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.
2020
Wnt Signaling is Dispensable to Formation of the First Tooth in D. Rerio, Zachary C. LeBlanc
Investigating the Effect of Side Chains with Hydrogen Bonding Capabilities on Peptoid Catalysts for Enantioselective Trifluoromethylation of 4-Chlorobenzaldehyde, Rebecca Londoner
Performing Sor Juana: Reimagining a Mexican Literary Figure in the 21st Century, Uriel López-Serrano
Los trucos debajo de la mesa: Juegos y simulacros en la cultura y literatura argentina, Eliana Miller
Tapping at the Windows: A Collection, Samuel Milligan
Examination of tooth-specific cis-regulation of the dlx2b gene during zebrafish development, Yujin Moon
Phenylisocyanide Ligand Synthesis and Coordination to a Cobalt Catalyst for Dimerization of Linear Alpha Olefins, Julia Hazlitt Morris
Mechanisms underlying variable responses to the neuropeptide C-type allatostatin (AST-C) across isoforms and among individuals in the American lobster, Homarus americanus, Audrey J. Muscato
“The Spirit of Turbulence”: East Indian Political Imaginaries in Early 20th Century British Guiana, Faria A. Nasruddin
Differential modulation of the Homarus americanus cardiac neuromuscular system across cell types and among neuropeptide isoforms, Emily R. Oleisky
Metabolic Inhibitors Induce Species-Specific Defects in Bacterial Glycosylation, Ilana R. Olin
Egg Size, Breeding Phenology, and Parental Investment in Leach’s Storm Petrels, James L. O'Shea
Ideal Point Models with Social Interactions Applied to Spheres of Legislation, Luca Ostertag-Hill
Directed interactions during episodic memory, Rhianna J. Patel
Sex Sells: The Iconography of Sex Work in Contemporary Art Since 1973, Mackenzie Philbrick
Using metabolic oligosaccharide engineering to induce immune-mediated cell killing of bacterial pathogens, Brendan H. Pulsifer
The Future Regained: Toward a Modernist Ethics of Time, Jack Rodgers
Food Comes First: Growing Up at my Family’s Table, Eleanor Sapat
Characterization of negative phonotactic behavior in the adult cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus, Julianne Scholes
Répresentations de la banlieue dans le cinéma français contemporain, Yaw Owusu Sekyere
The Impact of Armed Conflict on Maternal Health in Colombia, Madeleine Squibb
Chambers of Reflection: Rousseau, Tocqueville, and Self-Government in the Digital Age, John Sweeney
“Bosques Si, Tala No”: The Uprising of Cherán K’eri, Ray Tarango
It's All Under Control: Essays, Jack Tarlton
“How the World Could Be in Spite of the Way That It Is”: Broadway as a Reflection of Contemporary American Sociopolitical Life, Isabel Thomas
Metabolic inhibitors reshape Helicobacter pylori glycosylation, Owen Templeton Tuck
Investigating the Role of Heterochromatin Protein 1 (HP1) in the Formation of Chromosome Compartments, Diego Andres Villamarin
Differential gene expression during compensatory plasticity in the prothoracic ganglion of the cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus, Felicia F. Wang
Duty and Distinction: Scientists as Intellectuals in Modern China, Helen Wang
Hermeneutic Encounters: Hans-Georg Gadamer in North America, 1968-1986, Ian Ward
Responses of central pattern generators in the American lobster STNS to multiple members of a novel neuropeptide family, Benjamin Harley Wong
Bubbles & Bought-Ins: Reevaluating Price Movements in the Art Market, Silas Wuerth
Isolation of Cell Adhesion Mutations in Arabidopsis thaliana, Frances DeCamp Hobart Zorensky
2019
Cell Adhesion in Arabidopsis thaliana, Natasha Ann Belsky
Effects of octopamine and tyramine on the cardiac system of the lobster, Homarus americanus, Casey Breslow
An alternative almost sure construction of Gaussian stochastic processes in the L2([0,1]) space, Kevin Chen
GEM-PSO: Particle Swarm Optimization Guided by Enhanced Memory, Kevin Fakai Chen
Midterm Decline in Comparative Perspective, Duncan Gans
"This is N.Y.C. Not Little Rock": The Battle to Integrate New York City's Public Schools, Anne Fraser Gregory
Shaping Canons and Building Legacies: Collectors and the History of African American Art, Kinaya Hassane
Something’s Gotta Give: Guns, Youth, and Social Change in Denver, Colorado, Carlos Manuel Holguin
Leadership from Within: Founders, advocates, and organizational networks operating in Maine's immigrant community, Samuel Robert Kenney
The Politics of Land Rights in the Transition to Democratic South Africa: The Rise and Fall of the Constitutional Property Clause, Anna Louisa Roosevelt Lennon
Teaching Computers to Teach Themselves: Synthesizing Training Data based on Human-Perceived Elements, James Little
"We are your wives, sisters, daughters, mothers and friends:" United States' Women's Stories from the Public to the Archive, Sadie LoGerfo-Olsen
Ecotourism Reconsidered: Chinese and Western Participation in the Thai Elephant Industry, Miao (Jasmine) Long
Tension production and sarcomere length in lobster (Homarus americanus) cardiac muscles: the mechanisms underlying mechanical anisotropy, Matthew Maguire
Superhero Ecologies: An Environmental Reading of Contemporary Superhero Cinema, Andrew McGowan
Investigating the Effects of Student Debt on Career Outcomes: An Empirical Approach, Gideon Moore
Salud Callejera: Mobilizing Cuidado at the Margins of Neoliberalism; Reimagining Care for People Experiencing Homelessness in Buenos Aires, Brandon Morande
Active and Passive Spatial Learning and Memory in Human Navigation, Caroline Rice
Beyond Urban Bias: Peasant Movements and the State in Africa, Connor Rockett
Personally Relevant Indoor Nature Imagery’s Impact on Students’ Well-Being, Connection to Nature, and Eco-Conscious Behaviors, Sarena Sabine
“I’m Going to Help You Become a Better You”: Teacher-Student Dynamics in Special Education, Sophie Sadovnikoff
The Sacralization of Absolute Power: God's Power and Women's Subordination in the Southern Baptist Convention, Sydney Smith
Context-specific effects of vasotocin on social approach in the male common goldfish, Carassius auratus, Katharine Torrey
"I Deny Your Authority to Try My Conscience:" Conscription and Conscientious Objectors In Britain During the Great War, Albert William Wetter
2018
Young Authoritarians? Trends and Individual Differences in Preschoolers' Perceptions of Adult Authority, Ava Alexander
Real-Time Object Recognition using a Multi-Framed Temporal Approach, Corinne Alini
Urban Modernity and Turbulent Water: Toward a Transnational History of Expansion in Northern Japan, 1866-1882, Ethan Barkalow
The Epistemology of Observation: Performance, Power, and The Regulation of Female Sexuality in The Duchess of Malfi and The Changeling, Sarah Claudia Bonanno
Using atmospheric O2 and CO2 measurements to determine the stoichiometry of photosynthesis and respiration in a temperate forest, Margaret Marie Conley
Exploring Random Walks on Graphs for Protein Function Prediction, Angela M. Dahl
Non-Naturalism and Naturalism in Mathematics, Morality, and Epistemology, Nicholas DiStefano
Gendered Subjectivity in Refugee Resettlement Processes: From Somalia to Lewiston, ME, Elena Gleed
Visions of Unity, Memories of Violence: American Civil Religion and the Japanese American Incarceration, Brigitte Helene McFarland
Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't: A Logical Analysis of Moral Dilemmas, Samuel Monkman
Women’s Bodies Between Market and State: Lineages of the Transnational Indian Surrogacy Industry, Shea Cristina Necheles
An Output Sensitive Algorithm for Computing Viewsheds and Total Viewsheds on 2D Terrains, Andrew P. Prescott
Disease on the Half-Shell: Prevalence and impact of the protistan pathogen MSX on oyster population health throughout the Gulf of Maine, Madeline Schuldt
Characterization of expression of Sema1a variants in high-plasticity areas of the Gryllus bimaculatus nervous system, Sara Spicer
Plutonic lithics record dynamics in the magmatic system beneath the Akaroa Volcanic Complex, New Zealand, Elizabeth Teeter
Que vivan los estudiantes: Cycles of Contention and the Chilean Student Movement (1906-present), Jonah Watt
Seize the Memes: Community, Personal Expression, and Everyday Feminist Politics Through Instagram Memes, Tessa Westfall
"What's it like to be a lesbian with a cane?": A Story and Study of Queer and Disabled Identities, M.M. Daisy Wislar
2017
Identification of Mutations in WAK Locus in Arabidopsis thaliana, Arman Ashrafi
Hybridization dynamics of a newly discovered parrotfish swarm in the Tropical Eastern Pacific, Robert Barron
Poverty Ends with a 12 Year Old Girl: Empowerment and the Contradictions of International Development, Meghan Elizabeth Bellerose
The Best and the Brightest?: Race, Class, and Merit in America's Elite Colleges, Walter Chacon
Some like it cold: the relationship between thermal tolerance and mitochondrial genotype in an invasive population of the European green crab, Carcinus maenas, Aidan Fisher Coyle
An Investigation of Genetics-Based Machine Learning as Applied to Global Crop Yields, William Gantt
Modeling Strategic Behavior in the U.S. Senate Using Ideal Points with Social Interactions, Tucker Gordon
This is What You Want: Stories, Savannah Blake Horton
The Message, Medium and Messenger: A Study of Political Persuasion Through a Case Study of Planned Parenthood, Jodi Leah Kraushar
Examining the role of GRP and LIK1 in Wall Associated Kinase (WAK) perception of pectin in the plant cell wall, Jack Ryan Mitchell
White Southerners Respond to Brown v. Board of Education: Why Crisis Erupted When Little Rock, Arkansas, Desegregated Central High School, Abby Elizabeth Motycka
Africa and the International Criminal Court: Behind the Backlash and Toward Future Solutions, Marisa O'Toole
DS-PSO: Particle Swarm Optimization with Dynamic and Static Topologies, Dominick Sanchez
Demography of a Collapsing Aerial Insectivore Population, Liam Taylor
"Cooperate with Others for Common Ends?": Students as Gatekeepers of Culture and Tradition on College Campuses, Pamela Zabala
2016
Modeling and Testing Consumer Engagement in the U.S. Organic Food Market, John L. Anderson