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 French
- 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
- Best Senior Thesis in Spanish
- 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
- Robert Day School Prize for Best Senior Thesis in 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
Electrifying Sub-Saharan Africa: Identifying Key Policy Factors in Electrification, Leah Benton
What Factors Are Responsible for the Variation In Stock Market Returns of G20 Country Benchmark Indices During the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic?, Rebecca Berger
Education Inequality in the United States: A Wicked Problem With a Wicked Solution, Lincoln Bernard
The "Safe Third Country" Concept: A Poor Instrument of Refugee Governance, Sahib Bhasin
“Re-education Camps” in Xinjiang, China: An Analysis of Testimonies from Uighur Survivors, Emily Bhatt
A Network Pandemic: Exploring the effects of Social Connectedness on the spread of COVID-19 in the United States, Mrinalini Bhushan
How Debt Restructuring affects the Market Value and Financial Statements of the Retail Industry due to the Covid-19 pandemic, William Birchard IV
Destruction of Belief: Reconsidering using Social Media as Testimony, Peter Blumberg
Illiberal Liberalization: Religious Legitimacy and State Reform in Saudi Arabia, Gabriel Blum
The Ticket Splitting Enigma: Comprehensive Theoretical Analysis of Motivated and Unmotivated Explanations of Split-Ticket Voting, Samuel Boorstyn
Multifractional Brownian Motion and Its Applications to Factor Analysis on Consumer Confidence Index, Christopher Box
Influencing Behavior: The Impact of Emphasizing Information on the Risky Decision-Making of Adolescents, Eamon Brady
Technological Leapfrogging in Emerging Economies Enabled by a Mobile-Native DeFi Infrastructure Ecosystem, Liam Brennan-Burke
To What Extent Has Labor Economic Shocks Impacted Home Values During COVID, Harrison Brenner
Predicting Bankruptcy in the High-Tech Industry Using a Binary Logistic Regression Model, Carson J. Bridges
How is the Twittersphere Feeling? An Analysis of the Effect of Twitter Sentiment on the First Day Returns of Initial Public Offerings, Nicholas Britt
Advocating for Existence: The History of Environmental Justice Movements Surrounding the Port of Los Angeles, Walter Brostrom
The Market for Marijuana: Implications of a Tax Change in Washington State, Henry Brown
Challenges within the Education System: An In-Depth Analysis of the School to Prison Pipeline in the United States, Roxanne Camarena Castillo
Factory to Table: A Philosophic Analysis of the Justice or Lack Thereof of Agricultural Markets, Will Carter
A Feminist Re-Imagining of Participatory Planning, Elena Castellanos
The Effect of Spotify’s Podcast-Related Initiatives on Its Value, Ayinde Castro
The Impact of COVID-19: Implications of Evolving Business Practices on Firm Performance, John Cavellier
Towards a Participatory Epistemology: Latinx Poetry in US High School English Classrooms, Sarah Ceja
Zoom-Life Balance: Teamwork Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic, Theodore Chamberlain
Fragile Chains: The Political Economy of the Global Production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Christine Chan
Burgeoning Webnovel Culture in South Korea, Suh Won Chang
Exploring the Women's Incarceration Problem, Janet Chen
Analyst Non-GAAP Reporting: When Do Equity Analysts Adjust GAAP Earnings – an Application of Text Based Firm Complexity, Patrick Chen
Improving M-DNA Polymerase Accuracy Through Rational Design, Trevor Christensen
Can Machine Learning fix the racism in the Criminal Justice System?, Jun Chung
Accountability for Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, John Church
A Case Study on Chinese Politically Connected Firms Post-US Listing, Ruyan Chu
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on US-China Economic Decoupling, Patrick Coe
Household Resources Predict Systems-Level Brain Aging in the Pediatric Population, Jacob Cohen
Converged Subset Portfolios: An Extension to Subset Optimization, Coleman Cornell
The Dynamic Relationship Between Young Spanish Catholics and the Church, Caroline Cox
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on air pollution in urban and rural areas of the United States, Tanner Cress
COVID-19 and Election Administration: An Investigation into the Effects of a Pandemic on Election Outcomes and Legitimacy, Kathleen Cummings
Privacy-as-Property: A New Fundamental Approach to The Right to Privacy and The Impact This Will Have on the Law and Corporations, Sevion DaCosta
AI in Personnel Selection: Computing Talent or Augmenting Bias?, Emma David
The Dilutive Nature of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies and the Looming Threat of SEC Regulation, Camrion Davis
How Good are Equity Analysts? Investigating the Impact of Analyst Recommendations on Portfolio Performance, Maxwell Dawson
“The President’s New Clothes”: The Sartorial Politics of American Inaugurations, Joseph Deleon
Non-Uniform Effects of Aging Across Tasks: An EEG/ERP Study, Chandlyr Denaro
The Effect of Firm ESG Performance on the Cost of Issuing Corporate Bonds in the U.S. Debt Market, Rishi Raj Deva
The True Cost of School Lunch: Assessing the Efficacy of School Nutrition Policy, Anuj Devatha
The Effect of the Georgia Senate Runoff Election on the Intradaily Returns of Renewable Energy, Cannabis, and Oil, Luke Dhillon
The Effects of Retirement on Division III Collegiate Athletes' Mental Health, Laura Dickinson
Sufficientarianism Revised: A Look at Past Theories of Distributive Justice and Working Prospects for Future Theories, Georgia Dietz
Strategies for Combating Homelessness in Los Angeles County, Regan Dinovitz
The Effects of Humor when Coping with Stress, Rahmel Dixon
U.S. Government Responses to Genocide: A Comparison of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Tallan Donine
Measuring the Effect of Patents on GDP at the Metropolitan Level, Ellis Douglas
Can you call someone out for a belief?, Ibrahim Elhari
Unlocking the Energy Within; A Journey Through Healing and Evolution, Juliana Favela
A Rush Toward Outrage: How Mass Media Have Played a Role in Political Polarization, Kyle Fendorf
Performance of Pairs Trading within Volatile Markets: Distance, Cointegration, and Copula Methods, Benjamin Figueroa
Hitler Comes to Washington: An Analysis of the Structural Similarities Between Former American President Donald Trump’s and Former German Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s Rise to Power, Maxwell Fine and Maxwell A. Fine
The Ignored Issue of Poor-Quality Antimalarials, Daniela Finkel
Donald Trump’s Authoritarianism: The Decline of Democracy Under Trump, Gabe Fisher
On the Wrongs of Fake News, Samuel Fiske
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Future of Audit, Jessica Sydney Fox
Privacy as Non-Price Competition: Does Market Structure Predict Data Privacy Practices?, William Frankel
Waves of Colonialism and Whitewashing Legacies: A Critical Analysis of Race in the Dominant Surf Narrative, Jennifer Franklin
The Rise of Illiberal Democracy in the United States, Taylor Frank
Understanding the Relationship between Customer Concentration and Profitability in Public Firms in the Electronics Manufacturing Industry, Alexander Garcia Delgado
Gentrification and Racial Displacement in the Aftermath of California Wildfires, Patrick Gavin
The Role of the Nurse Practitioner: in United States Health Care Reform, Taylor Geary
Duty for Imagination: A Philosophical Analysis of Imagination & Defined Benefit Pension Accounting, Abigail Gilliland
Climate Change in Fiction: The Evolution and Challenges of Environmental Apocalyptic Literature, Lauren Gode
January 6th: The Culmination in and Creation of a Violent Political Movement, Cameron Gonzales
Donald Trump v. The Electorate: A Twitter Feud for the Ages, Natalie Gould
The Politicization and Polarization of Climate Change, Williamson Grassle
Set in Stone? A Civic Education Approach to Monumental Decision-Making in the United States, Anna E. Green
Ivan Meets G.I. Joe: Rock Music and its Role in the Collapse of Communist Regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, Finn Grollo
The Impact of Tweeting Support for Black Lives Matter on Firm Value: An Event Study Analysis, Stuti Grover
How a sports team can create a national identity that builds interracial relations and fosters integration, Matthew Grundlingh
Developing Culturally Versatile Leadership: Harnessing the Potential of an Integrated World Through Global Managerial Talent, Uddhav Gupta
Twitter’s Relationship with Overreaction in Individual Security Returns, David Halle
Jay Chou’s Kuso Music: Cultural Fusion in the Age of the Internet, Stz-Tsung (Stone) Han
The Jigsaw Model: A Key to a Loving Romantic Relationship, Stz-Tsung (Stone) Han
Didactic Democracy: Rethinking the Roles of Individuality, Political Freedoms and “Cultural Values” in the Process of Development, Sabrina Hartono
Reducing Binge Drinking Behavior: The Intersection of Implementation Intentions and Drinking Motives, Zach Heffernan
China’s Foreign Development Aid and its Expansion After the Mid-2000s, Juliana He
Screening Race and Religion in Hollywood: Gandhi, MLK, Chavez, and Malcolm X on Film, Carter Henderson
Reviving Death: Populism and the Persistence of California’s Death Penalty, Cameron Hendrickson
Gentrification as an Institution of Injustice: Understanding the Displacement of Low-Income Families and Erasure of Culture, Diana Hernandez
Money, Power, & Politics: Firm Lobbying Dynamics and Expenditures, Danielle Honan
Intradaily Stock Reversal During Covid19 and Through 2020, Caroline Houghton
The Effect of Comprehensive Privacy Legislation on Firms’ Stock Returns: Empirical Evidence from California’s CCPA and CPRA, Christopher Hu
Understanding Anorexia Nervosa (AN) and the use of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) as a potential pharmacological treatment, Brielle Huddy
