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 2013
Perfect Sampling of Vervaat Perpetuities, Robert Tristan Williams
A Double Edged Sword: The Effects of Participation in Sports on the African American Community, Gregory J. Wilson II
The Structure of Major League Baseball Contracts: A Proposed Change, Scott Witte
The Charter School Movement: The Impact of School Form on Performance, Jeremy B. Wolff
Indivisible and Inseparable: The Austro-Hungarian Army and the Question of Decline and Fall, Kyle D. Woods
Variance Risk Premium in GOLD VIX Market, Guanli Xiao
The Tricycle Gang, William P. Yandell
The Future of Chollywood: The Imminent Rise of China's Film Industry, Kathryn S. Yao
Per Aspera Ad Astra: Wandering To The Stars of British Romanticism, Elizabeth Yeo
Understanding How Deciding and Relationship Confidence Predict Relationship Satisfaction, Elise M. Yoshida
Effects of Fundamental Analysis on IPO Valuation in the United States ITS Sector, Cheryl Yu
Intangibles Related Ratios and their Relationships with Leverage, Larry Zhong
Tax-exempt Hospitals in the Context of a Transforming Healthcare Industry: A Risk-Based Audit Approach, Steven C. Zima
Reauthorizing No Child Left Behind: Assessing the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Aubrey A. Zimmerling
Senior Theses from 2012
Mary’s Dilemma: A Novel Take On Jackson’s Famous Thought Experiment, Noah O. Abolafia-Rosenzweig
Are Women Impact Players? The Effect of Female Executives on Firm Performance and Capital Structure, Alexandra M. Abramovitz
Leadership in 21st Century Education Reform: Washington, D.C. and the Case of Michelle Rhee, Crystal Adams
State Intervention in the Indian Software Industry, Sonia Aggarwal
City of Mosques: A Collection of Short Stories, Shoaib Alam
Carbon Affect on European Oil and Steel Companies: An Empirical Analysis on the Second Phase EU ETS, Joseph Anderson
Mineral Resource Governance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Strategies for Development and Poverty Alleviation, Gabriela Giselle Andrade
The Effect of Oil Market Developments on Price Volatility and U.S.-Saudi Relations, Daniel Andrew
Culture and Leadership in Educational Institutions in India and the United States, Meyyammai Annamalai
The Effects of Juror Need for Cognition: Perceptions of Trustworthiness in Expert Witness Testimony, Matthew Nicholas Armstrong
Hosting the Olympics: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Economic and Social Effects of the Olympic Games, Jordan Jose Badia-Bellinger
Preventing Digital Piracy: A Change in the Business Model, Brandon T. Bak
Albert Camus: A Conscientious Witness, Lauren Ballard
Peer Leadership: An Analysis of Athlete Captains on Collegiate Sports Teams, Amanda M. Banducci
Avoiding Intergenerational Discounting on Sustainability Investments, Roxie Bartholomew
The Effective Application of Microfinance to Alleviate Poverty in the Indigenous Populations of Peru and Bolivia, Alexandra Eleni Bartlett
The Effect of Corporate Sustainability Reporting on Firm Valuation, Brian D. Bartlett
A Compensation Comparison: Determinants of Compensation for Chief Executive Officers and University Presidents, Jessica Bartlett
Measuring Peer Effects in Primary Schools: Lessons Taken from Disadvantaged School Districts Across the Country, Eric L. Bean
Short-Term Stock Market Response to “Say On Pay” Failed Votes, Drew M. Beckerman
T.S. Eliot's Anti-Modernism: Poetry and Tradition in the European Waste Land, John Bedecarré
Auditing the Auditors: The Role of Accounting Firms in the 2008 Financial Crisis, Gabrielle Jamie Beer
Spectacular Shadows: Djuna Barnes's Styles of Estrangement in Nightwood, Erica Nicole Bellman
The Disappearing Middle Class: Implications for Politics and Public Policy, Trevor Richard Beltz
Virtual into Verisimilitude: Videogames' Ability to Induce Empathy, Blake T. Bennett
Responses to Missionization at Missions San Antonio, San Carlos, and Soledad, Sam A. Bennett
Impacts and Implementation of the Basel Accords: Contrasting Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, Kristina Bergess
FlipGlobe: Developing an iPhone App That Turns the World Upside Down, Alex Berman
The Case for Expanded Access to Investigational New Drugs, Meagan Biwer
Islamophobia, Pluralism, and Multiculturalism: A Comparison between Western Europe and the United States, Thomas J. Boerigter
An Inevitable Relationship: The Olympic Games & Politics, Katherine M. Bonneau
Future Naval Conflict: Asymmetric Threats and Commerce Raiding, Joshua D. Bowling
The Use of Real Options in Biotechnology Capital Budgeting: Theory and Practice, Max Brennan
Great Recession Dying, Okun's Law Resurrected, Jane M. Brittingham
Voting Rights and Wrongs: Philosophical Justification for Universal Suffrage, Michelle Brody
A New Solution to the Skeptical Puzzle: An Epistemic Account of Limited Polysemy, Katherine S. Broeksmit
Improving America's Racial Climate by Decreasing the Use of the Race Card, Brandon Brown
Remembering What It Was to Be Me: a Collection of Analyses of Themes in Joan Didion’s Nonfiction Writing, Kelsey Brown
Social Network: The Case of Major League Soccer and Facebook Likes, Rachel C. Bunting
Panic Attack: A Comparative Analysis of United States Bank Panics, Cameron J. Cain
Dandyism: Creating a Tradition for Consumption in London Society, Heidi Carlson
The Effect of Executive Compensation on Firm Performance through the Dot-Com Bubble, Maxwell J. Chambers
From the Halls of Montezuma, Kevin I. Chaney
The Value of a Statistical Life: How Much Would You Be Willing To Pay To Reduce Your Risk Of Death?, Inayat Chaudhry
Should the Estate Tax be Abolished?, Elsa Cheng
Chinese Soft Power: Implications on US-China Relations, Jessica A. Cheng
A Lone Foreigner on the Long March: Otto Braun and the CCP-Comintern Relationship, Jeremy Cheung
An Examination on Patent Infringement Awards, Victor Chien
Poor Millionaires: A History of Free Agency in Major League Baseball and the National Football League, Cameron Conley
Prose and Polarization: Environmental Literature and the Challenges to Constructive Discourse, Paige E. Costello
César Chávez and the Secularization of an American Prophet of Social Reform, Chelsee Lynn Cox
The Neuroanatomical Functions of Tourette Syndrome and a Treatment Analysis, Kacie L. Curd
Investigating the Conceptions of the Tea Party, Alex Curtis
Avoiding Taxes On Foreign Profits: How To Fix the Games That Multinationals Play., Robert L. Daily
Putting the 'Public' Back into the Public Sector: Rethinking Potable Water Provision and Water Management Policy in Mexico City, Elena M. Davert
Who Speaks for Israel? J Street and the Rise of the Pro-Peace Israel Lobby in America, Ari A. Davis
Discrete Event Simulation of Elevator Systems, Sasi Bharath Desai
Differential Effects of Tort Reform Across Medical Specialties, William C. Dodds
"Sell or Slaughter": The Economic and Social Policies of German Reunification, Saraid L. Donnelly
The Post-Soviet Gold Rush: Examining Evangelical Activity in the Russian Federation, Mary B. Doyle
Federal Regulation of Emerging Technologies and Its Implications for Transhumanist Applications of NBIC Technologies, David A. Dreshfield
Rome's Influence on Machiavelli: In Religion and Politics, A Country's Army, and Ruling over a Newly Conquered Territory, David Dubinski
"Golf Is Deceptively Simple and Endlessly Complicated": An Analysis of the PGA Tour's FedExCup as a Tournament Incentive Mechanism, Andrew T. Duckworth
The Evolution of the Music Industry in the Post-Internet Era, Ashraf El Gamal
Fast Casual Dining: The Evolution of a Market Segment and Its Impact on the Fast Food Sector, Robert H. Erani
Disputing an Analytic Construct of Philosophical Conservatism, Daniel Carson Evans
China's Censored Leap Forward: The Communist Party's Battle with Internet Censorship in the Digital Age, Caitlin Feeney
Considering Hezbollah: Analyzing the Terrorist Label, Sarah A. Fenn
Half Baked: The Federal and State Conflicts of Legalizing Medical Marijuana, Andrew K. Fevery
The Misery: Land, Man, and Society in the Novels of Hanna Mina, Rio G. Fischer
The Railway and Telegraph in India: Monuments of British Rule or Symbols of Indian Nationhood?, Prashant L. Fonseka
Incentivizing Biodiversity Conservation: The Ecological ICMS in Brazil, Erin Franks
Military Civilian Relations in Post-Revolutionary Transition: The Transformation of East Asian States and the Future of Egypt, Amy E. Frazee
The Strength of the Russian Energy Weapon in Ukraine, Anastasiya V. Galash
Bottling Success: An Exploration of Craft Beer and the Brewing Business, Anthony Mitchell Garcia
Fear of Forgetting: How Societies Deal with Genocide, Emily O. S. Gelber
Water Policy: The World's Most Important Resource Politicized, Ethan Gilbert
Automated Pose Correction for Face Recognition, Elliot J. Godzich
A Proposal to Test the Effects of Factor ECAT1 on Pluripotency, from Reprogramming to Differentiation of Human Somatic Cells, Vritti R. Goel
Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles: Strengthening Their Ethnic Identity Through Chivas USA, Stephanie Goldberger
Complexities in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Thyroid Cancer: Discussions, Observations, Research and Public Policy, Hannah V. Gordon
Soul-idarity Tree: Business Plan and Market Analysis, Grigoriy Gorshteyn
Petrocapitalism in Iraqi Kurdistan: Leveraging Oil and Gas Firms in Post-War Iraq, Chase W. Gray
COBRA Subsidies: A Compelling Narrative of Policy Impact on the Unemployed, Uninsured, Hannah N. Gregg
