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 2014
German Foreign Policy in the Cyber Age, Patrick Schmitz 14
From Marsquakes to Terraforming: the Role of Planetary Geology in Science Fiction Literature, Katherine Shover 14
Ecology, Emotion, and Culture: The Moral Psychology of Environmentalism, Camille G. Veri 14
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Metropolitan Myth: Catastrophic Language, Ecologies of Violence, and the Storm of Progress in a South Asian City, Kartik Amarnath '13
Press ‘A’ to Speak: Videogames as a Storytelling Medium, Brian Banta '13
Seeing Candidates Through a Gendered Lens: How Differential Media Coverage Serves as a Barrier to Women's Political Participation, Shelby Bremer '10
Early Warning for the Responsibility to Protect, Henry Dambanemuya '13
Democracy, Identity and Anti-Americanism in Turkey: Implications for United States-Turkey Relations, Jeff Easterling '13
Internet Dating: News Media’s Battle to Court a Clicking Audience (and Why an Updated Ethics Code Could Help), Chase Hall '13
Leaving No Child Behind: Finding a Happy Medium for Science Education, Chris Jennings '13
Greenwashing: The Ethics of Green Marketing, Alex Landreville '13
Reinvesting in Art Education in Putnam County: An Analysis and Case for The Castle, Emily Miller '13
A Climate for Swelling: The Social & Biological Impacts of Lymphatic Filariasis on Males & Females in Developing Countries, Arezoo Nazari '13
Moving to the beat: musical rhythm as a cipher for priming, synchronizing, and entrainment in the premotor cortex, Mikey Padilla '13
Anachronistic Policies in the United States: What All Policymakers Need to Know About Marijuana, Alex Riggs '13
Academic Integrity: Values, Responsibilities, and Policies in Postsecondary Education, Sara Scully '13
Defining Humanity: Gender and Equality in the French Revolution, Erin Sheek '13
The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth and Its Implications, Mark Tolley '13
BLOODSPEAK or How the girl gew up with horror, MacKenzie Weeks '13
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Fraught with Zigzags: A realist examination of evolving Great Power-Iraeli relations, Macy Ayers '12
Untold Stories of Human Cargo, Taylor Beaty '12
Parallel Lives: Similarities Between the Lived Experiences of Persons with Cancer and HIV, Danielle Boyd '12
My Life Was Worth Something: Biographical and Autobiographical Memoirs, Laura Bruce '12
Life Beyond The Haze: The risks, reasons and rewards of dealing and doing in college, Matthew Cecil '12
From the Caped Crusader to the Dark Knight: An Application of Robert Ray's Official and Outlaw Hero Framework to Batman, Daniel Cetina '12
Consecration of the City of the Gods: Teotihuacan, 1891-1922, Samuel Holley-Kline '12
Mzungus, Mugazi, and Mitengos: A Case Study of HIV/AIDS Education in Lilongwe, Malawi, Stewart Jones '12
Meditation: The Physiological and Psychological Benefits, Karishma Kollipara '12
Romance Novel Heroines Don't Judge Books By Their Covers, Do You?: Popular Perceptions of the Romance Genre Investigated, Nicole Koschmeder '12
The Giant Danio (D. aequipinnatus) as a Model of Cardiac Remodeling and Regeneration, Pascal J. Lafontant, Jamie A. Grivas, Mary A. Lesch, Lala Tanmoy Das, and Tyler D. Frounfelter
Minority Rights and Health Care Equity in Turkey, Katherine Logan '12
M.O.O.H. (Mirrors and Other Occupational Hazards), A Novel by C. T. Hamsford, Kyle Macy '12
Red Chairs and Green Monsters: The Evolution of Fan Culture in Boston Baseball, Kristina McLane '12
Remittance and Poverty Reduction: A study of post-conflict migration from Nepal, Shreeya Neupane '12
Causes of the Vietnamese Brain Drain Syndrome, Phuong Nguyen '12
The Cinderella Connection: Structural Resonance of a Narrative Motif, Katie Owens '12
The History of Foreign Language Pedagogy: From Methodology to Psychology, Alyssa Pilli '12
Extraction Politics: An Economic Analysis of Rare Earth Elements, Aishwarya Subbaraman '12
From "Three or Four Families" to the Global Screen: Jane Austen's Cinematic Popularity in the 1990s, Elaine Wiley '12
Predicting Flow at Work: An Investigation of Motivation, Task Characteristics, and Personality Traits, Katherine Wood '12
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Representations of English in France: Conflict and opportunity in language and identity, Matt Brauer '11
Marathon: From Myth to the Modern Era, Alana DeWitt '11
How to Blow Up a Wal-Mart Without Getting Caught and Without Blowing It Up: an Exploration of Social Protest, Change, and Crime on Stage A, Mike Duffy '11
Coal Mining, Masculinity and Meth: the Development of Appalachia and its Modern Crisis, Kerry Hobson '11
After the Ball: The effect of Cinderella seasons on college admissions and enrollment at NCAA Division I institutions, Meredith McGrady '11
Deconstructing the Argentine Metanarrative: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Evolution of Memory of the Dirty War (1976-1983), Emily Meyers '11
Pacifying Violence: The Ethics and Responsibility of Living in a Militarized Society, Kevin Milne '11
Pour vous, qu'est-ce qu'etre Francais?: The Politics of French National Identity in the 21st Century, Hallie Moberg '11
Putnam County Through the Lens: Creating Community with Art, Caroline Murphy '11