Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The Importance of Snake Education on Snake Conservation, Jason Alfandre
The Emancipating Potential of Linguistic Justice: Standardized Language and Writing Practices in Higher Education and the Reproduction of Oppressive Structures, Eliana Al-Konsul
Stability Analysis of Manganese-Oxides As Cathodes for Sodium Ion Batteries, Loren Andrews
Sustainable Urban Living: A Cultural Take on Tokyo's Sustainability Efforts, Koharu Aoki
Analyzing the Great Resignation and the 躺平 Lying Flat Movement, Elizabeth Bauer
An Examination of Zoos: Suffering, Domination, and More., Jasper Destefano Beardslee
“Nobody’s More Country”: Identity in Country-Rap Crossover Music, Amanda Mai T. Becker
One Blue Bowl: A Graphic History of the Silk Roads, Maya Benziger
An Environmental Virtue Ethics Approach To Understanding Eco-Terrorism, Daniel S. Bileca
“These People, Do They Care?” Facilitating Connections to Post-Incarceration Reentry Supports, Emma R. Block
Reconstructing early Holocene warmth in outer Isfjorden, Svalbard using stable isotope analysis on the ocean quahog, Arctica islandica, Emma Isabelle Christman
Metaphor, Gendered Slurs, and Epistemic Injustice, Sophie Cohen
Critical Thermal Maxima and Plasticity in Metabolic Rates: A Comparison of Two Ant Species, Etti Olivia Cooper
The Nez Perce Struggle for Wild Chinook Salmon Restoration and an Exploration of Necessary Collaborations Moving Forward, Rosie Crawford
Adopting Low-Carbon Energy Systems in Lewiston, Charles J. Cronin
Suite: for Woodwind Quintet, Haik Oliver Der Manuelian
Learning to Fly on the Way Down: Directing and Teaching Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn, Olivia Davidson Dimond
Grappling with Greenspace Inequity Through Urban Climate Change Adaptation: An Analysis of Urban Greening in Boston and Baltimore, Liza Dubinsky
Preclinical Drug Development of a Novel Antiviral Target in Rotavirus, Emily-Claire Kathleen Duffy
The Role of Phosphoinositide Metabolism in the Regulation of Neuronal Activity, Abhirami Elayidom
Analyzing Management Methods for Isolated Bighorn Sheep Populations: a Teton Sheep Case Study, Hayden Evans
The Effects of Invasive Rainbow Smelt on Native Fishes in Two Wisconsin Lakes, Ian Fagan
Dancing on the Precipice: How People Reason about Threshold Problems in a Socially-Rich Real World Context, Xavier Fallone
The Realistic and Fantasy Paradigms of Ski and Surf Film: An Analysis of Localism and Wilderness Narrative, Maximilian G. Freund
Meatpacking, Unpacked, Wilder Geier
Gardening Our Way to a Better Lewiston Middle School, Dianna Maria Georges
Quantifying Crevassing, Damage, and Deformation on the Vaughan Lewis Icefall, Alaska, Cecilia G. Gichner
Fields of Abuse, Ronan Rhea Goulden
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
The Giant Panda: Two Sides to the Face of Conservation, Jesse Hagy
Social Taboo And New Worlds: Resilience of Identity Facing Ecological and Cultural Crisis, Andreas T. Hansen
Growing Gardens in US Prisons: The Benefits and Limitations of Prison Horticulture Programs, Carly Harris
Mobility Justice as a Discursive Omission: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Environmental Organizations and the Electric Vehicle Transition, Julia Henderson
Marine Climate Reconstruction from the Early Holocene Arctica islandica from Erdmannflya Peninsula, Svalbard, Dewi Henry
Math for Liberation: Designing a Math of Voting Systems Unit for Lewiston Middle School, Tess L. Hick
A Place Beyond all Hope, Thomas A. Hiscock
Beyond Partisanship: The Role of Social Movements in Addressing the Climate Crisis, Abby L. Holden
The Colonization of Mountains: Comparing Settler and Indigenous Narratives of Katahdin, Daphne James
The Effects of Aquaculture in Maine’s Coastal Communities: Indicators that Contribute to the Triple Bottom Line, Jake Bradley Jenkins
Assessing the Impacts of a Ditch Plug on Groundwater Hydrology, Sedimentation, and Carbon Dynamics in a Salt Marsh, Phippsburg ME, Henry Stephen King
Flatness, Distortion, Nonsense, and the Ordinary in the Novels of Bolaño, O'Brien, and Bernhard, Elizabeth Claire Kissane
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
Emotion in the Neutral Court: Attorney Appeals to Emotion in Jury Trial Argumentation, Elise Marie Lambert
Shanshui Reinterpreted: The Contemporary Art of Xu Bing, Yao Lu, and Yang Yongliang, Anna Landgren
Who's in your water? an investigation into the impacts of land use and chemical water properties on the microbial inhabitants of the Basin, Chloe India Lo Faro
Wait...What! with Kate Loughlin, Kate Loughlin
Evaluating the Role of Race in Foreign Policymaking: U.S. Public Diplomacy in Latin America during Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, Sophie Mackin
Climate Displacement: What does a Climate Refugee look like?, Conor M. McCoy
Holocene marine climate reconstruction through δ18O isotopes of the bivalve Serripes groenlandicus, Maya P. McDonough
Sediment Variation and Occurrence of Milky Ribbon Worm (Cerebratulus lacteus) in the Gulf of Maine, Isabel Mohammadi-Hall
Spatial Elevation Dynamics and Carbon Sequestration Variability Within Sprague Marsh, Phippsburg, Maine, Margaret R. O'Brien
Mainstream: How to Make Almost Everyone Care About Climate Change, Jared S. Pantalony
Over A Decade of Striped Bass, Nicholas H. Prawer
Exploring the RAD Framework: Management Methods that Guides the Conservation of National Parks, Henry W. Raff
Geochemistry of Three Distinct Lewiston Quadrangle Pegmatites, ZaneAldeen Rahabi
Assessing Seed Mix Conservation Strategies for Pollinators in New England, Jake Ressel
Climate Change Equity Atlas of South Portland, Maine, Hart Rorick
A Structural Analysis of the Plumbago Mountain Fault, Pluton, and Associated Pegmatites, Evan Joseph Saltman
A Review and Comparison of Mental Health Perspectives in the United States and China, Christopher P. Seifert
Magnetic Trapping of Rubidium en Route to Bose-Einstein Condensate Formation Using an Atom Chip Based Trap, Stevens L. Shea
Humans vs. COVID-19: Data-driven Modeling of Disease Spread on College Campuses, Ognyan Simeonov
Electric Cars: How Green Are They Really?, Griffin D. Smith
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
A comparison of carbon sequestration and vegetation history in two Maine salt marshes, Emily Lillian Torkelsen
Hitting Refresh: Regulating internet speech in the 21st century, Jack Charles Valentino
The Political Theory of Digital Sex Work, Christina Wang
The Future of American Offshore Wind Energy: An Environmental and Economic Analysis, Oliver Wai Kui Wan
AI in Proteomics: A Comparison Between Crystallographic and in silico Methods of Protein Modeling, Alex D. Weissman
Representing Place: Exploring Artistic Representations of the Fuchun River Throughout Chinese History, Saskia Wong-Smith
“Dear You”: Witnessing Trauma in the World of The Handmaid’s Tale, Caroline Wood
Alternative Land Access Across Maine, Hermione Zhou
Populist Through and Through: Consistency, Variations, and Framing Anchors of Populist Parties’ Environmental Agendas, Hermione Zhou
Theses from 2021
The Influence of Racial Bias on Jury Selection and Potential Consequences for Justice, Kate S. Abramowitz
Gardening as a Response to Disaster, Mary Margaret Adams
Exploring the Potential of Biochar Production in Maine: Sequestration and Economic Viability, John K. Attenborough
Franklin Park: Imagining an Antiracist Design, Adam B. Banks
Pestilence and Penitence: The Cyprianic Plague and the Rise of Christianity, Alan C. Bisesi
Comprehensive Planning and Food Justice in Auburn, Maine, Eliza Blood
Queerness for Kids: A Content Analysis of LGBTQ Narrative Picture Books, Emma W. Bouchey
Boys to Braves: Performing an Idealized Colonial State at Ontario Canoe-Tripping Camps, Helen Moran Bruckner
The Long-Term Impacts of the School of Environmental Studies, Erin E. Bucki
Unvanquished: the Kumeyaay and the 1775 Revolt, Catherine Joan Buse
Tet2 Knockout May Lead to Selective Memory Enhancement, Mallory M. Caron
Neon Genesis Evangelion and Struggles in Growing Up, Grenfell Noah Cowper
“You don’t see yourself:” On the relationship between women’s body appreciation, self-objectification, and sexual agency, Shelby Elizabeth Cronkhite
“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
Post cleanup composition and geochemical analysis of historic gold processing residues, Owen Daniell
Impacts of Sea-Level Rise, Accretion, and Subsidence on Recent Changes in Elevation of the Sprague Marsh in Phippsburg, Maine., Summer Caroline Dias
Choosing Between Hope and Fear: A Collective Reflection on Coming of Age During the Climate Crisis, Lily I. Edelman-Gold
The Natural History of the Milky Ribbon Worm: As Told by Maine Clam Diggers, Oaklea Bullock Elfström
Quantifying Changes in Snow Melt Conditions and Water Equivalent as Result of Arctic Warming in Linnédalen, Svalbard, Olympia CH Fisher
Bedrock Geology, Geochronology, and Tectonic History of the Bronson Hill Anticlinorium in Northern New Hampshire, Liza Anne Folsom
The Protection of Black Mesa Within the Web of Life, Dominique M. Frideger
Stories from the Flood: Narratives of Celilo Falls, 1805-2021, Maximilian LeGrand Friedenwald-Fishman