The Honor Scholar Program is open to DePauw students of any major who show unusual promise and commitment to the development of the life of the mind. Each year a small number of carefully selected first-year students are invited to participate in the program and the special opportunities it presents. During their final year at DePauw, Honor Scholars pursue independent work under the direction of a faculty thesis advisor and a committee of two or more additional faculty members, culminating in an Honors thesis.
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
Belonging in This Place: Belonging in an Undergraduate University , Samantha Ostreicher
Processing the Unfamiliar: American Soldiers Processing Vietnam Through Photography , Anna Savery
Designer Babies: A Paired Analysis of the Technological Advances and Ethical Implications of Genetic Selection , Alexandra Schmerge
Defending University Speech Codes: An Essay on Why Universities Speech Codes Make Sense , Daniel Alexander Schultz
Milk For Lunch: The History and Health of Milk in School Lunches , Thomas Shelton
What Happens After Treatment: Improving Quality of Life in Adolescents and Young Adults , Nichole Smith
From Straitjackets to Jumpsuits: America's Mental Healthcare Crisis , Madeleine Storm
Breaking Down the 21st Century Newscast: Corporate Control Over the Content of the Local Newscast , Katie Tipsword
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
Graduate Medical Education: Ready for Reform An Analysis of the Current State of Change in Pediatric Residencies , Mallory Benson
The Dark Triad of Personality: A Discussion of the Moral and Evolutionary Implications , Evelyn C. Brosius
The Royal Disease and The Royal Collapse: Political Effects of Hemophilia in the Royal Houses of Europe , Amy Brown
Light Shines Earnest , a full length play by William James Burke and Divergent Drag Aesthetics — Interrogating the Reaches of Gender and Gendered Imagery in Drag Performance , William James Burke
All Hail Helix: The Internet’s Role in the Creation of Culture and Narrative , Margaret Furtner
The Model Minority Myths: Racism And Sexism Against Asian-American Community , Yingda Guo
“She brought it on herself”: A Discourse Analysis of Sexual Assault in Teen Comedy Film , Claire Halffield
Translating the Histories: The Spanish accounts of the New World conquests adapted into English , Josh Hanselman
The Priest, The Mystic, and The Reincarnate: The Religious Experience of Poetry in Donne, Rumi, and The Karmapa , Mallory Hasty
Education or Indoctrination? World War II Ideologies Under Leaders Hitler and Mussolini - Education Systems and Propaganda Campaigns , Allison Hills
The Comfort Women System: Sexual Slavery during World War II , Christine Kim
Reaching Further: the Role of Distance in College Undermatching , Lois Miller
The Art of Borrowing: Intertextuality in the French Motet of the Late Middle Ages , Eleanor Price
Locked Up then Locked Out: Reentry Programming and Women’s Post-Carceral Success , Mary Reising
The Congregation of Heroes: A Skyrim Representation , Richard Smith
Explorations of Quantum Entanglement , John Stanton
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
The Worst Place in the World to be a Woman?: Women's Conflict Experiences in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Megan Bailey
Muscle Memory: Stories , Hannah N. Bradley
In the Light of Evolution: Human Nature, Political Behavior, and Making Sense of Our Social Identity , Corby F. Burger
Age-Related Hearing Loss: Inhibition--Excitation Balance in the Rat Inferior Colliculus , Sydney Cason
Pseudonymous Disguises: Are Pen Names An Escape From the Gender Bias in Publishing? , Nettie Finn
Where Does That Flower Bloom , Conner Gordon
Deceleration of droplets that glide along the free surface of a bath , Jacob Hale and Caleb Akers
Love and Marriage: a Narrative Exploration , Emily Hancock
The Method of Madness: a Brief Biography of Schizophrenia , Riley Hawkins
Keeping Up Appearances: Perfectionism and Perfectionistic Self-Presentation on Social Media , Emily Hellmann
Towards Sustainable Rural Japan: a Case Study on Urban-Rural Migration Motives , Lisa Kanai
Collective Action and Decision Making: An Analysis of Economic Modeling and Environmental Free-Riding , Thomas Miller
Bitcoin's Global Potential: Examining the Obstacles to Becoming a Legitimate Financial Tool , Nicholas J. Moorman
Our GMO Labeling Debate: Human Health, the Environment, and the Precautionary Principle , Kate Porfilio
Deep Silences in the Long Night: Meditations on Zapatismo, Coloniality, and the Global Ecological Crisis , Burke Stanton
The Allure of Music: Implications for Academically Gifted Students , Erin Tolar
Crusaders in Khaki: Britain, the Crusades, and the First World War , Rhys Weber
Consuming Culture: Effects of Globalization in American Japanese Restaurants , Danielle Wenning
Genetic Analysis and the Ethics of Secondary Findings , Jacob Zieba
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
Christianity and Communicative Technologies: A Focus on Cyber-Catholicism’s Influence on Political Activism in the US , Brandon Bekkering
A Five Million Year Old Experiment: The Evolutionary Dynamics of a Cave Environment , Tyler Bussian
Musical Stairs: Encouraging Physical Activity through Persuasive Technology , Meagan Combs
Mahler the Enigma: Progressive Composer, Traditional Conductor , Anna Gatdula
The Sub-Saharan Water Crisis: An Analysis of its Impact on Public Health in Urban and Rural Nigeria , Megan Hannemann
