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 2012
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
Ka’aba Under Communism: Muslim, Regional, and Clan Identity in Soviet Literature of the Caucasus and Central Asia, Kate Pickering '11
Hogar sin luz: Home, Homeland and Personal Space In the Works of Federico GarcÃa Lorca, Ellen Snell '11
Balancing the Scales of Justice: Legal, Ethical Dilemmas within Wrongful Convictions involving Client Confidentiality, Robert Steele '11
Epignetics and Allergic Disease, Jacob Sweeney '11
Literary Genesis, Stephanie Wood '11
Deconstructing Democracy through the Lens of Higher Education, Stephen Worden '11
Conservation in conflict: Reconciling resource management perspectives in a "geographical mosaic", Kate Wright '11
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
An Economic Analysis of Title I of the Genetic Nondis, Elizabeth Cozzi '10
Diagnosing Decisions: An Examination of Medical Career Choices and Their Effects on the Health Care System, Nicole Craker '10
Does the Animal Speak? Narratives of Animality in Four Contemporary Novels, Vicky Googasian '10
Androcentrism in Modern American English: Reforming "the Oppressor’s Language", Kelsey Lee '10
The Economic Influence on Ancient Israelite Law: How Transactions Shape a Society's Identity, Daryl Mowrey '10
The Effects of Gdf8 and Activin A on Muscle Atrophy, Amy Sato '10
Living on Autopilot: How Your Brain Thinks For You, Andrea Stathopoulos '10
LENS: Alternative Realities Including Our Own., Shelby Vorndran '10