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 2016
Pacific Horizons: The Transformation of European Perceptions of Paradise, 1880-1900, Luke Scalone
The New American Revolution: Economic Inequality and Economic Democracy, Alec Stubbs
The Cartography of the New World: Hernán Cortés’s Literary Mapping of America, Sarah Tietz
The Role of Arp2/3 in Ring Canal Development in Drosophila melanogaster, Marina Tipold
Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) and Personality: Their Relationship to Collegiate Alcohol Abuse, Kristen D. Webb
The Role of Ethylene in Systemic Acquired Resistance in Moss, Keiffer Williams
Tango: A Spanish-Based Programming Language, Ashley Zegiestowsky
Chiroptical Ionic Liquids, Benjamin Zercher
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The Creation of Fear through Censorship: Repression of Artistic Freedom in the Music of the Syrian Revolution, Rebecca Aliah Ajamoughli
Concern about the Freshman 15, Peer Influence, & Weight-Control Behavior among Freshmen, Sarah Bauman
Conversational Scaffolding with Couples with an Aphasic Partner, Mary Jo Bissmeyer
The Impact and Interaction of Music Familiarity and Congruency on Responses to Advertisements, Michael Blecha
The Story of Us: College as a Modern Rite of Passage for Emerging Adults, Tamara Ulana Bodnar
Integrating Math and Literature in the Elementary Classroom, Megan Maureen Boebinger
Justifying the Implementation of a Collaborative Drug Therapy Management (CDTM) Protocol in an Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic: A Retrospective Chart Review, Kevin Michael Bozymski
An Equivocal Truth: An Analysis of Climate Change Communication in Respect to the Double Ethical Bind, Taylor Whitney Brown
Vaccine Education and Compliance Statistics in the Greater Indianapolis Area, Matthew Brennan Budi
A Question of Culture: The Impact of College Major and Personality on Pursuits of Different Types of Company Culture, Kathryn E. Carroll
The Process and Impact of Professional Collaboration in an Arts Integration Education, Rachel Marina Chambers
White Shadows: Perception and Imagination in Poetry, Madison Chartier
Let's Talk About Sex: Sexual Health and Communication in Romantic Partners Based on Attachment Style, Elizabeth Grace Davis
Relationship between Attribute Variables and First-Year Physician Assistant Students' Ratings of Professional Attire, Jaclyn Demeter
Rediscovering Vaudeville: Influences on Film and Theatre, Audra Leigh Edwards
Exploring the Relationship Between Text and Dance: Seeking Music in Spoken Word, Anastasia Ellis
Buzzfeed to Behavior: In Search of Sustainable Spillover from Happiness-Based Information Interventions, Leah Gerber
Whose Truth?, Seth J. Hale
Live from New York, it's the Translation of Cultural Humor!, Megan Hosack
A Wind From Below: The Zapatista Movement and its Assertion of Pluri-Ethnic Mexican Citizenship, Noah Jacob Huyette
Hollywood's Hindering of Homosexuality for Heroes: Sexuality in Comic Books and Their Movies, Makenna E. Imholte
Teacher Perceptions of Elementary Students with an Articulation Disorder of Varying Degrees, Morgan Lee Johnson
An Investigation of Howard Gardner's Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Intelligence in Dance Educational Outreach Programs, Catherine Lynn Jue
Examining Implicit Person Theory and Feedback Environment in Undergraduate Research Relationships, Ian Katz
Stereotype Threat and OCD: The Impact of Messy vs. Clean Environments on Cognitive Test Performance, Ellen Rebecca Kendall
The Impact of Peptide Nucleic Acid Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (PNA FISH®) Rapid Diagnostic Testing on the Initiation of Appropriate Antifungal Therapy in Patients with Candida Species Bloodstream Infections, Jenna Lee Ksiazkiewicz
The Ecology of Phenotypic Plasticity in the Cabbage White Butterfly, Pieris rapae, Isabella Thompson Lambert
Existing on Earth and Stage: Exploring Human Relationships with Ecosystems Through Performance, Julia Stephanie Levine
Chains & Whips: Gender Roles in BDSM Erotica Published After "Fifty Shades of Grey", Laura Lines
Fifty Shades of Fucked Up: On the Use and Abuse of a Sexual Subculture to Sell Books, Viviane Panagiotis Linos
A Departure from Blood and Iron: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Culture in Societal Reintegration of Ex-combatant Military Members and Reentry of Ex-Convicts, Devon Danielle Lott
Assessment of Empathy Scores in a Pharmacy Professional Nutrition Support Elective Course, Megan M. Mayhew
Do You See What I See?: Exploring the Relationship Between OCD Symptomatology and Theory of Mind Ability, Karsen McCloud
Genu Recurvatum in Dance Training: Assessing and Addressing the Structural Deformity in Dancers, Anne Mercedes Mushrush
Surgery as a Science: The Intellectual and Practical Evolution of European Surgery from the 16th to the 18th century, Molly Nebiolo
The Effects of Tylenol on Non-Social Emotional Memory, Renato Puga
Crafting Industrial Manhood in the Manual Training Movement, 1876-1920, James Jonathan Rick
"I'm just not talented with languages!" The role of self-efficacy and attribution theory in the foreign language classroom., Justice Nicolette Rioux
Emotion and Pain Effects on Tunnel Memory, Alexandra Nicolette Robinson-Norris
Evaluating the non-evidence based practice of rounding serum creatinine in the elderly and the impact on medication dosing, Kelly Lynn Roden
The Ontogenetic Effects on the Shell Strength of Turtles, Dakota Wayne Speck
Symmetries and Patterns In Non-Euclidean Settings, Sarah Elizabeth Stoops
Experiential Learning: An Exploration, John Santo Verdico
The Outer Limits of Cognitive Processing: A Closer Look at What Is Desirable, Zachary K. Walter
Muscle Mass, Wing Morphology, and Related Flight Mechanics in Passeriforme Birds, Bradley Adam Weinstein
The Role of Light in Mnium cuspidatum Hypersensitive Response Defense Mechanisms to Pythium irrequlare Pathogen Infection, William Andrew Weldon
Security Risk and Social Presence in E-commerce, Amy Isabelle Wright
Reform Judaism and LGBTQ Identity in Indiana: A Sociological Study Toward GreaterUnderstanding and Inclusion, Gregory Ethan Zemtsov
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Reproduction and nesting in teleost fish, with a focus on reproduction in Centrarchids and specific analysis of nesting in Lepomis megalotis, Rebecca Irene Allee
A Three-Part Study in the Connections Between Music and Mathematics, Molly Elizabeth Anderson
Amino Acid Methyl Ester Chiral Ionic Liquids: A Concentration Study, Christopher J. Brown
Verbal Overshadowing and the Effects of Earwitness Testimony on the Likelihood of Correct Identification of Target Voices, John P. Buckley III
The Evolution of American Microtargeting: An Examination of Modern Electoral Messaging, Luke Dietrik Bunting
Synthesis and Resolution of a Substituted Dioxolane from Glycerol, Susannah Dawn Cox
The Impacts of Social Interaction on Literacy Learning, Megan Marie Donisch
Thermal Denaturation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein Rv0045c monitored by intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence, Lindsey Renee Drake
Quantification of Salicylic Acid and Analysis of Defense-Related Genes in the Moss Physcomitrella patens, Ryan Jospeh Eller
The passive perching mechanism in Passeriformes birds, Deena Ahmed Elsahy
The Influence of Light on Bryophytes and Their Response to Pathogen Infection: A Story of Mnium cuspidatum and Physcomitrella patens, Bryce James Fawcett
Window on Eternity: A Study in the Characteristics of Orthodox Christian Iconography, Moira Allison LeRoy Frazier
Suzuki-Miyaura Reactions Are Used to Synthesize Z-Alkenes from Cyclic Boronic Half-Acids, Daniel Lee French
Characterization of the Role of Salicylic Acid in Plant-Pathogen Interactions in Moss, Erica Grabinski
Take It But Don't Fake It: Using Self-awareness to Reduce Fabrications on Personality Tests, Rebekah Lynn Hale
Effects of Tylenol and Social Rejection on Memory, Karina Ashley Hamamouche
The New York Times Influence on Stem Cell Research, Elizabeth Huntley Hamilton
Characterization of Putative Defense Genes in Nonvascular Plants, Blaine Harlan
Substance use and subclinical psychosis symptoms, Kelsey Hurm
Presence of Semi-Aquatic Turtles in Indianapolis Golf Course Ponds, Melissa Anne Jones
Fox Squirrel Response to Bark Calls, Michael Ryan Keller
Evaluating Agentic Female Job Candidates: The Effects of Gender and Qualification of Comparison Candidates, Sarah Grace Kern
Witnesses to Trauma: Kakfa's Trauma Victims and the Working Through Process, Emily Allison Kile
Investigation of FSHR-l Protein Function in Regulating Synaptic Transmission at the Neuromuscular Junction in C. elegans, Julie Christine Kolnik
Lew Wallace: An Unsung Hoosier Hero, Jordan C. Lee
The Recovered Businesses of Argentina: Identities in an Imagined Country, Martha Claire Leuthner
Revolutionizing the Revolution: An Examination of Social Media's Role in the Egyptian Arab Spring, Needa A. Malik
Effects of Accurate and Inflated Employee Performance Self-Evaluations on Memory Accuracy, Michelle E. Miller
Chronic, Lethal Versus Acute, Non-lethal Threats: A Look inside the Memories of Cancer Patients at the Time of Their Diagnosis, Angeline M. Modesti
Protecting the Fairer Sex: Indiana's Failure to Improve the Lives of Working Women, Abigail Neuman
Revisiting Modernism and the Ballets Russes: What Contemporary Choreography Can Learn from Diaghilev, Kelly Oden
Folk Songs, Youth, and Propaganda: Music of the Third Reich, Patrick Scott Peterson
An Evaluation of the East Indianapolis Food Desert, Angelina Qin
Liberation Theology: Why Should the Nations be Glad?, Marianne Burris Richardson
Latinos in America: A Consideration of Food Accessibility Factors with Implications for the Indianapolis Community, Abigail C. Robison
Generalized Mandelbrot Sets, Aaron Schlenker
Role of 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid and β-glucan Elicitor in Prevention of Fungal Infection in Mnium cuspidatum, Robert E. Spiller
The Myth Continues in Percy Jackson: A look into mythology and its persistence today, Maia Anne Swanson
The Ebb and Flow of Performance Feedback, Chris Thompson
Message Framing in Political Advocacy Campaigns: A Media Study of the 2014 Scottish Referendum for Independence from the United Kingdom, Christine Willette Todd