Theses/Dissertations from 2022
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
Nitrogen isotopes in Zostera marina: tracking anthropogenic nitrogen in Casco Bay, Maine., Ojochenemi T. Maji
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
Geometry of Brittle and Ductile Bedrock Structures Influencing Groundwater Hydrology Adjacent to the Chlor-alkali Superfund Site, Berlin, NH, Peter B. Galloway
The Role of Law in Finding Environmental Justice: How the legal system can be used by America's most disinfranchised, ryan giunta
“Resolute Support:” Contextualizing Afro-Asian Imagery of the Cultural Revolution through the Lens of Maoist Theory, Owen Greenwood
The Impacts of Mountain Biking on the Underlying Soils at a North East Trail System, Matthew S. Hanus
Choosing the Fall to Rise Up: Gender Consumption and Eve’s Culinary World, Sarah Catherine Herde
Convection in Rotating Spherical Fluid Shell, Xiaole Jiang
ESG Investing, Nelly C. Junesand
The effect of tidal flow restriction on carbon density in Sprague and Small Point marsh, Phippsburg, Maine., Brianna Karboski
"Without Lawful Authority": Reassessing Nullification and its Contributions to Political and Constitutional Development in Antebellum America, Benjamin Keener
General Motors' Transition to Electric Vehicles, Casey J. Kelley
Moral Duties Amid Legal Bias, Benjamin Klafter
Fluid Stirring on a Sphere -- a Topological Approach, Kirstin E. Koepnick
Minimal Requirements for Topologically Protected Edge Modes, Kirstin E. Koepnick
Exploring Community Land Trusts as an Alternative to Mainstream Models of Affordable Housing and Envisioning a CLT in Lewiston, Maine, Sophie E. Landes
Widespread Social Isolation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Child and Parent Perspectives, Nicki S. Lane
Aquatic Habitat In the Ogunquit River, Jacob Lawlor
Medium-bound Horror in the Manga of Itō Junji, Michael A. Lombardi
Beguiling time, making air, and taking milk for gall: queerness in Macbeth, Erin Lyons
Lake Metabolism in Lake Auburn: An Analysis of 2018 and 2019 events, Sarah C. MacCormick
Laying the Groundwork: Desert Spaces and the Sacralization of U.S. Settler Colonialism, Anna-Elena Maheu
Exploring “Cultural Sensitivity” Among Frontline Workers Addressing Violence Against Women in Lewiston, Maine, Hannah Marian McKenzie
The Production of Space within the Rural Idyll: A Case Study on Airbnb in the State of Maine, Meredith Melendy
Effects of Climate Variability on Yelloweye Rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus) Bioenergetics in the California Current Ecosystem, Sophia Miller
Development Pathways in Aquaculture: Factors that Influence Consolidation of Ownership and Inhibit Success of Small-Scale Producers, Natalie R. Moon
"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
The Design Experience: Accessing Design in a Liberal Arts Education, Julia Ann Nash
The role of stoichiometry on polarity in lead niobate pyrochlores, Jake O'Hara
Thinking with Mangroves: A Biocentric Approach to Conservation and Carbon Sequestration, Brady Mark Orozco-Herman
Data Analysis and Spatial Mapping of Dissolved Oxygen in the Surface Waters of the Androscoggin River from 1930-2019, Vanessa Lee Paolella
The Effects of Damming on River Herring Spawning Habitat in the Kennebec, Penobscot and St. Croix Watersheds of Maine, Tucker Kingsbury Pierce Mr
“The Real Target”: Medical Racism and AIDS Genocide Conspiracy Theory, Madeline Grace Polkinghorn
Reconstructing the Female Experience in Classical Attica Through A Close Analysis of The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Nicholas P. Quill