Content Posted in 2023
A Campus Divided: An Analysis of the Development and Practice of Social Hierarchies and Boundaries at a Private Liberal Arts College, Alexia Assimakopoulos '22
A. J. MacDonald’s Visits to the Shakers
All you need is trust: How middle manager leadership practices impact the work environment of their employees, Jacqueline Cleary '23
[Always] Kiss-and-Tell: A Study of the Gendered Perceptions and Uses of Gossip for Female-Identifying Students on College Campuses, Phoebe Hatch '23
An Analysis of Inequality During the Origins of States and Societies in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico, Josue Herrera Rivera '24
An Incomprehensible Passage of Time: Authorial Control and Bewilderment in “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Swimmer”, Eleonor Wolf '21
Anne Bradstreet, Margaret Olofson Thickstun
Anne Bradstreet’s Bible, Margaret Olofson Thickstun
A Personal Approach to Navigating and Understanding Differing Perspectives on Mental Health and Help-seeking Behaviors, Brenda Torres '22
A Portrait of Gertrice/Altrude: (Self-)Portraiture and Alterity in Gertrude Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Kyra Richardson '21
Archaeology as Advocacy: Celebrating Cultural Heritage and Promoting Sustainability in Transylvanian Mining Communities, Angela Escalante Zarco '25
Archaeothanatology and Museum Communication: Both Alike in Dignity, Kimberly Johnson '24
Arthur Once and Future: Death, Disunity, and Temporal Disjunction in The Awntyrs off Arthure, Clara Kohrman '22
“Asian American” as a Floating Signifier: Ascribing and Redefining Racial and Ethnic Identity at PWIs, Shania Kuo '23
Asians at Hamilton: The Asian and Asian American Experience, Jason Le '23, Nyaari Kothiya 23, Crystal Lin '22, Maya Nguyen-Haberneski '23, Min Yu Huang '24, Rachel Lu '22, Allie LeeHoffman '23, Khuslen Tulga '23, Michelle Liu '23, Anna Sakamoto '23, and Michelle Zheng '24
Bad Blood: Deconstructing Fantasies of Empathetic Capitalism in The Merchant of Venice and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Audrey Wallace '22
Bail Reform, Matthew Shang '22
Being Italian: The Peculiar Journey of Blackness, Heather Merrill
Belonging in Math and How it’s Affected by Groupwork, Kara Mathes '22
Bridging the Urban/Rural Divide: The Interconnected Factors Shaping Policy Preferences, Philip Bernstein '23
Canterbury’s Shaker Museum: Curating the Past During Times of Change and Crisis, Becky Soules
Champ-contre-champ: Slon/Iskra new social documentary through the lens of Jean-Louis Comolli’s militant cinephilia, Martine Guyot-Bender
“Cocaine, Girls, and Bebidas:” A View of Colombia Through the Lens of American Foreign Policy and Popular Media, Nicole Ramirez '23 and Katelyn Perruc '23
College as the Great Equalizer: The Relationship Between Social Class and Career Preparedness, Morgan Hartranft '22
Conflict & Creation: The Effects of Political Competition in Utica, New York’s Service Sector for the Unhoused, Ryan Swanson '24
Consuming Ideology: Advertising, Algorithms, and Individuation, Kyra Richardson 21
Contemplating Race and the Sentimental Genre in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Daniella M. Edwards '21
Defending the House of David: Mary Purnell’s 1923 Testimony before a Michigan Grand Jury, Brian D. Carroll
“Did You Eat?”: A Cross-Cultural and Comparative Ethnography of Chinese and Korean Food in Flushing, New York, Grace Park '25 and Angela Zheng '25
Digital Transfeminism in Response to TERF critiques of the Trans Law in Spain, Bailey Black '24
Discomfort through Disconnection: Hamilton College’s Online Portrayal of Students of Color, Michael Ghiorsi 23
Does it Mean to be Spicy Smart? Elucidating the Experiences of Students with Learning Disabilities at an Academically Rigorous College, Katherine Burnham '23
“Eat, and drink, and be merry”: A Clash Over the Opening of a Benedictine Brewery in Mid-Nineteenth- Century America, Philip Chivily
Ein kleiner Abriss von denen Irr- und Abwegen, derer von Gott gerufenen Seelen, Ezechiel Sangmeister and Ariel Godwin
Emotional Labor in Special Education Teachers, Eleanor Wefing '23
Emotion Regulation Socialization: Toward a Cohesive Family Model, Katharine Roberts '22
Environmental Equity and the Cosmetics Industry: The Effect of Class Upon Toxic Exposure, Sean Storr '22
Ephemera and the Politics of Memory in Argentina’s Archivo de la Memoria Trans, Hannah Lipskar '25
Ethical Use of Machine Learning in Higher Education Admission, Siqi Fang '23
Excelsior Beneath the Water: Spiritualism, Socialism, Flood and Tragedy in Utopia, Ohio 1847, Mitchell K. Jones
Expansion and Progress: Walt Whitman’s Visions and Revisions of American Prosperity, Samuel Dils '22
Experiential Learning in Mathematics, Lara Speer '23
Exploring Gender Stereotypes in Application: Is Maternal Warmth A Bonus or A Penalty for Women?, Rongchen (Kerry) Wang '25
Feeding our Past, Nourishing our Future: a Decolonizing Podcast, Emnet Sisay '22 and McKela Kanu '22
Feeling Like a Jew, Leo Ross '21
Finding One’s History: Beyond Chronology in L’amour, la fantasia, Martine Guyot-Bender
Fondu au noir: Passage à l'art, passage à l'oubli dans le cinéma de Rithy Panh, Martine Guyot-Bender
“For the benefit of Believers only”: The Remarkable Odyssey of Thirty Medical Receipts, Kerry Hackett
Frederick Williams Evans’s Letter to Alcander Longley in the Phalansterian Record, Christian Goodwillie
Friends in Hired Places: An Evaluation of Authority Mechanisms Among Peers in Higher Education Academic Resource Centers, Danny Lee '23
Gender Discrimination in AI, Nicole Papert '22
Gloria Naylor’s 1996: Where Form Breeds Content, Philip Marks '21
Heavy Metal Presence in the Connecticut River as a Product of Socioeconomic Status, Jennifer L. Gidicsin '25 and Sarah B. DeSanto '25
High Living: A Study of Social Predictors on College Student Marijuana Usage, Emely Chacon '22
Holes in the Fabric of a Shaker Village: Three Lost Buildings of the Harvard Shaker Society, Ned Quist
Holy and Homeless: Exploring the Relationship Between Homeless Shelters and Religion, Abigail Moone '23
How Did They Do It? The Path to Upward Mobility for Underprivileged African Americans, Nkosi Cooper '23
Imperfect Mirror: Affect, ethics, and homage in E.M. Forster’s Howards End and Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, Garret Lualdi '22
Incorporating Climate Change Resiliency into Urban Planning: Green Infrastructure in Boston and Copenhagen, Lia Cagnetta '24
Is U.S. News College Ranking a Weapon of Math Destruction?, Zhipeng Kui '22
Kaliflower: A Selection of Covers
Lead toxicology: a study at the intersections of community health, genetics, reproduction, and behavior, Sosina Abuhay 23, Lingli Zou '22, Sarah John '24, and Dylan Koproski '23
Leveling the Playing Field: Examining the Perceptions of Social Justice and Activism Among DIII College Athletes, Raymond Ni '24
Loyalty and Lust: A Close Reading of Aaron’s Interactions with Tamora in Modern Productions of Titus Andronicus, Isabel Bates '21
Making Do with Digital Distance: Understanding Underrepresented Minorities’ Unequal Experiences and Navigational Strategies in Predominantly White Remote Classrooms, Jahmali Iman Matthews '22
Maternal Care and Global Public Health: Bombay and Manchester, 1900–1950, Lisa Trivedi
Maturity in Children's Literature, Santiago (Santi) Chamorro '25
Morality and Motherhood: the Activists behind Book Banning, Hadley Noonan '25
Not Like the Other Girls: Tomboy Narratives in Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!, Rachel Lu '22
Not So Sexy Sex Ed: How Sex Education Impacts Sexual Script Formation, Violet Newhouse '23
Optically Trapped Fluorescent Nanodiamonds, Viva Horowitz
Performing Queenship: The Fairy Queen in the Elvetham and Ditchley Progresses, Majestic R. Terhune '21
Placemaking Theory and Geospatial Analyses: Examining Site Transformation from Settlement to Cemetery in Bronze Age Transylvania, Matthew Fiore '24
Poems and Meditations, Anne Bradstreet and Margaret Olofson Thickstun
Priests and Martyrs: The Second Engraved Title Page of Ephrata’s Martyrs Mirror, Jeff Bach
Providing Improved Livelihoods for Muskoka’s Stakeholders in the Time of Two Global Crises, Andrew Court '22
Queer Movement and Community in Colombia: The Influence and Importance of Social Media as Used by Museo Q, Daniel Rodriguez Vergara '26
Racial Bias in Health Care Machine Learning Algorithms, Esther Akinpelu '22
Reframing the Achievement Gap in Mathematics Education, Madeline Pavolovich '22
Review of The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul, Martine Guyot-Bender
Roti as Care, as Craft, as Community, Ravena Pernanand 21, Nandini Subramanium 22, Liam Garcia-Quish 23, Philip Chivily '23, and Maheen Masoud '24
Same Organization, Different Worlds: Exploring the Process of Organizational Change in DEI Initiative Implementation at a Small Liberal Arts College, Hannah Petersen '22
Schools: The Gender Playground An Analytic Approach to How Elementary School Children Learn About Gender, Katherine Hodulik '23
Senegal Liberations Project, Isabelle Crownhart 23, William Burstein 24, and Emma Tomlins 23
Silence and Reckoning – African-Italians in Popular Culture, Heather Merrill
‘That Gaze Across the Gulf of Being’: The Culture of Disalienation and its Limits in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, Samantha Tassillo '22
The Effect of Social Media on Polarization, John Burt '22
The Evolution of the “Woman Warrior”: Reconfiguring Asian American Femininity, Stephanie Wu '21
The Factory Debacle: the Shirley Shakers Seriously Overextend Their Talent and Financial Capability, Stephen J. Paterwic
The Impossible Theorem of Fairness, Man Nguyen '22
The Mathematics of Misinformation, Philip Cate '22
The ‘People’s Home’ for who?: How Social Distance Influence Swedish Politicians’ Views on Immigrant Groups, Melissa Corporan '23
The Status of Women, Lisa Trivedi
“The Town That Loves Refugees?”: Media Framing of Refugees in Utica, NY, Nevaeh Gutierrez '25 and Ainsley Novack '25
The Triumph of a Feminine Ethic of Care in Matthew Lewis’ The Monk, Alexandra Millar '22
The Unfortunate Shaker Cemetery at Watervliet, Ohio, Richard Spence
The Value in Imperfect Endeavors: Exploring Postcapitalist and Prefigurative Practices at East Wind Intentional Community, Olivia Chandler 23
The War and The Road: Revisiting the Authenticity of Ernest Hemingway and Jack Kerouac in an Age of Evolved Masculinity, John Sullivan '22
The Winter Army: The World War II Odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division, America's Elite Alpine Warriors, Maurice Isserman
The World is Your Oyster, Right? A Study on the Career Aspirations of College Students and the Factors that Affect Their Decisions, Anne Tulikangas '23
“This imperfect scrawl”: Neighbor Maria G. Ham Remembers the Canterbury Shakers, 1839-1908, Brian D. Carroll
“This just isn’t my culture.”: Understanding Sexual Messages and Controlling Images in Hip Hop Through Gender and Race, Steven Campos '22
Tips for Success in Math Courses, Joshua Horowitz '22
Toward a Moral Education in Literature: A Comparison of Lolita and Johnny Mad Dog, Haley Katz '21
“Trust Your Gut”: An Exploration of the Decisions of Vaccine Hesitant Mothers, Nina Lissarrague '22
Unlearning, Peter Christensen, Lawrence Chua, Samia Henni, and Lisa Trivedi
Unlocking the Roman à Clef: Gossip as a Literary Concept in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance, Genevieve Cohen '21
Unpacking The Imposed: The Colonial Binary, Hijras, and the Queering of India, Eric Cortes-Kopp '22
Using circadian rhythm disruption as a readout of the effects of lead toxicity on behavior, Sarah John '24 and Dylan Koproski '23
Using the Testimonies of the Life, Character, Revelations, and Doctrines of Mother Ann Lee to Recover Forgotten Shaker History: a Case in Point from Enfield, Connecticut, Stephen J. Paterwic
Violent Archetypes in Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher and Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season, Gregory Duke '22
Wake Up: The Urgent Appeal of Allan Pred, Lisa M. Hoffman, Katharyne Mitchell, and Heather Merrill
What Does it Mean to Shop “Green”? Exploring the Impact that Eco-Consumption has on College Students’ Self-Perceptions, Sydney Soloway '22
“Whatever is in you has to come out”: An Individual’s Journey through Bhagwan’s Communes and Beyond, Kate Biedermann
You are What You Wear: Clothing in College as a Means of Individual and Group Identity through a Social Constructionist Lens, Alex Markonish '23
Your Past, My Present: The Underlying Mechanisms of Persisting Racial Health Disparities, Dawun Smith '22