The following list includes the names of Dickinsonians who have earned departmental honors, the thesis/project title, and the year of conferral. If there is no thesis or project title, the conferring department only will be listed. Each academic department (or program) has its own criteria for awarding departmental honors. Please see the Advising Guide or elsewhere on the department’s main website for details.
Jason William Denaburg (2016)
A Gun to Our Head? American Imagination of the Russian Character Since 1946
Patricia Ann Kotrady (2016)
Consuming Authenticity: Deconstructing "Do-It-Yourself" Punk Rock Ethics in Philadelphia
Elizabeth Emily Mudge (2014)
Narrating Death in a Culture of Denial: Stage IV Cancer Narratives Told Through Blogs and Memoirs
Leah Judith Shafer (2014)
'A Joy to Watch': How Julia Child Reimagined Domesticity and the Domestic Space
Melissa Alice Canu (2013)
From the Dreamhouse to the Whitehouse: Barbie, Femininity and Power in the United States
Ashley Ann Davis (2013)
Cosmopolitan Magazine Exposed: Exploitation, Sexuality, and False Liberation
Alexis Ellyn Kuzma (2013)
Challenging the Oppression of Motherhood and Preserving Normative Femininity: Women's Agency in the Hot Mom Trend
Leah Melanie Kaplan (2011)
A Forgotten History: The 1930s Student Movement
Aidan Brown O'Shea (2011)
Worshipping to Control: The Public Memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Political Right
Lauren Ayn Diamond (2010)
"Never Underestimate the Power of a Big Gold Frame": Deconstructing the Ideological Powers of the Museum and Understanding the Development of the Curatorial Profession
Catherine Martina Creme-Henry (2008)
Pink Noise: Deconstructing the Popular Discourse of Breast Cancer
Lauren Michelle Zazenski (2007)
The Social Construction of Cocaine: Examining the Dueling Identities of Crack Cocaine and Powder Cocaine as Presented in American Film, Laws, and Religion
Ashley M Lakin (2006)
The Popular Construction of Breast Cancer: Examining a Paradigm of Pinkness
Cathy Lee Costa (1996)
Departmental Honors in American Studies
Melanie L Lowe (1985)
Contemporary Images of Feminism as Viewed and Interpreted by College-age Women