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.
2017
Tobacco, Lauren Stoddart
Effective Psychotherapy, Maura Torres '18 and Cilly Geranios '19
Devil on the Go, Erin Urbaniak '21
It Wasn't What She Expected, Alina van den Berg '21
Dusty and His Dogs, Alexander Walen '21
Radiation Hippie, Spencr Woolfsn '20
Designing a Microfluidic Sorting Network with Heat Treated Plastic, Houghton Yonge '18, Fuming Qui '19, and Viva R. Horowitz
Rosemary, Florence Zhan '20
Screaming Blues, Florence Zhan '20
Wings, Florence Zhan '20
The Brain, Max Zimmerman '21
An Invitation, E Zupcich '18
A&Q Presents: September 13, 2017, E Zupcich '18 and Paula Weiman '18
2016
A&Q Presents: April 6, 2016, Izzy Bradford '16 and Alexa Merriam '17
A&Q Presents: October 26, 2016, Tulia Day '18 and Adam Evertz '17
Stories of Survivors: Exploring the Lives of Sex Trafficking Victims in Central New York, Anna Do '18
A&Q Presents: Febrary 3, 2016, Adja Dramé '16 and Sacharja Cunningham '19
A&Q Presents: November 30, 2016, Petra Elfström '18 and Rachel Alatalo '18
A&Q Presents: March 2, 2016, Daiyan Hossain '18 and Anna Do '18
Sexual Assault In Our Community: A Custom Approach to Prevention and Education, Corinne Smith '17
The Impact of the Gender Composition of Institutions’ Board of Trustees on Student and Faculty Diversity, Case Tatro '18
A&Q Presents: September 21, 2016, Mariah Walzer '17
A&Q Presents: April 20, 2016, Amy Zhang '18
2015
Quantum volume and length fluctuations in a midi-superspace model of Minkowski space, Jeremy Adelman '13, F. Hinterleitner, and Seth Major
Constructed Intimacy: How Christian Devotional Poets Manage Audience, Emma Bowman '15
A&Q Presents: March 4, 2015, Lily Capstick '18 and Mackenzie Doherty '18
“Eddying with the vowels of all rivers”: Language, Body, and Gender in Finnegans Wake, Hannah Chappell '15
A&Q Presents: November 11, 2015, DK Lee '17 and Kimberly Williams
A&Q Presents: April 8, 2015, Joe Rupprecht '18 and Collin Spinney '16
A&Q Presents: February 4, 2015, Anjanae Williams '18 and John Rufo '16
A&Q Presents: April 29, 2015, Amy Zhang '18
2014
A&Q Presents: September 9, 2014, Nate Lanman '15 and Mary Rice '15
A&Q Presents: September 17, 2014, Catherine Luciani '15 and Amber Torres '16
Granularity in angle: Observability in scattering experiments, Seth Major and Jake Christopher Zappala '12
Color Theory in Tess of the D’Urbervilles: The Elicitation of Sympathy through a Verbal Palette, Abigail Saks '14
“Gatherers of Flowers” and Introductions to “Greatness and Variety”: Anthologists' Roles in the Formation and Interpretation of the Canon, Grace Parker Zielinski '14
2013
“Thy Love to Empire I Prefer!” The Function of Romantic Love in Nahum Tate’s King Lear, Cooper Creagan '13
A&Q Presents: September 11, 2013, Naomi Guttman and Nick Geisler '14
A&Q Presents: November 13, 2013, Doran Larson and Emma Laperruque '14
“Colours Intolerably Bright”: The Presence of the Past In Sean O’Faolain’s The Man Who Invented Sin and Frank O’Connor’s Crab Apple Jelly, Genevieve Davinia Nierman '13
A&Q Presents: December 11, 2013, Jane Springer and Kina Viola '14
2012
Jane Austen’s Censure of Mercenary Marriage: Who Crosses the Line and How Do We Know?, Laura Gilson '12
Modernism and Cultural Economies: Neo-Marxian and Keynesian Anticipations in T.S. Eliot, Pat McNally '12
Prison Writing and Beckett, Andrew Taub '12
“Once Upon a Time in Victorian England: Translating the Brothers Grimm for a British Audience”, Chelsea Wiggins '12
2011
Empowered Ladies and Gentlemen of Grass-Green Complexions: Feminist and Post-Colonial Close Readings of Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World, Caitlin C. Fitzsimons '11
2009
On modified dispersion relations and the Chandrasekhar mass limit, Michael Gregg '08 and Seth Major
2008
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Fiction and the Literary Values of the Jazz Age, Ali Fisher '08
In Sickness and in Hell: a Study of Religious Fantasy and Satire in Good Omens and The Screwtape Letters, Whitney P. Kimmel '08
Ceremonies and Song: Folklore in the Works of Silko and Morrison, Katherine Minton '08
Performing the Polite Young Lady: Frances Burney and the Politics of the Manners Novels, Victoria Schacht '08
2007
He-3 spin filters for a thermal neutron triple axis spectrometer, W. C. Chen, Gregory L. Armstrong '06, Y. Chen, Brian Collett, R. Erwin, T. R. Gentile, Gordon L. Jones, J. W. Lynn, S. McKenney, and John E. Steinberg '06
Pitying a Pedophile?: The Ethical Implications of Sympathy and Moral Judgment in Nabokov's Lolita, Lindsay Anne Matin '07
The Vonnegut Paradigm: Reading Alarm Systems in the Automated Worlds of Player Piano and The Sirens of Titan Or Goodbye Senior Thesis!, Ryan McGuirk '07
The Meat of the Culture Industry: Determining the Value of Generic Literature, Laura Oman '07
An Investigation of Gender Relations within the Black Panther Party Through Autobiography: What Are the Men Hiding? What Are the Women Revealing?, Rebecca Wagner '07 and Hannah Winer '07
2006
Self-Reflective Readers & Self-Reflexive Writers: The Logistics of Metafiction, Christopher T. Fazio '06
The Making of Charlotte Smith: Romantic Artist, Successful Businesswoman, Katrina Fredlund '06
Beyond the Controversy: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a Multicultural Text, Ellen Horbett '06
Test of a continuously polarized He-3 neutron spin filter with NMR-based polarization inversion on a single-crystal diffractometer, Gordon L. Jones, Malcolm F. Dias '05, Brian Collett, W. C. Chen, T. R. Gentile, P. M. B. Piccoli, M. E. Miller, A. J. Schultz, H. Yan, X. Tong, W. M. Snow, W. T. Lee, C. Hoffmann, and J. Thomison
Dissolving Boundaries: Connecting Nature and Society in The God of Small Things, Anne Schlesinger '06
Women, War, and the Artist: The Destruction of Masculinity in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Laura Stern '06
The Construction of a Woman's Language in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Toni Morrison's Beloved, Jessica Wolinsky '06
2005
Coming of Age of the Little Friend of All the World: A Critical Examination of Identity In Rudyard Kipling's Kim, Katherine Caldwell '05
The Warrior Within: The Anglo-Saxon Phoenix in Cultural Context, Ana Maria Comparetto 2005
Polarized He-3 spin filters for slow neutron physics, T. R. Gentile, W. C. Chen, Gordon L. Jones, E. Babcock, and T. G. Walker
Paranoia and Probability in Gravity's Rainbow, Jake Hartnett '05
Continuously operating compact He-3-based neutron spin filter, Gordon L. Jones, James E. Baker '04, W. C. Chen, Brian Collett, J. A. Cowan, Malcolm F. Dias '05, T. R. Gentile, C. Hoffmann, T. Koetzle, W. T. Lee, K. Littrell, M. Miller, A. Schultz, W. M. Snow, X. Tong, H. Yan, and Andrew T. Yue '04
"A Terrible Beauty:" The Representation of Political Violence in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats, Katie Ladd '05
A Coalescing of Forces: The Expressive Capacity of the New Journalism and Genre Hybridism, Michelle Marjory Levi '05
Surviving the Language Game: Language and Survival in Don Delillo's End Zone, Cyrus Philbrick '05
Rediscovering Ethnic Identity: Irish-American Literature in the 1990's, Molly Wilson '05
2004
Keith Douglas: A New Poetic Response to War, Louis Bosso '04
Reaction thresholds in doubly special relativity, Daniel Heyman '03, F. Hinterleitner, and Seth Major
2003
The West is the Best?: The Revision and Criticism of Frontier Mythology in Cormac McCarthy'd Blood Meridian and E.L. Doctorow's Welcome to Hard Times, Schuyler Chapman '03
Creating a New Identity in Contemporary Drama: Redefining History and Culture, Monica do Outeiro '03
Mallrats' Shakespeare: O and William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, Rebecca Fabricant '03
The Contrived Honest Liar: Narrative Unreliability in The Yellow Wallpaper and The Turn of the Screw, Allison Courtney Fitch '03
Unearthing The Real Hemingway: Polyphonic Gender Expression in The Sun Also Rises, Schuyler Gellatly '03
Decadent New Women and the Philosophy of Schopenhauer, Cory Lown '03
Disobedient Women: Representations of Gender in Cycle Drama, Alisa Nichols '03
Taking Yeats Out of (a Cultural) Context: An Examination of Critical and Pedagogical Approaches to the Study of W.B. Yeats in Ireland and the United States, Dathalinn M. O'Dea '03
Unreliable Authority in Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Linwood Rumney '03
2002
Gender Drama: Misogyny, Homosocial Bonding, and Female Domination in the Work of Harold Pinter and David Mamet, Mike D'Alessandro '02
Misogynist "Mis"-Readings of Milton: A Response to Feminist Critics through an Evaluation of Eve's Birth and Reconciliation with Adam in Paradise Lost, Katherine C. Dewart '02
Empire and Escape Artists: Virginia Woolf as Critic of Imperialism and Englishness, Colleen Fenity '02
Observational limits on quantum geometry effects, Tomasz J. Konopka '02 and Seth Major
Applications of the Postpositivist Reality Theory of Identity to Literature, Ashley Lee '02
"Mirrour of Grace and Majeistie Diuine" The Allegorical Presentation and Formation of Elizabeth I in Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Liam Meyer '02
Rediscovering Chaucer: Preserving Style, Satire, and Sense in High School Literature Textbooks, Celeste R. Passos '02
2001
Hearing Transcendental Voices in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, James T.C. Bentley '01
Reader Response Theory and The Canterbury Tales: Reading Chaucer's Clerk's Tale Responsibly, Lew Gleich '01
Conceiving a m(O)ther Consciousness: French Feminism, Monstrous Maternity and the Female Gothic Tradition, Christina Marie Parker '01
Rupturing the Text: T.S. Eliot and Gertrude Stein, Erin E. Post '01
2000
The Ambiguity that Shapes Our Ends: Interpretation, Performance, and the Endings of the Renaissance Drama, Daniele J. Berman '00
"Steps to raise me to Fame's tower:" Margaret Cavendish and the Construction of Personal Fame Through Authorship, Bonnie Erwin '00
Shooting Blind: Plot, Genre, and Ideology in Nashville and Blind Man with a Pistol, John Farranto '00
"Better to Reign In Hell Than Serve In Heaven:" Differing Conceptions of Monarchy in Paradise Lost, Joseph Freeman '00
“Ne jo n’ai soig mais de taisir”: Non-binary Gender Expression in Le Roman de Silence, Patricia H. Gagnon