1. Sparking Interest: Gender Diversity, Party Control, and Legislative Interest in Transgender Policy Open Access Author: Bachiri, Juliana Title: Sparking Interest: Gender Diversity, Party Control, and Legislative Interest in Transgender Policy Area of Honors: Political Science Keywords: transgenderlegislative interestgender diversityparty control File: Download Thesis_Final.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Suzanna Linn, Thesis SupervisorDouglas Lemke, Thesis Honors Advisor
2. How Do Social Movements Impact Gender Inequality? The Effects of the Arab Spring Protests on Women in the Middle East and North Africa Region Open Access Author: Bratton, Olivia Title: How Do Social Movements Impact Gender Inequality? The Effects of the Arab Spring Protests on Women in the Middle East and North Africa Region Area of Honors: Political Science Keywords: Gender InequalityArab SpringMENAWomen's RightsSocial MovementsProtest IntensityPolitical OpportunityPublic Opinion File: Download Olivia_Bratton_Thesis-_How_Do_Social_Movements_Impact_Gender_Inequality__.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Daniel Tavana, Thesis SupervisorGiancarlo Visconti, Thesis Honors Advisor
3. Democracy Works: The Impact of Labor Unions on Democratic Quality in Electoral Democracies Open Access Author: Bransfield, Daniel Title: Democracy Works: The Impact of Labor Unions on Democratic Quality in Electoral Democracies Area of Honors: Political Science Keywords: labordemocracycross-country analysis File: Download Dan_Bransfield_Schreyer_Honors_Thesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Xun Cao, Thesis SupervisorGiancarlo Visconti, Thesis Honors Advisor
4. How Perceived Madness Lets Leaders Capture the Benefits of Nuclear Superiority Open Access Author: Brauser, Benjamin Title: How Perceived Madness Lets Leaders Capture the Benefits of Nuclear Superiority Area of Honors: Political Science Keywords: Political ScienceInternational RelationsNuclear WeaponsDiplomacyMadman Theory File: Download Brauser_Benjamin_Madness_and_Nuclear_Superiority.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Roseanne Mc Manus, Thesis SupervisorMichael Barth Berkman, Thesis Honors Advisor
5. How Humans, as the Inventors of the Negative, Utilize the Negative in Their Search for Metaphysical Answers: A Comparative Study of Kenneth Burke and St. Thomas Aquinas Open Access Author: Briselli, Julia Title: How Humans, as the Inventors of the Negative, Utilize the Negative in Their Search for Metaphysical Answers: A Comparative Study of Kenneth Burke and St. Thomas Aquinas Area of Honors: Communication Arts and Sciences Keywords: Kenneth BurkeThomas AquinasRhetoricNegativityNamingTranscendenceKenneth BurkeThomas AquinasRhetoricNegativityNamingTranscendence File: Download Julia_Briselli_Final_Thesis_1.1.24.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Ekaterina Haskins, Thesis SupervisorMary High, Thesis Honors Advisor
6. The Opioid Crisis and Crime: Understanding the Relationship Between Opioid Dispensing Rates and Crime Rates in the United States Open Access Author: Ackerman, Catherine Title: The Opioid Crisis and Crime: Understanding the Relationship Between Opioid Dispensing Rates and Crime Rates in the United States Area of Honors: Criminology Keywords: Opioid CrisisOpioidPrescribingCrime RatesDispensing RatesDrugs/Violence NexusArrest Rates File: Download The_Opioid_Crisis_and_Crime-Understanding_the_Relationship_Between_Opioid_Dispensing_Rates_and_Crime_Rates_in_the_United_States_-_Catherine_Ackerman.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Holly Nguyen, Thesis SupervisorStacy Silver, Thesis Honors Advisor
7. “Conforming to the Nonconformative”: Goth Culture at Penn State Open Access Author: Benedetto, Courtney Title: “Conforming to the Nonconformative”: Goth Culture at Penn State Area of Honors: Journalism Keywords: GothsubcultureacceptanceGoth culturemakeupdeathmacabrenonconformityidentitycommunityinclusivity File: Download THESIS_FINAL.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Russell Frank, Thesis SupervisorJohn R Affleck, Thesis Honors Advisor
8. Problematic faves: How our morals influence our media consumption and relationships with other people. Open Access Author: Byers, Kyleigh Title: Problematic faves: How our morals influence our media consumption and relationships with other people. Area of Honors: Sociology Keywords: MoralsFriendshipPopular CultureMediaOnline Friendships File: Download Kyleigh_Byers_Schreyer_Thesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Beth Montemurro, Thesis SupervisorDavid Ruth, Thesis Honors Advisor
9. Arachnid Authorship: Intertextual Web-Weaving as a Reflection of Women’s Authorial Identities Open Access Author: Burns, Sydney Title: Arachnid Authorship: Intertextual Web-Weaving as a Reflection of Women’s Authorial Identities Area of Honors: English (University College) Keywords: women writersfeminismearly moderntextilewebweavingarachneearly modern women writersrenaissanceQueen Elizabeth IMary Queen of ScotsEsther InglisIsabella WhitneyMary Sidney HerbertAemilia LanyerMary WrothMargaret Cavendish File: Download Burns_Sydney_Arachnid_Authorship_Intertextual_Web_Weaving_as_a_Reflection_of_Women_s_Authorial_Identities.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Marcy Lynne North, Thesis SupervisorClaire Mary Colebrook, Thesis Honors Advisor
10. The Russo-Ukrainian hybrid war as portrayed through modern ukrainian literature Open Access Author: Cheatle, Jordynn Title: The Russo-Ukrainian hybrid war as portrayed through modern ukrainian literature Area of Honors: Interdisciplinary in Comparative Literature & Global and International Studies Keywords: RussiaUkrainewarhybridpropagandainformationcirculation File: Download THESIS_FINAL_COPY.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Yuliya Ladygina, Thesis SupervisorKrista Brune, Thesis Honors Advisor
