Previous Senior Honors Thesis Topics
2021-2022
Connor Ehl
“Sayyid Qutb’s Theories of Economics and Jihad as Responses to Secularisms”
Advisor: Sara Omar
Rowan Moreland
“Female Genital Cutting and Western NGO Rhetoric”
Advisor: Sara Omar
2020-2021
Ivana Gabriele-Smith
“Love in Sahar Khalifeh’s Novels”
Advisor: Elliott Colla
2017-2018
Nate Card
“Linguistic Archeology: A Contrastive Analysis of Arabic and English Idioms”
Advisor: Ahmad Alqassas
Kevin Chao
“Al-Ghazali and the Hellenistic Skeptical Tradition”
Advisor: Emma Gannagé
Catherine Dorland
“Reimagining modernity: Nāzik al-Malā’ika and the importance of form in modern Arabic poetry”
Advisor: Elliott Colla
2016-2017
Alex Ridley
“Language Attitudes toward Queer Epithets in Arabic: A Sociolinguistic Investigation”
Advisor: Terrence Potter
Harris Majeed
“The State of Islamic Biomedical Ethics, Contemporary and Classical: Examining the Breadth of Islamic Bioethical Discourse”
Advisor: Felicitas Opwis
2015-2016
Zaynab Malik
“Psychological Displacement in Nakba Literature”
Advisor: Dima Ayoub
2014-2015
Keegan Terek
“Georgetown Arabic Students Abroad: Comparing the Linguistic Perceptions of Future and Former Study Abroad Students in the Arab World”
Advisor: Terrence Potter
2013-2014
Michael Lessman
“Triune Oneness in Yahya Ibn ‘Adi’s Treatise on Unity”
2012-2013
Caitlin Attal
“The Media War in Syria: a Battle for the Last Word”
Advisor: Hanaa Kilany
Anna Marnicio
“Muslim Women, Sex, and Lingerie: Her Private Side Made Public”
Advisor: Hanaa Kilany