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
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
Regulation of eyes absent gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster by Polycomb Group Response Elements, Boris S. Dimitrov
Accounting for Gender Differences in Cultural Industries: Evidence from Film and the Fine Arts, Madeleine Rose Dupré
“One of Folly’s Failures”: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and the Decline of the Thirteenth Amendment, Grace Ann Fenwick
Reading & Teaching Chaucer: the "Good Wif"?, Sophie Friedman
Torture under the Regime of Bashar al-Assad: Two Decades of Failed Human Rights Campaigns and Foreign Interference in Syria, Olivia Giles
An Ode to the Birth Justice Movement Birthing, Battling, Being: Black, Eskedar Girmash
Systemic Risk in the Airline Industry: Investigating the Effects of Network Interconnectedness on MES, Angela Goldshteyn
Calculating the Local Biotic Exchange Ratio of O2 and CO2 at Harvard Forest: Using Flux Measurements to Improve Past Estimates, Diana Katalina Grandas
Analysis of adhesion mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana, Bridgid Elizabeth Greed
The Colombo-Venezuelan Border Through the Lens of the Colombian Press, Diego Rafael Grossmann
N,N’-Dimethyimidazolium-2-Carboxylate as a Ligand Precursor for the Accession of a Constrained Olefin Dimerization Catalyst, Michael Harris
Classifying Flow-kick Equilibria: Reactivity and Transient Behavior in the Variational Equation, Alanna Haslam
Word Embedding Driven Concept Detection in Philosophical Corpora, Dylan Hayton-Ruffner
Alongside Despair: Signs of Life on the River des Peres, Marina Henke
Traders and Troublemakers: Sovereignty in Southern Morocco at the End of the 19th Century, Joseph Campbell Hilleary
Virtual Reality Accessibility with Predictive Trails, Dani Paul Hove
Digital Authoritarianism in China and Russia: A Comparative Study, Laura H.C. Howells
“I felt so untrustworthy of my ability to get pregnant”: Women’s Embodied Uncertainties and Decisions to Become Pregnant, Theodora K. Hurley
An Analysis of Hezbollah’s Media Platforms, Focusing on Themes, Narratives and Strategy, Nichole Irving
Governing the Internet: The Extraterritorial Effects of the General Data Protection Regulation, Sasa Jovanovic
The Soviet and American Wars in Afghanistan: Applying Clausewitzian Concepts to Modern Military Failure, Artur Kalandarov
The role of behavioral diversity in determining the extent to which central pattern generators are modulated, Jacob Salman Kazmi
A Men’s College with Women: Masculinity, Sexist Laughter, and Stories of Solidarity during Bowdoin College’s Transition to Coeducation, 1969-1975, Emma D. Kellogg
Mémoire et souvenir dans l'imaginaire antillais - Maryse Condé et Fabienne Kanor: Identité et existence noire aux Antilles et en France, Elijah B. Koblan-Huberson
Narrative, Identity, and Holocaust Memorialization in the United States, Alexander Noah Kogan
Investigating enhancer regulation through chromatin conformation in Drosophila, Hannah D. Konkel
Non-genomic effects of steroids on teleost fish olfaction: behavioral and anatomical approaches, Leah B. Kratochvil
Enemy Combatants and Unitary Executives: Presidential Power in Theory and Practice During the War on Terror, Rohini Kurup
Democracy Promotion in U.S. Counterinsurgency: Tracing Post-War Security Sector Reconstruction in El Salvador and Iraq, Emma Redington Lawry