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.
Senior Theses from 2021
Legitimation, Repression, and Co-Optation: How the Three Pillars of Autocratic Stability Function in Iran, Naseem Nazari
How the Supreme Court Established a Constitutionally Permissible Death Penalty Adhering to Evolving Standards of Decency, Jason Newman
Asian American Voting During the 2020 Elections: A Rising, Divided Voting Group, Vi Nguyen
Comparative Analysis of Racist Implications of the Welfare State in the U.S. vs. U.K. through Child Benefits, Furaha Njoroge
Using Twitter Data to Forecast the Results of the 2020 Presidential Election, Jacob Norville
Examining Inhibition Activity and Binding Sites of Piericidins against Vibrio cholerae, Ezequiel Novoa
Making Sense of the 2020 Elections Results, Kai O'Neill
Making the Connections: Gender Quotas, Representation, and Critical Mass in Latin America, Katherine O'Neill
The Self and Memory: How Theories of Self Are Crucial in Aiding End-of-Life Decision Making for Dementia Patients, Eric Oregel and Eric E. Bauer
The Global Financial Crisis: An Inter-dimensional Analysis amongst Five Major Countries, Chukwueloka O. Oti
An Examination of Masculinity, Violence, and Identity in Things Fall Apart and Purple Hibiscus, Hephzibah Oyibo
Zoom In, Class Out: An Event Study on Publicly Traded Ed Tech Firm Valuations During COVID-19, Matiss Ozols
Obstructive Sleep Apnea: An Unmet and Unique Public Health Crisis, Nicholas Parise
The Impact Of Company Responses To Black Lives Matter In 2020 On Firm Value, Pearl Park
Negative Emotion Arousal for Attitude and Behavioral Changes in Captive Animal Documentary, Kate Parrish
The Sri Lanka-China-India Triangle: A Regional Power Transition, Nandeeni Patel
Viral Jihad: A Genealogy of al-Qaeda and ISIS' Propaganda, Renee Perper
Agro-Environmental Approaches to the Moderation of Outmigration from Northeast Thailand, Megan Perron
A Europe of Regionalists: How Has European Integration Impacted Regionalist Political Parties’ Electoral Support?, Brandon N. Piel
Arguments for the Abolition of Gender, Antonio Pineda
The Effects of Progressive CEOs on the Market Value of a Publicly Traded Corporation, Daniel Porras
A Detailed X-Ray Analysis of the Cold Front in RELICS Cluster A2163, Anne Poy
CRISPR-Cas9 Delivery Systems and the Blood-Brain Barrier: Potential for Graphene Oxide-mediated CRISPR Cas9/sgRNA delivery to Glioblastoma Cells, Grace K. Pratt
Step Back to Spring Forward: Republican Motherhood and the Precariousness of Women’s Rights from the Colonial Era to the Early Republic, Chandler Presson
In Between, Not Really Anywhere: Narratives of Half Asian-Half White Young Adults Navigating a Monoracial Society, Lena Proctor
Organized Labour’s Impact on the 2020 Election, Cooper Pryde
Why Representational Diversity Fails, Ross Rainaldi
The Benefit of Diversity in Nonprofit Boards, Lilian Rangel
The Socioeconomic Impact and Allocative Discrepancies of FEMA Disaster Declarations and Aid, Emma Ranheim
Humor as a Coping Mechanism: How Comediennes Use Humor to Cope with Deeply-rooted Systemic Sexism, Savi Rathi
A Relationship in Flux: Changes in Stock Market Linkages between China and Africa, Dawson Reckers
The e-CNY: Implications of China's Digital Payment Technology and Central Bank Digital Currency for a Dollar Dominated World, Joshua Rodriguez
How does PPP loan distribution in a county affect the rate of reported Covid-19 outcomes?, Lizzette Rojas
Liberation Technology in the Age of Digital Authoritarianism: Examining the Potential for Digital Technology to Promote Democratic Practice, Skyler Sallick
Not From My Wallet: Mental Accounting For Peer-To-Peer Digital-Payments, Jason Saltzman
"We the People": Self-Governance and the Evolving Treatment of Freedom of Assembly in the United States, Josephine Savaria-Watson
Gambling Autonomy: The Impact of Latin American Central Bank Independence on Risk Aversion within Monetary Policy Implementation, Julia Duarte Schulman
Fox News Viewership and the Behavior of Essential Workers During Covid-19, Jade S. Scott
Intellectual Capital's Impact on Corporate Performance During the Age of Digitalization and the COVID-19 Pandemic, Chance Sears
A Look at The Effects of Mentoring Programs on Non-Minor Foster Youth Outcomes, Ariel Sepulveda
COVID-19’s Effect on the US, China, and Australia Stock Markets: A Comparative Study, Xubin Haven Shi
Maledictum Bulgaricus: Bulgaria’s Perpetual Stagnation Due to its Negative National Narrative and Political Nostalgia, Yoana Sidzhimova
Don’t Get Screwed: What Factors Determine the Inclusion of J. Crew Blockers?, Michael Sill
Understanding Diverse Teams: How to Overcome Trust Violations, Olivia C. Snell
Would “Robot Umpires” Reduce Discrimination? Measuring Racial Bias in Major League Baseball Umpires, Hank Snowdon
A comprehensive policy analysis of ethnic minority displacement in Inner Mongolia and Guizhou, Allison So
VC Portfolio Size: Is Bigger, Better?, John Soranno
“The Spirit of Revolution:” The Impact of Rum on the Formation of the United States, Charles Streator
How Does Racial Diversity Throughout a Company’s Workforce Impact its Financial Performance?, Giano Stringfellow
The Relationship Between Money Growth and Inflation, Dillon Svenson
The Disproportionate Effect of Economic Crisis on Minority Communities, Ethan Takeyama
Environmental Controls on the Spatial Distribution of Greenfin Darters and Biodiversity in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Dri Tattersfield
So, You Want to be an Entrepreneur: Potential Factors that Lead to Founder and Startup Success, Joshua Robert Tatum
Screening Memory: World War II in Film and Television, Claudia A. Taylor
How American Transit Agencies Determine Fare Policy: It All Comes Down to Politics, Julian Thesseling
Defund the Police? An Exploration of the Relationship Police Budget and Officer-Involved Killings, Suzannah Thomas
The Joy of Listening: Three Voices in the Poetry of Wisława Szymborska, Mimi Thompson
Goldilocks and The Complete Subset Portfolio, Charlie Thomson
Leisure Time Use Disparities and Predicting Future Trends, Christian Thornton
Determinants of Housing Supply Expansion in the Western United States, Nathaniel Tolles
Ignorance is Bliss: An Analysis of the Historical Coverage of California's Proposition 13 and its Impacts on Public Education, Wendy Torres-Badajoz
Genomic Analysis of the Novel Antibiotic Nocamycin O, Janet Tran
Applications of Artificial Lipid Bilayers: A Gateway to a New Lipid Diagnostic System Using Biosensing, Lauren Trihy
Improving Relations Between the French Government and French Muslims, Carly Truscott
Hollywood versus History in "Schindler’s List", Teressa Ulrich
Subjective value of previous item is encoded during valuation in event-related potentials, Madeline Valdez
EL INMIGRANTE EN EL CINE DEL SIGLO XXI: UN ANÁLISIS DE LA IDENTIDAD INDOCUMENTADA Y SUS ESFUERZOS POR MANTENER UNA COMUNIDAD UNIDA DENTRO Y FUERA DE LA PANTALLA, Guadalupe Valente
Great Power Politics: The United States’ War on Disinformation with Consideration to Russian and Chinese Offensive Efforts, Jordan Venglass
The Softer Sex? Women Legislating War, Shanil Verjee
What Neurological Activity In The Human Brain In Reaction to Humor Can Tell Us About Our Evolution, Jack Viani
The Perfect “Imperfect” Policy: Analysis of the One China Policy during the past three U.S. administrations, Qingyang Wang
On properties of positive semigroups in lattices and totally real number fields, Siki Wang
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation Through Self Determination Theory: An Analysis of Motivation in Distance Runners, Drew Watson
The Effect of Drought and Exotic Species on the Post-Fire Response of Artemisia californica, Carolyn Weisman
A Neuropsychological Approach to User Experience (UX) Design Research, Lauren Widasky
Twin Threats: The Short-Sighted US Response to Global Climate Change and Pandemics, Bryan Williams
The Effect of Topical DNA Repair Enzymes on Mutation of the p53 Gene, Alexis Wilson
On the Brink: The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Conflict Behavior Between States, Georgia Wood
How Are Pricing Premiums in Hong Kong Privatizations Determined?, Yanjin Yang
Honesty and Love in Plato's Symposium, Cheng Rui Yap
The Impacts of COVID-19 on County Unemployment Rates, Mira Yoo
The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of Data, Sage D. Young
Captives & Spoils in Chicago: Examining the Columbian Exposition’s Triumphal Procession of 1893, Kazandra Zelaya
Investigating the Price Disparities Between ADRs and H-shares of Secondary Listed Chinese Companies in Hong Kong, Haohan Zhang
The Chinese National and Subnational Governance during the Public Health Crisis of COVID-19, Xinyi Zhang
Caring for Caregivers: Exploring Neuro-oncology Relationships and Spreading Collaborative Grief Support Using Human-Centered Design, Anya Zimmerman-Smith
Exploring the Relationship between Objectivity and Marginalized Social Identity: A Care-account, Qinfei Zou
Senior Theses from 2020
The Use of Neural Network Techniques to Identify Small Objects for Self-driving Cars, TIMUR ADIZOV
Killing Within Communities: What Causes Collective Violence, How We Remember It, and Why It Matters, Laleh Ahmad
The Convergence of Politics and Comedy: Changes to the Comedic Landscape in an Age of Polarization, Rachel Alaynick
