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 2000
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
Honors Theses from 1998
Modeling the economic growth of Greece, Karolos A. Alexakos
The Power of the Press: A Content Analysis of Congressional Press Coverage in National, Regional, and Local Newspapers., Kendra Page Ammann
Deja vu in 1946: Reinterpreting the Origins of Containment, Jonathan Barry
Astride the black horse : the politicization of famine relief operations in the Third World, Jon Bolton
Approaches to the synthesis of two substituted aromatic natural products, Shana Bondi
The African-American Bildungstroman: The Creation of a Collective Genre, Ellen Bruce
The Harlem Renaissance: The Cultural Reassessment of Afro-American in the American Urban Landscape, Carrie Clough
Across the sea: African musical elements in African-American vocal music and literature, Kate Conklin
Molecular Design and Association Constants of Nizatidine-Guest Complexes, Elizabeth Corbeil
Of Poets and Killers: Solipsistc Seekers of Artistic Immortality in Vladimir Nabokov’s Fiction, Harris Eisenstadt
Heroic Endurance: Sequences of Religious Design in Hemingway, Tara Falsani
Contributions of private investment in post-conflict Guatemala: evidence from socially responsible Maquiladoras, Jeana L. Flahive
"Entre la espada y la pared" : "Up against the wall": Bolivian coca farmers and alternative development under the Estrategia Boliviana de la lucha contra el narcotráfico 1998-2002, Heather Anne Golding
Approaches and Methodologies for the Synthesis of Aromatic Natural Products, Christina A. Goudreau
Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Their Readers: Subterfuge, Challenge, and Transcndance in Victorian Gender Politics, M. Joann Harnden
Are NGOs the answer? Two cases of ecotourism development in Nicaragua, Liza Hillel
Alternatives to nitroprusside, William T. Hiscock
The Sweet Valley Series: The Transmission and Reeption of Cultural Ieologies Through Popular Literature, Alyssa Hughes
Continue with the old or start anew? An examination of Congressional election theories in the context of the 1946, 1948, 1994 and 1996 elections, Elizabeth Ivry
(Re)Written on the body: Intertextuality and the Scarred Black Female Body in Contemporary African-American Women’s Literature, Holly Kozlowski
Determinative factors of decision making in Congress: an analysis of sub-party coalitions, Benjamin Ling
Fire Man (a screenplay), Andrew Magary
DNA Bending Induced by Diepoxybutane, Elisabeth Aimee Pimentel
Waterlogged: A Novella in Four Voices, Brook Pisarsky
New approches to oxepane systems, Kenneth P. Raiche
Methods of pentacene and related organic molecules for semiconductor applications, Emily Reith
Missing from the Miracle: Microcredit and Urban Market Women in Bolivia, Stephanie L. Small
The Predicament of Woman’s Propriety in Hane Austen’s Sense and Sensibiity., Katie Taylor
Temporarily and other stories, Catherine Torphy
Demystifying the "Amy Tan Phenomenon" - The Contemporary Popularization of Asian American Women's Literature, Kristin M. Wildman
quiet ditches, Shelley Wollert
Honors Theses from 1997
Desiring Against Empire: Homoeroticism and Patriarchy in J.r. Ackerley and E.M. Forster, Zahid Chaudhary
Celluloid blackness : race, modernity, and the conflicted roots of American cinema (1915-1939), Lincoln Farr
In Harmony: a novella, Robert Gee
Signal transduction pathways in Volvox Carteri, Heide Girardin
‘This the childrens heard from our own lips’: History, Orality and the Black Female Body as Text, Caroline Guy
Mirabai's divine poetic: a feminist reading, Emily Heiss
The Woman Behind the Monster: The New Woman and Sexual Politics of the 1890’s, Danielle Herget
Firefall and Other Stories, Rebecca Hoogs
Piedras De Luz, Stones of Light: Translations from Spanish, Nicole Marina LaBrecque
Virginia Woolf and the Constructing, Destructing, and Reconstructing of Gender, Amanda Magary
Predicting Gibb's free energy changes for chemical processes: interaction of cations with poly-y-glutamate, Stephanie Mann
For Was It Truth and Faithfulness? The Destruction of Camelot Through Passionate Love, Kelsey Miller
Storytelling as it Deconstructs Linear Time in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead, Erika Moore
Trails and Other Stories, Alicia Nemiccolo
Calcium metabolismn in Volvox Carteri, Bridget Anne Neville
Characterization and purification of a novel calcium binding protein in the nematocysts of Metridium senile, Joshua Oeltjen
Computational studies of hydroboration: remote functional groups and ring size effects, Sarah Liberty Olbrich
You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me: Covenant in Faith and History, David H. Palmieri
Suspended particulate matter and sediment of Penobscot Estuary, Craig M. Pochini
A Farmer’s Almanac and other stories, David Regan
¿Diversión, subversión, o desconstrucción?: la cuestión de la conversión en Ozmín y Daraja, Anthony Rosenfeld
"Vox Populi, Vox Dei" - A Discussion of Dissent Within the Modern Catholic Church, Sleven W. Suomi