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 2001
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
To Read and Live On: Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and the Craft of Fiction, Christine Beveridge
Study concerning the initiation of the American preoccupation with diet and body image, Janet Bordelon
Written for the Screen: a Screenplay, Erik Bowie
Environmental effects of economic sanctions: the Cuban experience, Amanda Carucci
DNA interstrand cross-linking by a diepoxide mycotoxin, Jacob Conklin
American Holocaust Films: A Case Study in Jewish American Identity (1937-1993), Jeff Daniels
Interactions of Ti(IV) and Sn(IV) Organometallic Complexes with Double-stranded DNA, Katherine MacDonald Davies
Life, Like, A. Greg De St Maurice
Anger and reconciliation: relations between the United States and India, 1953-1956, Tom Donahue
Heroines Breaking Boundaries For a Sense of Self, Kelly Fanning
Erec and Enide: A prose version of the poem by Chrétien de Troyes, Reba Frederics
Consumed by Faith: The development of Christian Fundamentalism and its applications in contemporary society, Laura M. Gagne
John Keats and the Flight from Class Identity, Karrie Hamel
New balance of threat: East Asian alliance formation and capacity development, Ben Humphreys
H2O2/iron/UV catalyzed degradation of the herbicide 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, Chaz Langelier
Amaterasu the Japanese Sun Goddess: Her evolution through the lenses of humans, Catherine A. McDonough
A Demon in My View: stories influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, James McGrath
Determination of nizatidine-guest complexation constants and computer aided molecular design, Carolyn J. Mordas
Econometric Modeling: The Venezuelan Economy, Maria Graciela Gonzalez Muller
Hero for the ages: the personality and character of Arnold Palmer, David Normoyle
Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Susan Glaspell in 1920s America, Amelia Schultz
Confronting Domination While Confronting Domination: A Look at the Bureaucratization of an Activist Group and the "Contradictory Character of Social Movements, Brendon M. Smith
A Computational Approach to Determining Stability Constants for Transition Metal Ion Complexes, Jason St. Clair
The Myths & Realities of the Soviet Partisan Movement - An Analysis of the Soviet Partisan Movement in the Second Workd War: 1941-1945, Emmanuel M. Thomann
Touching Ordinary, Christina Tinglof
Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War, Christopher Tracy
A Catechol Approach to Natural Product Synthesis, Michelle E. Weber
Cisplatin Interstrand Cross-linking of Defined Sequence Nucleosomal DNA, Erin Elizabeth Wilkes
Honors Theses from 1999
Humanism and the Ignatian Spirit, Sam Atkins
To bribe or not to bribe? U.S.-led attempts at nuclear compensation in Ukraine and North Korea, Jacob Berg
Women, Men and Chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Le Morte D’arthur, and the Mists of Avalon, Erika Blauch
Enlightened Paths: A Comparative Study of the Zen Gardens of Japan and the Mughul Gardens of India, Selby M. Conrad
Thinking Form: A Defense of Free Verse and the Virtues of Traditional Form, Dennis d’Angelo
The Innocents Abroad; Class, Gender, and the Transcendence of Provincialism in the European-based Fiction of Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Ernest Hemingway, Mackenzie Dawson
Listen, Alli DeGroot
Robert Altman’s Vision For Raymond Carver’s Short Cuts, Ezra Dyer
The Aging of the Baby Boomers: A Social Problem?, Gina Mía Espinosa-Salcedo
Abraham Sutzkever and Langston Hughes: The Challenge of a Unified and Particular Cultural Nation, Peter Gaines
Tree hugging revived: the environment, development politics, and religious social protest in Thailand, Jane Hajeck
Democracy through drugs: the role of coca in Bolivia's democratic consolidation, Shane Hoffman
American Civil Religion in the 20th century, Mathew J. Huse
Slouching Toward Bethlehem: Violence and the Grotesque Body in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor, Kristen Lee
Fostering success in elite pacted transitions to democracy: comparative analysis of transition in Spain, Poland and Hungary, Melissa Maguire
From Objectification to Autonomy: Creation of Identity through the Language of the Wife of Bath, Criseyde/Cressida, and Cleopatra, Julie McMaster
Holy Macaroni!, Heather E. Miles
Veil of charity: imagery and power dynamics in the United States Peace Corps, Laura Neale
Blue dogs to new dogs: the Democratic Leadership Council and party survival, Alexander Quigley
The Trickster Figure and Its Significance in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks and Love Machine, Jennie Record
British War Poetry and German Expressionism in World War I: An Enemy Connection?, Kevin Reddall
Exploration of immigration, industrialization & ethnicity in Waterville, Maine, Amy E. Rowe
Visions of Workplace Equality in the Supreme Court's Sexual Harassment Jurisprudence, Lyndall E. Schuster
The Different Voice: Louise Labe and the Evolution of Women's Writing, Jamie Smith
The Rise of Russian Jewish Politics: Russian Anti-Semitism, and the Jewish Political Response At the End of the Nineteenth Century, Eric N. Suchman
Shaping Realities: A Study of the Connection Between White Hegemony in Popular Culture and the Deprecatory Self-Image of African Americans, Rebecca Thornton
Locating Shangri-La in a Colonial Past: Himalayan History, Travel, Development and Myth-Making, Joshua Waldman
He of the Prudent Soul': Leopold Bloom and the Mock-Heroic in Ulysses, Braxton Williams
Sorting Out the American Dream - The Short Stories of Raymond Carver, Matt Williams
The Makhnovist Movement: Peasant Rebels as Anarcho-Communists in War-torn Ukraine, Russell Young