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 2009
Optimization of a Polydimethylsiloxane Based Passive Sampler of Common Household Volatile Organic Compounds, Jennifer Lynn Osborne
A Contrast of Bilingual and Monolingual Children in regards to Semantic and Syntactic Language Acquisition, Jessica Michelle Pfister
Recruiting a Lady: The Depiction of the Women's Army Corps, Amanda Rutherford
Solid Phase Amide Synthesis Using Staudinger-Vilarrasa Coupling and Microwave Irradiation, Ryan Patrick Schmidtz
Liquid Carbon Dioxide Extraction of Various Food Flavors: Evaluation and Analysis, Deven Lee Shinholt
Determination of Dispersal Patterns of the Small-mouthed Salamander (Ambystoma texanum) in Eagle Creek Park (Indianapolis, IN), Stacey Diane Summitt
Developing an Assay to Profile Upregulated TREK-1, A Stretch-Activated Potassium Channel, in Prostate Cancer, Susan Abigal Surber
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Adsorption Studies of Cytochrome c on a Silica Nanoparticle Surface, Carrie Ann Hedge
Investigation of Kalanchoe homeobox 1 (Kh1) Gene in Apical Meristems of Kalanchoe pinnatum, Jessica Lynn Kirkpatrick
The use of acid suppressive therapy on ICU and general medicine services at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Rachel Anne Ranz
Insertion of the Enzyme Cyclopropane Fatty Acid Synthase into Plastids through Agrobacterium Mediated Transformation, Jason L. Rush
The Reproductive Ecology of Graptemys geographica in the Central Canal, Kati Keppen Rush
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Synthesis of Hydroxycyclopentenones via Titanium Complexes, Joeseph David Frasca
Search for a Knox gene in Kalanchöe pinnatum, Ryan Michael Gleason
Developing a Pharmacy Professional Elective Course: Underserved Populations, Courtney Ann Hedrick
Nontraditional Synthesis of Organometallic compounds and Allylic Alcohols, Andrew J. Hesse
Pharmacy Security: A Survey on Pharmacists' Perceptions and and Preparedness to Handle Prescription Fraud and Pharmacy Robbery, Amy Nicole Lenell
Implementing Quantum Random Walks in Two-Dimensions with Application to Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Colin Frederick Sanberg
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Making and Breaking the News: The Media in Sports Personnel Decisions, John Goddard Dedman
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
The Effects of Subliminal Messages in Print Advertisements, Jamie Lynne Wilfong
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
One Flea Spare: The Hope of Life in Spite of Death, Mandy Melissa Barrett
Learn Now, Subscribe Later!: A Method of Developing Audiences for Opera Through a Commitment to Outreach in Theory and Practical Examples, Grant Douglas Meachum
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Tchaikovsky and his Violin Concerto : A Theme of Opposites, Jennifer Lynn Bougher
The Duruflé Requiem: A Guide for Interpretation, Karen Lou Cooksey
The Africanization of Roman Catholic and Presbyterian Churches In Krobo-Odumase, Ghana, Lori Elizabeth Godich
Analysis and Direction for the Changing World of Breakfast Cereal Advertising: A Content Analysis of 1998-99 Television Advertisements, Megan Ann Lane
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 1998
Man's Linear Dream Upon A Curved Earth: A Literary Record of the Indiana Landscape, Fani Anagnostou
Dmitri Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth, and the Soviet Government, Bianca Nicole Dudeck-Wiseman
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Analysis, Interpretation and Performance of the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by Samuel Barber, Elizabeth Ruth Flood
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
A Technical, Musical, and Historical Analysis of Frederic Chopin’s Etudes, Op. 10, Henry Raymond Bauer
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Scottish and Irish Elements of Appalachian Fiddle Music, Matthew S. Emmick
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
The History and Influence of Black Baseball in the United States and Indianapolis, Scott Clayton Bower
Buchi Emecheta : A Novelist's Image of Nigerian Women, Kirstin Lynne Ellsworth
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
The Resurgence of Xenophobic Nationalism in Contemporary France: Jean-Marie Le Pen and the National Front, Selinde M. Dulckeit
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Was Kennedy's Way the Best Way?, Lisa Anne Erb
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Schoenberg's Moses and Aron; A Logical Succesor to Nineteenth-Century Opera?, Steven Neil Tyler
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
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Gogol: An Overview, David Paul Allen
Contacts between Rome and Ancient Ethiopia, John Theodore Swanson
Representative Works of Benjamin Britten's Church Music, Stephanie Turner
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
The Reformatory and Choreographic Contributions of Micheal Fokine, Elaine Louise Bauer
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Six chansons of Paul Hindemith : An Analysis in Relation to Performance, Pamela Jean Flory
A Performer's Analysis of Eight Piano Sonatas of Nicholas Medtner, Sarah Louise Kinley
Theses/Dissertations from 1926
A study of the influences of Lucretius and Epicurean philosophy on Vergil, Paul Fink
Social Analysis in the Ibsen Drama, Rebecca E. Pitts
Theses/Dissertations from 1899
A Proposed Non-Support Law, Charles Herbert Bass
Locke's Relation to Deism, Charles Jeff Groarty
The Drama in Relation to the Spirit of the Age, Emily M. Helming
Creative Criticism, Edith Keay
Modern Development of the German Drama, Mary De Forest Marsee
Die Heimat, Bertha M. Mason
Comparison of Greek and Latin Christianity, Elvet Eugene Moorman
Thesis on Demonology, James H. Stevens
Theses/Dissertations from 1898
La Poudre aux Yeux, Virgil Dalrymple
Changes of the Bed of White River in Marion County, Indiana, E. M. Graham
Paul's Use of Dikaiosyne, Albert Luther Ward
The Social Effects of the Norman Conquest Upon England, Anson Harvey Washburn
Theses/Dissertations from 1897
Purpose clauses in the gospel of Luke, C. A. Brady
The political history of Cuba, Frank T. Brown
Plutarch's use of ancient literature, Jessie Christian Brown
The development of the protective tariff legislation in the United States, Robert Alexander Bull
The purpose of this thesis is to show that the Turkish Treatment of the Armenians would justify foreign nations in intervening, James Calvin Burkhardt
The Spectroscope in Celestial Physics, S. A. Harker
James Lane Allen: His Art, His Humanity, George W. Knepper
Examination of Certain Commericial Antiseptics and Disinfectnants, John Thomas Lister
Examination of the Irvington Water Supply, Samuel Virgil McGaughey
Examination of Water Supply of Indianapolis, Alonzo S. Roberts
The Territorial Extension of the United States, Nettie Irwin Sweeney
The English and American Short-Story, Bona Thompson
A Comparative Study of Wordsworth and Goethe, Mabel H. Tibbott
Theses/Dissertations from 1896
The Alleged Incapacity of the Romans for Speculative Thought, Retta Valeria Barnhill
Greek Syntax, Illustrated with Examples from the Gospel According to Luke, H. F. Frigge
Greek Syntax Illustrated by Examples from Acts of Apostles, William Elmer Payne
Greek Syntax, Illustrated with Examples from the Gospel of Luke, William Eugarde Phillips
Greek and English Tragedy As Exempified [sic] in Sophocles and Shakespere [sic], Author Unknown
Theses/Dissertations from 1895
The history of the historian, Nell Brevoort
Development of the femur of the cat, E. A. Brown
Classification of the Similes and Metaphors in Homer, Edgar T. Forsyth
The Venetian Republic in its External Relations, Geogia Noble Galvin
Hannibal and Napoleon, Dora C. Hadley
Peripheral Nerve-Endings in the Cat, Laura Mace
Latin Laguage in History, Rose MacNeal
Shakespere [sic] & His Child Characters, G. May Reeves
Theses/Dissertations from 1894
Purpose expressions in Acts, G. G. Bruer
The Atonement, Benjamin F. Dailey
Purpose Expression in Luke's Gospel, George E. Hicks
Theses/Dissertations from 1893
Purpose and Result Clauses in Hebrews and John's Epistles, J. L. Brady
Theses/Dissertations from 1887
In the Name of, Mary Edna Arnold
The Religion of Robert Browning, E. P. Wise