Undergraduate Research at KU: Recent submissions
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Corona Loss on Small Conductors
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If You Build It, They Will Come: From Flood Zone to Economic Boom
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2019)On July 30, 1993, the newly-unified city of Chesterfield, Missouri bore witness to the most tumultuous disaster since its incorporation in 1988. The levee surrounding the area, fittingly named the Gumbo Flats, breeched in ... -
Fritz Kuhn's Nazi America: Kuhn's Growth and Destruction of the German American Bund in the 1930s
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2019-04)The German American Bund was the most influential and dangerous American Nazi organization to exist before the destruction of Hitler’s Germany. Building itself from the remnants of two Nazi organizations that failed to ... -
Demons & Devils: The Moral Panic Surrounding Dungeons & Dragons, 1979-1991
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The Great Italian Educator: The Montessori Method and American Nativism in the 1910s
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2019-04)The purpose of this project is to investigate to what extent Protestant nativism impeded the spread of the Montessori Method in the United States. The Montessori Method has experienced waves of popularity in America ever ... -
Coping Through Curse: Confronting British Metropolitan Identity Through the "Curse of Tutankhamen" (1923-1933)
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2019-05)This thesis seeks to understand the origins of the curse of Tutankhamen within interwar British society and to explain why the British were willing to believe in the “curse of Tutankhamen” between 1923 and 1933. It argues ... -
Shifts in Tone: The Effects of the First World War on Classical Music
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2019-04)This paper explores how the First World War affected the lives and compositions of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Maurice Ravel, and Arnold Schoenberg, three well-known twentieth-century composers who fought in the conflict on ... -
The Qipao: Defining Modern Women in the First Half of the 20th Century
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Blood on the Plow: Extremist Group Activity During the 1980s Farm Crisis in Kansas
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Defining the Music of America's White Rural Working Class From the 1920s through the 1950s
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2019-04)This thesis discusses the recordings of hillbilly and folk music cut by record company agents and folklorists from the 1920s through the 1940s. These years saw the rise of recorded music as mass entertainment in the United ... -
An Adventure in Space (Group) and (Reaction) Time: Divergent Synthesis of Heterobimetallic Complexes of Zinc with Lewis Acids
(Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, 2019-05)Assembly of heterobimetallic complexes is challenging due to the propensity of ditopic ligands to bind metals unselectively. This challenge is exacerbated in situations in which two redox-inactive metals are to be coordinated ... -
The Rhodium Less Travelled: Understanding the Influence of Bipyridyl Ligand Substituents on [Cp*Rh] Catalysts for Hydrogen Evolution
(Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, 2019-04)This thesis details a two-part investigation into the [Cp*Rh(bpy)] framework (where Cp* = pentamethylcyclopentadienyl and bpy = 2,2'-bipyridyl), a known platform for electrocatalytically generating hydrogen. Chapter 1 of ... -
If It’s Not Broke, Break It, and then Break It Again: Understanding [Cp*Rh] Catalysts for Hydrogen Evolution by Investigation of Remarkably Inert Analogues
(Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, 2019-05)Monomeric half-sandwich rhodium hydride complexes are often proposed as intermediates in catalytic cycles, but relatively few such compounds have been isolated and studied, limiting understanding of their properties. In ... -
The Building of the University of Kansas - 1931 to 1951
(School of Architecture, University of Kansas, 1951)The following record of the building at the University at Lawrence, Kansas, is an attempt to bring up to date the Master’s Thesis of James Howard Compton. His work, which contains a short history of the founding of the ... -
“Annexation or Reunification?” Linguistic Appraisal of German and Russian news reporting on Crimea
(Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)“Fake News” has reached new heights of contestation within recent times around the globe. Appraisal Theory provides a framework through which instances of news platforms’ positive and negative judgments can be identified, ... -
Defensive Humanitarianism: Swiss Internment Camps During WWI
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2018)During World War I, the Swiss state interned nearly 30,000 foreign soldiers who had previously been held in POW camps in Germany, France, Britain, Belgium, Austria, and Russia. The internment camp system that Switzerland ... -
It’s Time to Talk of Other Things: of Black Power, War, and Beauty Queens
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2018)The history of military entertainment has become more popular in recent years as scholars have begun to identify the insights that studying entertainment reveals about culture and institutions. This thesis presents a piece ... -
“Associated Women Sycophants”: Sorority Women and Changing Gender Roles at the University of Kansas, 1948-1973
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2018)This thesis aims to study the different social expectations of University of Kansas sorority women and the evolution of those social mores over time. Very little study on this topic has been done previously. Beth Bailey’s ... -
Tackling Textbooks of the Times: The Telling Truth About Race in Textbooks from 1945-1970
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2018)As a key classroom tool, textbooks offer concrete insights from the past. In 1944, Gunnar Myrdal’s study An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, convinced Americans that the issue of American prejudice ... -
"And He Was an Arab!": Imperial Femininity and Pleasure in E.M. Hull's 1919 Desert Romance, The Sheik
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2018)E.M. Hull’s sensational novel The Sheik thrilled and shocked early twentieth century readers with its tale of a woman’s journey into the Sahara desert and her interracial sexual desire for the brooding Arab sheik who ...