Past and Present Scholars
Riley Kelfer
What Is “Speedrunning?”: Industry, Community, and Ideology
Tutor: Se Young Kim
Readers: Aaron Hanlon, Kerill O’Neill
Harry Kolb
Samuel Alexander: A Philosophical Biography
Tutors: Jim Behuniak, David Freidenreich
Readers: Lydia Moland, Ryan Harper
Gabriella Foster
Lazuz v’Lilmod (To Move and Learn): Bringing Movement Education to the Jewish Experience in Maine
Tutors: David Freidenreich, Ann Marie Kloppenberg
Readers: Nikky Singh, Sonja Thomas
Adrienne Carmack
The Impact and Radical Queer Possibility of Youth Participatory Action Research
Tutor: Lyn Mikel Brown
Readers: Lisa Arellano, Mark Tappan
Kristen Starkowski
Disabling the Stigma: Charles Dickens and Disability in Victorian London
Tutor: Tilar Mazzeo
Readers: Victoria Mayer, David Suchoff
Eli Dupree
Lasercake: A Computer Game to Teach Environmental Science
Tutor: Mark Tappan
Readers: Philip Nyhus, Stephanie Taylor
Bogumil Giertler
Augmenting Your Daily Reality, A Study in Accessible AR
Tutor: Bruce Maxwell
Readers: Brian Eastwood, Dale Skrien
Nicole Hewes
More Than Just Verse?: The Language of Dr. Seuss and Children’s Literacy
Tutor: Mark Tappan
Readers: Tarja Raag, Laurie Osborne
Dustin A. Hickey
Intersteller Dust and its Effect on Modeling High Mass Protostars
Tutor: Murray Campbell
Readers: Robert Bluhm, Jonathan McCoy
Sonia R. Mahabir
Hail, Diversity Hail: Questioning the Campus Climate at Colby College
Tutor: Mark Tappan
Readers: Joseph Atkins, Adam Howard
John C. Moriarty
The Cluster Environment of High Mass Protostars
Tutor: Murray Campbell
Readers: Robert Bluhm, Charles Conover
Laure-Helene Caseau
From Golden Rectangles to the Edge of Chaos
Tutor: Bevin Engman
Readers: Veronique Plesch, Sharon Corwin
Katherine (Kaylea) Nelson
High Mass Star Formation and Modeling High Mass Prostellar Object IRAS 18151-1208
Tutor: Murray Campbell
Readers: Robert Bluhm, Jan Holly
Justine Ludwig
From the Kunstkammer to the Art Museum
Tutors: Veronique Plesch, Sharon Corwin
Readers: Michael Marlais, William Edelglass
Christopher Giangreco
Reading Comics as Commerce: The Graphic Novel, Consumer Culture and Postmodern Theory
Tutor: Debra Spark
Readers: Michael Marlais, David Suchoff
Catherine Downing
Interlocking Oppressions of Sisterhood: Unmasking the ‘Black Woman’ in Nineteenth Century Blackface Minstrelsy
Tutor: Cedric Bryant
Readers: Jill Gordon, Michael Marlais
Tom Reznick
Science, Technology and the Garden of Maine: Industrial Farming in Aroostook County
Tutor: Paul Josephson
Readers: David Firmage, Piers Hale
Jim Singelais
Curves, Women, Community
Tutor: Terry Arendell
Readers: Jeff Anderson, Tom Morrione
Lijah Barasz
“The Stories We Tell Ourselves in Film: Social Trends in Contemporary American Film from the Screenwriter’s Perspective”
Tutors: Margaret McFadden, Jennifer Boylan
Readers: Alec Campbell, Phyllis Manocchi
Emilia Tjernström
“Future Shock – Time Preferences as a Determinant of Savings and Environmental Attitudes”
Tutor: Tom Tietenberg
Reader: Kashif Mansori
Mark Chapman
“Rebuilding the Bridge: The (Re)Integration of Chinese Muslims into the Islamic World”
Tutor: Nikky-Guninder K. Singh
Readers: Walter Hatch, Guilain Denoeux
Stephen Whelpley
“The Econometric Value of Silence and Noise as Seen by a Non-Practicing Marxist” (i.e. A Collection of Poetry and Fiction)
Tutors: Jennifer Boylan, Peter Harris
Readers: Debra Spark, Jill Gordon
David Cohen
“Improving Econometric Estimation through the use of Neural Networks”
Tutor: Michael Donihue
Readers: Jan Holly, David Findlay
Kathryn Hulick
“Thoughts made Visible”
Tutors: Bevin Engman, Veronique Plesch
Readers: Harry Walker, Michael Marlais
Julie Land
“Gay Liberation Movements and the Deployment of Postmodernism in the United States”
Tutor: Margaret McFadden
Readers: Katherine Stubbs, Alec Campbell
Nina Martin
“Pesty Business: Nuisance Mosquito Control on the North Shore of Massachusetts”
Tutor: Jim Webb
Readers: Jim Fleming, Sharon Treat
Chyann Oliver
“Ghetto Feminism: Neo Black Feminism for the Black Hip-Hop Generation”
Tutor: Cedric Bryant
Readers: Pam Thoma, Margaret McFadden
Rachel Tobie
“World & Image in the Contemporary Artist’s Book”
Tutor: Veronique Plesch
Readers: Dan Rosenfeld, Peter Harris
Amanda Ashman
“Conceptualizing ‘Third Wave’ Feminism Identity within Contemporary Feminist Movement”
Tutor: Pam Thoma
Readers: Mary Beth Mills, Margaret McFadden
Albert Goodman
“Experimental Economics Methodologies and Applications: Price Competition Among Gasoline Stations”
Tutor: Michael Donihue
Readers: Kashif Mansori, Randy Nelson
Jessica Martin
“Poe’s Politan: A Critical Analysis”
Tutor: John Sweney
Readers: Robert McArthur, Susan Kenney
Eric S. Fleischman
“A Cognitive Model of New Data on Human Problem Solving”
Tutor: Randolph M. Jones
Readers: Clare Congdon, Nicholas Rohrman
Reading Date: April 24, 4:00pm in Mudd 405
John Montelle Hobson
“What is Your Substance, Whereof are You Made?”
Tutor: Elizabeth Sagaser
Readers: Cedric Bryant, Laurie Osborne
Reading Date: May 4, 7:00pm in Given
Amy L. Reznitsky
“Reconfiguring Sex: The Paradoxical Relationship Between Intersexed and Transgendered Identities”
Tutor: Margaret McFadden
Readers: Heidi Kim, Maritza Straughn-Williams
Reading Date: April 30, 4:00pm, Lovejoy 203
Kristina Tabor
“The Politics of Restoration Authorship: The Collaboration of Dryden and Purcell on King Arthur, or the British Worthy”
Tutors: Elizabeth Sagaser, Eva Linfield
Readers: Laurie Osborne, John Sweney
Reading Date: April 28, 7:00pm, Robins Room
Raymond Mazza
“An Interactive Three-Dimensional World”
Tutor: Randy Jones
Readers: Clare Congdon, Dale Skrein
Binah Palmer
“Modernity, Tradition, and American Identity in Advertisements, 1918-1929”
Tutor: Margaret McFadden
Readers: Alec Campbell, Robert Weisbrot
Michelle-Nicholle Rahmings
“The Colored Museum, Ethnic Theater: A Representation of African-American Culture, Reality or Stereotypes “
Tutor: Joylynn Wing
Readers: Ruth Brancaccio, Cheryl Gilkes, Geraldine Roseboro
Erin Rogers
“Fata Morgana”
Tutors: Tina Wentzel, Elizabeth Sagaser
Readers: Peter Harris, James Thurston
Hannah Smith
“Drawing from Words”
Tutor: Bevin Engman
Readers: Veronique Plesch, Susan Kenney
Elizabeth Tippet
Esperanza – a First Book of Poems
Tutor: Wes McNair, English
Readers: Peter Harris, English; Elizabeth Sagaser, English
Adam Schwartz
Ground-truthing Thermal Infrared Multi-spectral Images
Tutor: Don Allen, Geology
Readers: Tom Shattuck, Chemistry; Murray Campbell, Physics
Taylor Tribble
Correlation of lithology with emissivity using TIMS images
Tutor: Don Allen, Geology
Readers: Murray Campbell, Physics; Tom Shattuck, Chemistry
Lindsay Stewart
Celtic Traditions
Tutors: Dee Peppe, Art; Steven Nuss, Music; Michael Marlais, Art
Jared Lazzaro
Designing a Remote Navigation System
Tutor: Allen Downey, Computer Science
Readers: Randy Jones, Computer Science; Lenny Reich, STS
Christopher Ireland
Small Robots and Machine Learning
Tutor: Clare Congdon, Computer Science
Readers: Randy Jones, Computer Science; Dale Skrien, Computer Science
Peter Aykroyd
Growing Artificial Societies
Tutor: Clare Congdon, Computer Science
Readers: Randy Jones, Computer Science; Dale Skrien, Computer Science
Kempton Mooney
Conceptual Art in America
Tutor: Michael Marlais, Art
Readers: David Simon, Art; David Suchoff, English
Rosecrans B. Baldwin
English, Creative Writing Concentration
A Book of Poetry
Tutor: Peter Harris (1st Sem.); Ira Sadoff (2nd Sem.)
Readers: Elizabeth Sagaser; Peter Harris (2nd Sem.)
John Bishop
English, Creative Writing Concentration
Jade Tigers
Tutor: Monica Wood
Readers: Susan Kenney, Pam Thoma
Lindsay M. Hayes
English, Creative Writing Concentration
“We’re the Dumb Kids”: Portraits of Remedial Junior High School Language Arts Classrooms
Tutor: Mark Tappan
Readers: Lyn Brown, Phyllis Mannocchi
Peter A. King
Music
The Choral Music of Charles Ives
Tutor: Paul Machlin
Readers: Eva Linfield, Raffael Scheck
Catherine Anne Tynan
English, Creative Writing Concentration
A Novel
Tutor: Susan Kenney
Readers: Elisa Narin van Court, Debra Spark
Jamie Nash Yourdon
English
“Greater New York”
Tutor: Debra Spark
Readers: Laurie Osborne, Susan Kenney