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Honors theses from 2024
Far from first kill: sapphic fan campaigns + the fight for queer television, Lake Best
Gender performance in “cult” conversion narratives: the Twelve Tribes, Navah Chestnut
Iuno… Saevissima: patriarchy, divinity, and villainy in imperial Roman epic, Nolan Michael Cicci
Here (toma): translations between me and my mother, Seth Courtad
Disney's postfeminist follies: Disney’s postfeminist portrayal of women in the age of fourth wave of feminism, Morgan Crafton
BookTok: the cultural phenomenon introducing a stagnated industry to a new generation, Daley Culberson
Logical sense in the skeptical self-refutation problem: Sextus Empiricus’ logos and pathos, Stacy E. Cunningham
Sylvia Plath’s fig tree: discourse formation and the production and consumption of women’s identity, Jane E. Dodge
Smart cities and how they affect those with disabilities, Kassie Dover
Blithe Spirit: an inside look at the scenic design process, Abigail Gracey
Contemplative constructions, Katharine Greenwell
Effects of age and gender on perceptions on victims of financial exploitation, Kathleen Hillman
Do you know the pangolin?: Analyzing biodiversity awareness and attitudes, Ariel "Jazz" Holcomb
Take a hike: a documentary following first time hikers, Katherine Hopper
Understanding Taf13 (TATA box-binding protein-associated factor 13) upregulation in eukaryotic cells, Selin Kaplanoglu
How to get away with insider trading and how to stop it?, Blade H. Kisler
Standing on the front porch of To Kill a Mockingbird, Anna McLain
Beloved other: (re)creating theories of language, time, and embodiment for queer liberations, Salem Murray
Transcendence in Kierkegaard and Barth, Andrew Myrick
Elucidation of the overexpression of Taf2 in eukaryotic cells, Morgan Osborn
The benefits of increasing access to theatre education in K-12 schools, Jaden Partain
The gavel and the camera: environmental law and photojournalism's relationship to Appalachian identity, Emily S. Patton
Rewriting women: the narratives of Angela Carter and Kathy Acker, Marcella Rea
Nonduality and identity: an exploration of form, genre, and perspective, Hannah Ritter
Guardians of the Data: Government Use of AI and IoT in the Digital Age, Jannat Saeed
Multidisciplinary Literary Review: The relationship between social media and empathy, Mayra E. Salgado
Effects of attractiveness and relationship type of perceptions of adolescent sexual grooming, Alexandra Shappley
Better understanding the risks and costs of motherhood in the post-Roe United States, Mackayla Wall
Honors theses from 2023
Examining the microbial diversity of a generalist ant along an urban-rural gradient, Abdol-Munim Abazid
Species diversity of Coleoptera populations in an urban garden in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Mallory Anderson
Examining vicarious racial trauma in college students, Kiara Baker
The Hilbert sequence and its associated Jacobi matrix, Caleb Beckler
On the causation of the Mexican-American War, Emery Benson
Tales of the keyworld: an examination of the study and application of craft theory for writers, Lauren Bruce
Gerrymandering in a selection of central Alabama school districts, Rebekah Cahill
The relationship between voter perceptions of frequency of police use of excessive force and support for the death penalty, Amelia Collins
Assessing the utility of high-throughput phenotyping for ecological applications, Annabree Corlew
Iran's involvement in the Syrian civil war before and after JCPOA, Kaitlin Coulter
Boudica at the intersection: gender, alterity, and narrative in imperial Roman historiography, Adam Cummings
The effects of TikTok's COVID-19 content on anxiety in young adults, Nicholas Fontaine
Modeling surface structures for the capture of carbon dioxide, Paige Freyre
Closing the loop of food systems: analyzing compost within community bounds, Ellen A. Getter
William R. Riley, Richard L. Davis, the United Mine Workers, and the negotiation of race and class in Southern Appalachia, Jameson Hannah
Oxalic acid leaf disk soak assay is a new possibility in screening for blight resistance in Castanea species, Kaitlyn Harden
Circadian rhythm in design: an application of circadian rhythmic elements to the Ridgedale Mill, Jesse Hayes
Portraits of happiness (The performance of happiness: a cultural critique), Meaghan Hibbs
Decades of Don Quixote: tracking social progression through Marcela and Grisóstomo, Allison Jackson
Women, populism, democracy: a comparative study of democracy and populism in Turkey and the United States, Ashton Jolley
Identidem, and other lyric essays, Jude Keef
Fighting AIDS with no help: radical solidarity and how community organizations overcame a neglectful federal government, Sophia Kennan
Royal authority and erotic desires: Marlowe's views on kingship in Dido, Queen of Carthage, and Edward II, Jared Lambert
Perceptions of stress: a gendered comparison of undergraduates in STEM, Molly Martin
Creator as audience: mixtape albums as an expression of life and memory, Sadie Montague
Disability avoidant language and other factors in the erasure of disabled students in sexual education, Mikael Nelson
The Black caucus: a theatrical exploration of the Black experience in a predominantly White institution, Isaiah Owens
Survey of models for "computer music", Gabriel Pell
Barriers in immigrant mental healthcare: women, children and fathers, Alisa Pickett
Viability of equine assisted activities and therapies for individuals with developmental disorders: a systematic review, Faith Pinson
Urban understandings: exploring potential coercion in Lincoln Park’s gentrification process, Jacob Price
Fostering a sense of wonder: promoting experiential learning through outdoor discoveries on the coast of Maine, Joslyn Primicias
Sadder and wiser nonsense: Coleridge's "The rime of the ancient mariner", Nina Richard
Does social organization, litter size, sexual dimorphism, and phylogeny influence multiple paternity in mammals?, Madison Roberts
Stress-sensing in flexible epoxy adhesives, Christine Rukeyser
The immortal laugh track: 20th century technology and media monoculture, Benjamin Sanford
A tale from Esterad: an examination of the political power of fantasy, Koy Skinner
Investigating the responses of gay Gen Z and Gen Y men to homosexual imagery in advertising, Lucas G. Thompson
An archaeology of the self: how experience shapes poetry, Taylor Wells
Hunter: redneck Hamlet, Ewan Whaley
The effect of perceived union support as a resource affecting burnout, Luke Wiley
An analysis of skylight and alternative applications in the adaptive reuse of the Ridgedale Mill, Robyn Wood
Honors theses from 2022
Into the Inferno: a television screenplay adaptation of Dante's Inferno, Khristine Arnold
Beheaded: an alternate look into the life of England's most notorious queen, Marion Renee Burgess
Social change through rhetorical action: case studies of two Tennessee women in the archives, Dalton Burks
Creating a classroom culture, Molly Cahill
The effects of dissolved and suspended solids on freshwater meiofauna, Jessica Cline
Speech acts as contingent encounters: realizing agency in contaminated worlds, Zachary Cross
Reimaging take-up in challenging times: determining the predictive value of publicly available socio-demographic data for social assistance programs, Margaret Dempsey
Assessing the damage: moral realism and the evolutionary debunking argument, Olivia Denton
An argument and model for Garden Corps, Sydney Ellis
Neurotypes: do OCD, ADHD, and autism play a role in life satisfaction?, Morgan McLeod Evans
Beyond the classroom: building professional skills with the Flyaway mural, Augusta Gaston
Aboutness: the lyric essay, Alicia Gladman
The effects of virtual reality on mental health software user satisfaction and retention, William Hooten
Belongingness needs, personality, and the influence of virtual socialization, Katrina Johnson
The impact of water infrastructure inequality on marginalized communities, Indra Khalsa
Understanding the lived experiences of immigrants in the United States, Isabelle Koslin
Multistage modeling of fatigue of Ti-6Al-4V fabricated by different additive manufacturing techniques, Lionardo Lado, Saeed Ataollahi, and Mohammad J. Mahtabi
Theoretical studies of benzoquinone reactivity in acidic and basic environments, Natali Majoras
A seminar for student leaders to engage and retain members in student-led organizations, Luke McPherson
Influence of the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon Christianity, Kimberly Merfert