Humanities Research Program Capstone

Student Project Gallery 2025

Explore each students' academic research and creative project. Click the text below.

Healing and Humanity
The Tension Between Empathy and Distance
by Evie Comis

The American Pipe Dream
A Cross-Cultural Study of Productivity and the Phantom of Success
by Lila Foster

Masculinity in Motion
Breaking the Frame & Facade of Traditional Masculinity through Realistic Cinema
by Peyton Gimbel

The Architecture of Work
How Office Design Shapes Productivity and Well-Being
by Sage Holcombe

Good without God
The Future of Faith Conversations

by Aaron Kamps

Existence before Essence
Tracing Feminist Philosophy in Fictional Women
by Amelia Noble

The Art of Fear
Goya's Legacy and the Power of Confronting Darkness
by Dakota Risley

Cult and Consumerism
Unmasking the Allure of Propaganda in a Polarizing Age
by Henry Risley

The Music of Motion
A Look Into the Psychological Power of Film Score
by Zoe Wolf

Humanities Research Program Brochures

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Humanities Research Program Overview

Program Highlights and Sample Student Projects

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Humanities Research Program Year Two

HRP II: A Visual Course Description

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"The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists."

--Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist

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