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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

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

Micah David Collins
What the Religions Named in the Qur'an Can Tell Us About the Earliest Understanding of "Islam"
June 2012
Director: Awad Halabi

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

 

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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

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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

Darin Paul Dillinger
A Guide to Acquiring Healthy Nutrition and Fitness Habits for College Students: Preventing Diabetes, Hypertension, Coronary Heart Disease, and Strokes
2012
Director: 

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

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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:

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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

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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:

Jonathan Case Henderson

Imam, Shah, and Ayatollah: Charismatic Leadership in the Shi'i Tradition, and its Role in Iran's Shi'ite Revolutions

June 2010

Co-Directosr:Awad Halabi and Ava Chamberlain

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

Valerie Jean Meadows Hudson
Living with the American Dream: An Art Installation Exploring Cultural Impositions of Body Control on Women and a Look at Clothing as a Narrative in Feminist Art
June 2009
Director: Thomas Macaulay

Connie Humphreys
A Poetic Approach to Martin Heidegger and Rainer Maria Rilke
August 1995
Director: Charles Taylor to top

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

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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

Joseph Lauricella
The synthesis of the Tree of Life
June 2009
Director: Ava Chamberlain

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

Frank Leibold
Israelite Bread: Mundane and Consecrated
July 2011
Director: Mark Verman

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

Idriss Dimitri Onkouni Lomba
Preventing HIV/AIDS in Gabon by Promoting Culturally Appropriate Health Education Programs
August 2010
Director: December Green

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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

Kenneth David Miller
Transportation Revolution and the Development of Oakwood, Ohio

1870-1930
1998
Director:

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

Rebekkah Mulholland
Cullah Mi Gullah, Re-Imaging African American Female Artists and the Sea Islands: Exploring Africanisms and Religious Expressions in Creative Works
June 2012
Director: Tracy Snipe

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

Stephen w. Rumbaugh
The Society Project
May 2011
Director: Erin Flanagan

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

Joseph Allen Severyn
Invisible Man: The Collaborative Pianist
November 2011
Director: Dennis Loranger

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 August 29, 2012
Gabriela Pickett

Gabriela Pickett, M. HUM. (2009)