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.
2024
Decolonizing Spaces: A Comparative Study of Two Art Museums' Initiatives Towards Inclusivity and Representation, Kate Bacigalupo '24
A Sexual Utopia: Three Words that do not Describe College, Christina Bagin '24
Loud Cheers and Quiet Whispers: The Impact of Leadership and Gossip on a Collegiate Soccer Team’s Cohesion and Motivational Climate, Julia Rose Brous '24
Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Information Privacy, James Gunder Frazier '24
Crossing Borders, Bridging Care: Examining Reproductive Healthcare Access and Health-seeking Behaviors among Migrant Women in Utica, Anusha Karki '24
Understanding the Achievement Gap: The Effects of Race and Gender on Educational Attainment and Income, Stephen Kelly '24
It’s a (Parasocial) Love Story, Baby Just Say Yes: A Procedural Exploration of the Creation and Maintenance of the Taylor Swift, Sage Lively '24
The Gender of Parenting: Parent-Child Relationships in Post-Divorce Families, Lilian MacVeagh '24
Trust Dynamics between the Unhoused and their Service Providers, Bram Mansbach '24
The Digital Persona: The Role of Strategic Self-Presentation Among Emerging Adults on Instagram, Emily McGovern '24
“We’re All Just Kids!”: A Sociological Exploration of The Meaning of Play for Individual Actors, Aising Mockler '24
“Where Does the Distinction Lie?” The Impact of Public and Private High School Resourcing on Students’ Transition to an Elite College, Melissa Morelli '24
“Consuming Identity: The Intersection of Consumer Culture and Student Identity in Elite Academia”, Olivia Morrow '24
Contested Classrooms: How Partisan Politics Shape the Discourse on Inclusive Education in Public High Schools, Raymond Ni '24
Know Thyself? Network Creation in Postgraduate Urban Environments, Jack O'Haire '24
Underground Sound, Rebecca Pomerantz '24
Primary Care Provider Practice Patterns and Perspectives in Health Provider Shortage Areas (HPSA) and non-HPSAs, Aliana Potter '24
Inside an Urban Charter School: What are Marginalized Students Learning?, Natalia Reboredo '24
2023
The Dead's Guide to Healing, Lara Barreira '25
Bridging the Urban/Rural Divide: The Interconnected Factors Shaping Policy Preferences, Philip Bernstein '23
Digital Transfeminism in Response to TERF critiques of the Trans Law in Spain, Bailey Black '24
New History or Old Nationalism, Quinn Brown '24
Does it Mean to be Spicy Smart? Elucidating the Experiences of Students with Learning Disabilities at an Academically Rigorous College, Katherine Burnham '23
Incorporating Climate Change Resiliency into Urban Planning: Green Infrastructure in Boston and Copenhagen, Lia Cagnetta '24
Maturity in Children's Literature, Santiago (Santi) Chamorro '25
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
Archaeology as Advocacy: Celebrating Cultural Heritage and Promoting Sustainability in Transylvanian Mining Communities, Angela Escalante Zarco '25
Placemaking Theory and Geospatial Analyses: Examining Site Transformation from Settlement to Cemetery in Bronze Age Transylvania, Matthew Fiore '24
Heavy Metal Presence in the Connecticut River as a Product of Socioeconomic Status, Jennifer L. Gidicsin '25 and Sarah B. DeSanto '25
“The Town That Loves Refugees?”: Media Framing of Refugees in Utica, NY, Nevaeh Gutierrez '25 and Ainsley Novack '25
Preservation or Innovation: The Impacts of Colonialism and the Economy on Traditional Moroccan Crafts, Syra Gutow '24
[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
Archaeothanatology and Museum Communication: Both Alike in Dignity, Kimberly Johnson '24
“The Neighborhood Speaks”: A Narrative Study of New York City’s Bodegas, Willa Karr '25
“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
Ephemera and the Politics of Memory in Argentina’s Archivo de la Memoria Trans, Hannah Lipskar '25
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
Leveling the Playing Field: Examining the Perceptions of Social Justice and Activism Among DIII College Athletes, Raymond Ni '24
Morality and Motherhood: the Activists behind Book Banning, Hadley Noonan '25
“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
Queer Movement and Community in Colombia: The Influence and Importance of Social Media as Used by Museo Q, Daniel Rodriguez Vergara '26
Conflict & Creation: The Effects of Political Competition in Utica, New York’s Service Sector for the Unhoused, Ryan Swanson '24
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
Exploring Gender Stereotypes in Application: Is Maternal Warmth A Bonus or A Penalty for Women?, Rongchen (Kerry) Wang '25
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 phylogeography and invasion history of jumping worms on the Hamilton College campus inferred through populations genetics, Dylan Morse '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