Honors Projects
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A Multi-Dimensional, Computational Analysis of Ultrasound-Induced Negative Phonotactic
Behavior in the Mediterranean Field Cricket Gryllus bimaculatus Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Ryan Minje Kang
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Associative color learning and foraging preferences of syrphid flies (Eristalis spp.) in an island plant-pollinator network Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Whitt Dodge
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Shit Happens to Pretty Girls This record is embargoed.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Ella Jones
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Polemics in the Pale: The Jewish National Question as a Proxy Debate in Revolutionary Russian Politics
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Michael Sherman Gordon
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- Polemics in the Pale: The Jewish National Question as a Proxy Debate in Revolutionary Russian Politics examines the Bolshevik Party's debates over the Jewish National Question. This thesis tracks the evolution of the arguments surrounding Jewish national status through the Bolsheviks' break with the Jewish Labor Bund at the 1903 RSDLP Congress, the Soviet Union's schemes to create Jewish agricultural colonies in Ukraine, and the Soviet decision to establish the Jewish Autonomous Region in Birobidzhan in Siberia. Ultimately, Polemics in the Pale argues that the Bolshevik main interest in discussing the Jewish national question was not to find a genuine theoretical conception of the nation compatible with Social Democracy but instead was to utilize it as a cipher for more pressing political issues: party organization and state-building.

Investigating the Role of Toll-7 Protein in the Developing Peripheral Nervous System of Gryllus bimaculatus Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Kyla Gary
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The Role of Temperament and Parental Reflective Functioning in Toddlers' Emotion Regulation and Behavior Problems Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Julia Ann DeLuca
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Weather and Female Age Affect Reproductive Tradeoffs in Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) Incubation Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Oscar Koziol Nigam
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Gendered Subjectivity in Refugee Resettlement Processes: From Somalia to Lewiston, ME
Date: 2018-01-01
Creator: Elena Gleed
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- Refugee Resettlement to the United States is a globalized and transnational process of making home. After Somali state collapse in 1991, more than a million displaced people fled to refugee camps across the Kenyan border. Today, over 12,000 Somali people now live in Lewiston, ME, an old mill town located along the Androscoggin River. As refugees are resettled by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees they enter a system created over fifty years ago in response to World War II. Using post-colonial and feminist scholarship, this project analyses the “female refugee” subject as she appears in the official discourse of resettlement processes. I trace the historical emergence of this subjectivity from an individual and work-based neoliberal American ethos to non-governmental organizations run by Somali women in Lewiston. Drawing from document analysis and ethnographic interviews, this paper explores the how Somali women are made to be “new American workers” in a process that combines western liberal feminism with ideas of integration and cultural orientation to the United States.
Salud Callejera: Mobilizing Cuidado at the Margins of Neoliberalism; Reimagining Care for People Experiencing Homelessness in Buenos Aires
Date: 2019-05-01
Creator: Brandon Morande
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- On any given night, thousands of individuals sleep on the streets of the Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Without secure housing, people in situación de calle (experiencing homelessness) suffer elevated rates of physical trauma, transmissible and chronic diseases, and symptoms of depression. Nevertheless, two-thirds of this population do not receive annual health consultations, with the majority solely accessing the emergency department when their conditions severely worsen. This study finds that municipal services and, to a lesser extent, the public health system render individuals responsible for housing insecurity by adopting a neoliberal subjectivity of homo economicus, medicalizing poverty as a symptom of psychosocial illness potentially curable through economic and social rehabilitation. Those who do not conform with such pathologization or other employment-based demands confront heightened criminalization and exclusion from care services. As an alternative response, this project investigates the actions of civil society networks, which employ a contrary notion of homo politicus, reimagining care as a collective right and site of political mobilization. This thesis draws upon interviews with people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, members of civil society organizations, public health providers, and municipal social workers, as well as observations from street-outreach.
Torture under the Regime of Bashar al-Assad: Two Decades of Failed Human Rights Campaigns and Foreign Interference in Syria
Date: 2020-01-01
Creator: Olivia Giles
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- This honors thesis analyzes human rights campaigns to end the practice of state-sponsored torture in Syria during the presidency of Bashar al-Assad. It compares the 2000 Damascus Spring and the 2011 Arab Spring using the concept of the “contentious spiral model.” The model is based on the elements of the original “spiral model” introduced in The Power of Human Rights (1999) and the factors of contentious politics discussed in Dynamics of Contention (2001). It suggests that human rights movements that emerge from uprisings need effective mobilization by domestic and international actors. Sustained pressure from both sources should gradually force the state to make concessions until there is an absence of human rights violations. The study uses research on social movements and international politics in Syria, in addition to data on the practice of torture, to suggest that human rights campaigns to end state-sponsored torture in Syria have been unsuccessful because of the interference of Assad’s foreign alliances. These countries have helped the regime backlash against the opposition during uprisings, which has led to the fracturing of the movement. During the Damascus Spring, this interference took the form of shifting the world’s focus to other regional issues, and during the Arab Spring, Syria’s allies directly supported the Assad regime militarily, financially, and legally.