Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Changing Coastlines: Sea Level Rise Impacts on Coastal Southern Maine, Jake R. Anastas
“Ancestral Magic”: Empire, Systems of Knowledge, and Hegemonic Straightness from Utopia to The Masquerade, Luca Bana-Vax
“La Jaula de Oro”: Latinx Mixed-Status Family Tensions and Dynamics in the United States, Lucy Liseth Batres Rodriguez
The Payment for Progress: Injustice and Dependency Between China and Ghana Through the Belt and Road Initiative's Resource-Backed Loans, Jocelyn Kate Belena
Social Distance of Ingroup Versus Outgroup and Vicarious Consumer Behavior, Sydney Bernstein
The Equinoctial Hour in Antiquity: Which Hour is Ours?, Evan Boxer-Cook
Effects of Gap43 on Retinal Ganglion Cell Axon Pathfinding during Regeneration, Kayla Ellen Burnham
The One and Only: Exploring Monisms Across Hindu Traditions, John R. Campana
Spectacle and Survival: Tourism, Colonialism, and Indigenous Agency in Taiwan, A Case Study of Alishan and the Tsou Indigenous Group, Ganga Corsaro
Frontline Voices And Unequal Air: How Providence, Rhode Island Communities Are Fighting For Cleaner and Equitable Skies, Mario J. Ferro
Disentangling Hypoxic Ventilatory Depression from Metabolic Depression in Neonatal Rats, Lindley Isabel Northrop Friedman
Intertidal Ecosystem Variation Along a Latitudinal Gradient Across the Gulf of Maine, Reuven William Frye and Justin Baumann
Diffusion-Based Signal Reconstruction for Silicon Photomultiplier Detectors, Sean Michael Gilliam
Experiencing Environmental Vulnerability: Storytelling, Sea Level Rise, and Community Resilience in Phippsburg, Maine, Janney Halperin, Kai Harris, and Ada Knauft
Empowering Lewiston’s Young Citizens: Examining Civic Education in Early Elementary Classrooms, Kate L. Heumann
The Analysis of IRBIT's Role in Phosphoinositide Metabolism, Ansley Rose Higgins
Power's Repercussions: Executive Authority and the Fragmentation of the Conservative Legal Movement, Reese Hillman
Partisanship on Foreign Policy During the Trump Era: Examining Donald Trump's Polarizing Impact on American Attitudes Toward the War in Ukraine., John Benton Hull
Migrating Movement; The Shared Histories of Jazz Dance and American Agriculture: Creation, Cooptation, and Reclamation, Natalia Belén Jacobs Swender
Analysis of 5-Methylcytosine as an Indicator of Global Methylation in Mytilus Edulis in the Gulf of Maine, Amanda Jenkins
¡Aguas!: Confronting Colonialism and Socioenvironmental Concerns in Mexico City, Audrey Carolina Kamine
“Like My Father Before Me”: Heritage Reincarnated and Sublimity Reformulated in the Works of William Faulkner, Brett Karpf
“The Children’s Republic”: Banner of Peace and Bulgaria’s Search for Transformation in Late Socialism, Lena LaPierre
The Blue Mussel in a Warming World: Influence of Latitude and Location on Mytilus edulis Physiology & Thermal Performance, Sophie E. Leight
Precision Laser Spectroscopy of 12CH4 and 13CH4 near 1645 nm, Zhaoyi Liu
Displacement, Care-full Recovery, and Placekeeping in the Wake of Los Angeles Fire Disasters, Bella Rose Lomet
From the Kitchen to the Nation: Exploring the Tanzanian Identity Through Food, Rosina Makwabe
The Use of Compound Specific Amino Acid δ13C Analysis to Determine the Input of S. latissima and Bacteria in Sediments from a Microcosm Study, Evelyn Gates Marchand
Whose Stories Are Told? Inclusivity and Omission in the Signage of Emscher Park, Germany, Caroline Mayer
The Wilderness Within US: Anxieties of Environmental Self-Control in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Ecogothic Literature, Evan Barclay McMahan
Tracking Climate Resilience Across the Greater Lewiston-Auburn Area, Eleanor Millard, Ganga Corsaro, and Sam Mallon
Spectroscopically measuring wind-induced Doppler shifts, Carson M. Moellering
Debt, Development, and Climate Injustice: Zimbabwe in the Global Climate Regime, Ashton P. Monteiro
The Long-distance Provincial Slave Trade during the Roman Principate, Tosca Neumann
Food Justice in the Polycrisis: Understanding the Role of Latine Mutual Aid Networks, Ella Nichol, Isadora Newman, and Alexis González
Creation as a Means of Mindfulness, Resilience, and Belonging via Clay-Based Workshops with Adolescents from Immigrant and Refugee Backgrounds, Anya Catalina Passino
Population Genetics Study of Mytilus edulis in Maine, Amanda Power
The Verdict of the Vortex: Narrative Form as Judgment in Moby-Dick, Nick Raposo
Multiple Exposures to Criminal Suspects: What are Witnesses Thinking?, Sophie G. Rasol
Neuronal Regeneration Through Postnatal Subretinal Injection of Reelin in Mice, Katherine Rentzepis
Communicating the Unthinkable - Contextual and Generational Differences in Physician Disclosure of “Bad News”, Katherine May Rentzepis
From Wells to Walls: Engineering Optical Potentials with Blue-Detuned Light for Bose–Einstein Condensates, Paloma Rodriguez Thorne
Assessing Vulnerability and Maladaptation: The Case of New Hampshire's Coastal Adaptation Planning, Julia Roelofs
¿Un Problema Únicamente Estadounidense?: Criminal Infrastructure and Structural Conditions in Drug-Related Outcomes Across Mexican Municipalities, Fatima Rojas Nuñez
Peripheral Perspectives: A Case Study of Plautus’ and Polybius’ response to the Punic Wars The construction of Carthaginian alterity as a mechanism for defining Roman imperial identity, Zoe Michaela Huan Schaedle
From Silk Roads to City Streets: Chinese Migration and the Making of Multicultural Singapore, Kate Schulze
Kinship to Ownership to Appreciation: Human Relationships with the Androscoggin River Through Time, Maia Grace Seigerman
A New Home for Starlings: Ecology, Migration, and Belonging, Darin Leo Ming Stockhammer
The Potential Consequences of Data Centers on Hangzhou’s Wetlands: How the Economic Shift to Artificial Intelligence Technologies Intensifies Pressures on China’s Coastal Wetlands, Alexander Kian Takeyh
The Limits of Recognition: Visibility, Violence, and the Making of May 1998 in Indonesia, Denzel Wicaksono Tan
An American Railroad Revival: A Proposal For Train-Reliant Music Touring, Abigail Waisler
The Four Roots of Resilience: How Early Childhood Outdoor Education Prepares Children For Climate Change, Amanda Brooke Yolles
Financially Contingent Self-Worth as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Social Class and Well-Being, Grace C, Yonchak
Paying the Price: How College Affordability Has Changed in the United States in the Last 15 Years, Suheyla Deniz Yucel
From the Ruhr to Santa Catarina: A 20th-Century Genealogical Case Study of Germans in Brazil, Luciana Zaiet
Exploring Racial Socialization, Belonging, and Self-Esteem Among Transracial Asian American Adoptees, Alden M. Zhang
How the Site of a Mass Shooting Became the Center of a Community: Exploring the Socio-Spatial Reconstruction of Just-In-Time Recreation in the Wake of the Lewiston, Maine, 2023 Shooting, Nathaniel D. Zuckerberg
Theses from 2025
To Be a ‘Good Farmer’ in a Fractured World: Wabanaki, White, and Somali Bantu Perspectives on Farming and Community in Maine, Aneeza Ariana Ahmad
Resilience in the Face of Climate Change: Exploring the Ecophysiology, Adaptation, and Conservation of Mytilus Edulis in the Gulf of Maine, Mackenzie J. Arnott and Justin Baumann
The Politics of Visual Language in Boston's Climate Resilience Planning, Elizabeth Barrow
A President or a Prince? Tracing the Development of Unitary Executive Theory, Isabel Beck
Designing Place-Based Outdoor Learning Materials in Collaboration with Presente! Maine, Sean Bergsten, Devendra Thapaliya, and Hugh Piper
Losing More Than Just a Species: Why We Can’t Forget About Maine’s Caribou, Henry Michael Bruininks
My Love is Like Eternity: A Process in Choreography and Immersive Performance, Lola Buczkowski
“No Cause In The World Is Foreign To Us”: An Analysis of the Bloque Nacionalista Galego’s Public-Facing Rhetoric, 2016–2024, Maple Buescher
Regenerating the Elwha: The Return of a Free Flowing River, John C. Bullock
Investigating Educational Outcomes for Providence Community Advocacy, Christian Cabello
Resilience on Maine's Coast: Embracing Aquaculture Amidst a Changing Climate, Angus Kane Carter
Where the Light Seeps Through: An Exploration of the Power of Climate Fiction for Maintaining Hope and Inspiring Action in Young Readers, Ava Florence Clancy
Patterns Among Ulam Words, Hopper A. Clark
Implementation of Solar Panels at the Lewiston-Auburn Municipal Airport in Auburn, Maine, Rowan Cody, Jess Woodhams, and Phoebe Phol
Engineering the Earth: An analysis of Geoengineering, Colton Curtis
Assessing Logging Impacts on Carbon Storage and Species Diversity at Valley View Farm in Auburn, Maine, Oliver Firmenich, Owen Hardy, and Cecilia McQuaid
Through the Lens of Lyme: Medical Bias, Personal Narratives, and the Role of Climate Change, Yoko Qing Franklin
The Landscape of Maine’s Urban Environmental Programming, Daisy Gallagher
Exploring the Effects of Cyanobacteria Algae Blooms on Ecosystems and Humans with a Focus on North Pond, Maine, Miles Parrish Hagedorn
The Impact of Social Distance and Temporal Distance on Thinking About a Good Life, Siyu He
Development of a Benthic Recruitment Model for the Cyanobacterium Gloeotrichia echinulata, EJ Holm
Royal Guards, The Mixi Sword, and Political Identities: Mongols as Co-Founders of the Ming Dynasty, Gongshi Huang
“Better a Witty Fool Than a Foolish Wit”: Feminist Wit in Shakespeare’s Comedies, Eva Rioux Hynes
Women for the Home, Children, and Resistance: Motherhood as a Political Strategy in Chile’s Anti-Allende and Anti-Pinochet Movements, Keira January
Situations of Habituation: Examining Habitual versus Goal-Directed Behaviors Under de Wit’s Slips of Action Task, Olivia R. Joaquin
Mechanized Isolation: Addressing The Crisis of Mental Health in American Farming and Rethinking Agricultural Policy and Mental Health Support for Farmers, Maya Sonia Judge
Resorts and Republics: Freedom and Unfreedom in the Commonwealth Caribbean, Rashad A. King
"Culturally Significant Food & Food Sovereignty in Maine: A Culinary Exploration", Naomi Grace Lynch
Evaluating Buffalo, New York, as a Climate Haven: Expanding the Analysis Beyond Geography and Economy, Abby Brooke Marriott
Evaluating water temperature variability in a Colorado watershed using drone imagery, Eva McDonough
Fabricating Purity: Muslim Transhumance, Colonization, and the Racial Politics of Spanish Shepherding, Maria G. McEvoy
Effects of synesthetic photisms on visual cognition: Investigating the temporal organization of grapheme-color synesthesia and object trimming in the visual processing pathway, Rosemary J. McKerley
Internal Geographies, Xanthe Miller
“The Object, The Virgin, The Holy Figure”, An Album and Musical Dissection of the Way in Which We Come to Be, Kenyon Walker Moore
The Benefits of a Multi-Framework Approach to Social Movement Scholarship, Ananya Bhamadipati Rao