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 2020
How the Loss of Land is Threatening the Survivability and Culture of the Maasai, Hannah Alderete
Effects of Sleep Deprivation and the Link to Alzheimer’s Disease in Night Shift Workers, Aracelia Aldrete
Understanding the Genomic Basis of Pair-Bonding Behaviors Through RNA-Seq, Erin R. Alexander
Factors That Affect Women’s Labor Participation in Saudi Arabia, Bandar AlKabbani
Analysis of Micro Transit Demand Determinants and Effectiveness, Andrea Amaya
On Locke's Atheism, Robert Aronoff
From "Mountain Turks" to "Terrorists": Media Representations of Kurds in Turkey, Nezihe Atun
Observing the Effects of Diversity on Performance in Ugandan Primary Schools, Sydney Baffour
Il contrapasso nell’Inferno di Dante Alighieri: un’analisi del contrapasso attraverso Francesca da Rimini, Conte Ugolino, e Lucifero, Liv Allegra Baker
Children’s Development and Crisis: Comparing Developmental Best Practices Against Aid Program Curricula, Martha Baker
The New Arms Race?: The Effect of Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons on the Theory of Deterrence, Shreya Bhatnagar
K-Means Stock Clustering Analysis Based on Historical Price Movements and Financial Ratios, Shu Bin
Harnessing Authenticity: Mexican Restaurants in 1920s Los Angeles and Today, Mitchell Black
Examining Protein-Protein Interactions Within the ESX-4 Secretion System of Mycobacterium smegmatis, Sophie Boerboom
Determining the Antibacterial Activity and Mode of Action of Tirandamycin, Hailey Bouchard
Socioeconomic Barriers to Diagnosis and Accommodation of ADHD in Public Education, Ellen Broaddus
On the Brink of Collapse: Examining the Failure of Institutional Governance over Hydropower Development in the Mekong Basin, Stuart Brown
Viral Business and Initial IPO Returns, william buckstaff
Principle or Partisanship: An Analysis of the Role Stare Decisis Plays in Supreme Court Jurisprudence, Clare Burgess
Social Wealth Funds Could Help Address Extreme Wealth Inequality, Oscar Burney
Why Dads Should Talk About Feelings: A Biopsychosocial Model of Emotion Socialization and Child Stress Regulation, Anna Beth Burniston
The Long-Term Impacts of Sex Education and Teenage Pregnancy on Labor Market Outcomes, Krista Cabrera
Sibling Mediated Play Intervention of Joint Engagement and Symbolic Play in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Catherine Callaci
The Rationale of Sidecar Impact in Venture Capital and Outcomes for Hybrid Investors, Riley Cantwell
The Noxious Market of Division 1 College Football, Bryan Carlen
Protect Our Press: How the Future of Journalism and Democracy are at Risk, Bianca Carrizal
The Unaffordable American Dream: The Effect of Income Inequality on Housing Prices, Cameron Cash
The Role of Aspirations: Influencing Decision Making Through Intervention, Ruben Castro
Were the French government’s Brexit-related worries prior to the 2016 referendum overstated?, Claudia Michelle Chandra
U.S. – China Trade War’s Impacts on the Financial Markets, Linyue Chen
Biomechanics and Neural Control of Movement: CMI's Effects on Downstream Motor Processing and Gait in Forwards and Backwards Walking, Christopher Choi
The Future Self: Promoting Prosocial Decision-Making Through Motivated Episodic Simulation, Su Young (Kevin) Choi
Investigating Marine Sponges for Tirandamycin-like Natural Products, John Christopher
Creating “A Beautiful Place to Die”: The History of Lesbian Clergy During the AIDS Epidemic, Rebecca Chung
Republicanism’s Globalist Problem: How the Inevitability of International Engagement Undermines States’ Capacity for Self-Governance, Andrew R. Ciacci
The Impact of Individual Fringe Benefits on Employee Job Satisfaction, Zachary Clarke
Detecting Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Through Cas12a Cleavage, Gabrielle Clouse
Investigating the Role of Centromeric Repeats in Female Meiotic Drive, Jocelyn Crawford
Air Pollution’s Effect on the Labor Force at the State Level, Benjamin Culberson
Analyzing the Minute by Minute Price Reactions to the SP500 future Index Following President Donald Trump’s Tweets, Christian Curcio
What is the Effect of Social Capital on Community Resiliency Against Social Decay?, James Dail
Healthy and Unhealthy Responses to American Democratic Institutional Failure, Thomas D'Anieri
Bilingual Versus Monolingual Performance Within Memory Suppression, Santiago David
More Like Real Estate or Stocks? An Analysis of REIT Volatility and Returns by Property Type, Anthony Deras
The Ontological Significance of Consciousness, Corydon Diamond
The Mediating Role of Positive Emotion Socialization on Maternal Alexithymia’s Detrimental Impact Towards Child’s Adaptive Regulatory Capacity, Madeleine Ding
How Contemporary Curatorial Practice Co-opts Participatory Art, Caroline S. Eastburn
@USA vs. @realDonaldTrump: The Decline of Democracy in 280 Characters or Less, Bryn Edwards
Private Business in Non-Democratic Settings: Examples of Hong Kong and Singapore, Haoyu Fan
For the People: Free Speech and the De-Prioritization of the Rights of Man, Romi Ferder
What Explains Voter Behavior in European Parliament Elections?, Cameron Finley
Humor as a Positive Change Agent in the Modern Science Museum, Sadie Fisher
eSponsorships: Determinants of eSports Team Sponsorships, Victoria Flores Najas
Is There Racial Bias in Officiating NBA Games?, Kyle Gaisano
Quantifying the Clout: The Value of Brand Disclosures, Janeth Garcia
How Announcements of the Qualified Mortgage Patch Expiration Have Impacted the United States Housing Market, Connor Gaskin
Leading in Leaderless Teams: Exploring the Effect of a Skills Mindset on Shared Leadership and Implicit Mental Models, Hayley Giffin
Policies and Politics of Reform : The Governmentality of Structural Adjustment in Urban and Rural Egypt, Gabriel Gluskin-Braun
The Erosion of Press Freedom: An Examination of Hong Kong’s Book Publishing and Journalism Industries Post-handover, Salonee Goel
Equality in Context: An Evaluation of Pure and Efficiency-Integrated Measurements of Inequality, Allison Gould
The Timing of Childbirth: Does the Age of First-Time Mothers Affect the Parental Gender Earnings Gap?, Anna Graves
The Trends of Right-Wing Populism in Germany Post-World War II, Savannah Green
Mobilization and Polarization: American Jewish Politics Following the 2016 Election, Jennifer Gurev
The Millenium Challenge Corporation – A Case Study of Foreign Aid as an Instrument of US Foreign Policy, Thomas Hagan
Forming the Ideal : How the Media's Growth has Shaped our Bodies and Minds, Kyle Halbrecht
The Growing Division Between and Amongst Students and Student-Athletes in College in Relation to Their Coping Strategies, Motivation, and Overall Academic Success, Clinton D. Hall III
Three Theories of Love: Analysis of Online Dating, Amanda Han
The US-China Race for AI Leadership: Why Smart Industrial Policy Can Make a Difference?, Jenifer Sayuri Hanki
U.S.-China Bilateral Trade Flows and U.S. Employment, Tobin Hansen
“We Will Never Forget:” Developing Collective Memory and Meaning After 9/11, Kylie Harrison
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF STATE MINIMUM WAGE LAWS AND LEGISLATOR VOTING BEHAVIOR, Sophia Helland
First Generation College Students: Receivers and Agents of Mentorship, Giselle T. Herrera
Nearly Halfway There: The Future of Hong Kong, China, and One Country Two Systems, Lery Hiciano
Suffrage Over Suffering: How Disenfranchisement Erodes the Legitimacy of Democratic Punishment, Kendall Hollimon
Stochastic Simulation of Traffic Flow and Valuation of Travel Time Saved, Rhiannn Holman
Advanced Analytics & Big Data: How Amazon Has Already Changed MLB History, Andrew Hosmar
Discrete Geometry and Covering Problems, Alexander Hsu
Strategies for the Modern Investor: Evaluating Stock Recommendations from CNBC’s Fast Money, Justin Hull
The Traumatizing Effects of Oppression on Black Women: A Proposed Trauma Informed Intervention Program for Predominantly White Undergraduate Institutions, Precious Hutton
Observing the Effects of Antimalarial Drug Availability on Women’s Work Absenteeism, Rei Imada
High-Frequency Intramarket Cryptocurrency Arbitrage, Vladyslav Ivanov
Extrinsic Factors and Upward Social Comparisons: A Detriment to Students’ Self-Esteem, Matthew Jacobs
The Interconnection Between Sports and Leadership, William Jacob
Okay Google, When Should We Go Public: Can Google Trends Predict IPOs?, Vikramaditya Jhunjhunwala
An Exploration of 5G Wireless Network Attenuation Using Finite Element Analysis in COMSOL Multiphysics, Matthew Johnson
Does Complexity Pay? A Study on the Effectiveness of Various Forms of Regression at Fundamental Analysis, Nick Johnson
Humanization is Liberation: ‘Emorational Morality’ in the Mitigation of Inequitable, Dehumanizing, Domestic Educational Policies, Nirel JonesMitchell
Peace, Love, and (Soul)cialism: Function of Teacher- Student Love in Collectivist Societal Education and its Relationship to the Elimination of African American Educational Underachievement, Nirel JonesMitchell
Belonging and Becoming: Notions of Race, Nationalism, and Citizenship Amongst Early 20th-Century Palestinian and Salonikan Sephardim, Zubin Jotwani
