2015 Senior Honors Projects

University Scholars’ senior honors projects represent advanced work in their individual majors and engage in reflections on their faith and learning. These are the projects of the 2015 University Scholars.

Heather Bean — Survival of the Individualist: A Sociological Analysis of Individualism and the American Protestant Church

Brooks Bolsinger — Changing Climates, Dying Cultures: A Study of Place Annihilation as a Result of Climate Change

Kelsey Chase — Sweet Sacrament: Where Myth Meets Story in Ethiopian Christianity, A Collection of Short Stories

Jake Crammer — A Theological Take on the Miracle of Ministry in the SPU Student Ministry Coordinator Program

Grace Crawford — Treating Trauma: The Efficacy of EMDR as a Treatment for PTSD

Joel DeJong — Recovery Amongst Post-Civil War States

David Dovgopolyy — Language of the Social Conscience: Reading Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead as Puritan Confessional

Cynthia Eby — The Punctuation of Beowulf: Madness or Method?

Samuel Ernest — Where Do They Go?: Three Studies of Christian Faith and Belonging in Gay Literature

Claire Fredriks — Amazon.com Valuation

Adam Hutchinson — Isolation of the Individual in the Novels of Carson McCullers

Alyson Inouye — Hybrid, Subversive, and Skeptical Performances of Gender, Power, and Space in the Postcolonial Avant Garde: How Does the Breakdown at the End of Heather Raffo's Play, 9 Parts of Desire, Serve as a Call to Justice?

Tatyana Lats — Acculturative Family Distancing, Religious Support, and Psychological Well-Being Among Young Adult Eastern European Immigrants in Western Washington

Genevieve Livingston — The Transformative Power of Design in Homeless Shelters

Nathaniel Ng — The Effects of Arginine Vasopressin on Maternal Behavior and Aggression in Peromyscus Californicus Mothers

Hannah Peterson — Wilderness in Tolkien’s Middle-Earth

Maddie Richardson — Going Down and Down for the Good Turf: Seamus Heaney and Inheritance

Matthew Robinson — There Will Be Violence: A Critical Analysis of Violence in the Works of Cormac McCarthy

Brian Valley — Entrenched in Power: Path Dependence and UN Security Council Reform