Africana Studies

Venessis Collado, Dominican Republic: Confronting Black Existence in the White Imaginary

American Studies

Kathryn Kearney, Women Breaking Barriers in the American Jazz Industry

Alessandro Mariani, The Cathy Project: Providing Psychotherapy Funding to Active and Retired United States Service Members Who Have Been Victims of Sexual Assault During Their Time of Service

Adriana Mullin, The Effects of COVID-19 on Emergency Food and Hunger Relief

Anthropology

Sophia Coren, The Conflation of Race and Ethnicity: Chinese Adoptees and Their ‘Cultural’ Upbringing

Abby Henkel, Makeup and Other Masks: Beauty and the Self During COVID-19

Ishan Mainali, Forget the Past, Sing in the Present: The Nepali Nation as Imagined by Young Music Artists in Kathmandu

Julia Martin, Gendered Athletic Aesthetics: How Female Athletes Control the Conversation About Bodies

Charlotte Miller, Unmasking the Hook Up: Intimacy on Campus in COVID-19

Claire Resele-Tiden, To post or not to post: A Comparative Analysis of the Motivations Behind Posts on @HamiltonDenounced and #MeToo

Emely Rojas, Negradada: Theorizing Personal Identity, Race in America, and Social Change Using Autoethnography

Olivia Wenzel, “Hey I’m not Racist, I Listen to Hip-Hop”: An Exploration of the “White Liberal” Identity through Music

Archaeology

Lana Dorr, The Consequences of Cultural Encounters on Late Bronze Age Transylvania Cuisine and Subsistence Economies

Erica Ivins, Active Forgetting: Cemetery Abandonment and Mortuary Politics in Bronze Age Transylvania

Art

Class of 2021 Senior Art Thesis Website

Safa Ahmed, Urbana Anam, Cecilia Areizaga Rojas, Luke Bernard, Hillary Bisono Ortega, Lucille Brinkman, Audrey Chor, Sophie Cote, Samuel Guindon, Amy Harff, Madeline Justiniano, Zeyan Tang, Kirubel Tesfaye

Art History

Julia DeMaio, Instituting Multiplicity: The Reduction of Identity and Art in the 1993 Whitney Biennial

Elizabeth Groubert, Monument Building & Myth-making: The United Daughters of the Confederacy & The Lost Cause

Ivy Huang, Art on Art? Defining Reflexivity in Conceptual Art

Michael McEneney, The Symbolism of US Currency: A Review of the Origins of its Value through Visual Analysis

Kyra Richardson, “You should be women / And yet…”: Witchcraft, Gender, and Anxiety in Jacques de Gheyn II’s Witch Drawings

Jean Song, Transforming Middle-Class White Domesticity: The Kitchen of Case Study House No. 24

Lily Williams, Jessica Dismorr’s Abstract Composition: A Historiographic Critique

Eleonor Wolf, Cy Twombly’s Quattro Stagioni: Past & Present Influences

Asian Studies

Shavell Jones, Afro-Japanese Visions: Representations of Blackness in Japanese Media

Nate Koike, Shadow of the Ghost: An Analysis of Adaptation

Chih Ling (Denise) Kuo, Kore-eda’s Commentary on the Invisible People in Japanese Society: A Study on the Filmmaker’s Approach

Bo Wang, Edogawa Rampo: In Search of a New Narrative Style in the 1920s

Frederick Xongmixay, Understanding the Transformation of Benshi in the Soundscape

Biochemistry/Molecular Biology

Urbana Anam, Exploring Scaffolding Technologies to Assemble and Analyze the Macronuclear Genome of the Pathogenic Ciliate Ichthyophthirius multifiliis.

Dayeon Cheong, TBD

Michael Kim, Polymer-Immobilized Water Oxidation Catalysts for Artificial Photosynthesis

Donna Le, Characterization of CwlD and PdaA activity in Muramic-δ-lactam Biosynthetic Pathway.

David Opozda, BRD9876 as a Probe for Studying Mitotic Spindle Assembly in Zea mays

Catherine Pontius, The Role of TBhR inProliferative Cells of Drosophila melanogaster

Savannah Ryan, Enrichment, Isolation, and Identification of Endogenous Extracellular Electron Shuttles Using a Novel Loop-Flow Microbial Incubator

Tessa Ryan, Biosynthesis of Peptidoglycan in Bacterial Endospores

Makayla Spicer, The Chemical Analysis of North American Propolis and its Antimicrobial Activities Against Nosema cerenae

Nathaniel Spicer, Investigating the interchangeability of optimal and suboptimal binding sites for the maternal transcription factor Bicoid in Drosophila melanogaster

Emma Szegvari, Implications of Herbicide Application on the KTSA Aquatic and Stream Ecosystem

Megan Walls, Circadian Rhythms in the Gut Microbiome of Mice Independent of the Host

Stephanie Wu, Effect of Anti-Cancer Drugs on Tetrahymena Thermophila

Liuhui Xiao, The Roles of Alpha-fetoprotein in Cancer Therapies

Elaine Yip, Elucidating SpoVDE Polymerase Complex Activity in B. subtilis and C. difficile

Yunxiao Zheng, Poison or Solution? Testing the Effect of Environment on the Secondary Chemicals of Alliaria petiolata for Potential Application

Biology

Emma Bartle, The Effects of Lead Toxicity on Drosophila melanogaster Eye Development

Madeline (Madie) Bologa, Isolating and Enriching Electrochemically Active Bacteria in Meromictic Green Lake, Fayetteville, NY

Grace Carey, Enrichment and Distribution of Palindromic Sequences in Regulatory DNA in Drosophila melanogaster

Hailey Carson, Effect of Electrode Potential on Nanowire Formation and Networking in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1

Ellen Chinchilli, Using Electrode Potentials to Selectively Enrich Novel Extracellular Electron Shuttle-Producing Bacteria

Sophie Cote and Margaret (Maisie) Merz, Context Dependent Neophobia in Rural and Urban American Crows

Kathryn Craine, Development of Vacuolar Lesions in Drosophila melanogaster Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Brian Gallagher, Characterizing the Seasonal Shift in Microbial Community Composition in the Water Column of Meromictic Green Lake at High Spatial Resolution

Alexandria Geer and Megan Taruc, Chemical and Structural Characterization of Sulfur-Oxidizing Biofilms Associated with Redox Inverted Cold Seeps in Green Lake

Eamon Gibbons and Reilee Gunsher, Putting More Keyhole Limpets on the Map: Using COI Barcoding to Understand Phylogeny and Global Distribution of Diodora spp. 

Grace Godwin, PFAS Contamination Effects on Immune Function in Snapping Turtles and Painted Turtles

Brigit Humphreys, Quantifying PFAS in Streams Around Contamination Sites in Oneida County, NY

Ajla Karabegovic, De Novo Assembly of the Transcriptome of the Fish Parasite Cryptocaryon irritans 

Luca Katz, The Effects of Developmental Lead Exposure on Drosophila melanogaster Flight

Sydney Kim and Lily Sochan-Rosen, Diversity, Distribution, and Patterns of Invasion by Jumping Worms in Hamilton College Forests 

Kaela Makins, The Dynamics of Phagolysosomes in Tetrahymena thermophila

Meaghan Parlee, Bicoid and Zelda Binding Site Interchangeability in Drosophila melanogaster

Yaa Konama Pokuaa, Effect of Aromatase Inhibition on the Viability of Trachemys scripta Hatchlings with Temperature Dependent Sex Determination Using an Advanced Breeding Technique 

Yeo (Jean) Song, The Loss of Essential Amino Acid Autotrophy in Protists

Christopher (Chris) Victor, Extending the “Mozart Effect” by Assessing the Concentration of Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) in Hippocampal Tissue of Postnatal Rats

Emma Walsh, Evaluating the Cognitive Abilities of Captive and Wild American Crows

Oliver Watkins, Exclusion Device Effectiveness in Preventing White-Tailed Deer Browsing in Regrowth Forests

Chemistry

Lucy Brinkman, Electrocatalysis of Proton Coupling by Polymer Coordinated Cobaloxime

Sam Cho, Fluorescence of in-situ Chelated Europium TEOS Sol-Gels

Julia Ganson, A Competition-Based Hammett Study of the Cyclopropylcarbinyl Radical Ring Opening Transition State

Amy Glanzer and Holly Hutchinson, 2-Halo-N-(1-ethoxyvinyl)pyridinium triflates: A New Class of Electrophiles for Mild, Additive-free Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution Reactions with Amines

Brian Lawson, Photocatalyzed Redox Reactions with Silyl Enol Ethers

Eli Marris, Development of a Novel Allylation Reaction Using an Inexpensive and Environmentally Friendly Organic Photocatalyst.

Will Richardson, Progress Towards ROMP Polymer Immobilized Electrocatalysis for Selective C0₂ Reduction

Leyla Valerio, Intercalation of Lanthanides into Arene Complexes

Chinese

Nicholas Becker, The Connection Between Style and Political Message In Yellow Earth (1984)

Sean Conroy, Understanding Chinese-Taiwanese Relations Through Film: The Cases of At Cafe 6 (2016) and Night Market Hero (2011)

Daniel Harwood, Wolf Warrior II (2017): Insight into Chinese Nationalism, Racism, and Masculinity

Nikki Matsuoka, The Influence of WeChat on China’s Social Commerce

Matthew May, Exploring Western Influence and Concession Culture in China Through Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution (2007)

Julianna McCann, The Poet Yu Xiuhua: Is Her Success Connected to “Inspiration Porn?”

Marlena Napier-Smith, Ecocriticism or Political Criticism? An Analysis of the Genre of Still Life (2006)

Emma Yanco, American and Chinese Consumer Cultures and Their Mobile Payment Systems

Cinema and Media Studies

Karina Bayrakdarian, Pomegranates, Sheep, and Mountains: Cultural Memory in Armenian Avant-Garde Film.

Ruth Coolidge, Not-So-Foreign Film: An Analysis of Highly Successful Non-English Films in the United States

Patrick Faulkner, Avant-Reality TV: Searching for Sincerity

Saira Khan, Pussy, Performance, and Protest: a theoretical and cinematic analysis of Black female identity performance in the contemporary rap and hip-hop visual sphere

Hunter Olstein, Film: ScreenT(est)Talks

Isha Parkhi, The Trauma of a Developing Nation: An exploration of three mainstream films in post-liberalisation Bollywood cinema that unpack the haunting memory of trauma

Jake Samieske, Representational Materialism in America’s Visual Culture: The Cinematic Investment in Whiteness and the Digital Resistance.

Caroline Washington, Defining the Teenage Girl in Film

Honors Projects

Jane Nealey, Layover (16 minutes) and Life/Death: A Reckoning through the work of Frederick Wiseman (56 minutes)

Ava Witonski, Buried Flame (4 minutes) and Bright Lights (24 minutes)

Classics

Madeleine Cavallino, Forever Boldly Going: Mythological Structure in Roddenberry’s Star Trek.

Jeffery Martinez, Political and Racial Misrepresentations of the Ancient Mediterranean in Contemporary Media

Francesca Parson, Exploiting the Past: Visual Rhetoric in the Propaganda of Augustus and Mussolini

Computer Science

Amr Abdelhady, Ryan Friedman, Peter Kelly, and Grace Woolson, Insights for Counseling Center Data

Roger Danilek, Nathan Koike, Liam O’Connor, and Vanessa Vincent Martinez, Transcription of Historical Text

Jiin Jeong, Kirubel Tesfaye, Séamus Wiseman, and Emma Yanco, HillSkills: Collaborating Hamiltonians

Nathaniel Adair, Nonso Mogor, and Sam Vigneault, Fully Searchable Shaker Manifesto 

Ben Kallus, Jake Lanning, and Alma Thompson, Graph Structure of Cells and Nanowires

Connor Cates, Chad Dubin, Jack Scacco, and Louise Thompson, Hamilton Faculty Voting

Creative Writing

TJ Berley, Dawnbringers

Emily Brewer, Heartless

Madeleine Cavallino, Five Stories

Kelly Collins, In the Silence of These Women

Avery Cook, A Peep Into the Country

Ruth Coolidge, A Michigan Field Guide on Waterways, Bears, and Fire-Building

Julia Dupuis, When No One Is Watching

Kayah Hodge, Real Life

Lynn Kim, Fragility

Tiffany Lopes, When the Glass Bottle Breaks

Bianca Macdonald, Driving Forces

Brendan Manley, Giza, Daughter of Calamity

Max Mayer, Sophie and the Cynanthropy

Julianna McCann, Unwell Woman

Emily Midgley, Something Tangible

Stephanie Milam, Délajo

Megan O’Hara, Fickle Things

Dorothy Poucher, The Four-Way Stop on Mulberry Lane

Haruna Shimizu, Counting the Seconds in a Time-Lapse Tunnel

Julia Stevens, Novella

Alina van den Berg, I Said, Don’t Touch Me

Kayla White, A.F.R.O.: The First Mission

Heidi Wong, Lavinia does not die and instead becomes a poet

Economics

Honors Theses

Garrett Callen, Financial Development and the Trade Openness-Economic Growth Relationship

Jakeb Camel, Hospital Ownership Type and Length of Stay: Does Profit Structure Influence the Patient Experience?

Robert Dotterer, The Impact of Armed Conflict on Human Capital Outcomes in South Sudan

Craig Engert, The Efficient Market Hypothesis: A Case Study in Mega-Mergers

Benjamin Gardner, The Efficiency of “Magic Formula” and “Warren Buffett” Equities: Passive Strategies that Outperform Market Indices

Xingyu He, Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Related to COVID-19: a Cross-sectional Study in the U.S.

Daniel Heintz, Lateral Damage: The Impact of Sanctions on Neighboring Countries’ International Trade Flows

Jiin Jeong, More to Cryptos than Bitcoin: A GARCH Risk Modeling of Heterogeneous Cryptocurrencies

Everett Johnson, Misspecification Risk: Simple Models Improve Asset Return Forecast Accuracy

Joshua Labonte, An Investigation into What Affects Chief Executive Officer Compensation

Economics, Continued

Anna Neumann, Disparities in Obesity Rates between Rural and Urban Adults: Results from the California Health Interview Survey

Sajan Palanki, An analysis of the economic effects of SARS-CoV-2

Conor Quinn, PG&E’s Rising Prices’ Impact on Residential Electricity Consumption.

Jafar Sharipov, The effects of the 2006 Yogyakarta Earthquake on marriage age in Indonesia.

Adeoto Sotinwa, Terrorism as a Brain Drain Push Factor: Evidence from Nigeria’s Boko Haram Insurgency.

Frederick Xongmixay, Title: Is the Japanese Market a Safe Haven? Evidence from Contagion Analysis

Jianyi Yang, Stock Market Participation and Financial Literacy in China

Environmental Studies

Lupita Cabanillas, Assessing the dimensions of climate justice in the Green Climate Fund

Lindsay Canaday, Asha Grossberndt, Sara Jadbabaie, and Ravena Pernanand, What Should We Be Doing About Dairy? Perceptions, Beliefs and Culture of Dairy

Amy Harff, Emily Walther, Hannah Katz, and Henry Elkind, If Dairy Could Talk: Understanding Dairy in Upstate New York through the Stories We Tell

Avery Morgan, Hannah Käufer, Jonathan Dong, Jon Beniers, and Robbie Rioux,  If There’s a Will, Is there a Whey? Barriers to sustainable technologies, conservation programs and alternative business practices on small-to-medium-sized dairy farms

Emmett Orgass, Estimating ocean acidification footprints

Rebecca Ridgway, Understanding New York farmers’ perspectives on soil carbon sequestration and N2O emissions reductions

Robbie Rioux, Land use-based nutrient modeling: A path forward to controlling Harmful Algal Blooms in the Skaneateles Lake watershed

Abby Roller, Smart and successful?: An evaluation of community engagement practices and definitions of success in New York State's Climate Smart Communities Program

Hans Wydler, Avian biodiversity in different land types on Hamilton College campus

Celine Yam, Maddie Beitler, Emma Stuart, and Max Zimmerman, Environmental Impacts and Information Management on Dairy Farms

French and Francophone Studies

Sam Alderson, L’Algérie et la France en gros plan: Réponses politiques et sociales au cinéma de fiction

Rosa Carter, Complexité de l’identité sous l’angle de la pensée postcoloniale

Ellen Chinchilli, La beauté est dans la rue: l’intersection photographique du regard masculin, la mode féminine et la féminité à Paris, 1960-1970

Julianna DeSimone, Langue, écriture, et mémoire collective dans l’œuvre de Leïla Sebbar et Anna Moï

Joseph Filippetti, La comédie des différences dans la société française

Abby Henkel, La Parisienne fantasmée: Les représentations des femmes dans les films de la Nouvelle Vague

Paige Hinchey, La langue comme outil de marginalisation scolaire: le système éducatif laïc français

Gus Huiskamp, L’être et le noir: La colonialité à l'intersection de la Négritude et de la philosophie française.

Amari Leigh, De Bohème à B.O.S.S.: L’esthétisation de l’identité en révolte et les défaillances de “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité” à travers le rap français.

Elisabeth Lowe, La comédie controversée: la tradition satirique française du Moyen Âge à Charlie Hebdo

Elijah Marris, Le rôle de la langue et du langage dans les œuvres comiques françaises, depuis la farce médiévale jusqu'au stand up de nos jours

Haruna Shimizu, L’écrivaine française dans le japonisme littéraire: exotisme et désirs de femmes dans Komati de Judith Gautier et Le Dernier amour du prince Genghi de Marguerite Yourcenar

Olivia Wenzel, Laisse-moi te chanter’: perspectives féministes à travers la musique

Kayla White, L’évolution du genre dans la Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture (1868-1945)

Geosciences

Cristian Calixto, Ostracods in the Turkana Basin: An Analysis of Paleoecology and Sedimentology through Space and Time

Fiona Duckworth, Garnets of New York State: A Review of their Occurrences and Properties

Juanita Gordon, Guide for the Identification of Saint Kitts Carbonate Sand

Tierney Latham, Spinel: The Hidden Gem of New York

Meg Manning, Analysis of Paleosol-based Proxies from the Turkana Basin through Paleoenvironment and Paleoclimate reconstruction

Erin Pimentel, Previously Unrecognized Submarine Mass Transport Deposits in Limestones of the Eocene Dungul Formation, Western Desert, Egypt

Mairin Rogers, Saint Martin Beach Sand: A Guide to the Carbonate Grains

Maggie Ryan, Creating a Numerical Groundwater Flow Model of the Oriskany Creek Valley Aquifer

Yuheng Zheng, Documenting Reactivated Basement Faults through Mapping and Interpretation of Riedel Shears in Mesozoic Sandstones in Northern Sudan Using High Resolution Satellite Imagery in Google Earth

German Studies

James Gallagher, Christa Wolf’s Was Bleibt and Social Alienation in the GDR Political System

Hannah Käufer, Success is Not Emancipation: Illusions of Equality in Irmgard Keun’s Das kunstseidene Mädchen

Theodore Simson, Political Fallacies in Cold War Architecture at Stalinallee and the Hansa District

Hudson Smith, Forgery Without Origin: Deconstructing Authority in Thomas Bernhard’s Alte Meister

Government

Honors Theses

Will Andriola, Patterns of Opposition Electoral Performance in Authoritarian States: The 2020 Russian Regional Elections

Johanna Bowen, Youth Participation in the 2020 General Election: the Case of a Swing State

Alma Bradley, What’s the matter in Cincinnati?: Examining police reform success through community satisfaction

Lily Delle-Levine, Women Empowered and Women In Power: An Analysis of Factors Influencing Women’s Decision to Run for Political Office in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Lizzie Ely, The Myth of Judicial Independence: A Study on the U.S. Supreme Court and its Political Polarization

Carson Goos, WIC Uptake: A Case Study of Virginia and Maryland

Emma Liles, Investigating Violence Against Native American Women

Matt McGoey, A Study of the Relationship Between Public Policy and COVID-19 Deaths

Hispanic Studies

London Barreras, La historia oficial: descubriendo la verdad real de la guerra sucia

Andrew Charman, La palabra escrita como conquistador

Noah Giovannelli, Carancho y Neoliberalismo: Los Efectos de una Sociedad Corrupta

Amy Glanzer, El acceso médico en los documentales How to Survive a Plague y Está todo bien: un análisis de clase, género y raza

Joel Harper, La Ropa, la Ceniza, y la Casa: Un Análisis de las Representaciones de la Slow Violence en La Tierra y La Sombra

Claire Inzerillo, El sistema público de salud en Argentina: la cultura de la enfermedad de un estado contra un público dividido

Philip Marks, La evolución de la violencia lenta dentro de La tierra y la sombra

Charlotte Miller, Filmando la fluidez: Navegando las categorías sexuales y sociales en el cine de la Movida madrileña

Nonso Mogor, Landfall (Cecilia Aldarondo, 2020): una mirada dentro de Puerto Rico, la fachada de un documental y cómo la cinematografía cuenta su propia historia

Savannah Ryan, El impacto del neoliberalismo en el sector de sanidad pública en Argentina

Tessa Ryan, Cómo el sistema neoliberal en Colombia empeora la calidad de asistencia médica y su representación en el cine colombiano

Hans Wydler, Perspectivas hacia la naturaleza andina y el turismo moderno en los Andes

Honors Presentations

Sophia Archos, La ideología feminista en Jamás el fuego nunca de Diamela Eltit

Sadye Bobbette, Discerniendo a horcajadas entre la(s) realidad(es): un recorrido a través de la ficción de Jorge Luis Borges

Matthew Cappelletti, Los patrones de la narcocultura en Colombia y México

Gianni Hill, Dos poetas, dos Cubas, una musa: el escapismo en las obras de José Martí y Reinaldo Arenas

Grace Janes, Matemáticas fallidas: Incertidumbre, inducción, y deducción en estéticas de suspenso

Aaron Kraus, Representaciones revolucionarias de Martí y el Che: Juventud, humanización e idealización de dos revolucionarios en José Martí: el ojo del canario y Diarios de motocicleta

Olivia Rodrigues, Amor: ¿eres tú, Modernismo?

History

Antton De Arbeloa, Othli From Sea to Sea: A History of Aztec Pathways and Spanish Colonialism From Acapulco to Veracruz, 1500-1600

Jesse Elmer, Teutonic Brothers: Britain’s Affinity with Germany Before WWI

Anna Gagliardi, Cult of Corpses: The Postmortem Journeys of Russia’s Past Leaders

Ben Kaplan, Rewriting History: The Historiography of Print and China

McKenna McLean, “All Shades of Political Opinion”: The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Early 20th-Century Ulster

Hunter Olstein, Gender in the Crusades: The Historiography of Women Crusaders

Peter Schavee, The Makings of Biotechnology from Kendall Square to San Francisco

Honors Presentations

Cameron Blair, Bullets and Wizards: A Struggle for the Spatial Heart of Washington, D.C.

Jay Carhart, Two Pittsburghs: Conflicting Narratives of Public Housing in the Steel City, 1940-1980

Joseph Fraser, “To Drive Nature Out with a Pitchfork”: Explaining the Inverse Trajectories of the Abolition of Slavery in the United States and the Abolition of Serfdom in the Russian Empire

Gus Huiskamp, Public Opinion and Responsible Democracy: Populism in the Behavioralist Imagination

Erica Ivins, Recognizing and Reconstructing African Agency: Self-Liberation and the End of Slavery in French Colonial West Africa, 1857-1903

Adriana Jonas, Witnessing Atrocity Across Time: Stanley Kerr and the Reconstruction of the Humanitarian

Christine Walsh, Tonantzin Guadalupe: Mother and Virgin of Reappearance (1521-1649)

Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Science

Sophia Archos, La Vía Campesina: a case study of social movement participation in El Salvador and Honduras

Interdisciplinary Studies in Law and Social Justice Studies

Kavya Crasta, Foreigners at Home, Natives Abroad: An Exploration of Christian Indians’ Social Status in India and the United States

Literature

Gabrielle Buck, Whose Tragedy Is It: An Examination of the Tragic Patriarchs in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and C.E. Morgan’s The Sport of Kings

Gretchen Dowdy, Dickinson’s Poems: Religion and Poetry

Justin Felhaber, Manhood in Beloved: Bloom and G & G’s Intersection?

Natasha Lane, Men, Women, and Ghosts: Gender as the Instigator of Trauma within a Dying Southern Patriarchy

Nicole Miller, “Let Ahab Beware of Ahab”

Olivia Rodrigues, Ladies, Ladies, Ladies: The Representation of Women in Matthew Gregory Lewis’ The Monk

Honors Presentations

Isabel Bates, Loyalty and Lust: A Close Reading of Aaron’s Interactions with Tamora in Modern Productions of Titus Andronicus

Genevieve Cohen, Unlocking the Roman à Clef: Gossip as a Literary Concept in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance

Daniella Edwards, Contemplating Race and the Sentimental Genre in Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Haley Katz, Toward a Moral Education in Literature: A Comparison between Lolita and Johnny Mad Dog

Philip Marks, Gloria Naylor’s 1996: Where From Breeds Content

Cliff Musial, The Hybrid “Half-Life” of a Bird-Man and a Spider-God: Hybridity of Bodies, Minds, and Cultures in China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station and H.P. Lovecraft’s short stories

Kyra Richardson, A Portrait of Gertrice/Altrude: (Self-)Portraiture and Alterity in Gertrude Stein’s Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Leo Ross, Feeling Like a Jew

Majestic Terhune, Performing Queenship: The Fairy Queen in the Elvetham and Ditchley Progresses

Eleonor Wolf, An Incomprehensible Passage of Time: Authorial Control and Bewilderment in “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Swimmer”

Stephanie Wu, The Evolution of the ‘Woman Warrior’: Reconfiguring Asian American Femininity

Mathematics and Statistics

Honors Projects

Aurora Cai, Options and derivative securities: a binomial model

Dayeon (Emma) Cheong, Likelihood ratio methods for evaluating forensic methods

Lindsay Gearty, How race, income, and education relate to internet access in US counties

Alexandra Golub, A look at Lie groups important to physics

Xingyu He, Restricitve Bolzmann machines

Jafar Sharipov, A simple proof that e is irrational

Xia (Summer) Sheng, The effect of network structure and intervention on the spread of COVID-19

Theodore Simson, Social distancing optimization using a mixed-integer linear programming

Qianqian (Jade) Xu, Queueing theory and applications to blockchain

Music

Honors Thesis

Kevin Sanderson, Mozart’s Tchaikovskiana & The Evolution of Sonata-Allegro Form

Neuroscience

Ella Antolini, Sensory integration in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Allison Babbitt, What are you feeling? A Virtual Reality study on pain perception and interoception

Karina Bayrakdarian, Impaired Motor Sequence Learning and Compensatory Mechanisms in Huntington’s Disease

Alyssa Bonanno, Examination of adenosine A, receptor mediated neuroprotection in the visual pathway of Trachemys scripta during anoxia

Erin Bryant, Dolls & zombies & avatars, oh my: Evaluating the uncanny valley effect through part-whole facial processing

Lily Charron, Therapeutic potential of neuropeptide Y in treating hyperalgesia in a rat model of PTSD

Gillian Driscoll, Towards a functional role of tyramine beta-hydroxylase related protein

Anna Lyndaker, Can white noise improve focus in adults with ADHD symptoms?

Alanna McGill, COVID-19 Prevention in Colleges

Emma Parkhurst, Statistical learning in infancy

Caroline Paulson, Effects of developmental lead exposure on activity rhythms in Drosophila

Sarah Pierpont, Effects of Lead Toxicity on Drosophila Behavior

Maya Taliaferro, The interaction of explicit and implicit processes in motor learning: Influence of task complexity

Ashley Thayaparan, How negative consequences affect learning and decision making in an intergroup context

Vera Wang, Women’s bodies and attentional biases in individuals with eating disorder symptomatology

Philosophy

Honor Allen, Panic Attacks

Luke Carstens, For Perceptual Ultimacy: On Bogen’s “Empiricism and After”

Vince Conn, How Does Whiteness as the Norm Create White Privilege, and How Does the Privilege Contest the Idea that America is a Democracy When it Comes to the Right to Vote?

Henry Curcio, Boredom

Daniel DeMatteo, Autonomy and Technical Mediation: A new look into the effects of ICT and machine learning

Ryan Dilello, Philosophy and the Adversary Method

Daniel Flores-Santiago, Justice and Practical Wisdom in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

Levi Freinberg-Trufas, Against Therapy

Danielle Hirsch, Towards a Better Theory of Happiness

Chris Mailman, Learning to Crash

Matthew May, Am I Allowed to Cook Italian Food? Reflections on Cooking and Eating

Kate Mullin, Exploring the Autobiography: An Exercise in Personal Reflection

Riley Nichols, Making Space for Wonder: Experiential Education and Community Building Through Virtual Philosophy With Children

Anjali Papadopoulos, Using Lysander Spooner’s Essay on the Trial by Jury & Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience to Establish the Case for a Transparent Jury Trial for Whistleblowing Prosecutions Under the 1917 Espionage Act

Jono Quinn, Life on Two Wheels

Liam Rogers and Patrick Faulkner, Philosophy of Voyeurism

Ryan Stewart, Drugs in School: Weed, Universities and the War on Drugs

Séamus Wiseman, Reviving the Public Good: A Case for Enforcing an Ethical Monism

Physics

Mitch Bierman, Crowding in active colloidal particle solution: A more optimized model for cellular cytoplasm

Lily Brackett, Sense(ors) and Magnetic Sensibility: Proving We Can Map a Uniform Magnetic Field

Calen Carron, Magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor Bubble Disruptions and Their Effect on the Magnetic Field in a Black Hole Accretion Disk Simulation

Andrew Charman, Building a 3-Season Portable Tiny House

Mufudzi Chogugudza, Engineering of Helmholtz Apparatus and Gradiometer

Sean Conroy, Ultrasonic Transmission Through a Single Layer of Bubbles

Adriana Cruz, Physics of a Peruvian Water Whistle

Sammi D’Angelo, Using Faraday Rotation to Measure Relative Densities and Polarization of a Rubidium-Potassium Hybrid Cell

Peter Fisher, How It Stood The Test Of Time: Modeling the Efficiency Hamilton College’s Solar Classroom

Lindsay Gearty, Porting Code and Assessing Expectations for Measuring Faraday Rotation

Alex Golub, Voynich Manuscript: An Exploration of the Table and Grille Generating Method

Thomas Graham, Measuring Magnetic Fields with a Hall Effect Sensor

Colin May, Exploring Orbits in Modified Newtonian Dynamics

Andrew Projansky, On Exponential Corrections to Black Hole Entropy

Catherine Ryczek, IV LEED Analysis of Silica Structures on an Oxygen Covered Ru(0001) Substrate

Patricia Shiebler, Developing High School and Undergraduate Physics Teaching and Learning Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Karina Sirabian, Examining the Effects of the Magnetic Rayleigh Taylor Instability in Thin Magnetically-Arrested Accretion Disks around Black Holes

Hudson Smith, Examining the Impact of Blend Ratio and Annealing Time on the Densities of Thin Squaraine Films

Leenie Wilcox, Exploring a Repulsive Regime within the Symmetron Model of Modified Gravity

Bentley Wilking, Investigating the Effects of Streamlining Organic Solar Cell Production and Efficiency Measurements to Improve Consistency and Reduce Degradation

Lucas Wright, Microfluidic Fluorescent Nanodiamond Sorting

Jade Xu, Outward Transportation of Angular Momentum in Magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Model and its Relationship with Accretion of Black Holes

Psychology

Carlie Abraham, Reducing Racism in the Police Force: Testing the Effectiveness of Empirically-Based Implicit Bias Training among Three US Police Departments

Kalea Blaustein, Talking About Feelings: Linking Parental Emotion Socialization to Emotional Competence and Conflict Management

Maggie Carmen, Staying Socially Connected with Just One Click: Fulfilling Our Need to Belong on Social Media During a Pandemic

Amelia Casparian, Police are Biased, but I’m Not: The Racial Bias Blindspot in Stop and Search Decisions

Katherine Cronin, “The Verdict is In”: The Effect of Legal Insanity and Mental Health Knowledge on Guilt Perceptions

Emily Cutajar, Does Social Anxiety Moderate the Relationship Between Self-Awareness and Social Conformity in an Online Setting?

Kelly Elugardo, “Are You Okay?” Examining Links Between Early Parent-Child Relationships, Stress, and Empathy

Gustavo Gonzalez, Turn On, Tune In, Take a Deep Breath: The Effects of Psilocybin on Patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Jessica Haviland, Predicting Child Emotion Dysregulation and Anxiety from Emotion Dismissing Parenting: The Role of Physical Activity

Amanda Johnson, Does Generalized Trust Predict Delay of Gratification After a Violation of Trust?

Benjamin Keller, The Role of Reflection in Implementing Digital Game Based Learning into Classrooms

Amanda Kim, Waste Not, Cheat Not: The Effects of Resource Availability on Cheater Detection

Krissi Kim, Who Gets the Toilet Paper? The Effect of Perceived Vulnerability on Inequity Aversion

Kate Labosky, The Effect of Situational Cues on Experiences of SES-Based Stereotype Threat

Anne Larkin, Won’t Sad Music Make You Sadder? Analyzing Music Listening Choices

Karen Lin, The Roles of Health Literacy and Anxiety on Health Behaviors During COVID-19

Brian Lynch, Unmasking Humanity: The Impact of Face Masks on Dehumanization

Max Mayer, Why Did She Struggle? Gender Salience and Stereotypicality in the Ultimate Attribution Error

Elle McCusker, Who Wears Fashionable Face Masks During the COVID-19 Pandemic, and Why: The Moderating Role of Social Comparison Orientation, Public Self-Consciousness, and Status Consumption

Noemi Meli, Can We Just Talk? Longitudinal Associations between Parent-Child Conversations about Mental Health and Child Emotion Regulation

Jonina Mignon, “Just Doing Their Jobs”: Police Defendants and the Influence of Training on Jury Verdicts

Duc Pham, “Are You a Homophobic Racist?”: Applying the Theory of Generalized Prejudice in the Discrimination-Distress Link

Kate Piacenza, Athletes’ Use of Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression in Relation to Performance

Iftikhar Ramnandan, Does Self-Compassion Reduce Self-Handicapping Following a Threat to Academic Competence in People with Contingent Self-Esteem?

Erin Rosen, The Impact of Choice and Contingent Self-Esteem on Post-Failure Well-Being and Intrinsic Motivation

Sophie Ruzecki, False Confessions: The Effects of Jury Instructions and Group Deliberation on Verdict and Perceived Coercion

Perrin Salewood, The Association Between Coaching Style and Student Athlete Well-being and Mental Health

Maximilian Scheidl, Generalized Improvements in Performance: The Influence of Extended Practice and Varied Environment

Andrew Schultheiss, Send Them to Jail or Talk it Out? A Look into Willingness to Engage in Restorative Justice

Montana Sprague, The Impact of Pandemic Isolation and Parent Fear Behavior on Social Anxiety in Children

Michelle Sun, Teaching Children (Book) Shelf-Control: Priming Children to Delay Gratification through Storytelling

Anna Tinker, Combatting the Harmful Effects of Concealing Mental Health Status on Management of Mental Illness

Amalia Tobias, The Struggles of Social Distancing and Zoom Classes: ADHD Symptomatology and College Adjustment During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Christine Tomasi, I Won’t Buy It! Connecting Consume Anger and Moral Licensing to Boycott Decisions

Erin Urbaniak, Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Effect of the Mass Media on Public Perception

Vanessa Vincent Martinez, The Effects of White Guilt on Punishment: A Moral Cleansing Approach

Samantha Wolfe, Predicting Adolescent Body Dissatisfaction and Depression: The Role of Parental Comments and Negative Emotionality

Jianyi Yang, Do Self-Control Strategies Improve COVID-19 Prevention Adherence?

Public Policy

Milo Donovan, Alleviating Traffic in New York City: Evaluating the Nation’s First Plan for Congestion Pricing

Rachel Fein, The Inescapable Weight of Socioeconomic Status: Factors Considered by Superintendents in Opening Schools During COVID-19

Noah Giovannelli, Police Homicide: Does Police Representativeness Matter?

Gianni Hill, Cost and Effectiveness of Various Policy Responses to Aviation Noise Pollution in Revere, MA

Claire Inzerillo, Tuning In: A Content Analysis of How the Media Frames the Issue of Immigration, and Its Relation to Political Polarization

Kelsey Knapp, Charter Schools and Their Target Demographics: Charter School Location in Brooklyn, NY

Jaydin Knight, Implicit Discrimination: The Relationship Between Blackness and Eviction Rates

Aaron Kraus, Prison is No Place for a Pandemic: A Comparative Analysis of COVID-19 Responses in State Prison Systems

Arlyn Lopez, Race, Class, and COVID-19: Disease and Death in Pandemic New York City

Casey Macolino, The Relationship Between Building Height and Rent in Washington, D.C. Why Affordable Housing Activists Are Sabotaging Themselves

Nikki Matsuoka, The Train Through Paradise: Fragmentation of Authority and Honolulu’s Rail Transit Project

Michael McEneney, Inescapable Partisanship: The Factors Governors Weigh When Responding to COVID-19

Kayleigh Miller, Division in America: The Role of Internet, Cable Television, and Radio in Political Polarization

Julia Rowland, What Drives Attendance at a WNBA Regular Season Home Game?

Jake Samieske, Reconsidering Mental Health as a Socioeconomic Issue Through the Lens of Inequality

Maria Valencia, Can We Really Defund the Police?  An Empirical Study of Policy and Crime in Large U.S. Cities

Alexander Walen, What Factors Drive Illegal Immigration?  An Empirical Analysis of the Economic Factors that Affect Immigration Flows in the European Union

Celine Yam, Telework and Climate Change in New York City

Religious Studies

Peter Kelly, The Devil’s Advocate: The Satanic Temple’s Fight for Religious Freedom

Camille Laude, Creation through Replication: The Camino Cebu of Philippines

Emma Walsh, Rituals at Nalanda Buddhist Monastery in the Seventh Century 

Russian Studies

Leo Ross, My Summer with Anna: Contextualization and the Reading Process

Edward Shvetz, The Search for and the Tragedy of Russia’s Destiny

Sociology

Leslie Arevalo, BLM and COVID-19 at a PWI: How Asian and Black students come to terms with racial identity at Hamilton College

Kaja Bielecka, Life on Hold: The Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Career Aspirations of College Graduates

Josie Blatt, Adjusting to Zoom University: The Impact of Social Network Changes on Student Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Gigi de Hechavarria, Making Sense of Parenting and its Intergenerational Transmission

Kendall Discenza, A Widespread Shift to Functional Medicine: What factors will lead to the adoption of these practices?

Honor Gabriel, Does the Apple Fall Far from the Tree? A Study on the Transmission of Parental Versus Non-Parental Values in Young Adult Attitude Formation

Abby Goodman, From 19 Kids & Counting to 90 Day Fiancé - Why do we watch?: Understanding Why and How We Watch Reality TV About Families

Diamond Jackson, It’s Not Giving What Yall Said It’s ‘Posed to Gave: A Racial Campus Climate Study at Hamilton College

Julie Kokot, “Nobody Ever Tries to Gain Weight”: An Analysis of Chronically Ill and Healthy, College Aged Women’s Body Images

Emma Lynam, Moralism vs. Meritocracy: The Impact of the Religiosity of Private Education on Student Life Aspirations

Hope Medina, “So Lucky,” but “So Stressed:” How Mothers Negotiate Childcare During COVID-19

Jay Menner, Conceptualization of Future Family Amongst College Adults

Isha Parkhi, Conditional Vulnerability: Examining the impact of gender identity on college students’ perceptions of romance and intimacy

Emily Rivito, What Can I Do For You? How Spheres and Skills Collaborate with Past Experiences to Promote Trust

Holly Sauer, The Role of “Sorry”: Gender, Status, and Apologies

Caitlin Stern, Managing Academic and Social Pressure with Prescription Drugs

Theatre

Jack Clark, directing, The Bear by Anton Chekhov

Duncan Davies, directing, Talking Chairs by Charles Mee

Lily Delle-Levine, directing, Trifles by Susan Glaspell

Lizzie Ely, Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler

Rebekah Fowler, directing, Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill

Gus Gonzales and Kenny Letts, directing, Eat the Taste by Greg Kotis

Danielle Hirsch, directing, Medea Redux by Neil Labute

Emily Midgley, directing, (Just/Not) Like That, devised piece

Ndanu Mutisya, directing, The Winner by Amy Berryman

Women’s and Gender Studies

London Barreras, Motherhood Viewed as an Integral Part of Femininity: Media Representation of Women Voluntarily without Children

Yuri Choi, An Examination on the Level of Assimilation for Asian-Identifying Individuals of Hamilton College

Carson Goos, The Kavanaugh Hearing: A Site of Gendered Analysis

Emma Grace Liles, Women and Law: Deconstructing Dichotomy in Pursuit of Equality

Sam Zachar, Attitudes Toward Mental Health Treatment Among Black and White Cisgender College Students

World Politics

Honors Theses

Peter Case, Law and Order: Exploring Regime Counter-framing in Central America

Liesl Guenther, Far Right Parties in Europe: a case study of Germany, Denmark, Spain and Portugal

Savannah Kelly, La invisibilidad en la latinidad: A comparative study on racialized poverty in Ecuador and Peru.

Amari Leigh, Hashtagging Repression: Stigma, Women's Movements, and the Role of the State in Brazil