Interdisciplinary Studies

The Honors Program for interdisciplinary students awards Honors, High Honors, or Highest Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.

Key:

Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
Committee Chair + Other Committee Members

2024-2025

Seneca Russ RiceWoolf, (Honors)
Meaghan Stiman + Alex Joosse, Brent Kaup

2023-2024

Elizabeth Annette Dell, (High Honors)
Monica Griffin + Jennifer Putzi, Jennifer Mellor, Leisa Meyer
Lucia Camille Kasper, (Honors)
Joanna Schug + Joanna Schug, Kevin Vose, Jerry Watkins III

2022-2023

Erin Lea Ramsey, "" (Honors)
Mark Forsyth + Ashleigh Queen, Phoebe Williams, Oliver Kerscher

2021-2022

Jana Considine, "" (High Honors)
Philip Daileader + Jennifer Lorden, Jessica Stephens
Lauren Grob, "" (Honors)
Alexandra Joosse + Alexandra Joose, Jamel Donnor, Monika Gosin
Lauren Miller, "" (Highest Honors)
Jackson Sasser + Jerry Watkins III, Adrienne Petty
Rebecca Rogers, "" (Honors)
Monica Griffin + Ashleigh Everhardt-Queen, Tom Linneman
Savannah Orsak, "" (Honors)
Elizabeth Mead + Katie Honbarrier, Patricia Wesp, Eliot Dudik

2020-2021

Dana Armstrong, "," (Honors)
Elizabeth Losh + Brian Castleberry, Jon Pineda, Candice Benjes-Small, Stephanie Hanes Wilson
Matthew Crittenden, "" (Honors)
Daniel Runfola + Anthony Stefanidis, Maurits van der Veen
Christina Durham, "" (Honors)
Eric Han + Hiroshi Kitamura, T.J. Cheng
Gillous Harris, "" (Honors)
Paul Manna + John Lopresti, Peter McHenry
John Kainer, "" (Honors)
Susan Peterson + Marcus Holmes, Elizabeth Radcliffe

2019-2020

Martha Gizaw, "" (Honors)
William Cooke + Evie Burnet, Keith Griffioen, Dennis Manos
Ella Kasten, "" (Honors)
Elizabeth Mead + Ed Pease, Martha Case
Xingyu Zheng, "" (Honors level)
Joshua Puzey, Gregory Smith + Liz Allison, Junping Shi
Aleyah Gowell, "" (High Honors)
Jackson Sasser + Christine Nemacheck, Adrienne Petty
Grace Solini, "" (Honors)
Margaret Saha + Dennis Manos, Dana Willner, Leah Shaw

2018-19

Melanie Carter, "" (High Honors)
Elena Prokhorova + Clair McKinney, Alexander Prokhorov, Frederick Corney
Cassandra Chang, "" (Honors)
S. Laurie Sanderson + Heather Sasinowska
Villemaire Choo, ""
Claire McKinney + Chris Howard, Caroline Hanley
Benjamin Fox, ""
Jonathan Glasser + Tanya Stadelmann, Charles Palermo
Mollie Gaines, "" (Honors)
Dan Runfola + Matthias Leu, Shannon White
Ethan Jones, ""
Margaret Saha + Drew LaMar, Myriam Cotten, Helen Murphy
Callan Monette, "" (Honors)
Margaret Saha + Eric Bradley, Greg Smith, Mark Forsyth
Yorick Oden-Plants, "" (Honors)
Randolph Chambers + Robert Rose, Andrew Fisher
Emily Pearson-Beck, ""
Michael Iyanaga + Silvia Tandeciarz, Michael Hill
Joshua Sacks, "" (Highest Honors)
Mark Brush and Iris Anderson + Rachel O’Brien
Rachel Wilson, "" (Honors)
Leah Shaw + Deborah Morse, Suzanne Raitt, Kathrin Levitan
Rebecca Youngerman, "" (Honors)
Dan Runfola + Camilla Buchanan, Carrie Dolan

2017-18

Kalen Clifton, "" (Honors)
Margaret Saha + Eric Bradley, Greg Conradi-Smith, Mainak Patel
Sora Edwards-Thro, "" (Highest Honors)
Kara Thompson + Elizabeth Losh, Hermine Pinson, Iyabo Osiapem
Jesse Granger, "" (Honors)
William Cooke + Dennis Manos, Kristin Wustholz, Irina Novikova
Heather Lawrence, "" (High Honors)
Monica Griffin + Thomas Linneman, Lindy Johnson
Alaina Shreves, "An Epidemiology Analysis of the Clinical Experiences of Patients with Screened Genetic Disorders: Sickle Cell Disease" (Highest Honors)
Monica Griffin + Elyas Bakhtiari, Camilla Buchanan

2016-17

Matthew Adan, "" (Honors)
David Aday + Francie Cate-Arries, Amy Quark
Eboni Brown, "Creating Culturally Reflective Curriculum for Secondary Social Studies Classrooms" (Honors)
Anne Charity-Hudley + Simon Stow, Lenneal Henderson
Zihao Chen, "" (Honors)
Nathaniel Throckmorton + Ross Iaci, Robert Lewis
Jenifer Hartley, "" (Honors)
Claire McKinney + Suzanne Raitt, Christopher Howard
Emmaleah Jones, "" (Honors)
Joseph Jones + Tomoko Hamada, David Aday, Robert Rose
Stephanie Levin, "" (Honors)
Jackson Sasser + Adam Gershowitz, Christine Nemacheck
Rachel Merriman-Goldring, "" (Honors)
Alan Braddock + Sarah Stafford, Carey Bagdassarian
Quinn Monette, "" (Honors)
William Fisher + Kara Thompson, Gregory Smith
Meagan Phillips, "" (High Honors)
Alan Braddock + Mark Fowler, Deborah Morse, Tanya Stadelmann
Liam Shaw, "Latinx Voices in Animated Children's Film" (High Honors)
Anne Charity-Hudley + Katherine Barko-Alva, Arthur Knight

2015-16

Jonah Fishel, "Storyboard: Finding the Formula for Effective Co-telling" (Honors)
Joel Schwartz + Leslie Cochrane, Chelsey Johnson
Alexandra Granato, "" (High Honors)
Grey Gundaker + Francesca Sawaya, Timothy Barnard
Reynolds Hahamovitch, "" (Honors)
Robert Leventhal + Ronald Schechter, Jonathan Glasser
Andrew Halleran, "Embryonic Response to Notch Signaling Perturbation" (Honors)
Margaret Saha + Chrisopher Del Negro, Dennis Manos, Greg Smith
Jin Hyuk Ho, "" (Highest Honors)
Francis Tanglao-Aguas + Tomoko Hamada Connolly, Benedito Ferrao
So Dam Hong, "" (High Honors)
Francis Tanglao-Aguas + Benedito Ferrao, Joanne Braxton, Stephen Sheehi
Ebony Lambert, "" (Highest Honors)
Anne Charity Hudley + Cheryl Dickter, Hermine Pinson
Natalie Libster, "" (Honors)
Danielle Dallaire + Joseph Jones, Christy Porter, Peter Vishton
Erik Nelson, "" (Honors)
Simon Joyce + Lena Prokhorova, Jennifer Stevens
Jillian Sequeira, "" (Highest Honors)
Kathleen Boyle + Monica Seger, Maria Swetnam-Burland, Sergio Ferrarese
Ming Siegel, "." (High Honors)
Christine Nemacheck + Jackson Sasser, Leisa Meyer
Ryan Yan, "" (Honors)
Leah Shaw + Harmony Dalgleish, Sarah Day, Drew LaMar
Benming Zhang, "" (Honors)
Benedito Ferrao + Francis Tanglao-Aguas, Michael Iyanaga

2014-15

Kyle DeMaria, (Honors)
Peter McHenry + Sibel Zandi-Sayek and Rui Pereira
Sarah Goggin, (Honors)
Matthew Wawersik + Oliver Kerscher, Robin Looft-Wilson and Timothy Van Meter
Rebecca Heine, (Honors)
Monica Potkay + John Conlee, Erin Minear and Fred Smith
Julie Krask, (Highest Honors)
Aaron Beck + Randy Chambers, Greg Hancock and Bongkeun Song
Emily Mahoney, (Honors)
Scott Ickes + David Aday and Amy Quark
Chloe Miksovic, (High Honors)
Jeremy Stoddard + Jamel Donnor and Leah Glenn
Laura Pugh, (Honors)
Scott Ickes + Drew LaMar and Elizabeth Yost
Alison Roberts, (Honors)
Scott Ickes + Phil Roessler and Matthias Leu
Lillian Singer, (Honors)
David Aday + Victoria Castillo and Camilla Buchanon
Jackson Stone, (Honors)
Carey Bagdassarian + Joshua Erlich and Paul Davies
Casey Thompson, (Highest Honors)
Katie Boyle + Monica Seger, Katherine Kulick and Jack Martin
Stephanie Wraith, (Honors)
Scott Ickes + David Aday and Alison Scott

2013-14

Taylor Charest, "Suspicion of Shots: Examining the Relationship Between the State, Society, and Health in India" (High Honors)
Chitralekha Zutshi + Scott Ickes, Deenesh Sohoni
Mary Grech, "" (Honors) Jamel K. Donnor + Robert Vinson, Jeremy Stoddard
Robert Marty, (Honors)
Matthias Leu + David Aday, Carlisle Moody
John Mulhall, "" (Honors) John Donahue + Alexander Angelov, Monica Potkay
Erin Spencer, (Honors)
Doug DeBerry + James E. Perry, III, Randolph Chambers, Jonathan Allen

2012-13

Jaclyn Carroll, (High Honors)
Monica Griffin + Joel Schwartz, Kara Thompson
Katherine Kaugars, (Honors)
Paul Heideman + Eric Bradley, Patty Zwollo
Ani-Rae Lovell, (Highest Honors)
Christine Nemacheck + Jackson Sasser, James Dwyer
Avery Newton, (Honors)
Paul Manna + John Gilmour, Virginia McLaughlin
Michael Schilling, (Highest Honors)
Iyabo Osiapem + Talbot Taylor, Lawrence Leemis
Huan Song, (High Honors)
Tonya Boone + Anita Angelone, Todd Mooradian, Robert Hicks
Charlotte Tregelles, (Highest Honors)
Christine Nemacheck + Graham Ousey, Nancy Gray

2011-12

Emily Gottschalk-Marconi, "" (Highest Honors)
Joel Schwartz + Monica Griffin, Simon Stow
Danielle Greene, "" (High Honors)
Jeremy Stoddard + Jody Allen, Jamel Donnor
Emily Orzechowski, "" (Honors)
Rowan Lockwood + Jonathan Allen, Jarrett Byrnes, Martha Case
Sarah Salino, "" (Honors)
Carrie Dolan + Brian Blouet, Scott Ickes
Yuezhu Sun, "" (Highest Honors)
Tomoko Hamada Connolly + TJ Cheng, Joanna Schug, Emily Wilcox

2010-11

Brittany Calloway, "An Exploration of Discipline Strategies in Middle Schools" (Honors)
Lori Korinek + Ann Charity Hudley, Jamel Donnor
Heart Hettinger, (High Honors)
Joan Gavaler + Mary Ann Melfi, Eric Han, Leah Glenn
Michelle Munyikw, (Honors)
Shanta Hinton + Liz Allison, Mark Forsyth, Lisa Landino
Briana Paxton, "What About Braxton Court?: Historic Preservation in Williamsburg, Virginia." (Honors)
Sibel Zandi-Sayek + Ed Pease, Caroline Hanley
Olivia Walch, (Honors)
Gregory Smith + Leah Shaw, John Griffin

2009-10

Nicholas Belanger, (High Honors)
Joel Schwartz + Monica Griffin, Phillip Brendese
Candace Bond, (Honors)
Leisa Meyer + Robert Vinson, James D. La Fleur
Christine Dang, (Honors)
Tun-jen Cheng + Kemi George, Dan Cristol
Jennifer Garrott, "Crossroads of Conflict: Prince William County during the Civil War" (High Honors)
Sharon Zuber + James Whittenburg, Arthur Knight, Jennifer Putzi
Christopher Silveira, (Honors)
Brian Blouet + James Whittenburg, Salvatore Saporito

2008-09

Reina Chamberlain, (Highest Honors)
Kenneth Kambis + Erica Jackson, David Aday
Max Christie, (Honors)
Rowan Lockwood
Clarissa Delgado, (Honors)
Sibel Sayek + Ed Pease, Greg Hancock, Eric Engstrom
Elizabeth Honenberger, (High Honors)
James LaFleur + Liz Allison, Susan Walkley
Kate McClure, (High Honors)
Rowan Lockwood

2007-08

Audrey Anderson, "Japanese Architectural Values through Time: Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian House and the Creation of a Modern Japanese-Usonian Hybrid" (High Honors)
Ed Pease + Karen Mulder, Tomoko Kato
Emily Geizhals, "Simultaneous Presence and Absence: Representation of the Holocaust at the Jewish Museum Munich" (High Honors)
P.J. Brendese + Robert Levanthal, Leisa Meyer, Ryan Carey (Simon's Rock College)
Jeree Harris, "From Brown v. Board to Parents v. Seattle: the Future and Constitutionality of Desegregation in American Public Schools" (High Honors)
Christine Nemacheck + Paul Manna, Anne Charity, Deenesh Sohoni
Jordan Howell, ; () (High Honors)
Eric Engstrom + Joel Schwartz, Bill Fisher, Charley Maloney
Manisha Reuben, "The Polio Imbroglio: India's Health Care Paralysis" (Honors)
Rani Mullen + Marc Sher, Rene Cabral-Daniels
Sarah Thomas, "From Shadwell to Monticello: The Material Culture of Slavery, 1760-1774" (Highest Honors)
Susan Kern + James P. Whittenburg, Anita Angelone
Anne Wanlund, "Duty of Assistance: American Aid to 'Burdened Societies' and the Philosophy of John Rawls" (Honors)
Paula Pickering + Joel Schwartz, Alan Fuchs, Mark Smith

2006-07

Rachel Berryman, "Analysis of Arts Accessibility Through Comminity Engagement" (High Honors)
Christopher Owen + Clyde Haulman, Richard Palmer, Chris Scales
Jyotsna Singh, "The Use of Computational Models to Analyze ER Stress-Induced Ca2+ Dysfunction in Relation to Neuronal Cell Death" (Honors)
Randolph Coleman + Christopher Del Negro, George Gilchrist, Diane Shakes

2005-06

Cecilia Cackley, "Flexible Theater: Interpreting Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis through Music, Theater, and Dance" (Honors)
Laurie Wolf + Joan Gavaler, Richard Palmer, Glenn Shean
Stephen Carley, "The Emergence of the Cosmopolitan Ethic in the Modern Age" (High Honors)
Emile Lester + Alan Fuchs, Mark Fowler
Kyle Prickett, "Empowering and Mentorship Leadership: The Key to the Implementation of a New Delivery System for Care of Total Joint Patients" (Highest Honors)
Carey Bagdassarian + Kelly Joyce, Michael Deschenes, Michael Daise
Meghan Shapiro, "Presumption of Life: Discovery of a Due Process Failure in Capital Sentencing" (Highest Honors)
Christine Nemacheck + David Aday, Laurie Wolf

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