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.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Here, There, Everywhere, Aanuoluwapo John Adesina
Hidalga, Jennifer Delgadillo
Percussive Practices: Scholastic Programming of Pageantry Indoor Percussion and Concert Percussion Ensembles, Robert A. Halpner
Coffins and Conditioner, Mackenzie Scott
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
there could be light here, Audrey Bowers
The Jubilant City Almanac: Stories, Azaria Brown
From Far Gone, Back, Courtney Renae Causey
Strange Beginnings, Lincoln-Abdullah Hasan El-Amin
The Prism, Darrah Melita Ellis
How Early Modern English Pedagogy Shaped the Gendered and Racialized Use of Magic in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Erin Lindsay Faya
Great Lakes Leviathan, Luke P. Garrigus
Symphony: Tambora, Logan Purcell
The Reconciliation of Theology and Mythology in Philosophical Defenses of Music in Early Modern London, Leanna York
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
My Body Is a Question Mark Lit from Within, Lisa Marie Schrad
Flying In Our Sleep, John Strauss
The Vicissitudes, Lara Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Machine is Angry, Seth David Allen
Bass Is My Religion: Syncretic Spirituality and Navigating the Potential for Misappropriation Among Participants in Electronic Dance Music Culture, Daniel Backfish-White
"You are safe. You are calm. You are in control.", Carly Erst
Constructivism in Choral Music Education: Supplemental Activities for the Traditional Choral Ensemble, Allison Renee Fojo
Sweat, Cigs and A Ball of Noise, Tyler Jacob Hughes
Sometimes I Think I’m Going Crazy, Connor Kesslering
Modes of Infernal Rave Dancing: for Orchestra, Kyle J. Winge
Pity the Nation, Kameron Zebadiah Mechling
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Why was I not Made of Stone., Ian Callen
Songs about Words, Justin Hung
Red Towers, Sean Kisch
Primrose and Other Stories, Demetra Koras
Buried Hair, Abigail Radcliffe
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Only One Went through the Green Door, Rachel Sahaidachny
One Hundred Books: A journey through a century of John Newbery Award books, Tyler Sassaman
Useless, Seth Stone
Basement Heart, Samantha Constance Tkac
A Constant Haunting, Russ Wilcox
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Dr. Mengelt, Marc Allan
Lake Pleasant, Ryan Blauvelt
Hypnotic White Silk Skylights, Anthony Borruso
The story of the Berlin Tunnel: What the operations narrative teaches us about covert conflict in an ongoing Cold War, Jonathan Collier
This Is How You Burn Away, Taylor Lewandowski
The Soul of Black Opera: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Veil and Double Consciousness in William Grant Still’s Blue Steel, Toiya Lister
Reflections of the Don: Zerlina's Empowerment Narrative and the Inclusion of "Per queste tue manine" in Don Giovanni, Sarah Miller
OVERGROWN, Tori C. Ovel
On The Presence of Christ, William A. Peacock
Spectral Radiance, Coleman Rowlett
And God Said..., Bryan Sanoshy
Girl-Junk, Sugar-Funk, Natalie Tombasco
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Revisiting the Global Governance Framework in History and Understanding its Contemporary Potential for the European Union, Olivia Christine Anderson
Beneath the Foundation, Michele Cooley
Marathon, Tristan Durst
Collect Your Dead, John Eckerd
Bars, Chains, and Broken Things, Andrew J. Filson
Surfaces, Rob Funkhouser
Music and the Movement: Understanding Occupy Wall Street, Benjamin Scott Holbrook
Dear…,, Tiffany McKinney
Sentinel, Bailey Merlin
Superfriends for Life: An Analysis of the Relantionship Between the DC Comics "Trinity" in the "New 52" Justice League, Justin Welty
Kingdom Come, Kirk B. Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
One Thousand North, Amber Beams
Guardians of Freedom, Drew Davis
People This Body Has Housed, Laura Kendall
Indigiana, Elizabeth A. Knox
Theseus and the Minotaur, Ben Lutterbach
"Send Forward Some Who Would Fight": How John T.Wilder and His "Lightning Brigade" of Mounted Infantry Changed Warfare, Eric Maurice
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Rift, Luke Flynn
The Power of Music in the Maori Welcoming Ceremony, Rachel Gerwig
Sky Lifting His Skirts, Thaddeus Harmon
And we drown, Cara Haxo
TONE ROW PARTITIONS IN SCHOENBERG'S MOSES UND ARON The Volk Partition and the Zwischenspiel Partition, William E. Johnson
Inferno, Stephen Kachenovich
Scenes From Dreams, Michael Krueger
Blended Learning, Blended Lives: School One-to-One Programs, Control Societies, and Late Capitalist Subjectivity, Sarah Nolan
Angel Outside the House: The New Woman in Brittish Periodicals 1890-1910, Lindsay Rosa
The Sketcher: Reverend John Eagles, His Poetical Shelter from the World and the 1812 Collection, Ashley C. Schalk
We Live in Waves, William S. Trachsel
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Beta-Blockers Act through Clathrin-Dependent Internalization and EGFR Transactivation to Promote ERK Phosphorylation, Taiwo Ajumobi
Unigov: The Indianapolis Response to Urban Sprawl, Maxwell Hackman
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The elephant in the room : a metacritical analysis of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's racism, Megan Grady
The Memory of Persistence, Scott Pfitzinger
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
A Cultural View of Music Therapy: Music and Beliefs of Teton Sioux Shamans, with Reference to the Work of Frances Densmore, Stephanie B. Thorne
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
The Survival of the Three Original U.S. Television Networks Into the Twenty-First Century as Diverse Broadcast Programming Sources, Don Robert Fitzpatrick
Flight and Hand Imagery, Jennifer L. Fosnough-Osburn
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Indiana's Civil Rights Commission: A History of the First Five Years, David Sabol
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
The Wooden Age of Indiana’s Covered Bridges, Linda L. Boykin
William Walker in Nicaragua: A Critical Review in Light of Dependency Literature, Patrick N. Sweeney
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
The Evolution of the Cadence in the Cyclic Masses of Dufay, Ockeghem, Josquin, and Gombert, Janet E. Giffin
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Richard Strauss: The Two Concertos for Horn and Orchestra, Gary A. Greene
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
The Grant Equivalent of Foreign Aid Commitments: People's Republic of China 1956-1974, Hans F. Haupt
Regulation and Competition in the Motor Transportation Industry, Richard F. Hoogerwerf
Least Biased Psychological Assessment of Non-Verbal Severle Physically Handicapped Persons, Gloria Maitlen Kemper
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
William Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury and Kateb Yacine's Nedjma : A Comparative Study of Style and Structure as Related to Time, Frances A. Brahmi
Tax Shelters: Economic Stimuli or Media of Inequality, Charles M. Hull
Concentration in the Petroleum Industry, Billy J. Leach
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
A Study of the Expectations of the Relevant Publics in Establishing a Guidance and Counseling Program for the Western Boone County School Corporation, Richard D. Huey
A Life of Humble Fear: The Biography of Daniel Sommer, 1850-1940, James Stephen Wolfgang