Senior Theses from 2019
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
The Future of Mosquito Control: Wolbachia and Genome Editing, Soncy Kaahui
Unbuttoned: Exploring Queer Spectatorship in Visual Texts, Caitlin Kim
Economic Diversification in Saudi Arabia: Looking Beyond Oil, Dena Kleemeier
Cooperative Success Under Shared Cognitive States and Valuations, Shannon Marie Klotz
Anthracroronene in Astrophysical Water-Ice Analogs, Julie Korsmeyer
The Trump Administration's Zero-Tolerance Policy: Separating Families as Immigration Deterrence, Evelyn Larsen
South of Sacramento: an Implementation and Effectiveness Analysis of Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Zaidee H. Laughlin
Psychotherapy Dropout and Socioeconomic Status: A Qualitative Analysis of College Students, Emily Sophia Lavine
Procuring Pediatric Vaccines in a Two-Economy Duopoly, SeongEun Lee and Susan E. Martonosi
"Our Failures Will Ever Be Epic": The Genre of the Frontier Novel and Accessibility to the American Dream, Elizabeth Leung
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A Case Study of Social Media as an Agenda Setting Tool in the U.S. House of Representatives, Jenna Floricel Lewinstein
The New Horizons of Ideal Womanhood in Antebellum America: Christine Elliot and Linda Brent, Elizabeth (Katy) Lewis
The Outdoor Apparel Industry:Measuring the Premium for Sustainability with a Hedonic Pricing Model, Elyse Lindahl
The EGS Collab Hydrofracture Experiment: Seismic Velocity and Elastic Moduli Characterization, Dorothy Linneman
Relations Among Maternal and Paternal Behavior and Children's Stress Biology, S.K. Jiaming Lin, Stacey N. Doan, and John Milton
Office Design and Organizational Culture as a Two-Way Street: A Discussion on the Interaction Between Design and Culture, Stephanie Lin
Carbo-Loaded: Sexual Dimorphism in Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism in Male and Female Endurance Athletes, Rebecca Li
The Attention Crisis of Digital Interfaces and How to Consume Media More Mindfully, Kristen M. Liu
The Effect of Welfare Work Requirements on TANF Recipients: Individual Employment and Economic Mobility, Destiny Lockhart
The Ethical and Emotional Benefits of Reducing Self-Focus Through Mindfulness, Emma Loftus
The Good, the Bad, and the Necessity of Empathy in Ethics, Emma Loftus
Uncovering Alice Bag: An Alternative Punk History, Emily Macune
Comparisons of the Soul: A Foucauldian Analysis of Reasonable Doubt, Jeri Mallory
Radioactive Contamination, Superfund Remediation, and Green Gentrification in San Francisco’s Hunters Point, Lawrie Mankoff
Missanthrobot: Machines of Automated Sociality, Natalie Marsh
Reproducing Injustice: The Unusual Case for Latinx Birthing Parent Mortality and Its Sociological Factors: Literature Review, Julia Martinez
Sleight of Hand: Gender, Performance, and (In)sincerity in E. D. E. N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand, Samantha Martin
Fulfillment & Amazon Invazion: Explorations of the Company Amazon Through Play, Katherine Mayer
Is India's Push for Renewables a Shove to its Impoverished Communities?, Amaani Mehra
Do We Have a Moral Obligation to Provide a Baseline of Healthcare to Undocumented Immigrants?, Kripa Mehta
Hidden Conversations: Silences in the Lives of Mixed-Status Families, Karla Mejia Rivera
BigPharmaSlut Using Social Media to Encourage Vulnerability & Positive Behavioral Health Changes in Society, Alissa Merz
Gender Inequality in Hollywood: The Magnitude, Determinants, and Influence of the Gender Wage Gap in the Film Industry, Taylor Milana
Camino a la Interseccionalidad: Una Aproximación al Desarrollo de Ideas Feministas en la España Contemporánea, Kierra Mitchell
Racial Disparities in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes in Black American Youth, Kierra Mitchell
Disciplining the Nation Within the Nation: Slavery and The Formation of Immigration Policy in The United States, Eden Rose Niles
Integrating Alexander Technique into Treatment of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis to Improve Patient Quality of Life, Ana Nishioka
Re-evaluating Bilingual Education Within the U.S. Public Education System, Stephanie Nunez`
Justifying a New Beginning: The Case of An Urban, Jewish Congregation in the 1970s, Tirza Ochrach-Konradi
Classically Formal, Biotic Subjectivity: Moderating Plastic's Relation to the Viewer, Tirza Jo Ochrach-Konradi
"Other Ways of Othering": The Subversion of Racist Motives in Excluding the Other in Othello and the Jew of Malta, Brittanee Okamura
The Other English Learners: Refugee Students in Southern California’s Public Schools Systems, Grace Ozonoff-Richey
Impacts of Neopatrimonialism on Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Analysis Between Nigeria and Ghana’s Fourth Republics, Sofia Lisette Padilla
"The Double Sorwe of Troilus": Experimentation of the Chivalric and Tragic Genres in Chaucer and Shakespeare, Rena Patel
The Influence of the "Emotionally Disturbed" Classroom Label on General Education Teachers' Sense of Efficacy, Giovanna Perricone
New Technology, Old Ways? The Gender Price Discount in Online Contemporary Art Auctions, Madeleine Peterson
The Chronicle of William Pelhisson: A Microcosm of Early Thirteenth Century Papal Inquisition, Emily Petillon
The Effects of Planned Parenthood Clinics on Women's Health and Economic Development, Olivia Pritchard
Myrrha Now: Reimagining Classic Myth and Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses in the #metoo Era, Claire A. Pukszta
Star Wars and Franchising: Emotional Ownership and Tensions in the Digital Age, Claire A. Pukszta
From Cars to Complete Streets: Integrating Bicycles Into Seattle's Transportation Network, Natalie Quek
Discipline and Surveillance: The Rise of Electronic Monitoring in Response to Demands for Criminal Justice Reform, Miriam Raffel-Smith
Identification of Antibiotic GE37468A from Pseudonocardia Symbionts of Trachymyrmex Septentrionalis Ants, Krithika Rao
Is it Ethical to Genetically Enhance your Future Child?, Bella Ratner
Seeing Red: A Moral Psychological Analysis of Anger, Natalie Reeves
Islamic Ceramics, Indelible Creations: Assessing and Preserving the Scripps Collection, Josephine Ren
Desde el barrio hasta afuera, From the Neighborhood Out: Building Sustainable Cities and Empowering Latinx Communities in Southern California through Asset-Based Community Development, Vannesa Reyes Salazar
Towards a More Equitable Future: A Single-Dose HPV Vaccine to Reduce the Global Burden of Cervical Cancer, Annabella Ribeiro de Oliveira
Individual Bodies, Informed Consent, and Self-Determination: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Vaccine Refusal Movement, Gretta Richardson
Conjurer la Révolution : Sorciers, Païens et Justice Sociale dans la France contemporaine, Alexandra Rivera
Human Monsters: Examining the Relationship Between the Posthuman Gothic and Gender in American Gothic Fiction, Alexandra Rivera
#MeToo: The Harm and Limitations of Social Media in Modern Activism, Yasmin Roberts
Emerging Dark Matter: LA’s Underground Women Musicians in the Digital Age, Linnea Rosenberg
Comandantas and Caracoles: The Role of Women in the Life and Legacy of the Zapatista Movement, Roxanne Rozo-Marsh
Practical Chaos: Using Dynamical Systems to Encrypt Audio and Visual Data, Julia Ruiter
Understanding the Body-Mind Unification to Promote Foreign Language Learning as a Somatic Experience, Annabelle Sadoff
Giving Credibility Where Credibility is Due: An Analysis of Conspiracy Theories Through Gossip-Based Knowledge, Desiree Santos