Projects

Undergraduate Senior Thesis

Exploratory Analysis of a Holocene Sea Salt Ice Core Record from Skytrain Ice Rise, Antarctica
(fall 2021 – spring 2022)

Paideia Class

On the History and Science of Chili Peppers
(December 2021 – January 2022)

Data Visualization

My GitHub (@gmcginnis) has a number of past and current programming projects.

Spatio-temporal exploration of low-cost air quality monitors

View and install the AirVizR package here.
Use the AirVizViewR dashboard via my shinyapps.io host here or by local install here.

Exploring Lophiiformes fish data

Learn more about the FishDash Shiny dashboard here.
Use the dashboard via my shinyapps.io host here or by local install here.

Laboratory Reports

Chemistry

  • Quantitative Data Analysis (fall 2020)
  • Inorganic (spring 2020)
    • Heck reaction using a palladium precatalyst under air
    • Synthesis and characterization of an iron-acac complex
  • Organic (fall 2019 – spring 2020)
    • Distillation of Whiskey Flavorings
    • Synthesis of Isopentyl Acetate from Isopentyl Alcohol and Acetic Acid
    • Rate of Nucleophilic Substitution
    • Synthesis of Salicylic Acid from Methyl Salicylate and Sodium Hydroxide
    • Synthesis of Acetylferrocene from Ferrocene and Acetic Anhydride
    • Grignard Synthesis of an Aromatic Carboxylic Acid
    • Sodium Borohydride Reduction of a Chiral Ketone

Writing

Please contact me if you are interested in my papers.

English

  • The City in Film (spring 2022)
    • WATCH YOUR STEP: Sequence Analysis of Albert’s Murderin Killer’s Kiss (1955) (00:41:02-00:44:17)
    • Extra Cheese is Two Dollars: Gemeinschaft, Gesellschaft, and Do the Right Thing (1989)
    • No Friendly Places in the Valley: Los Angeles in Pulp Fiction (1994) and Mulholland Drive (2001)
  • Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (fall 2021)
    • Many a Noble Wyf, Mayde, and Wydwe: Gender, Class, and Age in The Wife of Bath’s Tale
    • Sequitur de Accidia: On Sorrow, Neglect, and Restlessness in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
  • Dante’s Divine Comedy (spring 2021)
    • Quia Tempus Non Erit Amplius: An Analysis of Time in Dante’s Inferno
    • Raptus est in Paradisum: Dante’s First Purgatorial Dream
    • La Passione Impressa: The Gate of Inferno and the Ultimate Theophany
  • Film Noir (fall 2020)
    • Sequence Analysis: Mildred Pierce (1945)’s Opening Sequence (00:01:53-00:03:14)
    • “You’re on a hate binge”: Restoration of the Patriarchal Order Through Male Violence and Female Casualty in The Big Heat
  • Shakespeare’s Tragedies (fall 2019)
    • The Ills We Do: A close analysis of Shakespeare’s Othello
    • Every Inch a King: A comparison of the attitudes by Harold Bloom and by Stephen Greenblatt toward Lear of Shakespeare’s King Lear
    • Immortal Longings: The conception of imagination in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra

History

  • Crime and Law in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (spring 2021)
    • The Roles of Social and Economic Status in the Violence Laws of Acqui
    • Women and Sixteenth Century French Remission Laws
    • Complicating Factors and the Search for the Truth in Sixteenth Century Law
    • A legal briefing from a Beccarian perspective regarding the trial of Tempel Anneke
    • Equality, Rationality, & Predictability: The Legal Changes of Medieval Europe
  • Heretics, Witches, and Inquisitors (spring 2020)
    • Women in the Good Christian, Poor of Lyon, and Henrician Movements
    • Inquisitorial Record-Keeping of Early Modern Europe
    • Point-of-view essay: A Manual For the Eradication of the Fraticelli Heresy
    • Autos-da-fé and the Power of the Holy Office of the Inquisition of New Spain
    • Documentalium Inquisito: Structuring a Film Defining Inquisition, Heresy, and Power in the Context of the Middle and Early Modern Ages

Music & Politics (fall 2020)

  • Music of The Troubles: Irish Rebel, Folk, and Protest Songs
  • The Tehrangeles Genre: In and Beyond the Nation
  • Noise Uprising and the Politics of Recorded Sound
  • “A life filled with fun, that’s what I love”: A Tribe Called Quest and the Politics of Musical Love
  • Reflections on Hungry Listening, Academia, and the Role of Music in Revitalization

Humanities (fall 2018 – spring 2019)

  • Gilgamesh’s Humanity: The Epic of Gilgamesh
  • Rigidity vs. Adaptability: Comparing the Pharaohs of The Tale of Sinuhe and Genesis
  • Who Can Call it Justice?: The doubts of the nature of justice in The Eumenides
  • The Most Beautiful Thing: Comparing the poetry of Sappho and Archilochus
  • In the Shadows of the Templo Mayor: Comparing the Reliefs of Coyolxauhqui and Tlaltecuhtli
  • “No es Optimista”: Film as a critique of the modern state in Buñuel’s Los Olvidados (1950)
  • As Strong as a Man: Women and the male gaze in Cane