2008 - present
The Honors Project is a research project for which eligible students apply during their junior year and complete in their senior year. A successfully completed thesis project leads to the awarding of the bachelor of arts degree with the notation "honors," "high honors" or "highest honors" in the student's major subject. Each student is asked to archive his or her project in Smith ScholarWorks for access and preservation.
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Honors Projects and Theses from 2010
Sustaining Smith : an environmental history of food at Smith College, 1875-2010, Elisabeth Field Wolfe
Separations at Sinai : boundaries in Exodus 19, Sarah L. Woodbury
Honors Projects and Theses from 2009
From Qawm to ethnicity : politics of representation in contemporary Afghanistan, Shaharzad Akbar
Study of non-minimally coupled inflation of the early universe using phase portraits and Poincaré maps, Amanda Stevie Bergman
La morte e rinascita dell'autrice Elena Ferrante, Echo Bray Bergquist
Automated analysis of electrophoresis gels, Hannah Bier
Allozyme analysis of a contact zone between two mtDNA haplotypes in Desmognathus ocoee (Amphibia: Plethodontidae), Noëlle K. Bittner
The role of motor processes in egocentric mental transformations involving nonbody stimuli, Holly Boyle
A fully-developed womanhood : the collecting of fine art and a woman's education at Smith College, 1875-1910, Emily Clare Casey
Russia and Ukranian denuclearization : foreign policy under Boris Yeltsin, Volha Charnysh
Networked at the intersection : street protest, communications technology and the 2008 Republican National Convention, Candace Clement
Women of promise, lives of distinction : memoir of a low income student and analysis of class culture at Smith College, Kendra Colburn
Race, radicalism, and the wandering Jew : rethinking Emma Goldman, Olivia Grace Cummings
A novel attractant role for the Slit1a ligand during post-optic commissure formation in the developing zebrafish forebrain, Elizabeth Deschene
Site-specific dance : the place it takes, Lila Ann Dodge
The ethics of global climate change : Aristotelian ethics, Lauren M. Donahue
Presidential appointments to the Supreme Court : of bananas, backbones, and dumb sons of bitches, Sarah Dunlap
Et sa morte était Bruges : la femme et l’espace rêvé dans Bruges-la-Morte par Georges Rodenbach, Erica C. Faller
Towards vehicular sustainability : development of environmental impact metrics, Sari Field
Testing the NATREX model : long-run fundamentals and the dynamics of equilbrium real exchange rates, Rebecca Freeman
2D visualizer for the wikipedia database, Christine M. Grascia
"Didn't your mommy tell you that isn't nice?" : patterns and shifts in rape-revenge films, 1973-1998, Katherine L. Gray
The optimization of voltage for a grid-tied photovoltaic system to minimize cost, Kristyn Hall
Children's production and comprehension of definite and indefinite noun phrases in English : an optimality theory analysis, Kaitlyn P. Harrigan
Dense gravity driven 2D granular flow : an investigation of parameters affecting the shear zones, Kelsey Hattam
Le Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville de Diderot dans le débat sur l'"homme naturel" contre la civilisation, Laura Itzkowitz
Genetic diversity of ciliates in near coastal sediment, Hannah K. Jaris
United Nations intervention in the Bosnian War : how a well-intentioned mission had unintended consequences, Melanie Jaskolka
For you : a conceptual theater, Jane B. Jones
Development of models for the study of anesthetic preconditioning using rat pheochromocytoma and mouse neuroblastoma, Sarah Anne Kam
Alice's rules : an examination of structure in Alice in Wonderland, Julia Whaley Kiefer
Joan Didion : the narrative and the frontier ethic, Lillie Kilburn
Bildungsexperimente : Kunst, Krankheit und Karikatur bei E.T.A. Hoffmanns "Kater Murr" und Thomas Manns "Zauberberg", Lyudmyla Kovalenko
TRANScendingFORM, Sarah Kulig
Cloverfield and the monstrosity of postmodernity, Hannah W. Leung
Without language : adult belief reasoning with verbal interference, Yi Lin
"Carriers of the nation" : changes in women's reproductive power in the AIDS era : a case study in Botswana, Katelyn Lucy
Through a glass darkly : Pynchon, Calvino, and the mirror, Sasha Mann
Authoritarianism and attitudes about arranged marriages in Bangladesh and South India, Jessica McCarthy
Snake cube puzzles : Hamilton paths in grid graphs, Alison Elizabeth McDonough
Normative measurements of energy reflectance in healthy newborns and one-month olds, Gabrielle R. Merchant
Reading women and writing art in Elizabethan epyllia, Dianne Marie Mitchell
Intertextuality and forging identity in Alison Bechdel's Fun home: a family tragicomic, Melina Alice Moore
On film and television : the portrayal of bioethics in popular culture, Elizabeth Morgan
Atmospheric mercury deposition in an isolated environment : a 150-year record at Block Island, Rhode Island, Rachel Neurath
The effectiveness of a biblio-based self-help program for compulsive hoarding, Alla Pekareva-Kochergina
Search for el mapa : exploring the intersection of languages in three bilingual plays, Sophie Hannah Ragone
Deciphering the roundabout code underlying postoptic commissure formation in the developing Zebrafish forebrain, Azucena Ramos
The park and the spirit of the city : an analysis of the cultural function of three urban parks, Becky Reinhart
Metamorphism of graphitic schists from Syros, Greece, Roxanne Renedo
The rose that grew from concrete : memory, dreamscapes, and the social construction of urban Black adolescenses in Dael Oladersmith's The gimmick, Monique Anastasia Robinson
The moderating effects of generalized threat on the relationship between authoritarianism, intolerance of ambiguity, and information processing strategies in a community sample, Stacy Anne Rockwood
Ethnic differences in how mothers describe their children, Wendy Michelle Roman
Mineralogy and origin of Zn-rich horizons within the arctic volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit, Ambler District, Alaska, Danielle Schmandt
Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of novel carbon solids, Alisa M. Stratulat
The mask of diversity : an examination of racial identity, change over time and multiculturalism in U.S. institutions of higher education, Vanessa Lynn Titang
There will be signs along the way to guide you : a study of abandonment in American society today, Olivia Wall
Geochemical investigation of weathering in a high arctic watershed and provenance of ssediments in Kongressvatnet, Svalbard, Norway, Maya Li Wei-Haas
The Lobo-Cabernite affair : a close look at the case study as history and historical problem, Anna White-Nockleby
Storied empires : The tempest and Lettres d'une Péruvienne, Caroline Winschel
Attitudes towards fatherhood in low income African American adolescent males, Emily Yen
James Baldwin : Black American expatriate, Anna R. Young
Honors Projects and Theses from 2008
Understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating postoptic commissure (POC) formation in the Zebrafish forebrain, Kristin Alligood
The effects of action video game playing on low-and high-level cognitive tasks, Elizabeth Ankudowich
Quest for representation : contemporary post-Holocaust fiction by Modiano, Foer and Sebald, Meredith Badler
Exploring the natural : an investigation in the manipulation of specimens, Syretha Brooks
Understanding biofilm formation : poly-L-lysine mediated adsorption of alginate to functionalized silica surfaces, Jennie Brown
Il sogno svizzero : la realtà degli immigrati italiani in Svizzera nel secondo dopoguerra, Felicitas Burgi
Jane Austen's brother-hero, Felicia Carey
The Spanish Civil War in film, 1938-2006 : history and memory in a transnational perspective, Molly Chadis
The effect of multiple gestational cycles on tendon structural and material behavior in mice, Alison Cloutier
Re-interpreting faith, challenging tradition : the impact of feminist theology on the Episcopal Church in the United States, Hillary Collins-Gilpatrick
Conway's angel problem, R. Jordan Crouser
The Israel lobby : search for the origins of the argument, Sidnie Davis
Virgin wife or liberated housholder : active contemplation in two philosophies, Lilith Dornhuber de Bellesiles
Long range : distance and technology in the soldier poetry of the First and Second World Wars, Emily Edmonds-Langham
On the edge : visions of the earthly paradise of Dante and Milton, Eleanor Farber
Mapping Julio-Claudian Rome : a study in Julio-Claudio geography through GIS, Cassandra Finger
Synthesis of a novel Diels-Alder diene, Seiko Fujii
The categorization and acquisition of Tibet evidentiality, Harper Gernet-Girard
The effects of Neuregulin-1-ß1 on circadian rhythms, Danielle Guild
"From the vasty deep" : the relationship between Japanese prime ministers and the politics of Yasukuni Shrine, Laura Hancock
Discover your "self" : justice, compassion and desire in Black women's ethical discourse, René Heavlow
Portraits of Beethoven : the Immortal Beloved controversy, Alessandra Jones
The evolution of Greek identity in the Roman world : understanding, accepting, and supporting Roman rule, Allison Jones
Give us children or we shall die : modern reproductive technology and Jewish law, Chelsea Kline
Mechanistic studies of Palladium enolate complexes, Katherine Kornecki
WTO Dispute 291 : who won?, Ellen Kreitmeier
The other hand : an exercise in adaptation inspired by the works of J.D. Salinger, Rachel Lerner-Ley
Look but don't touch : study of the Victorian corset, Joann Longobardo
Structure of a contact zone : analysis of Dusky salamander (genus Desmognathus) populations in the Bald Mountains, Tennessee and North Caroline, Lizmarie López
Unusual patterns of genome evolution in the ciliate clade Heterotrichea, Christina Lyman
Playing childhood : translating personal experience into collective narratives in prints, Arielle Marks
The St. John's Wood Clique : "the lost pages of history", Laura Martin
Dimensions of religious orientation and hazardous alcohol use among college students, Elan McCollum
Knot theory and the Alexander polynomial, Reagin McNeill
Critique and conscience : classics in Louis MacNeice's Autumn journal, Kimberly Meskimen