According to the Washington University in St. Louis website, this was Ian Klaus's thesis:
"I'd love to write and teach," says Ian Klaus, of Belvedere, California. A Rhodes Scholar, former varsity soccer co-captain, friend of the St. Louis community, and award-winning writer, Klaus graduated in May 2001 with majors in history and an interdisciplinary program called literature and history, both in Arts & Sciences. His senior honors paper presented the ambitious thesis that ever since World War II, America's cultural identity has been tied to warfare and fictional portrayals of warfare, such as Tim O'Brien's memoir and novels on the Vietnam War. Now at Oxford, Klaus will be helping others deeply understand their world and themselves.