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.
2017
Sex Work, Drugs, and Decriminalization: Toward a Politics of Harm Reduction, Avonlea Fisher
The Subjugation of Black Women: California and New York’s Legal Genocide, Ligaya Franklin
Only Mostly Dead: Battlefield Medicine through American History, Rhiannon Gabriel-Jones
Senior Thesis Proposal, Scheherazade Goertzel
As She Herself Might Have Told It: Relating Politics and Feminism as Method, Lillian Goldberg
ShapeShifter Programmatic geometric modelling made simple., Ishan Guru
Senior Thesis Proposal, Hayden Gutt
Senior Thesis Proposal, Cameron Haas
New Road: An Original Recorded Album and Film Installation, Stephen Hager
Wounded Skyes: A Tale of Razors and Recovery Not a Fairytale, Naomi Harris
Constructing Maximum-Rotating de Bruijn Sequences Using their Necklace Trees, Oscar Hernandez
Explorations of Darkness and Joy in Children’s Literature, Chloe Hull
What A Heart Loves A Thesis Presentation, Regan Humphrey
Destroy the Audience: Unconventional Forms of Playwriting Pioneered by Women of Color, Zoe Hu
Graceful and Cordial Forests: A Computational Investigation of Graph Labelings, Feston Kastrati
Rethinking Reddit: A Novel Hybrid Recommendation System, Spencer Kee
Government and the Voiceless City: A Case Study on the Flint, Michigan Water Crisis and State-Community Relations, Arielle King
Chatting with Bots: A Quick Survey of Conversational Agents And Their Appropriate Applications, Maksim Kotov
Senior Thesis Proposal, Andrew Ku
Domination, Andrew Kunz
Senior Thesis Proposal, Boqiao Lai
Fibers Joining a Broken Lotus Root: An Exploration of Han Chinese Traditional Food and Agricultural Plant Knowledge, Wai Lun Lam
The Backseat Drivers of a Nation: The Impact of Western Interests on Modern Iran, Jonathan Levinson
¿Repita, Por Favor? An Exploration of the Challenges Faced by Spanish-speaking Students and Families in Massachusetts, Hannah Lienhard
Improving Bacterial Ear Infection Diagnostics with an Image Classification Algorithm, Wanying Li
Senior Thesis Proposal, Victoria Loughborough
Senior Thesis Proposal, Ross MacFadyen
Senior Thesis Proposal, Theodore Macphail
Senior Thesis Proposal, Asa Martinez
Senior Thesis Proposal, William Mason
Rivkele: A Feminist Translation and Analysis of Sholem Asch’s גאָט פון נקמה, Molly McGowan
Senior Thesis Proposal, Kalie McGuirl
Senior Thesis Proposal, Dana Miller
Senior Thesis Proposal, Nay Chie Moe Thet
Natural Language in a Constructed World, Meghan Molinari
[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
Senior Thesis Proposal, Kayleigh Myer
Senior Thesis Proposal, Naol Negassa
Senior Thesis Proposal, Lael Ngangmeni
The Document of Film Politics, Aesthetics, and the Production of Value, Isabel O'Donnell
Senior Thesis Proposal, Daniel Packer
Belousov-Zhabotinsky: an Exploration of Filmmaking in the Digital Age, Bryce Parker
Coronal Mass Ejections: A Study of Structure, Grant Parker
Senior Thesis Proposal, Danielle Pendleton
Senior Thesis Proposal, Micaela Pereira
Senior Thesis Proposal, Georges Pichard
A Low-Cost, Feature-Based Color Threshold Selection Approach to Eye-gaze Tracking and a Basis For Gaze Interface, Vijay Pillai
To Will an End: Outliving Sexual Violence and State Sovereignty, Anna Poplawski
An Examination of the Process Of Writing, Directing, Acting In, and Producing The Play Brothers, Dominica Purcell
PCBs Filtration Model using Perfluorocarbons as an Active Agent, Sofia Rafikova
Laser Ultrasound-Guided Biopsy Needle Aid: Biopsies made simple, Payal Rana
Butch? An Exploration of the Queer Community and Female Masculinity, A.J. Rio-Glick
Against All Odds, I Universe You: Academic and Personal Perspectives on Facets of Queer Identity, Andre Santana
Feel. Look. Listen., Ihor Shuhan
Senior Thesis Proposal, Matthew Stabile
Senior Thesis Proposal, Elle Stanion
Senior Thesis Proposal, Mira Tesla
Senior Thesis Proposal, Danya Tracht
How Will Chinese Film Survive? The Opportunities and Challenges of Contemporary Chinese Film in World Marketing., Kassidy Wang
Senior Thesis Proposal, Madison Weber
Senior Thesis Proposal, Claire Wegh
Hippotherapy and Therapeutic Horseback Riding: An Occupational Therapy Framework, Erin Wilkerson
Senior Thesis Proposal, Yi Xie
Senior Thesis Proposal, Chengcheng Xin
Delayed-Choice Quantum Eraser: The paradox of time-independent correlated measurements, Hyojun James Yu
Senior Thesis Proposal, Maisha Zahed
Senior Thesis Proposal, Xinyan Zhang
2016
Senior Thesis Proposal, Sara Aboobakar
Competitive Coloring: A Structural Approach, Ethan Ackelsberg
Senior Thesis Proposal, Tony Alexander
Gentle Nightmares: A Collection of Short Stories, Kathleen Ansel
Ironbound, Carrie Basch
Investigating the Digital Darkroom: A Discussion on the Ethics of Photographic Manipulation, Adam Bigelow
Senior Thesis Proposal, Kaelyn Brandt
Campbell’s Broken Model: Women in the Role of the Literary Hero, Kori Brierley-Bowers
Senior Thesis Proposal, Virginia Cassel
Urban Agriculture: Community Farms and Agribusinesses in New York City, Caitlin Chai
Senior Thesis Proposal, Michael Chang
Senior Thesis Proposal, Yueming Chen
The Media of Capital and Contradiction, Nikola Cooper-Fateyev
Cooperative Water Management: A Means For Conflict Resolution in Israel and Palestine, Marjorie Cort
Senior Thesis Proposal, Rebecca Cosenza
Senior Thesis Proposal, Elibba Dean
From Gertie to Ghibli: The World Industries Behind Animations - Their Successes, Failures, and Futures, Kate Decker
Senior Thesis Proposal, House Dow
Sex Poems, Cian Doyle
Senior Thesis Proposal, Hannah Ferus
Senior Thesis Proposal, Avonlea Fisher
Senior Thesis Proposal, Ligaya Franklin
Senior Thesis Proposal, Rhiannon Gabriel-Jones
HERE I STAND; THERE YOU SIT: An Exploration of Space and Relationship in a Theatrical Environment, Theodor Gabriel
Our Barbarous Tongue: A Sociohistorical Study on the Emergence of Prescriptive Attitudes in the English Language, Arantzazu Galdos
Senior Thesis Proposal, Aidan Go
Senior Thesis Proposal, Lillian Goldberg
Senior Thesis Proposal, Stephen Hager
Senior Thesis Proposal, Naomi Harris
Senior Thesis Proposal, Oscar Hernandez