Wright State University College of Liberal Arts

A Sampling of Completed Projects

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William Lawrence Allen

The Demise of Industrial Education for African Americans: Revisiting the Industrial Curriculum in Higher Education

2007

Director: Mary L. Rucker

Amy Kollar Anderson
Twenty-Five Years of Residue: An Artist's Statement
2001
Director: David Leach

Linda Anderson
The Impact of Revolutionary Art on Western Culture: Responding to the Romantic Philosophies of William Blake and Friedrich Nietzsche
June 2003
Director: David Leach

Fred Arment
The European World: A Supplement for Studies of the American Revolution
December 1989
Director: James Hughes

Andrea Attaway-Young
African American Music: Songs of Pride, Perseverance and Progression
June 1998
Director: Brenda Ellis

Daphene Baines
Development of a Brochure for Disseminating Resource Information to Single African American Female-Headed Houselholds
Director: Paul Griffin

Judith Baker
The Ethics of Decision-Making: An Applied Ethics Research Project
March 1999
Director: Charles Taylor

Aliya Barnhill
Blacks in Blackface: A Look at Black Films and Negative Stereotyping/Cages: An Original Screenplay - December 1996
Director: Russell Johnson

Douglas Bartlett
Playfulness and the Artworks of Paul Klee: A Phenomenological Approach
August 2002
Director: Charles Taylor

Perry Ray Baughman

The Austrio-Hungarian Annexation of Bosnia - Herzegovina, 1908-1909: A Crisis or Not?

1997

Director: Susan Carrafiello

Robert Blair
An Analogy of Plato's Guardians to United States Marines
June 1992
Director: Charles Taylor

Tammy Bowman
The Influence of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union on Women's Suffrage
August 2001
Director: Mary Beth Pringle

Maria Boykin
A Study of Literacy Among African Americans During the Great Migration, 1925-35 in Dayton, Ohio
December 1993
Director: William Hanks

Anna Bucy
Remedying Academic Gender Bias and Girls' Low Self-Esteem: A Study of Multiple Perspectives and Proposals
March 2001
Director: Anne Runyan

Robert Buerger
Citizen Support for Restructuring Local Government
June 1997
Director: Dan DeStephen

Virginia Burroughs
Participatory Community Art
December 1988
Director: Carol Nathanson

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Carole Carlson
An Examination and Assessment of the Power Exercised by the Ursuline Nuns of St. Martin, OH at their Academy for Girls From 1845-1900
June 1991
Director: Katharine Dvorak

Walter Carr
Human Ecology, Bibliographic Essays Examining Selected Philosophies
June 1985
Director: Robert Reece

Franklin Carter
Plural Form Changes in Old and Middle English Prose and Poetry: 900-1400 - June 1994
Director: Henry Limouze

Yune-Kyong Chae

Cross-Cultural Differences between Korean and American College Students' Perceptions of Sexual Harassment in Conversational Appropriateness

2007

Director: Mary L. Rucker

Jeffrey Christian
A Model of Human Movement Studies: A Synthesis of Definitions from the Literature on the Human Body in Motion
August 1994
Director: William Hanks

Kenneth Clarkston
Christian Higher Education in the Late Roman Empire
June 1985
Director: Janice Gabbert

Stacy Cohen
Memoirs From a Young Jewish Woman and Feminist in Late 20th Century: Seen and Heard
March 1995
Director: Katherine Cauley

Linda Colas
Bold Brave and Beautiful Women Characters in the Amadis de Gaula
August 1995
Director: David Garrison

Erica D. Clay

Finding Expression in Early Harpsichord Music: How Composers of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Early Classical Eras Composed Dynamic Music for an Instrument Lacking Dynamic Variation

March 2004

Director: Charles Larkowski

Shannn Marie Creps

John Knox as a Prophet: Apocalyptic Elements in Scottish Calvinism

1998

Director: Roy Vice

Robert Cronin
The Study of Domestic Violence: Does it Lead Children to Criminal Behavior?
December 1995
Director: Norma Shepelak

Patrick Czupik
Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy in Light of Wagner's Art-Writings
December 2001
Director: Charles Taylor

Robert Darrow
Kierkegaard, Kafka, and the Strength of "The Absurd" in Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac
June 2005
Director: Charles Taylor

Derek Davis

An Overview of Three American Choral Symphonies

November 2008

Director: Charles Larkowski

June deBernardi
Letters from Six Continents
June 1999
Director: Norman Cary

Sherri Lynn Derringer

Women's Campaign for Culture: Women's Clubs and the Formation of Music Institutions in Dayton, Ohio 1888-1933

2007

Director: Marjorie McLellan

Shakti Dieste
Androgyny and Creativity
June 1984
Director: James Hughes

Nancy Diggs
Meet Your Japanese Neighbors: An Introduction for Young People and Others
December 1989
Director: Kenji Oshiro

Ellen Downer
Textbook Analysis: World Cultures 1959-1996
June 1996
Director: James Uphoff

Heinz Alexander Dueffer

Forgotten Internment: The Detention of Latin American Germans in the United States During WWII, Ecuador: A Case Study

1997

Director: Allan Spetter

Diane Dunham
Will in Jazz: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Music and the Aesthetics of Miles Davis
August 1999
Director: Charles Taylor

Arida Emrys
Teeth Mother: A Cross-Cultural Image of Woman
June 1991
Director: John Malarky

Margaret Erin
Aemilia Lanyer: The Music and Poetry of Her Life and Times (1569-1645)
June 2002
Director: Charles Larkowski

Daniel Foley
Globalization as a Contributor to European Racism: Racial Violence in Northern Ireland
June 2005
Director: Douglas Nord

Donna Fox
The Radical Re-Vision of Adrienne Rich
June 1987
Director: Mary Beth Pringle

Sue Ann Fox
The Role of the US in the Cuban Revolution of 1959
December 1987
Director: Charles Berry

Lois E. Foy

Gendered Ideologies: The 1898 Wilmington Race Riot and the Political Disfranchisement of African Americans

May 2005

Director: Paul Griffin

Sandra Francis
Dance in the Peruvian Andes: A Diachronic Study
June 1989
Director: Charles Berry

Sheila Frey
The Impact of the Internet on Gifted and Talented Middle School Students
June 2005
Director: Dan DeStephen

Ellen Friese
Putting on a Public Face: Consumer Culture and the Dayton, Ohio Woman's Suffrage Campaign of 1912-1919 (as viewed through the pages of the Dayton Daily News)
June 2004
Director: Nancy Garner

Connie Galbraith
The Quest Continues: Historical Jesus Research Today - March 1992
Director: David Barr

Christina Garrison
The Role of Women in Manufacturing in the Greater Dayton Area During the World War II Era
June 1992
Director: Judith Sealander

James P. Geary

Social Realism in Central America; the Modern Short Story Translated

June, 2008

Director: David L. Garrison

Janice George
Shakespeare's Critical Portrayal of the Real Shrew in Early Modern English Society
June 2003
Director: Mary Donahoe

Rory Golden
The Broken Bowl: A Japanese Folktale and Its Cultural Context
March 1996
Director: Tsing Yuan

Judith Ilene Gomez

A Comparison of Male and Female Monastic Houses Based on the Visitation Records of William Alnwick, Bishop of Lincoln, 1436-1449

1995

Director:

Michael Hajba
Mysticism, Constructivism, and Neuroscience: Can Neuroscience Pickup Where Constructivism Leaves Off?
December 2002
Director: Mark Verman

Tiffany Harbour

Creating a New Guatemala: The 1952 Agrarian Reform Law

July, 2008

Director: David L. Garrison

Charlotte (Floyd) Harris
Black Women-Winning or Losing?
March 1991
Director: Barbara Green

Rebecca Harris
The Calling of Protestant Women Clergy
June 1995
Director: James Thomas

Barbara Harter
Civic Space in Ancient Athens and Rome -December 1995
Director: Janice Gabbert

Kathy Hayes

The Influence of Family in the Preservation of Appalachian Traditional Music: From the Front Porch to Performance

July, 2008

Director: Mary L. Rucker

Jane Olt Healy

The Austrian Nobility 1798-1848 Persistence or Decline?

September 1994

Director:

Linda Hicks
Bibliographical Essays on Civilization and the Visual Arts in Mid-Nineteenth Century France
June 1988
Director: Andrew Spiegel

Concepcion Holmes
A Study of the Role of Latin America's Religious Heritage as It May Relate to Economic Development in the Region - December 2000
Director: David Orenstein

Ellen Holt
Effects of Vietnam War on Current Foreign Policy
December 1987
Director: James Walker

Connie (Lockwood) Holtson
Joan of Arc
December 1983
Director: William Rickert

Connie Humphreys
A Poetic Approach to Martin Heidegger and Rainer Maria Rilke
August 1995
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Elena Ivanova
An Art-Song Recital: Music, Poetry, and Painting
June 2001
Director: Charles Larkowski

Lila Ivanovska
Factors Influencing Congresswomen's Representation on Women's Issues policies: an Analysis of the FMLA and the WRA
June 2005
Director: Jennifer Subban

Thomas Leo Johnson

Black Hole: The Role of Black Aesthetics in Science Fiction

January 2007

Director: Carol Loranger

Patricia Jones
In the Land Where the Mountains are Gone With Academic Essays Illuminating the Applachian Cultural Context
March 1990
Director: James Hughes

Kelly Joslin
Henri Bergson's Influence on Henri Matisse's Views on the Artist's Nature and Perception
June 1998
Director: Carol Nathanson

Carole Kerber
Viewer-Reader Response in the Work of Robert Coover and Visual Art
August 1985
Director: Thomas Macaulay

Betty Kosicki
An Interpretation of Fra Angelico's San Marcos Altarpiece
May 1986
Director: Eugene Cantelupe

Kathryn (Huff) LaFever
The Religious Role of the Artist: A Comparative Study Based on the Writings of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and Paul Tillich
June 1989
Director: Herbert Neve

Molinda Laux-Miller
Correspondences of Social Work Empowerment Theory and Goddess Spirituality
June 1993
Director: David Orenstein

Dina LeClair
The American Catholic Church and Its Evolving Position on Abortion During the Mid-Nineteenth Century
June 1999
Director: Anne Sisson Runyan

Gail Lichtenfels
Appearance and Reality in Plato and Krisnamurti
August 1994
Director: Ronald Hough

Jeffrey Lubow
The Early History of Temple Israel of Dayton, Ohio: 1850-1920
June 1998
Director: Eric Friedland

John Luchin III

The Evolution of Illustration

March, 2007

Director: Penny Park

René McCullough
Secular Humanism
June 1986
Director: Nicholas Piediscalzi

Merry McDonough
Germans in the Valley: German Immigrants, Their Descendants and Culture in Montgomery County, Ohio 1796-1918
June 1998
Director: Edward Haas

David Manley
The Influence of Kierkegaardian Subjectivity on Heidegger's Ontology of Dasein: The Role of Anxiety
June 1992
Director: Charles Taylor

Stefanie Massink
French Foreign Policy in Rwanda, 1990-1994
August 1998
Director: December Green

Jeanne Masteller
The Education of French Women in 17th & 18th Centuries
December 1986
Director: Pierre Horn

Sarah McGinley
Her Curiosity Universal: The Memory of Anna Williams
August 1994
Director: Mary Beth Pringle

Eric Minton
Cinematic Images of People with Disabilities and Native Americans: A Comparative Study
August 1996
Director: Jan LaForge

Bobbie Mixon, Jr.
Effective Political Satire in Film: A Discussion of Morality and Cognitive Dissonance
June 2003
Director:

Judith Monseur
A Fundamentals of Composition Course for Academically Under-Prepared College Students
March 1992
Director: Lawrence Hussman

Tara Moore-Miller
Sailing From the Island of Lesbos
June 2000
Director: Charles Taylor

Bryan Mullins
Tragedy, Nietzsche's Intention, and the Significance of Culture
March 2002
Director: Charles Taylor

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Nancy Otis
Lest We Forget: Validating Women's Advances and Potential Through a Twenty-First Century Creation Myth - Inspired Narration
November 2003
Director:

David Pace
The Notion of Substance in Aristotelian Thought
June 1999
Director: Martin Arbagi

James Perry
A Defense of Paganism
December 1991
Director: Charles Taylor

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Marsha Monroe Pippenger

Dinner in the City Reclaiming the Female Half of History: Christine DePisan's The Book of the City of Ladies and Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party

July 2007

Director: Thomas Macaulay

Hamid Rafizadeh
Stirner's Philosophical Critique of Education
March 1990
Director: David Orenstein

Shamima Rahman
Poor Urban Women in Bangladesh:Their Economic Activities and Social Status
August 1990
Director: David Orenstein

Marguerite Regan
La Raza: The Mexican Worldview
March 1990
Director: Matthew Melko

Jacqueline Robinson
Emerson's Rhetoric: Restructuring Thought Through Metaphor
2002
Director: James Guthrie

Kimberly Rose
Miami Mekong Traders: Bridging the Culture and Generation Gap Between Vietnamese Parents and Children Through Business Ownership
November 2003
Director:

Christopher Royse
Paying Attention to the Carrot or the Caveat: Do Biological Weapons Pose a Significant Threat to Civilization or Soldiers as a Weapon of War or Terror?
June 1999
Director: Donna Schlagheck

Brian Ruppert
Immanent Holy Grace in the Works of Martin Heidegger Dogen Zenji
June 1986
Director: Willis Stoesz

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Alice Saidel
Fantin-Latour
December 1984
Director: Carol Nathanson

Adrienne St. Pierre
A Study of the Material Culture of Women in Early 19th Century Southern Ohio
June 1988
Director: Karlis Racevskis

David Sansone
Doctrines of Style: An Inquiry Into the Aesthetics of Portrait Photography
March 1994
Director: William Hanks

Sharon Scanlan
A High School Course on Western Worldview
June 1988
Director: Matthew Melko

Jerome Schaaf
Trotwood in Transition
December 1988
Director: Carl Becker

Thomas Schaefer
American Wilderness
June 1985
Director: Judith Sealander

Kathleen Schulz
Childbirth and Dualism in America
June 1990
Director: Mary Beth Pringle

Frederic Sedam
A Matter of Trust: A Study of the Trustworthiness Issue and President Clinton
June 1996
Director: John Morrisette

Michael Seidel
Terror From the Left: A Multi-Disciplinary Case Study of Modern German Leftist Terror-Context and Cause
June 1993
Director: Donna Schlagheck

Roberta Semmett
Strategic & Tactical Intelligence in Classical Greece and Rome
December 1984
Director: Janice Gabbert

April Shultz
Defining the Practice of Female Seclusion in Archaic and Classical Athens
December 1995
Director: Cynthia King

Denise Siler
A Case Study of Vietnam and Cuba: Foreign, Economic and Domestic Policy
August 2000
Director: James Walker

Christopher Siscoe
Exploring the Influenza Epidemic of 1918 in Fayette County, Ohio
August 2000
Director: Anna Bellisari

Deborah Slater
Why Be Equitable? An Economic and Philosophic Inquiry
March 2000
Director: David Orenstein

M. Corryne Smith
Counterintelligence Within the U.S.
December 1990
Director: James Jacob

Robin Smith
Last Knight, First Ace: The Red Baron as Legend and Myth - December 2000
Director: Martin Manner

Sylvia Smith
A Difficult Wisdom and I Write Therefore I Am
August 1989
Director: Karlis Racevskis

Christine Snyder
Central America: Understanding the Struggle
August 1989
Director: Charles Berry

John Sullivan
Greek and Roman Mythology in Art and Literature
June 1987
Director: David Leach

Stephen Sullivan
Developing a Personal Finance Course for Historically Black Colleges & Universities in an Effort to Help Narrow the U.S. Racial Wealth Gap
November 2003
Director: Charlotte Harris

Shan Sutton
The Deadhead Community: Popular Religion in Contemporary American Culture
June 1993
Director: Katharine Dvorak

Karen Swinger
A Conflict Management Concepts Course for Families
August 1993
Director: Lawrence Cross

Laura Trauth
"He That Was Curteyse, Trew, and Faythefull to Hys Frynde": Fellowship and Competition in Fifteenth Century England
June 1996
Director: Martin Arbagi

Kari Tulecke
Adin Ballou, Teacher of Peace
August 1994
Director: Katharine Dvorak

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Cynthia Underwood
The Culture of Black English: A Study of Black English and Its Use
December 1993
Director: Nancy Mack

Ellenmarie Wahlrab
Ten Thousand Things
August 1994
Director: Mary Beth Pringle

Elaine Wallace
A Body of Work Reflecting Upon the Beauty and Aesthetics of the Classical Genre of Sculpture and Printmaking
June 2003
Director: Charles Taylor

Matthew Warner
Finding Performance Practice Solutions for the Flute Music of Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (1680-1730) through Creation of a Performing Edition
August 2005
Director:

Carolyn Welch
Religion and Nationalism in Russia and Ukraine
June 1993
Director: Edgar Melton

Mark Wilcox
The Life and Times of Georg Philipp Telemann
June 2001
Director: Charles Larkowski

Ann Wilger
Becoming Out: The Journey with a Gay Son
June 1995
Director: James Hughes

David Williams
The Function of Tragedy in the Philosophies of Hegel and Nietzsche
August 1989
Director: Charles Taylor

Lora Williams
The Art of Persuasion in Cicero's Philippics
August 1999
Director: William King

Richard Wilson
Matthew and the Essenes
March 2005
Director: David Barr

Chris J. Wolf
Suffering and Self, East and West: A Comparative Analysis
November 2004
Director: Robert Sumser

Wilma Wood
Conflict Within the Old Order Amish Society
June 1993
Director: Lawrence Hussman

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Last updated: December 30, 2008