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 2014
Teaching to the Technological Demands of the 21st-Century Classroom, Michelle Trainor
Eritrean Resettlement in Indianapolis, John Andrew Traylor
Exploring Community Engagement in the Indianapolis Opera Scene, Nicole Vasconi
Undocumented Immigrants’ Access to Higher Education in Indiana, Hannah K. Weigle
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Long Term Effects of Positive Affect During Goal Adoption, Katherine E. Adams
Demographics and Approval of the Police Use of Force in the General Social Survey, 2010, Jeremy William Algate
To Live is to Die: The Effect of Mortality Salience on Memory and Fear of Death, Tony F. Bergamini
The Marriage of Figaro as presented by Beaumarchais, Da Ponte, and Mozart: An Expression of Shifting Class Structure, Kelly Cassady
An Exploration of Modes in Polyphonic Compositions of the Sixteenth Century, Marcella Marie Columbus
Gender Dependent Flashbulb Memories of Sexual vs. Emotional Infidelity, Christine Therese Fisher
Constructions and Enumeration Methods for Cubic Graphs and Trees, Erica R. Gilliland
The Impact of Family Context, Gender, and Gender Meanings on the Acceptance of Rape Myths, Nicole Humphrey
Changes in Student Attitudes towards the Elderly Following a Hypertension Education and Screening Event, David William Martin
Dancing With the Gods; Santeria's Historical Context in Eastern Cuba, Lauren Reed
From "Sin City" to "Envy of the Region": Transforming Newport, Kentucky in the Latter 20th Century 1950-2000, Colin Thomas Reenan
Election 2008: Flashbulb Memories of Barack Obama's Election to Presidency, Jasmen Rice
Semantic and Phonological False Memories in Adults' First and Second Language, Amber Victoria Sapp
An Exploration of Self-Empowerment and Truthful Expression through Movement and Rudolf Laban's Theory of Effort, Morgan Raquel Sicklick
Broad Spectrum Systemic Acquired Resistance in Amblystegium serpens, Christina A. Tatara
Feel it, Don't Fake it: Deep Acting and Perceptions of Feedback Utility, Eileen Toomey
Upper Class Enclave Identity: A Case Study of the Golden Hill Community, Bradley D. Vogelsmeier
Private Flashbulb Memories: The Case of Coming Out Memories, Gabrielle Weber
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Using Picture Books to Build Common Schema in the Middle School English Classroom, Kristina Lynn Albarello
The Effect of Affect on Group Memory, Dominick Joseph Atkinson
Self-Regulation: An 'Active Ingredient' in the Spirituality-Health Relationship, Claire Ellyn Brownson
An Investigation of Melodic Musical Modeling Using Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Markov Chains, Eric Robert Sherman Buenger
Using Brain Research to Aid Reading Comprehension, Mia Alyssa Claretto
An Alternative Method: Using Novels in Mathematics to Teach the Concepts, Rachel Frances Colby
Understanding Sustainability: An Examination of Encoding and Decoding of Promotion Materials for Green Consumers, Muriel Paige Cross
The Stage is the Court and All the Players Merely Copies: Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra as Propaganda, Ginnye Cubel
The Making and Breaking of a Language: The French and Spanish Effect upon the Catalan Regional Language, Margaret Emilyn Cychosz
Pharmacy and Empathy: Evaluating the Impact of a Pharmacy Student's Project in a Service-Learning Course, Carly D'Agostino
Safety of Saccharomyces boulardii (Florastor) in Solid Organ Transplant Patients, Nicole Marie Dores
Bulgarian Chalga: Forming a Post-Communist Identity through Music, Megan Drevits
Immigration in France: How French Perception Affects Muslim Integration, Brittany P. Eisenhut
Latvian Folk Dance: Sustaining Cultural Heritage in the Context of Christianity and Communism, Emilija Karina Grinvalds
"Crise d'Identite": The Push to Preserve National Identity in France, Katherine Hammitt
An Integrated Approach: Incorporating Literature and Writing into Middle School Mathematics Instruction, Amanda Renee Huffman
Live, but at What Cost? An Analysis of Live News Reporting in the Indianapolis Television News Market, Robert Kyle Inskeep
Various Gaits of African Elephant Calves, Elizabeth Anne Jennings
Constraining the Parameters of Six Known Transiting Exoplanets, Mackenzie Lee Jones
Aplicación de la teoría de la imagen a pinturas surrealistas españolas durante la guerra civil española, Jordan Kirkegaard
Chiral Recognition in Amino Acid and Peptide Based Chiral Ionic Liquids, Daniel McCray Kroupa
Devil in a Hula Skirt: Comparative Conservation Efforts Between the United States and Australia Using Two Endemic Species as Case Studies, Sarah Catherine Kuchinsky
Evaluation of Butler University's Red Cup Culture Alcohol Prevention Program, Stephanie Ann Lander
Personality Traits and Desire for Social Distance from Individuals with Mental Illnesses, Emily Lazar
Sleep Deprivation and Delusion Proneness: Influence on Dream Bizarreness, Anna Leigh Lezon
Expressed Emotion and Attitudes toward Body Image and Food, Toni Marie Maraldo
Synthesis of fluorogenic substrates for the enzymatic characterization of RV0045c from M. tuberculosis, Kelly Jo McKenna
New Life: Negotiating Indigenous Women's Identity in the Context of Globalization, Angela K. Miller
Islamophobia in Contemporary America, Matthew Bryce Miller
Linguistic Devices, Emotionality, and Memorability of Computer Mediated Communication, Angela M. Mion
EI Espacio y la Identidad en un Contexto Transnacional, Katherine Michelle Norris
Over-the-Counter Non-Steroidal Anti-Anflammatory Drugs in Adolescent Athletes, Anna Christine Parada
Modernist Women in Three Acts: The Stage for Political Protest, Jennifer B. Redmond
Considerations for Recording and Editing Classical Music in an Era of Popular Music Dominance, Andrew Earl Riehle
"Lips as Red as Parthian" Irish Heroines and the Monks Who Saved Them, Claire Aliese Rutledge
The Vegetarian Question, Mary Elizabeth Sekela
Teaching old buildings new tricks: benefits of retrofitting Indianapolis buildings with green roofs, Sarah Elizabeth Strobl
If You're Happy and You Know It: Concentrate!, Kristi Michelle Summers
Coffee and Dates: Perceptions of Life in the Modern Middle East, Patrick Edward Thevenow
Speech Perception in Children with Autism, Caitlin Louise Weber
The Effect of Preconceived Expectations of Alcohol and College Life on Freshmen's Drinking Behaviors, Trisha Nicole Wilcox
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Race in Rhetoric: A Textual Analysis of Barack Obama's Campaign Discourse Regarding His Race, Andrea Dawn Andrews
Darwin, Victorian Literature, and the Great Web: Analyzing and Dismantling the Human Superiority Complex, Farhad R. Anwarzai
Shallow Roots: An Analysis of Filipino Immigrant Labor in Seattle from 1920-1940, Krista Baylon Sorenson
What Do You Expect? : An Investigation of How Caffeine Expectancies Affect College Students' Cognitive Performances, Katie Alyse Berg
"Speak Softly but Carry a Big Can of Paint" - Banksy, Wall and Piece: Street Art as Radical Political Activism, Rosemary Reedy Booth
Pathogen Induced Hypersensitive Response and Systemic Acquired Resistance in the Moss Amblystegium serpens, Collin Elliot Bowman
Reception and Influence of a Postmodernist Opera : John Adams' Nixon in China , 1987-2011, Casey Jo Brege
The Effect of Caffeine on Relationship Memory, Elsa Carodenuto
Pharmacist perception of opioid overuse for analgesia in the retail setting, Kenneth Jacob Craig and Josh Winebough
Development of a Green Method for Amide Synthesis, Megan Ruth Darragh
Consumer Choice Tactics for Common, Repeat Purchase Products: Using Tissues and Deodorant to Predict and Understand Consumer Behavior, Alicia Elizabeth Dixon
Service, Education, and Advocacy within a Student-Run Pharmacy: An Evaluation of the Butler University Community Outreach Pharmacy, Eliza Anne Dy
Representaciones del Otro en el cine espanol y el resurgimiento de la ideologia franquista, Anthony J. Erlandson
The Effect of Tidal Disruptions on Giant Stars in the Galactic Center, Brian B. Geiss
How Sweet is it, really? The Anomalous Effects of Glucose at Retrieval, Sarah A. Gillott
Effects of Mood on Using Analogies to Solve Problems and Reduce Conflict, Erin Good
"We'll Make Our History": Israeli and Palestinian Youth as Poetic Agents, Caleb Hamman
Chiral Recognition Study of a Bimolecular Process in Amino Acid Chiral Ionic Liquids, Laurel Millikan Heckman
Effects of exposure to low, ecologically relevant doses of atrazine on somatic and gonadal development in American toad (Bufo americanus) tadpoles, Tyler Davis Hoskins
Quantum Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, David Bradley Johnson
Design and Aesthetic in Debussy's Music: The Premiere rapsodie for Clarinet and Piano, Samatha K. Johnson
The Undefined Middle: Exploring the Role of the Union Representative in the Modern Teachers Union Structure, Amanda Erin Lee
Ending the Cycle of Child Sex Slavery in Cambodia, Carmen Marie Murphy
Shakespeare and Cervantes Are Dead: The Construction of Fiction and Reality in Hamlet and Don Quixote, Joanna Parypinski
The Parables of the Kingdom of God, Danielle Brin Reist
Numerical Simulation of Nonlinear Wave Propagation with Application to Geophysical Prospecting, Andrew M. Smith
The Effect of Induced Happiness Levels on Academic Performance, Laura Marie Spice
Socialist Realism and Soviet Music: The Case of Dmitri Shostakovich, Michael Robert Tirman
The Effects of a Brief Mindfulness Intervention on Impulsivity in College Students, Myles Elgin Trapp
Communicating During Crisis: A Case Study of the 2010 BP Gulf Oil Spill, Aubrey Nichole Villines
Positive Affect During Goal Adoption : Why Happiness Breeds Success, Katherine Wainwright
Characterization of esterase activity from the bacteria, Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia, Leigh Anna Weston