Student Works is a growing list of scholarship by Hamilton students that will include course projects, public presentations, grant-supported research, and senior theses.
Browse student works below by year or visit featured projects.
2023
Bridging the Urban/Rural Divide: The Interconnected Factors Shaping Policy Preferences, Philip Bernstein '23
Does it Mean to be Spicy Smart? Elucidating the Experiences of Students with Learning Disabilities at an Academically Rigorous College, Katherine Burnham '23
All you need is trust: How middle manager leadership practices impact the work environment of their employees, Jacqueline Cleary '23
How Did They Do It? The Path to Upward Mobility for Underprivileged African Americans, Nkosi Cooper '23
The ‘People’s Home’ for who?: How Social Distance Influence Swedish Politicians’ Views on Immigrant Groups, Melissa Corporan '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
Schools: The Gender Playground An Analytic Approach to How Elementary School Children Learn About Gender, Katherine Hodulik '23
“Asian American” as a Floating Signifier: Ascribing and Redefining Racial and Ethnic Identity at PWIs, Shania Kuo '23
Friends in Hired Places: An Evaluation of Authority Mechanisms Among Peers in Higher Education Academic Resource Centers, Danny Lee '23
You are What You Wear: Clothing in College as a Means of Individual and Group Identity through a Social Constructionist Lens, Alex Markonish '23
Not So Sexy Sex Ed: How Sex Education Impacts Sexual Script Formation, Violet Newhouse '23
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
Emotional Labor in Special Education Teachers, Eleanor Wefing '23
2022
Racial Bias in Health Care Machine Learning Algorithms, Esther Akinpelu '22
A Campus Divided: An Analysis of the Development and Practice of Social Hierarchies and Boundaries at a Private Liberal Arts College, Alexia Assimakopoulos '22
The Effect of Social Media on Polarization, John Burt '22
“This just isn’t my culture.”: Understanding Sexual Messages and Controlling Images in Hip Hop Through Gender and Race, Steven Campos '22
The Mathematics of Misinformation, Philip Cate '22
High Living: A Study of Social Predictors on College Student Marijuana Usage, Emely Chacon '22
Accessible and Intuitive Mathematical Notation, Anthony Christiana '22
Expansion and Progress: Walt Whitman’s Visions and Revisions of American Prosperity, Samuel Dils '22
Violent Archetypes in Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher and Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season, Gregory Duke '22
Ethical Use of Machine Learning in Higher Education Admission, Siqi Fang '23
Cross-Sectoral Climate Change Modeling, Jeremy Gordon '22
College as the Great Equalizer: The Relationship Between Social Class and Career Preparedness, Morgan Hartranft '22
Tips for Success in Math Courses, Joshua Horowitz '22
Arthur Once and Future: Death, Disunity, and Temporal Disjunction in The Awntyrs off Arthure, Clara Kohrman '22
Is U.S. News College Ranking a Weapon of Math Destruction?, Zhipeng Kui '22
How Does FICO Score Discriminates People?, Stephana Lim '22
Imperfect Mirror: Affect, ethics, and homage in E.M. Forster’s Howards End and Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, Garret Lualdi '22
Not Like the Other Girls: Tomboy Narratives in Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!, Rachel Lu '22
Ranked Choice Voting: Who’s the real winner?, Brendan Magill '23
Belonging in Math and How it’s Affected by Groupwork, Kara Mathes '22
The Triumph of a Feminine Ethic of Care in Matthew Lewis’ The Monk, Alexandra Millar '22
The Impossible Theorem of Fairness, Man Nguyen '22
Gender Discrimination in AI, Nicole Papert '22
Reframing the Achievement Gap in Mathematics Education, Madeline Pavolovich '22
Same Organization, Different Worlds: Exploring the Process of Organizational Change in DEI Initiative Implementation at a Small Liberal Arts College, Hannah Petersen '22
Emotion Regulation Socialization: Toward a Cohesive Family Model, Katharine Roberts '22
Bail Reform, Matthew Shang '22
Your Past, My Present: The Underlying Mechanisms of Persisting Racial Health Disparities, Dawun Smith '22
What Does it Mean to Shop “Green”? Exploring the Impact that Eco-Consumption has on College Students’ Self-Perceptions, Sydney Soloway '22
Experiential Learning in Mathematics, Lara Speer '23
Bias in Mortgage Approval Algorithms, Carter Steckbeck '22
The War and The Road: Revisiting the Authenticity of Ernest Hemingway and Jack Kerouac in an Age of Evolved Masculinity, John Sullivan '22
‘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
A Personal Approach to Navigating and Understanding Differing Perspectives on Mental Health and Help-seeking Behaviors, Brenda Torres '22
Bad Blood: Deconstructing Fantasies of Empathetic Capitalism in The Merchant of Venice and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Audrey Wallace '22
2021
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
Racial Injustice and the Black Lives Matter Movement, Owen Anastas '22, Jade Levitin '23, Lena Schneck '23, Hannah Terao '23, and Kelcie Zarle '22
HR Executive Perspectives on Alignment with Executive Strategy: Conclusions from Six Conversational Interviews, Drew Anderson '21
Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and Development in Transylvanian Rural Landscapes, Elizabeth Arnold '22
Loyalty and Lust: A Close Reading of Aaron’s Interactions with Tamora in Modern Productions of Titus Andronicus, Isabel Bates '21
Race Talk Amongst White Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Steven Campos '22
The Value in Imperfect Endeavors: Exploring Postcapitalist and Prefigurative Practices at East Wind Intentional Community, Olivia Chandler 23
Hyperpop: How Streaming Services Create and Control Genre Through Curation, Anthony Christiana '22
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
Providing Improved Livelihoods for Muskoka's Stakeholders in the Time of Two Global Crises, Andrew Court '22
Providing Improved Livelihoods for Muskoka’s Stakeholders in the Time of Two Global Crises, Andrew Court '22
Senegal Liberations Project, Isabelle Crownhart 23, William Burstein 24, and Emma Tomlins 23
Boring Myself to Death, Henry Curcio '21
All the Shifts: Mothering and Working in the Pandemic Era, Kaela Dunne '22
Contemplating Race and the Sentimental Genre in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Daniella M. Edwards '21
Unprecedented Times?: Analyzing the Experiences of Mothers during the COVID-19 Pandemic Using a Disaster Sociology Framework, Caroline Freundel '24
Unsung Heroines: Why Do Mothers Feel Forgotten?, Ashley Garcia '22
Discomfort through Disconnection: Hamilton College’s Online Portrayal of Students of Color, Michael Ghiorsi 23
Labor Trafficking in the U.S., Abby Goodman '21, Laura Jeffries '23, Maeve Wroblewski '23, and Tiffany Lopes '21
Pathways to a Zero Carbon New York: Understanding Solar Resistance and Overcoming Barriers to Renewable Deployment, Emory Goodwin '23, Carson Halabi '22, Madison Hurtgen '22, and Lillian Norton-Brainerd '23
An Analysis of Inequality During the Origins of States and Societies in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico, Josue Herrera Rivera '24
The Effects of Intergroup versus Intragroup Relations in Police Use of Force, Olivia James '23
Using circadian rhythm disruption as a readout of the effects of lead toxicity on behavior, Sarah John '24 and Dylan Koproski '23
Toward a Moral Education in Literature: A Comparison of Lolita and Johnny Mad Dog, Haley Katz '21
Collection of Solitary Confinement Witness Testimony, Brooke Kessler '22, Lynn Kim '21, Drew Frey '23, Percy Mixson '24, and Tatum Barclay '22
Internalized Paternal Exclusion From the Inside Out: How Has COVID Changed It?, 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
The Asian and Asian American Experience Through Film & Personal Narrative, Jason Le 23, Nyaari Kothiya 23, and Anna Sakamoto 23
“Trust Your Gut”: An Exploration of the Decisions of Vaccine Hesitant Mothers, Nina Lissarrague '22
Virginia's Criminal Justice System's Current Treatment for People with Mental Illnesses: Some Recommendations Based on What Has Worked (and What Has Not), Anokhi Manchanda '22 and Tomas Alvarez-Perez '22
Gloria Naylor’s 1996: Where Form Breeds Content, Philip Marks '21
Color Consciousness or Blindness in the Face of Race: White parent’s approach to race during the BLM protests of 2020, Jahmali Matthews '22
Holy and Homeless: Exploring the Relationship Between Homeless Shelters and Religion, Abigail Moone '23
Roti as Care, as Craft, as Community, Ravena Pernanand 21, Nandini Subramanium 22, Liam Garcia-Quish 23, Philip Chivily '23, and Maheen Masoud '24
“We’re Just Trying to Get Through It”: Looking at the Main Concerns of Mothers During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Hannah Petersen '22
“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
A Portrait of Gertrice/Altrude: (Self-)Portraiture and Alterity in Gertrude Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Kyra Richardson '21
Consuming Ideology: Advertising, Algorithms, and Individuation, Kyra Richardson 21
Feeling Like a Jew, Leo Ross '21
Environmental Equity and the Cosmetics Industry: The Effect of Class Upon Toxic Exposure, Sean Storr '22
Performing Queenship: The Fairy Queen in the Elvetham and Ditchley Progresses, Majestic R. Terhune '21
An Incomprehensible Passage of Time: Authorial Control and Bewilderment in “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Swimmer”, Eleonor Wolf '21
The Evolution of the “Woman Warrior”: Reconfiguring Asian American Femininity, Stephanie Wu '21
2020
Archaeology as Advocacy: Celebrating Cultural Heritage and Promoting Sustainability in Transylvania Mining Communities, Elizabeth Arnold '22
The Gendered Challenges of At-Home Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Kaja Bielecka '21
Proposing a Sustainable Future for the Muskoka Region, Andrew Court '22
Friendship and Partiality: Toward a Theory of Virtue, Henry Curcio '21
Giving and Buying: Exploring College Students’ Construction of Moral Identity Through Moral Action, Claire Curran '20
‘305 Till I Die’: A Study of Pre-Hurricane Humor in Miami, Diana Escorcia "20