Social Sciences: Thesis Examples

The Social Sciences discipline covers a wide range of programs and fields of study: Anthropology & Archaeology, Government, History, International Relations, Legal Studies.

• Linked below are examples of  well-formatted theses – please use these as models as you develop your own thesis

To help you in your planning, please review: Setting Goals and Staying on Track

• Anthropology & Archaeology

Central Transit Places: The Archaeology of Man-Made Navigable Waterways in Iron Age Scandinavia A.D. 400–800

• Government

A Displaced Cost of War: The Statelessness of Vietnamese-Amerasians

• History

Kinship Networks, Power, and Agency in Upper Austrian Noblewomen of the Seventeenth Century

• International Relations

The Appeal of Leaders and their Foreign Policy When Death is in the Air:A Perspective from Ontological Security Theory and Terror Management Theory

• Legal Studies 

Who Is the Declarant of the English Translation of the Defendant’s Out-of-Court Foreign Language Statement? An “Authenticated Conduit” Theory