Indian Creek’s Class Of ‘17 Completes Senior Thesis Work In Humanities

Recent Indian Creek School graduates Nesiah Banks, Brett Colburn, Jordan McDonald, Juhi Narula and Jeremiah Pace closed out the school year by successfully defending their senior thesis works. The Indian Creek School Voros Senior Thesis in the Humanities is named in honor of beloved former humanities teacher Chip Voros, who began this essential program to allow select members of the senior class the opportunity to explore a topic of their choice in the humanities.

These seniors must exhibit a passion for their topic as well as an ability to take this intellectual curiosity and produce a paper of no fewer than 45 pages that thoroughly explores their research question. Each participant is evaluated by a faculty panel on the extent of their research, clarity of writing and ability to orally defend their position. This year marks the sixth class of thesis students to complete this intellectually challenging and rigorous endeavor. Alumna Caroline Grindrod (class of 2013), who participated in the senior thesis program at ICS, shared after her college graduation this spring, “Congratulations to these seniors! I didn’t have to defend my college thesis and I was so surprised. My high school thesis had me extremely well prepared for college.”

The 2017 Voros Senior Thesis participants each produced thoughtful, thorough and impressive work, and they defended their theses to a panel of faculty and guests. Congratulations to the seniors and their faculty advisors on their inspiring work.

Thesis Topics

Nesiah Banks: “The Psychological Effects of Medical Experimentation on the Black American Community”

Brett Colburn: “Nineteenth Century Scotland: A Death of a Culture and a Cry for Justice”

Jordan McDonald: “Mother of Monsters: African-American Women and the Ghost of Frankenstein’s Female Creature”

Juhi Narula: “Fiction, Phonies and Fine Lines: An Analysis and Extrapolation of the Recently Conceptualized Process of Experience-Taking”

Jeremiah Pace: “Keynes vs. Chicago: Comparing the Keynesian and Chicago Schools of Economics”