The Honors Thesis is a research project for which eligible students apply during their junior year and complete in their senior year. Colby departments and programs that have an honors program establish the requirements for the project and its final format. Each student, upon completion of the thesis, has the opportunity to publish their project in Digital Commons so that it may be made available to the Colby community and to the world at large.
Honors Theses from 2003
On the Edge of the Shadow: Searching for Evil in a Cross Cultural Comparison Of Native American and Scandinavian Trickster Figures, Justin Stempeck
Christine De Pizan and (Re)-Visionary Narratives: Writing Women in Fifteenth-Century France, Laura Thomason
The White-Picket Divide Between Self and Society: Analyzing the Contradictory Ideology of the American Dream, Kira Vassar
Negotiating Womanhood: Nineteenth-Century American Woman Writers and Constructions of Femininity, Kathleen Zimmerman
Honors Theses from 2002
Impact of monetary policy and unanticipated events on stock market value, Simon Amich
Local participation as a determinant of success in World Bank environmental projects: what is the evidence?, Catherine Benson
Open to Detection:' Dickens’ Bleak House and the Compromise for Social Candor, Todd Bergstrom
Collective memory of Vichy : Moulin, Pétain, and the Vél' d'Hiv', Kathryn W. Bondy
Integrated test for exploitation and discrimination in the National Basketball Association, Kathleen Carney
Complex systems model of aggressive and friendly competition for resources in a simple society, Douglas Casazza
The Angel in the Devil’s Mirror: Victorian Paintings and the Poetry of Tennyson’s The Lady of Shalott, Noah Londer Charney
Medicine men of the anti-progressive party : sacred sites, public lands, and the construction of religious liberty, Jacob Culbertson
Analysis of the Colby quarterly econometric model of the U.S. economy using the economic effects of September 11th, Alison Culpen
Synthesis and DNA binding of CIS and TRANS-RuCl2 (DMSO)4, Thomas Curran
Wordsworth’s Bioregional Imagination: How Location and Dislocation Contribute to the Poetic Expression of Ecological Values, Jennifer Dakin
Effects of melatonin on hemolymph glucose and lactate concentrations in the fiddler crab, uca pugilator, Kathryn M. Dalton
Devilish Icons: Dante’s Christian Depiction of Classical Antiquity in the Inferno, Alexis Detwiler
Strict producer liability and safety in the general aviation industry, Jim Drews
A Gaze Redirected and a World Redefined: The Power of Black Female Artists to Revise their Images in Literature and Film, Katherine Dunn
Watching Fish Swim, Erin Gardner
The high, pale cast of light': Talking, Touching, and Trauma in Raymond Carver’s Cathedral, Nick Gaubinger
Ecuador's indigenous university movement, UINPI: reconstructing identity in the search for equality, Joshua Gerber
Asymmetric wealth effect : American consumption and the stock market, Jonathan Greene
Soviet history reconsidered: the reform of undergraduate history teaching in contemporary Russian universities, Amy Hirschauer
The Price of Bread and other Stories, Eleanor Jackson
Time of Pachakutik: an Examination of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement, Eliza Cooke Kittredge
Photochemical generation and chemistry of α-Acetoxycarbene, Jonathan Mann
Suits or pajamas: an economic analysis of the causes and consequences of telecommuting, Jonathan Marlow
"Fit or fat": an empirical analysis of the factors influencing individuals' food consumption decisions, Michelle McInnis
Private forest periphery: industrial colonization of the Maine woods, Jacob Mentlik
Signs of life: The prognosis for monastic life in America, Sarah Miller
Life Scars. Art Scars. A Collection of Sonnets, Jaime Muehl
Purification of the HMG1 protein and investigation of its interactions with diepoxide cross-linked DNA, Gayle Pageau
Chekhov and Carver: Defining Masculinity, David Prinstein
Effect of 6-Thioguanine and Methyl-6-Thioguanine on stability of DNA duplexes, Mabaera Rodwell
Role of venture capital financing in inflating the technology stock market bubble, Jessica Rosenbloom
Study of area deprivation in Connecticut and Maine, Jonathan H. Ryder
The Photochemical Generation and Intramolecular Chemistry of β-Acetoxycarbene, Martin John Schnermann
The Environment and the SUV: Any Room for Compromise?, Eliza Newbold Schnitzer
Knowing God and Nature: A Thesis on The Writing of Annie Dillard and Wendell Berry, David Seel III
Modeling a Real-time Economics Simulation with User-Coded Agents in an Object-Oriented Database, Kevin Simons
A study of ancient Near Eastern texts in relation to the Hebrew Bible, Ashley Stephanson
Frontiers of Spirit, Frontiers of Land: Investigating Representations of and by Pioneer Women, Katherine St. Germaine
Misogynists, Madwomen, and Mistresses: Relocating D.H. Lawrence in the Women’s Literary Tradition, Ericka Thoreson
Above and Beyond the Rim: An Examination of Customer Discrimination in the National Basketball Association, Carl E. Tugberk
Nightmares at Noonday': Hemingway, Bullfights, and Healing the Wound, Eric Washer
Communicator-in-chief: presidential use of television past, present, and future, Jenna Wasson
The Effect of Childhood Trauma on Contemorary American Poets, Katherine Wentzell
Natural Theology: A Reevaluation of Christianity's Relationship to the Natural World, Briana Wright
Honors Theses from 2001
Journey to the Source of Healing: The Nature of Healing and the Healing Nature In Two Native American Works, Melissa Alioto
From the Frontier to the ‘Rez’: The Evolving Role of Native Americans in Film, Stephen Bigelow
Exploratory chemistry in route to aromatic natural products, Nicholas P. Bizier
Quantification of nanomolar superoxide in aqueous solution : flow injection analysis using the chemiluminescent reagent MCLA., Nathan Boland
Inside jokes & silence, Jeff Calareso
Two hours from freedom: an examination of NGO involvement in the "Kamaiya" liberation movement of Nepal, Elicia Carmichael
Envisioning the ‘Present As History’: Historical Understanding and Interiority In the Works of Sir Walter Scott and George Eliot, Sarah Castille
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen’s Conservative Social Vision, Michelle Chandler
Immigrants as cultural revitalization? A study of the American quality magazines, Erin Clark
Weaving tantra through time: Non-Dual Kashmiri Shaivism in Swami Muktananda's Siddha Yoga, Jack Comstock
Metal ion stabilization of G-tetrads containing 6-thioguanosine, Julia Drees
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Relics From the Primeval Past Blueprints to the Psychoanalytic Future, Cara Erdheim
Photochemical generation and intramolecular chemistry of 2-hydroxy-2-methylpropylidene, Robin Farlow
Looking for Nathan Bedford Forrest: negotiating historical controversies, Karin Felmly
US, Elizabeth Frankel
Isolation and investigation of the role of HMG1 in diepoxide cross-link recognition, Tiffany Frazar
Wolves in sheeps' clothing: Creationist manipulation of Kansas science standards, Nathan Christopher Gehlert
Photochemical degradation of 2,4-D and atrazine in well-defined media, Asher D. Ghertner
Seceding Alice, Allyson Giard
Debt-Driven Financing: An Environmental Conservation Miracle?, Stephanie Graber
Civil War in Missouri: a look at Confederate guerrillas' four-stage devolution, Drew Johnson
Isolation and characterization of chromium- and cobalt-binding peptides, Michael J. Jose
Investigating §527 Disclosure as an Effective Means of Exposing the Sponsors of Stealth Campaigns, Kase Jubboori
Religious Visions of the Feminine: An Examination of Mainstream Hindu Ideologies, Ann W. Levy
Study of the effects of CO2(g) on the Fe(II)-luminol chemiluminescence system: application to ultra-trace analysis of Fe(II), Sara Beth Lovitz
A Search for 'Life Itself': Looking Beneath the Fetish in Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, Marybeth Maney
No holding back now: the Americanization of Caribbean women's identities, Mieko R. McKay
Migrants, butterflies and storytellers: expression and containment in the spaces of Mexican transnationalism, Eugenie Montague
Role of organic peroxides in ocean waters and measuring hydrogen peroxide in ocean waters using chemiluminescent flow-injection analysis method, Christopher Morgan
Probing the capabilities of copper complexes with nitrogen and sulfur containing macrocyclic ligands as aziridination catalysts, Jonathan Natkin
Reevaluating U.S. intellectual property right policy in the face of globalization: moving beyond TRIPS and special 301, Warren Jr. Newberry
Structural analysis of 6-thioguanine in duplex DNA by NMR spectroscopy, Heather Olson
Synthetic approach to hexaoxa[6]peristylanes. A novel DDQ-induced oxidative rearrangement, Douglas Arthur Otte
Tomato’s End, Jesse Randzio
Representation of Mortality in the Sonnets of Keats and Shakespeare, Rachel Rokicki
Refractory Realities: Imagination, Space, Freedom and the Writings of Wole Soyinka and Toni Morrison, Kimberly Schneider
Scriptural Archeology: Excavating the Presence of Women in the Torah, Vanessa Tess Sibley
Words About People…, Kirsten Sisk
Reclaming Power: An Examination of Power as Energy and Authority in the Reclaiming Tradition of Witchcraft, Emily Spero Smith
Flanking Sequence Effects on DNA Interstrand Cross-linking Preferences of Diepoxides, Subhashini Srivatsan
Biography, Autobiography, and Memoirs in the Early Twelfth-Century, Jason E. St. Pierre
Structural Analysis of a DNA Duplex Containing 6-Thiodeoxyguanosine by N NMR Spectroscopy and EPR Spectroscopy, Baskut O. Tuncak
Term Limits and Women's Representation, Theresa L. Wagner
Fact, Fiction, and Veiled Criticism in Herman Melville’s typee and Omoo, William Webb
Confronting the Postmodern in Three Travel Narratives: The Value of Dislocation, Anne Wullschlager
Honors Theses from 2000
Determination of the wavelength dependence on the metal catalyzed degradation of the herbicide atrazine, Timothy Bertram