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.
2020
Senior Thesis Proposal, Ali Levinson
Senior Thesis Proposal, Gary Liu
Predicting Disruptions in Confined Fusion Plasmas Using Deep Neural Networks, Zicheng Liu
Senior Thesis Proposal, Ziyi Liu
Senior Thesis Proposal, Anna Loretan
Into the Dream Land: Fengshui and the Ideal Landscape in Wang Ximeng’s A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains, Jinglin Lu
Senior Thesis Proposal, Angus MacLeod
Of Woman Born: Figuring the Maternal in Shakespearean Tragedy and Romance, Coco Marcil
Redesigning Craigslist with Cloud Computing, Jorge Martinez Jr.
Fear, Felicity, and Trouble with a Capital T as in Thom, Matthew Meehan
A Simple, Low-Cost Proximity Sensor to Improve Mobility For Visually Impaired People, Fa'izah Muhammad
Senior Thesis Proposal, Chazlee Myers
Solitude: Or, Alternatively, Putting My Diary on Blast, Claire Niesobecki
Swap Monster: Creating and Developing an Original Puzzle Game Along With an Accompanying AI Solver, Zoe Offermann
Docile and Useful: Mechanisms of Control and Creation in the Workplace, Eliza Opland-Dobs
Detecting Symptoms of Depression in Social Media Data using Machine Learning, Eunkyu Park
Baseball Strike Zone Delineator Implemented with Digital Image Processing Techniques, Joon Mo Park
Teens in the Anthropocene: An Interdisciplinary Climate Crisis Curriculum, Jessie Parrott
The Epidemiology of Dementia: Biochemical & Social Approaches, Dakota Paul
Invisible Work and Hidden Effects: A Study of Emotional Labor, Ana Peake
Senior Thesis Proposal, Cole Peterson
Data Visualization Data Representation, Presentation, and Understandability, Sophie Petters
The Generalized Cayley-Dickson Construction, Axel Rimerman
The Psychological and Neurologic Reenactment of Incest Trauma Through Anorexia Nervosa, MacKenzie Rohrbacher
Senior Thesis Proposal, Eden Rozing
Raw Tales : An Anthropology of Postcolonial Writers in Exile, Caleb Sabatka
Humanizing Homelessness: The Experience, Society's Role, and Aid Offered, LillyEtta Sacon
Senior Thesis Proposal, Jonah Schaechter
Women’s Suffrage in Switzerland: An International Statistical Analysis of Political, Demographic, and Societal Factors in the Fight for the Right to Vote, Maxwell Shulman
At the Crossroads: An Exploration of Moldovan Identity, Daniela-Filipa Soltan
A Beginner’s Guide to Kaluza-Klein: The Basics of Spacetime, Curvature, and the Classical Unification of Electromagnetic and Gravitational Fields, Samantha Statter
Ceci n'est pas une food : Musings on TV Cooking Shows, Doph Steinmayer
Beyond Interiority: A Heideggerian Reading of Mrs. Dalloway, Peiqi Sui
Portfolio Management: A Machine Learning Perspective, Chih-Jui Tsen
A Meta-Analysis of Researches and Evidence of the Immunological and Neurological Causation of ASD, Myles Vinci
Senior Thesis Proposal, Aung Wai Yan Hein
Helping Others: Contemporary Topics, Zhen Wang
Numerical Tests for Parameters When Solving Multi-layer Shallow Water Equations, Sophia White
ABC (American Born Cantonese): Cantonese Language and Chinese Identity in Diaspora, Peter Xu
Senior Thesis Proposal, Hilary Yarger
Senior Thesis Proposal, Albert Yue
Senior Thesis Proposal, Yonghao Yu
Senior Thesis Proposal, Sophia Zah-Greenspan
Intergenerational Trauma: A Chinese Perspective, Chenyan Zhou
Senior Thesis Proposal, Chandler Zincke-Byer
Senior Thesis Proposal, Delaida Zuniga
2019
The Doctor-Patient Relationship: The Past, The Present, The Future, Miles Abracosa
Grace In The Fractures: A Sculptural Analysis of Vulnerability as a Coping Mechanism For Fear, Eliana Actor-Engel
Positive Eco-Art Therapy: Picturing an Aesthetic Path to Personal and Planetary Health, Madison Alicea
Sto-Stone: Computation, Complexity, and Puzzle Design, Addison Allen
“An Image With A Lowing Sound”: Medieval Islam, Modernity, and Politics as Seeing, Safi Alsebai
Senior Thesis Proposal, Emmawyn Anastasi
Creating for Community: Extending Inspiration through Browser Application, Hyolim Bae
Senior Thesis Proposal, Akarsh Balaji
Language Use by People With Bipolar Disorder and Depression: Recent Research and Applications, Alexandra Barber
Urban Planning and Playing: Collaborative Learning Through Educational Board Games, Jacques Ben-Avie
Blood will have Blood: Trauma Dynamics in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Nathaniel Bokaer-Smith
Senior Thesis Proposal, Felix Bridel
Senior Thesis Proposal, Karan Buntval
Seeing Overtones: Communicating the Physics of Guitars, Jonathan Cadiz
CALL THEM OUT: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Analyzing Infrastructural and Economic Disparities Within the Tri-state Area, Mario Campbell
sayings, clouds: composition, production, performance, reflection, Emmett Clarendon
To Bring into Being: On A Life Lived by Ghosts, Allison Colwell
Senior Thesis Proposal, Robert Costales
And All That Jazz: The Tropes of Sounds and Symbols in Harlem Renaissance Jazz Literature, Olivia Davis
Senior Thesis Proposal, Elizabeth de la Rosa
Raising Our Voices: Women, Trauma, and Recovery in India, Divya Dinraj
Senior Thesis Proposal, Abigail Donnelly
My Nudes 2k18: femininity and obscenity, Hayley Edgar
Senior Thesis Proposal, Madeline Eppley
From Guangzhou to Great Barrington: A Textural Narrative, Danli Feng
Art, Finances and Manipulation: How Auction Houses Enhance Painting Sales Today, Fiona Ferguson
Senior Thesis Proposal, Gracie Folds
Senior Thesis Proposal, Jonathan Gabor
Alternative Therapies for Traumatized Children: Developmental and Clinical Perspectives, Ana Garcia-Kwan
Senior Thesis Proposal, Alexander Gouvin-Moffat
Senior Thesis Proposal, Delaney Graham
Stuck: An Examination of the Portrayals of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Literature, Television, and Film, Antonia Greenberg
Emet: A Video Game of Yiddish Conversation Practice, Aster Greenblatt
The Dandy and the Decadent: Kitsch, Camp, and Capitalism, Benjamin Grubner
Senior Thesis Proposal, Ethan Hall
Senior Thesis Proposal, Carla Hamida
Arches of Piety: Reflections of the Holy See and Italy, Alexandra Harabosky
Interactive Relationship Between Canon and Fandom Via Cosplay and Fanfiction, Cleo Hardt
Senior Thesis Proposal, Yanggen Heppe
Perfect Places? The Power and Potential of Landscape and Nature Photography, Miranda Herreid
Sports Medicine, Georgiana Janko
A Study of Hausdorff Distance Computation, Tingao Jiang
State Minds: Dreams of Abundance, Scarcity, and Collapse, Benjamin Kaza
AI Research in Games: The Role of StarCraft 2, Joey Kim
Forgotten Shards, a Reflection on the Past, Present, and Future of Chinese Porcelain, Molley Knight
Layers of Dust: Political Moments of Work, Land, and Agriculture, Ezra Lee
Impressionist Style and Manga Painting: An Investigation, Junyu Liu
Aquarium Dreams and Other Stories, Zara London-Southern
This Is in No Sense Consolatory: Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Traumatic Narratives of the First World War, Victoria Loughborough
Senior Thesis Proposal, Jinglin Lu