Theses from 2014
"Another Landscape, Another Tongue:" The Queer Language of Silence in Virginia Woolf's Fiction, Sarah Streat
LiDAR as a Tool for Lineament Mapping and the Reevaluation of Bedrock and Glacial Geology: Examples from the Mount Moosilauke Region of the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, Joshua T. Sturtevant
LiDAR as a Tool for Lineament Mapping and the Reevaluation of Bedrock and Glacial Geology: Examples from the Mount Moosilauke Region of the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, Joshua T. Sturtevant
The Education of ELL Students in Lewiston, Maine, Malia K G Taggart
Tribe (™): An Investigation of Ethnic Agency in Sebei, Uganda, Devin Tatro
Giant in the Hillside: Hip-hop and Copyright Law, Benjamin L. Vanasse
Depositional Setting and Deformation History of Central-Western Maine: Silurian Stratigraphic Revisions for the Newry-Gilead Region, Sula Q. Watermulder
Control of Digital Information: Why Privacy Violations Reduce Our Freedom, Stephanie J. Wesson
Theses from 2013
Social Anxiety and Memory Conformity in Eyewitnesses, Alexandra Abry
Satire and the Necessity of Locale: Genealogical Readings in Max Beerbohm and Karl Kraus, Matthew Joseph Bettles
Regulatory Focus Theory and Reactions to Anti-Egalitarian Humor, Stephanie Boyle
Synthesis and Antioxidant Activity of Phenylpropanoid Glycoside Analogs, Jennifer C. Brown
Assessing the impact of marine-derived nutrient on nitrogen cycling in Nequasset Lake in reponse to the 2012 migration of anadromous alewives (Alosa pseudoherangus), Chester Chiao, Beverly Johnson, Philip Dostie, and Theodore V. Willis
Classical Music Education: a transcontinental comparative study of classical music for today’s youth, Jessica Diana Cooper
Macroinvertebrate variability in Lake Sunapee tributaries in relation to abiotic metrics and land cover assessed at three spatial scales, Naomi Janet Crimm
Thymic Morphology and Increased Apoptotic Rates in Juvenile and Adult Female Mice Following Exposure to Low Levels of Arsenic Early in Development, Isabelle Lane Curran
Meta-affective processing and its relationship to serotonin and BDNF systems, Lauren A. Demers
Integrating Environmental Education into China's Compulsory Moral Curriculum, Carrie S. Dillaway
600 Years of Late Holocene Climate Variability Inferred from a Varved Proglacial Sediment Record Linnévatnet, Svalbard, Norway, Colin W. Dowey and Michael J. Retelle
Transparency in Maine Lakes: Response of Secchi Depth to Precipitation, James R. Epstein
A Geomorphic and Sedimentological Study of the Periglacial Processes and Environments, Vardeborgsletta, Western Spitsbergen Svalbard, Lauren Brett Farnsworth
Towards Global Justice: Reconciling Rawlsian Liberalism and Cosmopolitanism in an Interconnected World, Kate L. Fetrow
How to Maintain One-Party Control: A Case Study of the Political Strategies Used by New Hampshire Republicans, Mikayla Clara Foster
An Ecological Survey of the David Rancourt River Preserve and A Plan for Community Engagement, Ellen Louise Gawarkiewicz
Analysis of brittle Paleogene structures in the Svea region, eastern Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Amanda LaFarge Goss
Economic Analysis of FERC Hydroelectric Licenses: examining license duration, value, and surrendering of licenses between 1990 and 2010, Geoffrey C. Groner
Turkey's Gender Equality Puzzle: Navigating the difference between policy and practice, Nora M. Hanagan
A geochemical investigation of Late Holocene lake sediment cores from Pyramid Lake, Fiordland, New Zealand, David J. Harning
Why Divestment? A Theoretical Analysis of the Emergence of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement, Grady Fitzgerald Hogan
From Modernization and Development to Neoliberal Democracy: A History of the Ford Foundation in Latin America 1959-2000, Jacquelyn Marie Holmes
Hamd and Naat: Muslim Women Singers in Pakistan, Amna Ilyas
Requiem Mass for Chamber Orchestra and Choir, Miles C. Isacke
Diversity and characterization of songs in the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort population of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) during their annual spring migration, 2011, Hansen Dalmasse Johnson
Narratives of Place in Planning Documents: A Study of Lewiston’s Riverfront Island Master Plan, Hannah B. Kitchel
Dominant and subordinate male odors elicit different patterns of synaptic and intrinsic plasticity in accessory olfactory bulb mitral cells of female mice, Samantha Marie Landino
Disengagement from the Local: An Examination of the Applications of Stakeholder Theory in the Wadden Sea Transboundary Conservation Area, Christopher M. Lane
Growth Variability and Mineralogy of M. margaritifera from Karpelva, Norway, Stephanie R. LaRosa
Thoreauvian Environmentalism: Utilizing Henry David Thoreau in Campaigns for the Proposed Maine Woods National Park, Emmelyn L. Leung
Variations in hypoxia and productivity along the Oregon Margin during the Younger Dryas and Early Holocene, Conor M. Maginn, Beverly Johnson, Jennifer L. McKay, Jesse M. Muratli, and Alan C. Mix
Peripheral Levels of Oxytocin and Affective Processing in Relation to Schizotypy, Laura Kolker Max
Campus Sustainable Food Movements: Bates College Case Study and Application, Anna C. McCabe
Protecting Life: A Metaphorical Analysis of the Pro-Life Abortion Movement and the Conservation Movement, Holly W. McLaughlin Ms.
Constructing The Prophet: Steve Jobs and the Messianic Myth of Apple, Scott Forsyth MIckey
Microfinance as Ambivalence: Kilimanjaro Women Experiences of Capitalist Development, Desmond Mushi
Place, Class, and Culture: A Case Study of Pollution Debates in Lewiston, Maine, 1953-1955, Taryn A. O'Connell
An Environmental Assessment of Energy Biomass for Bates College and Environmental Implementation Recommendations, Katrina T. Orlov
Statistical Methods of Wavelet Analysis with Applications to Ecological Time-Series, Daniel J. Peach
The Fallacy of Pristine Nature: Implications of Environmental Dualism for the Serengeti Highway Debate, Eliza Perry
Maine's blue carbon: estimating carbon stocks in Maine saltmarshes, Margaret Alice Pickoff
Getting Away With Murder: Why States Deny Past Atrocities, Cameron Ashleigh Sheldon
Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning Stakeholder Engagement Analysis, Patrick Ryan Siebenlist
Implications of the Rising Sea Level on the Coast of North Carolina: An Analysis of the Political and Rhetorical Responses, Camille K. Smith
Fat Talk with Parents and Weight Bias in High School and Undergraduate Students, Stephanie Leigh Sprague
Jane Austen and the Art of Revision: Reading, Fiction, Feminism, Natalie R. Thompson
An Investigation of the Occurrence and Potential Public Health Implications of Cyanobacterial Toxins in Mane Lakes, Julie Jean Thomsen
A comparative study of songbird serum effectiveness against the causative agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, Carla Greer Tilchin
The Need for Environmental Writing and Scientific Communication: An Analysis of Sources, Language and Bias in the Collected Works of Sandra Steingraber, Caroline Marie Ulwick
L’écriture comme mise en œuvre et mise en doute de la représentation dans L’Acacia de Claude Simon, María Daniela Velasco Molina
Interactive and Embodied Environmental Education: Connecting Nature and Culture through Place-Based Education at Auburn Land Lab in Auburn, ME, Abby Verney-Fink
The Effects of Storms on Stream water Chemistry and the Seasonal Patterns of Ions in Tributaries of Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire, Caroline Watson
Tracking Seasonal and Storm Induced Recession of the Popham-Seawall Barrier Beach Complex, Phippsburg, Maine, Amanda Lee Wescott
Theses from 2012
CRETACEOUS UNROOFING HISTORY FROM APATITE FISSION-TRACK AGES, COG RAILROAD, MT. WASHINGTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE, Brigit Anderson
Two essays on the optimal control of infectious diseases: Examining discrepancies between discrete-time and continuous-time models, Arjada Bardhi
A Study of the Impact of Ditch-plug Alteration on the Hydrogeology of the Sprague River Marsh, Phippsburg, Maine, Colin H. Barry
Working Toward Pragmatic and Sustainable Exclusive Breastfeeding Practices Among Somali Mothers in Lewiston, Maine, Mariah Marilyn Clarke Barstow
Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schnitzler, and the Birth of Psychological Man, Jeffrey Erik Berry
“In a newe plantation it is not knowen whether man or woman be more necessary”: Gender Relations in Seventeenth-Century Virginia, Caylin E. Carbonell
“This is a reckoning.” A Project in Directing Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Elizabeth Ann Castellano
World Bank-NGO Entanglements in Ecuador’s Intag Region: Engagements that Favor a World Bank Hegemony or NGO Agency?, Corey James Creedon
Japanese Manga and Modern Literary Heroism: Heroes of Action and Inaction in Japanese Comic Books, Brendan Steel Culliton
Determining P-T Paths of Metamorphism Based on Mineral Textures and Pseudosection Analysis in Small Point, Maine, Heather A. Doolittle
Child of the Black Atlantic: Negotiating Identities in Helene Cooper’s Memoir, Tasheana S. Dukuly
New Evidence of a Post-Laurentide Local Cirque Glacier on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, Ian T. Dulin, Brian K. Fowler, and Timothy L. Cook
Political Change through Narrative, Catherine Elliott
Perceptual Asymmetries and Lateralization in Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Kristen Jeanine Gavin
The College and the Community: Exploring the Impact of Service-Learning on the College Aspirations of Community Partners, Joanna L. Goldin
La dominicanidad desde la diáspora: Literatura e historiografía en La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao, Dhariana María González
"Women's Rugby isn't That Feminine": Challenging Gender Norms Through Participation in Women's Rugby, Kerry Mulhern Gross
Las Trans: Negotiating Gender, Personhood, and Citizenship in Chile, Sydney A. Hare
Defining the Japanese OL Body Through Modern Advice Literature: Text and Images, Kaitlin L. Harrison
Dams over Nukes: Explaining Indian Water Treaties, Romina Istratii
Kaleidoscopic and Non-Monolithic Ethnic Tourism in China: A Case-specific Approach to the Examination of its Impacts on Minority Identities, Romina Istratii
Nerd Up: The Rise of Nerd Media and the Co-Optation of Narrative in Advertising, Ryan Thomas Katon
Commemorating the Holocaust and Communism: The Politics of Hungarian Public Memory, Kelsey LaFreniere
Objective Chances in a Deterministic World, Daniel Lambright
Hitler's Children: Education as Indoctrination under the Third Reich, Claire Lampen
Using Sedimentary and Geochemical Proxies for Little Ice Age Climate Climate Change Reconstructions, South Mainland Shetland, Jennifer A. Lindelof
Multinational States, Multicultural Nations: The Challenge of Liberal Multiculturalism in Nested Nations, Justin Gregory Lipton
Love, Crime, and Township Identity in Fred Khumalo's "Bitches' Brew" and "Seven Steps to Heaven", Erica Rose Long
Low-dose developmental arsenic exposure alters gene expression potentially through epigenetic modifications, Haley Ellen Manchester
“An Exceedingly Dirty and Nasty People”: Exploring the Patriot Forces of 1775, Katharine A. Maxwell
The Categorical Balance of Safeguarding Honor: A Cluster Analysis of Rhetorical Value Hierarchies in the Ninth Circuit’s United States v. Alvarez, Kevin Brown McCandlish
"It's All Happening at the Zoo:" Plural Visions of Landscape, Animals, and Humans in the Early Days of the Bronx Zoo, Rebecca Lauren Merten
Kinematics of the Phippsburg Shear Zone at Hermit Island and the Wood Islands, Small Point, Maine, Peter Kent Miller
The Problem of the Ordinary: Liberating the Fantastic and the Uncanny, Meghan R. Napier