Honors Program
Honors Program
Qualified German Studies majors are encouraged to consider writing an honors thesis their senior year. Preparation for the thesis should already begin during the fall semester of the junior year when possible directions and topics for the thesis should be discussed with departmental faculty and a research timeline can be established to complete the thesis by mid-March of their senior year.
Interested students should also be aware of the funding opportunities in Emory College through the Office of Undergraduate Research, the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry , the Halle Institute, or the library to support honor's thesis work.
Students writing an honor's thesis are encouraged to present their research at the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium in April of their senior year.
For more information, see Honors Program | Academic Policies & Regulations or contact Honors Program Coordinator, Peter Höyng
| Student | Title | Thesis Adviser | Year |
Oh, Tiffany | "Gendered Perspectives: Crisis and Representation of the Body in fin-de-siècle Vienna" | Buchholz, Paul | 2024 |
Simmens, Alex | Technology and Sustainability: The Consequences of Modernization in German Environmentalism | Buchholz, Paul | 2022 |
Wadsworth, Kristin | A functional discourse analysis of German media portrayals of virologist Dr. Christian Drosten during the COVID-19 pandemic | Maxim, Hiram | 2022 |
| Chiruvella, Varsha | A Comparative Reading of Medical Ethics in Late 19th Century German Literature | Höyng, Peter | 2019 |
| Greenstein, Paul | The Rise of and Literary Response to the New Far Right in Austria and Germany | Buchholz, Paul | 2019 |
| Teed, Jacqueline | Initial Discourses on AIDS in East and West Germany | Buchholz, Paul | 2018 |
Zhang, Zuoyu | A Comparison of the Published Scholarly English Translations of Paul Celan's "Todesfuge" | Höyng, Peter | 2018 |
| Weisberger, Abigail | Jewish Chronotopes: Sites of Memory in the Autobiographies of Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin | Block, Nick | 2014 |
| Lorenz, Lucia A. | "Der Mangel an Schönheit": Life in Hohenschönhausen in the 1950s | Maxim, Hiram | 2012 |
| Cooper, Robert | Musical Austrian Jewish Exiles: Examining the Jewish-Austrian Identities of Hermann Leopoldi and Georg Kreisler through Music | Höyng, Peter | 2011 |
| Maness, Caroline | Wiener Amerikaner oder amerikanischer Wiener? A Comparative Analysis of Three Viennese Scientists - Eric Kandel, Carl Djerassi, and Erwin Chargaff | Höyng, Peter | 2011 |
| Umpierrez, Erica | Advocating Awareness: The Development of Peter Handke's Concept of Language | Aue, Maximilian | 2010 |
| Hostetter, Whitney | Flanieren in Berlin: Reading the City with Hessel, Gröschner, and Graffiti. | Höyng, Peter | 2007 |
| Albert, Ryan | Connecting West German Responses to Terrorism to the Solution of the Iranian Hostage Crisis | Aue, Maximilian | 1999 |
| Nicol, Sara | Beyond the Wall: Neo-Nazism in the Former GDR | Westbrook, Viola | 1999 |
| Norman, Jana | A Comparison of Eastern and Western Jugendsprache One Year after German Unification | McMahon, James | 1992 |
| Westbrook, David | Tannenberg | McMahon, James | 1988 |
| Binner, Andrea | Vorstudien zu Sprachwandlungen uber drei Generationen | McMahon, James | 1986 |
| Bland III, James Walter | Lesekritik in Elias Canetti's Die Blendung | Aue, Maximilian | 1984 |
| Tigges, Stefan | Liebe, Gegebsatz und Identitat in den letzen swei Akten von Goethes Faust II und die Zurucknahme in Manns Doktor Faustus | Waniek, Erdmann | 1984 |
| Student/Yr | Title | Department | Thesis Adviser | Faculty Committee Member |
He, Aileen | "Inverse problem application in the field of biomedical image reconstruction" | Applied Mathematics and Statistics | Chung, Matthias |
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Choi, Jacob | “When Large Language Models Meet Religious Text” | Computer Science | Maxim, Hiram | |
Cunningham, Sara | Knee Deep in the Earth | English and Creative Writing | Brown, Jericho | Schaumann, Caroline |
Hicks, Elliot 2020 | Synthetic Applications of Dirhodium (II) Catalysis | Chemistry | Davies, Huw | Maxim, Hiram |
Haylon, Jeff 2018 | History | Eckert, Astrid | Maxim, Hiram | |
Rautman, Lydia 2018 | Effects of anthropogenic influence on patterns of infection with enteric zoonotic pathogens in brown mouse lemur, Microcebus rufus, at Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar | Environmental Sciences | Gillespie, Thomas | |
Tang, Mi 2018 | The Theory And Practice of Confidentiality Agreements in American Democracy: An Investigation of the Legal Norms Underlying the Apprentice Agreement in the Trump Tape Case | Philosophy | Sullivan, Michael | Maxim, Hiram |
Reynolds, Anne 2016 | Nicotine Usage in Individuals at Clinical High Risk of Developing Psychosis | Psychology | Walker, Elaine | |
Castle, Micah 2015 | Sounds of Silence: The Unspoken Voices in Four Spanish and German Post-War Texts | Spanish | Dillman, Lisa | Block, Nick |
Donovan, Kathleen 2015 | Globalization, Education, and Linguistics: Determinants of English Proficiency in EU Countries | Economics | Ninkovic, Jasminka | Maxim, Hiram |
Howell, Elizabeth 2015 | Responses to Protestant and Jewish Toleration in the Habsburg Empire During the Reign of Joseph II | History | Vick, Brian | Höyng, Peter |
Snyder, William 2015 | Social Learning Processes in Acheulean Hand-axe Production | Anthropology | Stout, Deitrich | Maxim, Hiram |
Doctor, Hazel 2014 | Popularity Perception and Favoritism by 3- to 7-Year-Old Children | Psychology | Rochat, Philippe | Maxim, Hiram |
Corrigan, Sarah 2013 | Freud and Schenker: Mind, Music, and the Loss of Play | IDSSC | Gilman, Sander | Höyng, Peter |
Rhoads, William 2013 | The Political Shift of the CDU in Citizenship and Immigration Policy from Reunification to the Implementation of an Immigration law in 2005 | History | Wilhelm, Cornelia | Schaumann, Caroline |
Hein, Benjamin 2010 | Nation, Identity, and German "Particularities" The Case of the Ruhr, 1871-1908 | History | Eckert, Astrid | Aue, Maximilian |
Reischmann, Mary Kate 2010 | The Journey from Wagner to Brahms: Performance Markings and Orchestration in the 1873 and 1889 Scores of Bruckner's Third Symphony | Music | Karnes, Kevin | Höyng, Peter |
| Student/Yr | Title | Department | Thesis Adviser |
Qifan Wang 2021 | The hairscapes of Chinese international students | Linguistics | Maxim, Hiram |
Michael Zhong 2017 | A study into emoji use in a multi-party chat | Linguistics | Maxim, Hiram |