Professor Peter Scull introducing Claire Bonzani ’22 and her senior honors project.
There was a bumper crop of senior honors theses in spring of 2022 for the Geography Department.
All of the participants were senior geography or environmental studies geography concentrators, many of them having worked on the topics since the previous summer. There was a great deal of variety in interests and specialties among the projects, with a majority of the department faculty as advisers, readers, and second-readers. After an academically rigorous year and multiple revisions of each thesis, it was a pleasure to consider the final presentation of particular topic, weigh in on their methods, and listen to their findings. Each student has proven mastery of their subject and may potentially be able to turn these projects into academic papers in the future.
| Anna Duerr | Food Access and Inequity in Utica, NY: A Critique of the Food Desert Concept |
| Claire Bonzani | A Geographic Comparison of the Social Determinants of Health between COVID-19 Pandemic Waves |
| Juliana Koller | Florida Box Turtle Conservation Study on a Southwest Florida Barrier Island |
| Jordyn Gross | Conceptualizations of Resilience and Vulnerability in the New York Rising Community Reconstruction Program |
| Kaitlin Connelly |
Coca-cola the Greenwasher |
| Madeline Roy | “Worthless Lands” in Texas Cities: Investigating the Relationships between Demographic Groups, Parks, and Their Proximity to Floodplains |
