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Class of 2005-2007
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| Tara Bonistall | American as Apple Pie: Abortion, Sex, and Apathy |
| Matt Clarke | Voices of Home in Bluegrass-Aspendale: Constructing the Ideal |
| Nathan Dickerson | Knowledge and the Christadelphian "Truth" |
| Maggie Dolan | Defining Acceptable Sexual Behavior of Female Characters in Ang Leess Sense and Sensibility and Patricia Rozema's Mansfield Park |
| Jessi Duncan | A Recipe for Change: Eastern Kentucky Food Evolution Since the 1920's |
| Chris Garnett | Accessibility of Poison Control Center Hotlines to Spanish Speaking Callers |
| Jimmy Marcotte | Spatial Melodies: Creating Architectural Space through Music |
| Harry Neack | Kentucky Democratic County Parties: Campaign Strategies and Operations |
| Eric Rickert | Two Fried Eggs, a Kebab, and the Chocolate-smeared Woman: Food Imagery in the Work of Karen Finley and Sarah Lucas |
| Alixa Sharkey | EU Linguistic Policy and Its Effects on the Regional Level: A Comparative Study of Galego in Spain and Breton in France |
| Nathan Wagner | Genuine Negro (playscript) |
| Kayla Rae Whitaker | The Drawn and Quartered Appalachian: The Image of the Hillbilly in Cartoon Animation |
Class of 2004-2006 |
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| Andrew Bozio | Writing the Renaissance: Early Modern Constructions of the Theatre |
| Yuriy Bronshteyn | Footprints in the Sand: The Evolved Human Obsession with Intentionality |
| Mallory Emerson | His Faithful Land: Place, Spirituality, and Continuity in John Steinbeck's Fiction |
| Mandy Gatewood | Sha-Sha |
| Joseph Grabau | Homer and the Self: Problems of Identity in the Odyssey |
| Aimee Lynne-Hirschowitz | Beyond Words: Tales from the Other Side (a 2006 Art Installation) |
| Jason Richards | The Stone Wall as Reinterpreted in the Contemporary Central Kentucky Landscape |
| Nick Smith | Waiting on the Lord |
| Silvia Timmerding | The Life and Poetry of Julia de Burgos: “I will be in their midst with the torch in my hand” |
| Daniel Turner | The Indigenous Software Industry of Ireland |
| Erik Tuttle | He Who Saw the Deep |
| Raabia Wazir | |
Class of 2003-2005
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| Jessica Blank | Through the Oral History of Capoeira: From Resistance to the Brazilian National Fight |
| Brandon Fenley | Hope Chest: Memoirs on Agrarianism |
| Patrick Hobgood | Constructing Community: An Exhibition of the Voice of Goodloetown |
| Mark Kidd | 26 Short Poems about Agriculture, Mexican Cinema, Robots, the Apocalypse, and Love |
| J.T. Knadler | Penning the President: Images of Lyndon Johnson in Political Cartoons 1964-1966 |
| Jessica Miller | Feeding a Global Movement with Local Food: Community Farm Alliance and Kentucky's Post-Tobacco Farm Economy |
| Kevin Moser | History, The Classically Novel Idea: Searching for scholar influence in the Historical novels of Mary Renault |
| Kimberly O’Donnell | The Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003: An Economic, Peaceful, Silent, Deadly Remedy |
| Patrick Thomas | The Museum of Teeth and Eyes |
| Jordan Wood | Invaders at the Door |
| Emily Youatt | Community Home-Based Care: A Women-Centered Approach |
Class of 2002-2004
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| Lauren Argo | The Noise in the Room |
| Eileen Broomall | The Stoic and the Other: Justifying Activism and Public Involvement In Seneca's Stoicism |
| Melanie Fee | A Letter Would Have Been Fine |
| Dustin Harris | Life, Freewill, and Responsibility in The Brothers Karamazov |
| Thomas Johnston | An Appalachian Odyssey: Epic Devices in Mountain Ballads |
| William Andrew Lewis | At the Request of the Stones: Taboo in the Stone-Setting of Japanese Gardens |
| Aumaine Mott | Song of Two Sisters |
| Lori Ann Prater | La La Laboratory: The Inspirations of Science |
| Lesli Proffitt | The Secretariat's Intervention: UN Activism and the Peking Mission of 1955 |
| James Seaver | Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition: American Military Chaplains of World War II and the Psychospiritual Impact of War |
| Mark Youssef | The World of Mark Youssef: Contemporary Giant and Provider of the Living Will. An Epic Poem: On Creation and Destruction |
Class of 2001-2003
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| Alex Brooks | Dreaming of Kentucky |
| Lindsey Clouse | Bonobo Minds: Language, Memory and Planning in Humanity's Closet Relative |
| Jeremiah Davis | Property and Ownership in the Writings of St. John Chrysostom |
| Shayla Lawson | The Lion: A Study of Jehovah's Witness Memoirs and Nazi Persecution |
| Haans Mott | nun creature artist disease spaceman: a romance in five lamentations |
| Lester Miller | Situating Land Reform in Mexico: A Look at Guelace |
| Julie Murray | The Making of Women’s Morality: The Historical and Contemporary Importance of Motherhood and Race in Welfare and Abortion Policy |
| Alyssum Pohl | Girning and Its Cultural Relevance |
| Phillip Sauerbeck | The Translation Memoirs: A Meditative Exploration of Translation Theory |
| Garrett Sparks | Power, Affirmation, and Little Girls: The Doctor Stories of William Carols Williams |
| Courtney Stoll | Edward S. Curtis's Photographs: Post-Modernism, Re-enactment, and Contextual Value |
Class of 2000-2002
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| Ben Allen | September 11: A Perceptual Crisis |
| Stephanie Blessing | Distrust, Confusion and Conflict Among Agents in the Wake of the Martin County coal Slurry Impoundment Break on October 11, 2000 |
| Elizabeth Frank | Abruptly Organic: Post-Soviet Agricultural Reform and the Emergence of a Cuban Campesio Tradition |
| Finn Green | Adolescent Substance Use and Abuse |
| Rebecca Greene | The Last Socially Acceptable Prejudice: How Eastern Kentuckians Perceive Linguistic Bias Against Themselves |
| Johnna Hertzfeld | |
| Amanda Holloway | America's Pursuit for Identity through the Images of Pocahontas in the U.S. Capitol Artwork |
| Jennifer Kasten | The Whip of God for the Sins of Man: Ideas about Malaria in Haiti, Nepal, and the West |
| Brian Lush | The Death of Tragedy: Nietzsche's Critique of Socratic Method in Euroipides |
| Laura Marscher | When Winter Changes to Autumn: Viewing Direction in Japanese Media |
| Courtney Reynolds | The University of Kentucky Student Center: The Reflection of a Fragmented Student Culture |
| Tony Smith | Steal This Thesis: An Introduction to Modern Copyright |
| Laura Stipanowich | The Elgin Marbles and their Impact on Nineteenth-Centurty British Identity |
| Jay Varellas | The War on Drugs and Empire: Assessing a New Political-Economy Approach to Crisis, Control and Legitimation in the Postmodern World |
Class of 1999-2001
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| Haviland Argo | Antinio Sant'Elia, the Architect of Transition |
| Mandy Chiles | Psychological Escapes of Slave Children in Family, Literacy and Spirituality |
| Jon Daugherty | The End of the Magic Line: Dichotomies of the Study of the Cult of the Virgin |
| John Eifler | Responsibility and Power: The Disagreements Among the Leaders of the Allied and Nazi Nuclear Weapons Projects |
| Glenn Rudolph | Moros, Espaldas Mojadas, and Los Sin Papeles: Moroccan Immigration to Spain and the Question of Shared History and Tolerance |
| Amy Shelton | Readin', Rightin', and Route 23 |
| Kelley Shields | Celebration in Mutton Heaven: Exploring the Owensboro-Daviess County International Bar-B-Q Festival |
| Brittany Strobel | The Appalachian Trail: An American Pilgrimage |
| Kristina Talbert | Genetically Modified Organisms From the Farmer's Perspective: A Survey of Two Kentucky Counties |
Class of 1998-2000 |
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| Clay Dunn | Finding Voice for the Lyric Theater: An Oral History |
| Tom Hale | Rituals of Maritime Cultures in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |
| Karyn Hinkle | The Ariadne Express Panels and the Identification of Sixth Century Ivories as Five Part Diptych Leaves |
| Katherine Holloway | A Comparison of Women's changing Roles in Advertising |
| Paul Jensen | |
| Tyler Powell | Advertising and Designing Nixon's "China Picture Show" |
| Trish Raque | The Coronation of Nicholas II and its Intrinsic Ambiguity |
| Kristen Wagner | The Role of Deindividualization in Moshing |
| Sean Zehnder | Mother, Father and "I": A psychoanalytic study of the Sound and the Fury |
Class of 1997-1999
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| Capri Brixey | Thomas Merton's Concept of the Soul: The Seven Story Mountain and Zen and the Birds of Appetite |
| Shawn Chapman | The Truth is Out There: The Infiltration of Conspiracy Theories into American Popular Narratives |
| Melody Flowers | Building Communities: Struggles of Women in Kentuckians for the Commonwealth |
| Jeffrey Fugate | Powerful Music: Activist-Musicians in Appalachia |
| Kimberly Glenn | An American-Russian Comparative Study of How Politics Have Shaped the International Space Station Programg |
| Andrew Grotto | The Intersection of Malcolm X's Perception of Islam with His Post-Hajj Program for Social Change |
| Elizabeth Jones | Self and Context in Two Films of Woody Allen |
| Mark Linton | "Making the Bed to Make the Bed:" Thich Nhat Hanh and Thomas Merton's Process of Becoming |
| Emily Petrovic | Songs of Love: Sara Teasdale's Relationships with Women And their Influence on Her Poetry |
| Jennifer Schepers | Politics of Distraction: Foreign Policy toward Japan as Used by the Chinese Communist Party to Gain Legitimacy |
| Daniel Stuber | The Heart of a Nation: Sacred Space and its Impact on Protest Movements in China and Mexico |
Class of 1996-1998
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| Tara Anderson | The Paris Opera of Charles Garnier: Form, Function and Style |
| Katy Chiles | Storytelling as a Creator of Women's Communities in Literature by Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor |
| Gottlieb Duwan | The Spatial Construction of Oppression in the Oriente of Ecuador |
| Christopher Fuhrmann | Catholic Consolidation of Donatist Decline: 347 to 361 |
| Therese Gleason | "Main Street Memories": An Oral History Exploring the Sense of Community on Lexington's Main Street, 1918-1945 |
| Matt Steele | Through the Mirror: T. Crunk's Living in the Resurrection |
| Kathryn Thurman | Yosemite National Park and Late Nineteenth Century Interpretations of the Sublime Landscape |
| Jamie Winders | Where We've Walked: African-American Neighborhoods and Beyond, Lexington, Kentucky, 1910-1950 |
| Aaron Zerhusen | The Philosophical Impact of Georg Cantor's Set Theory |
Class of 1995-1997
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| Lori Adcock | The Spatial Significance of the Corner in Modern American Literature |
| Brian Berger | Roads and the American Landscape: Perspective From a Changing Venue |
| Oliver Brewer | Immortal Songs-Essential Signs: Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Gregorian Chant |
| Kelley Chinen | Putting to Music the Western Bias: The Asian Woman As "Other" in the Opera "Madame Butterfly", 1904 |
| Matthew Grunkemeyer | Archeology, Technology and Social Justice in Medical Art: Diego Rivera's Mural at the Hospital de la Raza The History of Medicine in Mexico: The People's Demand for Better Health |
| Margaret Litton | Reader Response to the Grotesque: A Case History |
| Christopher Miculus | From the Assertive to the Negotiated: Television Advertising, Relationship Marketing, and Interactivity |
| Jessica Moss | "Never Good Enough:" Hollywood's Problematic Relationship With Mothers and their Daughters |
| Callie Owen | Ritual in Blue: University of Kentucky Basketball as Myth |
Class of 1994-1996
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| Steven Allen | The Psychological Costs of Kentucky Slavery |
| Julie Lipschutz | "I'm not prejudiced, but…": An Examination of Racism in the Kentucky Kernel |
| Julie Marrett | A Reevaluation of Culture and Communism in Post Renaissance Harlem |
| Evan Reynolds | The Periodic Spectacle of Tarantino Violence |
| Amy Richardson | Desegregation in Louisville: The Busing Crisis of 1975 |
| Amelia Weinfurter | The Role of Ideological Unity in Utopian Theory and Practice |
| Avi Weitzman | The Deafening Silence: The American Jewish Community's Reaction To the Jonathan Pollard Affair |
| Fong Zhu | Entropy, Energy, Environment, and Economics |
Class of 1993-1995
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| Leslie Anglin | From Vaudeville to Seinfeld: A Renaissance of American Comedy |
| Preeti Bansal | Kamala Markandaya: Indo-Anglian Novels of Exile |
| Sabrina Billings | Barbara Kruger's Art-In-Culture: A Study in Audience Manipulation And Mobilization |
| Daxon Caudill | Rank Strangers: Ancestor Worship as an Idiom of Kinship and Afterlife in Appalachia |
| Matt Cutts | A Case Study of Computers in the Humanities: Computer-Aided Analysis of Marbling |
| Kenneth Hamilton | Windows of the Soul: The Ealing Comedies of Alexander Mackendrick |
| Irene Hong | Navigating the Labyrinth of Language in Alzheimer's Caregiving: Caregiver Burden and Communication |
| Justin Maxson | The Experienced Self: Identity, Anthropology and Islam |
| Donald Puckett | Power, Crime and American Democracy: The Essentialist Perspective |
| Laurie Warnecke | The Woman's Protest: Female Anti-Suffragism in the United States 1870-1920 |
Class of 1992-1994
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| Paul Brewer | A Sense of Place in English Fantasy Literature |
| David Pace | The Land Grant University System: A Brief History of a Uniquely American Institution |
| Rebecca Perkins | The Changing Image of Women in Yearbooks Since 1950 |
| Ghada Qaisi | Women of the Intifada: Political Crisis and Social Change |
| Johnathan Reeves | A Balance of Values in the Magic Mountain |
Class of 1992-1993
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| Joe Compton | Shakespeare in Berlin After World War II |
| Nora Cummane | Multiplicity, Exaggeration, and Parody: Strategies for Disrupting Objectification in the Performances of Karen Finley and Cindy Sherman |
| Gina Harris | The Mystique of the Rose |
| Thomas A. Jones | America's Obelisks and Their History |
| Paul Presler | No Revolution Without Emancipation: Women and the Nicaraguan Revolution |
| Alan Purcell | The Aristocratic Fathers: St. Damascus, St. Ambrose, and a New Role for the Christian Church |
| Laura Whitney Sauer | Light the Fires, It's Time to Eat!: A Study of Folk Barbecuing and Burgoo Making in Daviess County, Kentucky |
Class of 1990-1992
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| N. Alan Cornett | The Rise of the Modern American Conservative Movement: William F. Buckley and Russell Kirk, 1951-1955 |
| Rebecca Davis | Lynch, Fellini and the Female Grotesque: Two Dreamers and the Women Who Threaten Them |
| Thomas B. Herman | The Development of the Image of Adolf Hitler in the American Political and Animated Cartoon |
| Karla J. Howell | The Effect of the Author-Editor Relationship on Character Development in Bobbie Ann Mason's Early Short Stories, In Country, and Spence + Lila |
| Adam Kegley | An Examination of Style in Four Contemporary Films |
| David King | The Socratic and Euripidean Elenchus: A Comparison of Argumentative Structure and Method of Refutation |
| Lynn R. Posze | The Loss of Humanity: Deterioration of the Minds of Persons With Alzheimer's Disease |
Class of 1989-1991
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| Julie Esselman | Stories of Dying: The Role of Narrative to Dying People and Their Care |
| Chris Green | Coscientizacao: A Theory of Community in Little Magazines |
| Thomas A. McKinney | The Strategic Defense Initiative and Apollo: An Investigation of Technological Rationalization in American Society |
| Jennifer Polley | Reconstructing Phallic Theory as Feminist Praxis |
| Jeffrey B. Schanding | Is the Mind a Machine? |
| Neil Scheurich | Individual and Society in Herman Hesse's The Glass Bead Game |
| Jill E. Uhl | Meares Island: A Puzzle of Perspectives |
| David M. Walsh | The Goals of Development Aid: A Historical Look at Reagan's Aid Policy to Liberia |
Class of 1988-1990
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| Peter Dendle | Proverbs and Generalizations in The Canterbury Tales: A Study of The Nominalism- Realism Debate in Relation to Chaucer |
| Mary Beth Brookshire-Young | Truth, Freedom, and Reconciliation: The Aesthetics of Mathematics since 1860 |
| Yolanda Estes | Hegel's Differenschrift and its Relation to German Idealism |
| Heather Kennedy | The Subversive Impulse in the Underground Comic Book |
| Lynn A. Pace | Red Wheelbarrows and White Nightgowns: Symbolic Associations Of Color in the Imagist Poetry of William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens |
| Donald Ray Yates | The Shining Palace of Sand: Images from the Camelot Era |
Class of 1987-1988
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| Annalee E. Cato | The Idea of the Labyrinth in Postmodern Art and Literature |
| Laura J. Guzman | Two Groups of Cuban-American Artists |
| Kelly Johnson | Religion in Appalachian Coal Camps During the Early Twentieth Century |
| Greg Roberts | Toward an Understanding of the Human Condition Were the People Buying What the Railroads Were Selling? |
| Melissa Shore | Perceptions of the Railroad in America from 1875 to 1925 |
| Mark Vest | Anglo-Scott Relations, 1603-1660 |
| Joan Williams | Perestroika and its Precedents |
Class of 1986-1987
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| Sara R. Caldwell | The Treatment of Religion in Science Fiction |
| Stephen T. Freeland | International Law and the U.S. Raids on Lybia |
| Christopher J. Pramuk | The Musical Catharsis |
| L. Fran Stewart | History: A Matter of Time, Date, Place and People |
| Maria Trotter-Baughman | Aztec Religion and its Amalgamation with Politics in Relation to The Rise and Fall of the Aztec Civilization |
Class of 1985-1986
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| Lori Blanton | Alexandra Kollantai and the Bolshevik Movement Toward Women's Emancipation |
| Lisa Catron | A Beginning Philosophys |
| Charles Ison | The Wise Physician |
| Laura Eugenia Latimer | History and Involvement of the Catholic Church in the Modern Crisis of Central America |
| Ouita Papka | Mind-Forg'd Manacles: Indoctrination in the Public Schools |
| Douglas R. Schulte | Some Thoughts about Life and Living |
| Hays Steilberg | Conceptions of Evil and the Failure of Myth in Three Works of 20th Century German Literature |
| M. Genevieve Swift | Jo/Joe Daniel: A Daughter in Search of Herself |
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