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
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
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
The Ontology and Epistemology of Social Entities, Joseph Caruso
“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