2019 Senior Thesis Topics

Africana Studies

• Sacharja Cunningham, Speaking Homes into Existence: Spoken Word Poetry as a Weapon by and for Black, Poor, Gay Men
• Pascal Dafinis, The Building of Community: The Case of Camden, New Jersey 1950s-1970s
• Mariani German, Black Hairstyles and Discrimination
• Jana Prudhomme, Social Matters: A Study of College Adjustment for Students of Color at Hamilton College
• Adrian Summers, Ritual Modality in African Drama
• Anaidys Uribe, Café con Leche: The Systematic Erasure of Blackness Within the Dominican National Identity

Anthropology

• Vicky Anibarro, Conceptualizing Internationality: Imagined Futures and Collegiate Spaces
• Micah Balogh, Developing Youth: Attitudes of Youth on Ohio’s Made Spaces
• Mia Caterisano, Becoming a Doctor: An Examination of the Medical Recertification Process for International Medical Graduates
• Sindy Chen, Sexual Fantasy or Resisting Patriarchy?: Four Chinese Fujoshis at a Liberal Arts College
• Maura Colley, The Construction of a City: Policy Professionals in Affordable Housing in Syracuse
• Shaina Coronel, A Call for Action: Understanding the Impact of Gentrification on Bushwick
• Marie Fouche, Fool Thyself: Analyzing Hamilton Living and Hamilton Branding
• Morgan Foster, Sustainable Food Cultures at Hamilton College
• Makayla Franks, Plural Identities: Marked Community Formations at Hamilton College
• Jane Haffer, Personal Branding in a Business School
• Joy Krasner, Co-creating and Interrogating the Patriarchy
• Reed Johnson, The Political Implications of Contemporary Foraging in the United States

Art

Class of 2019 Senior Art Thesis website

• Alex Akiwumi, Alex Black, Haley Burroughs, Jaleel Davis, Lia Defranco, Olivia Fuller, Julia Gorlovetskaya, Juan C. Hernandez, Jr., Max Hernandez-Zapata, Anika Huq, Lindsay Jadow, KC Keppler, Will von Weise, and Andrew Watson

Art History

• Alex Akiwumi, The Clandestine Photographer: An Exploration of the Surveillance Photographer’s Subject and Space
• Annie Canning, Paula Modersohn-Becker: Identity, Femaleness, and the Life Cycle
• Louis Dzialo, Comparing the Series Paintings of George Bellows
• Olivia Fuller, Manifestations of the Self: Design for a Virtual Exhibition
• Anne Homan, Selling the Void: The Commodification of Conceptual Art, from Yves Klein to Xu Zhen
• Hannah Honan, Black Abstractionists during the Civil Rights Era: An Exploration of Norman Lewis, Alma Thomas, Sam Gilliam, and Al Loving
• Yuchen (Tracy) Jiao, Regulation & Censorship in the 12^th Shanghai Biennale
• Claire Kitz, Keeping up Appearances: Fresco, Architecture, and Ovidian Poetry in the Agostino Chigi’s Villa Farnesina
• Electra Washburn, Data Analysis of Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sales, 2008-2018

Biochemistry/Molecular Biology

• AB Abera, Investigating Kinetochore Proteins Interaction in Zea mays Using Yeast Two-Hybrid System
• Jordan Allen, Generating a Fate Map of Orthodenticle Expression in the Developing Drosophila melanogaster Embryo
• Emily De Jong, Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Melokhanine A and Leucolusine
• Elizabeth Egey, Effects of Inbreeding on American Crow Cognition and Physical Condition
• Elyssa Feuer, Investigating the Role of Aurora B in Spindle Assembly of Zea Mays Meiotic Cells
• Daniela Gonzalez, Designing and Cloning Synthetic Developmental Enhancers in the Drosophila melanogaster Embryo
• Deborah Kim, Investigating Protist Communities in the KTSA Pond with Metabarcoding
• Risper Kirui, Determining the Geneology of Saunder’s Peonies by adh2 Gene Sequences Using Illumina Amplicon Sequencing
• Ashna Lalwani, An Integrated Omics Approach to Epilepsy NOS
• Jacob Lowy, Investigation the Effects and Uses of N-dodecylimidazole (NDI) on Tetrahymena thermophila
• Gabriel Masters, The Effect of Electrode Potential on Growth, Cell Morphology and Nanowire Formation in Shewanella oneidensis Growing via Solid-State Respiration
• Gabriel Moss, Traumatic Brain Injury’s Effect on the Amyloid Precursor Protein
• Richard Nelli, What is the Function of the Tyramine Beta Hydroxylase Related Protein in Drosophila melanogaster?
• Danielle Rodrigues, Exploring the Use of N-quaternized ketene-N, O-acetals in EAS Reactions
• Anneka Sheppard, Polymerization of PDZ Binding Peptides
• Brooke Talsania & Deborah Sim, Exploring the Non-Innocence of Fluorophores in Cellular Uptake
• Choiwing Yeung, Investigating a Novel Approach for Ciliate Transformation Using Cell-Penetrating Peptides with Tetrahymena thermophila
• Zachary Perez, Bioactivity and Proteolytic Resistance of Antimicrobial Peptides Formulated as High-Density Brush Polymers

Biology

• Anthony Cantarella, Effects of L-Ascorbic Acid on Growth and Development in Manduca sexta
• Caroline Chivily, WNV- Driven Population Bottlenecks and Major Histocompatibility Complex Diversity in American Crows
• Maya Cote, Using Feather Quality as An Index of Health in the American Crow
• Charlotte Cross and Emily Lei, Using ARMS and DNA Barcoding to Estimate Coral Reef Biodiversity Through Analysis of Cryptic Species
• Debora Gakpo, Generating a Fate Map of Otd Protein Expression in Drosophila melanogaster
• Christopher Hart, Rhizosphere Microbiome Native to Low Nutrient Soil Increases Growth Rates & Enhances Nutrient Uptake of Rye Grass
• Erik Johansson, Cognitive Performance Tradeoffs in American Crows
• Stephanie Kall, Comparing Optimal and Suboptimal Bicoid Binding Sites During Embryonic Development of Drosophila melanogaster
• Sarah Kane, Identifying Predictive Behaviors for Search and Rescue Career in Puppies
• Mary Lundin, Climate Change in the Rocky Mountains: How Floral Traits Differ Along An Elevational Gradient and in Reciprocally Transplanted Communities
• Katherine O’Malley, Examining the Role of RanGTP in Acentrosomal Spindle Assembly in Maize Meiosis
• Jordan Northrup and Susanna Yee, Differential Expression of Eye-Specific Enhancers in Drosophila melanogaster 
• Tayzia Santiago, Analyzing and Describing the Unique Macronucleus of I. multifiliis
• Catherine Stanell, Haemosporidian Parasitemia and the Effects on Avian Species in New York
• Sarah Stinebaugh, Characterization of Acentrosomal Spindle Formation in Zea mays.
• Jodi Weiss, Investigating the Dynamics of Wild-Type Spindle Assembly and the Role of Kinesins in Acentrosomal Spindle Assembly in Maize Meiotic Cells
• Meghan Wilkinson, Encystment in Cyclidium
• Ryn Winner, Demonstrating a Link Between Cognition and Immune Function in the American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)

Chemistry

• Elijah Barstis, Analysis and Characterization of a Pre-19^th Century Painting
• Liam Bradley, Incorporation of Rare Earth Doped Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles into Sol Gel Glass
• Nicholas Falcone, Progress Towards Cryptomaldamide Congeners
• Henry (Jack) Gumina, Radical Cascade Reactions Terminated by Suzuki Coupling
• Phoebe Keyes, Applications of N- quaternized ketene-N,O-Acetals in Organic Synthesis
• Helen Lin, Synthesis of Antiestrogenic Peptide TPVN Useful Against Breast Cancer
• Willa Mihalyi-Koch, Fabrication of Nanostructured Sensors for Surfaced Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
• Olivia Simone, Fluorescence of Europium Imine Complexes in Sol Gel Glass
• Melissa Woodward, Incorporation of Rare Earth Chelates into a Sol Gel Matrix Using Post-Annealing Immersion

Chinese

• Ifeoluwa Aiyelabowo, The Mutual Influence Between the Chinese Government and China’s Digital Media Industry
• Jean Chen, The Influence of Japanese Popular Culture on Taiwan Culture
• Molly Geisinger, China Adoption Policies: Case studies on how the policies are perceived
• Stephen Kelley, The Development and Business Opportunities of American Football in China
• Jie Ying Mei, New Chinese Immigrants in the United States (2008-2018)
• Isabella Nichol, The Actresses in the Yuan Zaju
• Lona Sniderman, China’s New Retail Phenomenon
• William Utzschneider, The Influence of “One Belt, One Road” on the Xinjiang Area
• Zhi Y. Yang, China’s Hi-tech Development and Its influence on People
• Stephanie Zhang, A Comparative Study of Chinese Textbooks at American Universities and English Textbooks at Chinese Universities

Cinema and Media Studies

• Paige Pendergrast, teleplays for the first episode of the second season of two television shows that were canceled after their first season, My So-Called Life (U.S.) and Crashing (U.K.)
• Brandon Raciti, film writing and directing, A Dog’s Funeral

Classics

• Stephen Clement, Fraternas acies alternaque regna: Panegyric and Critique of Domitian in the Thebaid of Statius
• Desmen DePaulis, Misunderstanding the Bodies and Minds of Women in Antiquity
• Claire Anastasia Kitz, Poetry, Stone, Fresco, and Flesh: Exploring the Fusion of Antiquity, Neoplatonism, and Catholicism in the Creative Project of Michelangelo
• Emma Nelson, Lucretius’ De rerum natura and Freudian Psychoanalysis
• Noelani Stevenson, Troy Story 2: Adaptation at the Intersection of Theatre and Classics
• John Thomsen, The Protagonist in Trialogue, Father Silenus
• Melissa Woodward, How the Language Used in Ancient Athenian Law Perpetuated Rape Culture

Independent studies presentation

• Fiker Haile, Decolonizing Ancient Egypt: Re-imagining Egyptology Through the Eyes of an African Woman

Computer Science

• Nic Chkonia, Sophie Menashi, and Chad Morse, Hockey Stat Tracker
• Trish Gagnon, Richard Teerlink, and Colleen Wahl, Number Theory Calculator
• Jack Hay, Oliver Keh, and Ben Parfitt, HALite: Hamilton Analytics Laboratory
• Mitchel Herman, Krishna Kahn, Tom Parker, Risa Ulinski, Judy Zhou, Hanzi: Writing Chinese Characters
• Miller Kinlin, Drew McArthur, Minh To, and Alex Zemborain, ElectoCount

Honors presentations

• Jack Hay, PoolGP: Evolving Billiards Players Using Vector Operations
• Benjamin Parfitt, Algorithms for Finding Dense Subgraphs, and Their Applications to Video Co-Segmentation
• Risa Ulinski, Differential Rendering

Creative Writing

• Matt Albino, Rendered
• Diana Barry, The Interstellar Roadtrip of the Junkyard Spaceship
• Alyssa Carlson, Axiom
• Lilianna Christie, Passing
• Kay Franks, Of the Other Eye
• Cilly Geranios, Friendship Fables
• Kyandreia Jones, CNN and Other Contraceptives
• Sabrina Kleckner, The Ocean Between Us
• Libby LaMantia, Skein of Stone
• Andy Letai, All Too Human
• Emily Liu, To know a bird’s song, go to the mountains.
• Eva Lynch-Comer, Pura Vida
• Hannah McLean, Droplets in the Sea
• Claire Miller, Collected Short Stories
• Ricardo Edner Millien, Blaxploration of Self
• Giovanna Petta, Return to Sender
• Garth Robinson, Wallace
• Dan Russell, Soup for Thought
• Gwyn Sise, Whalesong
• Taylor Wallace, Whom the Gods Love

Dance and Movement studies

• Deborah Gakpo, Our Journey

Economics

Honors theses

• Jesse Bennett, Skill-Based Occupational Sorting of Immigrants in the U.S.
• Aaron Dobieski, Trust, Inequality, and Democracy: Investigating the Potential Factors of Cooperative Incidence
• Jake Engelman, Technology’s Contribution to Increased Income Inequality
• Pelumi Fasola, The Predictors of Financial Inclusion: A Case Study of Utica’s Refugee Population
• Jill Fu, Do cultural differences affect individual charitable giving behavior?
• Paul Giuliano, The Impact of Employee Involvement and Financial Participation on Enterprise Performance: Evidence from the UK
• Fiker Haile, Hurdles Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Examining the Gender Gap in Executive Compensation in Lithuania
• Sofia Maeztu, Determinants of the Incidence of Innovative Work Practices: Evidence from Estonia
• Clay McCollum, Cognitive Loads and Cognitive Reflection: Understanding Differences in Time and Risk Preferences
• Ben Morgan, Evidence from Estonia: Assessing the Effects of Different Managerial Compensation and Corporate Governance Schemes in a Transition Economy
• Chad Morse, Pick. Click Give: Impact on Charitable Giving Behavior in Alaska
• Bilal Mustafa, The Determination of Innovative Work Practices - Evidence from the UK
• Hersheena Rajaram, Determinants of Refugee Entrepreneurship in the United States: Evidence from Utica, NY
• Jonathan Stickel, The Role of Behavior and Financial Literacy in Household Retirement Adequacy
• Elijah Turchiarelli, Peer Effects in Voluntary Giving: Evidence from Charitable Crowdfunding
• Jack Warren, Immigrant Network Impacts on Native Labor Outcomes

Environmental Studies

• Audrey Bartels, Biodiversity and conservation in cemeteries
• Zachary Baum, Barriers and facilitators to climate change adaptation and mitigation in rural upstate New York
• Jared Belsky, An anthropology of terroir, sustainability and cider making in New York’s Finger Lakes Region
• Hayley Berliner, Charging up the electric vehicle market: Policies to encourage EV adoption
• Julia Booth, Reconceptualizing wellness: an examination of the relationship between the environment and well-being at Hamilton
• Noelle Connors, Effects of simulated grazing on biomass allocation and gas exchange in a drought-stressed ryegrass
• Taylor Coursey, Avenues for environmental justice in Boston, MA
• Jenna Jewell, Climate change driven variations in the cline of plumage in Eastern Screech Owls (Megascops asio)
• Nick Jickling, Impacts of marine protected area (MPA) fishing regulations on pelagic carbon sequestration
• Cimone Jordan, Does on step forward mean one step backward? Examining the relationship between promise of development and poverty in Syracuse, NY
• Steve Kettig, Understanding the drivers of sustainability accounting practices of medium-sized manufacturing businesses in New York
• Nick Pace, Did the rescission of 2016 CEQ guidelines affect how environmental impact statements address climate change?
• Margaret Riordan, Closing the gap: Strategies for better climate change communication
• Andrea Rockey, Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) market analysis: Renewable energy market dynamics in an expanded RPS future
• Jack Senneff, Modern day renders: An analysis of the disconnection between corporations and consumers in ethical consumption
• Kaitlyn Thayer, Understanding perceptions of climate change within New York’s naturally adaptive apple industry
• Jack Wright, Community: the key to effective environmental education
• Jesse Yu, Genetic variability of Blue Mussel (Mytilus edulis) populations subject to high and low pH variability in the Gulf of Maine

French

Senior independent research project

• Nora Silva, “Le genre, la langue, et les rapports de famille dans la littérature franco-algérienne : une analyse de trois textes écrits par des femmes qui ont vécu pendant la période d’après-guerre en Algérie et en France.”

Geosciences

• Emily P. Alexander, Grain Size Analysis of the West Turkana Kaitio (WTK13) Core and Implications for Paleoenvironments in the Turkana Basin 1.9 to 1.4 Ma
• Ursula D. Castiblanco, A Reference Collection of Devonian Arthropods (Trilobites) from the Geer Road Quarry in Eation, New York
• Drew Castronovo, Megacryst-bearing Lava Flows from Green Ridge, Central Oregon Cascade Range:  Petrogenetic Implications
• Austin T. Ford, A Reference Collection of Devonian Mollusca from the Geer Road Quarry in Eaton, New York
• Alexandra P. Holmwood, Composite Dikes on Swans Island, Maine, and their Implications for Magmatic Processes in Large Silicic Igneous Systems
• Anika C. Huq, Thickness Variations and Extent of the Oligocene/Miocene Katkut Formation Southwest of Sohag, Egypt
• Meredith L. Labelle, Paleolimnological Comparison of Two Subbasins in Tupper Lake in the Adirondack Park, New York
• Mia E. Ratino, Exploring Change Over Time in Oriskany Creek Using UAS-Based Structure from Motion
• Gillian K. Roberts, A Reference Collection of Devonian Cnidaria and Bryozoa from the Geer Road Quarry in Eaton, New York
• Ryan M. Sedwick, Analyzing Glacier Volume Loss in Kvíárjökull using Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry Based on Historical Photographs
• Jenny T. Soonthornrangsan, Determining the Influence of Pumping Wells on Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction in Waterville, New York

German studies

• Qichen He, Literature Censorship, Christa Wolf and Divided Heaven
• Reed Johnson, Die Machtpotenzial von Regerton als contra-hegemonische Sprachideologie
• Tayzia Santiago, A Feminist Analysis of Trauma and Psychoanalysis in Ruth Klüger’s Living On and the Diary of Anne Frank

Government and World Politics

Honors theses

• Natalie Basta, A Moral Analysis of Voters: A Psychological Explanation of Evangelical Support for Trump in 2016
• Richard Court, Dichotomous Approaches: An Operational Code Analysis of How and Why Presidents Trump and Obama Intervened in the Syrian Civil War
• Alexandra Gale, Good Cop, Bad Soldier? Role Convergence of the National Police and Armed Forces in Bolivia and Ecuador
• Samantha Gordon, Shaping the Bench: How the Federalist Society Gained Control of the Federal Judiciary
• Jane Haffer, Hate Speech, Presumptive Harm, and a Denial of Equal Protection
• Andrew Juchno, A Middle Course to Abolition: St. George Tucker and the Meanings of Equality in Early Republican Virginia
• Henry Kapp, Why Do Militaries Defect? A rational Choice Approach to Security Force decision-making Electoral Protests
• Christopher Keller, no title provided
• Carter King, Indigenous Rights, Environmental Degradation, and Inconsistent Policy: The Case of Decolonization in Bolivia
• Benjamin Rhind, Year of the Woman: Assessing the Effect of Gender in the U.S. House of Representatives Elections
• Kathryn Tenefrancia, Subordinate No More: Changing Civil-Military Relations in The United States since the Vietnam War
• Michael Wang, Inconsistent Incognito Mode: Exploring States’ Online Privacy Law Variance in the U.S.

Hispanic Studies

Honors presentations

• Kevin P. Alcalá, Una exploración del extractivismo y los derechos indígenas en el cine: También la lluvia (2010), Hija de la laguna (2015) y El derecho de ser diferente (2003)
• Sawyer Frisbie, Virgen vs. Eva: La representación de las mujeres españolas en el cine de terrora finales de la dictaduraf
• Daniela González, El rechazo de imágenes falsas: Rosario Castellanos y la educación social de la mujer
• Elizabeth Maier, Cuadernos de anotar la vida: la solidaridad femenina y el testimonio escrito en La casa de los espíritus
• Fiona McLaughlin, Como la línea borrosa entre la historia y la ficción influye la relación entre la creencia y la soledad en Cien años de soledad
• Georgia Miller, Caracterización y performance en El lugar sin límites, novela (1966) y película (1978)
• Tyler Spector, El uso de las ‘amenazas inminentes’ en El lugar sin límites de José Donoso para la crítica del patriarcado en unos sistemas agrarias de Chile

History

Honors presentations

• Edsel Llaurador, Empire by Another Name: United States Imperialism, the Supreme Court, and Puerto Rico Un-incorporated, 1898-1901
• Wynston Pennybacker, Postwar Pronatalism and the Construction of Gender and Sexual Norms in the Soviet Union, 1943-1964
• Rebecca Williams, ‘FY NGWLAD’ / ‘MY COUNTRY’: Abolitionism, Identity, and Assimilation in Welsh America

Interdisciplinary Studies

Interdisciplinary Studies in Cognitive Science

• Christina Florakis, Bridges to the Future: An Intervention to Promote Empowerment and Intercultural Understanding Between Greek and Refugee Youth

Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental Chemistry

• Claudia Morse, An Environmental and Chemical Review of Perovskite Materials in Solar Cell Applications

Literature

Honors presentations

• Sabrina Boutselis, Representing Childbirth: Making and Unmaking Language to Communicate Experiences of the Body
• Katie Dolan, Cloaking Desire: Stasis and Sexuality in Nikolai Gogol’s Short Stories
• Alison Donlan, Christine de Pizan as Architect of Women’s Spaces in The Book of the City of Ladies
• Trish Gagnon, “Ne jo n’ai soig mais de taisir”: Non-binary Gender Expression in Le Roman de Silence
• Meredith Jones, Gloria Anzaldúa and Natalie Diaz: Re-writing Cultural Identity
• Elizabeth Maier, Intentional Inheritance: William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez in Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides
• Sarah Morrill, Valmont and Virtue
• Kendall Rallins, Passing: The Performance and Visibility of Identity
• Julia Rosenbaum, “Cut Out of Someone’s Head”: Intersections of Humor, Manipulation, and Artistic Creation in Nabokov and Gogol
• Haley Tietz, Waving in the Ferns: Nature, Imagination, and Storytelling in Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon
• Ali Zildjian, “A Divided Duty”: Liminal Space and Coming-of-Age in Shakespeare’s Father/Daughter Relationships

Mathematics

Honors presentations

• Elisabeth Howard, Classifying p-adic Fields of Degree p^2
• Bilal Mustafa, A Look At Regularization
• Benjamin Oltsik, Eta-Quotients of Prime or Semiprime Level
• Benjamin Parfitt, The Baire facts about the real line and beyond
• Ryan Tamburrino, Eigenvector Centrality in the Context of Board Games

Music

• John Dorer, Portraits of Nature: A collection of Short Works
• Nathan Sobel, four original compositions

Neuroscience

• Sara Aldrich, The effect of chemogenetic disruption of the postrhinal cortex on higher order learning
• Matt Casadei, Investigating implicit and explicit motor learning in children
• Robert Chapman, Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy to read motor output for neural prosthetics
• Desmen Depaulis, Sexual conspecific aggression response: A potential model of sexual assault in adolescent female rats
• Austin Fanburg, Olfactory learning and memory in American Crows
• Leigh Gelotte, Exploring the relationship between Executive Function and Psychological Distancing: Insights from an fNIRS study
• Sanju Koirala, Multi-sensory integration during spatial localization: A developmental study
• Molly Leitner, Cocaine, sex and household scents: A D1-receptor agonist intervention
• Fiona McLaughlin, Elucidating the Role of the Orbitofrontal Cortex in Social Odor Recognition Memory
• Jessica Murray, The influence of sleep on the learning of sensorimotor integration
• BellaDonna Sins, The relationship between dance and cognition
• Julia Tsvyakh, Malleable me: An integrated approach to reducing stigma against mental illness
• Emily Williams, Young stress: Using an animal model to examine PTSD symptoms in adolescent female rats.
• Hannah Yep, It takes one to know one: Lying to improve unconscious lie detection
• Emily Yong, Getting high: The choice between cocaine and exercise

Philosophy

• Jeremy Benjamin, A Pontean Reconceptualization of Well-Being
• Joseph Caruso, The Ontology and Epistemology of Social Entities
• Delgado Corcoran, Growing Pains
• Yassine Dahlek, RX: Medical Assassination: A Liberation from Hegemony
• Andrea Dickmeyer, In Defense of Narrativity
• Steven Falco, How and Why We Should Conceive of Zombies
• Oluwapelumi Fasola, The Illegitimacy of Restrictive Immigration Policies: A Reply to Christopher Heath Wellman
• Samantha Fogel, We Should Talk. . .
• Ram Franqui, Mental Disorder, Linguistic Reification, and Agency
• Grace Friedel, Psychopaths and the Insanity Defense
• Dian Guo, What are Intuitions and Can We Trust Them?
• Bradford Marston, An Esoteric Approach to the Expected Utility of Voting
• Clayton McCollum, Nietzsche and the Eternal Recurrence: On Overcoming Our Nihilism
• Annaliese Mugele, Contemporary Nativism Motivated by Mathematics
• Betsy Ramirez, Who is Responsible for ‘Rampage shootings’: A Re-examination of Freedom and Personal Responsibility
• William Rasenberger, Disagreeing about Disagreement: The Illusion of Intercultural Moral Conflict
• Wilhelgyne Rose, Physician Assisted Suicide? A Critique of Kant’s Moral Philosophy
• Michael Valeri, On the Paradox of Emotional Response to Fiction
• John Wellers, The Consequences of Contemporary AI for Mind-Body Dualism
• Rachel Zuckerman, The Nature Happiness Network: Finding Connection and Happiness Outdoors

Physics

• Ian Chen, Progress Towards a Magnetic Gradiometer
• Bryan Edwards, An Analysis of Surface Homogeneity and Efficiency Degradation of Direct and Inverted Organic Solar Cells
• Carlos Esquivia, Null Geodesics in a Modified Black Hole Spacetime
• Abigail Kaplan, Hofstadter’s Cocoon on a Triangular Lattice
• Ian Leveton, Deviations from Perfect Timing in Human Drumming
• Kathryn McKillop, γ-ray Assay of the Radiotherapy Agent ⁷⁶As using Gammasphere
• Alexei Smith, Design and Construction of an Autonomous Instrument-Monitoring Buoy
• Robert Taylor, Faraday rotation measurements of alkali metal vapor densities
• Mikel Zemborain, Developing a microfluidic microdiamond sorter

Psychology

• Zachary Bivins, Self-efficacy and Emotion Regulation
• Alex Black, Examining the Relationship Between Self-Actualization and Institutional Racism
• Cassidy Brown, Empathy versus Compassion: A Comparison of Emotional Consequences
• Jacqueline Bussgang, Sense of School Belonging Among Latino Adolescents: Predictors, Outcomes, and Correlates
• Shelby Amour Castillo, Nuyorican Colonial Mentality: Discovering Links Between Cultural Identity, Acculturative Stress and Depression
• Gareth Coalson, Maternal Incarceration’s Association with Childhood Attachment Patterns
• Erin Collins, Role-Play and Self-Control: Are Gamers on to Something?
• R. Ben Cornaglia, Measuring Differences in Children’s Comprehension of Novel Words
• Abigail Dayton, The Effect of Perceived Group Similarity and Information Presentation on Conformity Intentions
• Andi Dickmeyer, Metacognition and Mental Wellness
• Kyra Ganswith, Identification, Community Pride, and Self-Loathing in Low-SES African American Men
• Aspacelia Geranios, Comic Relief: Do Students with High ADHD Symptomatology Understand Comics Better Than Pure Text?
• Mikayla Greeley, The Relationship Between Anxiety and Aggression in Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Olivia Hawes, A Self-Affirmation Intervention to Reduce Contingent Self-Esteem and Increase Intrinsic Motivation in College Athletes
• Cassie Hayward, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID): Valid Disorder or Social Construct?
• Grace Heller, Emotion Regulation in Pretend Play: Examining the Relations Among Play, Worry, and Creativity in Young Children
• Virginia Loke, Catching Happiness: Why Performing Kindness Predicts Positive Affect in Socially Anxious Individuals
• Ellie Miller, Call of Beauty: The Effects of Sexualized Video Game Box Art on Self-Objectification Levels in Girls
• Caroline Moore, Anti-Immigrant Prejudice and Perceived Threat
• Sandra Saldana, Between Two Worlds: Identity-Shifting Among Biracial Individuals Under Threat
• Halie Serbent, Effects of Preschool Vocabulary Interventions on Children’s Literacy Development
• Gabrielle Stern, Sticks and Stones: Self-Affirmation as a Protective Factor Against Rejection Sensitivity in People with Defensive Self-Esteem
• Anaidys Uribe, I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends: Adaptive Coping for Racial Discrimination

Public Policy

• Liz Brautigam, Playing to Pay: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of DIII Football
• Peter Hoffman, Front Office Fallacies: Leadership and Performance in the NBA
• Taylor Kim, Does Accessibility Mean Opportunity?  The Effect of Transit Availability on Income Mobility in New York City
• Rowan Myers, Should I Be Worried?  The Demographics of Privacy Concerns on the Internet
• Will Nyamwange, H1B Visa Holders: Complements or Substitutes to American Workers?
• Kara Pooley, Waiting Period Laws: Are They Enough to Stop the Growing Epidemic of Firearm Suicides?
• Drew Reddish, Myth or Reality?  Are American Colleges Breeding Liberal Students?
• Samantha Weeks, Helping English Language Learners in New York City: What Really Matters?
• Vicky Xu, Tourist Trapped: Exploring the Relationship Between Tourism Development and Long-Term Economic Growth
• Ashleah Yzaguirre, Ethan Carrow, and Mike Grassey, Separate Fields: Racial Segregation in High School Sports

Honors theses

• Samantha Gordon, Shaping the Bench: How the Federalist Society Gained Control of the Federal Judiciary
• Jonathan Kirshenbaum, Policy vs. Practice: Are “Harm Reduction” Policies Equipped to Address the Opioid Crisis? 
• Jack Wright, Is Shopping on Amazon Green? Carbon Emissions Produced from Online and Traditional Shopping Options in the U.S.

Religious Studies

• Gabe DeJoseph, Loyalty and Morality: Religious Minorities in US Electoral Politics
• Phoebe Duke-Mosier, Drinking the Kool-Aid: Discourses of Death at Jonestown
• Grant Kiefaber, Muslim Refugees in Utica: Perception and Reality
• Jacob Leebron, Jedi and Sith: Religious Morality in Star Wars
• Sophie Menashi, Seeking Salvation: Understanding the Sources, Separation, and Spread of the Christian Salvation Doctrine 

Honors presentation

• Phoebe Duke-Mosier, The Almighty Dollar: Race, Class, and Gender in Creflo Dollar’s Prosperity Gospel

Russian Studies

• Jessie Dromsky-Reed, Balanchine: The Story of the Diplomat Choreographer and his Cross-Cultural Ballet Jewels
• Wynston Pennybacker, Identity and Self Actualization in Modern Russia through the Literary Works of Zakhar Prilepin
• Benjamin Walsh, The King of Kings and His Cossacks: The Unofficial Russo-Ethiopian Alliance in the Age of Empires

Sociology

• Tatiana Bradley, The Endless Scroll: Understanding Social Media Consumption Habits Among College Students
• Emily Buff, Film Paper Shelter Food
• Madeline Carlman, Living off a Prayer: Explanations of Spiritual and Religious Transformation at Hamilton College
• Jenna Columbia, “Waking up White”: How White People Develop Positive Racial Attitudes in an Era of Color-Blind Racism
• Gregory Evans, Living Music: A study of the effects of ‘musicking’ on small group life at Hamilton College
• Sawyer Frisbie, Strong Men, Fragile Masculinity: An Exploration of Masculinity on Hamilton’s Campus
• Mikayla Greeley, Identity Work Among the Homeless in Utica
• Alanna Gushue, Social Support and Mental Health: Where Do We Stand?
• Nora McEntee, Hamilton’s Helpers: Understanding the Social Motivations behind Student Volunteering
• Gabrielle O’Brien, School on the Brain: A Study of Academic Achievement and Collegiate Success
• Christina Plakas, The Revolution Will Not Come with Flowers: What Motivates Some Greeks to Join the High-Risk, High-Cost Anarchist Movement
• Maria Karla Saenz, Listening to Reggaetón: The Construction of Panethnicity and Gendered Latinidad in Miami, FL
• Rachel Schooler, 24/7 in a Box: Inmates’ Written Expression in Solitary Confinement versus Lower Security
• Geoffrey Schweller, When Home Videos Leave the Home: Personal Video Practices of College Students
• Victoria Stapleton, Man Up! A Study on How Fourth Grade Boys Perform Masculinity
• Emily Steates, Smoke and Mirrors: A Study of Social Learning and Identity Exploration Among Young Adult Recreational Vapers
• Xara Sunne, Contemporary Art and Modern Politics: Reactions to activist art and why audiences interpret artworks as political
• Faith White,“Best Friends: How Close Friendships are Formed”
• Zhi Yang, Split Between Two Identities: How Second-Generation Immigrants Use Food to Project Their Ethnic Identity
• Justin Zhu, Hamiltonians Abroad: An analysis of individual transformation among Hamilton students who go abroad

Theatre

• Andres (Fluffy) Aguilar, writing and directing, The [Un]Told Story: [Un]Broken
• Emily Aviles, devising, How to Create Trauma Informed Theatre
• Jake Bolster and Adrian Summers, directing and performing, Fish Kill on Maria Sanchez by Doug Grissom
• Stephanie Kall, directing, I Dream Before I Take The Stand by Arlene Hutton
• Andy Letai, writing and directing, Hang a Thief
• Jack Martin, devising, The Story of the Man Who in the High Heavens Loved a Star and Was Abandoned by Her
• Isabella Nichol, directing, Miss Julie by August Strindberg
• Noelani Stevenson, writing and directing, As When // So Also
• Taylor Wallace, directing, Early Morning from “Times of War” by Eric Lane