Congratulations, Graduates
Front row (l-r): Sally Snyder, Sara Hall, Rebecca Noble, Yana Passater, Erik Boneff, Kathleen Burke, Elias Nelson, Katherine Martin Seaver. Back row (l-r:) Robert Kruse, Kieran Kelley, John Garvin, Hillary Humphreys, Howard Ruan, Aaron Christman, Peter Vincent, Joe Bradshaw
List of graduates with their degrees, honors, and thesis titles.
Student Speakers
Kieran Kelly (read)
Erik Boneff (read)
Katherine Martin Seaver (read)
Keynote Address
Dr. Wendy Doniger (pictured right, read)
Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School
Academic Dean's Address
Barbara Stone (read)
Honorary degrees were given to:
Edward Noonan, President
Christopher Nelson, Member and former Chair of the Shimer College Board of Trustees
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Erik Nicholas Gibbs Boneff
Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences with Great Distinction
“Much Ado About Nothing?”:
An Argument for the Political Relevance of the Social Text Affair
Joe Bradshaw
Bachelor of Arts in Humanities
The Semantic Core of Dewey’s Moral Philosophy
Kathleen Mary Burke
Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies
There is a Little Schizophrenia in All of Us:
Examining the Stigma of Nature and the Myth of Perfection
Aaron Ingram Christman
Bachelor of Arts in Humanities
Spirit and Struggle:
A Return to the Thought of Simone Weil
John Martin Garvin
Bachelor of Arts in Humanities
Faith, Reason, and Human Dynamism:
The Philosophical Writings of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II
Sara Elouise Hall
Bachelor of Arts in Humanities
Khaiyus-Tubrien: An Exercise in World-Building
Hillary Jennie Humphreys
Bachelor of Arts in Humanities
The Order of Dominance
and the Bridge Between Faith and Reason
Kieran M. Kelley
Bachelor of Arts in Humanities and Social Sciences with Great Distinction
The Ecological Development of Moral Agency
Robert L. Kruse
Bachelor of Science in Humanities
On Managing Surplus: A Personal Essay
Katherine M Martin Seaver
Bachelor of Arts in Humanities with Great Distinction
Searching for Illumination:
An Interdisciplinary Approach to William Blake’s The Book of Thel
Elias William Nelson
Bachelor of Arts in Natural Sciences with Distinction
Achilles in the Second Law:
The Physics of Homer and the Poetry of Thermodynamics
Rebecca Joan Noble
Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies with Distinction
A Collision of Values in the United States of Automobiles
Yana Passater
Bachelor of Science in Humanities
A Self Without an Other
Howard Ruan
Bachelor of Arts in Humanities with Great Distinction
The Chinese in Chicago, 1870-1912:
A Historical Analysis of Hyphenated Cultural Identity
Sally Noelle Snyder
Bachelor of Arts in Humanities and Natural Sciences
Penelope: A Contextual Research Project
Peter Miles Vincent
Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies with Distinction
Transhumanism: The Risks and Boundaries
of Augmenting the Human Body with Technology