On May 9–10, 2024, the graduating class successfully defended their Senior Theses. The writing and defense of a Senior Thesis, in addition to the Junior Project undertaken in the third year of study, provides the Thomas More College student with an opportunity to explore his or her individual interests.
Under the guidance of a mentor, the student develops a research paper and prepares for a public defense. This presentation, which is given in front of a panel of faculty members and an audience of fellow students, is the culmination of a student’s career at Thomas More College.
Please find the full list of thesis titles for the Class of 2024 below. Click here to learn more about the TMC curriculum.
Class of 2024 Senior Thesis Titles
Matthew Amatruda
“On Censorship: The Principle of Liberalism Regarding the State’s Right and Duty to Censor”
Emma Anderson
“Russell Kirk’s Old House of Fear: Restoring the Moral Order through Proper Fear”
Joelle Choiniere
“The Human Vocation to Work: An Inquiry into the Effects of Industry on Manual Labor and the Village”
Colette Davis
“The Call to Care: A Woman’s Vocation in Louisa May Alcott’s An Old-Fashioned Girl”
Madeline Eastman
“Praise and Exalt Him Above All Forever: The Divine and the Physical in Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov”
AnneMarie Gerads
“Jane Austen: Morals and Manners in Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park”
Damian Gerads
“Is the Benedict Option Benedictine?: An Evaluation of Rod Dreher’s Book in Light of the Rule of St. Benedict”
Peter Greninger
“Film as a Poetic Art: On the Nature and Powers of Film”
Mary Harty
“We Love Because He First Loved Us: An Examination of the Person’s Ontological Duty to Love”
Joel Marshall
“The Quest for Accessibility and the Loss of Mystery in the Christian Liturgy”
Ashley Moorman
“A Psychological Symptom of Unhappiness: A Consideration of the Connection Between Morality and the Mental Health Crisis”
Josephine Moorman
“That They May All be One: Understanding the Necessary Relationship Between Culture and Education”
Declan Nielsen
“Strategies of the Left”
Elizabeth Orlowski
“A Catholic Exposition of Self-Love”
Anna Othot
“Sense and Sensibility: Both and in That Order in Jane Austen’s Novel”
Peter Rao
“A New Abolition: Humanity’s Flight from Reality through Eugenics and Transhumanism”
Anne Serafin
“Martyrdom and Peace: What the Martyrs Teach Us about Peace and How They Bring It to Their Society”
Madeleine Sullivan
“Creation and the Crisis of Meaning”
Regina Thompson
“Generation and Participation in the Divine: A Study of the Generative Soul and Its Fulfillment in Spousal Love”
George Veevers-Carter
“A Loss of Literature: The Impact of Modernity and Technology on Our Ability to Read and Write”
Elias Wassell
“Citizen and Believer: The Relationship Between Church and State as Fundamentally Existent in the Human Person”
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