Thesis Examples
Here are some of our best senior theses from the past few years. Hard copies of all senior theses from the last four or five years are available for reading in our department offices in Flanner Hall. Extra copies may be checked out with Katie Schlotfeldt; originals must remain in our office area.
- The Haight & the Hierarchy: Church, City, and Culture in San Francisco, 1967-2008 (2016) -- Sarah Morris
- Where Have All the Manly Journalists Gone? Gender and Masculinity in Prestige Television Representations of Journalists (2016) -- Jack Rooney
- Attica! Representations of the 1971 Prison Riot in Local and National Journalism (2016) -- Gretel Kauffman
- Literary Environmentalism in the Desert Southwest (2015) -- Caroline Schuitema
- Classrooms of Democracy: Libraries and Museums as Sites of Citizenship (2014) -- Aubrey Butts
- Identity, Activism and Queer Representation in the Age of AIDS, 1985-1995 (2013) -- Colin O'Niel
- Creating and Contesting the Cult of Girlhood: Magazines, Zines, and the Girls Who Read Them (2013) -- Olivia Lee
- A Blank Generation: Richard Hell and American Punk Rock (2012) -- Ross Finney
- Cul-de-Sac Culture Within City Limits: Exploring Urban/Suburban Borders in Chicago (2012) -- Maisie O'Malley
- Bitch. Contemporary Feminism in American Consumer Culture (2011) -- Catherine Scallen