Senior Theses from 2018
Fear of Change: Autonomous Vehicle Technology and the Automobile as a Cultural Artifact, Alexis Shoemaker
Analyzing the Effectiveness of Home-Sharing Regulations Through Impacts on the Long-Term Housing Market, Tova Sara Simonson
“Your unthought of Harry”: Political Legitimacy and the Economy of Honor in Shakespeare's Henriad, Bandana Singh
Educate Yourself: How Ethnic Studies Courses Influence Stereotypic Conceptual Associations, Michall Singleton
The Precarious Present and Feminist Futures: Toward a Disability-Centered Genetic Counseling Practice, Emma Snyder
Skinny Girls Bleed Flowers, and Other Sick Lies, Isadora Steiger
LABORING FOR POLICIES: THE ECONOMIC INTEGRATION OF REFUGEES IN TANZANIA AND UGANDA, Etelle Stephan
Too Much of a Good Thing: A Look into the Educational Climate of Port Townsend Washington, Rebecca Stewart
A Riddle in Nine Syllables: The Maternal Body in Sylvia Plath's Maternity Poems, Madeline Sy
A CROSS-SECTIONAL ANALYSIS OF MALE CONTRACEPTIVE USE AND ATTITUDES AT THE CLAREMONT COLLEGES, Naomi Takeuchi
A Sociophonetic Study of /s/ Weakening in Andalusian Spanish, Elisa Taylor
Fake News: Latinos, Representacion, Ciudadanizo y Trump, Grace Thieme
Pollinator Power: Supporting Bees Through Ecoregion Specific Planting Guides, Maya Thomas
Xin Yi: A Dramatic Exploration of International Student Experience, Xiwen Wang
Photography and Mourning: Excavating Memories of My Great-Grandmother, Eva Weiner
The 2011 Collective Bargaining Agreement's Effect on Competitive Balance in the National Football League, Mikena Werner
Gendered Visuality at Women's Colleges, Suzanne White
[There is So Much Blood in Us], Lindsey C. Whitlock
Exploring Los Angeles as a Character in Film, Maddie G. Wilson
The World Is Ending! Thanks, Iran: A Qualitative Analysis of Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Deena Woloshin
Multinational Manga Memories: Osamu Tezuka’s Postwar Japanese Critique of Nationalism in Message to Adolf, Anyi Wong-Lifton
How to Be A Model Minority: Mastering the American Dream, Sarah Wong
Beaufort County & the BASF Controversy: Reframing the Struggle Against Poverty as Environmental Resistance, Laura Woods
Looking At Damon Lindelof And The Television Auteur, Emily Woscoboinik
Does the H-1B Visa Program Impact Quality of Healthcare?, Sarah Yaghmaee
Interaction Between Multiculturalism and Framing on Creative Task Performance, Lily Yang
Have the Chinese Financial Markets Been Manipulated Before the CPC National Congresses?, Yijia Yang
Sinofuturism, Sheenie Yip
Defining 'Good': Exploring The Meaning of Politics And Its Relation To The Personal, Tarai Zemba
Unveil the Mysterious Reality of Management Healthcare in China: A Case Study on Institutional Arrangement, Yasha Zhang
Senior Theses from 2017
Materializing Trauma: Ceramic Embodiment, Environmental Violence, and the Colonial Legacies Of Mount Baldy, Felicia Agrelius
Is Bodily Resurrection Compatible with Materialism?, Lucienne Altman-Newell
Developmental Measures: The Zika Virus, Microcephaly, and Histories of Global Northern State Anxieties, Eden Noa Amital
Contextualizing Post-Dictatorship Argentina: Quantifying the Impact of La Dictadura and Art as a Method of Processing and Gaining Closure, Reilly J. Anderson
Women v. State: A Case Study of Laws and Rules’ Impact on Female Labor Migration within Nepal, Emily Armstrong
"White" Space: The Racialization of Claremont, California, Emily Audet
States That Kill: Assessing Execution Rates Among States, Mikayla Avalos-Feehan
The effect of the chromoshadow domains of Hhp1, Hpl1, and Hpl2 on heterochromatin protein localization in Tetrahymena thermophila, Claire Bagnani
Performing Gender: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Expression and Identity, Allegra Barnes
The Mall In America, Uma Bates
Meat Consumption and Health Outcomes: The Economic Risk Factors of Non-Communicable Disease, Alley Bellack
Atrevimiento Sintáctico: El Hipérbaton en los Sonetos de Luis de Góngora, Elise Berendt
"A White Issue": Examining Racial Equity Efforts in a Predominantly White Seattle High School, Rachel W. Berner-Hays
Cutting Costs and Paying the Price: The Threat to Prisoners' Health and Well-Being Under Government Negligence, Sarah Berschinski
Quantifying Carbonyl Sulfide and Other Sulfur-Containing Compounds Over the Santa Barbara Channel, Julia Black
Effect of Framings of Racism on White Students' Resistance to Confronting Whiteness, Maile Blume
Reflections on Here: A Choreographic Thesis, Maile Blume
Navigating Hookup Culture: Critical Perspectives from Students in Their Senior Year, Anna C. Bonsey
Social Movements in Bolivia and California: The Implementation of the Human Right to Water, AnaMei Boyd
Bit O’ the Auld Craic: An Acoustic Analysis of the Vowel System of the Engish of South Roscommon, Molly Boyle
The Influence of Books, Television, and Computers on Empathy and Altruistic Behavior in Young Children, Alicia Breyer
Pyramide: The Changing Power Structure of Fashion, Ariana Callan
Race, Class, and Gentrification Along the Atlanta BeltLine, Natalie Camrud
The Cultural Mosaic Under the Tesserae: Local Identity in the Iconography and Compositions of Roman Floor Mosaics, Taylor Carr-Howard
Millennial Voting Agenda: Partisan Preferences and Party Platforms in the 2016 Presidential Election, Annie Carroll
Digital Media and the Collapse of News Gatekeeping Power During the 2016 Presidential Election, Isabel Carter-Kahn
How Our Music Tastes Relate to Language Attitudes with Standard and Non-standard Varieties of English, Laura Casaregola
The Cube^3: Three Case Studies of Contemporary Art vs. the White Cube, Mary Chawaga
White Privilege in Environmental Policy: An Analysis of Hazardous Waste Management and Operations in Southeast Los Angeles, Lindsey Chen
The Problem of Induction, Ordinary Language Dissolution, and Evidence, Youming Chen
How Mobile Phones Can Spark an Entrepreneurial Revolution, Alison Choe
Edge of Town: Cultivating a Critical Design Discourse in the Liberal Arts, Dominique Chua
Planning for Family and Career: Whose Job is it Anyway?, Alexandra Conforti
Polarizing Narratives: Harmful Representations of Mental Illness and Bipolar in Popular Media, Mary Jane Coppock
The Question of Remilitarization: Is Japan's Pacifist Nature in Danger of Reform, Shanisha Coram
The Final Girl Grown Up: Representations of Women in Horror Films from 1978-2016, Lauren Cupp
Constructing Difference: An Examination of Madness and Hysteria as Tools to Subjugate Women in Literature, Claire Daly
"Supermom" and "Super-Maman": The Transition to New Motherhood in American and French Mothers, Abigail F. Daum
Using Latent Topic Models to Detect Rare Events, Sneha Deo
Why Did China Do This? An Analysis on China's New Gasoline "Price Floor" Policy, Youhan Ding
Access and Discussion about the HPV Vaccination among Second-Generation Vietnamese American Women, Stephanie Doan
Made in the USA: A Reality or a Fantasy How the Republican Tax Reform Encourages Executives to Bring Back Manufacturing, Alena Victoria Dollar
The Complexity of Human Nature in the Portraits of the Marginalized in Yuri Kazakov’s Village Prose, Alena Victoria Dollar
"She's Not a Real Monster": Orphan Black's Helena and the Monstrous-Feminine, Natalie Eisen
Voice and Agency in William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Aimé Césaire's Une Tempête, Sophie Fahey
Hillary Clinton's Campaign Use of Twitter Messaging to Construct an 'Authentic' Persona, Kimberly Marie Felt
Snipping Separate Spheres: The Cult of Domesticity in Gertrude Stein's "Tender Buttons", Flora K. Field
Bring Race, Class, and Gender Outside: A Study of Life Histories and Effects of Outdoors as Public Space on the Lives of College Women, Alice H. Flood
Song of Myself?, Cynthia Flores
Unpacking a Feminist Toolbox: A Case Study in Applying Antiracist Feminist Pedagogy, Christina Fox
Physical Miseducation: How Public Schooling in the US is Harmful to Students’ Bodily Well-Being, Rachel Fredericks
The Wage Gap and its Effects on Well-Being, Motivation, and Productivity, Christine Gao
Toward Better Things: Characterizing the Ontological Structure of Concrete Particulars, Jocelyn D. Gardner
Embodiment: Permanent Self-Affirmation as a Repudiation of Internal, Categorical Harms to Identity, Jocelyn D. Gardner
Dismantling the Stigmatization of Female Body Hair Through Embroidery and Interviews With Women of the Hair Belt, Diva Gattani
Does Increased Access to the Arts in High Schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District Affect Graduation Rates?, Elizabeth K. Gile
Is Love a Battlefield? The New Politics of Marriage Equality in the Aging War on Terror, Jackie Givelber
Psychology & Consumer Desire: Music's Influence on Consumer Motivation and Well Being, Madeleine Glouner
Menageries Multiple: An Introduction to Zoological Multiplicity in the Modern American Zoo, Emily D. Gratke
A Self-determination Theory Based Prenatal Care Intervention for Low-income Pregnant Women, Jenny Han
Aquaponics Everywhere? An Exploration of a Growing Industry's Revolutionary Potential, Alexandra Harder
Minimum Wage & the Informal Sector: Evidence from a Day Labor Center, Philippa Haven
The Cross Race Effect and Mixed Race Individuals, Tara Hayes
Performativity and Domestic Fiction in Antebellum America: The Power Dynamics of Class and Gender Performance, Blair Hedigan
Daffodils: A Completely Unrelated Collection of Short Stories, Sawyer E.P. Henshaw
Body, Blood, and Flood: The Ripple of Kinesics through Nature in Leonardo da Vinci's Art, Rachael Herrera
Why did they shoot? The Power of Media with Attribution Theory, Megan E. Ho
