2026 Senior Thesis Topics

Africana Studies

• Diane Isimbi, A Story of Security, Sovereignty, and Continuities: Rwanda and DRC in Historical Perspective

Anthropology

• Dana Blatte, “We Need A Café”: “Café People,” Caffeine Addicts, and the Balancing Act of Leisure, Labor, and Social Life at Cafés in the United States and Taiwan
• Isabella Lindsay, Supportive Dialogue in Female Friendships
• Morgan Meisner, From Writer to Editor and Back Again: The Reproduction of Journalism within The Spectator
• Lucy Meola, Whose Good Writing?: Cultural Capital and Institutional Expectations at Hamilton’s Writing Center
• Ariana Morales, Mediating Difficult Conversations: Alignment, Stance, and Disclosure in Close-Relationship Talk
• Nicholas Rayano, “No One Is Sitting Around Talking About It”: Socially Filtering Common Core Education Policy
• Maggie Winstead, Let’s talk about (anything but) Sex? Sneaking Out & Adolescent Sexuality at Summer Camp

Art

2026 Senior Art Thesis Show Website

FIRE ON THE HILL, on display May 7 through May 23, 2026, at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art.

Exhibiting seniors: Caroline Boies, Lee Casstevens, Margot Delany, Arí Dougal, Clara Fu, Ellana Glassner, Sofia Isabel Gonzalez Alvarado, Eval-Eniman Abasi-Ifreke Imoke, Maria Ioannou, Lan Yi, Carolyn Levin, Magalen Nichols, Gregory Parizhsky, Sofia Santana, Kat Showalter, Mina Stevens, Ella Lynn Strasser, Linh Tran, and Lindsey White.

The range of media is painting (oil, acrylic, charcoal drawing), photography (film, inkjet prints), video, digital art – 3d printing, printmaking, and sculpture (wood, concrete, paper pulp, ceramics, yarn, fabric).

Art History

• Kendall Bocklet, A Lasting Impression: The Colonial Legacy of Plaster Cast Reproductions
• Kate Broeksmit, Beyond the Façade: Adapting Modernism in Mexico City
• Marcie Coeny, Red Carpet Medievalism
• Emma K. Henderson, Institutional Authority and Valuation: The Market as Canon-Maker in the Twenty-First Century
• Sammy Higgins, From Palace to Premiere: Cartier and ‘Islamic’ Design
• Will Kretz, Reprinting Bellocq: A New History of Lee Friedlander
• Claire Lazar, Not By Human Hands: The Printed Matrix and the Meta-Image of Pressure
• Carter Megalli, “It ain’t hard to tell, I’m the new Jean Michel”: Race, Canon, and Quotation in Music Video
• Sydney Piccoli, The Blatant Image: From Rootworks to Archive
• Kenna R. Smith, Pornography as Technology: Separating Art and Pornography in the Age of Social Media
• Tobias Suratt, Seeing Music at Borobudur’s Grand Eastern Entrance

Biochemistry/Molecular Biology

• Ethan Corbin, Effect of Olivine Weathering on Methanogenesis in Saltmarsh Soils
• Felix Halloran, Phagosomal Accidification of Food Vacoules in Tetrahymena thermophila
• Elise Kwon, with Mandy Li (biology), Microbiome-Mediated Mitigation of Lead Toxicity in Drosophila melanogaster
• Juan Perez-Rodriguez, David Kim (neuroscience), and Nick Miller (biology), Investigating the initiation of twin of buckeyeless expression during Drosophila development
• Jason Porter, Investigating the Role of SMD13 in Zea mays Abnormal Chromosome Segregation
• Claire Tratnyek, The Selective Enrichment of Microbes Capable of Endogenous Extracellular Electron Shuttling in an Anaerobic Loop-Flow Reactor
• Natalie Yarnall, The Selfish Chromosome: Investigating the Capacity of Kinesin Proteins to Segregate a Chromosome in a Diploid Yeast Cell

Biology

• Ava Alexander, Seed Functional Trait Resilience to False Spring
• Renata Altuzar and Abby Foran (biochemistry), Reconstructing Zea mays Ab10 Meiotic Drive System using LexO Tethering
• Ileana Anghel, The effects of acute Coccidia infection on the spatial memory of the American crow
• Atreyus Bhavsar and Sophie Blomberg, Effects of pH on Phenol Oxidase and Peroxidase Activities in Salt Marsh Soils
• Ashlyn Blessey, Lizzie Baseley, Melissa Scala, and Devanshi Patel, Analyzing Polychaete Diversity in Coral Reef Cryptobiomes
• Olivia Conhagen, Using genetic analysis to trace the lineage of peony cultivars in the Grant Garden at Hamilton College
• Sa Kay Da, with Drea Hacker (neuroscience) and Parv Choudhary (biochemistry/molecular biology), Spatiotemporal Expression of Orthodenticle in Drosophila melanogaster
• Lula Dalupang, Does size matter? The impacts of sperm size and male condition on media-dependent sperm performance in Green Frogs
• Lila Freeman, Understanding Microclimatic Effects on Tick Density
• Eliana Freedman, Reflexive Artificial Intelligence Methods for Advancing Human Genetics Research
• Reilan Garczynski and Kyle Bratcher, Macrophage response to household preservative methylisothiazolinone treatment in vitro
• Alizeh Haroon, Impact of false spring and canopy closure on Trillium grandiflorum and Erythronium americanum
• Arshdeep Kaur and Jaylaan Limon Ixehuatl, Assessing Kinesin-Driven Acentric Plasmid Inheritance in Budding Yeast Utilizing Fluorescence Microscopy
• Alexis Limon-Aceves and Paula Vilato Garcia, Fibroblast and Mast Cell Crosstalk in Inflammatory Allergen-Driven Vulvar Pain
• Evie McCreery, Vertebrate and Invertebrate Seed Removal in Reforestation vs. Mature Forests
• Christiana Melucci and Emily McDonald, Campylobacter infection dynamics in captive American crows
• Charlotte Moulson, Sperm morphological diversity across 37 species of Ecuadorian amphibians
• Andrew Patterson, Buckthorn invasion does not affect perceived predation risk in foraging rodents
• Grace Petersen, Using Tetrahymena thermophila as a model for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease: Visualization and knockout of the pkd2 gene
• DanTe'ya Reedy, Exploring Microbial Metabolism in the Hanging Garden Biofilm of Fayetteville Green Lake
• Caitlin Reith, Karst-mediated gene flow in Gammarus duebeni: hydrological connectivity across Irish turloughs
• Jacqueline Reynaga, Artificial seeds produce inconsistent patterns in seed removal rates from scatter-hoarding rodents
• Ellie Roberts and Jessica Yee, The effects of multiple parasites on the cognitive performance of American crows
• Zachary Schwartz, Investigating Oxygen Dynamics Across the Redoxcline of Green Lake
• Kaljang Sherpa, Nucleotide Salvage Pathway in Tetrahymena thermophila
• Kaveesha Soysa, Assessing neuroinflammation in a model of chronic vulvar pain
• Aaron Steensma, The glycoengineering of antibodies and their potential as a therapeutic treatment for pancreatic cancer
• Mimosa Van, Characterization of Adenylate Cyclases in Ciliates: Phylogeny and Function Diversification
• Henry Wiemeyer, Functional Characterization of NTP6 and NTP11 Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporters in Tetrahymena thermophila
• Holly Woodhouse, Enrichment of Electroactive Bacteria Communities and their Dynamics in Fayetteville Green Lake

Chemistry

• Kaylee Frank, Synthesis and Luminescence Studies of Eu3+, Gd3+, and Tb3+ Benzenetricarboxylate Complexes
• Meredith Jenny, Metal-free coupling of indoles to pyridines
• Abby Jones, Synthesis of Functionalized Magnetite Nanoparticles for the Removal of Arsenic from Groundwater
• Eliana Mannes, Investigation of a uridine UVC sensitive actinometer for use in wastewater disinfection photochemistry
• Richard Shi, Improving the Efficacy of Photoredox-Catalyzed Radical Vinylation
• Prim Udomphan, Total Synthesis of (+)-Leucolusine: Progress toward Efficient Reductive Cyclization
• Sebastian van Wanroy, Investigation of Aryl Ethers as Leaving Groups in Photoredox-Catalyzed Radical Allylation Reactions
• Mica Wishengrad, Developing Fluorescent Cell-Penetrating Block Copolymers for Photodynamic Therapy
• Grace Wilde, Progress towards the synthesis of a lipid-linked biofilm polysaccharide precursor

Chinese

• Katherine Appleman, Natural Disaster Mitigation in Taiwan
• Dechen Cohen, Competing Narratives: China's Boarding Schools in Tibet
• Jack Gaillard, The Effect of Social Media Content on American Opinions of China
• Lucas Herman, Taiwan’s Semiconductor Industry and Its Impact on the Economy and Politics
• Sandor Lin, Navigating Bicultural Identity: Psychological and Social Experiences of Chinese American College Students
• Christopher Zhou, The History, Spread, and Cultural Significance of Mahjong

Cinema and Media Studies

Honors Projects

• Mekhia Foster, Hit Me Harder! (dramatic short film, featuring Leonardo Velez ’28, Mina Morcelo ’28, and Benjamin White ’26)
• Aderyn (Addy) Grace, Goalposts: A portrait of Bruce Thomas (feature documentary)
• Althea Hill, Visual Advertising and Marketing in the WNBA, from 1995 to 2026 (video essay and essay)

Classics

• Marcie Coeny, Daughters of Eve to Mirrors of Mary: Exempla in Byzantine Christian Literature
• Jameson Mannix, The Hidden Monster: Odysseus, Heracles, and Achilles as Ostensible Heroes in Ancient Greek Myth
• Becca McAuliffe, A Little Party Never Killed Nobody: Performances of Masculinity in Petronius Arbiter’s Satyricon and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
• Qinxian (Bonnie) Ran, The Failed Odysseus: Reading Pai Hsien-yung’s Taipei People (1971) through ‘odyssean tropes’
• Jason Seo, A Psychoanalytic Reading of Ovid’s Orpheus and Eurydice
• Brielle Whalen, You Are What You Eat: A Survey of Lattara’s Shifting Culinary Practice from 500 BCE to 200 CE

Computer Science

• Angel Apollos, Ricaldo Lewis, and Mia Wrisley, Preventing Wishcycling with the Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority
• Charlie Beard and Lulu Ceccon, An Updated and Maintainable Audio Library for CS 101
• Hank Elsesser, Jules Henderson, Jack Kertscher, and Josh Smith, Analytics for Hamilton's Softball Team
• Javi Garcia and Tyrone Xue, A System to Prevent Removing Watermarks from Digital Photographs
• Bakir Husremovic, Kevin Pillsbury, and Jacqueline Reynaga, Streamlined Particle Tracking

Senior Seminar Presentations

• Uriah Adeniran, Joe Buttarazzi, and Dominic Mauretti, AI-Driven Pre-Arrival Orientation
• Alex Badami and Garret Keyhani, A System for Maintaining Question Banks and Generating Exams
• Abby Baron, Carlos Moncada Soto, and Ognian Trajanov, Brain Image Analysis
• Cade Boiney and Matt Hake, Football Play-by-Play Data Analysis Pipeline
• Maria Ioannou, Ellana Glassner, and Matthew McCormick, A Symposium Scheduler for the Oral Communication Center
• Mitch Johnson, Reagan Mor, and Catherine Zhang, Jazz Oral History Topic Exploration
• Lydia Mirabito, Ella Rosovsky, and Joe Simeone, Software for Softball: A Robust App for In-Game Data and Statistics

Creative Writing

• Anna E. Gum, poetry, Inside and Out
• Iman A. Rahman, poetry, I Reconcile Now

Honors Projects

• Madeleine R. Cerone, novel, Cassanovia College
• Emily D. Forslof, novel, The Seed of the Poppy
• Rebecca A. McAuliffe, novel, Reaper
• Zoe E. Regner, novel, Infinite Tomorrows
• Kathleen A. Rotmil-Eser, novella, Life After

Dance

• Isabella Carioscia, A Celebration of Dance

Economics

Honors Presentations

• Oluyawanmife Adeniran, The Neocolonial Channel: Monetary Policy Spillovers and Cross-Border Lending to Former African Colonies
• Nicholas Badagliacca, The Elasticity of Healthcare Employment
• Cole Bernstein, Invisible Exposure, Uncertain Effects: Water Fluoridation and Neurodevelopment in the United States
• Miller Burns, The Impact of Immigration on Native Income in Immigrant-Dense Industries
• Joseph Buttarazzi, The Lasting Effects of US Temporary Trade Barriers
• Rafael Coutinho Padua, Higher Education, Lower Traditionalism? College and Gender Role Attitudes in the NLSY79
• Frank Coyle, The Contract Year Phenomenon: Evidence From the NHL
• Erin Delaney, Economic Storytelling: How News Narratives and Education Shape Consumer Confidence
• Jesse Delinsky, Merger Policy and Innovation
• Rhea Jiaqi Ding, Less Birth, Better Worth, Greater China? The Effect of the One-Child Policy on Daughters’ Educational Attainment in China
• Neal Gupta, Persistence of Institutions on Politics: Evidence from British Colonial India
• Luke Hanson, Beliefs Under Trade Policy: Tariff Announcements and Inflation Expectations
• Madison Harland, Discrimination Against Transgender Patients in Primary Care: Evidence from an Audit Study and Survey Experiment
• Taylor Harris, Religiosity & Agricultural Innovation in 19th-Century France
• John Hill, Energy Transition in the Developing World: Examining the Relationship Between Renewable Energy Usage and GDP Growth in Developing Economies
• Caroline Hoban, The Impact of Housing Assistance on Individual Health Outcomes
• Charlotte Kinlin, How Renewable Growth Shapes Energy Storage Economics: Evidence from ERCOT’s Wind and Solar Expansion
• Sarafina Madden, Is Less More? Investigating the Impact of Maximizing Decision-Making Tendencies on Satisfaction
• Jared Maidman, Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Rural Hospital Emergency Departments
• Jameson Mannix, Examining the Effects of Inclusionary Zoning Ordinances on Rental Prices Across U.S. Cities
• Jessica Mason, Medicaid Dental Deserts and Health Outcomes
• Lydia Mirabito, Access and Autonomy: Evaluating the Effects of Full Practice Authority Laws for Nurse Practitioners on Health Outcomes
• Ha Phuong Phoebe Nguyen, The Price of Hostility: How Native Attitudes Shape Immigrant Wellbeing
• Claire Patton, Consolidation in the Ski Industry and Local Economic Outcomes
• Will Peters, Economic Effects of Broadband Internet at the County Level
• Samantha Rainero, The Impact of Instructional Modes During the COVID-19 Pandemic on Standardized Test Scores
• Muhammad Ahmad Rao, Geography as Risk: The Impact of Local Characteristics on Mortgage Lending Outcomes
• Gabrielle Rosovsky, Stay-at-Home Order Severity and Remote-Work Persistence: State-Level Evidence After COVID-19
• Phillip Slavchev, The Relative Inefficiency of Supply vs. Demand Side Rental Assistance Subsidies
• Aaron Steensma, The Effect of Political Influence on FED Monetary Policy
• Ian Trefry, Impact of Statewide Bag Bans on Household Food Purchases
• Hannah Walpole, Paying More for Better Care? Testing the Price-Quality Heuristic in U.S. Health Insurance
• Griffin Weidner, A Roadblock on the Path to the American Dream: The Relationship Between Housing Market Conditions and Housing Attainability for Young Americans
• Benjamin Zhao, Do FOMC Transcripts Reveal More Dissent Than Votes? Using NLP to Measure Regional Influence on Monetary Policy Deliberation
• Ben Zimmerman, Exploring Private Equity's Impact on Nursing Home Quality
• Rachel Zou, Asserting Leadership: The Impact of Cultural Differences on the Bamboo Ceiling

Environmental Studies

Capstone Presentations

• Orhan Algar, How The History Of The New York State Electric Grid Shaped NYISO’s Current Sustainability Challenges
• Jamie Boyd, Credits, Constraints, and the CLCPA: Evaluating Renewable Energy Deployment in NYISO
• Maddie Campbell, Watershed Land-Use Change and Water Quality in Wakulla Springs: A Scenario-Based Evaluation of Conservation Policy
• Grace Crowley, Displacing Natural Gas: The Role of Battery Storage in CAISO’s Evening Ramp, 2019–2040
• Bruni Fischer, Florida Mollusk Aquaculture Vulnerability Assessment
• Ivy Hammer-Gumbrell, Sea Level Rise and Housing Insecurity in Portland, Maine
• Brooke Marx, Water Vulnerability in a Changing Climate: A Comparative Case Study of Drought Projections Across the Western United States
• Frank Papetti, Plastic to the Sea: Modeling Plastic Transport and Breakdown Pathways in New York State
• Alex Powell, Climate Communication: Messaging Strategies and Public Understanding of Flood Risk in Upstate New York
• Olivia Rubano, The Concerns About Water Privatization and Successful Factors in Anti-Privatization Resistance Campaigns in New Jersey and Pennsylvania
• Phoebe Smith, Milking the Trend: How Small Scale Dairy Farms in Upstate NY Adapt to Increased Demand for ‘High-Protein’ Dairy Products
• Ella Strasser, Student Perceptions of the Walkways on the Hamilton College Campus
• Cuora Sullivan, Carbon, Community, and the Construction of Impact: How Emphasis on Carbon Metrics Shapes Sustainability Reporting in Renewables

Thesis Presentations

• Senna Camp, Mother’s Labor of Love: How Trad-Wives are Transforming the Way We Eat
• Mia Cohen, Variation of Soil Carbon Levels Among Temperate Forest Plots in Clinton, New York
• Chloe Kefauver, Political Torment: A Theory of Why Injustice Persists when Policy Exists
• Aiyana McDonell, More Than a Fad: Why Community Fridges Should Be Included in Food Environment Maps
• Lucy Meola, “Scams,” “Talking Points,” and “Marketing Schemes”: Project Framing and Resistance to Utility- Scale Solar Development in Rural New York
• Jessie Paradis Stern, Giving Sugar Maples the Cold Shoulder: How Shoulder Season Conditions Impact Sugar Maple Growth in the Northeastern United States
• Lily Watts, Just Transition: An Analysis of Public Perceptions Toward Nuclear Energy Deployment in the Central New York Region
• Sarah White, Central New York Farmers’ Adaptive Strategies to Extreme Weather

Geosciences

• Katherine Appleman, Paleoenvironmental and Climatic Reconstruction of the Middle Miocene Site of Buluk, Kenya
• Maddison Campbell, From Headwaters to Human Impact: Hydrogeology, Land Use, and Conservation Policy in a Karst Spring and River System
• Daniel Cho, Predicting Streamflow using Multilinear Regression Modeling
• Kian Hudiburg, Improving SWAT+ Simulated Discharge of Oriskany Creek
• Jaiden Knowles, Evaluating Freshwater Gastropods as Paleotemperature Proxies in the Wakulla Spring System (Florida, U.S.A) Using Stable-Oxygen Isotopic Analysis
• Holly Mirales, Assessment of Water Quality in Central New York Through Principal Component Analysis
• Charlotte Osgood, Dateable microstructures: Investigating titanite's capacity to deform by dissolution-reprecipitation creep
• Ainsley Routh, Divergence of Freshwater Molluscan Communities from Pre-Industrial Baselines in the Wakulla River (Florida, USA)
• Thomas Rushing, Principal Component Analysis Program for Petrochronology Datasets
• Harper Youngwood, A Tephrostratigraphic Analysis and Characterization of the Chemeron Formation, Baringo Basin, Kenya

German Studies

• Katerina Sabella, Bureaucratic Language and Violence in Heimrad Bäcker’s nachschrift
• Aubrey Wallen, “I am the Nora from Ibsen” Repetition and the Limits of Emancipation in Elfriede Jelinek’s Was geschah nachdem Nora ihren Mann verlassen hatte oder Stützen der Gesellschaften

Government

Honors Presentations

• Ashley Beck, Food Insecurity and Street-Level Bureaucracy: How Quasi-Bureaucrats Interpret and Implement Food Policy on Long Island
• Meredith Brubaker, From Classroom to Clinic: Sex Education and Abortion Politics in the U.S.
• Emma Dower, Water Personhood in the EU
• Rebecca Felker, Virtue, Virtu, or Just the First President: Understanding the Veneration of George Washington Through Political Theory
• Anna Gnapp, Coercive Policing and Local Accountability in Upstate New York
• Carson Hall, How Does the Implementation of Body-Worn Cameras during Training Affect Police Officers’ Experiences on the Job?
• Ariane Hurwitz, Checks and Balances Under Threat? The Extent to Which the Supreme Court Constrains Executive Power
• Chloe Hurwitz, Beyond Work: Justice, Care, and Technology in the Case for Universal Basic Income
• Brooke Styer, Does Government Efficiency Matter? An Experimental Evaluation of Public Spending and Taxpayer Support

Hispanic Studies

Honors Presentations

• Isabella Lindsay, Hermanas y extranjeras: explorando la sexualidad y el maternaje a través de la poesía contemporánea española
• Ivy Hammer-Gumbrell, Al borde del delito: el amor lésbico y la sodomía en la España del siglo XVII

History

• Derya Arikan, Anticommunism and Religionization in the Inter-Coup Period in Turkey (1960-1980)
• Jack Carron, The Maxim Gun: Industrialized Warfare and the British State at Home
• Lee Casstevens, The Gap: Critical Historians in the Discourse of September 11, 2001
• Julia Granito, The Vietnam War: Hubris & Humanity
• Peter Hinkle, A Community on the Hill: Fostering Community at Greenfield Hill Congregational Church, 1897-1957
• Andrew Hohmann, A Fleeting Glimpse Understanding Freedmen Legal System and Daily Life in Petersburg, Virginia, from 1865 to 1866
• Mila Karimov, The Pipeline and Periphery: Covert International Intervention and the Making of the Afghan Mujahideen
• Harrison Kehler, At the Heart of the Confederacy: Civil War Memory and Monuments in Richmond, Virginia
• Elijah King-Bond, In Search of Shangri-La: Tourism and its impacts in Nepal’s Annapurna Range
• Seraph McKern, Unraveling the Practical Impacts of Petro-Textiles on American Laundry Practices Through Oral History
• James Norman, Legitimate Embeddedness and Its Absence: Norman Normandy and the Danelaw, c. 878–1000
• Jack O’Brien, Picture Perfect: A General Overview of the Methodologies and Content within the Oneida Community’s Photographic Collection
• Jacob Shulman, Irony and Independence: Jewish Confederate Identity and Influence in the Old South

Honors Theses

• Kathleen Broeksmit, Rebuilding Agadir: Modernism, Memory, Other-Archives, and the Politics of Urban Space
• Joseph Fandrey, Archival Warfare & Reading Repression: New York State Police's Encounter with the Republic of New Afrika in the Hudson Valley
• Elizabeth Jacoby, Broadcasting Utopia: Technologies of Nation-Building in the Pahlavi Regime
• James Luce, Tocqueville and Beaumont on Race and Democracy: Rethinking the American Dilemma
• Nicholas Wassiliew, The Corrosion of Privilege: Finance, Language, and the Making of a Modern Prestige System

Interdisciplinary Studies

Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental Studies

• Shey Sanges, Toward 90% Waste Diversion: Experimental Evidence for Improving Waste Sorting Behavior at Hamilton College

Interdisciplinary Studies in Anthropology

• Nicholas Rayano, “No One Is Sitting Around Talking About It”: Socially Filtering Common Core Education Policy

Interdisciplinary Studies in Music, Hispanic Studies, and Japanese

• Norma Callejas, Representations of Latin American Diversity

Japanese

Literature

• Maggie Francis, Poetry as Subversion in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
• Tessa Hartzell, The Pleasure Experiment: Long-DIstance Paradise in the “Letter of Prester John” and Sir John Mandeville’s Book of Marvels and Travels
• Ailis Hayden, Beyond Seduction: Rape and Sexual Morality in the Novels of Laclos, Sade, and Lewis
• Jasaiya Keyes, Performing Innocence in Laclos’s Les Liaisons dangereuses and Diderot’s The Nun
• Elaina LaGiglia, Voice as a Real Object: The Embodied Archive of Caribbean Women by Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze
• Qinxian Ran, Canton and Cantonese in Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke
• Ely Silverman, What Have I Done?! I Could Do That Again: Shifting Representations and Meanings of “Post-Nut Clarity” in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
• Aubrey Wallen, Crime, Libertinage, and Class in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk

Honors Presentations

• Maggie Condon, “A Good Story”: Pushing Back on Masculinity and Isolation in Demon Copperhead
• Emma Dower, The Grammar of Damnation: Pronoun Shifts and Reflexivity in Doctor Faustus
• Morgan Hodorowski, Reading the Saint: Transvestism, Translation, and the Assertion of Hermeneutic Authority in Old English Eugenia and Euphrosyne
• Lucy Leness, “You Are Not Permitted to Look Away”: The Clinical Ethics of Seeing in John Irving’s The Cider House Rules
• Kat Showalter, Alone Together: Contradiction, Memory, and Survival in Charlotte Delbo’s Auschwitz and After

Mathematics

Capstone honors presentations

• Joshua Bucci, Modeling Microbiome Stability and Antibiotic Use
• Andrei Fridman, Closer When Farther: Rethinking Distance with p-adic Numbers
• Oscar Lledo Osborn, On the Stability of the Euler Characteristic Transform for a Perturbed Embedding
• Hughes Williams, Asymptotic Stability in Machine Learning

Music

Honors Project in Solo Performance

• Aubrey Campbell, baritone, vocal music from Mozart to Gregory Spears

Honors Thesis

• Oliver Nathanielsz, A Suggested Method and Criteria in Repertoire Selection for the Undergraduate Countertenor and vocal recital

Neuroscience

• Callie Burd, Expression of Regional Identity Markers in CA1 of the Hippocampus in Postnatal Miro1 Conditional Knockout Mice
• Caroline B. Cannata, How an Ancient Philosophy Serves Our Modern Minds: Stoicism at the Intersection of Emotion Regulation, SABS, & Heart Rate Variability
• Ellie Casalmir, The Dendritic Architecture of CA1 Pyramidal Neurons in Miro1 Conditional Knockout Mice
• Pati Cerda, Miro1 ablation causes dentate gyrus hypoplasia.
• Cedric Choi and Tori Holoubek-Sebok, A DREADDful Investigation: Refining the Chemogenetic Surgical Approach
• Anna Duarte, The Intersection Between Autism Behaviors, Environmental Factors, and MRI Brain Measures
• Amelya Greaves, Investigating Adverse Childhood Experiences, Psychopathology and Prefrontal Cortical Correlates in an Adolescent Population
• Bridget Keogh, Sydney Klepper, and Natalie Peng, The Brain's First Glance: Neural Markers of Face and Object Processing
• Caitlin Malecky and Erika Stephens, Estrogen Attenuates Enhanced Fear in Puberty-Blocked Male Rats
• Alexis Mayer, Hippocampal Area in Early Postnatal and Adult Miro1 Knockout Mice
• Cale Piedmonte-Lang, Estrogen-Mediated Sensitivity to Cocaine Does Not Occur in Puberty-Blocked Male Rats
• Julia Ramsay, Using a touchscreen operant chamber to assess associative learning in American Crows
• Maya Sammut, Effects of a Stoic Intervention on Fear of Negative Evaluation
• Samantha Schwab, Estrogen Attenuates Fatigue in Puberty-Blocked Male Rats
• Dana Schwartz, Neurodevelopment Under Stress: Linking Adverse Childhood Experiences, Orbitofrontal Cortex Volume, and ADHD in Adolescents
• Ashylia Sloane, The Way Animals Move: Temporal Perception and Stimulus Motion
• Meghan Spence, Investigating the Relationship Between 3-MPST RNA Expression Levels and MDS-UPDRS Part III Total Motor Scores in Parkinson’s Disease
• Sophia Testa, Role of Miro1 in Cajal Retzius Cell Population and Expression of Reelin in Early Postnatal Development
• Sophia Tosone and Lilly Truchon, Does Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy Heighten Cocaine Sensitivity in Puberty-Blocked Male Rats?
• Jonathan Toumit, Visualizing CGRP in methylisothiazolinone-challenged skin using immunofluorescence
• Tyrone Xue, EEG Source Localization Using a Deep-Learning Transformer Model

Philosophy

• Gabrielle Brihn, How to Be a Snob: Why Aesthetic Snobbery Isn’t (Always) A Vice
• Kate Connolly, “I listen to you, and you listen to me”: Why We Need Contentious Discourse
• Reilan Garczynski, “Poetical Scientists”: Writing Science We Want to Read
• Daniel Goldberg, Markets vs. Media: How prediction markets are informationally superior
• Nicholas Hollander, “Just Use Chat”: AI and Intellectual Autonomy in Education
• Taylor Kaufman, Platonic Ontology and the Human Role in Morality of AI
• Kristiana Klein, Justice Alternatives for Free Will Skeptics
• Sacha Law-Gisiko, The Primacy of Art in the Platonic Ascent: The Reconciliation of Art and Beauty in the Disclosure of Truth
• Amaris Martins, Training the Soul: How Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics Can Help Soldiers with Moral Blindness in the Chaos of War
• Arjun Mehra, Psychology’s Suspicious Scientific Authority
• Claire Murphy, Diagnosing Anxiety: Evaluating Mental Suffering in a Complex World
• Robert Neithart, Eat Your He(Art) Out: Food as Aesthetic & Art
• Fletcher Shaw, Alignment Without Principles: An Ethical Particularist Approach to AI Alignment
• Allison Sheehan, Disobedient Dialects: Resisting Legal and Epistemic Injustice with Forensic Linguistic Analysis
• Ashylia Sloane, Time of Death: Never? Speculations on the Nature of Death and Time
• Quintin Utterback, Identifying The Gamer’s Dilemma: The Limits of Justifying Virtual Immorality

Physics

• Sophie Berghammer, Radioactive Sources for the BL3 Neutron Lifetime Experiment
• Kyle Chessler, Tabletop Testing of Electron Spin Resonance Resonators
• Ethan Chin, A Toy Model for Neutrino Oscillations within the framework of PT Quantum Mechanics
• Eliana Gibs, Verifying 3He Detector Functionality via Neutron Spectra and Pulse Analysis
• Bakir Husremovic, Analytical Characterization of a Novel Superconducting Circuit Design
• Isa Khan, Identifying and Characterizing Transit in Unresolved Star Pair with Potentially Unexplained Intrinsic Variability
• Sam Marash, Optical Packaging of Photonic Integrated Circuits for Cryogenic Operation
• Daniel Rodriguez, On The Characterization of Near Horizon Spacetime Fluctuations
• TJ Takis, On The Thermodynamics of Schwarzschild Black Holes For Near Horizon Observers

Psychology

• Andrew Castlen, “Knowing vs Remembering:” How Judgments of Learning Interact with Induced Feelings of Stress for Neutral Stimuli
• Madeleine Cerone, Too Many Texts: How Relationships and Texting Styles Affect Our Decision to Respond
• Ashley Cheffolway, From Stoic Attitudes to Resilience: Evaluating the Impact of STAR
• Angelie Cuevas, Gender Differences in the Interpretation of Organizational Support
• Margot Delany, Spillover Effects of Helping Behavior in the Workplace
• Jessica Elie, Memory for Faces When Expressions Change
• Aaliyah Gauthney, Can Self-Compassion Reduce White People’s Defensiveness When Confronted With Their Racial Privilege?
• Chloe Knerr, The Views We Take: The Impact of Stoic Philosophy on Emotion Regulation
• Sarah Lowell, Climate Anxiety and Action Among Adolescents: The Role of Coping Strategies
• Caroline McGraw, Does Self-Compassion Mitigate Responses to Social Rejection?
• Arjun Mehra, Psilocybin Microdosing and Cognitive Training for Post-Concussion Working-Memory Recovery
• Erin Merenich, Friendship Transgressions and Conflict Resolution Strategies in Middle-Grade Children’s Literature
• Nico Moncada, The Psychophysiological Cost of Emotion Dysregulation: Sympathetic Responses to Social Stress
• Ariana Morales, Interrupting Motivated Forgetting: Can Retrieval Pathways Reduce Selective Omission in Children?
• Kara Regner, “Not My Place:” Barriers to M 4:00 ale Allyship in the Workplace
• Juliette Santos, Faces as Memory Cues: Babyfacedness and Source Monitoring Accuracy
• Esther Schriever, The Relationship Between ADHD Symptomatology and Socioemotional Well-Being In Incoming College First-Years
• Kate Scibelli, The Differential Role of Parental Vulnerable Narcissism in Child Mental Health Outcomes
• Hannah Walpole, When More Is Less: The Effect of Social Abundance on Romantic and Friendship Initiation
• Michaela Williams, Black and Female in the Workplace: The Effects of Race-Gender Stereotypes on Perceptions of Receiving Help
• Rachel Zou, Understanding the Bamboo Ceiling: How Assertiveness and Ethnic Homophily Influence Leadership Outcomes

Public Policy

Honors Theses

• Caroline Goodnow, Exploring Policy Alternatives to Address Tribal Food Insecurity in the United States
• Vincent Manni, Improving Rural STEM Education Access
• Madison Mathias, Sexual Harassment and Reporting in Corporate America
• Ian O’Reilly, Black and White and in the Red: Addressing the Decline of Local Media in the U.S.

Religious Studies

• Iman A. Rahman, The Critique of Innovation and Imitation through the Work of 13th-Century Islamic Theologian Ibn Taymiyyah

Russian Studies

• Mac Donovan, Metamodernism in Monetochka’s Political Aesthetics

Sociology

• Brianna Adrien, Between Crisis and Belonging: Racialized Emotions and Identity Formation in the Haitian-American Second Generation
• Daphne Cerrato, Examining the Use of Whitewashing in an Elite Predominantly White College
• June Cook-Selman, “Always Going to be Part of Me”: Navigating The Self After Cancer
• Luceila Dalupang, The Consent Gap: What College Students Say About Consent – And What They Actually Do
• Elaine Fraser, Stratified Smiles: Socioeconomic Status and Inequality in Dental Care Experiences
• Kate Jamilkowski, Fragmented Feeds, Fragmented Masculinity: How Social Media Shapes Boys’ Understanding of Manhood
• Tori Lieberman, “Other People Have it Worse:” How Students with Chronic Pain Negotiate Their Identity While at College
• Rylee Lyons, Resistance to Change: Depictions of Native Americans in Film Over Time
• Amaris Martins, “Special” Treatment: How Teachers, Peers, and the Broader K-12 School Environment Shape the Student Identity of Those with ADHD
• Jillian Nord, Institutional Senders, Carriers, and Recipients: A Cross-College Comparison of Organizational Identity Formation
• Leia Pinals, “I Want to Help, But…”: A Sociological Analysis of Volunteer Motivation, Process, and Outcomes at an Elite Institution
• Jun Reiss, Crossing Oceans and Identities: Migrants’ Belonging and Assimilation as Represented by Refugees from Myanmar in Utica
• Mili Reynoso, Mexican-American Parent-Child Relationships with College-Educated Children in South Texas (Rio Grande Valley)
• Mina Marjorie Yoo-Sharifi, The Role of Identity Abroad: The Experiences of American Students in South Korea

Theatre

• Izzy Haller, directing, Aegis, by Quinn Xavier Hernadez
• Jules Henderson, thesis and devising, Fourteen Women, Five Men, and Two Dogs
  Devising also by Liviya Hoskinson ’28, Roman Padera ’28, Anna Duarte ’26, Collin Morales ’27, Ben White ’26, and Cate van den Beemt ’26
• Eric Seeley, writing, directing, The Axiom of Choice
• Cate van den Beemt, directing, Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe
• William Eddie Velez, writing, directing, Bootleg Sells The Spectacular!

Women’s and Gender Studies

• Blossom Igbani, The Survival of Black Women in a Liberal Arts College
• Eliana Mannes, When We’re Green We Grow: Black Women’s Labor is Creating a Unique American Cuisine and Reparative World Building

World Politics

Honors Theses

• Arielle Sher, Beyond the Ground: A Comparative Assessment of Theories of Military Effectiveness in Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
• Sarah Walcott, Uneven Urbanization: A Comparative Analysis of Informal Settlements in Peru and Colombia