Unusual dissertation titles from the University Microforms International dissertation database:
Electrical Measurements on Cuticles of the American Cockroach
Determinants of Flossing Behavior in the College Age Population
Classification of Drinking Styles Using the Topographical Components of Beer Drinking
More Fun Than Anything (about cyclopropenium salts)
Creep of Portland Cement Paste
Garage Sales as Practice: Ideologies of Women, Work and Community in Daily Life (Volumes I and II)
Finger Painting and Personality Diagnosis
Communication Use in the Motorcycle Gang
“Santa Claus”: A Mime-Opera Based on The Morality by e.e. cummings
Ritual Drama in American Popular Culture: The Case of Professional Wrestling
Things That Are Good and Things That Are Chocolate: A Cultural Model of Weight Control as Morality
Acute Indigestion of Solipeds
The Making of a Hippie Self
Jock and Jill: Aspects of Women’s Sports History in America, 1870-1940″
An Adaptive Surfing Apparatus
The Function of the Couch in Stimulating Altered States of Consciousness in Hypnosis and in Psychoanalysis
I Am You, You Are Me: A Philosophical Explanation of the Possibility That We Are All the Same Person
You Can’t Just Plug It In: Integrating the Computer Into the Curriculum
One dissertation’s acknowledgment page read: Yes, Mother, I am finally done; and no, Mom, I don’t know what good a doctor’s degree is either if I can’t fix you when you’re ill.
(From a UMI press release, quoted in The Whole Library Handbook 2, 1995.)
This is a re-postfrom Futility Closet (www.futilitycloset.com). It is re-posted with the permission of Greg Ross, who maintains the site.