Theses from 2016
Reading "A Politics of Location": An Ethical Mapping of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, Michela J. Moscufo
Judging Moral Evaluations: The Capabilities Approach to Female Genital Surgeries, Rachel Neckes
La Mujer en La Frontera: Gender and Assimilation in Pedro Juan Soto’s Spiks, Joseph Foster’s Stephana, and José Antonio Villarreal’s Pocho, Jacqueline L. Paredes
Progress towards Bose-Einstein condensation on an atom chip as a functional testbed for experiments aboard the orbital NASA Cold Atom Laboratory, Daniel Adkins Paseltiner
Stocks and Sources of Carbon Buried in the Salt Marshes and Seagrass Beds of Patos Lagoon, Southern Brazil, Elizabeth Weis Patterson
Les Femmes Guides de Montagne: Negotiating Gendered Spaces in Morocco, Carly Elizabeth Peruccio
Searching for Blood in the Streets: Mapping Political Violence onto Urban Topography in the Late Roman Republic, 80-50 BCE, Theodore Samuel Rube
Tracks Written in Sand: A Story of the Ancient Sea Turtle, Her Disease, and the Oceans Plagued by Us, Bianca B. Sanchez
A Late-Holocene Marine Climate Reconstruction Using the Bivalve Arctica islandica from Northern Norway, Julia Margaret Savage
Unprecedented Uncertainty, The Story of a Boy and Santa Barbara's Drought, Tyler Schleich
The Price of Stability: Consumption-Based Fixed Rate Billing for Water Utilities, Amy Thyng Schmidt
The Awkward, (Un)Desirable, and Enticing Politics of Sexuality and Reproductive Health in HBO's Girls, Rebecca Holly Schwartz
Reframing the Food System Through an Exploration of the Diverse Economies of Food in Lewiston, Maine, Nina D. Sevilla
"That's the Way We Flow": Hip Hop as Oral Literature, Patrick M. Smith
The Effect of Na:K Ratio on Melt Viscosity within the SiO2-NaAlSiO4-KAlSiO4 System, Rebecca Anne Smith
Social Capital in Post-Katrina New Orleans: The Revitalizing Communities of the Lower Ninth Ward, Suzannah O'Hara Smith
Effect of Endogenous Oxytocin on Psychosocial Adjustment as Moderated by Emotional Receptivity, Adriane Raftery Spiro
Climate Change In The Canadian Arctic, Sarah S. Stanley
Defining the Conservative Woman: Margaret Thatcher, Politics, and Gender, Taylor West Stone
Fragmented Citizenship in a Fragmented State: Ideas, Institutions, and the Failure of Reconstruction, Allen C. Sumrall
Abundance of toxic Gloeotrichia echinulata with respect to other limnoplankton in Lake Auburn, Ana Urbina
Empathy, Medicine, and the Novel, Anna Sophia Williams
Buddha Popcorn: The Dark Underbelly Of Gross National Happiness in Bhutan, Sacha Joseph Zabotin
Lire Tintin : un héros en contexte, Hannah Margaret Zeltner
Theses from 2015
You Are Where You Eat: A Gendered Analysis of Dining Commons at Bates College, Alexandra Adolph
Phylogenetic Analysis fails to sort MHC Class II B Exon 2 Alleles by Locus in the Great Frigatebird (Fregata minor), Yaa Asantewaa Agyare
"The Interrupted Idyll: The Changing Identities of Farming Through the Lens of Art and Literature, Hanna M. Allerton
Contesting the Dominance of Neoliberalism: The Ideograph as a Force for Social Change, Jordan Tyler Becker
Hypocrisy Induction to Increase College Students’ Condom Use: A Dissonance-Based Safe Sex Intervention, Stephanie B. Benson
Biopiracy and the Ethics Surrounding Global Application of Western Intellectual Property Law, Jesse Bercaw
Mobilization of Metals by Fungi in Historic Cemeteries, Eleanor D. Briggs
Place-Based Education: An In-Depth Analysis of PBE in Lewiston Middle School, Nicole C. Brill
Developing a Protocol to Measure Trace Concentrations of Phosphorus in Oligo-mesotrophic Lake Surface Waters using UV-Vis Spectrophotometry and Colorimetry, Gwyn Ivy Browning
The Future of Open Space: A Comparison of Conservation Techniques in the United States, Caroline Grace Caldwell
A Paleolimnological Study Reconstructing Organic Carbon Accumulation and Climate History; Mealy Mountains, Labrador, Canada, Timothy D. Campbell
Wonder Woman Revealed: William Moulton Marston, World War II and the Rise of a Superheroine (1941-1959), Rebecca Katherine Carifio
Towards Two-Eyed Seeing: Mi’kmaq Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Climate Change, Teika Marie Carlson
A More Durable Peace: The Nexus Between Local Influence and Power-Sharing Governance, Benjamin Skorpen Claeson
Constitutional Assembly Breakdown: A Study of Why Nepal’s Constitution Writing Procces Failed, Evan Cooper
"She among them but never of them": Race and Sexuality through Tomboy Transformation Narratives of the Postwar Era, Michael John Creedon
The Conservation Controversy, Rebecca Mai Culp
No Man is an Island: The Penobscot Nation v. The State of Maine, Nicole Michelle Danser
Deformation Post-Doming: New mapping of the Oliverian Jefferson Dome, Mt. Dartmouth 7.5' Quadrangle, New Hampshire, Michelle Devoe
Maine: Farm-to-Fork, Jeynaba Leigh Diallo
Analysis and Comparison of Physical Properties and Morphology of Impact Melt Flows on Venus and the Moon to Determine Atmospheric Controls, Christine Elizabeth Dong
Creating a Moral Empowerment Program in Lewiston, ME, Brett Tomas Emmons
Reconstruction of the Post-Glacial Formation of the Peddocks Island Salt Marsh, Hull, MA, Sean W. Enos
An Intellectual History of Eugenics Ideals within the Garden City Movement, Aine Rois Marion Fitzgerald Coleman
Biodiesel at Bates? A Feasibility Study for the Implementation of Biodiesel in Bates College Fleet Vehicles, Nicholas JH Ford
Individual and Synergistic Effects of Oxytocin and Dopamine on Fluid Intelligence, Ramya Ghantasala
Natural Rhythms and Cosmic Connections: An Examination of Biodynamic Farms that Cultivate Social Change, Hallie Grossman
The diversity of AlkBs: a structural and mechanistic comparison of three little-known alkane monooxygenase enzymes, Grace Elizabeth Hamilton
Sustainable Urban Development in the Model of Freiburg, Germany, Horace Fuller Henriques IV
Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism and Islamophobia in Contemporary Sri Lanka, Robin Noel Badone Jones
Numbers and Shapes: Is Math Learning Enhanced by a Fantastical Context?, Natasha Renee Kalra
Developing Leadership Skills in Adolescent Girls, Caroline Anne Kern
Submissively Subversive: Mo Yan's Red Sorghum Clan and its Film Adaptation by Zhang Yimou, David FC Kohler
Managing The Breach at Old Inlet, Fire Island: An Eco-Political Discourse, David Spencer Kurey
Peer and Self-Perceptions of Learning Differences, Megan Mariko Lapp
The Origins of American Unitarianism Reconsidered: Theophilus Lindsey, James Freeman, and the English Episcopal Reform Origins of American Unitarianism, Samuel Williams Learner
Biomass: Ancient Fuel Reignited, Bryan D. Lehrer
Walking on a Bridge You Also Built: Practitioners’ Experience Navigating the Borderland Between Western and Chinese Medicine, Rachel H. Levine
No Man Is An Island: The Penobscot Nation v. the State of Maine, Gunnar Christopher Manchester
"Same Story Every Time / Being Black is Not a Crime": Gun Regulations and Recurrent Patterns of Government Control of Black Americans in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Joshua Kurzer Manson
Compulsory Licenses: Damaging Firm Value in the Short Run?, Daniel E. Mansuri Mr.
Les Mutations d’un lieu de mémoire. Le Vélodrome d’Hiver au cinéma : 1970 et 2010, Talia Rose Rees Mason
The North Woods and the New National Park, Mark R. McCauley
Paleoclimatic implication of lake sediment geochemistry in Linnévatnet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Benjamin Gray Merkert
Vocal performance in the chipping sparrow: can a bird change his song?, Meredith C. Miles
Collective Action within an Authoritarian State: The Emergence of an Anti-Mining Movement in Tibetan Regions of the PRC, Tenzin Namdol
Wastelands: Managing Trash and Humans on the US-Mexico Border, Gabriel Scott Nudel
Shaping the Possible: Stories of the resistance and power of community farmers in Maine, Ashleen E. O'Brien
Reflections in the Author's Eye: Optics, Involution, and Artifice in the Novels and Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, Amelia J. Oliver
Petrogenesis and Paleostress Analysis of the Mesozoic Mill Brook Dike Zone in the Mount Dartmouth 7.5' Quadrangle, New Hampshire, Graham Grear Oxman
Nuancing Czech Secularism and Debunking Assumptions of Atheism: Finding Spirituality and Questioning Identity in a Culturally Christian Post-Communist Society, Molly Irene Pailet
Residential Energy Efficiency Retrofits: Recommendations for a Case Study in Lewiston, ME, Kate B. Paladin
Mindful Urban Walking, Benjamin F. Pardee
Using Community Structure Networks to Model Heterogeneous Mixing in Epidemics, and a Potential Application to HIV in Washington, D.C., Katherine Ragland Paulson
The Lady is a Tramp: The Integration of the Appalachian Mountain Club Hut System as a Distillation of the Women’s Rights Movement, Grace Lillian Pezzella
Conserving the Endangered El Segundo Blue Butterfly: An Analysis of Animals' Place in Society Which Determines tts Importance, Kathy Polanco
The Transformative Power of Social Entrepreneurship, Kathryn E. Polio
The Consequences of Plan Colombia: Domestic Drug Policies in Colombia, Brittany T. Reid
The Third Dimension of Power within Education Based NGOs in Nicaragua, Emily Catherine Roseman
Interpreting Innocence: Romantic Thought in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, Rachel S. Ryan
Apocalyptic Simplification as Human Renewal: Examining the Tropes of Hope found in Post-Apocalyptic American Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Elizabeth Frieda Sangree
Going West: An Interdisciplinary Study of Marfa, Texas, Martha Schnee
Aging in Japan: An analysis of the growing vulnerability of the elderly in the context of the Tohoku Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 2011, Hannah T. Siegel
UNDER THE COVERS: Deconstructing the Presentation of the Human Reproductive System in Secondary Biology Education, Alexandra M. Skaperdas
White Privilege: A Study of White Students' Racial Awareness at a Predominantly White, but Historically Inclusive Institution, Quincy Elizabeth Snellings
"Infinitesimal Progress": Rethinking Bergsonian Modalities of Time in William Faulkner's Novels, 1929-1932, Beau P. Sperry
“To my virginity!”: Queerness, Silencing, and Dominicanity in Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Nicholas Jason Steverson
What Role Did the Sassanid Empire Truly Play in the Fall of the Western Roman Empire? Exploring Divergences in Causal Frameworks, Nicholas Vladimir Strunc and Nicholas Vladimir Strunc
Tourist or Traveler? An Examination of Local-Outsider Relations in Patagonia, Lucy Kaplan Triedman
"The Way We Gaze On A Loved One": Lessons in Ecological Consciousness from American Science Fiction, Shana AvRutick Wallace
Analysis of Sediment Traps in Linnévatnet, Svalbard for Reconstruction of Annual Sediment Flux and Lacustrine Processes, Tess L. Walther
Decreased Attentional Abilities are Related to Dissociation in Undergraduates: An Exploratory Study of Dissociation, Cognition, Sleep and Mood, Hannah L. Weiss