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 1997
‘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
Feminine Landscapes, Maternal Groves, and Mystic Gardens: Constructions of Nature in the Contemporary Fiction of African-American Women, Elizabeth Train
Honors Theses from 1996
Excavation of structure 1A-48 in the urban core of La Sierra & investigation into development of the urban core in a late classic settlement Naco Valley, Honduras, Peter A. Agelasto IV
Moments of Being in the Life and Work of Virginia Woolf, Suzanne Arnold
Synthesis of a PEG-bipolar-dimyristoylphosphatidylethanoline, Hacho Bohos Bohossian
Fine, Good Women' and 'Meeting Québec', Sarah Borchers
Outside the Discourse of Patriarchy: helene Cixous and Ecriture Feminine, Carrie Califano
Hypertext: You Said You Want a Revolution!!, Dori Deis
Methods and methodologies for organic synthesis, Frank Favaloro
Remote marine aerosol in the Gulf of Maine: an SEM study, Eric S. Gordon
State of the world's promise: the children are waiting..., Anna Hamlen
Determination of wavelength dependent quantum yields for iron (III) photoreduction in well defined chloride media, J. Catherine Kneece
US Conference of Mayors: National Office Paper Recycling Project, January 1996 - May 1996, Katharine Laurence
Alternatives to nitroprusside as hypotensive agents, Timothy Casey McCullough
(De)Constructing the Good/Evil Dualism: American Gothic Fiction, Psychic Tensions, and the Face of Fear, Sarah Morgan
Naming Personal power: In(ter)dependence in Audre Lorde’s Biomytholography Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Heather Moylan
The Call of the West: Mary Austin and The Desert Experience, Amy Phalon
Spinning the Wheel of Globalization: Employment Effects on the French and Mexican Spokes, Jennifer Pope
Studies directed toward the total synthesis and analoging of a natural product iron chelator, Kevin Peter Rice
Application of a CCD-Based Raman Spectroscopy System, Wilfredo Rodriguez Alvarez
The Semiotics of Hysteria: Conversatons with Charlotte as Woman, Writers, Hysteric, Jodi Schwartz
La pícara Justina: La condenación de la voz marginada del siglo XVII en España, Carmen E. Spear
A Computational and Experimental Investigation of the Pinacol Coupling and Rearrangement Reactions, Ryan Sullivan
Balancing Development: The Neoliberal Economy and Women in Chile, Marybeth Thomson
Elemental Analysis of Individual Particles from the Penobscot Bay Estuary, Matthew D. Weaver
Poet and Child: Unreconciled Opposites in Wordsworth’s Poetry, Brett Wilfrid
Honors Theses from 1995
Pay Inside: Two Elm Street Stories, Darren Bruce
Ken Kesey and the Societal Machine: The Quest for Transcendence of Life’s 'Mundane Certainties', Joshua Burker
The Trouble Inside: Alcoholism in Raymond Carver’s Short Stories and Poetry, Jonathan Cannon
Life and Death: The Religious, Philosophical and Moral Dilemmas in Medicine, Brendan James Cavanaugh
Exploration of heteroatom effects on reactive and structural properties of bicyclic systems, John A. Charlton
DNA interstrand crosslinking efficiencies, sequence preferences, and organic syntheses of diepoxide metabolites in fixation, Sara Charnecki
Diners in America : an evolutionary process, Jill Gardner
Pinacol coupling of cycloalkanones, Andrew E. Greenberg
Met-him-pike-hoses: The Joycean Hero and the Novels of Flann O’Brien and John Banville, Brian Gressler
Determination of Hydroxyl Radical Production Rates in Natural Waters Using the Fluorometric Reagent p-Hydroxyphenylacetic Acid, Jason D. Hosmer
The Schwarmgeister: The Development of Ecclesiastical Doctrine Through Schismatic Movements, Michael Neal Kaplan
Picking Up Where We Left Off: a novella, Jennifer Kelley
Willa Cather’s Pioneering Women, Kerry Knudsen
Female Awakening Literature Across Cultures, K. C. Lawler
James Welch: Finding Identities from the Past, Deanna Loew
The Quiet Ecstasy of a Woman Artist: Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941, Jennifer McIntosh
Harlem Renaissance and the intertextuality of the arts of passing, Anne McManus
Photoreduction of iron in natural waters, Matt Metz
Synthetic pathways towards natural products development of a general oxepane methodology, Evelyn Olivares
Driving to the Interior: Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetic of Self, Loss, and the Imagination, Eryn Paini
Transitions in masculinity and Hemingway's developed "code", Daniel Polk
Margaret Atwood: Canadian Women’s Individuality, Nationalism and voice in Surfacing and Cat’s Eye, Karen Rose
Electronic and Steric Factors Affecting Reactivity at a Heteroatom, Joshua Michael Smith
Consciousness, Confession, and Suicide: Efforts at Heroism in Camus’s Fiction, Erika Troseth
Myth and Society: Functions, Uses, and Abuses of Myth in Society, Frederick F. Webster
Role of the US Military in Humanitarian Interventions: The Case of Somalia, Delia C. Welsh
Syntheses of Cross-Linking Agents, Molecular Modeling of Oligonucleotides and Polypeptide-Ion Complexes, Michael J. Yunes
Honors Theses from 1994
Spies like us? : An analysis of six 1980s spy films and the images they presented about the Cold War, Jason Bologna
Love, sex, & family: radical revisionings of the Oneida community, Cathryn Czernicki
Old Like Hills, Like Stars The Poetry and Oral Tradition of Simon Oritz, Darren DeMonsi
The Female Language Barrier: A Close Reading of the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Adrienne Rich, Annmarie Faiella
Investigations of Iron Cycling in Aquatic Systems, Heather A. Lounsbury
Studies in pinacol rearrangement and coupling, Gregory T. Lynch
For Better or For Worse: Ernest Hemingway’s Nick Adams as the Barometer for 'Lost Generation' Male Marital Attitudes. 1920-1940., Erik K. Mortenson
Purification and analysis of protein synthetic initiation factors from Volvox Carteri, Kathie L. Pooler
Studies directed toward the synthesis of natural products, Sarri Salah Salman
John Steinbeck’s Phalanx Theory: A Study of the Dichotomous Relationship Between the Needs of the Individual and Those of society in Depression-Era America, Heather Skye Stewart
The Politics of Privatization in Egypt, Michelle Tadros
Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Almanac of the Dead: A Journey through the Past, as a Guide to the Future, Cecily Totten
The Macroeconomic Effects of Economic Integration on Developing Economies: The Case of Spain and Implications for Mexico, Jennifer L. Zwick
Honors Theses from 1993
Lucille Clifton: Speaking in the Affirmative Voice, Signe L. Burns
Different Windows: An Examination of Delano’s Narrative and Melville’s Benito Cereno, Christopher Chamberlain
Rejecting the Dream: A Socio-Historical Reading of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, Alison Coburn
Cinderella’s Legacy, M. Beth Cronin
Melting the Snow Man: Language as a Description, in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens, D. Martin Hergert
The Evolution of the Influence of Hindu Religious Thought on the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Matthew Isham
Nitrogen fixation: polypyridyl azido complexes of ruthenium, Louise Jalbert
The Western Imagination-Norman Maclean and N. Scott Momady. Literary Landscapes: Rivers, Mesas, and Big Sky, Matthew Kearns
The Refraction of Culture in 20th C Southern Literature: A Study of the Fiction of Warren, Faulkner, and Welty, Shawn Laurien Lambert
Intruders Upon a Personal New England, Catherine Nash
Myth and Counter-Myth in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Radcliffe