The Senior Scholars Program is a college-wide program that provides the opportunity to devote significant time to a major project resulting is an intense independent research project which is completed during a student's senior year. The Independent Study Committee sets the requirements for the project and its final format. Each student, upon completion of the Senior Scholars Paper, is asked to archive his or her project in Digital Commons so that it may be made available to the Colby community and to the world at large.
All Senior Scholars Papers in this collection are available for review and research purposes at no cost. This open access policy in no way diminishes the copyright responsibility of those viewing or downloading the documents. The authors of these documents retain the copyright to the intellectual property these works represent in their current form.
Senior Scholars Papers from 2007
Sculptural abstraction of landscape, Devin Colman
Interlocking oppressions of sisterhood: (re) presenting the black woman in nineteenth century blackface minstrelsy, Catherine Downing
Science, Technology and the Garden of Maine: Industrial Farming in Aroostook County, 1850-1900, Thomas Joseph Henderson Reznick
Workin’ It Out at Curves – Religion, Gender, and the Body in Contemporary America, Jamie K. Singelais
Senior Scholars Papers from 2006
You know how I know you're gay? : masculinity and homophobia in mainstream comedy, Lijah Barasz
Experimental economics methodologies and applications: price competition among gasoline stations, Albert Goodman
Be the Change You Wish to See: National Attiudes and Climate Change Policy, Emilia Tjernstrom
Senior Scholars Papers from 2005
The Econometric Value of Silence and Noise as Seen by a Non-practicing Marxist, Stephen Whelpley
Senior Scholars Papers from 2004
Constructing a Structural Macroeconomic Model Using Multiple Techniques, David Cohen
Ghetto feminism: neo-black feminism for the black hip-hop generation(s), Chyann L. Oliver
A Genetic Algorithms Approach to Learning Communication and Coordination in Simulated Robots, Chris Sotzing
Senior Scholars Papers from 2003
Opting out of oppositionality : toward an informed and engaged "third wave" feminism, Amanda Ashman
Politian: a critical analysis, Jessica A. Martin
Senior Scholars Papers from 2002
Cognitive model of new data on human problem solving, Eric Fleischman
What is your substance, whereof are you made?, John Monty Hobson
Reconfiguring sex: the paradoxical relationship between intersexed and transgendered identities, Amy Reznitsky
The Politics of Restoration Authorship: The Collaboration of Dryden and Purcell on King Arthur, or the British Worthy, Kristina Tabor
Senior Scholars Papers from 2001
Building an Interactive, Three-dimensional Virtual World, Raymond Mazza
Modernity, tradition, and American identity in advertisements, 1918-1929, Binah Palmer
The Colored Museum, Ethnic Theater: A Representation of African American Culture, Reality or Stereotypes, Michelle-Nicholle Denise Richards
Drawing from Words, Hannah E. Smith
Senior Scholars Papers from 2000
Building Phaeacia: Generating Artificial Societies, Peter Aykroyd
Machine learning and small robot navigation, Christopher Ireland
Designing a Remote Navigation System, Jared P. Lazzaro
Evolution of conceptual art: a senior scholar project, Kempton Mooney
Ground-Truthing Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner Images, Adam J. Schwartz
Celtic Traditions, Lindsay L. Stewart
La Esperanza, Elizabeth Tippet
Interpretation of Thermal Infrared Multispectral (TIMS) images using six-channel emissivities, Taylor Tribble
Senior Scholars Papers from 1999
Siamese connection, Rosecrans Baldwin
We are not who we are, Patrick Bishop
In the Company of Eighth Graders: Portraits from one Language Arts Classroom in an American Public School, Lindsay M. Hayes
Crossing the Bar: Compositional Process in the Choral Works of Charles Ives, Peter King
Unfinished Business, Cate Tynan
Good Neighbors, Jamie Nash Yourdon
Senior Scholars Papers from 1998
Metamorphic epiphany -- 3D animation, Michael G. Corr
A Cry from the Ruins, Joan Giblin
Epidiascope: Works, Elizabeth Krenicky
Elijah Parish Lovejoy the Man and the Myth, Scott Shirey
Selected Poems of Seamus Heaney: Construction of Eden and Innocence Lost, Jeni Kate Spear
From Image to Image Maker: Contemporary Irish Women Poets and the National Tradition, Rebecca Troeger
Senior Scholars Papers from 1997
Ethel Ray Nance -- a quiet heroine who fought incessantly for racial justice, Heather Elizabeth Bend
"Course it's not like being at home": Aging in Place at Shady Acres, a Residential Care Facilty, Pamela Herd
Medical treatment and care of hospitalized Maine women, 1874-1882, Jenny Higgins
Reversible Phosphorylation of Proteins in Volvox Carteri, Larisa Jovanovic
Painting meditation on the human form, Hillary Ellen Kane
Just which Reality do you Mean? Users' Experiences of Virtual Spaces, Woodrow Heath Pollack
The Portrayal of Enemies in Propaganda during the Russian and French Revolutions, Carole Reid
Beyond the Threshold: Life in the New Russia, Amanda Sprang
Senior Scholars Papers from 1996
Modersohn-Becker und Rilke: künstlerische Affinitäten, Maylene Cummings
Context and legacy of the 1992 Perot presidential campaign, John Daly
Dead town dreaming -- a novella and selected poems, Caleb Dolan
Dwelling in possibility: aestheticizing identity in African American women's fiction, Whitney Glockner
Children's status and children's rights, historically and cross-culturally, Kori Heavner
Finding the Words, Caitlin Johnson
Medical treatment and the good death: an ethical analysis of euthanasia, physician assisted suicide, and the right to die, J. Christopher McMath
Electron microprobe partition coefficient measurements near the OL-OPX-CPX-GAR join at 10 kilobars, Matthew O'Connell
Politics of decentralization in Poland since 1989, Eva Piotrowski
In hopes of Black-Jewish redemption: counter-hegemonic activism and theological communion, Andrew Rice
A Catalyst for Culture: Early Child Development and Education in Japan, Kate Swenson
Senior Scholars Papers from 1995
Realistic Abstractions, Kenneth Bailey
Struggle to Maintain Cultural Identity: a Cambodian American Experience, Rothana Chap
Queering sacred spaces: Identity Politics, Queer Theory, and Womanist Theology, Michael Cobb
Post-glacial vegetational history of the Great Bog, Belgrade, Maine, John Dawson
Rat Bastard, David James
Last street in town: a collection of poems, Gillian Kiley
Hitler and God: God in Hitler's policy-making, Noah Learner
Use of microprojectile bombardment in transient expression assays to analyze protochlorophyllide reductase gene expression in greening maize seedling leaf cells, Jennifer J. Marden
Power outage, and other poems, Wendy Oram-Smith
"WAKING TO EMPIRE": READING THE NATIONAL POLITICS OF MARY SHELLEY AND CHARLOTTE BRONTE, Charles E. Prescott
The American Indian : the Creation of a National Native American Heritage, 1880-1920, Brian A. Schwegler
Leaving and other Stories, Asdis Thorsteinsson
At the Wall: A Study in Drawing and Painting, Samuel Ogden White
Senior Scholars Papers from 1994
Slack tide, Allison Alsip
Soft money : private foundations of party politics, Erik Belenky
Democratic civic education: preparing the students of today for the society of the future, Andrew Carlson
Sculptural inquiry into geometric and organic forms, Gregory Christopher
Biomolecules in Maine bogs, Jennifer Dinn
Racism as subtext: the contemporary school desegregation controversy, Heather Beth Johnson
"A Theory in the Flesh": The Art-full Politics of African-American Women'sAutobiographies, Betsy Maclean
Correction of Misperception: the Rediscovery of the Ends and Means of Liberal Reform in the Unemployment Compensation Title of the Social Security Act of 1935, Michael Luke McCabe
Characterization of the 4.5S RNA molecule in Escherichia coli, Bruce John Panilaitis
St. Augustine's theology of the body in American Catholicism, Francis Pullaro
Intent and Method: A Study of Female Characters in Aeschylean and Euripidean Drama, Elizabeth H. Strafaci
The Physiological, Enzymatic, and Genetic Characterization of Staphylococcus sp. Chromium (VI) Reductase Function, Matthew J. Trudeau
Senior Scholars Papers from 1993
Gravity: a new play by Greg Belanger, Greg Belanger
Insuring cleaner oceans: the economics of oil pollution prevention, Donald E. Bindler
Presidential Precampaign & the Press, William Charron
Examination of the Roles of Microtubules and Microfilaments in Developing Nematocytes of the Sea Anemone Metridium Senile, Michael Genco
Theatre of the Mind: An Experiment in Modern American Audio Fiction, Thomas Michael Gerencer
Something Whole: Poems, Christopher Iannini
Softly spoken, Sarah Inman
Loyal Parent: an Analysis of the Role Played by Zhou Enlai in China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1969), Sumner Lemon
The Cultural Construction of the Maine Sporting Camps, March O. McCubrey
Exploration in oil painting and charcoal drawing, Eric Miles
Choreographic exploration of physical duress: motivation for and responses to exhaustion (a project in performance), Sara F. Regan
Dust, Kristin J. Winkler
Senior Scholars Papers from 1992
Religious Justification of Violence: a Look into the Crusades, Bryan Chase