Since 1927, Bates College has offered an Honors Program to promote, develop, and recognize academic work of higher quality than ordinarily required for the baccalaureate degree. The honors thesis is the written component of the yearlong program completed during the senior year under the guidance of a faculty advisor.

Historically, the final copy of the honors thesis has been submitted in paper format and made available for research at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library. To promote greater access to senior theses by the Bates community and the world beyond Bates, the College introduces SCARAB, the College's institutional repository.

Paper copies of honors theses from 1927 through 2011 can be viewed in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library. To see the library catalog record for paper copies of theses deposited in the Archives, click HERE.

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Theses from 2023

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Futures Without Faces: The Relationship Between the Arts, National Museums, and State Interests in Postcolonial Morocco, Evan M. Antonakes

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Investigating the Effects of Valence and Arousal on the Boundary Extension/Constriction Phenomenon, Ava E. Axelrod

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Does the “Divine Marquis” Subordinate? Pornographic Subordination in Literary Fiction, Trijit Pico Banerjee

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Encountering Impossibility: Georges Bataille’s Acéphalic Lifework, Trijit Pico Banerjee

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Fulfillment Through Allegiance: Ingroup/Loyalty Indirectly Predicts Life Satisfaction, Nathaniel N. Berry

Of Pawos and Bodhisattvas: The Poltico-Religious Language of Tibetan Self-Immolation, John Henry Waugh Cantor

Gardens of Oppression: In Search of Her Delight, Khushi Choudhary

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Strategies to Address Spiking Demand for Treatment in College Counseling Centers, Joanna G. Cloutier

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The Mark of the Beast, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the End of the World, Alice M. Cockerham

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Le français et les Franco(phone)s: An exploration of the evolving significance of French in Maine, Martha Coleman

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The Seekers: American Religion in the Context of Heaven’s Gate, Max D. Devon

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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Conceptualizations in Research and Policy, Allison Sarah Fischman

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Unfit for Motherhood: The Involuntary Sterilization and Systemic Reproductive Coercion of Black Women in the United States from 1920 to 1980, Ariel Freedman

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The Alerting Congruency Interaction: A Window into the Dynamics of Attention and Response Selection, Maya Joy Golden

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Colonialism as the Disaster: Retelling the Fight for Haitian Sovereignty, Samuel Jean-Francois

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The Synthesis of a Novel TET Inhibitor and its Inhibition of the TET Enzyme, Elizabeth G. LaCroix

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The Right Against Coercion: A Normative Conception Restricts Police Deception, Nathaniel J. Lewis

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Plant Succession and Soil Chemical Weathering on Post-glacial Landscapes, SE Alaska, Alana Margerum

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A Paleoseismic Investigation of the Central Seismic Gap and Rupture Extent of the AD1505 Earthquake: Northwest Himalaya, India, Natalie Meenan

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An Ethnographic Examination of Belonging and Hype in Web3 Communities, Kian Moaledj

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Fascism and the Invention of the “New Woman” in Mussolini’s Italy, Katherine E. North

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Del ‘bárbaro’ noble a su deconstrucción: La representación del 'indio' en La Araucana y La Florida del Inca, Cody M. Pfeiffer

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“Habia abido y abia y andaba en ellas duende…”: The case of a duende in early modern Spain, Cody M. Pfeiffer

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Wildfires in the US and Australia: NGO Polarization Amidst Political Polarization and Climate Disasters, Kallie E. Polgrean

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Conflict Reconciliation in Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem (2020), Juan Goytisolo’s Landscapes of War: From Sarajevo to Chechnya (2000), and Jean-Luc Godard’s Notre Musique (2004), Khadeeja Qureshi

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Practicing a Collaborative Directing Style, Ecotheater, and Theater for Social Change with Madeleine George’s Hurricane Diane, Kush Sharma

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The Heart and Spirit of the Table: Discourses and Practices of the Sobremesa in Madrid, Spain, Isabella Andrea Sobolewski

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Planar Lipid Bilayer Analysis of Candidate Rotavirus Antivirals, Emily H. Tamkin

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The Forgotten Women of South Africa: Mamphela Ramphele and Her Role in the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Ellie Wolfe

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"I'll Wear a Bulletproof Vest to Work": State Centralization and Local Election Officials' Resilience to the Big Lie, Zoe Wynn

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Getting Warmer? Motivations, Messages, and Distance to Goal in Fundraising Campaigns, Qiyun Zhang

Theses from 2022

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The Emancipating Potential of Linguistic Justice: Standardized Language and Writing Practices in Higher Education and the Reproduction of Oppressive Structures, Eliana Al-Konsul

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Stability Analysis of Manganese-Oxides As Cathodes for Sodium Ion Batteries, Loren Andrews

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Compositional Influence of Local and Long-Range Polarity in the Frustrated Pyrochlore System Bi2−xRExTi2O7 (RE = Y3+, Ho3+), Owen Bailey

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“Nobody’s More Country”: Identity in Country-Rap Crossover Music, Amanda Mai T. Becker

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Understanding the Historical Roots and Implications of Today’s Housing Policy: Contradictions and Possible Neighborhood Trajectories in Lewiston, Maine’s Growing Our Tree Streets Choice Transformation Plan, Eleanor Beckerman

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One Blue Bowl: A Graphic History of the Silk Roads, Maya Benziger

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“These People, Do They Care?” Facilitating Connections to Post-Incarceration Reentry Supports, Emma R. Block

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Road Salt Retention and Its Impacts on the Water Quality of the Impaired Hart Brook Watershed (Lewiston, Maine), Chen Chen

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Reconstructing early Holocene warmth in outer Isfjorden, Svalbard using stable isotope analysis on the ocean quahog, Arctica islandica, Emma Isabelle Christman

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Metaphor, Gendered Slurs, and Epistemic Injustice, Sophie Cohen

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Critical Thermal Maxima and Plasticity in Metabolic Rates: A Comparison of Two Ant Species, Etti Olivia Cooper

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Suite: for Woodwind Quintet, Haik Oliver Der Manuelian

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Learning to Fly on the Way Down: Directing and Teaching Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn, Olivia Davidson Dimond

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Preclinical Drug Development of a Novel Antiviral Target in Rotavirus, Emily-Claire Kathleen Duffy

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The Role of Phosphoinositide Metabolism in the Regulation of Neuronal Activity, Abhirami Elayidom

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Dancing on the Precipice: How People Reason about Threshold Problems in a Socially-Rich Real World Context, Xavier Fallone

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Quantifying Crevassing, Damage, and Deformation on the Vaughan Lewis Icefall, Alaska, Cecilia G. Gichner

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The ‘Forever Migrant:’ An Intersectional Analysis of L/A Workplace Discrimination on the Basis of Race, African Accent, and English Language Proficiency, Ronan Rhea Goulden

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A Place Beyond all Hope, Thomas A. Hiscock

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Flatness, Distortion, Nonsense, and the Ordinary in the Novels of Bolaño, O'Brien, and Bernhard, Elizabeth Claire Kissane

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The Shul in the Factory: The Role of Community in Jewish American Women’s Activism in Early Twentieth Century New York City’s Garment Industry, Ashley T. Koman

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Emotion in the Neutral Court: Attorney Appeals to Emotion in Jury Trial Argumentation, Elise Marie Lambert

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Shanshui Reinterpreted: The Contemporary Art of Xu Bing, Yao Lu, and Yang Yongliang, Anna Landgren

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Evaluating the Role of Race in Foreign Policymaking: U.S. Public Diplomacy in Latin America during Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, Sophie Mackin

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An Examination of Proactive Interference and Negative Priming in Individuals wIth and without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder, Arya Mohanty

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Spatial Elevation Dynamics and Carbon Sequestration Variability Within Sprague Marsh, Phippsburg, Maine, Margaret R. O'Brien

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Magnetic Trapping of Rubidium en Route to Bose-Einstein Condensate Formation Using an Atom Chip Based Trap, Stevens L. Shea

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Humans vs. COVID-19: Data-driven Modeling of Disease Spread on College Campuses, Ognyan Simeonov

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A History of Contested and Constructed Boundaries: Tracing the Torture Discourse from Northern Ireland's 'State of Exception' in the 1970s to the Global 'War on Terror', Bridget McBride Thompson

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A comparison of carbon sequestration and vegetation history in two Maine salt marshes, Emily Lillian Torkelsen

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Hitting Refresh: Regulating internet speech in the 21st century, Jack Charles Valentino

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The Political Theory of Digital Sex Work, Christina Wang

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AI in Proteomics: A Comparison Between Crystallographic and in silico Methods of Protein Modeling, Alex D. Weissman

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“Dear You”: Witnessing Trauma in the World of The Handmaid’s Tale, Caroline Wood

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Populist Through and Through: Consistency, Variations, and Framing Anchors of Populist Parties’ Environmental Agendas, Hermione Zhou

Theses from 2021

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The Influence of Racial Bias on Jury Selection and Potential Consequences for Justice, Kate S. Abramowitz

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Pestilence and Penitence: The Cyprianic Plague and the Rise of Christianity, Alan C. Bisesi

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Queerness for Kids: A Content Analysis of LGBTQ Narrative Picture Books, Emma W. Bouchey

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Boys to Braves: Performing an Idealized Colonial State at Ontario Canoe-Tripping Camps, Helen Moran Bruckner

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Unvanquished: the Kumeyaay and the 1775 Revolt, Catherine Joan Buse

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Tet2 Knockout May Lead to Selective Memory Enhancement, Mallory M. Caron

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“You don’t see yourself:” On the relationship between women’s body appreciation, self-objectification, and sexual agency, Shelby Elizabeth Cronkhite

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“What We Do Minister to Our Gross Selves”: Afflicted Bodies, Illicit Sex, and the Agency of Disease in Romeo & Juliet and Measure for Measure, Deon J. Custard

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Bedrock Geology, Geochronology, and Tectonic History of the Bronson Hill Anticlinorium in Northern New Hampshire, Liza Anne Folsom

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Stories from the Flood: Narratives of Celilo Falls, 1805-2021, Maximilian LeGrand Friedenwald-Fishman

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Geometry of Brittle and Ductile Bedrock Structures Influencing Groundwater Hydrology Adjacent to the Chlor-alkali Superfund Site, Berlin, NH, Peter B. Galloway

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“Resolute Support:” Contextualizing Afro-Asian Imagery of the Cultural Revolution through the Lens of Maoist Theory, Owen Greenwood

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Choosing the Fall to Rise Up: Gender Consumption and Eve’s Culinary World, Sarah Catherine Herde

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Convection in Rotating Spherical Fluid Shell, Xiaole Jiang

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"Without Lawful Authority": Reassessing Nullification and its Contributions to Political and Constitutional Development in Antebellum America, Benjamin Keener

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Moral Duties Amid Legal Bias, Benjamin Klafter

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Fluid Stirring on a Sphere -- a Topological Approach, Kirstin E. Koepnick

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Minimal Requirements for Topologically Protected Edge Modes, Kirstin E. Koepnick

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Widespread Social Isolation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Child and Parent Perspectives, Nicki S. Lane

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Medium-bound Horror in the Manga of Itō Junji, Michael A. Lombardi

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Beguiling time, making air, and taking milk for gall: queerness in Macbeth, Erin Lyons

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Laying the Groundwork: Desert Spaces and the Sacralization of U.S. Settler Colonialism, Anna-Elena Maheu

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Exploring “Cultural Sensitivity” Among Frontline Workers Addressing Violence Against Women in Lewiston, Maine, Hannah Marian McKenzie

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"I Became Unstoppable:" A Community-Based Quantitative and Qualitative Examination of a Mentoring Program's Effect on Youth in the Foster Care System, Emma Morehouse-Hulbert

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The Design Experience: Accessing Design in a Liberal Arts Education, Julia Ann Nash

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“The Real Target”: Medical Racism and AIDS Genocide Conspiracy Theory, Madeline Grace Polkinghorn

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Reconstructing the Female Experience in Classical Attica Through A Close Analysis of The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Nicholas P. Quill

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Why We Need Translingualism: An Antiracist Approach in the Writing Center, Sarah Townsend Raphael

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On Brass and Snow: An Athlete's History of the Sport of Biathlon, Brad William Ravenelle

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New School(s), Same Problem: An Analysis of Black Students’ Experiences in Urban Charter Schools, Joshua Redd

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Sounds of Scotland, Ian W. Robertson

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Sounds of Scotland, Ian W. Robertson

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Authorship Identification of Li Qingzhao’s Anthology: A Computational Approach, Richard Tyler Simmons

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"La Migración Cambió Mi Visión (Migration Changed My Vision)": How and Why Oaxacan Return Migrants Run for Mayor of Their Hometowns, Daniel Lawrence Tepler