Senior Theses from 2020
Retrieval-Induced Forgetting in Autism Spectrum: Combining Narrative Experience with Clinical Research to Explore Stress-Induced, Transitory Retrograde Amnesia, Elizabeth Willsmore-Finkle
Vaccine Hesitancy: California Senate Bill 276, Sarah Wilson
Woven by the Grandmothers: The Development of the National Museum of the American Indian Throughout the 1990s, Lucy Winokur
Reframing How We Think About Crime and Punishment: The Importance of Investing in Education, Megan Witman
Like Mother, Like Child: Affects of Discrimination in American Health Care Among Black Women and Children, Quwahia Wong-Lee
Beyond Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice: Reproductive Rights for Women of Color and Low-income Women, Sabrina Wu
The Potential Benefits of Japanese MMORPGs for Japanese Learning Motivation, Shuting Xu
Exploration Into the World of Silent Discos: A Past, Present, and Future Observation of Technology in Ethnomusicology, Aleesha Yan
Behind the Silence: Barriers for Female Victims to Report Rape in Japan, Angela Yang
Photographing Disillusionment in the Vanishing City: Beijing East Village Through the Eyes of Rong Rong, Joanna Ying
Paraisong Nawala: Exploring Sustainable Ecotourism in the Philippines, Samantha Barrios Yu
“This is Exciting!”: The Effects of Faking Enthusiasm on Teachers’ Intrinsic Motivation and Memory, Kaitlyn Zeichick
Anti-Colonial Foodways: Food Sovereignty in Post-Katrina New Orleans, Clara Zervigon
(Re)Reading Fanon: Tracing Revolutionary Negotiations within the Algerian Colonial Dialectic, Nina Zietlow
Senior Theses from 2019
Best Practices to Encourage Landfill Diversion in Waste Management Programs, Sondra Abruzzo
The Role of Serum Histones in Canine Heat Stroke, Jenna Acutt
Sentencing Length Disparities: Assessing Why Race and Gender Influence Judges’ Decisions, Janna Akers
Credit Instruments in the Late Roman Republic: Nomina in Cicero's Letters to Atticus, Hannah Elizabeth Alalou
Why CSAs Matter: (re)localizing for people-based food networks, Gretchen Alexander
Examining The Role Of Intra-Household Bargaining In The Adoption Of Green Technology, Antara Anand
Archiving the Archive: A Tribute to the Machines that Held our Memories, Molly A. Antell
Evolutionary Patterns of small RNA Pathway Genes in Hymenopteran Insects, Lauren Au
Higher-Order Thought and Borderline Cases of Consciousness: An Objection to HOT, Francesca Karin Beach
Linking Petal Cell Shape to Pollinator Mode in Mimulus, Emma Bekele
Space, Power, Policy, and the Creation of the “Illegal” Migrant at the United States Boundary with Mexico, Catalina J. Biesman-Simons
Micro-Enterprise Development for Dalit Women in Rural India: An Analysis of the Implications of “Women's Empowerment”, Jessica Bird
An Intervention to Reduce Social Class Bias on an Elite College Campus, Michelle Blanken
A Composite Review of the Proposed Molecular Mechanisms and Genetic Components Underlying Parkinson’s Disease, Paige Brodrick
A Feminist Epistemological Framework: Preventing Knowledge Distortions in Scientific Inquiry, Karina Bucciarelli
Jane Avril, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Paul Sescau: Advertising a Fin-de-Siècle Danseuse, Alexandra J. Bush
Waste Not, Want Not: A Smartphone Application Designed to Form Sustainable Habits, Amy Rose Buswell
The Icon Formation of Ruby Bridges Within Hegemonic Memory of the Civil Rights Movement, Katherine Cashion
Design and Testing of Composite Mirror Adaptive Optics, Aria Chaderjian
What Drives Merger Waves? A Study of the Seven Historical Merger Waves in the U.S., Katherine Ching
Using Pharmacogenetics to Find Treatment for Familial Hypercholesterolemia Patients with Both apoB and PCSK9 Mutations, Elizabeth Cho
Developing a Recombinant Plant Virus Nanoparticle Vaccine for Rift Valley Fever Virus, Elizabeth M. Chun
On the Edge of the Border: Prejudice Reduction Through Parasocial and Face-to-Face Intergroup Contact, Lauren Colella
The Impact of Four-Day School Weeks and Fifth-Day Programs on Delinquency and Problem Behaviors in Adolescents, Emily Collins
“Alexa, Are You Conscious?”: Exploring the Possibility of Machine Consciousness, Emma Cornwell
“Margaret the First”: Rebelling Against Gendered Modes of Utopian Writing, Emma Cornwell
Measuring the Economic Costs of Workplace Sexual Harassment on Women, Maureen R. Cowhey
"Sweet Beginning but Unsavoury End": The Change in Popularity of Shakespeare's Poetry, Maureen R. Cowhey
A Pansychistic, Photographic View on Nature and the Body, Rowen Cox-Rubien
Pursuing Natural Unity, Consciousness Included, Rowen Cox-Rubien
Beyond the Lens, Izzy Crouch
Doggone Smart: A Canine-Assisted Reading Program and the Effect on Self-Efficacy and Standardized Test Scores, Valerie Daifotis
'If I Don't Have That, No Learning": Significance of Student-Centered Affective Labor Among Public High School Teachers in Tacoma, WA, Delaney Dawson
"Enjoy the Process", Jacquelyn Desmond
Losing Liberty? The State of Jefferson Movement, McKenzie L. Deutsch
Chiho Aoshima, Cyborgs and Yōkai: Recoding the Present Through the Past., Emma Dubery
Our Government is Perpetuating the Tobacco Crisis: An Analysis of the Relationship Between the Tobacco Industry and the Government, Jesse Edwards
Emphasizing Unity and Diversity: Middle East and North African Student Community at the Claremont Colleges, Noura Elazami
Where Do We Go From Here? A Semi-Autobiographical Performance Exploration into the Therapeutic Benefits of Theatre, Emma Elliott
Damn Spot: Navigating Emotional Trauma in the Body, Emma M. Elliott
Instituting Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina's Divided Society, Emma Etnier
Talkin' Black: African American English Usage in Professional African American Athletes, Kaela Fong
Globalized Interfaces and Anticolonial Engagements with Material Technologies of Empire: Tabita Rezaire and Morehshin Allahyari’s Works, Neelufar Franklin
The Ostrich Effect: A Survey Analysis of Burying One's Head in the Sand, Kira Knowles Gabriel
Detracking: Facilitating the Achievement of First-Generation Students of Color, Elizabeth Galvan
I Feel Like I Can Get Home From Here: An Archive of Butch Lesbian Life and Persistence, Gabrielle S. Garcia
Preventable Illness: the Costs of Catheter-associated UTI in Modern Healthcare, Haley Gibbs
The Body Salvages: A Collection of New Poems, Mel Gilcrest
Coping-The Art of Depression, Catherine Glah
Online Dating Profiles of Rejection Sensitive and Introverted Individuals: Comparison Based on Rejection Explicitness, Georgia Godlee-Campbell
Examining the Narrative Experience of Trauma for Holocaust Survivors and Their Offspring: A Qualitative Multi-Generational Study, Hallie R. Goldstein
M. Nourbese Philip’s Zong!: A Poetic Lexicon That Makes Possible A New World, Alicia Goode-Allen
Shizen Nōhō: Restoring the Relationship Between Food, Nature, and People in Japan, Katharine Graham
In Sickness and in Health: Conceptions of Disease and Ability in Presidential Bodies, Megan Gratke
Ending Sexualized Violence: International Jurisprudence, Nicole Greenberg
"Everything Will Be Okay": Salvation-Based Discourses Utilized by Internet Sugar Daddies, Julia Griffin
Women's Contraceptive Method Choice and Its Impact on Their Economic Well-Being, Nishara Theruni Gunasekara
Are Social Media Influencers the New Celebrity? Youtubers and Their Impact on Adolescent Risk Perception, Meghna Gupta
Sanitation, Ek Prem Katha: The Impact of Sanitation on Education in Indian Government Schools, Romanshi Gupta
Josephine Baker & Me: Black Femme Identity in Performance, Meghan Gwinn
Disparities in Access to Contraception in the United States: an Intersectional Analysis, Alexandra Hammond
Legal and Political Barriers to Implementation of California Drought Management Policy, Casey Harris
Spectre: Attack and Defense, Rae Harris
Labor Experiences of Public High School Counselors: Neoliberalism, Productivity, and Care, Avery Harwood
An Analysis and Critique of Mental Health Treatment in American State Prisons and Proposal for Improved Care, Shelby Hayne
Pension Effect on Out-of-State Teacher Turnover in North Carolina, Daniella Henry
Reimagining Potential Life: A Socialized Right to Reproductive Freedom, Daniella Henry
The Role of Race in College Major Decisions Across Time, Jennifer Hillier
Implicit Attitudes of Asian American Older Adults Toward Aging, Anita Ho
Automating an Engine to Extract Educational Priorities for Workforce City Innovation, Madison Hobbs
Modelling the Photoreduction of A Chromium (VI) Pigment in Alfredo Ramos Martínez’s Mural Flower Vendors, Gillian G. Holzer
Negotiating the Credibility of Chronic Lyme Disease: Patient Participation in Biomedical Knowledge-Creation, Jodie Horowitz
To What Extent Do Religious Institutions Provide a Societal Value? Is the Tax-Exempt Status Justified?, Annabel Hou
The Impact of Negative Affect on Stereotypic Thinking in Hiring Decisions, Chelsea Huang
Implementing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Improve the Sexual Well-Being of Female Survivors of Sexual Violence, Katherine S. Hughes
Depoliticizing The Identities of Refugee Women, Yasmin Istanbouli
It Takes a Village: An Analysis of Multilateralism and the Legal Mechanisms Designed to Prevent Violence Against Women, Madison Ivey
Progressive and Conservative Efforts in Climate Change Flood Adaptation: A Study of Four Coastal States, Caroline jaeger
