Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Guns Over Kids: How Florida Lawmakers Trade Child Human Rights for Financial Gain, Brynn Rose Baker
The History of Gender-Biased Clinical Testing and its Effects on Pharmaceutical Drug Efficacy, Kathryn E. Olson
Sport, Community, and Racial Progress in 1950s Indianapolis: The Story of Crispus Attucks High School Basketball, Jacob A. Sherer
Repatriation in the Modern Museum World: Practical Problems Surrounding Decolonization of Collections, Rachel M. Sudbeck
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Memorialization and nation-building: Shifts in historical framing in monuments constructed in Kyiv, Ukraine between Soviet control and independence, Anna Elizabeth Faulkner
Transnational, Queer Feminist: Remembering Harriet Noble, Indiana's Prominent Suffragette, 1851-1919, Emma Katherine Gifford
#AidToo: Analysis of Sexual Violence and Power Structures in the Global Aid Sector, Caitlin N. McEvoy
The 1945 Purchase of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway: How World War II Changed Racing History and Culture, Samantha Louise Slentz
Humanitarian Zionism: The Vaad Hatzalah and Abraham Joshua Heschel, Andrew James Steele
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
A Narrative-based Comparative Analysis of College Experiences Among Racial and Ethnic Minority and Majority Students, Camryn Ellison
Is The Ivory Tower Made of Glass?: Examining Work Experiences of Women Faculty at Butler University, Erin Elizabeth Mahan
Russetid: The Norwegian Ritual Transition to Adulthood, Kynnedy Masheck
From Serbia to Xinjiang; A Comparative Analysis of Genocidal Regimes, Drake Mitchell Olson
Redpilling Normies: An Ethnography of Alt-Right 4chan Discourse, Emily Marie Paff
Hispanic Hoosiers: Ethnonym use among the Hispanic population in the Midwest, Ericela Yetlanezi Sahagun
Bird's Eye View: The Construction of Identity and Community on Social Media among Cirque du Soleil Performers, Katrina L. Sandefer
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 Dark Side of the Moon: Unpacking Civil Rights and Student Antiwar Criticism of the Apollo Program, Victoria R. Combs
"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
“IDOL”: Examining the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in boybands, Grace Maynard
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Women’s Rights as Human Rights: A Study of Muslim Women’s Reproductive Justice in Contemporary Saudi Arabia and Egypt, Sophia Harris
“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
The Battle of Representation: Analyzing the Role of the Senate in the Late Republic of Rome and the United States, Gracie Munroe
An “Often Formidable Sting”: Chinese American Female Aviators in the WASP during World War II, Claudia Vinci
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Absurdity and Metaphysical Rebellion in the Philosophies of Albert Camus and Omar Khayyam, Lynn Alsatie
How crime dramas influence perception of crime, Abby Hogan
The Survival of Irish Gaelic in the Gaeltacht of County Galway, 1880-1920, Eileen Hogan
Archival of the Fittest: The Role of Archives in Constructing Gay Dutch Historical Memory, Brooks Hosfeld
From Fetish to Fashion: Japanese Style as Commodity in 19th and 20th Century Britain, Rebecca Schmiegel
An Investigation of Perspectives on Mental Illness Across Race and Ethnicity, Emily Stark
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
A Cakewalk Through History: The Evolution of Cake and its Identity in America, Rachel Overby
More than a Game: Baseball and Southern Textile Communities 1880-1935, Aaron Perch
Women at the Helm: Rewriting Maritime History through Female Pirate Identity and Agency, Wendy Vencel
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: A Historical Fiction Detailing the Trauma of Mental Institutions in the mid 1940’s, Jessica Klingensmith
“Culture Shock”: An Ethnographic Account of a Small Business in the Face of Change, Alexia Maggos
Imprisoning Sexuality: The Abuses of the State in Homosexual Male Incarceration at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (1934-1957), Vic Overdorf
The Role of Black Hole and Neutron Star Interaction on the Dynamical Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems, Michael Pajkos
Our Nuclear Quandary: Deliberating U.S. Nuclear Armament & its Alternatives for Execution 1946-1961, Andrew Ross
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
"Are You With Us?": A Study of the Hoosier Suffrage Movement, 1844-1920, Sarah Bowman
The Crisis at Fort Sumter: The Symbolic Monument That Transformed Northern and Southern Opinions During the Start of the Civil War, Olivia C. Cabanban
Manifest Imperialism: Race and American Imperial Aspirations in the Pacific, Bryan Richter
Pacific Horizons: The Transformation of European Perceptions of Paradise, 1880-1900, Luke Scalone
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
A Wind From Below: The Zapatista Movement and its Assertion of Pluri-Ethnic Mexican Citizenship, Noah Jacob Huyette
Surgery as a Science: The Intellectual and Practical Evolution of European Surgery from the 16th to the 18th century, Molly Nebiolo
Crafting Industrial Manhood in the Manual Training Movement, 1876-1920, James Jonathan Rick
Reform Judaism and LGBTQ Identity in Indiana: A Sociological Study Toward GreaterUnderstanding and Inclusion, Gregory Ethan Zemtsov
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Take It But Don't Fake It: Using Self-awareness to Reduce Fabrications on Personality Tests, Rebekah Lynn Hale
Lew Wallace: An Unsung Hoosier Hero, Jordan C. Lee
The Recovered Businesses of Argentina: Identities in an Imagined Country, Martha Claire Leuthner
Protecting the Fairer Sex: Indiana's Failure to Improve the Lives of Working Women, Abigail Neuman
Latinos in America: A Consideration of Food Accessibility Factors with Implications for the Indianapolis Community, Abigail C. Robison
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
From "Sin City" to "Envy of the Region": Transforming Newport, Kentucky in the Latter 20th Century 1950-2000, Colin Thomas Reenan
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
"Lips as Red as Parthian" Irish Heroines and the Monks Who Saved Them, Claire Aliese Rutledge
Coffee and Dates: Perceptions of Life in the Modern Middle East, Patrick Edward Thevenow
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Shallow Roots: An Analysis of Filipino Immigrant Labor in Seattle from 1920-1940, Krista Baylon Sorenson
Ending the Cycle of Child Sex Slavery in Cambodia, Carmen Marie Murphy
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Syrian/United States Relations: Explaining the Failure of the Relationship and Suggestions on How to Repair It, Chris Chapman
Gender and Justice: The Experience of Female Lawyers in Indiananapolis, Jessica Louise Nelson
Votes for Women: Women's Suffrage, Gendered Political Culture, and Progressive Era Masculinity in the State of Indiana, Lindsay E. Rump
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
A Moment in Archaeology: A Reflexive Examination of the Culture of Meaning-Making in Archaeological Fieldwork, Jonathan W. Irons
Constructions of Femininity: Women and the World's Columbian Exposition, Lauren Alexander Maxwell
Recruiting a Lady: The Depiction of the Women's Army Corps, Amanda Rutherford
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Discerning the Invisible in a Group Portrait of Stability: An Ethnography of the Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood, Lisa Marie Wheeler
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
The History and Influence of Black Baseball in the United States and Indianapolis, Scott Clayton Bower
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Was Kennedy's Way the Best Way?, Lisa Anne Erb
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
A Conflict of Cultures: Alsace-Lorraine, 1871-1918, Karen Lynn Eiler
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
T. Thomas Fortune: Land, Labor and Politics in the South, 1883-1886, C. Edward Shacklee