CMC gives yearly awards for the best theses. Search on the award title in quotes will result in a list of the award winning theses:

  • Best Senior Thesis in Biological Sciences
  • Best Senior Thesis in Environment, Economics, and Politics
  • Best Senior Thesis in Gender Studies
  • Best Senior Thesis in Government
  • Best Senior Thesis in History
  • Best Senior Thesis in Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Best Senior Thesis in International Relations
  • Best Senior Thesis in Literature
  • Best Senior Thesis in Mathematical Sciences
  • Best Senior Thesis in Military Science
  • Best Senior Thesis in Modern Languages and Literatures
  • Best Senior Thesis in Neuroscience
  • Best Senior Thesis in Philosophy
  • Best Senior Thesis in Psychology
  • Best Senior Thesis in Psychological Sciences
  • Best Senior Thesis in Public Policy
  • Best Senior Thesis in Religious Studies
  • Best Senior Thesis in Science Management
  • Robert Day School Prize for Best Senior Thesis in Economics and Finance
  • Robert Day School Prize for Best Senior Thesis in Economics (Accounting) and Finance
  • Fulbright Fellowship

Please NOTE the theses in this collection are Undergraduate Senior Theses completed by Senior Undergraduate students who have received a bachelor's degree. Many are made Openly Accessible at the request of the Author. Some authors have chosen to keep their These closed to the current faculty, students, and staff of the Claremont Colleges. If you are not a current member and cannot download, note that we cannot provide you access to the Theses.

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Senior Theses from 2022

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The Black Love Fantasy: An Analysis of the Oppressive White Imagination and Its Effects on Black Women’s Portrayals within Romance Films, Danielle Payne

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The Faces of War: Reintroducing Women's Narratives in War, Robin Makena Peterson

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Mixing Sports and Politics: How Totalitarian Regimes Used Sports to Achieve the Goals of the State, Caroline Phillips

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Building Our Own Houses: AAPIs in Congress, Daenerys Pineda

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Outside the Box: Using a Sibling Training Protocol to Increase Imaginative Play Among Autistic Children, Rachel Podl

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Liquidity Outbreak: A 49 Country Analysis of the Money Supply’s Effect on Stock Markets during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Dylan Porter

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Effects of Drought on Habitat Quality for Native Bees in Residential Gardens of Claremont, CA, Max Proctor

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How weather and price affect residential electricity consumption in U.S. military installations, Hanzhi Qiu

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The State Collapse of Afghanistan in 2021, Samay J. Rahim

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Seeing Forced Isolation Through New Eyes: COVID-19, Anne Frank, and the Violence of the Nation-State, Anna Raines

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Cash Flows Metrics as Predictors for Stock Returns in Different Volatility Environments, Vasu Rai

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Do ESG Scores add incremental explanatory power for asset pricing relative to other factors?, Trishul Raja

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Entre Piedra y Pared: A Multi-Level Analysis of Housing and Immigration Policies’ Effect on Undocumented Immigrants in Mexico City, Sophia Ramirez-Brown

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The Relationship Between Rent Control and Educational Attainment in California, Karina Ramirez

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Putative Mechanisms Underlying the Antidepressant Actions of Ketamine: A Review and Study Proposal, Tristan Reece

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Rejecting the Digital Utopia: An Analysis of How Technological Structures Allow Racial Harms to Persist Online, Courtney Reed

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Analysis of the Determinants of the “Korea Discount”, Samantha Ree

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Connection and Competition: Navigating the U.S.-China Race to 5G, Hannah Reilly

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Cataluña y Cuba contemporáneas: El uso de las redes sociales como plataformas de solidaridad y nacionalismo virtual, Alicia Reynaga

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Analyzing the genetic mechanisms for the sex-biased penetrance of autism spectrum disorder, Lauren Richards

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A Retrospective On NAFTA: The Effects of Trade with Mexico on U.S. Manufacturing Employment, Joaquin Riojas

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Cultural Resistance in the African Diaspora: A Historical and Contemporary Analysis of Land-Based Community Care, Toluwani Roberts

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Mitigating Climate Change; Implementation Applicability of a Domestic Carbon Tax in the United States: Evaluating Rebate System and Post-Market Competitiveness, Ben Rodman

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Is Versatility a Blessing or a Curse in the National Football League?, Benjamin Rosen

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A Serological Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in the Obstetric Population, Sophia Rose

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Sex Ratio Observed in White Crowned Sparrow Population (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii) Wintering at the Bernard Field Station, Sydney Ross

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How to Vote Well: Rebuilding Barriers to Demagoguery and Incentivizing Responsible Leadership in the American Republic, Harper Rubin

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How Personality and Internet Use can be Protective Factors Against Loneliness During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Stephany Ruelas

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Does H1-B Visa Restriction Hinder American Innovation?, Dharkann Sainani

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Containing Compounding Container Congestion, Curtis Salinger

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Moral Hazard in Monetary Policy: Assessing the Impact of the Federal Reserve Actions on Asset Returns during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Guillermo J. Santos

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Reducing Stress for Parents of Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction in the Context of a Psychoeducational Parent Training, Stiles Satterlee

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An Exploration of Moral Personhood Through the Eyes of All, Noa Schachtel

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Exploring the Generational Evolution of Black-White Wage Inequality across Geographic Regions of the United States, Rachel Scharff-Hansen

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How Do Firm Characteristics Affect Stock Price Reactions to COVID-19 Fiscal Stimulus?, Alexa Schulten

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Blue Dog Blues: The Fall of the Blue Dog Democrats in the 2010 Midterms and the Future of Swing District Representation in a Nationalized Congress, Henry Schulz

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Sports Scandals Impact on Consumer Opinion, Lucas Schwallie

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Critical Race Theory and the Civic Education Debate: Why Race Should be a Part of the Curriculum, Reilly Scott

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Integrating Carbon Pricing Approaches, Amay Shah

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COVID Long-Haulers: An Unprecedented Change in the History of Chronic Illness, Maya Shah

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Designing and Evaluating an Intervention to Foster Authenticity on Teams: A Mixed-Methods Approach, Shania Sharma

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The Impacts of Internal Migration on Rural Chinese Children: An Overview of Left-Behind Children, Yuming Sheng

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Repairing the Rung: An Analysis of the Influence of the Female Identity in Peer-Ratings, Saskia Shirley

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Impact of School Closures on Female Labor Force Participation in the Covid-19 Pandemic, Shreya Shome

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Algorithms in Law and Healthcare: How Machine Learning Is Being Utilized, Joe Anthony Silva

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Homogeneity and Trust: The Swedish Model as Support for American Policy Change, Alec Sinek

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The Impact of Merger and Acquisition Events on the United States Video Game Industry, William Smith

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Tumor Spheroid Growth Modeling Using a Harvested Bertalanffy Formula, Garegin Soghomonyan

Sòng Pèi Xīng, Jocelyn Song

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Analyzing Marriage Statistics as Recorded in the Journal of the American Statistical Association from 1889 to 2012, Annalee Soohoo

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Disembedded Liberalism: The Global Pressure on Democracy, Hallie Spear

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The Impact of Statewide Legalization of Marijuana on Opioid Overdoses, Emily Spielmann

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Synthesizing the Silver Screen: Electronic Music and the Motion Picture Score, Ryan Stackpole

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America After Trump: The Rise of National Conservatism in the United States, Its Potential for Electoral Success, and the Future of the Republican Party, Jensen Steady

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Seeing Empty Spaces, Pippa Straus

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Case Study on the Impacts of COVID-19 on Remote Work and Compensation in the San Francisco Bay Area, Carson Stubstad

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A Critique on Ideology Critique, Jiaying Tang

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​​The End of Silicon Valley as We Know it? An Event Study on the Financial Implications of Relocation and Remote Work Decisions, Josiah Tarrant

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The Impact of EV Tax Credits on Automaker Stock Returns, Zach Taylor

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Civil Unrest and Stock Market Effects: A Case Study of the 2019-2020 Hong Kong Protests Using ARIMA Time Series and GARCH Volatility Models, Tiffany Teng

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Legal Origins as a Contributing Factor to Civil Wars, Grant Thieroff

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Altruism in the Good Life: An Archetype of Virtuous Friendship, Elliott Thornburg

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The Experience of High-Skilled Immigrants in the US STEM Job Market, Eda Topuz

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Queens of the Hill: How Title IX Fares in the Hilltop Neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, Georgia Tuckerman

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The Effects of Macroeconomic Policy Shifts on US Housing Market Pricing Throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic, Ethan Tyng

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Using Thermal Performance Curves to assess the effects of temperature on metabolic and feeding rates of Balanus glandula, Sara Ueland

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Dynamic Nonlinear Gaussian Model for Inferring a Graph Structure on Time Series, Abhinuv Uppal

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Wreaking Havoc and Building Power: An Analysis of Saul Alinsky’s Methods in the 21st Century, Sobechukwu Tanitoluwa MinnaMasala Oreoluwa Uwajeh

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Designing Virtual Reality Headsets to Prevent Myopia, Kyril van Schendel

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Turkey’s Soft Power in the South Caucasus: An Assessment of Neo-Ottomanism Influence on Regional and Global Geopolitics, David Vardanian

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The Morality of Euthansia: Determining Precedence of Contradictory Prima Facie Principles for Moral Justification, Rohaan Vaswani

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Out of Bounds: How Race and Gender Have Shaped Women's Basketball, Laura Vences

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An Agent-Centered Approach to COVID-19 Vaccinations, Nila Venkat

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Dead Money: Measuring the Influence of Representatives on Government Spending, Adhitya Venkatraman

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A Unified Theory of Musical Meaning, Luis Verdin

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Ousted: An Analysis of the Dismissal Gap Between Male and Female CEOs, Theresa Versen

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The Silence of Nazi Looted Art in South America, Maria Emilia Vieira da Motta Piacsek

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The Effect of Announcements about Electric Vehicle Developments on Traditional Automakers' Stock Prices, Viraaj Vig

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A Marxist Re-Imagining of Capitalism, Alejandro Villegas

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Using Short Bursts to Optimize Redistricting in Georgia, Vedika Vishweshwar

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Herschel Walker, Black Voters, and the 2022 U.S Senate Race in Georgia, Janise Waites

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The Effects of CFO Gender on Earnings Quality and Financial Risk, Ashley Wang

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Corporate Environmental Strategy: An Examination of Firm Carbon Emissions, Environmental Expenditures, and Financial Performance, Daniel Wang

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The Female Perspective on Self-Worth, Zixuan Wang

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Forest Offsets in the California Carbon Market: Challenges of a Market Based Climate Solution, Eric Warmoth

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The Economic Implications of Hosting the NBA Finals on a County’s Personal Income, Gross Domestic Product, and Unemployment Rate, Robert Webb

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Greenpeace in Germany and the U.S.: A Case Study in Non-Profit Web Design, Maximilian J. Weirauch

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Building Healthy Homes: Evaluating the Relationship Between Medicaid Eligibility and Housing Quality as Social Determinants of Health, Olivia Welsh

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Analyzing Potential Career Paths for Collegiate Basketball Athletes, Garrett White

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Nusantara: The Social, Economic, Political, and Environmental Implications of Moving the Heart of Indonesia’s Government, Chloe Fiorine Wibawa

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Mary Eleanor Spear's Importance to the History of Statistical Visualization, Melanie Williams

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After All That, Phillip Williams

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A Paradoxical Relationship: US Government Authority and the American People, John B. Wills

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Private Equity – the Rescue or Destruction of Financially Distressed Investments, Alex Wilson

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The Implications of the Politics of Ani's preservation for the International Community and the Geopolitics of Turkish-Armenian Relations, Hailey Wilson

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The Impacts of Competition in the Audit Market on Audit Fees and Audit Quality, Andrew Winssinger

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An Intersectional Analysis of Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States, Devon Wolfe

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The Influence of Political Party Affiliation and Park Accessibility on COVID-19 case incidence, Sascha Wolf-Sorokin

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Solving the Cortisol Puzzle, Benjamin Wolters

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Balance Sheet Strength: A Retrospective Analysis of Corporate Liquidity and Solvency and Firm Stock Returns, Andrew Wraith