The senior thesis is emblematic of the kind of intellectual freedom Bard College at Simon’s Rock’s Upper College students are given. It is a year-long, self-designed scholarly project that is the capstone of a student’s work. It’s required of everyone. The thesis is not just an academic requirement for a Simon’s Rock Bachelor of Arts degree, it is work that adds to the world’s storehouse of knowledge.
At the beginning of the thesis project, a formal proposal must be submitted and approved. This collection includes senior thesis proposals beginning in academic year 1998-1999 as well as theses beginning in 2011.
2021
Digging up Althusser: on Ideology and Institutions, April Albano
Therapy & Theater: Emotions in Dis-Play, Jesus Alcazar
Birth, Death or Both: Encountering Childbirth as a Black Woman, Nyankah Allen
Senior Thesis Proposal, Khalilah Asaka
Desde el Cerro se le ve Todo al Pueblo: Mapping decolonial aesthesis in Oaxaca, Mexico, Inoa Batista
Nanoparticles as a Means of Anti-Cancer Drug Delivery, Kairo Baylor
Senior Thesis Proposal, Marcea Bond
Historical Dispatch: Ongoing Reflections on the Musicality of Fugitivity, Carly Bryant
Senior Thesis Proposal, Sophie Casa
Senior Thesis Proposal, Matilda Eunseo Choi
Senior Thesis Proposal, Tate Coleman
Senior Thesis Proposal, Bethan Cordone
Senior Thesis Proposal, Sadie Cotler
Sage Wisdom: Herbal Abortion Through the Ages, Aiden Damon
Senior Thesis Proposal, Kevin Donaher
lovethat, Carson Donnelly-Fine
2200, Jahsol Drummond
Racialized Policing and Its Effects on Black Communities, Leila Gillings
Senior Thesis Proposal, Neehar Girimaji
Senior Thesis Proposal, Emma Guo
Senior Thesis Proposal, Abdul Hamza
Senior Thesis Proposal, Hannah Hasson
Senior Thesis Proposal, Jeri Hautzig
Senior Thesis Proposal, Summer Heller
Senior Thesis Proposal, Yichao Hou
Stories Untold, Ajara Jagne
Senior Thesis Proposal, Elise Kelly
Senior Thesis Proposal, Chandler LaValle
Show Up and Show Your Work: On Self and Compassion in the Classroom, Ali Levinson
Quantifying the Effects of COVID-19 on Restaurant Reviews, Gary Liu
Senior Thesis Proposal, Gary Liu
Detecting Foodborne Illness Complaints in Multiple Languages Using English Annotations Only, Ziyi Liu
Senior Thesis Proposal, Cassidy LoCascio
Up In Smoke: A Short Film, Anna Loretan
The Creative Nothing, Angus MacLeod
The Art of Language: Exploring the Methodologies of Language Acquisition and How We Can Encourage Students to Learn, Chazlee Myers
Senior Thesis Proposal, Nickie Nie
Marsh Ado About Nothing: The Political Economy of Connecticut’s Salt Marshes, 1600-1700, Cole Peterson
Senior Thesis Proposal, Walter Phillips
Senior Thesis Proposal, Ellie Rostan
Bambi in the Backyard: Deer Management in Southern Berkshire County, Eden Rozing
Senior Thesis Proposal, Moxie Rudder
Senior Thesis Proposal, Armaan Sandhu
Senior Thesis Proposal, Ajeya Sathyagal
The Navajo Nation Elephant Trunk: A Vehicular Water Transportation System, Jonah Schaechter
Senior Thesis Proposal, Elizabeth Selberg
Senior Thesis Proposal, Kelly Sheehy
Senior Thesis Proposal, Livia Shepard
Senior Thesis Proposal, Lillian Steinmayer
Senior Thesis Proposal, Maisy Swords
Senior Thesis Proposal, Evan Sylbert
Senior Thesis Proposal, Pailyn Tayjasanant
Senior Thesis Proposal, Emily Van Court
Evolution and “Natural” Selection of Green Sheets, Aung Wai Yan Hein
Senior Thesis Proposal, Jenalyn Jayy Weekes
Emptiness: The Interpretation of Ma, Mu, and Enso in Japanese Aesthetics, Hilary Yarger
A Deep History of Human-Fish Relations in the Connecticut River Valley, Albert Yue
Senior Thesis Proposal, Yonghao Yu
Smoothness of Alexandrov space with two-sided curvature bound, Yonghao Yu
Here is Home, Sophia Zah-Greenspan
Images and Their Movement Through Time: American Media and the Blatant Anti-Blackness Portrayed Within It, Chandler Zincke-Byer
if i can get to There ... then i'II be okay, Delaida Zuniga
2020
Senior Thesis Proposal, April Albano
Senior Thesis Proposal, Jesus Alcazar
Senior Thesis Proposal, Nyankah Allen
‘ Paradise of Paradises ’: Yemeni Poetics of Return and the Springtime Promise, Moamer Alsaedi
Fun with Fermentation: A scientific cookbook, Emmawyn Anastasi
Customizable Social Networks and Mental Health among Emerging Adults, Akarsh Balaji
Senior Thesis Proposal, Inoa Batista
Senior Thesis Proposal, Kairo Baylor
The Makers Experience: Craft in Society, Community, and for the Individual, Antonia Bellamy-Talbot
Witch Against the Peace: Colonial Sovereignty and the Scripting of the Profane, Felix Bridel
Senior Thesis Proposal, Carly Bryant
The Imitation Game: How Biomimicry can Revolutionize Scope and Sustainability within Medicine, Karan Buntval
Pricing and Valuation of Human Capital Securities and Related Derivatives, Dennis Chen
Live Trojan Attacks on Deep Neural Networks, Robert Costales
Senior Thesis Proposal, Aiden Damon
The Faboideae Flora of Montserrat, Giulia de Gennaro
The Promises of Preexposure Prophylaxis: Barriers to HIV/AIDS Treatment and Prevention, Oluwayemisi Dehinbo
The Psychological and Biological Effects of Parental Neglect Under the Age of Three, Dylan Dion-Bernier
Senior Thesis Proposal, Carson Donnelly-Fine
Senior Thesis Proposal, Jahsol Drummond
You Won’t Believe it’s Not Mako: A Study of Shark Meat Substitutions in New England Markets, Madeline Eppley
Dear Diary: Living in Genre, Gracie Folds
The Adventures of Softboy Pillowman: Exploring Gender Norms and Transgender Messages in Children’s Literature, Felix Foote
On Suffix Array Construction Algorithms, Jonathan Gabor
Medical Image Analysis: from Reconstruction to Classification, Zehui Gao
Senior Thesis Proposal, Leila Gillings
Sink with an Ever-Expanding Drain: History of Pharmaceutical Treatments for HIV, Alexander Gouvin-Moffat
Questions on Beauty: Eugéne Delacroix, Delaney Graham
Follow the Sound: Tracking Forms of Commodification and Escapism in American Popular Music, Ethan Hall
The Real Plastic Economy: Toxic Colonialism, Carla Hamida
“When So Few Have So Much and So Many Have So Little”: Rising Inequality and The Dying American Dream, Yanggen Heppe
Senior Thesis Proposal, Ajara Jagne
On Simulating Phase Tracking Reference Signals in 5G, Nicholas Kasseinov
The Metaphysics of Pregnancy: Four-Dimensionalism and Fetal-Parthood, Nasia Kayfetz-Vuong
Unregistered HyperCam 2: A Brief History of Internet Gaming Metanarratives Through the Lens of “Let’s Play”, Quinn Kreminski
Automatic Impediment Detection and Correction for Speech Audio, Vivek Kumar
War of Ground Against Existence: Evil and Freedom from Kant to Schelling, Aung Sett Kyaw Min