Senior Theses from 2015
Investigating the Influence of CHD1 on Gene Expression in Drosophila Melanogaster Using Position Effect Variegation, Phuongngan Thi Bui
Howls on the Heath: Shakespeare Ensembles in American Prisons, Olivia G. Buntaine
Contextualizing Exile: Understanding Failures of the International Refugee Regime through Narratives of Young Adult Syrian Urban Refugees in Amman, Jordan, Cameron N. Campbell
Voices in Crisis: An Exploration of Masculine Identity in Modernist Narratives, Amy Cannistraro
A Tale of Two Cities: A Study of Oil's Influence on Houston, Nikki Lynn Chang
Language Norms and Attitudes at Scripps College, Electra Chong
ADHD Discourse and Navigation of Identity/Subjectivity, Rona Chong
Successfully Financing Classical Music Kickstarter Projects, Sarah Chung
Translation Through Cosmetics, Chayapa Chutrakul
Overburdened Women and Disempowered Men: Case Studies on Tanzania and Kenya's Rural Agro-pastoralist Communities, Anna Clabaugh
A Glance at the Male Gaze, Samira Cohanim
The Effects of Interview Length on Gender and Personality Related Bias in Job Interviews, Emily Condon
Being "Like A Girl" in the Twenty-First Century: Branding and Identity Through Cultural Conversation, Jane A. Condon
Simulation Modeling of a Tropical Cave Ecosystem, Hannah B. Cotter
Pocket Totems: Remembering the Ones we Love, Rachel L. Dahl
Gender-Specific Emotional Expression and the Effects of Social Media on the Post-Relationship Coping Process, Caroline C. Davis
What is She Doing Here?: Implicit Barriers to the Tech Industry’s Boys’ Club, Ann E. Diemer
Marseille en Trompe l'Œil: la Marginalisation de Sa Population d'Origine Nord-Africaine, Mariel R. Dunietz
Price, Perceived Value and Customer Satisfaction: A Text-Based Econometric Analysis of Yelp! Reviews, Eleanor A. Dwyer
NGOs v. State: A Case Study of the Effectiveness of Women’s Development Programs in Tanzania, Sara M. Eliason
A Character Design Tutorial, Jackie Fei
Black and White: The Exhibiting of Chinese Contemporary Ink Art in European and North American Museums, Susanna S. Ferrell
Pattern and Disorder: Anxiety and the Art of Yayoi Kusama, Susanna S. Ferrell
From Martial Law to Boba: What Is It to be Taiwanese American?, Jinelle Fields
Let me finish: Gendered conversational dominance in video-mediated communication, Katharine Finlay
Jumping Ship: Exploring Ways to Prevent Millennial Employees from Deserting Their Entry-level Corporate Employer, Tess B B Fitzpatrick
Learning Requires Attention for Binding Affective Reinforcement to Information Content, Chia Mun Foo
A Call for Bioregional Governance in Cascadia: Shaping an Ecological Identity in the Land of Falling Waters, Molly D. Freed
Understanding the Political, Economic, and Environmental Factors that Influenced New York’s Decision to Ban Hydraulic Fracturing, Alexandra M. Frumkin
Caving Into The Will Of The Masses?: Relics In Augustine's City Of God, Jessica Gadis
Claiming Images: The Production and Preservation of Desire in Richard Prince's Re-Photography, Meghan M. Gallagher
John Berger, Paris Hilton, and The Rich Kids of Instagram: The Social and Economic Inequality of Image Sharing and Production of Power Through Self-Promotion, Meghan M. Gallagher
Reconstruction After Genocide: An Analysis of the Justice System for the Women Victims of Genocidal Rape in Post-Conflict Bosnia, Hannah E. Gardenswartz
Complications of Connectivity: An Analysis of Anti-Vaccination Discourse on Social Media, Megan M. Goldman
Perceptions of Search Consent Voluntariness as a Function of Race, Rebecca M. Gold
Reasons to be Desired, Emily R. Goldstein
The Relationship Between Vagal Tone, A Marker of Parasympathetic Activity, and Pro-Social Behavior, Emily A. Goodlin
Love at First Sight? Jane Austen and the Transformative Male Gaze, Rachel S. Grate
Wait, Let Me Take a Snap: Self-Representation and Identity in the Seconds of a “Snapchat”, Katherine Grobeck
America’s College Promise: An Economic Evaluation of President Obama’s Free Community College Plan, Yue Guan
Beneath Still Waters: An Exploration of Transmedia Narratives and Twitter Fiction, Anjali Gupta
Self-Expression Through The String Quartet: An Analysis of Shostakovich's String Quartets No. 1, No. 8, and No. 15, Ariane C. Gushue
Quare Contestations: Bridging Queer, Lesbian, and Feminist Narratives of the Irish Diaspora, Emily H. Hampshire
"We're All Jock Tamson's Bairns": Scottish Ethnic Identity and Nationalism in America, Avalon Harder
Contextualizing the Elimination of Syria's Chemical Weapons: The Nonproliferation Regime, U.S. Policy, and Cultural Assumptions of the Middle East, Danica P. Harootian
Capitalism, the Reproduction of Racial Difference in American Education, and Black Student Resistance, Ti'esh N. Harper
The Germ Theory of Dystopias: Fears of Human Nature in 1984 and Brave New World, Clea D. Harris
Exploration of Materials Used in 3-Dimensional Printing for the Dental Industry, Holly Chang Hayden
The Parental Patriarchy: How U.S. Parental Leave and Child Care Policies Perpetuate Motherhood Inequality in the Workplace, Sarah E. Hiller
"A Village Can't Be Built in a Jail" Carceral Humanism and Ethics of Care in Gender Responsive Incarceration, Claire E. Hirschberg
Femininity and Dance at the Interface of Performance: An Exploration of Femininity through Performance in Suit Up, a Choreographic/Performance Dance Thesis, Christiana K. Ho
The Intersection of Women, Aestheticism and Dance in the Scripps College Dance Department, Christiana K. Ho
Enhancement on Counting Invariant on Symmetric Virtual Biracks, Melinda Ho
The Question of Child Abandonment in South Korea: Misplacing Blame on Personhood, Margaret Hong
Sexual Education across the United States: Are we doing it right?, Emily A. Horne
Evaluating U.S. and E.U. Competition and Supremacy Legislation, Selene M. Hsu
E-Commerce: The Impact of Internet Technologies on Pricing in Retail, Caroline Hu
The Rogers Case: Examining Kentucky's Democratic Deconstruction through Prison Expansion and Campaign Finance, Leah R. Hughes
The Tammy Manifesto and the Politics of Representation, Leah R. Hughes
Deconstructing 'Empowerment' in Nike's 2010 Campaign: A Critical Assessment of Female-Targeted Sports Advertising, Madeleine A. Hurlbut
‘All of Us Can Be the Movement’: An Analysis of Educator Activism in Hawai'i, Sheena S. Iwamoto
African Elephant (Loxodonta Africana) Conservation in Tanzania, Zoe M. Jacobs
A Mathematical Model of the Effect of Aspirin on Blood Clotting, Breeana J. Johng
A Cultural Comparison of Applied Behavior Analysis for Autism Spectrum Disorder, Sarah P. Johnston
Individual Differences in Dissociation and EEG Responses to Emotional Pictures, Shruti Kannan
Context-Dependent Insecure Attachment as a Product of Parental Dynamic, Isabelle Kaplan
Fairtrade Ground Up: Profit and Power in the Certification System from the Perspective of Coffee Farmers in La Convención Valley, Peru, Kathryn E. Keisling
Scripps College: A Photogenic Campus, Caitlin Kenney
The Culture of Nature in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Allison Kerley
Farm Scale Feasibility of Exploiting UV Radiation for Sustainable Crop Production, Alison G. Kibe
Investigating the Influence of CHD1 on Newly Deposited Histones in Drosophila Melanogaster, Catherine S. Kim
Postcolonial Literature: Dualities in the God of Small Things, Stephanie B. Kim
Variables in VBAC Success: A Retrospective Review of Trial of Labor After Cesarean (TOLAC) and Labor Support, Jenna A. Koblentz
Queer 'Paradise Lost': Reproduction, Gender, and Sexuality, Emily R. Kolpien
Identities of the Anonymous: A Quantitative Analysis of Identity Construction in Computer Mediated Communication, Natasha Kraus
Implications of Heavy Metal Pollution on Wildlife in the Rio Parrita Watershed, Costa Rica, Martha M. Kresz Bierut
Obscenity in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and James Joyce's Ulysses: A Postmodern Literary, Legal, and Cultural Analysis, Christie Kweon
Gaming, Friend or Foe: An Analysis of Religion in Video Games, Firdaus Landou
Defining Dark Romanticism: The Importance of Individualism and Hope in the American Dark Romantic Movement, Sacha B. Langer
Personality and Creativity Correlates in Adults with Childhood Imaginary Companions, Carolyn Lasch
An Analysis of Heavy Metals in Sediment and Water of Southwestern Costa Rican Watersheds Using ICP-MS, Moriah I. Lerner
A Digital Crisis? Art History and Its Reproductions in the 20th and 21st Century, Rachel M. Levi
Fish Out of Water: A Transmedia Adaptation of The Little Mermaid, Alicen M. Lewis
Time Frequency Analysis of Neural Oscillations in Multi-Attribute Decision-Making, Iris Lieuw
Monsters Without to Monsters Within: The Transformation of the Supernatural from English to American Gothic Fiction, Tryphena Y. Liu
Geographic Relevance for Travel Search: The 2014-2015 Harvey Mudd College Clinic Project for Expedia, Inc., Hannah Long
Theatre as Education: Creating and Performing a Play with Elementary School Students, Sarah C. Lopez
A Love Affair: Feminist Voice and Representation in the Romance Fiction Narrative, Anna L. Loughridge
It's the Economy, Stupid: Economic Voting and Gender Bias in U.S. Congressional Elections, Grace Lutz
Could Intuitions Be Beliefs?, Xinyue Lu
Queer Celibacy: Spiritual Friendship and the New Evangelical Response to Homosexuality, Natasha Magness
Papers and Legitimacy: An Analysis of Legal Documentation and Migrant Salvadorans’ Perceptions of “Being American”, Beatriz E. Maldonado
I Accidentally This Thesis Because East: The Influence of the Internet on Spoken Language in Eastspeak, Emma S. Manning
Queer Content in Science Fiction Allegory and Analogue: Is It In Disguise?, Anna C. Marburger
Inorganic Heavy Metals as Environmental Pollution Indicators in Rio Baru, Costa Rica, Lia Kimiko Metzger
White Feminist Tears: Understanding Emotion, Embracing Discomfort, Exploring Dominant Femininities At Scripps College, and Stepping Towards a Critical White Anti-Racist Feminism, Helena Budzynska Mietka
eXplicit Content: A Discussion of the MPAA Film Rating System and the NC-17 Rating, Caroline H. Miller
