Santa Fe Events
Commencement 2009
Senior Essay Titles
Stephanie Ann Aguinaldo
Fort Bragg, CA
Woman and the Free Spirit in Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human
Tripp James Androy
Grants Pass, OR
A Nation Schizophrenic: Idealism and Pragmatism in the American Experiment
Kevin Maurice Andrus
Valencia, CA
An Investigation into the Nature of the Soul in Plato’s Gorgias
David Josiah Armstrong
Centennial, CO
Warrior of Christ: What it means to be a hero as exemplified by Alyosha in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
Richard Samuel Babicz
Nokesville, VA
Leaving Madame Aubain’s Salle: The Disintegration of the Bourgeois Edifice in Flaubert’s Un Cœur Simple
Morgan Michaela Ansley Bate
Kapaau, HI
Unable to Sing: The coming of Age of Natasha in War and Peace
Robert Eric Baylis
Dallas, TX
The Limits of Statecraft: Historical and Psychological Fatalism in Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and The Ancient Regime and the Revolution
Jessica Ann Bloom
Northville, MI
Finding Meaning in the Carefully Disordered Structure of Melville’s Moby Dick
Brendan Corey Bucy
Corvallis, OR
Men As They Are and Laws As They Might Be: A Study of Man, Toleration, Belief,and Liberty in the American Regime through an Explication of The Federalist
Caitlin Marie Cass
Chicago, IL
In the Chiaroscuro of the Atelier: The Artist’s Dialectic in Flaubert’s Madame Bovary
Matthew L. Pinkney Charles
Washington, CT
The Creation of Society through the Singular Manifestations of Love And Discernment in Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice
Sally Elsbeth Conkright
Louisville, KY
Sympathy for the Sadist in Flaubert’s Un Cœur Simple
Lydia Catherine Cooper
Covington, LA
A Recipe for Child-Rearing in Michel de Montaigne’s Of the Education of Children
Michael David Curry
Milwaulkie, OR
Gravitational Energy and the Non-Physicality of Space-Time
Erin Elizabeth Destito
Hobe Sound, FL
Illumination on the Road to La Mancha: The Errant Knight and the Castle Knight in Cervantes’ Don Quixote
Jordan Blaine Du Bois
San Diego, CA
On the Power of the Majority in Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
Patrick Daniel Dummer
Olney, MD
Stepping over the Threshold: A Study of Morality and Psychology in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
Jennifer Ashley Fain
Prescott, AZ
An Enquiry into Ethical Systems in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: Unfixing Our Perspective, Taking Off Our Glasses, and Returning to Rough Ground
Max Ladislas Farago
New York, NY
A Thorough Explication of Godel’s Incompleteness Theorems
Aaron Robert Field
San Jose, CA
Cutting Down the Tallest Poppies: Finding Faith in Kierkegard’s Fear and Trembling
David Andrew Fischer
Portland, OR
Morality and the Fracture of Civilization in Heart of Darkness
Edward Hartwell Frame
Redding, CT
“We are sick with evils that can be cured:” Educational Redemption in Rousseau’s Emile
Emmanuelle Christine George
Silverdale, WA
Essential Vitality in Paul Valery’s Le Cimetiere Marin
Samuel Gregory Gespass
Pittsburgh, PA
“What is Love?:” Prince Andrei’s Life and Death in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Jacob Kroll Gibson
Austin, TX
On Interpretation, Reading, and Writing in Proust’s Swann’s Way and Days of Reading
Emily Nicole Green
Katonah, NY
An exploration of the relationship between Story, Eros and Truth in the Symposium
Eammon Patrick Grosek
Lead, SD
Preserving Reason and Will: Establishing The Role of the Individual in a Democracy in Alexis De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
Charlotte Roberta Gunn-Golkin
Cherry Hill, NJ
For the Greater Good: The U.S. Constitution as a Rousseauian Social Contract
Elizabeth Erin Harball
Kalispell, MT
“The knot myself:” A Reading of Chaucer’s Wife of Bath
Skylar Langley Huzyk
Denver, CO
“New and Unshakeable Foundations:” Causality, Free Will, and Pierre’s Transformation in War and Peace
Allison Carla Jaros
Kansas City, MO
The Moral Law within Me: An Exploration of Personality in Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason
Laura Logan Johns
Bozeman, MT
The Beauty of Life’s Limits in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Anderson Sullivan Jonas
Los Angeles, CA
Sculpting an Idea of God and Republic: Baruch Spinoza’s Theologico-Politico Treatise
Narges Kahvazadeh
La Jolla, CA
Satan, Giver of Love: The Birth of Love in Milton’s Paradise Lost
Marcello Kilani
Russellville, AR
Existence Interpreting Existence: Fundamental Ontology in Being & Time
Jay Stevens Koernke
Marquette, MI
Abraham, Lazarus, and the Law: The Resurrection of Raskolnikov in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment
Alexander Kneeland Kriz
Annapolis, MD
Expectation and Reality—Defining the Limit of Attainable Felicity in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick
Caitlin Elizabeth Kuennen-Breen
New York, NY
To Know We Must Learn: Hegel’s Transition from Sense-Certainty to Perception in the Phenomenology of Spirit
Elise Akie Kutsunai
Honolulu, HI
While We Unburthened Crawl Toward Death: Sight, Sin and Despair in William Shakespeare’s King Lear
Kyle Dylan Loudon Lebell
Woodacre, CA
Falling through Wholes: How Flaubert’s Style Denies Resolution
Timothy Daniel Leonard
Pinckney, MI
For there in my Bed-Chamber Death does Abide: Facing Mortality in The Epic of Gilgamesh
Jonathan Scott Lucas
Saluda, NC
Chance and Intent in Michel de Montaigne’s Of Repentance
Remy Maelen*
New York, NY
Christopher Michael Gildersleeve Malone
Vershire, VT
Identity, Intimacy and Doubt in James Joyce’s The Dead
Christopher Scott Manis
Carlsbad, CA
Sympathy and Reason: The Role of Darwin’s Natural Selection in Human Society
Jeffrey Maxwell Milne Marshall
Centennial, CO
Judicial Principles in the Federalist Papers
David Robert Mathieson
Toronto, ON
An Essay on Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Patrick Jay McConnaughey
Moneta, VA
µηµανασουδιγεκαιακλειωςαολοιµην: Let Me Not Die Ingloriously, Without Struggle (22.304)
Nicholas Hance McElroy
Seattle, WA
Uncovering Wordsworth’s Project in The 1799 Prelude
Nadja Milekic
Philadelphia, PA
A Knowledge of Greatness, a Knowledge of Its Terrors: The Role of the Poet in Fear and Trembling
David Jonathan Milton
Williamston, MI
God’s King Turned Straight to Nothing: A View of the Imagination through the Lens of Symbol and Object in William Shakespeare’s King Richard II
Darryl Timothy Moore
North Vancouver, BC
“Thou Must Take Another Road:” Pity and Penance in Dante’s Inferno
Oliver Maxwell Maly Muchmore
Portland, OR
Out of Space—Out of Time: Cthulhu, the Antarctic and a Lovecraftian rejection of forms.
Nicholas Eino Murphy
Seattle, WA
Harmony and Dissonance in Plato’s Gorgias: An Inquiry into the Nature of the Orderly Soul
Nathaniel C. Murray
Fayetteville, NC
Where can Milton’s Reader find Justification? The Search for Wholeness in an Incomplete World.
James Milton Myers III
Camden, SC
Philosophy and the Philosophic State in Plutarch’s Life of Lycurgus: Reflections on Human Potential
Emily Ruth Nicholson
Alexandria, VA
Freedom and Education in Kantian Morality
Lauren Elizabeth Oberlin
Gettysburg, PA
How Questioning Society’s Morals Overcomes Racial Inequality in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Brian Fallon O’Connor
Cambridge, MA
The Layers of Conrad’s Writing: Impressions and Conviction in Lord Jim
James Nicholas Olmstead
Seattle, WA
Rational Control and Decentralization: An Inquiry into The Limits of Human Knowledge and the Social Conscience in The Fatal Conceit
Anthony Sharif Paget
New York, NY
Oedipus in Action, Who He Sees: An Inquiry into the Role of our Identity
Jonathan Craig Palmer
Mesquite, TX
On the Value of the Kinematics in Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity
Tony Lee Phillips
Baltimore, MD
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: How Pip Masters His “Self-Swindling” Mind
Rowell Aleister Sterling Pratt
Greenwood, MS
Being Questioned: On the Possibility of ‘Knowing-the-Other’ in Heidegger’s Being and Time
Dexter Flood Rappleye
Los Angeles, CA
Phaedrus: Peering through the Shadows
David Michael Reed
Stone Mountain, GA
“κτηµαεςαιει” On History and Historical Method in Thoukydides
Shannon Bridget Reilley
Bristol, VT
The Ungraspable Phantom of Life: The Sea and the Search for Self in Melville’s Moby Dick
Samuel Ryan Richards
Los Gatos, CA
A Dream of Passion: Sound and Subjectivity in Kierkegaard’s Musical Erotic
Emory Duncan Richardson
Saint Paul, MN
On Encountering Kant’s Moral Law in the Rational Being
William Tyler Rothamel
Brentwood, TN
Literary Artifice and the Frustration of Romantic Love: Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary
Andrea Jean Sepenzis
Edwards, CO
Swarm or King: Predetermination, Power, Analysis and Freedom in War and Peace
A. Bani Singh
Lawrence, KS
“Come ye daughters help me lament:” Bach’s Invocation of the A-rational and the Feminine
Jeremy Tyler Specland
Milford, CT
“Dissolute Adventurers of Emotion:” Mann’s Critique in Death in Venice
Julia Connell Stryker
Corpus Christi, TX
Yet Not Alone: The Consequences of Loneliness in Paradise Lost
Ellen Warren Thistle
Delray Beach, FL
Examining the Role of the Intellect in Man’s Ascension through the Heavenly Realm in Dante’s Divine Comedy
Robert Benjamin Thorpe
Napa, CA
No Less Essential: Behavioral Science and the Laws of History
Christopher Brian Tillman
Reno, NV
The Devil’s Music: An Analysis of the Word, the Tone, the Human and the Demonic in Thomas Mann’s Dr. Faustus
Jonathan Philip Ting
El Paso, TX
Tragedy, Viewed from Hippolytus through Phèdre: The Change of the Tragic End as a Change of Human Consciousness of Self
Scott Tenbroeck Van Vechten
Lake Oswego, OR
Less Weeping, More Sheeping!ΠολυϕηµοςΟδυσσευς
Wesley James Venteicher
Columbia Falls, MT
Happiness, Inward Beauty, and Moral Grace, an Experimental Approach: From David Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
Gabriel David Villalobos
Richardson, TX
Unarmed He Shall Face Me if Face Me He Dares: An Examination of the Character of Beowulf
Austin Xavier Volz
Durango, CO
The Influence of Democracy on Education: The Relation of Society to Education in John Dewey’s Democracy and Education
Jay Benjamin Weiler
Los Altos, CA
Are Mathematicians Gods? The Role of Theory and Experience in Hans Jonas’ Phenomenon of Life
Brandon Justin Winston
Brooklyn, NY
Shakespeare’s King Lear: Words. Will. Fool.
Kelly Marie Wortham
Topanga, CA
“A Silent Song:” Learning to Hear the Steppe and the Passion for Life in Anton Chekhov’s The Steppe
Christopher W. Wren
Houston, TX
A Sad Tale Is Best for Winter
Andrea C. Young
New Cumberland, PA
Man, Word, and Reality: Some Consequences of C.S. Peirce’s Thoughts on Terminology, Taxonomy, and Correspondence
* Conditional upon satisfactory completion of degree requirements