Past CHID Theses

CHID Theses are archived online at the University of Washington Libraries' digital repository, DSpace.  Please visit the archives online at the Comparative History of Ideas Undergraduate Theses site.

Recent thesis titles (click to view):

2006

• Moving Beyond Borders: The Creation of Nomadic Space through Travel, Erin Bestrom

• The Elements of Hope in the Scientific Knowledge, Christine R. Callo

• Specters of Badiou: The Deconstructive Immortal, Patrick Campbell

• MUDdying the Waters of Identity: Gender and Sexual Identity, Jay Holden Kipp

• A Creative Cure for the Postcolonial "Condition", Celia Kerr

• HIV and AIDS: Tools for Understanding the Liberal Citizen, Preetma Kooner

• A Vida Na Favela (Life in the Favela), Jane McGraw

• Berryman's Voice, Matt Stoltz

2005

• Towards a Nomadic Theory of Architectures: Shelter, Dwelling, and their Alternatives in the Architectures of Homelessness, Matthew Allen

• Trickster Hermeneutics:  Tactics For Travelers, Kurt Delaney

• The Impact of Technology in the Radio Broadcasting Field, Teisha Derenick

• Legitimizing a Collaborative Alternative Method to the Traditional Comparative History of Ideas Thesis Requirement, Julie Havens

• Narrativism and Biography: A Historiographic Reflection on Marget Thomas, Adrian Hegyary

• “We Are the Tiniest Particle”: Authorial Agency and the Body, Kanna Hudson

• Past, Present, and Politics: A Look at the Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement, Amanda Pacheco

• A South African Journey to Unity in Diversity: Psychological Barriers and Bridges, Elhaum Simmons

• Democracy Over the Airwaves: An Examination of South African Radio and Political Reform, Valerie Trask

A list of past CHID thesis titles available for perusal in the CHID office is included below.

• The Urban Tourist, Kendall C. Watt, 2002.

• Investigation into Nonphysical Reality, Adrian Bathurst, 2002.

• Pynchonean Postmodernism: Theoretical Implications in Gravity's Rainbow, Cara Ogburn, 2002.

• Caring in Schools: A Theoretical approach to Changing Education, Rosanne Ritch, 2002.

• Architecture: The Timeless Translation of Ideals, Ryan Fish, 2002.

• Will Pay for Change: The Transformative Role of Art in Anti-Corporate Globalization Protest, Sarajoy Van Boven, 2002.

• Why Anthropologist Shouldn't Answer Rhetorical Questions: Discursive Perspectives on the Ecological Indian, Havala Osdoba, 2001.

• An Answer for Flaubert: The Place of Sexual Inquiry in the Comparative History of Ideas Department, Jennifer Fleck, 2001.

• Electronic Chorus, Laura Barrett, 2001.

• The Creation of Perpetrators of Violent Acts during Northern Ireland's Troubles Analyzed through Criminologist Lonnie Athens' Theories of Criminalization, Christine L. Christensen, 2001.

• La Voz "Nochera": El gitano, el cante jondo y la politica en el Romancero gitano y Poema del cante jondo de Federico Garcia Lorca, Loren R. Cokrell, 2001.

• The Role of Diction in Plato, Aristotle, and Isocrates, Brian W. Frazer, 2001.

• Paederasty and the Politics of Penetration: The Question of Homosexuality in Ancient Athens, Stacy Moran, 2000.

• Echoes of Representation: A Meditation and Historical Exploration of the Emergence of Self-Expression, its Functions and Implications, Quinn Andrews, 2000.

• Sincerity and Performance: Some Reflections on Language, Identity, and Being, Gordon Potter, 2000.

• The Radiant Foundations of the Self: Bridging Autopoietic Cybernetics and Kashmiri Shaivism, a Medieval Tantric Philosophy, Matthew Jason Eliot, 2000.

• Altering Understanding, Creating Critical Minds, Engaging Students: A Case for Fostering Educational Experiences in Study Abroad Programs, Carley Francis, 2000.

• An Urban Land Use and Transportation Model as Integrated Assessment Tool, Nathan Freier, 2000.

• The Configuration of Show Horses: An Analysis of the Nature, Origin, and Consequences of their Synthetic Production, Lea Christine Frey, 2000.

• Biology and Economics, Rod Krafka, 2000.

• An Enema for the Dismal Science, Louis Porter, 2000.

• Cultural Tourism and Cultural Contact: Dialogue, Displacement and Disorientalism, Sabrina Darya Sadeghi, 2000.

• The Self as Act and Illegibility: Towards a Foucauldian Vision of the Subject, Sex, and Resistance, H.P. Canwell, 1999.

• A Good Metaphor is Hard to Find: Word Games and the 'Failure' of Philosophy in Cortazar's Hopscotch, Stephen Twilley, 1999.

• Window Well, Matthew Obst, 1999.

• The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Insight or Excuse?, Terri Major, 1997.

• In Defense of Enlightenment: Walter Benjamin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the History of the Jewish-German Dialogue, Jess Olson, 1997.

• Cyborgs, Nathan Maurer, 1996.

• When in Rome...Pictures and More from the Eternal City, Nathan Maurer, 1996.

• Being Here and There: The Risk of Contagion, Erin K. Schneider, 1996.

• Thinking Bodies, Sandra Clarke, 1995.

• An Analysis of the Dewey Decimal Classification System, Angelina M. Giotti, 1994.

• Innocence Abroad: Tramping Europe at 64 on $100/wk, Irv Thomas, 1994.

• Speaking of Language: Perspectives on the Role of Language in the United States, Dana K. Petteys, 1994.

• Aesthetics and Commitment in Two Philippine Artists: A Study of the Work of Ninotchka Rosca and Lino Brocka, Lucia Enriquez, 1993.

• The Traveler as Protagonist: Eighteenth Century British Women's Travel Writings, Gwyneth Marshall, 1993.

• Representing Habit: Pierce, Fractals and Common-Sense, Robert Mitchell, 1993.

• Extreme Green: How Radicalism Sabotages Environmentalism, Lydia Ruddy, 1993.

• Suffering Through Buddhism, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, Hamish Chappell, 1992.

• A Crisis of Culture: the Autonomous German Youth Movement, 1896-1933, Anders Lorenson, 1992.

• Salvation, Progress, and Commodification: An Enquiry into the Development of Future Consciousness, Sara Martin, 1992.

• The American Faith, Jordan Royer, 1992.

• The History of the Alphabet, William Barr, 1990.

• The Future of a Great Experiment: Two Steps Backwards, and One Step Over Them, Nathan Lindberg, 1990.

• Concerning the Influence of the Seasons on Human Consciousness and Reality, Irv Thomas, 1990.

• Derrida aBloom in the Fields of Rousseau: An Analysis of Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind and Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology in the Context of the Western Philosophical Tradition, Petyr Beck, 1989.

• Idealism in the Midst of Ideologies: Endre Ady and the Cultural Crisis in Turn of the Century Hungary (Part One: 1898-1909), Balazs Dibuz, 1989.

• Emma Goldman, Lorraine Berry, 1984.

• Connection and Misconnection: Three Artists and Politics Between the World Wars, Barry A. George, 1983.

• An Analysis of Two Russian Revolutionary Writers: Maxim Gorky and Leonid Andreev, Robin Kuranko, 1983.

• Rollo May's Existential Psychology: the Dangers of Eclecticism, Joni Vander Bilt, 1983.

• The Political Ethic of Albert Camus and Bernard-Henri Levy, Michelle Farnham, 1982.

• The Righteousness of God: Martin Luther's Doctrine of Justification, Loren Ihle, 1982.

• Zola and Painting, Susan Van Deventer, 1982.

• Friedrich Schiller und die Tragodie mit einem Ausblick auf Friedrich Nietzsche, Constantin Behler, 1981.

• Early Christian Wisdom: Active Faith, Jim Clowes, 1981.*

• Self as Metaphor: the Drama of the Individual in Modern Culture, Richard de Canio, 1980.

*a proto-chid thesis.