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.
2021
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
The Implications of Skin Tone Stratification in Latinx Perspectives of Race, Ashley Garcia '22
Do the Formal and Informal Administrative and Faculty Practices at Elite College Force Students Question, Harden, or Change Their Political Beliefs?, Nate Goodman '20
Social Justice Education as Anti-Poverty Work: Undergraduates Facilitating Culturally Relevant Learning Among Local Youth, Elizabeth Greene '23
Hangovers Don’t Last But Drunk Mems Do, So Drink Up: Sociological Explanations for Excessive Drinking in College, Sammy Johnson '20
Born an Exception, Yanki Kung '23
Getting Drivers out of the Driver’s Seat: Successful Methods to Cause Mode Shift Towards Mass Transit in the United States, Marc Lincer '20
Parenting Approaches during Unprecedented Times, Jahmali Matthews '22
Making Do with Digital Distance: Understanding Underrepresented Minorities’ Unequal Experiences and Navigational Strategies in Predominantly White Remote Classrooms, Jahmali Iman Matthews '22
How Do We Win? Factors and Definitions of Success in Division III Athletics at a Competitive, Liberal Arts College, Annie McClanahan '20
Are You What You Eat? A Study Into Our Reasons For Eating Authentic Food, Ligia Mayte Mendoza '20
“This Isn’t Chiraq. This Is Home. This Is Us:” Media Framing in the Construction of Victimhood, Olivia Mills '20
Assessment of the Owego Creek Stream Restoration Project, Park Settlement Road Site: A Reevaluation of Stream Habitat and Water Quality, Dylan Morse '22
Social Justice Education as Anti-Poverty Work: Undergraduates’ Experiential Learning in Childhood and Youth Spaces, Riley Nichols '21
First-Generation Nation: Analyzing the College Transition Experiences of First-Generation Students at an Elite Postsecondary Institution, Edgar Otero '20
Is the Collegiate Playing Field All That Equal?, Grace Passannante '20
Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder, but Our Eyes are Not Colorblind: White Beauty Standards’ Impact on Black and South Asian American Women, Ashley Ramcharan '20
Late to the Club: Small Group Membership and the Secondary Socialization of January Admits, Geoffrey A. Ravenhall Meinke '20
“¿Porque no está en español?”: Voices of Latinx Mothers Within the Special Education System in the South Bronx, Anyi Rescalvo '22
When the Tutor Is a Lady: Exploring the Gendered Dimensions of Writing Center Work, Sarah Salimi '20
Improvisation: Trust Us, This Is All Made Up!, Erica Seff '20
A&Q Presents: February 19, 2020, Genevieve Shuster '20 and Claire Nicholson '20
Feeding our Past, Nourishing our Future: a Decolonizing Podcast, Emnet Sisay '22 and McKela Kanu '22
Electoral Certainty and Policy Uncertainty in Authoritarian Regimes: Russia as a Case Study, Jenny Tran '22
The Social Algorithm: Understanding Social Influence on Online Video Consumption on YouTube, Joshua Vega '20
Hidden In Plain Sight: A Sociological Exploration Into How Students with Invisible and Visible Disabilities Navigate an Able- Bodied Campus, Charlotte Wynn '20
Barbells and Boys’ Clubs: The Gendering of Space in an Ostensibly Gender-Neutral College Gym, Hannah Young '20
The Economics of Friendship: How Socioeconomic Status is Involved in Friendship Formation and Selection on Campus, Matthew Zeitler '20
2019
The Treatment of People with Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System: The Example of Oneida County, New York, Alexander Black '19, Kylie Davis '18, Kenneth Gray '20, Connor O'Shea '18, Alexander Scheuer '18, Samantha Walther '18, Nico Yardas '18, Frank M. Anechiarico, Ralph Eannace, and Jennifer Ambrose
A&Q Presents: September 25, 2019, Kayley Boddy '22 and Ruth Coolidge '21
A&Q Presents: September 25, 2019, Kayley Boddy '22 and Ruth Coolidge '21
Representing Childbirth: Making and Unmaking Language to Communicate Experiences of the Body, Sabrina Boutselis '19
The Endless Scroll: Understanding Social Media Consumption Habits Among College Students, Tatiana Bradley
Film Paper Shelter Food, Emily Buff
“Waking up White”: How White People Develop Positive Racial Attitudes in an Era of Color-Blind Racism, Jenna Columbia
Combating Deception in Genocide, Alexander Cook '20
A&Q Presents: October 23, 2019, Avery Cook '21 and Malik Irish '22
Growing Pains- A Thesis about Stoicism A Screenplay about Growth A Story about Both, Delgado Corcoran
In Defense of Narrativity, Andrea Dickmeyer
Cloaking Desire: Stasis and Sexuality in Nikolai Gogol's Short Stories, Katie Dolan '19
Christine de Pizan as Architect of Women’s Spaces in The Book of the City of Ladies, Allison Donlan '19
Living Music: A study of the effects of ‘musicking’ on small group life at Hamilton College, Gregory Evans
On the Illegitimacy of Restrictive Immigration Policies: A Reply to Christopher H. Wellman, Pelumi Fasola
Psychopaths and the Insanity Defense, Grace Friedel
Strong Men, Fragile Masculinity: An Exploration of Masculinity on Hamilton’s Campus, Sawyer Frisbie
An Ethnography of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), David Gagnidze '20
Identity Work Among the Homeless in Utica, Mikayla Greeley
Social Support and Mental Health: Where Do We Stand?, Alanna Gushue
Orwellian or Ordinary?: Situating India's UID and China's SCS Within Global Neoliberal Trends Through Comparative Analysis, Joel Harper '21
Populism in the Behavioralist Imagination: V.O. key Jr. on Ins, Outs, and the Electorate, Richard Huiskamp '21
A&Q Presents: May 1, 2019, Kyandreia Jones '19
A&Q Presents: February 20, 2019, Calyn Clare Liss '22 and Madeline Justiniano '21
Intentional Inheritance: William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez in Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides, Elizabeth Maier '19
An Esoteric Approach to the Expected Utility of Voting, Bradford Marston
Nietzsche and the Eternal Recurrence: On Overcoming Our Nihilism, Clayton R. McCollum
Hamilton’s Helpers: Understanding the Social Motivations behind Student Volunteering, Nora McEntee
Contemporary Nativism Motivated by Mathematics, Annaliese Mugele
School on the Brain: A Study of Academic Achievement and Collegiate Success, Gabrielle O'Brien
The Revolution Will Not Come with Flowers: What Motivates Some Greeks to Join the High-Risk, High-Cost Anarchist Movement, Christina Plakas
Passing: The Performance and Visibility of Identity, Kendall Nichelle Rallins '19
Understanding the Sources of Anti-Americanism in the Russian Elite, Sharon Werning Rivera and James D. Bryan
Physician-Assisted Suicide? A Critique of Kant's Moral Philosophy, Wilhelgyne Rose
24/7 in a Box: Inmates’ Written Expression in Solitary Confinement versus Lower Security, Rachel Schooler
When Home Videos Leave the Home: Personal Video Practices of College Students, Geoffrey Schweller
Man Up! A Study on How Fourth Grade Boys Perform Masculinity, Victoria Stapleton
Smoke and Mirrors: A Study of Social Learning and Identity Exploration Among Young Adult Recreational Vapers, Emily Steates
A&Q Presents: May 4, 2019, Helen Stutsman '19, TJ Berley '21, Emily Brewer '21, and Julia Dupuis '21
An Analysis of Urban Development, Urban Poverty, and Economic Development in Utica, New York, J. Connor Thomson '20
Waving in the Ferns: Nature, Imagination, and Storytelling in Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon, Haley Tietz '19
A&Q Presents: November 20, 2019, Randy Tristant '22
On the Paradox of Emotional Response to Fiction, Michael Valeri
The Consequences of Contemporary AI for Mind-Body Dualism, John Wellers
“Best Friends: How Close Friendships are Formed”, Faith J. White
A&Q presents: April 24, 2019, Heidi Wong '20 and Katie Gisondi '20
Hamiltonians Abroad: An analysis of individual transformation among Hamilton students who go abroad, Justin Zhu
"A Divided Duty:" Liminal Space and Coming-of-Age in Shakespeare's Father/Daughter Relationships, Alexa Zildjian '19
2018
A&Q presents: September 26, 2018, Emily Aviles '19 and Julia Rosenbaum '19
A&Q Presents: February 21, 2018, Emily Aviles '19, Paula Weiman '18, Nora Boyle '18, Amy Zhang '18, Mackenzie Doherty '18, Ruben Martinez '20, and Albert Ian Lunn '18