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Senior honors theses

Bailey, Kevin. "Bad Blood on the Ward: A Study of the Politics of Labor Organizing at Duke Hospital, 1974-1976." (History, 1991)

Biro, Peter. "Means without Ends: the Birth of the Duke School of Engineering, 1887-1966." (History, 1991)

Brown, Beverly. "Duke Undergraduate Women and the Women's Liberation Movement." (Political Science, 1975)

Dean, James. "Paul M. Gross: Leading the Good Against the Best." (History, 1994)

DeHaven, Dara. "On Educating Women: The Coordinate Ideal at Trinity and Duke University." (History, 1973)

Eisinger, Jana. "Divestment Campaign at Duke University." (History, 1988)

Frankel, Rachel. "The Couch Tract of the Durham Division of Duke Forest: A History of Agricultural Land Use Patterns, 1750-1950." (History, 1984)

Kotelanski, Jorge. "Prolonged and Patient Efforts: the Desegregation of Duke University, 1948-1963." (History, 1990)

Ludwig, Erik K. "First Class Education and "Second Hand" Workers: The Struggle for Unionization During Duke's Decade of Development, 1965-1968." (Women's Studies, 1998)

Mallory, Nancy. "The Woman's College at Duke University, 1961-1972." (History, 1990)

Segal, Theodore D. "A New Genesis: the Silent Vigil at Duke University." (History, 1977)

Stevens, Jeanne E. "The Impacts of World War II on Duke University." (History, 1991)

Yanella, Don. "Race Relations at Duke University and the Allen Building Crisis." (History, 1985)

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Course papers

By students in Prof. I. B. Holley's History 195/196, "The Concept of a University," taught from 1974 to 1991:

Allums, Chris. "Duke Forest: 60 Years as a Laboratory for University Research and Teaching." (1991)

Amen, Barbara. "The Development of a Coordinate College for Women at Trinity College, N.C., 1904-1924: A Struggle for Equality." (1974)

Bain, Bruce. "The Changing Status of Political Science at Trinity College and Duke University, 1849-1941: The Evolution of a Department." (1978)

Bartolome, Jorge L. "The Rocky Path of Business Education at Duke: How Outside Developments Forced a University to Take Action." (1991)

Becker, Michael J. "One Nuclear Bomb Can Ruin Your Whole Day: Civil Defense at Duke University." (1991)

Biro, Peter. "Bypassed by a Revolution: Development of Engineering Education at Duke University, 1887-1966." (1991)

Booher, Bridget. "Death of a Romantic Revolutionary: Sheldon Robert Harte, Duke 1937." (1991)

Boone, Joseph Allen. "A New Perspective on the Role of Academic Freedom in the 1903 Bassett Affair at Trinity College." (1974)

Brotherson, James R. "The Early Development of the Student News Media at Trinity College and Duke University, 1874-1927." (1974)

Cantlay, Donna. "The Growth of Modern Languages at Trinity and Duke, 1850-1940." (1980)

Carbonara, Mary Jean. "The Evolution of the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University: The Growth of an Aesthetic Institution." (1978)

Carter, Glenn J. "The Rise to National Stature of the Duke University Law School, 1927-1935." (1978)

Casey, Ted. "The Future of the Primates." (1991)

Cassedy, Jane C. "Towers and Spires: The Construction of the Collegiate Gothic Duke University Campus, 1927-1930." (1978)

Cederberg, James A. "Eruditio et Religio: The Manifest Destiny of Duke University." (1974)

Conrad, Frederick L., Jr. "The Development of an Institutionalized Fraternity System at Trinity College: 1870- 1920." (1980)

Cortegiano, Mark. "When Legal Theory Meets Economics: A History of Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Private Adjudication Center, Inc." (1991)

Cox, Stephanie H. "Why Should the Singing Tower Sing at Duke University?." (1978)

Curtin, Helen B. "Undergraduate Religious Instruction at Trinity College and Duke University, 1896-1941: Denominational Training or Non-Denominational Education?" (1978)

D'Esposito, Jim. "The History Department at Trinity College, 1887-1924: Evolving Concepts of a Liberal Education." (1976)

Davis, Alvah B. "From Display Case to Museum: The Use of Art and Artifacts in Teaching at Duke University, 1925-1975." (1976)

Ferguson, Kate. "Integrating the Arts and Academia: The First Ten Years of the Institute of the Arts." (1991)

Fields, Peggy. "Hail to Thee, Dear Alma Mater: The Institutionalization of the Alumni Association at Trinity College." (1978)

Flores, Leticia Y. "Testing the University Waters: Freewater, an Experiment in Student Freedom and Responsibility." (1991)

Ford, John B. "Agent of Change: John F. Crowell and Curricular Reform at Trinity College, 1887-1894." (1974)

Forrester, William W. "The Impact of the Depression on Duke University: Progress in Hard Times." (1974)

Frinkle, Robert B. "Conduct and Character: Developmental Education and Social Regulations for Male Undergraduates at Trinity College and Duke University, 1891-1934." (1974)

Fuller, Elizabeth L. "The Legal Aid Clinic and the Duke University Law School." (1980)

Futrell, Ashley B., Jr. "From Cap Gun to H-bomb: Continuing Justifications for Basketball within the Academic Community of Trinity College and Duke University, 1906-1942." (1978)

Gallagher, Carole L. "A History of the Relationship Between Duke University and the Methodist Church, 1924-1975." (1976)

Garvin, Gregory. "The Duke Computer Laboratory: The Foundation Had Been Shaped for Future Development." (1974)

Hamilton, Curtis. "Bus Transportation at Duke: A University- Owned System." (1991)

Hamilton, Kayla M. "The Duke University Talent Identification Program: Respected Honor or Playboy Program?." (1991)

Hanberry, Jane Morley. "The Duke Vigil: A Culmination of Issues, 1966-1968." (1976)

Harrison, Brenda. "Public Reaction to the Duke Endowment from 1924-1972." (1974)

Hepburn, Matthew J. "The Development of the Vitrectomy: Engineering and Medicine Combine to Overcome Blindness." (1991)

Hohman, Timothy S. "Aspirations and Transformations: A Study of the Roman Catholic Church at Duke University." (1991)

Houk, Mary Bentley. "Design of a Duchess: The Education of Duke Women, 1930-1964." (1991)

Jackson, Tim. "A History of the Honor Society of 9019, Trinity College and Duke University, 1890-1943: A Most Honorable Organisation." (1980)

Kassebaum, Douglas W. "The Sources and Inception of Long-Range Planning at Duke University, 1955-1961: A Vision of Things to Come." (1991)

Lamb, L. William. "William Kenneth Boyd, William Washington Flowers, and the Development of the George Washington Flowers Memorial Collection." (1991)

Lessley, Bryan. "Corpore Sano at Duke: Physical Activity Programs in a Liberal Education." (1980)

Malechek, David. "Attitudes Toward Football at Trinity College and Duke University: A Study in Shifting Values, 1887-1943." (1976)

Maupin, David. "Public Safety at Duke." (1991)

Milford, Timothy A. "Nurture of a Lesser God: Religion at Duke University, 1924-1990." (1991)

Pearl, David. "Duke University and the NROTC (1941-1972): Amity, Enmity, and Compromise." (1974)

Perretti, Peter. "The Divinity School and Desegregation: An Abortive Blow Against the Status Quo, 1948-1952." (1976)

Ross, John. "Trying to Catch Up: The Evolution of Philanthropy in America and Duke University." (1991)

Russo, Frank T. "The Fraternity System at Trinity College and Duke University: Its Relation to the Administration, 1871- 1941." (1976)

Rutman, Michael. "The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1971, and the Consequent Development of the Safety Program at Duke University." (1978)

Sauls, Timothy. "The Eno River Reservoir Controversy, 1966-1973: A Case Study in the Power of Public Opposition." (1978)

Semans, William M. "The Code of the Moment." (1991)

Smith, Laura. "A History of Child Care at Duke: The Development of New and Innovative Services for the Youngest of the University Community." (1991)

Smoot, W. Scott. "Dramatic Changes: A History of the Duke Players and Its Relation to the Academic curriculum of Duke University." (1980)

Snyder, Bruce. "Wallace , Football at Duke, and Goals of Higher Education." (1974)

Stevens, Jeanne. "Climbing Like Kudzu: A Study of Research and Professionalism at Duke University Through World War II." (1991)

Summerell, Fran. "Trinity Park School, 1898-1922: A Methodist Remedy in Central North Carolina." (1976)

Tenney, Bryan E. "A History of Duke Baseball, 1889-1980." (1980)

Wang, Theodore G. "Stagnation and Rejuvenation: The Decline and Rise of the Study of Classics at Duke University, 1930-1990." (1991)

Weinstein, Andrew. "Bourbon and Bookworms: Ten Years of Turbulence within the Duke Alcohol Policy." (1991)

Widera, Bernard J. "Forty Years of Liberal Education in Practice: Phi Kappa Psi at Duke, 1934-1974." (1980)

Wille, Brian. "Theodore W. Minah: High Standards Without High Expense." (1991)

Wolff, Stephen I. "The Early History of the Research Council at Trinity College and Duke University, 1919-1941: A Vital Link in the Launching of the University." (1978)

Worthington, Tom. "William McDougall and the Beginnings of Psychology at Duke University, 1926-1929." (1974)

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By students in Prof. Orin Starn's Cultural Anthropology 105S.01, "Campus Politics at Duke," taught in Fall, 1992:

Anonymous. "The New Rebels: An Update of Helen Horowitz' Theory as It Applies to Duke University."

Hill, Margaret. "The Model for Romance at Duke."

Lash, Alissa. "The Implications of Title IX: A Study of National Policies as They Affect Duke University."

Littman, Eva. "Duke University Admissions and Scholarship Policies."

Lotke, Abbie. "Bourbon Street: An Exhibition of Sexism Versus Oversensitivity and a Lack of Communication on Campus."

Mehta, Neel. "Does the University Discriminate Against International Undergraduates?"

Nayer, Tracy. "'The University is not an Island,' it's a world for polar bears: inequities in the structure of Duke University's Undergraduate Judicial Board."

Toro, Kim L. "The Silent Vigil."

Wolfson, Todd. "A Study of Homosexuality at Duke."

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Updated Thursday, January 25, 2001 by Thomas Harkins