• A Challenge to Democratic Peace Theory: U.S. Intervention in Chile, 1973 

  Margraf, Carissa Faye (2021)

  This project examines covert action against Chilean President Salvador Allende during the 1970s and the interruption of democratic practices in the nation following United States interference. Through the efforts of the ...

• Do Goods and Financial Market Frictions Explain the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle? (thesis) 

  Kisker, Maria (2021)

  Feldstein and Horioka (1980) argue that in a world of perfect capital mobility, if one regressed investment on savings, the coefficient wouldbe 0. When they found coefficients of between 0.87 and 0.91, they concluded that ...

• Automation and Family: Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility Rates (thesis) 

  Weber, Madelyn (2021)

  I exploit variation in the job composition of US local labor markets to determine how automation affects familial outcomes from 1980 to 2019 andl ook at employment, marriage, divorce, and fertility rates as outcomes. ...

• An Irrevocable Prejudice: Roman Impressions of Venetians and Normans in Twelfth Century Byzantium (thesis) 

  Stamas, Elizabeth Alexandra (2021)

  The Mediterranean world during the twelfth century was a rapidly shifting and evolving sphere, influenced by the growing power of the papacy, the rise of more centralized states in the previously decentralized and internally ...

• Borders from Within and Without: Exploring Heterogeneity between National Identity Type and Immigration Attitudes in the U.S. (thesis) 

  Smith, Claire Rhodes (2021)

  Given the strong theoretical linkages connecting national identity and immigration attitudes, social scientists have granted arguably scant focus to empirically examining this relationship. Furthermore, despite the expansive ...

• Dating a Femme Fatale: Donatello's Judith and Holofernes and the Battle of Anghiari 

  Hewitt, Lindsey (2021)

  The Battle of Anghiari marks the only moment in Cosimo's reign where he faced internal and external threats joined against Florence. Judith, a character often used to personify virtues, takes on the role of a Medicean-led ...

• A Mat of Serpents: Aztec Strategies of Control from an Empire in Decline 

  Reyes Olmedo, Jeronimo (2021)

  As an amalgamation of the self and the other, identity offers a blurred line between liberation and limitation. In skewing too far toward the self, the individual risks stagnation, blinding themselves to the possibilities ...

• No Strings Attached: Fernando Botero's "Boy Playing Guitar" in Context 

  Olmstead, Darcy L. (2021)

  This thesis serves to expand upon our understanding of Fernando Botero's early career through the analysis of an undocumented work entitled "Boy Playing Guitar." This painting is a crucial work in Botero's early stylistic ...

• How to Do Things With Rules 

  Thomas, Charles Gordon (2021)

  Truth within governing systems can come in two forms: judicial and meta-judicial. Judicial facts arise from verdicts or rulings, whereas meta-judicial facts arise from application of a governing system’s standard in a way ...

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Apocalyptic Theology, and the Possibility of Christian Ethics 

  Oliveira, Brooklyne (2021)

  If one takes the assertions of Christianity seriously -- that God became incarnate, was crucified, resurrected, and will come again -- then one faces complex questions about worldly human responsibility and agency. Indeed, ...

• Personal Identity in Illness 

  Koch, McKenzie Lynn (2021)

  Locke argues that personal identity consists in consciousness, not the substance of either the soul or the body. I raised objections to Locke and offered criticism of Locke raised by others. Determining that an element of ...

• "To muddy death": The Link Between Sexual Deviancy and Suicide in Hamlet, The Waves, and Looking for Alaska 

  Lora, Maya (2020)

  At first glance, Shakespeare's Hamlet and Virginia Woolf's The Waves do not seem texts ripe for a new, deep examination of their themes. Both stories, penned by two geniuses from two different eras, have been poked and ...

• Impacts of Low-Head Dam Construction and Removal with Little Channel Sediment Storage: Case Study from the Maury River, Virginia 

  Iosso, Chantal (2020)

  Dam removal projects are becoming more frequent as awareness of the negative ecological consequences increases and dams begin to fail. However, due to the potential threats of post-removal channel migration, bank erosion, ...

• "Wound That Can't Be Bandaged": The Imperfect Translation of Women's Suffering in The Tale of Kieu and The Sorrow of War 

  Nguyen, Trang H. (2020)

  In my thesis, I compare and contrast the two figures of Kiêu and Phong to divulge the unchanging patriarchal oppression experienced by women in Vietnam in the course of one and a half centuries despite a radical ...

• The Missing Gender Frame: The Unspoken Tension Around Sexual Violence Crimes in The International Criminal Justice System 

  Lentz, Anne Elise (2020)

  In the subsequent pages, I will explore the phenomenon of sexual and gendered violence during war. When I began this venture, I set out to answer the question, "What is it about sexual violence crimes that makes them ...

• On the Essay: A Gendered Evolution of Narrative Presence in the Personal Essay 

  Smith, Layne Kelly (2020)

  The unassuming power behind the essay is what makes modern attempts so crucial. Overt forms, obvious attempts lend themselves to criticism and censorship. These are the violences that are often silenced by the oppressor, ...

• Fools for Christ's Sake: The Intent to Edify found in the Writing of Leontius and Flannery O'Connor (thesis) 

  Karpowich, Brianna Anita (2020)

  The Life of Symeon is classified as Christian hagiography, capturing a saint's journey of practicing ascetism in both the desert and city. Leontius of Neapolis wrote this text with the main intent to edify his audience. ...

• The Effect of Preference for Sons over Daughters on Women's Agency and Empowerment Within a Household (thesis) 

  Panthi, Prakriti (2020)

  While studies have shown how son preference negatively affects life outcomes of both born and unborn daughters, there is limited research examining how it, in turn, affects women who do not give birth to the desired number ...

• Journey from the Baroque to the Modern: The Viola in Public Performance and Musical Analysis, Featuring works by Bach, C. Stamitz, Weber, Bloch, and Brahms 

  Jue, Allison Jarvis (2020)

  When I was in Vienna, studying music for a semester abroad, I began to think seriously about my senior recital and the pieces I should consider playing. This program was shaped largely by the viola lessons I took while in ...

• Directed Self-Assembly: A Study of the Effect of Electric Fields on Silica Monolayers (thesis) 

  Withers, Matthew O'Neal (2020)

  In this thesis, we describe, analyze, and extend ionic self-assembly of monolayers (ISAM), a bottom-up nanostructure production technique designed to coat surfaces in uniform layers of charged nanoparticles. Using mean ...

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