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 2012
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
Cultural Definitions of Health Care: A Case Study of Burmese Refugees, Marielena Rose White
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Determination of energy level excitation states of time dependent optogalvanic signals in a discharge plasma, Michael Christopher Blosser
So Many Choices, So Little Time: Religiosity and the Stress of Making Decisions, Joshua David Boeke
The Impact of Imagined Reactions on Feelings About Disclosing Stigmatized vs. Non-Stigmatized Beliefs, David Briley
The Impact of Local Environmental Activist Organizations on State Environmental Policies, Molly Patricia Casperson
Syrian/United States Relations: Explaining the Failure of the Relationship and Suggestions on How to Repair It, Chris Chapman
Memories for sexual encounters: Sexual attitudes, personality, gender, and evidence for personal flashbulb effects, Nicholas Ryan Comotto
Biomechanical and morphological changes in leaf abscission zones during the ontogeny of Kalanchoe pinnatum, Jillian Hodge
Solid Supported Synthesis of Secondary Amines via Staudinger and microwave aza-Wittig Reactions, Kyle Thomas Holsinger
Microsatellite analysis of two local fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) populations, Sajeena R. Horvath
Study Abroad Programs and Their Effects on Cultural Perceptions and International Awareness, Sarah Ann Hundt
Collaborative inhibition: A counterintuitive phenomenon, Lauren Michelle McClure
Gender and Justice: The Experience of Female Lawyers in Indiananapolis, Jessica Louise Nelson
Finding Meaning in Facebook, Kelly Patrick
How Brand Name and Packaging Quality Affect the Consumer Choice Process, Albert Edward Price
Votes for Women: Women's Suffrage, Gendered Political Culture, and Progressive Era Masculinity in the State of Indiana, Lindsay E. Rump
Jumping to Conclusions Bias and Attitudes Towards Body Image and Food, Heather Anne Sperry
Modeling Bound States in the Continuum for Multiple Electrons in a Quantum Dot Pair, Thomas Ian Tuegel
Behavioral patterns of Mustelus canis (smooth dogfish shark) in a captive population, Megan Christine Vaupel
Does Religiosity Enhance Ability to Self-Regulate?, Kaylyn Lee Watterson
Education and Girls' Development in Malawi: Promotion of Girls' Education in Relation to Sustainable Development, Helen Momoko Wilson
Dihydropyran Formation by a Two Step Process, James Zachary Wright
Growth, larval development and metamorphosis in small-mouthed salamanders (Ambystoma texanum), Nicholas Timothy Zellmer
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Why Theatre? A Study of Robert Wilson, Rachel Elinor Bennett
Charles de Gaulle's influence on contemporary French culture and on France's rejection of genetically modified food, Susanna Lenore Foxworthy
An Examination of the Correlation between Shoot Apical Meristem Size and leaf Heterophylly in Pisum sativum, Cynthia Mary Halfman
Patriots, Plumbers, and Our Better Angels: The Establishment of Ethos in the Rhetoric of the 2008 Presidential Campaigns of Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama, Ryan Matthew Hehner
Investigating Ring Closing Metathesis Product Favorability by Varying the Alkyne Substituent on a Dienyne, Meagan E. Hinze
A Moment in Archaeology: A Reflexive Examination of the Culture of Meaning-Making in Archaeological Fieldwork, Jonathan W. Irons
Do Physical Self-Efficacy and Physical Self-Concept Mediate the Relationship Between Past Sports Participation, Past Gym Grades and Physical Activity Across the Life-Span?, Christopher Frederick Ketcham
An analysis of the environmental and hormonal effects on the growth and development of the moss Ceratodon purpureus, Megan Knight
Sociological and Psychological Predispositions to Serial Murder, Katie Marie Krueger
Constructions of Femininity: Women and the World's Columbian Exposition, Lauren Alexander Maxwell
Genocide: Emotional Adjective or Legal Term: Public Misunderstanding and the Expedient and Effective Implementation of International Criminal Law, Ida Rose Nininger