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 2022
Art, Race, and the Carceral System: Perceptions of Criminality in Artful Expression, Abiodun Akinseye
The Climate Crisis: How Communication and Norms Interact with Attitudes and Actions, Kathryn Aldstadt
Targeted: How Relevant Parties Position the Ethics of Online Demographic-Based Targeted Advertising, Gabrielle Marie Allen
Racial implicit bias in healthcare: Physicians’ expectations of Black vs. white patients’ health insurance, Brianna M. Avery
Look to Your Own: Human Limits and the Danger of Overambition in Herodotus’ Histories, Alex Christopher Brinkman
The Impact of Study Abroad as it Relates to Business Students' Career Paths, Madison M. Burgett
What We Need: A Poetic Study in Struggle and Self-Healing, Grace Anne Calabria
Federal Funding for the Arts & Developmental Success in Western Nations, Sophia Ciokajlo
Investigating Instagram Marketing Strategies for Nonprofit Donor Engagement During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Annabella Cobos
The Effect Of COVID-19 On Substance Use And Mental Health On A College Campus, Georgia Coffman
The influence of improv experience on uncertainty tolerance, social anxiety, and communication in adolescents on the autism spectrum, Kathryn K. DesBiens
Functional Movement Screen and its Link to Sports Injury in Butler University Division I Student Athletes, Sarah Dickinson
Investigation of the Analytical Utility of the Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) for the Quantification of Proteins via Lanthanide Labeling, Caitlin Elizabeth Dunlap
A Narrative-based Comparative Analysis of College Experiences Among Racial and Ethnic Minority and Majority Students, Camryn Ellison
Effects of Intermittent Alcohol and Nicotine Cc-consumption in C57BL/6J Mice, Presley Elizabeth Fletcher
Fact or Fiction?: (Mis)Representations of Crime, Race, and Gender in Popular True Crime Podcasts, Lauren E. Frederick
Through My Eyes: Lessons and Stories from the Fairways, Catherine Therese Fulton
A Moody Memory: The Impact of Affective State on Source Memory and Reality Monitoring, Rebecca Lynn Greenberg
Stress Effects on Hydrogen Peroxide Defense Response of Physcomitrella patens and Mnium cuspidatum, Caden Karl Groves
The Heart of the Problem: An Art Gallery Installation to Foster Dialogue on Heart Disease and the Privilege of Prevention, Olivia Eileen Heinecke
The Impact of Dance on Physical, Intellectual, and Social Aspects of College Life, Jenna Jean Hensen
Size Regulation within the Germline of the Developing Egg Chamber, Zoe Gladd Herdman
Planning for Debt: An Analysis of Drivers of Financial Knowledge on Individual Debt Strategy, Nicholas A. Hughes
Using the edTPA as a Model for Teacher Research and Reflective Practice: An Honors Thesis, Eva Jaeger
Psychosocial Student Adaptions to COVID-19 in Higher Education: A Mixed-Methods Approach to COVID-19 through the Theoretical Framework of Anomie, Grace Erika Johnson
From Madness to Medicine: How Nazi Medical Experimentation Morphed into Today’s Medical Field, Alexandria Daughn Kerby
Inducing Alternative Forms of Cell Death in Multidrug Resistant Ovarian Cancer, Chloe Reese Kotrba
Biking in Indianapolis: An Ethnographic Analysis of Obstacles and Solutions, Emory Lietz
Is The Ivory Tower Made of Glass?: Examining Work Experiences of Women Faculty at Butler University, Erin Elizabeth Mahan
Patient Harm Associated with Illegal Online Sellers of COVID- 19 Drug Products: A Year in Review, Kyla Rae Maloney
Russetid: The Norwegian Ritual Transition to Adulthood, Kynnedy Masheck
Reshoring the Semiconductor Industry Supply Chain: Analysis of Risks and Capabilities, Makayla Ann Masse
Nucleic Acid Editing by Adenosine Deaminase Enzymes, Josey Rae McKinley
Investigation Into the Responses of Physcomitrella patens to Herbivory and the Influence of Light on the Production of Defense Compounds, Matthew Morris
Studying Extended Sets from Young Tableaux, Eric S. Nofziger
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
Consumer Perceptions of Cause-Related Marketing: A Comparison of India and the United States, Kyle Palmer
Economic Implications of State-Wide COVID-19 Response Aggressiveness, Michael Edward Parker
Using NASA's TESS Mission to Search for Extremely Low Mass White Dwarf Stars, Corinna Peña
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
A Survey to Determine the Relationship between Health Literacy and Vaccine Hesitancy in College Students at Butler University, Lindsey Schreiber
Parents and the Evolving Math Curriculum: Supporting One's Student in Elementary Mathematics, Kailyn Heather Scobie
#NotAllMen and #MeToo: Investigating Perceptions of Masculine Victimhood and Constructions of Masculinity in the #MeToo Era, Caitlin Segraves
Identifying how Home Advantage Manifests in Butler Basketball Using SFA, Emily M. Shoemaker
The Effects of COVID-19 Induced Stress, Anxiety and Depression on the Eating Behavior of College Women, Natalie Simpson
An Examination of the Statistics and Risk Management Concepts Behind the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010, Scott Sinclair
A Limited Look at the Educational Experiences of Black STEM Professionals from the Butler Community and Beyond, Victoria Ann Templin
Analysis of Indianapolis waterways for evidence of eutrophication and contamination induced by urban pollution, Kiley Grace Wardwell
Religious and Cultural Considerations in Nigeria regarding the low vaccination rates for the Oral Polio Vaccine, Allison LuAnn Welz
Proposing an Educational Framework for Healthcare Professionals on the Topic of Substandard or Falsified Medications and Illegal Online Pharmacies, Margo Elaine Whitehead
The Racial Disparities in the Foster Care System as Explained by Professionals Working Within the System, Vanessa Wilson
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 Most Beautiful Moment in Life: A New Radio Play, Sarah Michelle Ault
KAMILA Clustering for a Mixed-Type Data Analysis of Illinois Medicare Data, Heather Elizabeth Baldacci
Completing College in a Covid Moment -- Expectation vs. Reality for the Class of 2021’s College Experience, Elizabeth Page Bishop
Implementing a Food Pantry at Butler University, Brooke Blevins
Deconstruyendo narrativas coloniales en relatos cortos latinoamericanos, Olivia Gabrielle Bradley
Subversion of Form: Mixing Poetry and Prose, Darby Alexandria Brown
Development and Evaluation of a Diabetes Themed Escape Room for Students Completing an Ambulatory Care Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience, Katherine Frances Brown
The Dark Side of the Moon: Unpacking Civil Rights and Student Antiwar Criticism of the Apollo Program, Victoria R. Combs
Signaling Organizational Identity-Safety Through The Use Of Gender Pronouns, Roua Daas
Love in the Time of Cinema: A Queer Feminist Analysis of Reviews of Four Mainstream Queer Films, Corinne Ebner
Securing Equal Relations: An Addition to Elizabeth Anderson's Democratic Equality, James Richard Ewing
Kicking the Way Through a Global Pandemic: How NCAA Division I Soccer Players and Institutions Have Responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Related Protocols, Celia Clare Gaynor
Dynamics of Power in Indiana's Voter Identification Law, Zachary Gossett
"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
Optimizing the Use of Digitization Technologies in Museums, Emma Gunst
How is Technology Being Used to Impact Those with Autism Spectrum Disorder?, Nathaniel T. Hillebrand
The Effects of Documentary Interviews on Perceptions of Interrogations, Katherine Hussey
Measuring the Night Sky Brightness of Butler University, Austin Thomas Jacks
The Benefits of Outdoor Education and Guidelines for Implementation in an Elementary Classroom, Jacqueline Jordan
Ministry in Medicine: Patient Perceptions of Healthcare Professionals Praying in the Workplace, Allison Carole Kinsinger
Using Improvisational Theater to Evaluate Reciprocal Communication in Neurodivergent Adolescents, Mariesa Christina LaRosa
The Student Experience in a COVID-19 World: An Ethnographic Inquiry into the Experience of Butler University Students During a Pandemic, Ben Christopher Martella
“IDOL”: Examining the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in boybands, Grace Maynard
Into the Streets: The Residuality of 'Otherness' and Material Representation in the Cityscape, Addison Elizabeth McKown
Whose Classroom is it, Anyway: A study of teacher films' influence on pre-service teachers' beliefs about education, Erin Michelle Morrisey
A Changing Landscape: Teachers' Perceptions of the Urban Public High School Student Experience, Colleen Wellford Morrison
An Analysis of Factors that Impact Utilization of Indianapolis Emergency Departments, Josey Ann Noel
Incorporating Real World Geometry Problems Into Geometry Classrooms, Heather Renee Postier
Equal Access to Higher Education Institutions: An Analysis of Big East Universities' Web Accessibility, Libbie Adele Rammage
Investigation of FSHR-1 site of action and signaling initiation at the C. elegans neuromuscular junction, Alyssa Lynn Ritter
Characterization of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Attachment Protein Mucin Domains, Molly Kathleen Roe
Reshaping the Canon: How “Insta-Poets” Are Creating a New Literary Space for Readers Using Social Media, Hannah Salsbery
Painting a Pretty Picture: The Role of Social Desirability in the Memory Self-Efficacy of Young and Older Adults, Keegan Grace Sawin
Unique Needs, Barriers, and Discrimination Experienced by Spinal Cord Injury Patients in Dental Facilities, Lindsey Brooke Schuler
Bulldogs in Crisis: How Butler University Strategically Leverages its Live Mascot Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Emilene Jean Smith
Effects of Personal Relevance and Consensus Information on Feminist Self-Identification, Mary Allison Stazinski
Two Pandemics - Making Meaning of Illness through the Works of Thomas Mann and Thomas Glavinic, Samuel Stucky
Masked Emotions: Studying the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic On the Emotional Regulation in College Students and Beyond, Sara Katherine Taft
The Effects of Consensus Information on Perceptions of Children with Autism, Kaitlyn C. Thornton
Determinants of Subjective Memory In First-Degree Relatives and Care Providers of Individuals with Dementia, Cassidy Marie Tiberi
The Vulnerability of the Acetabulofemoral Joint: Examining Acetabular Labral Tears in Classical Ballet Dancers, Rebecca Tschan
Home Sweet Home: A Statistical Analysis of Home Court Advantage in Division I College Basketball, Lauren Isabel Turnbull
Toward a More Holistic Worldview: Environmental Values in Context, Erica Lynne Walters
Perpetuating the stereotype: dramatization and the portrayal of cults in fictional media, Hannah Lynn Willmore