg Chamber, Kirandeep Kaur
“The policy of intimidation had been so successfully managed that many colored men kept away from the polls”: Violence in the Reconstruction Era South, MaryKatherine Klaybor
Reitz or Wrong: An Industrial, Environmental, and Political Analysis of Evansville’s “Lumber Baron”, Jarrod Koester
"Becoming-Pite: An Application of Deleuzian Theory to Crystal Pite’s Choreography, Kyra Laubacher
The Battle of Representation: Analyzing the Role of the Senate in the Late Republic of Rome and the United States, Gracie Munroe
Exploring the functionality and role of the Interdomain Loop (IDL) of Mouse Hepatitis Virus (MHV) Protease nsp5, Benjamin Nick
Characterization of pH-based Inactivation of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), Jenna Nosek
The Effect of Color, Preference, and the Interaction of Color and Preference on Short-Term Memory, Shreya Patel
The Characterization and Reactivity of Tris(4-methylpyrazolyl)methane and its Tungsten and Molybdenum Metal Complexes, Julia M. Pomeroy
What's in my Histological Dyes Anyway?, Ashley Post
English morpheme accuracy, diversity, and productivity measures in school-aged bilingual children, Gabrielle Raab
The Role of Gender in the Perception of Lipreading, Emma Richards
Poor and unpopular: How verbal ability and theory of mind predict peer rejection in a socioeconomically diverse environment, Ellen Rispoli
The Influence of Music Training and Bilingualism on Speech and Music Perception, Allison Marie Smith
Employee Satisfaction and Stock Performance, Michael Snyder
The Knapsack Subproblem of the Algorithm to Compute the Erdos-Selfridge Function, Brianna Sorenson
Model-Based Cluster Analysis of Indiana Social Security Beneficiary Data, Gwendolyn Spencer
The Specificity Behind the Sparkle: The In’s and Out’s of Disney Choreography and Park Productions, Laura Theisen
Remember that party last night? Examining the effects of binge-like alcohol on memory, Anna Thomas
The Impact of Gender Diversity and Tokenism on the Attractiveness of an Organization, Lilly Thuma
An “Often Formidable Sting”: Chinese American Female Aviators in the WASP during World War II, Claudia Vinci
The Effects of a GLP-1 Receptor Agonist on HbA1c and Weight in Comparison to Standard Therapy in a Veteran Population, Isaac Warshawsky
Perceived Harm Level of Personal Listening Devices and Effects on Task Performance, Laura White
The Impact of Nurse Stress, Job Distress, Job Satisfaction and Mood on Patient Outcomes, Madelynne Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Absurdity and Metaphysical Rebellion in the Philosophies of Albert Camus and Omar Khayyam, Lynn Alsatie
Drinking in the Dark: Voluntary Co-consumption of Nicotine and Alcohol for Binge-like Drinking Behavior in Mice, Katherine Benson
Disordered Eating Habits, Emotion Regulation, and Theory of Mind in Undergraduate Students, Brianna Borri
Fans and Adaptation: An Analysis of the Use of Interactive Storytelling in The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Margaret Brodbeck
Flash as Fiction: Exploring Jennifer Egan’s nuanced portrayal of photography, Matthew Del Busto
Characterization of peroxidase and catalase genes in defense mechanisms of Physcomitrella patens, Lauren Ciulla
A Glimpse of Casual Queerness: The Radical Progress of Queer Visibility in Weimar Film and the Inevitable Backlash That Followed, Claire Colburn