Thesis Topics

A sampling of IPH Senior Theses:

SPRING 2008

History of Rhetoric: Merlin in the Historiographic Tradition of the Twelfth Century by Ami Mehta, 2008 

Affect, Subjectivity, Critique: A Reading of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive by James Duesterberg, 2008

"Obligations to the Their New Homeland": 48ers, Tejanos, and the American Slavery Debate by Emma Eschenfeldt, 2008

SPRING 2007

Individualism, Economics & Revolution: Socioeconomic Ideology in Revolutionary France and America by Andrew Paul Schupanitz, 2007

Expanding the Membership of the Revolutionary Nation: Germaine de Stael's Considerations on the French Revolution and Helen Maria Williams's Letters from France by Christina Skelley, 2007

"Sweet Songs Among the Flowers": Gender and Religion in Aztec Literature, 1500-1585 by Lindsay Christina Stanley, 2007

She's Always a Woman to Me: Determining Woman's Existential Situation throught Memoir by Emily Schultheis, 2007

Understanding Varthema: Islam and Travel Narrative in Early Modern Italy by Jessica Pryde, 2007

SPRING 2006

The Crosscurrents Between Vandalism and Art: The Social and Aesthetic Functions of Graffiti by Deena Atkinson, 2006

Consequences of Philosophy: John Dewey and the Progressive School Superintendent by Robert Gross, 2006

Risk Regulation: A Mixed-Government Proposal by Austin L.C. Thompson, 2006