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
Inheritance and Financial Health: The Correlation Between Intergenerational Wealth Transfers and Income Levels of Personal Bankruptcies, Benjamin D. Kahn
Gendered Morality Among Perceptions of Political Candidates, Amanda Kandasamy
Stakes-Sensitive Testimonial Injustice: Prejudicial Thresholds for Belief in Testimony of Sexual Assault, Grace Kelleher
Protecting International Security Through the Regulation of Emerging Weapons Technology: Lethal Autonomous Weapons, Ariana Kemp
The Streaming Wars: The Future of Entertainment, Alexander D. Kenworthy
Industrial Thought: A Historiography of Technology in Western Classical Economic Development Thought From Adam Smith to Joseph Schumpeter, Hunter Kettering
Intergenerational Transmission of Parental Conflict and Its Influence on Adolescents’ Later Intimate Relationship Development, Autumn Olivia-Noori Khym
Effect of Economic Concentration of Chaebols on South Korean Economic Growth, Jung U Kim
Adapting Dental Techniques for Patients with Autism, Tiffany Kim
Populism: An Exploration into the American Case Through the Academic Literature, Data Analysis, and Fiction, Maxwell Knowles
Moral Realism through Intuitionism: understanding justification, confirmation, and disagreement, Chandler Koon
Will It Work? Forecasting The Effect of Legislation Directed at Stimulating India’s Economic Growth, Tanya Kotecha
Formal Savings Uptake as a Catalyst for Remittances in Sub-Saharan Africa, Jordan Kouassi
Eating Disorders in Young Women: Social Factors and their Implications for Body-Salient Cultures, Sophia Krivatsy
Optimal Execution in Cryptocurrency Markets, Ethan Kurz
“Heat Seeking” The Truth: An Analysis of the “Heat Seeker” Trading Algorithm, Konnor Kwok
Effects of the Physical Environment on the Spatial Dynamics of Juvenile Astatotilapia burtoni, a Highly Social Cichlid Fish, Caitlyn Y. Kwun
Countering Hate Speech on Facebook and Twitter: The Responsibility of Addressing What’s Said and Unsaid, Medina Latic
Authenticity in Finitude: Interpretation of Heidegger, Jinyoung Lee
Do Divested Assets Outperform Full-Scale Acquisitions in the Short-Run?, Connor Lehner
The Art of Innovation, Henri Levenson
Activist Short Sellers and What Makes a Targeted Company More Susceptible to Negative Consequences, Jonathan Levine
Thermostabilization of substrate-specific firefly luciferase mutants, Whitney Lieberman
The Use of Bulk Stable Isotope Analysis to Determine Dietary Plasticity in Three Species of Temperate Gorgonians (Order: Alcyonacea), Rachel A. Lim
An Introduction to Personalization in Monopolistically Competitive Markets, Luke Livingston
FinTech Lenders Helped Underserved Communities with the Paycheck Protection Program during COVID-19, Ziwei Li
Property-type diversification effects on equity REIT firm value, Austin Long
Exploration of the neurodegenerative pathway in Down syndrome patients with Alzheimer’s disease, Monica Lopez
Proprioception, Motor Imagery, and the Parietal Lobe: An Experimental Design for Patients with Locked-in Syndrome, Fernanda Lozano Martinez
The Domestic Sphere and the Era of Streaming: How Shame has been Weaponized to create Self-Care, Brian Luna
THE LEVERAGE EFFECT IN MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS: HOW THE LEVEL AND TYPE OF LEVERAGE AFFECTS M&A SUCCESS, Phoebe Madsen
Ending America’s “Endless” Wars: Is a Left/Right Coalition on Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy Feasible?, Blaise Malley
“It’s Gonna be Yuge”: The Impact of Chinese Imports on United States Manufacturing Firm Valuations, Charles Mangum
La evolución de la masculinidad en las películas de Alfonso Cuarón, Daniel Martinez
Mexico ’68: An Examination of Mexico’s Olympic Project and its Effects on the Tlatelolco Massacre, Ricardo Mateos
How Tolstoy Works: Narrative and Characterization in Anna Karenina, Bridget McCarthy
Explaining Stock Returns Surrounding Novel Drug Approvals Using Drug and Firm Characteristics, Alexander McKenna
Resilience in the Context of Trauma: Disbelief Reactions and its Impact on Survivors' Protective Factors, Lena Mersereau
Flexible Work Arrangements: A Review of The Practices and Outcomes, Laura Michelsen
How Machine Learning and Probability Concepts Can Improve NBA Player Evaluation, Harrison Miller
Accounting Ratios as Predictors of Spinoff Returns, Truman Miller
Accounting Ratios as Predictors of Spinoff Returns, Truman Miller
Evaluating the Immigration Policy Toward Sub Saharan Africans: Economic Contribution as a Share of the Immigrant Population, Gabriel Mkpado
Evaluating Interpersonal Problems in Anorexia Nervosa Through the Lens of Polyvagal Theory, marika morelan
Arrested Recovery: Nazi Continuity and Infiltration in the Postwar Federal Republic of Germany, Harrison Morris
Optimizing Router Performance, Bradley Newton, Radon Rosborough, Miles President, and Hakan Alpan
“It’s the Procedure, Stupid!”: Amendment Procedures and Their Effects on Constitutional Stability, Joseph Noss
A Little Birdy Told Me: Analysis of the Impact of Public Tweet Sentiment on Stock Prices, Alexander Novitsky
Physiological Roles of Mammalian Transmembrane Adenylyl Cyclase Isoforms, Katrina Ostrom
The effects of the US and the EU sanctions and Russian counter-sanctions on the domestic consumption of Russian dairy products, Nikolai Parodi
Friend or Foe: Community Banks and Peer-to-Peer Lending Platforms, Conner Pederson
Affirmative Action in the Workplace: What Works, What Doesn't?, Mayra Perez
Measuring a Successful Marriage: The Impact of Target Company ESG scores on the Merger Arbitrage Spread, Nicholas Pibl
The Information in Levering Up: An Analysis of Market Reactions to Leverage Changes in Biotech, James Plunk
Leader Self-Awareness: Inception, Progress and Future, Frankie Rayis
So Late So Soon: Diary Film as Practice, Sophia Robinson
Looking Towards the Heavens: Claims of Sacredness and Cultural Frontiers on Mauna Kea, Alex Rose
Aristotle and Mutual Accountability: A Just Theory of Punishment, Dina Rosin
I’m Not Your Muslim: The Impact of Orientalist Political Theory on the Global Muslim Population, Julian Rothschild
The Feminist Literary Tradition: From Mary Wollstonecraft to Virginia Woolf, Zoey Ryu
“Going Over the Top” – The Impact of World War I on Three Leaders of World War II, Nick Sage
How Culture Influences Policy: Popular Representations of Latino Immigrants and the Immigration and Reform Act of 1986, Luis Salazar
El guerrero obsidiana, Marvin P. Sarkar Bynoe
Antifungal defense molecules from bacterial symbionts of North American Trachymyrmex Ants, Georgia Scherer
The European Union Military: A Debate on the Need for a Common Defense Mechanism, Gonzalo Secaira
Leveling the Playing Field: Identity Perception and the Fairness and Morality of Drug-Induced Intelligence Change, Lindsey Seidner
The Influence of Involuntary Autobiographical Memories’ Emotional Valence on Ratings of Memory Characteristics and Mood, Jessica Selig
The Capabilities Approach To Metaphysical Personhood, Mohnish Shah
The Impact of Production Budgets on Theatrical vs. Non-Theatrical Revenues in the Movie Industry, Naveen Shastri
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Parental Alcohol Abuse and the Resulting Pervasive Negative Health Outcomes in Adulthood, Madison Shea
The Syrian Refugee Crisis Within Europe: A Matter of Politics, not Capacity, Anita Frances Shenoi
Trickle Down Nationalism: Interactions Between Liberal Nationalism and Colonialism in the Raj and Nigeria, Aaryaman Sheoran
A Choice Model for Correspondent Banking Relationships, Tanisha Sheth
The Road to Human Emancipation - The Moral and Political Foundations of Markets, William Shi
Frobenius Problem, Geometry and Number Fields, Yingqi Shi
Aviation Growth and Carbon Emissions: Predictions Through 2050, Max Sickinger
An Econometric Evaluation of Localism and Other Potential Success Factors in California’s Craft Brewing Industry, Connor Sinclair
Obama, Trump, and Xi: Three South China Sea Strategies in the U.S.-China Battle for Global Hegemony, Adam Singer
Can Instagram Do #good? The Effect of Instagram Advertising on Positive Body Image, Dhara Singh
Do Savings Accounts “Save”?: Evaluating the Compounding Interest in Savings Accounts for Poverty Alleviation, Sahil Sinha
A Further Investigation into the Prevalence of the Winner’s Curse Using Post-Great-Recession Data, Colton Smith
Gravity-Drawing Flexible Silicone Filaments as Fiber Optics and Model Foldamers, Katherine Snell
How Need for Cognition Impacts Attitudes Towards Crime Control Theater, Eunice Song
Sports Betting: NBA Games as a Poisson Point Process, Yuan Song
The Effect of Third Party Litigation Funding on Dismissal Rates in Product Liability Multidistrict Litigation, Vinodh Srikanth
CALORIES AT A PREMIUM: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PREMIUM LOW CALORIE TREND IN THE BEER MARKET, Lukas Svitek
Hong Kong Identity on the Rise: Understanding the Role of Subnational Identity in the 2019-2020 Hong Kong Protests, Gemma Sykes
