Senior Theses from 2018
Under Pressure: Explaining Backlash Against Civil Society in the Andean Community, Noah Anders Levine
Potential for Climate Induced Methane Hydrate Dissociation, Graham MacWilliams
Closing the Loop: Exploring IKEA’s Transition to the Circular Economy, Alexandra Seidel
Prisons, Policing, and Pollution: Toward an Abolitionist Framework within Environmental Justice, Ki'Amber Thompson
Terrorist Celebrity: Online Personal Branding and Jihadist Recruitment and Planning, Ari Weil
Nationalizing Nature: A Critique of the English National Trust Interpretation of Stowe Landscape Garden, Sarah Whitney
A Comparison of Historic Preservation and Project Planning: Suzhou and Pasadena, Yijing Zhang
Senior Theses from 2017
From Yosemite to a Global Market: How Patagonia, Inc. has Created an Environmentally Sustainable and Socially Equitable Model of Supply-Chain Management, Mary-Clare Bosco
Coping with Acculturative Stress: MDMA Usage among Asian American Young Adults in the Electronic Dance Music Scene, Michelle Stephanie Chan
Focusing Events in Environmental Policy: Exide Technologies, Aliso Canyon, and Industrial Health Crises in Southern California, Emily Chittick
Lost Opportunities: Ecuador's Yasuní ITT Initiative, Julianna Hitchins
More Than Just a Glass Face: What Makes a "Green" or "Sustainable" Building, Exactly?, Kelli Kokame
Climate Change Adaptation for Southern California Groundwater Managers: A Case Study of the Six Basins Aquifer, Frank Lyles
Social Sustainability: The Role of Ecotourism in Regenerating Cultural and Environmental Histories in Rio de Janeiro, Nia McAllister
The Smaller Things in Life: A Utilitarian Analysis of Response to Antibiotic Resistant Microorganisms as a Sustainability Dilemma, Marcus McVane
Engineering an Alkane-Hydroxylating Bacterial Monooxygenase: A Tale of Two Chemistries, Arjun Nanda
Lived Legal Expertise: Mobilizing the Political Agency of Incarcerated Youth, Ian S. Schiffer
Making Policy on the Front Page: How the National Media Shape Indian Foreign Policy Toward Pakistan, Sehr Taneja
What If They're All Terrorists?: The Securitization of Muslims in Post-9/11 Immigration Policy, Kian Vesteinsson
Using Geospatial Analysis for High School Environmental Science Education: A Case Study of the Jane Goodall Institute's Community-Centered Conservation Approach, Madison G. Vorva
The Wash: Uncovering Pomona College's Hidden Landscape, Madison G. Vorva, Nia P. McAllister, and Maria R. Pettis
Sustaining Uber: Opportunities for Electric Vehicle Integration, David Wagner
Roots of a Movement: Community Action and the Impact of Urban Agriculture in Chicago, Maia Welbel
Senior Theses from 2016
Environmental Racism and the Movement for Black Lives: Grassroots Power in the 21st Century, Rickie Cleere
E-Waste Recycling: The Dirty Trade Between the United States and China, Laura Edwards
Monte Carlo Approx. Methods for Stochastic Optimization, John Fowler
Armed Drones: An Age Old Problem Exacerbated by New Technology, Grant H. Frazier
The Choreopolitics of Liberation and Decolonization, Harrison M. Goodall III
The Effect of Inversion and Motor Expertise on Body Compatibility, Harrison M. Goodall III
Food Rebellion: Contemporary Food Movements as a Reflection of Our Agrarian Past, James Gordon
Banned from the Only Democracy in the Middle East: Targeted Exclusion at Israel’s External Border Crossings, Alexandra Goss
Christianity and the Development of Eco-Justice, Emily C. Hill
You Are What You (Can) Eat: Cultivating Resistance through Food, Justice, and Gardens on the South Side of Chicago, Ida B. Kassa
Women in the Machinery of War: Gender, Identity & Resistance Within Contemporary Middle Eastern Conflict, Nana-Korantema A. Koranteng
The Power of the Tower: Contesting History at Bear Lodge/Devils Tower National Monument, Anna Marie Kramer
Ballot-Box Environmentalism across the Golden State: How Geography Influences California Voters’ Demand for Environmental Public Goods, William Skyler Lewis
How Can We Have A Better Public Transportation System? –An Exploratory Agent Based Model, Boyu Liu
A Clean Electricity Future: Assessing the Role of Wide-Area Power System Operations in Supporting Weather-Driven Renewable Energy in the U.S., Paul D. Picciano
Colombia, the Resilient Survivor: DDR, Elusive Peace, and the Politics of Post-Conflict, Laura Pico
Vehicle to Grid: An Economic and Technological Key to California's Renewable Future, Jackson C. Rafter
Alternate Minimalisms: Repetition, Objectivity, and Process in the Age of Recording, Zachary Schwartz
Defending the Social Good Theory of Punishment, Sydney R. Scott
A Theory of Form as Temporal Referentiality, Eron F. Smith
Turning Waste into Compost in Napa, California, Liana D. Solis
Environmental Justice in Remediation: Tools for Community Empowerment, Chihiro Tamefusa
Senior Theses from 2015
Listening to the Quiet Revolution: The Implications of Voluntary Simplicity for a Sustainable Society, Katherine M. Barton
Discovery Islands, Earth Islands: The Theory and Practice of Island Imagery in Environmental Thought, Naomi A. Bosch
And I Heard 'Em Say: Listening to the Black Prophetic, Cameron J. Cook
The Eco-Sustainable Initiative: A Case Study in and Evaluation of Eco-labeling, Chiara Dorigo
The Future of Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows, Brian Friel
Post-disaster Transitional Housing for Displaced People, Yuqiao Guo
The San Antonio Wash: Addressing the Gap Between Claremont and Upland, Benjamin C. Hackenberger
Reforestation, Renewal, and the Cost of Coal: Opposing a Manichean Worldview in Central Appalachia, Elizabeth R. Hansen
Arendt on Arendt: Reflecting on the Meaning of the Eichmann Controversy, Audrey P. Jaquiss
The Natural Hair Movement as a Platform for Environmental Education, Joyce M. Nimocks
Innovation or Inundation: The Political Economy of Sea Level Rise in the San Francisco Bay Area, Nicole Quilliam
Immigrant Labor in Fish Processing in the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia and Current Undocumented Labor, Adi D. Salinas Ferreira
Ensuring Our Future or Sowing the Seeds of Our Own Destruction? Crop Insurance and Water Use in Texas, Michael Shapiro
Bridging the Blue-Green Divide: The Role of Environmental NGOs in Tackling Environmental Problems in Taiwan, Yttrium Sua
Implementing (Environmental) Justice: Equity and Performance in California's S.B. 535, Meagan Tokunaga
Looking Beyond Fossil Fuel Divestment: Combating Climate Change in Higher Education, Robin Xu
Senior Theses from 2014
Bridging the Justice Gap: Exploring Approaches for Improving Indigent Access to Civil Counsel, Kelsey Atkinson
Radical Housewife Activism: Subverting the Toxic Public/Private Binary, Emma Foehringer Merchant
Where Design Meets Occupant Engagement: Studying the Importance of Occupant Engagement for Green Buildings, LEED and Pomona College, Chelsea Fried
Scott Pilgrim vs. the Times, Brendan Gillett
Topological Complexity in Protein Structures, Gabriella Heller
The Clarification of Proposition 209: Gauging the Impact on Native Americans at the University of California, Charles R. Herman
Energy Storage in the Golden State: An Analysis of the Regulatory and Economic Landscape., Ryan H. Higgins
Factors of Success in Beekeeping Development Projects and Their Application to South Africa’s Beekeeping Industry, Deirdre Lee
The Chimerae of their Age:Twelfth Century Cistercian Engagement beyond Monastic Walls, Daniel J. Martin
Implementing Green Roofs on Movie Theaters and Shopping Centers: Business Cases in Profitable Sustainability, Ryan J. Miller
Spreading The Char: The Importance of Local Compatibility in the Diffusion of Biochar Systems to the Smallholder Agriculture Community Context, Laura C. V. Munoz
Watching the Match Burn After You've Set the House on Fire, Michael Opal
Fish and Fruit for Food Justice Success, Nickelle A. Raschick
Earth, Air, Water, Oil: Regulating Fracking in the Monterey Shale with Health and Environment in Mind, Gideon J. Salzman-Gubbay
Farming: It's Not Just for Farmers Anymore, Jennifer Schmidt
International Relations or International Sanitations? Exploring Student Perceptions of Intro to IR Course Content, Nick Sundback
(De)psychologizing Shangri-La: Recognizing and Reconsidering C.G. Jung's Role in the Construction of Tibetan Buddhism in the Western Imagination, Alec M. Terrana
Wetlands and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes: Causes and Effects of Climate Change – A Meta-Analysis, Robert E. Ventura
Images for a Nation: The Role of Conservation Photography in American Environmentalism, Nathaniel W. Yale
Reconsidering Firmitas: Durability as an Integral Function of the Sustainably Built Environment, Katherine P. Yzurdiaga
Senior Theses from 2013
Public Land and Its Management: Why the Research Is Not Enough, Corinne Calhoun
Justified By Faith: The Upper Susquehanna Lutheran Synod and the Pennsylvania Natural Gas Fracking Controversy, Lena R. Connor
Cooking up a Course: Food Education at Pomona College, Christina A. Cyr
Conserving Fish and Forests: Community Involvement and Its Limits in Resource Management On the Island of Hawai'i, Amber W. Datta
A New Commons: Considering Community-Based Co-Management for Sustainable Fisheries, Charlotte L. Dohrn
Social Entrepreneurship: The Ideal Business for Humanity and the Economy, Maya D. Horgan
Environmental Economics: A Case Study for the Big Cottonwood Canyon Watershed, Robert Hull
“Who was Colonel Hồ Ngọc Cẩn?”: Theorizing the Relationship between History and Cultural Memory, Evyn Lê Espiritu
