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
A President or a Prince? Tracing the Development of Unitary Executive Theory, Isabel Beck
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
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
Engineering the Earth: An analysis of Geoengineering, Colton Curtis
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
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
The Visual Conversation and the Politics of Curiosity in Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian, Emma Sablan
Rhythmic Motor Execution Reduces Emotional Arousal, Alicia F. Sang
Executive Actions in the Obama, Trump, and Biden Presidencies: Constitutional and Political Implications, Sarah C. Senator
“There’s No Place Like Home”: How 21st Century Ecopoetics Cope With Ever-Changing Notions of Home Amidst Environmental Disaster, Greta B. Shuster
Triumphs and Tribulations in Aquaculture: A Critical Analysis of Non-Fed Aquaculture as a Means for Restorative Ocean Farming, Hannah K. Simmonds
Valuing the Whole Self: Luck, Oppression, and Self-Respect, Elizabeth Skillings
The Absented Maternal: The Colonial Fetishization of the Racialized Maternal Body in Shakespeare, Mary Elizabeth Wray Tune
Using CSIA-AA of Paleo Cod Bone Collagen to Uncover Changes in Basal Nitrogen Sources and Trophic Position in the Gulf of Maine Over the Past 4,400 Years, Samantha L. Turtle
Galactic Winds in MaNGA and eBOSS: A Comprehensive Study of the Relationship Between Galaxies and their Outflows Over the Last Eight Billion Years, Brandon G. Villalta Lopez
Jujubes on the Margin: Trauma, Community, and Memories of a Village in Central Shanxi, Weihang Wang
Beavers: Nature’s Architects Rebuilding Our Ecosystems, Marat Washburn
Optical Frequency Comb Stabilization as an Optical Frequency Reference, Julia White
Framing Value: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Economic Valuation of Non-Use Value and Pro-Environmental Behavior, Drew Williams
Connecting with Your Future Self: Behavioral Interventions on Decision Making, Youer Wu
Beyond the Headlines: Understanding the Consequences of Community Gun Violence on Lewiston’s School Community, Amanda Belle Zerbib
Theses from 2024
Fashion Forward: Digitizing Historical Dress in Theory and Practice, Grace K. Acton
A Case Study of Western Maine - Imagining Futures With Climate Change in Alpine Skiing, Ethan C. Baker
Metaautobiography and Identity's Paradox: de Manian and Derridean Readings of Joyce and Svevo, Giancarlo Carlucci
Energy Efficient Development: A Comparative Life Cycle Analysis of Retrofitted and New Housing in Lewiston, Maine, Martin Carriere, Jack LaCasse, and Ned Farrington
A Paleoseismic Investigation of the Marquesado Fault in San Juan (27-33.5°S), Argentina, Drew Cochran, Shreya Arora, Jeremy Rimando, Gustavo F. Ortiz, Melina Villalobos, and Raul Gomez
Legislation Should Address Substance Abuse Policy to Mitigate Homelessness Under Increasingly Extreme Climate Conditions, Anders Corey
The Examination of the Integration of Indigenous Knowledge in International Climate Discourse within the UNFCCC, Isla Cotter
Intergenerational Conservation for Farm and Forest Owners in Auburn, Maine: An Analysis of Carbon Credit Program Tradeoffs, Kahryn Cullenberg, Maya Karmaker, and Daisy Kettle
Queerness and Food Sovereignty: Identity as Driving Factor for Community Based Food Justice Work, Eliza Dewey
Adaptation of Immunopanning Protocols: OmpF as an External Marker for Extraction of Regenerated Retinal Neurons, Madeline S. Ewell
Anarchism, Dreaming, and Technology as Cures to Sexual Violence in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and The Word for World is Forest, Anastasia Fowler
Embracing Diversity: Exploring the Multifaceted Experiences of Asian American students at PWIs, Molly E. Furman
The Effects of Post-Identification Feedback on Witness and Photospread Administrator Behavior, Abigail M. Harkness
Determining Surface Rupture of the 1803 Earthquake in Central Himalaya Using Paleoseismology, Molly E. Harmon
Anti-Asian Racism, Model Minority Myth, and Their Psychological Impact on Asian Americans, Tamaki Hashiramoto
Carbon Dynamics Upstream and Downstream of a Tidal Restriction in Drakes Island Salt Marsh, Wells, Maine, Jamie W. Hollander
Developing Strategies to Reduce Microplastic Pollution from Stormwater and Wastewater Systems in Freeport, Maine, Nash Holley
Probability Assignments Under Deep Uncertainty, Hexuan Huang
Medieval Illumination and Modern Manuscript Collections: The Journey of The Psalter-Hours of Isabelle de France, Isabelle Amy Job
The Effects of PM2.5 from Wildfires on Educational Attainment in California, Julia H. Kindler
Down Here, The Only Light is your Own: Environmentalism and Extraction in the Appalachian Coalfields, Bryan David Kirk
The Makings of a Racial Vanguard : Black American Transactional Engagement 1848 – 1922, Sebastien Kleitman
Retelling Malaga Island, Kami J. Lambert
South Korean Veganism(s) and the Euro-American Imagination of Korean Food, Madeleine Suejung Lee
Emancipatory or Merely Appropriate? Revealing the Right to Education under the Thirteenth Amendment and Its Implications for Students with Disabilities, Rachel Joyce Liazos
Development of Inclusive Food Studies Curriculum at Lewiston Middle School, Rachel Lowell, Jaimie Fairchild, and Miles Anderson
The Impact of Stable Modes on Saturation in Magnetorotational Turbulence, Hongke Lu
THE SELF AND THE NATION: NEW YOUTH AND EDUCATIONAL REVOLUTION IN CHINA, 1911 TO 1925, Zhengda(Chris) Lu
The European Greenbelt: An Attempt at European Unity Following the Cold War, Alma N. Mackic
Will Eating Them Beat Them? Establishing Culinary Markets for the European Green Crab, Elysse McCambley
The Making of Fishable and Swimmable: The Ecological and Socio-Cultural Impacts of the Clean Water Act in the Androscoggin River Valley, Isabel Renee Mckinlay
Legitimacy and Transparency: Building Trust Through The SEC's Climate Disclosure Rule, Cassidy Sky Meyer
To Remember, To Forget: Political Actors’ Use of Collective Memory During Democratic Transitions in Spain and Chile, Caroline Thayer Milne
Running the Risk: Why Citizens Choose to Engage in Political Protest in 21st Century Russia, Grace Murphy
The Examination of How Intra-Community Social Identities Differ in Contexts of Coastal Flooding Adaptation and Vulnerability, Dylan Nordstrom
A Health Assessment of Elkhorn Coral (Acropora palmata) Colonies in the Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Panama, Hannah Orton
Habitat Management for High-Priority Bird Species at Woodbury Nature Sanctuary, Ruby Paarlberg, Jack Daoust, and Emma Stattelman
Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategic Benevolence or Genuine Social Impact? An Analysis of FedEx's Governance and Sustainability Efforts, Tasker D. Peacock
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) State Legislation in the United States: Case Study Analyses in California and Texas, Lucinda Farrar Pike
Green Toys: an analysis on toy companies through an environmental lens, Jack Mitchell Potash
The Construction of Coloured Identities: Apartheid Nostalgia & The Politics of Memory, Helena May Raddock
Examining Intimate Partner Violence: The Erasure of Gendered Violence and Coercive Control, Leah C. Ruck
Tidal restriction affects carbon dynamics in the Jones Creek Salt Marsh, Scarborough, ME, USA, Anna E. Sarrazin
Depictions of Chinese New Year in Children’s Books, Qi Schmidt
Beyond the Game: Assessing the IMPACT of a Collegiate Sports Mentorship Program on Psychosocial Development in Children With Disabilities and Serious Illnesses, Samantha Shapiro
Earth's Guardian: The Crucial Role of Soil Science in Protecting Our Planet, Casey Shultis
Perceived Natural Scene Sizes Modulate The Effect of Clutter In Visual Search, Wentao Si
Organically Grown: The Sprouting Eco-Kashrut Movement, Miriam Phoebe Stern
Beavers: How a 100 Pound Rodent Fights Climate Change and Preserves Biodiversity, Huck T. Triggs
Use of high-frequency data to determine in-lake response to major tributary inputs under extreme storm events at Lake Auburn, Maine, Amelia E. Wallis