Recent History-Philosophy Theses

Below is a list of recent theses in History-Philosophy.  Students considering the major may find it useful to see the kinds of projects previous majors pursued.

2023

Star Goudriaan, "A Negative History of 20th Century Avant-Garde Marxism"
Advisors: Jake Smith and Dennis McEnnerney

2021

Danny Corrigan, "Reframing French Integration and Belonging: Ni Putes Ni Soumises as a War Machine"
Advisors: Bryant Ragan and Jonathan Lee

Ellen Loucks, "The Spiritual Integrity of Puritan Community: Youths, Moral Challenge, and Church Discipline"
Advisors: Carol Neel and John Riker

Jacob Roschelle, "Portraiture of Wilhelm Voigt: Memory, Morality, and National Identity"
Advisors: Jake Smith and Dennis McEnnerney

2020

Benedict Wright, something like Pragmatism and Critical Theory?
Advisors: Carol Neel and Rick Furtak

2019

Sara Fleming, "The (Dis)appearance of Politics: Hannah Arendt’s Phenomenology of Freedom and Meaning in the Public Realm"
Advisors: Susan Ashley and Jonathan Lee

2018

Isaac Rubinstein, "Archive in Digital Age"
Advisors: Susan Ashley and Alberto Hernandez-Lemus

2017

Patrick Glastonbury, ??
Advisors:Susan Ashley

Drew Turly, "Negation and Negated: Seeking a Sublimated Homosexual Consciousness in 1960s London"
Advisors: Susan Ashley and Jonathan Lee

Steve Weinberger, ??
Advisors: Susan Ashley

2014

William T. Brown, "Foundations of Nietzsche’s Ethics: Considering Human, All Too Human in Context"
Advisors: Bryant Ragan and Dennis McEnnerney

Tram Ha, "The Problem of Survival: Women and Poverty in Colonial and Post-Reunified Vietnam."
Advisors: Bryant Ragan and Jonathan Lee

Sarah Stockdale, "The Mennonite as Pariah"
Advisors: Anne Hyde and Dennis McEnnerney

2012

Matthew Beaton, "The Courage of Truth and May 1968: The Student Movement and the Praxis of Revolutionary Life."
Advisors: Bryant Ragan and Jonathan Lee

Sam Brasch, "Aerial Imagining of the Amazon"
Advisors: Anne Hyde

2011

Virginia A. Leise, "Travel and Edith Wharton’s Romance"
Advisors: Carol Neel and Dennis McEnnerney

Brenna Thompson, "Interpreting Communism as a Political Religion"
Advisors: Bryant Ragan and Dennis McEnnerney

2008

Zale Clay, "'A Thousand Dreams That Would Wake Me': An Exploration of the Relationship between Kant and Dilthey"
Advisors: Bryant Ragan and Jonathan Lee

2005

Annalise Zosel-Johnson, "An Inquiry Concerning the Historiography and Philosophy of Prostitution"
Advisors: Bryant Ragan and Jonathan Lee

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