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.

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2017

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Theodore Macphail

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Asa Martinez

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Senior Thesis Proposal, William Mason

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Rivkele: A Feminist Translation and Analysis of Sholem Asch’s גאָט פון נקמה, Molly McGowan

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Kalie McGuirl

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Dana Miller

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Nay Chie Moe Thet

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Natural Language in a Constructed World, Meghan Molinari

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[Insert Shitty Pun Here]: A Socio-Biological Analysis of the Composting Toilet as a Feasible Alternative to Conventional Human Waste Management Technologies, Jenifer Morgan-Davie

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Kayleigh Myer

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Naol Negassa

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Lael Ngangmeni

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The Document of Film Politics, Aesthetics, and the Production of Value, Isabel O'Donnell

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Daniel Packer

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Belousov-Zhabotinsky: an Exploration of Filmmaking in the Digital Age, Bryce Parker

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Coronal Mass Ejections: A Study of Structure, Grant Parker

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Danielle Pendleton

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Micaela Pereira

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Georges Pichard

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A Low-Cost, Feature-Based Color Threshold Selection Approach to Eye-gaze Tracking and a Basis For Gaze Interface, Vijay Pillai

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To Will an End: Outliving Sexual Violence and State Sovereignty, Anna Poplawski

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An Examination of the Process Of Writing, Directing, Acting In, and Producing The Play Brothers, Dominica Purcell

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PCBs Filtration Model using Perfluorocarbons as an Active Agent, Sofia Rafikova

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Laser Ultrasound-Guided Biopsy Needle Aid: Biopsies made simple, Payal Rana

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Butch? An Exploration of the Queer Community and Female Masculinity, A.J. Rio-Glick

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Against All Odds, I Universe You: Academic and Personal Perspectives on Facets of Queer Identity, Andre Santana

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Feel. Look. Listen., Ihor Shuhan

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Matthew Stabile

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Elle Stanion

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Mira Tesla

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Danya Tracht

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How Will Chinese Film Survive? The Opportunities and Challenges of Contemporary Chinese Film in World Marketing., Kassidy Wang

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Madison Weber

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Claire Wegh

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Hippotherapy and Therapeutic Horseback Riding: An Occupational Therapy Framework, Erin Wilkerson

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Yi Xie

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Chengcheng Xin

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Delayed-Choice Quantum Eraser: The paradox of time-independent correlated measurements, Hyojun James Yu

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Maisha Zahed

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Xinyan Zhang

2016

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Sara Aboobakar

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Competitive Coloring: A Structural Approach, Ethan Ackelsberg

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Tony Alexander

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Gentle Nightmares: A Collection of Short Stories, Kathleen Ansel

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Ironbound, Carrie Basch

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Infected: The Experience of the Female Artist Based on "Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship" by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Natalie Becker

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Investigating the Digital Darkroom: A Discussion on the Ethics of Photographic Manipulation, Adam Bigelow

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Kaelyn Brandt

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Campbell’s Broken Model: Women in the Role of the Literary Hero, Kori Brierley-Bowers

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Virginia Cassel

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Urban Agriculture: Community Farms and Agribusinesses in New York City, Caitlin Chai

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Michael Chang

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Yueming Chen

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The Media of Capital and Contradiction, Nikola Cooper-Fateyev

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Cooperative Water Management: A Means For Conflict Resolution in Israel and Palestine, Marjorie Cort

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Rebecca Cosenza

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Elibba Dean

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From Gertie to Ghibli: The World Industries Behind Animations - Their Successes, Failures, and Futures, Kate Decker

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Senior Thesis Proposal, House Dow

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Sex Poems, Cian Doyle

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Hannah Ferus

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Avonlea Fisher

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Ligaya Franklin

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Rhiannon Gabriel-Jones

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HERE I STAND; THERE YOU SIT: An Exploration of Space and Relationship in a Theatrical Environment, Theodor Gabriel

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Our Barbarous Tongue: A Sociohistorical Study on the Emergence of Prescriptive Attitudes in the English Language, Arantzazu Galdos

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Aidan Go

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Lillian Goldberg

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Stephen Hager

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Naomi Harris

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Oscar Hernandez

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Don’t Wake Up A Sleeping Baby, Rory Qianqing Huang

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Chloe Hull

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Regan Humphrey

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Zoe Hu

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It’s Way Past My Bedtime: Culture, Sleep, and Why We Should Be Getting More of It, Shannon Igo

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Political Ethics in the Three Kingdoms Period of China, Greg Inamine

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Environmental Education: Enhancing Massachusetts’ Science Curriculum for Middle School Students, Jo-Ellen Jeffries

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Platinum Underground: Engaging the Music of DJ Screw, Jan Jurchak

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Physical Exploration of Non-Textual Narratives: Fuck You & Your Book, Wes Elliot Kang

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Spencer Kee

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Arielle King

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Maksim Kotov

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Andrew Kunz

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Wai Lun Lam

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Filtering Arsenic to Make a Difference in Southeast Asia: Prototype Optimization of SafaPani, Eldred Lee

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Jonathan Levinson

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Understanding Industrialization through Literature: An Economic Analysis of 19th Century England and Post-1970s China, Cindy Zhaoran Li

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Hannah Lienhard

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Wanying Li

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Christina Lothrop

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E Unibus Pluram: Alain Badiou and the Rebirth of Dialectical Materialism, Matthew Mautarelli

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Sophie McGhee

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Noise as Music: A Study of Narrative and Aesthetics through “Noise Music” Composition, Mia McGiffert

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Molly McGowan

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Rusted Links: A Spiritually Ecological Critique of Modern Society and Its Relationship to Land, Jade Mermini

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Another Golden Braid: An Exploration of Formal Systems, Absurdism, Logical Assumption, and What We Learn From Them (feat. Godel, Bennett, and Milgram), Matthew Meyer

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Meghan Molinari

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Jenifer Morgan-Davie

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Senior Thesis Proposal, Isabel O'Donnell