Rice Undergraduate Theses
This collection features undergraduate theses written by undergraduates at Rice University. Copyright remains with the author.
If you are interested in making your honors thesis available through RDSA, please see Open Invitation to Undergraduates and talk with your adviser. Please contact Lisa Spiro, Executive Director, Digital Scholarship Services, at lspiro[at]rice[dot]edu with any questions.
Recent Submissions
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A Phenomenological Critique of Irene McMullin's Formulation of Heideggerian Temporality
(2019)This paper aims at differentiating Martin Heidegger’s phenomenological ontology from Emmanuel Levinas’s phenomenological ethics on the experiential level of encountering otherness. In addition to drawing from each author’s ... -
The Long Brexit: Postwar British Euroscepticism
(2018)The 2016 British vote to exit the European Union (“Brexit”), was greeted with global dismay as the very project of Europe was called into question. The phenomenon of Euroscepticism in postwar European politics has been ... -
The Call of Higher Duty: How the Economy of Patriotism Extends from Real Civilians to Virtual Soldiers
(2017)This project explores how military first-person shooter videogames serve as cultural artifacts grounded within the economy of patriotism. Essentially, the economy of patriotism is the system of exchange in which civilians ... -
Kingship in the Age of Extraction: How British Deconstruction and Isolation of African Kingship Reshaped Identity and Spurred Nigeria’s North/South Divide, 1885-1937
(2015)To the outside observer today, Nigeria is a state whose political troubles are sunk in its oil wells. Yet in truth the difficulties facing Nigeria are reflective of colonialism’s alteration of Nigerian society, and in order ... -
Mercy through the Ages: A Glance into the Window of Paradise - A Study of Surah al-Rahman with Six Exegeses, Dating from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century
(2011)This paper explores the distinctions in interpretation of surah al-Rahman of the Holy Qur’an based on the exegeses of al-Tabari, al-Huwwari, al-Qushayri, al-Qurtubi, al-Jalalayn, and al-Maraghi. These commentaries range ...
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