The honors project offers seniors the opportunity to engage in original scholarship under the supervision of a faculty member in their major department or program and results in a written thesis and/or oral defense, artistic performance or showing, depending on the student’s field of study.
The catalog record for each honors thesis can be seen here. Print versions of honors projects created between 1924 and 2019 are available in the Bowdoin College Library’s Department of Special Collections & Archives.
2023
On L-functions and the 1-Level Density, Arav Agarwal
From Shadow to Spotlight: Minoritarian Characters, Representative Failures, and High School Powerarchy in Teen Television, Paloma Ada Aguirre
Agent-Based Modeling of Asset Markets: A Study of Risks, Preferences, and Shocks, Evan Albers
A Problem Best Put Off Until Tomorrow, Evan Albers
Characterization of Spaetzle-Toll Ligand-Receptor Pairs in Gryllus bimaculatus, Tabarak Al Musawi
The influence of Toll 7 on the neuroplasticity of auditory neurons in the Mediterranean field cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus), Brooke Asherman
Investigating the Role of Helicobacter pylori Glycan Biosynthesis in Modulating Host Immune Cell Recognition, Katharine Barrett
Power Play: The President's Role in Shaping Renewable Energy Regulation and Policy, Luke Bartol
Art of the Profile: Profile Journalism in Theory and Practice, Halina E. Bennet
Infant and Maternal Health Outcomes Following Improved Substance Use Disorder Treatment for Pregnant Women, Emma A. Bomfim
Guarding Whiteness: Disability, Eugenics, and Rhetorical Agency in Southern Renaissance Fiction, Philip Carl Bonanno
Ultrasonic vocalization playback as an affective assay at both neural and behavioral levels: Implications for understanding adversity-induced emotional dysfunction, Sydney M. Bonauto
Phenotypic divergence between sites in photosynthetic thermal response despite low genetic differentiation in Gulf of Maine Ascophyllum nodosum, Olivia Bronzo-Munich
Onkel Toms Hütte: Translation, Intervention, and Nation, Sofie Brown
Developing methods of transient absorption spectroscopy for the study of triplet state photoacids, Jack R. Callahan
How do long-term above-ground biomass dynamics vary between different forest stand types at Harvard Forest?, Maya Y. Chandar-Kouba
"What's Outside the Window?": Evil, Literature, and Detection in Roberto Bolaño's Fiction, Andrew YH Chang
Religious Negotiation and Identity Formation: Reading Material Religion in Oaxaca’s “Guelaguetza Oficial”, Rene Sebastian Cisneros
Modeling Oyster Growth Dynamics in FLUPSY Systems to Develop a Decision Support Tool for Seed Management, Gretchen Clauss
Timing the Paleozoic Oxygenation of the Deep Ocean Using Thallium Isotopes, Jean Nikolas R. Clemente
An Alternative Perspective on Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs): Underpricing in the “No Target" Phase, Anna G. Constantine
The Roles of Personality, Internalized Stigma, and Shame Proneness as Barriers to Mental Health Treatment, Grace Cross
This Is All for You: Stories, Catherine Crouch
Searle’s Mind: Brains, Subjects, and Systems, Saul Cuevas-Landeros
Do Voters Reward Incumbents for Service Provision? Electoral Accountability in South African Elections, Rory Mayne Devlin
Characterization of Bacterial Glycosylation Pathways with Fluorescent Monosaccharide Probes, Lucas John DiCerbo
"Know-Nothingism, Abolitionism, and Fanaticism:" An Analysis of the Collapse of the Second Party System in Maine, Justis Dixon
Student Activism and Malaysian Politics, 1955-74: Revising the History of the Malay Language Society (PBMUM), Song Eraou
The Photocatalytic Degradation of 17α-ethynylestradiol (EE2) and Related Estrogens, Kevin Jairre Fleshman
Structural and methodological factors influencing the sorption of alkylpyridiniums to aluminosilicates, Seamus Frey
Rhythmic behaviors: Understanding neuromodulation at the neuromuscular level, Kenneth Garcia
Functional redundancy of a non-native foundation species (eelgrass, Zostera japonica) across intertidal stress gradients, S. Maria Garcia
Dispersive Shock Waves in Granular Chains, Ari Geisler
#IVFgotyou: Instagram IVF Influencers as Social (Media) Support Systems, Susu Gharib
Songs for Birds: An Exploration of Climate Change and the Changing Soundscape, Logan Paige Gillis
Invisible Ailments: A Collection, Jane L. Godiner
Working Hands and Shifting Identities among Lobstermen in the Gulf of Maine’s Waterscape, Meghan Gonzalez
Surface Soil Stocks: Peat Development and Soil Carbon Storage on South Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, Ana Gunther
Live imaging of somatic homolog pairing in Drosophila supports a button-based mechanism for pairing facilitated by the genetic insulator gypsy, Holden D. Hadfield
The Evangelical Ethic and the Spirit of Conspiracy, Jackson David Lakowsky Hansen
Determining the influence of proximal Zeste binding sites and promoters on rates of transvection, Molly Henderson
Identifying crustacean neuropeptides and precursor-related peptides by LC/MS: An investigation of strategies for extraction and orthogonal separations, Emily Grace Herndon
Modeling UV Light Through N95 Filters, Lorenzo Hess
Surfing the Kali Yuga: Tracking the Alt-Right on Twitter, Jaida Hodge-Adams
Effects of Origin Environment and Temperature Acclimation on the Temperate Coral Astrangia poculata, Deva K. Holliman
The Shah Bano Case: An English-Language Democratic Practice in Post-Colonial India, Hafsa Hossain
An Exploration of the Room Temperature Growth and Tuning of Cobalt Hydroxide Carbonate Morphologies and Assemblies, Zubin Jay Kenkare
Una Comprensione Computazionale della Psiche Emotiva e Ordine nelle Ballate del Decameron: Stilometria e Elaborazione del Linguaggio Naturale, Nothando Khumalo
Service Beyond Bars: How Correctional Chaplains Mediate the Movement of Religion in Prisons and Jails, Lia F. Kornmehl
Liberty and Its Legacy An Analysis of Freedom and Liberty in American Political Rhetoric, Ryan S. Kovarovics
Properties of Slicing Conditions for Charged Black Holes, Sean E. Li
Mathematically Modeling a Nonlinear, Passive Acoustic Filter, Bjorn Ludwig
Characterizing the Roles of Toll7 in the Gryllus Bimaculatus Peripheral Nervous System Development, Rowland Luo
Pragmatics and Accessibility in Referential Communication, Thomas Mazzuchi
Phenylisonitrile Ligand Synthesis and Coordination to Cobalt to Form a Catalyst for the Selective Dimerization of Linear Alpha Olefins, Colleen Hughes McAloon
Design, Fabrication, and Evaluation of Surface Acoustic Wave Resonators on ST-X Quartz, Angela McKenzie
Sorption of Cationic Heterocyclic Amines to Soils: Effects of Charge Delocalization and other Factors, Mariah McKenzie
Bodies, Memories, Ghosts, and Objects or Telling a Memory, Natsumi Lynne Meyer
Characterization of Retinoic Acid Signaling During Tooth Morphogenesis and Evolution in Danio rerio, Lyn Stephanie Miranda Portillo
Examining the Predictive Value of Anxiety, Depression, and Suicidal Ideation Screening in Determining Psychosis Risk, Tara M. D. Mullen
Vienna Secession, Bobby Murray
Host and symbiont-specific patterns of gene expression in response to cold stress in the temperate coral Astrangia poculata, Kellie Navarro
Photoacidic properties of 8-amino-2-naphthol in imidazolium salts, Rachel E. Nealon
Electrical Transport Properties of Graphene, Nhi Nguyen
An Analysis of Tidal Mixing Front Dynamics and Frontal Biophysical Interaction in the Harpswell Sound Shelf Sea, Lemona Yingzhuo Niu
Exploring sex-specific and developmental outcomes of early life adversity on DNA methylation in parvalbumin-containing interneurons, Emma Straw Noel
"I Remember!": Irish Postcolonial Memory in the Early Short Stories of Seán O'Faoláin, Rebecca Norden-Bright
Diatom blooms in Harpswell Sound: seasonality, succession, and origin, Charlie Francis O'Brien
Ethnicity and Territory: Cultural and Political Autonomy for African Descended Colombians through Law 70, Ayana Opong-Nyantekyi
An unbiased glimpse into the sex-specific effects of ketamine treatment on rats who have experienced early life adversity., Lucia Marie O'Sullivan
The Crossroads We Make: Intergenerational Trauma and Reparative Reading in Recent Asian American Memoirs (2018-2022), Josh-Pablo Manish Patel
The effect of early life adversity on basolateral amygdala projections to the prefrontal cortex in male and female rats during development, Khushali N. Patel
Freezing temperatures drive functional trait clustering more than habitat structure in eelgrass communities in the Gulf of Maine, Bridget Marjorie Patterson
Peripheral modulation of cardiac contractions in the American lobster, Homarus americanus, by the peptide myosuppressin is mediated by effects on the cardiac muscle itself, Isabel Stella Petropoulos
Thioglycosides modulate bacterial glycosylation, Isabella de la Luz Quintana
Neptune City, Lily Randall
Neurophysiological Effects of Temperature on the Mammalian Spinal Central Pattern Generator (CPG) Network for Locomotion, Eliza M. Rhee
Love is Real & I Just Had Some for Dessert: Legacies of Communal Care & Compassion in Asian Diasporic Women's Food Writing, Miki Rierson
The impact of plastic contaminants and neuroprotectants on spinal neural circuits controlling vertebrate locomotion, Violet Louise Rizzieri
Synthesis and Metalation of a Bifunctional Ligand for Hydrogen Activation, Eliana Roberts
Growing Pains: Toward a Coalition-Based Theory of State Land Use Policy, Patrick Rochford
Development of a Schiff base Synthetic Platform for 8-phenyliminonaphthol Photoacids, Ibrahim G. Saleh
Regresando a Casa, Edwin Sánchez Huizar
Playing the Fool: Analyzing the Phenomena of Iurodstvo In Contemporary Russian Cinema and Civil Society., Colby Silva Santana
Written in the Body: Embodiments of Gender, Asexuality, Queerness, and Disability, Corey Schmolka
The Impact of Toll 6-1 Function on the Maintenance and Plasticity of the Gryllus bimaculatus Auditory System, Jada Scotland
The role of modulation on the pyloric neurons and the neuromuscular junction in a pattern generator-effector system, Jackie Seddon
From Homer to the Roman Empire: The Reception of Music in Antiquity, Augustine Segger
The modulation of calcium-activated potassium channels for the stabilization of mammalian spinal locomotor activity, Hattie Sargent Slayton
A multifaceted analysis of Semaphorin-induced neuroplasticity in the nervous system of Gryllus bimaculatus, Ean Lev Small
A Quadtree-Based, Multi-Resolution Algorithm for Computing Viewsheds on Grid Terrains, Lily Caroline Smith
Is Faith the Ultimate Divider?: The Intersections Between Religion and Political Behavior in the United States, Ryan Supple
Investigating the effects of a glutamine-rich protein on the localization of a mutant RNA-binding protein and stress response in Candida albicans, Christoph Anders Tatgenhorst
Sociocultural Orientations and Mental Illness Stigma: A Novel Mediational Model, Karis Treadwell