Student Research from 2022
Beware the Ides of March: A Digital Journal on the Acting Process in Julius Caesar, Sterling Barbett
The Ethics of Care and the U.S. Covid-19 Pandemic Response, Samantha Treveline Barrett
Borderline Personality Symptoms and Relationship Threat: The Moderating Role of Perceived Parental Rejection, Elsa Baumgartner
A Content Analysis of Queer Slang on Tik Tok, Kuri Benitez
Social Media, Humor, and Crisis Health Communication: Humor Used to Inform Over Social Media During COVID-19, Sally Burkley
The Relationship Between Late Night, Twitter, and Political Literacy in 2020, Sally Burkley
Reforming the United States’ Currency Production, William Cather
Resurrecting Gaelic: Modernity and Heritage Language Revival in Scotland in a Comparative Perspective, Sean Coady
The Dog Was Dead: A Capstone Project in Performance, Sean Coady
Einstein's Equations, Lagrangians for General Relativity, and ADM Formalism, Timothy Corbett
An Intersectional Feminist Look at Bridgerton, Payton Creamer
The Impacts of Coal Ash Concentration on Trace Contaminant Leaching and Toxicity of Coal Ash in Planorbella duryi, Catherine Crowell
Bildungsroman and Trauma in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Bernadette D'Auria
A Dramaturgical Guide to Julius Caesar, Elizabeth Debes
Mutually Exclusive: Being Gay and Being a Man in E.M. Forster’s Maurice, Kimber Foreman
East Versus West: The National Gallery of Art’s Relationship to Modern Art and Architecture, Meredith Glasco
Goddess of France, 1745-1764: Madame de Pompadour and the Rococo Traditions of 18th-Century French Portraiture, Meredith Glasco
Annabell W Graham Senior Piano Recital, Annabell W. Graham
Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, QAnon and Blood Libel, Georga Hackworth
Becoming Barbara from Nickel and Dimed, Shannon Hardy
Ruined by Lynn Nottage: An Exploration of Women and Violence, Olivia Harrington
Inferno of the Mind, Amber M. Harvey
Queer Representation in the Scream Franchise, Amber M. Harvey
“The Battle Against Sameness”: Queer Marriages in Forster and Woolf, Lindsey Hatton
Theoretical Lighting Design: Little Shop of Horrors, Lou Hillman
Effectiveness of Virginia Teacher Preparation Programs, Christine Houchins
Humanitarian Intervention and American Public Opinion: An Analysis to Intervene, Alexia Inge
Against the Death Penalty, Charles Jessup
Performative Disability: The Objectification of Atypical Physiognomy in the Self-Portraits of Egon Schiele, Sophia Maldonado
PROMETHEUS & THE BODY BEAUTIFUL: Arno Breker and the Weaponization of the Greco-Roman Tradition in the Größe Deutsche Kunstausstellung, Sophia Maldonado
The Garden of Secrets and Truths, Chloe Martin
Opposing Ideologies: The Function of Sacrifice in the Contemporary Construction of Extremist Communities., Gabriel Matteson
Senior Project of Shaun McBride, Shaun McBride
Unearthing the Witch: Reckoning with Gender, Magic, and the Unusual Dead within Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burials, Samantha Melvin
How We Talk About Archaeology in the Digital Age, Michael Messina
Dorothy Allison's Gothic Poverty, Jessica Morin
Making Russian Music: Uncovering Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Musical Ideas through His Letters, Sydney Morrison
Prosodic and Deictic Features as Performance Markers in Southern Baptist Sermons, Matt Nelson
Reception of Classical Material in the Argument of Charles Loyseau's Traité des Ordres et Simples Dignités, Matt Nelson
La Discapacidad en los Sistemas de Educación en Bolivia y Chile, Kree Pace
How Service Animals Are Discussed in Social Media, Kenna Pak
“Hysteria Abated”: Forster’s Treatment of Women’s Mental Health in Howards End, Rosemary Pauley
The Role of Memes in an Online Community Created by College Students: A Content Analysis, Jessica Probst
First Year Showcase: Producing the First Year Showcase as a capstone to my last three years at UMW Theatre, Cathryn Puglia
Costume Construction for 'Julius Caesar', Benjamin Rafky
Coronavirus Disability Survey: Assessing The Impact of COVID-19 on Young Adults with Disabilities, Hena Rashid
The Influence of Right-Wing Media on Political Racialization, Alex Regan
A Defense of Moral Realism, Caleb Robb
Second: Playing Olive in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Riley Salazar
Little Women, Little Houses: Authorship and Authority in Louisa May Alcott and Laura Ingalls Wilder, Katia Savelyeva
ElGamal Encryption in the General Linear Groups, Lynn Sherman
The NIL Agreement and Social Media: A Content Analysis, Scott Smith
How Rhythm Affects Prosody, McKenzie Ward
The Dissection of Twins, Amber Zipfel
Student Research from 2021
An Examination of the Influence of Literacy upon Political, Cultural and Class Unity in England and Francia during the Early Middle Ages, Matthew Abbott
The Diary of a Mad Black Woman : An Analysis of Film and Anger, Summer Allen
The ‘She-cession’: A look at Women’s Labor during the Covid-19 Pandemic, Aspen Aston
Songs of Eden, Emma Atkinson
Game Chromatic Number on Segmented Caterpillars, Paige Beidelman
This is America: Comparing the U.S. and Foreign Media Press Coverage of African American Foreign Policy Officials, Nina Burges
Assessing the Presence and Concentration of Microplastics in the Gizzards of Virginia Waterfowl, Thomas Bustamante
A Content Analysis of Political Discourse on TikTok, Devin Carson
The Role of Verbal Behavior in Patient-Provider Interactions, Hannah Checkeye
"The Relationship Between Parasocial Relationships and Grooming as a Problematic Rhetorical Strategy on YouTube", Freeman Conner
Between Life and Death: Pregnancy, Abortion, and Childbirth in the Nazi Concentration Camps, Grace Corkran
Murder and Morality: Late Nineteenth-Century Protestants’ Reaction to the Murder of Helen Jewett, Grace Corkran
I Like To Think I’m Making Something New: An A. I. Attempts Narrative, Kelly Donaghey
Felony Disenfranchisement through Rousseau's Social Contract, Blake Donohue
An Exploration on How and Why People Present Online and How to Successfully Self Present on Linked-In, Callie Dunham
LEGO Company and Segregated Products, Kimberly Eastridge
Thinking Outside the [Text] Box: The Effects of Multimodal Literacy Instruction on Middle School Social Studies Students’ Content Comprehension and Analytical Skills, Glynnis C. Farleigh
Simulations of an Attack on RSA, Makayla Ferrell
Christian Imagery in the Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor, Vanessa Fickes
Influencers in Digital Marketing: The Impact of Instagram Influencers in Brand Communication, Cara Ghaphery
Creative Writing in Multiple Mediums, Piper Giannini
Catfish: The TV Show: A Rhetorical Criticism, Victoria Grant
Pornography, the LGBTQ+ Community, and the Queer Alternative, Rebekah Gredler
Angular Momentum Coherences in Molecular Dynamics, Margaret Gregory
The Dumb Waiter, Augustus Grohmann
We are Dancers, Jeanette Hiyama
I and You by Lauren Gunderson Directors Book, Sarah Hogestyn
Numerical Study of the SEIQR Model for COVID-19, Caitlin Holt
Nation-Building in Newspapers: A Comparison of Lithuanian and Ukrainian Ethnic Newspapers in America, 1940-1953, Emily Johnson
Kantian Approaches to Animals and Obligations, Caroline Kropka
Mathematics Value Research, Diane LaMoy
“Interrupt the status quo”: How Black Lives Matter Changed American Museums, Jessica Lynch
Australia and the United States: The Role of Secondary Allies in Burden-Sharing, Rachel McVicker
Exploring the Impact of Social Influence Mechanisms and Network Density on Societal Polarization, Justin Mittereder
A Rhetorical Criticism of Fan Culture on Social Media Platforms, Darlene Mugisha
Literatura carcelaria y los derechos humanos en cuatro obras del siglo XX, Sarah Patterson
When Admiration Turns to Obsession: A Case Study on Taylor Swift Fan Theories, Kendall Resnick
Crude Measures: Assessing the Success and Failure of Maximum Pressure Campaigns, Dillon Schweers
Two Jews, Three Opinions: An Exploration of Young American Jewish Perspectives on Israel, Kate Seltzer
The Reckoning That Never Happened, Katherine Seltzer
The Pensieve Podcast, Alexandra Slaughter