Senior Theses from 2017
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
The Impact of Protagonist Race, Gender, and Genre on Latina Adolescent Personal Aspiration, Self-Esteem, and Self-Efficacy, Gitanjali Howard
Pedagogies of Solidarity: Feminist Poetry Written by Arab American Women Post September 11, 2001, Alicia Hurteau
The Limits of Accessibility Under the Affordable Care Act, Nimrah H. Imam
[REBELUTION 17]: Gender Bender, Francesca Louise Inocentes
Nuclear Risk and Rationality: Reevaluating Rational Decision Making through the Lens of Tohoku’s Nuclear Evacuees, Kayon K. James
Fashion and Court-Building in the Sixteenth-Century Florentine Ducal Court: Politics, Agency, and Paleopathology in the Wardrobes of Eleonora di Toledo and Giovanna d'Austria, Leah Rachel Jeffers
Communities of Resistance: Welfare Queens and the Infrapolitics of Black Hair Tutorials on Youtube, ReAndra Johnson
The Genetically Modified Labeling Legislation Fight and It's Consolidation of Power, Maithili Joshi
Daughter, Wife, Mother: Women as Emblems of Indian Authenticity Throughout the Diaspora, Saloni Kaur Kalkat
A Choreographic Exploration of Race and Gender Representation in Film and Dance, Sharon M. Keenan
Evolving Art: Modifying Context Free Art with a Genetic Algorithm, Marina Kent
The "Great Background" in Hardy and Lawrence, Rochelle H. Kim
The Effect of Oxidative Stress on Myometrial miRNA Expression, Abby Kissane
Compensating Against Turnover: Managers' Talent Retention Decisions in Major League Baseball Under a Budget Constraint, Emma Knoesen
Adapting Skazki: How American Authors Reinvent Russian Fairy Tales, Sarah Krasner
A Divided Media: Filtered Rhetoric and the Rise of Donald Trump, Sarah Krasner
People Want To Know Who We Are: Contestations Over National Identity Through Film, Monika Lee
Do Mother and Father Know Best?: California's Policies on Parental Consent for Sex Education, Jennifer Lehr
Writing Out Your Feelings: Linguistics, Creativity, & Mood Disorders, Alexandra Levin
Spoken Resistance: Slam Poetry Performance as a Diasporic Response to Discursive Violence, Harriet Lindeman
A Postmodern Love Affair: Los Angeles and Neo-Noir, Shinmin Amanda Loh
Culture as a Tool of Exclusion: An Analysis of Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine, Abigail MacCumber
The Changing Geography of Poverty in the U.S. and Its Effect on Food Insecurity: A Closer Look at the Real “O.C.”, Mallory Mackey
How "Costly" is Healthcare for the Elderly?, Ruchika Majumdar
Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate and the Consequential Pricing of Provençal Wines, Gweneth Marter
Shakespeare and Black Masculinity in Antebellum America: Slave Revolts and Construction of Revolutionary Blackness, Elisabeth Mayer
Disparities of (In)Justice: An Examination of the Asylum Adjudication System in the U.S., Meagan L. McIntyre
Spacializing Mexicanness: The (Re)Production of Racial and Cultural Meaning in Los Angeles' Olvera Street, Rebecca Millberg
Re-Calling the Past: Poetry as Preservation of Black Female Histories, Rachel Miller-Haughton
Analyzing the Discourse: How Khomeini and Khamenei Shape the Role of Women in Iran, Jessie Modlin
Social Cohesion as a Gateway: Examining France's Efforts in Building Equitable Education Access for Marginalized Immigrants, Cherish Molezion
Negotiating Mexican Citizenship: Examining Implications of a Narco-State and Rebellions in Contemporary Mexico, Nereida Guadalupe Montes
The Value of Waste: The Cycle of Products and Byproducts in Nepal’s Eastern Hills, Emily Moore
Desert To Sea: White Fantasies, Red Rivers, and The Salton Sea, Isobel Morrison
Perceived Organizational Support and Help Seeking Behaviors in Employees with Generalized Anxiety Disorders, Quinn Morrison
Repensando los Sistemas de Salud Interculturales y Comunitarios en Chile desde la Metáfora del Tejido Social, Kathleen Muenzen
#Comparison: An Examination of Social Comparison Orientation on Instagram as It Relates to Self-Esteem and State Anxiety, Alice C. Mullin
Self-esteem and Social Anxiety in Children with Communication Impairments, Rebekah I. Novom
Imposing Existence: Moral Implications & Economic Deterrents, Lara O'Connor
The Intersections of Art Therapy and Exposure Therapy in Contemporary Art Practices, Robin Ossentjuk
Rovotlif: A Constructed Language, Sarah Otterstrom
Are you Feeling Me?: The Role of Attention in Physiological Empathetic Responses, Gabriela Paganini
