Senior Theses from 2021
Documenting Hong Kong's Disappearing Cultural Practices, Mabel Lui
The Body After Representation: Figuring Posthumanist Corporealities in Contemporary Art, Devon Ma
Race and Labor in Saint Domingue: "Let Us Die Rather Than Fail to Keep This Vow", Monet Massac
The Intersection Between Black Hair and the Environment: Hair as a Site for Environmental Justice and Sustainability, Dafina Matiku
Using an Intervention to Promote Social Development in Kindergarten During Remote Learning, Vivian Matthews
The Cycle of Human Fate: Exploring Inevitabilities Through AI & Science Fiction, Samantha McFadden
Influence of Iceberg-Discharge Events on the Climate and Circulation of the Central North Atlantic Ocean During the Last Glaciation, Ava McIlvaine
Transactivation and Mitochondrial Activity are Affected by High Temperature in C. elegans Sperm, Jacqueline McVay
Factors in Survival and Outcome of Costa Rican Wildlife Rehabilitation, Charlotte Meigs
Identity Formation Among BIPOC at Elite Boarding Schools, Angelica Meneses
Established Civil Society and Democratization: A Comparative Analysis of the Role Played by Civil Society in Ukraine, Latvia, Egypt, and Tunisia, Matison Miller
Avoiding “No Brand’s Land”: Social Identity and Political Stances in Advertising, Corinne Mitchner
RELAPSE PREVENTION: TREATING AUD IN YOUNG ADULTS, Lexy Mitchner
THE SUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT ACT (SGMA): LONG OVERDUE, BUT IS IT LIVING UP TO ITS POTENTIAL?, Bailey Mknelly
The Effect of Demonetization on India's Tax Base and Tax Revenues, Chhavi Monga
Painting While Black: Exploring Racial Identity Through Iconography, Blake Morton
Imperfect Perfection, Julia Mueller
The Quasi-Natural Santa Ana River: A Historical Perspective, Moira Mulhern
Rehabilitation and Recidivism in California's Prison Complex: The Perpetuation of an Ineffective Carceral State, Sarah Muzquiz
Neuroimaging on Brain Aging and Neurodegeneration, Katelynn Nguyen
Archival Fault Lines: Resistance and Survival in the Photos of Edward S. Curtis, Samantha Norrito
More than a Weapon: How Cyberspace is Impacting U.S. security Dilemmas, Gabrielle Ollig
Perceptions of Equality and Justice in African Americans: Implications for Well-Being and Success, Elaney C. Ortiz
The Impact of Arts Education on Social-Emotional Development and Subsequent Academic Outcomes, Therese Oshiro
Hospital and home birth: The relationship between birthing choice and attachment, Juliana Parker
What's in a Name? The Effect of Superfund Designations on Vicinal Housing Markets, Claire Payne
The Impacts of Forest Fragmentation on Human-Tick interactions and Lyme Disease Risk and Incidence, Cynthia Perez
Ghosts Who Linger- How Dictators Retain Partial Legitimacy Post-Transition, Lillian Perlmutter
Mothers Behind Cameras: Mother-Artist, Mother-Child Dyads In Sally Mann’s Immediate Family And Elinor Carucci’s Mother, Hayley A. Pierpont
"She's Gotta Have It", "The Bisexual" & "High Fidelity": An Analysis of Representations of Desire for Bisexual BIPOC Female Characters, Mackenzie Priest-Heck
Tangible Symbols in Palestinian Speculative Realities: The Navigation of Memory, Nostalgia, and Resistance in Palestinian Science Fiction, Sabreen Rashmawi
Autonomy and Research on People with Dementia, Rebecca Reisman
A Religiously Polarized State?: An Examination of Latter-Day Saints' Impact on Utah's Electoral Trends and Outcomes, Mary K. Roberts
Minoritized Identities in Physics: A Case Study of Experiences in Keck Physics Courses as Related to Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Identities, Victoria Rodriguez
College Students "Coupling Up" with Reality Dating Shows: The Interpersonal Relationships Fostered by Reality Dating Show Viewership, Juliana Romeo
Double Take: The Shock of Urbanization and The Doppelgänger in Nineteenth Century Euro-American Gothic Literature, Lauren Romero
Racial Politics in the Iranian American Diaspora: Analyzing the Impact of Ethnic Enclaves on Coalition Building, Alyssa Rowshan
She’s a Killer Queeen, Phillipeo Sanguine: (De)Racilizations of Cleopatra VII in Augustan era Literature, Alyssa Rowshan
A Transformative Environmental Justice Movement: The Role of Legal Tools, Building Networks, and Abolition, Sarah U. Rozario
Predicting Risk of Negative Child Pain Outcomes: Parental Pain Responses, Overprotective Parenting, and Attachment Style, Christina Rusu
“NO MORE COPS IN NYC”: ABOLITIONIST STRATEGIES OF BUILDING COMMUNITY IN NEW YORK CITY, Mackenzie Rutherford
Cost of Co-infection in Peromyscus leucopus Mice, Ananya Sagar
DEVELOPMENT OF INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS IN CATALONIA AND THE BASQUE COUNTRY: THE IMPORTANCE OF COALITIONS AND ELITE CHOICES, Alexa Sanchez
Stereotypes and disparate criminal sentencing of Native Hawaiians, Kawaiuluhonua Scanlan
Examining a Legacy of Inadequate Pastoral Responses to Survivors of Sexual Violence in Roman Catholic Scripture and Tradition, Claire Schnadig
Real Estate in the Digital Age: An Empirical Analysis on the Rise of Online Real Estate Marketplaces and its Effect on Overall Housing Efficiency and Liquidity, Grace Zhirui Shao
Intersectional Race and Gender Crime-Stereotypes and Defendant Perceptions, Javanna Sharpe-Young
StuckIn BurnOut: HOW BURNOUT IS A COMMON SENSATION, BUT AN EXPERIENCE UNIQUE TO THE INDIVIDUAL, Eloise Shields
"Pull Yourself Up by the Bootstraps" A Neoliberal Guide to Democracy: How Western Banking Institutions Prevent Economic Equality in Tunisia, Elise Silberhorn
“Send Me No Husband” How Succession Anxiety in Elizabethan England Influenced the Marital Politics in Shakespeare's Comedies, Olivia Silva
Year of the Woman: State Legislative Composition and Female Candidate Emergence in 2018 and 2019, Katherine P. Simon
Comparing Information Processing Methods for Rational and Emotional Complexity in Trivia Shows, Nadya Siringo Ringo
The Gospel and Race, Aisha Skye
STUDYING THE IMPACT OF RESTRICTIVE POLICIES ON COMPANIES IN THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY, Anisha Soin
The Impact of Culturally Responsive Teaching on Student Well-Being, Madeline Statton
Individual Variation in Sensorimotor EEG Rhythms during Action Execution vs. Observation, Caroline Strang
Llegó La Futura: La Cuirificación del Género Urbano, isabel streiffer and Isabel S. Streiffer
WILDFIRES: THEIR EFFECT ON THE LABOR MARKET OF THE CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY, Eleanor Strotz
"Exceptional Friends:" Sisterhood and Neoliberal Feminism Among Girls' School Graduates from High School to College, Claire Sulzer
The Golden, Kerry Taylor
Weaver Dreams & Other Stories, Priya Thomas
Racial Disparities in Liver Disease in the US: Addressing the High Prevalence of Hepatitis B Infection in the APIA Community, Lindsey L. Trinh and Lindsey Trinh
Growing Food Sovereignty in Community Gardens, Kathryn Tuemmler
The Groundswell of Black Lives Matter in High School Classrooms, Allie Umemoto
HTTP/2 vs HTTP/3: Toolsets for Measuring Tradeoffs, Loise M. Velazquez
Religion, Politics, Education and Epistemology: Effects on Belief in Science, Lucienne Vintaer
La Voz de los de Sin Voz: Indigenous Radios as Tools of Resistance Against the Neoliberal State, Citlalli Vivar
Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Financial Performance: Analyzing If It Pays To Be Socially Responsible In The US Informational Technology Industry, Annabel E. Walsh
The Effects of Online, Game-Based Learning on Motivation and Retention, Maj Wehrmeister
A Gender and Race Theoretical and Probabilistic Analysis of the Recent Title IX Policy Changes, Jordan Wellington
The Development of Cross-Cultural Identity Among Young Adult Chinese Adoptees, Lucie Wharton-Moeur
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Vehicle Travel and Air Pollution in 11 Major Urban Areas of the U.S., Caroline Wofford
Random Matrix Theory: A Combinatorial Proof of Wigner's Semicircle Law, Vanessa Wolf
An Evaluation of Antiparasitics Used to Treat the Sea Louse, Caligus rogercresseyi, in Chilean Salmonid Farming, Dayla Woller
‘I HAVE HAD MY VISION:’ VISIONS AND THE ESCAPE FROM EXPECTATIONS IN THE HOUSE OF MIRTH AND TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, Madison Yardumian
‘I HAVE HAD MY VISION:’ VISIONS AND THE ESCAPE FROM EXPECTATIONS IN THE HOUSE OF MIRTH AND TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, Madison Yardumian
Summer Treatment Programs: Counselors and Care Practices, Christina X. You
The Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Birth Rate and Aging Population in China, Flora Zhao
Senior Theses from 2020
Impact Of Family Separation And Length Of Time Spent In A Detention Center On Latino Immigrants' Trauma, Myranda Alonso
Assuming We Cause the World to End, Emma Ambler
Awareness, Empathy, and Intention: Creating Constructive + Responsive Structures of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Safa Arshadullah
Autonomy, Liberty, Paternalism and its Implications for Elderly Populations, Alexandra Bacall
Neuroscience of Stress & Addiction: A Digitally Animated Video on How these Brain Systems Interact and Influence Each Other from Early Life Stress to Withdrawal, Claire Bacon-Brenes
The impact of DACA on the Labor Force: An Analysis on Non-Native Wage Growth, Chantal Balta
Passe Pas: Rethinking the Passport, Miriam E. Bankier
Remembering in Future Generations: American Holocaust Museums and Memorials, Miriam E. Bankier
Language Transfer Between English and German: A Phonetics-Based Study of Interactions Between Speakers' Native and Second-Language Vowel Systems, Emelia BensonMeyer
Unaccepted Streets in Bayview Hunters Point: Addressing Spatial Injustice Through Public Open Space, Clare Blackwell
(Re)Producing the Neoliberal Subject: Child-Rearing Advice Literature Following "The Great Risk Shift", Sophie Boczek
EU-Russian Energy Market Relations in the Wake of the Ukrainian Crisis, Anezka Boyle
A Competitive Education: How Charter Schools Include and Exclude, Talia M. Bromberg
Examining the Role Gender Plays in the Probability of Retirement, Anastasia Bryan-Ajania
Changing Perceptions of the Carceral Space through Photography: The Tehachapi Project by JR, Alexi Butts
Language, Memory, Place: Building on Disappearance, Alexi Butts
