Honors Bachelor of Arts
Established in 1948, Honors A.B. is the University's first and oldest honors program. True to Xavier's Jesuit heritage, the program emphasizes the interdisciplinary study of philosophy and the classics. Students study the classic texts of Western civilization while fostering deeper understanding of the values and ideals they embrace.
All students in the Honors A.B. complete a capstone thesis in their senior year, which connects to a second major or post-graduate and professional plans.
Submissions from 2017
A Psychological and Philosophical Understanding of Death: An Analysis of Platonic and Epicurean Philosophy in Modern America, Alexina Hupp
Classical Style and Catholic Theology: A Multi-Faceted Analysis of the Eucharistic Hymns of Saint Thomas Aquinas, David Nussman
Divine Deliverance A New Look at Euripidean Tragedy through Audience Interpretation, Samantha Pukys
Submissions from 2016
Innovation & Hoplite Ideology: The Relation of Martial Equipment to Ideology in Archaic and Classical Greece, William D. Henry
Combat Trauma and Tragic Catharsis: An Aristotelian Account of Tragedy and Trauma, Edward J. Hoffmann
Girls, Girls, Girls The Prostitute in Roman New Comedy and the Pro Caelio, Nicholas R. Jannazo
America and Athens as Seen Through South Park and Aristophanes, James F. Neyer
Challenging Kleos: An FPDA Analysis and Application of Andromache in the Iliad, Ayana Marie Rowe
The Seed of Principate: Annona and Imperial Politics, Joseph B. Ruter III
Preaching Christ Crucified: Origen’s Apologetic Strategy in Contra Celsum, Morgan S. Thompson
Submissions from 2015
Aristotle & Locke: Ancients and Moderns on Economic Theory & the Best Regime, Andrew John Del Bene
Blueprint for Legal Practice: Establishing Cicero’s Ideal Style, Henry L. Farrington
The Natural Laws of Global Trade: Hobbes and Vattel on International Commerce, Juan Martir
Catholic-Protestant Relations in 19th Century Cincinnati, Charles Rosebrough
The Art of the Stage Machinist: A Dramatic Reconstruction of Aeschylus’ Linear Tragedy, Prometheus Bound, Alexander J. Spindler
Submissions from 2014
Twice-Made Men: The Journey to the Afterlife and Back, John M. Farkas
Submissions from 2013
Ovid's Insight into the Minds of Abandoned Women, Rachel A. Bier
The Exploration of Nationalism in the Works of Livy and Jacques-Louis David, Kelly M. Bunting
The Psychopathology of Everyday Athens: Euripides on the Freudian Couch, Brendan C. Chisholm
Augustine and John Paul II on the Goods of Marriage: Proles, Fides, et Sacramentum, Thomas Richard Finke
Lift, Eat, Compete: Athletics in Ancient Greece and Modern America, Jensen Grey Kolaczko
Asclepios, M.D.? The Ancient Greeks and Integrative Medicine, Anna T. Wiley
Submissions from 2012
Shame and Sense, Samuel P. Carter
Roman Mater The Etruscan Influence On the Role of Roman Women, Elizabeth Davis
Plato the Poet, Francis James Flanagan
