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 2020
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
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
