Senior Theses from 2023
Ecodrama and Sustainable Theatre: A Handbook for Creating Remarkable Change, GiGi Buddie
Contemplative Nearby Nature: A Design Proposal for Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, Russell Corbin
The Man in the Fiber Optic Cable: A Short Film, Lucas Cunningham
Timber Island: A Screenplay, Lucas Cunningham
For Everyone's Eyes Only: Digital Art as Public Art (Agency, Accessibility, and Aura), Linda Dai
Pasolini’s Ashes: Absence and Excess in Teorema and Salò, Alan Ke
Prejudice against Asian Americans in gender norm evaluations: A sociocognitive investigation, Kirby Lam
Impossible Thoughts, Alternative Spaces, Julien Luebbers
Breakwater: Anti-Blackness in Geoscience Lessons from Long Beach, CA, Christina Marsh
Redefining Community in the Age of the Internet: Will the Internet of Things (IoT) generate sustainable and equitable community development?, Carson Martinez
An Analysis of Water Quality at Orange County, California Beaches, Naomi Meurice
Gender, Abolition, Gender Abolition: An Exploration of Social Media, Identity Formation, and Queer Community, Sammy Shrestha
Hope is a discipline: Feminism, Dichotomy, and the Ethics of Transformative Justice, Mariama Sidime
The Wh-eye of the Storm: How Zora Neale Hurston, Virginia Woolf, and Arif Anwar Fictionalize Extreme Weather in Their Works, Elena Vedovello
Moving in the Underground: The Politics of Black Joy in Roller-Skating and Funk Music in Chicago, John West
Senior Theses from 2022
Soil and Soul: Fostering Cultural Healing Through Reconnection to the Land, Makeda Bullock Floyd
Warehouses in the Inland Empire: Displacing Land and Life, Katherine Gelsey
Localizing Food Waste Management: A Social Benefit-Cost Analysis of Aerobic Composters, Aurora Massari
Climate Trailblazer or Corporate Giveaway: An Economic and Political Evaluation of Cap-and-trade in California, Benjamin Reicher
Mieczysław Weinberg: Music Transcending Tragedy, Ilana Shapiro
Home/land Security: Asian Settlers, Native Hawaiians, and Claims to Belonging in "Hawaiian" Fiction, Alice Shinn
The Politics of Belonging: How Migration Affects Social Democratic Welfare States, Katherine Grace Siegenthaler
Tradition, Pedagogy, and Internet Open-Access Music Libraries, Erin Tallman
Concentrated Exploration: Reconstructing the Professional Life of Lucille Paris, Noor Tamari
Disaster Art, Kali Tindell-Griffin
(Middle) Eastern Standard Time: A Novel, Kyla Walker
Post(al) Apocalypse: A Letter About Virginia Woolf's Fictional Letters, Ethan Widlansky
Tales of Urban Livability－ Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles As Told by Tree Canopy Cover, Hoi Cheng Wong
Senior Theses from 2021
When Disparities Become Deadly: Spatial Differences in PM2.5 Levels Within the City of Pomona, California, Pauline Bekkers
Asia Reimagined: Inter-Imperial Encounters and Exchanges in the Early Modern World, Jacinta Chen
Modern Meals and Mythology: The Los Angeles Culinary Field, Lindsay Megumi Chu
Navigating Obstacles to Environmental Conservation: How NGOs Emerge as Effective Environmental Stewards, Chris Clark
What Produced Four Lynchings in Duluth, Minnesota in 1918 and 1920?, Gabriel Das
Connecting Youth to Nature: Environmental Education’s Role in the Future of Wellbeing and Stewardship, Claire Generous
Caratacus, The Remembered Warrior: The Legacies of Caratcaus in Roman Histories and the British Victorian Era, Isabella Kearney
Filtering Out the Effects of Zebra Mussels: Climate, Land Use, and Water Clarity in Minnesota Lakes, Kristina Linder
The Past as "Ahead": A Circular History of Modern Chamorro Activism, Gabby Lupola
Evangels of Emancipation: Missionary Activity in Postemancipation Sierra Leone, Jamaica, and the United States, Rowan McGarry-Williams
Come Closer: Geographies of Care, Anam Mehta
The Making of a New Generation: Ordinary School Education in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945, Hyun Wook (Jacob) Noh
Exploring the COVID-19 Experience of Young Adult Latinos in Rural California: Insights into Mental Health & The Immigrant Health Paradox, Vivianna Plancarte
Optical Hygiene and Modernity: A Site Analysis of Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant Using Lefebvre’s Triad, William R. Stone
Exploring the Impacts of No-Till Agriculture and “Three Sisters” Intercropping on Carbon Sequestration and Soil Health, Chloe Wanaselja
Senior Theses from 2020
Visible Hands: The Earl of Lauderdale's Political Economy in the History of Economic Thought, Michael Alvis
Jibaritos Y Más: The Impacts of Migration, Gentrification, and Cultural Maintenance on Chicago-Puerto Rican Cuisine, Emilio Araujo
Surveying the Warscape: Agriculture, Measurement, and Power on the English Home Front, 1933-1952, Alexandra Barber
Empire and Ruins in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Adin Becker
Multidimensional Zonation in the Renal Vasculature, Hannah Black
La Terreur insidieuse : Une Relecture de la logique de l'esclavage dans Ourika, Joslyn Gardner
The Living Community Challenge: An unCase Study in Biophilic Master Planning, Jordan Grimaldi
Contaminants of Emerging Concern: Reconsidering Our Paradigm of Water Pollution, Jonathan Gunasti
Stability of Screen-Printed Lead Halide Perovskite Solar Cells, Hyunjin Hong
A Dirty Renewable: How Trash Incineration Became Classified as Renewable Energy, Emma Hsu
Enlivening Spaces for the Dead: The Relevance of Cemeteries in the 21st Century, Caroline Koh Smith
Characterizing Solar Cells, Katheryn R. Kornegay
Finding and Fighting for a Future of Bicycles in Boise, Idaho, Kyle Lenhart-Wees
Gopniki: Peripheral Masculinity in Post-Soviet Russia, Eli Loeb
Electrodynamics Modeling of Plasmonic-Organic Hybrid Waveguides, Marcus Michel
The 2020 U.S. Presidential Race: Mobilize the Base or Persuade Swing Voters?, Jonathan Miller
Film + The Mau Mau, Amanda Mutai
Shrimp Farming in Thailand: A pathway to Sustainability, Warinyupa Phornprapha
Computer Vision Software Development for an Explosive Seed Pod Trap Camera, Derek James Pickell
"And All Were Welcome": An Analysis of the Transgender Child in Contemporary Picture Books, Isaac Prestwich
Mapping Protocluster Enrichment at Cosmic Noon, Sunny Rhoades
Rethinking Livability in Megacities: Applications of Jane Jacobs’ Theories on Tokyo and Los Angeles, Kirara Tsutsui
"May We Be Buried Alive Together": Towards an Intersectional Feminist True Crime Praxis, Alexandra White
Situating Asian American Environmental (In)Justices through Radical History Walking Tours, Yuxin Zhou
Senior Theses from 2019
The Legalization of Street Vending in Los Angeles: Exploring the Impact on Vendors and their Livelihoods, Karen Alpuche Caceres
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Reforming Organized Dentistry to Address Persistent Oral Health Disparities in the U.S., Aparna Chintapalli
"Woven Into the Deeps of Life": Death, Redemption, and Memory in Bob Kaufman's Poetry, Peter Davis
Towards a Critical Understanding of Deepfakes: Developing a Teaching Module and More, Wentao Guo
The Mark of the Japanese Murrelet (Synthliboramphus wumizusume): A study of song and stewardship in Japan’s Inland Sea, Charlotte Hyde
Island Invasion: The Silent Crisis in Hawaii, Sophia Janssen
Exploring Transit-Based Environmental Injustices in San Gabriel Valley and Greater Los Angeles, Bailey Lai
Fragile Oceans, Synthetic Flotsam and Microbial Collaboration – Explorations in the Visual Communication of the Plastic Crisis, Ivan Langesfeld
Pedal to the Metal: Accelerating the Transition to Electric Vehicles, Nicole Larson
Landlocked Landfills and the Invasion of Waste: Environmental Injustice as seen in Solid Waste Management in Rural Alaskan Villages, Kate McWilliams
The Stability Paradox of Special Immigrant Juvenile Status Backlogs: Unstable Policy Implementation for a Stability-Aimed Visa, Lanna Seline Sanchez
Facilitating Experience through Fabrication and Blue Biophilic Design, Teague Scanlon
Let's Get Sorted: The Path to Zero Waste at Pomona College, Sara Sherburne
Belonging While Black at Lake Merritt: The Black Spatial Imaginary and Place-Making in Oakland, CA, Betel Solomon Tesfamariam
In the Eye of the Storm: Houston after Hurricane Harvey, Brandon Tolentino-Serrano
Restoring Reciprocity: Indigenous Knowledges and Environmental Education, Mireya Valencia
Farm to Label: A Critique of Consumer Activism in the Sustainable Food Movement, Olivia Whitener
On the Brink of Extinction: The Fate of the Pacific Northwest's Southern Resident Killer Whales, Sabrina Wilk
Can Uber and Lyft Save Public Transit?, Emily Zheng
Senior Theses from 2018
An Assessment of the Sharing Economy and Its Policy Solutions Through the Lens of Sustainability, Chloe An
Unity in Difference: an Exploration of Spatial Justice and Environmental Justice in Los Angeles, Minah Choi
Restoration of Mauri (Life-Force) to Ōkahu Bay: Investigation of a Community Driven Restoration Process, Emily Freilich
Restoration of Mauri (Life-Force) to Okahu Bay: Investigation of the Cultural, Social, and Environmental Restoration, Emily Freilich
Seeking Justice: Mobilizing the South Asian Community in the Face of Sexual Assault, Sagarika Gami
Log Kya Kahenge: Psychological well-being and perceived stigma in the South Asian American Community, Khushboo Jain
