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.
2012
Senior Thesis Proposal, Thomas Meyer
Senior Thesis Proposal, Caitlin Murphy
The Conflict of Western Modernity and Japanese Traditionalism in the Fiction of Natsume Sōseki, Ian Myers
Evidence, Nicole Myles
Senior Thesis Proposal, Piangpat Namtip
The Way You Did Once: An Intuitive Approach to Directing Collaboration, Kristen Nash
Senior Thesis Proposal, Enana Nduku
Stranger in Your Own Land: An ethnography of rural schools and Western-educated Asomi in Kenya, Abigail Nehring
Senior Thesis Proposal, Dat Nguyen
Senior Thesis Proposal, Emily Paruolo
Senior Thesis Proposal, Lauren Payne-Riley
Senior Thesis Proposal, Abigail Peña
Senior Thesis Proposal, Kirsten Peterson
Word Vomit: Arab-Jewish Family Thanksgivings in Brooklyn, Israel, Chloe Li Piazza
Ways of Seeing, Natasha Rajaratnam
Senior Thesis Proposal, Sierra Randall
Senior Thesis Proposal, Craig Rathgeber
The People Zindabad (Long Live the People): Political Theatre as a Means for Social Change, Hector Rivera
On the Interpretation of Physical Probability, Sarita Rosenstock
Senior Thesis Proposal, Amanda Rowe-Van Allen
Senior Thesis Proposal, Skyler Ruderman
Pipe Dreams - Global Politics and the Political Economy of Energy in Afghanistan, Abdul Samad Sadri
See Self Split: A Cognitive Mapping of Third Generation Mexican American Consciousness, Zooey Salazar
Implications of Faith in Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 'Un-doing' the Radical Educator, Mirah Sand
Senior Thesis Proposal, Hillary Saviello
Senior Thesis Proposal, Lauren Scanlon
Kiezdeutsch: An Emerging Multiethnolect of German, Barbara Helene Schmehl
Senior Thesis Proposal, Emily Schwab
Senior Thesis Proposal, Ramiz Shaikh
Trumpets of God: The Visionary Writings of Hildegard of Bingen and Elisabeth of Schonau, Alexandra Smith
Like is Not Like That: A Linguistic and Social Analysis, Rebecca Solomon
Nevergreen: The nature image commodity in green advertising, Eva Thornton
Senior Thesis Proposal, Gabrielle Tillman
Senior Thesis Proposal, Luiza Trabka
Making Sense of Scents in Memory, Victor K. Vazquez
Senior Thesis Proposal, Ian Wallach
Pathway: An Exploration of Bhutanese Film Practices, Kinley Wangmo
In the Desert: Reflections on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Letter on Poland, Milo Ward
Senior Thesis Proposal, Hillary Weinberger
Sweet Beats Are Made of This: An Exploration of Dalcroze Eurhythmics with Students at Simon's Rock, Miles Douglas Wilcox
Senior Thesis Proposal, Julynn Wilderson
Senior Thesis Proposal, Alexis Wint
Making a Stand for Co-Existence: The Makings and Preservation of Cantonese Identity, Michael Xu
candy for candy coated tongues, Lucy Zipple
2011
Senior Thesis Proposal, Katie Ansel
From the Few to the Many: Education and the Creation of Three Nations In India, Jamila Benkhoud
Senior Thesis Proposal, Claudia Berger
Senior Thesis Proposal, Juliana Biro
Senior Thesis Proposal, Paige Breisacher
The Roving Jewel "What Are Your Songs About?", Philip Breslow
Senior Thesis Proposal, Alannah Buford
A Garden Enclosed: A Character Study and Performance of Clare from Tennessee Williams’s The Two Character Play, Sinead Byrne
Senior Thesis Proposal, Starling Carter
An Overview of 20th and 21st Century Display Technologies: CRT, LCD, OLED, Kyle Chao
Senior Thesis Proposal, Holly Chayes
Senior Thesis Proposal, Cheryl Chen
Senior Thesis Proposal, Joelle Chevrier
Senior Thesis Proposal, Tshering Choki
OneForm: A Synthesis of the Digital Age, Adrian Cushman
Senior Thesis Proposal, Lauren Dahlin
Senior Thesis Proposal, William Deng
Out West, Off to War: The Frontier in American History and Contemporary Military Culture, Jeff Dietrich
Senior Thesis Proposal, Noel Dominguez
Stories of Three Generations of African Women: Exploring the Past, Healing the Present, Strengthening the Future, Pauline Dongala
Rituals and Remedies: The Supernatural in Medieval Great Britain, Faye Donnelley
Senior Thesis Proposal, Emma Ehrlich
Senior Thesis Proposal, Max Ehrman-Shapiro
Senior Thesis Proposal, Elisabeth Ellis
Senior Thesis Proposal, Rachel Feltman
Senior Thesis Proposal, Ari Fogelson
Senior Thesis Proposal, Jordan Frye
Senior Thesis Proposal, Kathryn Giles
Senior Thesis Proposal, Elizabeth Glass
Senior Thesis Proposal, Michelle Gonzalez
Senior Thesis Proposal, Jillian Hanley
Senior Thesis Proposal, Nicholas Hernandez
The Efficacy of Art Therapy in the Treatment of Psychotic Disorders, Iris Hood
Senior Thesis Proposal, William Hopewell
Comic Books and Graphic Novels in Elite and Popular Culture, Sarah Jacobs
Senior Thesis Proposal, Teegan Jansen
Senior Thesis Proposal, Mariah Jeremiah
Reading in the End Times: Multilinear Writing as the Beginning of New Theory, Cody Jones
Senior Thesis Proposal, Johanna Koons
Senior Thesis Proposal, Jeffrey Landale
Senior Thesis Proposal, Fiona Lazar
Where Have All the Mushrooms Gone? A Study of Simon’s Rock Ectomycorrhizal Fungi and Their Response to Drought, Lindsey Longway
Senior Thesis Proposal, William Meltsner
Senior Thesis Proposal, Ian Myers
Senior Thesis Proposal, Nicole Myles
Senior Thesis Proposal, Kristen Nash
The People We Once Were: The Writing, Directing, and Producing of The Difference, Christopher Olmsted
Senior Thesis Proposal, Chloe Piazza
Senior Thesis Proposal, Natasha Rajaratnam
Senior Thesis Proposal, Hector Rivera
Senior Thesis Proposal, Lorenzo Rivera
Senior Thesis Proposal, Sarita Rosenstock
Senior Thesis Proposal, Abdul Sadri