Thesis Titles
A list of the American Studies senior theses.
| Name | Thesis Title |
| Jacob Adams | Deer Isle, Maine and its Place within the Maine Myth |
| Lyndsay Beaton | Having Kids: Analysis of the Representations of Teen Pregnancy and Parenthood in Television Shows |
| Luca Denning | Beats, Basketball and Blackness: Hip Hop Culture’s Emergence in the NBA and their influence on representations of Black Masculinity in American Culture |
| Joanna L. Golding | The College and the Community: Exploring the Impact of Service-Learning on the College Aspiration of Community Partners – HONORS THESIS |
| Ryan Katon | Nerd Up: The Rise of Nerd Media and the Co-Optation of Narrative in Advertising |
| Victoria Lowe | Black Popular Music and American Popular Culture |
| Katherine Maxwell |
An Exceedingly Dirty and Nasty People”: Exploring the Patriot Forces of 1775 – HONORS THESIS |
| Emma Solar | Founded by Abolitionist, Funded by Slavery: Past and Present Manifestations of Bates College’s Founding Paradox – HONORS THESIS. |
| Sofie Søgaard | The Construction of Exceptionalism Nationalism: A Critique of Danish Imperialist Shame and Ongoing Colonialism in Kalaallit Nunaat – HONORS THESIS. |
| Porsha Winters | The American Dream, Public Housing, and Jay-Z |