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.
2021
ALGOrhythms: Leveraging Markov Chain-Based Generation of Functional Harmonies with User-Defined Musical Corpus as a Compositional Tool, Coleman Brockmeier
Seasons Without Borders: the Ali Smith Quartet, Claire M. Burns
Stuck in Limbo: Temporary Protected Status, Climate Migrants and the Expanding Definition of Refugees in the United States, Noelia Calcaño
The Mérida Initiative and the Violence of Transnational Criminal Organizations in Mexico, Brianna Madison Canning
Testing conservation of an mRNA transport pathway in yeast, Kyu Young "Kevin" Chi
Daily, seasonal, and yearly timescales of seawater carbonate chemistry variability in Harpswell Sound and the Gulf of Maine, Eugen Florin Cotei
The United States’ and United Kingdom’s Responses to 2016 Russian Election Interference: Through the Lens of Bureaucratic Politics, Katherine Davidson
Metabolic glycan inhibitors interfere with glycoprotein biosynthesis in the human pathogen Ralstonia pickettii, Melissa G. Demczak
Dual Isotope Model Insights on the Nitrogen Cycling Network of Coastal Sediments, Zoë Alexandra Dietrich
Possessing Her: Embodying Identity in Exorcism Cinema, Alicia Echavarria
Semaphorin-Induced Plasticity in the Nervous System of the Cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus, Alicia G. Edwards
Making Human Beings and Citizens: The Educational Philosophies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft, Mollie Claire Eisner
Natural variation in chromatin conformation among populations of Drosophila melanogaster, Utku Ferah
They Used to Be Castles, Lily Anna Fullam
Plant-mediated interactions within the milkweed insect community, Katie J. Galletta
Reactions Responsible for Aging in Wood-Based Pyrolysis Oil: Synthesis and Characterization of a Coniferyl Alcohol Dimer, Alejandro Garcia
Radiation-induced changes in gene expression in Sciara coprophila, Kodie R. Garza
Alexander the Great and the Rise of Christianity, Stephen M. Girard
A Practical Study in Conducting Renaissance and Contemporary Choral Music During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Emily M. Ha
From “a Journey for Peace” to the “Butchers of Beijing”: How Presidents have Used Rhetoric about China to Win the Two-Level Game, Juliet Halvorson-Taylor
Aortic pressure and heart rate in the lobster Homarus americanus are modulated by mechanical feedback and neuropeptides, Grace Marie Hambelton
Cascades and Overexposure in Networks, Kim Hancock
Counter-Futurisms: Collaborative Survival and Communal Healing in a Climate-Changed World, Lianna Harrington
High Resolution Molecular Analysis of the Hedgehog Pathway in Tooth Development, Claire Christine Havig
The Role of the Golgi ELMO Proteins in Cell Adhesion in Arabidopsis thaliana, Wesley James Hudson
A Bayesian hierarchical mixture model with continuous-time Markov chains to capture bumblebee foraging behavior, Max Thrush Hukill
Determining the sites at which neuromodulators exert peripheral effects in the cardiac neuromuscular system of the American Lobster, Homarus americanus, Audrey Elizabeth Jordan
A Foray into the Camp: Human and Ecological Liberation in Contemporary Queer Conversion Therapy Literature, Mitchel Jurasek
The Congressional Database: Designing a Web Application Using an HCI Approach, Liam R. Juskevice
Silent Nation: a memoir of sorts, Mishal Kazmi
Skin Deep: Analyzing Black Representation in the Teaching of Visual Arts, Destiny Arianna Kearney
Modulation of ionic currents by nitric oxide negative feedback in the lobster cardiac ganglion, Emily Renee King
Functionality of Candida albicans She3 in the mRNA transport of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Sheikh Omar Kunjo
Indigenous Rights in International Law: A Focus on Extraction in the Arctic, Aine Healey Lawlor
Noninvasive Memory Modulation Via Targeted Theta TACS Entrainment of the Frontoparietal Network, Brandon S. Lee
Site, Power, and Experience: Three Contemporary Installation Works on Global Mobility, Xiyin Sabrina Lin
“Unstuck in Time and Space”: Time Travels in Teen Cinema, Hallowell Lyne
Motives Underlying China’s Foreign Aid Allocation, Cecilia Markmann
Music and Autism: Cross-Disciplinary Dialogues, Daniel Rohan Mayer
Promises Unfulfilled: Integration and Segregation in Metropolitan Philadelphia Public Schools, 1954-2009, Nina Nayiri McKay
Cultivating Community: Coastal Collaborations for Equitable Climate Survival and Adaptation in Rockland, Maine, Lily Andra McVetty
Education Amid Stabilization: The Varied Effects of Military Intervention on Public Schooling in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, Arjun S. Mehta
Assessing parameters influencing interhomolog proximity of paired homologous chromosomes in Drosophila, Molly Margaret Moore
Identification and characterization of genes involved in Helicobacter pylori lipopolysaccharide and glycoprotein biosynthesis, Andrew James Mulholland
Errandsphere, Aida Muratoglu
Campaigning for the Court: The Effect of Presidential Campaign Rhetoric on the Supreme Court, Mackey O'Keefe
Applying IsoTaG to understand Helicobacter pylori’s glycoprotein biosynthesis, Chiamaka Doris Okoye
Critical Phenomena in the Gravitational Collapse of Electromagnetic Dipole and Quadrupole Waves, Maria F. Perez Mendoza
Body of Work: Physicality and the Electric Guitar, Samantha Pollack
Chromatin-conformation differences in natural populations of D. melanogaster, Nicholas J. Purchase
Down in arms: Marine climate stress inhibits growth and calcification of regenerating Asterias forbesi (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) arms, Hannah L. Randazzo
Assessing the Accuracy of Quantum Monte Carlo Pseudopotentials for CO2 Capture in Metal Organic Frameworks, Chloe Renfro
Accretion onto endoparasitic black holes at the center of neutron stars, Chloe B. Richards
Characterization of Yellow Family Proteins in Gryllus bimaculatus, Alexandra W. Rubenstein
Who Will Bear the Burden of Increased Coastal Flooding as Sea Level Rises in San Mateo County, California? An Analysis of the Factors Contributing to Community Vulnerability, Belinda C. Saint Louis
From Bleeding to Breathing: Embodying Violence and Healing in the Performances of Ana Mendieta, Regina José Galindo and Ruby Rumié, Norell Sherman
Economic Costs of Elevated Public Debt Levels During Banking-Crisis Recessions, Gavin T. Shilling
A Moderated-Mediation Model of Emerging Adult and Parent Religiosity, Externalizing Behavior, and Parenting Style, Benjamin M. Simonds
The Photocatalytic Degradation of Ibuprofen and Atenolol Using Bismuth Oxychloride and Titanium Dioxide, Kamyron Anthony Speller
Modeling Coupled Disease-Behavior Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Using Influence Networks, Juliana C. Taube
When is Change Possible? Presidential Power as Shaped by Political Context, Constitutional Tools, and Legislative Skills, Ryan Telingator
Investigating the role of eyes absent in photoreceptor axon targeting in Drosophila melanogaster, Bethany J. Thach
Brutal Encounters: Primitivity, Politics, and the Postmodern Revolution, Archer Thomas
All That Influences the Condition of Women: The Moral Foundations of Female Education in Tocqueville and Rousseau, Nicole Danielle Tjin A Djie
Solvent Effect on Excited State Proton Transfer Mechanism of 8-Amino-2-Naphthol, Gabrielle Vandendries
Mutual benefits of inducible defenses to crab predators in the blue mussel Mytilus edulis in a multi-predator environment, Sophia Walton
On the Dirichlet L-functions and the L-functions of Cusp Forms, Nawapan Wattanawanichkul
Conifer forest photosynthetic seasonality: exploring the effect of winter severity and the efficacy of different remote sensing methodologies, Anneka Florence Williams
Photochemistry of Cyano-Substituted 8-Amino-2-Naphthol, Jialin Xie
A Comparative Study of Equilibria Computation in Graphical Polymatrix Games, Yuto Yagi
Cosmological gravitational waves: Refining a general rule of thumb for reheating, David Zhou
2020
Adapting Greek Heroines: Penelope and Medea, Ishani Agarwal
Interaction of stretch feedback and beat regularity in response to AMGSEFLamide in the heart of Homarus americanus, William Allen
Long Day with The Office: An Analysis of College Student Demand for Streaming Video on Netflix, Summers Askew
Living Upstream: Kennebec River Influence on Nutrient Regimes and Phytoplankton Communities in Harpswell Sound, Siena Brook Ballance
Protein Transition: Alternative Proteins and Policy Pathways to a More Sustainable Diet in the United States, Anna Barnes
Perdido en la transculturación: Compromisos de identidad en la América Latina judía, Jacob Bernard Baskes
Spatially variable syn- and post-orogenic exhumation of the Appalachian Mountains from apatite and zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology, Luke Coughtry Basler
The Role of the Nitric Oxide Negative Feedback Loop in the Stability of the Lobster Cardiac Ganglion Homarus americanus, Marie Marjorie Bergsund
Strange Progress: Politics of Sexual Violence in Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings from 1991 to 2018, Rebecca Berman
The impact of temperature on the sea star oscillatory gait, Emma Victoria Bertke
Advanced Mammals, Emma Bezilla
Nonprophets: a novel, Nathan Osiason Blum
Human Today, Posthuman Tomorrow in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy, Benjamin Bousquet
That’s DOPE: the delayed-onset, prolonged excitation response of a primary auditory interneuron in Gryllus bimaculatus, Samuel G. Brill-Weil
The role of behavioral diversity in determining the extent to which the cardiac ganglion is modulated in three species of crab, Grace Bukowski-Thall
Characterization of O-Linked Glycosylated Neuropeptides in the American Lobster (Homarus americanus): The Use of Peptide Labeling Following Beta Elimination, Edward Myron Bull
Tradition et Nouveauté: Une étude du baccalauréat et de la réforme Blanquer, Fiona Carey
Rehab, Restitution, or Reform? Drug Policy, Race, and Swing Voters in Ohio Politics, 1983-2015, Grace Louise Cawdrey
Survival Strategies: Historic Preservation, Jewish Community, and the German Democratic Republic, Emily Ann Cohen
Characterization of an Arabidopsis thaliana Adhesion Mutant, Jacob Dexter-Meldrum