Among the brightest and most accomplished Monmouth College graduates, Honors Program alumni have gone on to prestigious careers in law, medicine, education, social services, non-profit management, business, and other fields. Many of these high-achieving alumni point to the rigorous academic standards of the Honors Program and the opportunity to extend the perspectives of the general curriculum as the foundation for their successes in graduate programs and the professional arena.
Honors Projects
Though not a comprehensive list, following are examples of Honors Projects completed by other alumni.
Catherine Clarizio ’10, “Keeping Wounds Clean: The Journey of a Bereaved College Student and a Proposal for a Bereavement Resource Center”
Nishant Dixit ’10, “Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan: An Evolving Concept”
Dallas Johnson-Young ’10, “Microbusiness: Solutions for Local Needs”
Mary Scotillo ’10, “Taking a Bite of our Twilight: An Analysis of Popular Appeal”
Donato Latrofa ’07, “Re-United and it Feels So Good: Repeal of Glass-Steagall and the Future of Finance”
David Danaher ’06, “When Physics and Music Intertwine: Just Intonation and Equal Temperament in Western Music”
Karen Krautwurst ’06, “A Personal Savior: Cultural Values Reflected in Literary Representations of Jesus Christ”
Nicholas Kyriazes ’05, “Seven Sins: A Novel”
Wendy Thomas ’04, “The Social Creation of a Disease and its Cure: Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder”
Kerri Adams Fuller ’03, “Service Learning: Laying the Framework and Building Service Learning at Monmouth College”
Bill Provencher ’03, “Music and the Intellectual Journey” (songs, performance, story)
Rebecca Disrud ’02, “The Song Settings of Lord Byron: A Study in Romantic Paradox”
Keegan Lannon ’02, “Pandora’s Closet” (screenplay and film)
Brandi McCoy Van Leeuwen ’02, “Why it Should Be Legal to Say ‘I Hate You’: First Amendment Protection of Hate Speech”
Stephanie Reed ’01, “Vide Cor Meum” (art and poetry)
Sameer Malhotra ’98, “Exile from Innocence”
Christopher Burns ’95, “Dwelling in the World: A Meditation”
Karl Riber ’95, “Deep Ecology and the Postmodern World”
Amy Siedeburg Hanon ’95, “A Generation Like Any Generation, or a Generation Like No Other?: America’s Thirteenth Generation”
Jon Kruse ’92, “Regulation of Science and Technology”
Rosalind Banks ’91, “Who is My Brother?: The Dynamics of Fraternalism in African-American Christian Churches”