Senior Theses from 2014
Keeping Iran from the Bomb: The Obama Administration and the Puzzle of the Iranian Nuclear Program, Kaitlin E. Marshall
Life’s a Game But Work is Boring: Gamification at Your Desk Job, Isabella Starbuck Mascheroni
Discourses of Menstruation: Public and Private Formations of Female Identity, Emily G. Matteson
The MSM Deferral Controversy: An Analysis of the 2000 BPAC Meeting, Simone C. Maule
C.S. Lewis: Embracing and Transcending Reality, Diana McDonnell
Discourses of Domination: A Comparative Historical Analysis of Development in Haiti, Elizabeth McElvein
Response of Flowering Time Genes, CONSTANS and FKF1, to Cold Temperature in Arabidopsis thaliana, Paloma Medina
The Transformation of an Empire to a Nation-State: From the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey, Sarah R. Menzies
An Analysis of Personality in Light of Socioeconomic Mobility, Anne Miles
"Are You Better Off Than You Were 4(0) Years Ago?:" Portrayals of Feminism on Parks and Recreation and Mad Men, Alyssa J. Monroe
Characterizing Interactions between Habitual Caffeine Consumption and Stress Response Physiology in Female Students, Hannah E. Moore
La Medicina y la Cosmovision: Intersecciones de la Aculturacion y la Resistencia en la Traduccion de Textos Medicos Aztecas, Hannah E. Moore
Effects of Computer Usage on Ocular Health, Alexa J. Moy
Saving Mothers: Reducing Maternal Mortality and Correcting the Course of Birth in the United States, Katelyn E. Muir
"All You Need Is Love": The Rising Importance of Celebrity Status, Social Media, and Fandoms in the Music Industry, Jessica Nguyen-Phuong
Biodynamic Agriculture: A Valuable Alternative to the Industrial Farming System, Eden K. Olsen
Deconstructing the Sex Workers' Rights Movement in San Francisco: Histories from Below, Tessa Paoli
"Her Power is Her Own": Classed Confines, Gendered Expectations, and Questions of Social Movement in The House on Mango Street, Anna L. Petkovich
Adding Agency to Art: The Pre-Raphaelites, Their Wives, and The Intersection of Art and Victorian Gender Norms, Claire Pompetti
Man Pain in the Man Booker Prize: A Quantitative Approach to Contemporary Canon Formation, Caitlin E. Powell
Beauty and the Body: Gendered Representations of the Digitally Altered Image, Lauren Prince
“I’m a Jesus feminist”: Understandings of Faith, Gender, and Feminism Among Christian Women, Megan Pritchett
Examining the Intersection of the Cognitive Advantages and Disadvantages of the Bilingual Brain, Irina Rabkina
Colorblind Liberalism in Legal Storytelling: To Kill A Mockingbird and A Time To Kill, Ishmam R. Rahman
Rationalizing Voter Suppression: How North Carolina Justified the Nation's Strictest Voting Law, Megan C. Raymond
Rieglematica: Re-Imagining the Photobooth Through Female Performativity and Self-Portraiture, Allison E. Riegle
The Reclamation of Public Parks: An Analysis of Environmental Justice in Los Angeles, Allison Rigby
From Adele to Zedd: The Consumption of Popular Music in the United State, 2006-2013, Madeline K. Ripley
Does Fertility Awareness Increase Self-Esteem in College-Aged Women?, Lauren E. Risberg
The Effect of Dual Language Education on Student Achievement, Alfonsina Rodriguez
Applying the Biopsychosocial Model: Factors Associated with Depression in Mexican-American Adults, Alison B. Ross
Perceptions and Strategic Concerns of Gender in Terrorism, Eliana Rudee
Sick Of Being Excluded: Chronically Ill Young Adults, Social Isolation, and the Need for a More Inclusive Disability Community, Maddy Ruvolo
Barriers to Reporting Sexual Assault on College Campuses: A Psychology and Policy Analysis, Leslie A. Sachs
Cancelled Too Soon: How the Internet and Social Media Are Saving Cult Television Shows, Alexandra Sacks
Lebanon and Hizbullah: Investigating the Failed State Model, Sophie M. Saouma
Quantitative Easing's Effect on Shadow Banking: Have Federal Reserve Purchases Caused a Collateral Shortage in the Repurchase Agreement Market?, Amanda A. Schaible
Sceletium tortuosum and Mesembrine: A Potential Alternative Treatment for Depression, Rebecca Schell
“It Made the Ladies into Ghosts”: The Male Hero's Journey and the Destruction of the Feminine in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, Catherine Ruth Schetina
Monotony and Deprivation: The Effects of Long-Term Imprisonment on the Neurocognitive Functioning of the Older Prison Inmate Population, Alexandra Sheridan
Theory of Mind and Moral Theme Comprehension in Preschool Children Ages 3-4, Cara A. Shpizner
Sex Education in California: The Disconnect between Legislation and Implementation, Elizabeth A. Silverman
All that pushes and pulls: A Choreographic Exploration of the Blurred Relationship Between Individuality and Conformity, Emily H. Simmons
The Relationship Between Adolescent Depression and Social Skills in Young Adulthood, Emily H. Simmons
See the U.S.A. On Your New Highway: The Interstate Highway System as a Product of the Military Industrial Complex, Francesca O. Simmons
A Comparative Study About The Problems Of The Educational System In Spain And China, Tanawan Sirivatanaaksorn
Radical RolePlayers: Disrupting Gamespace Performance Between the Digital and the Organic, Briana M. Smith
Something's Wrong When You Regret Things That Haven't Happened: Effects of the Victimization of Women in Media, Dominique J. Smith
Public Funding for the Arts: Welfare for the Wealthy?, Leah B. Soffer
Relative Importance of Male Song on Female Mate Selection in the Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia Guttata), Casey Sprague
Email, Colors and Fonts: Responses to How Email Advertising Influences Consumer Buying Behavior and Judgment of Appeal, Zoe Stalnecker
Canonizing Episcopal 'Naughtiness': Negative Depictions of Bishops and the Bishopric in Late Antique and Medieval Hagiography, Lily C. Stewart
Women at Work: Working Girl, Disclosure and the Evolution of Professional Female Stereotypes, Hayley A. Strickland
Magical Me: Self-Insertion Fanfiction as Literary Critique, Melody Strmel
Contributing Factors to Academic Motivation in Female Undergraduate Students, Sophia Suzukawa-Tseng
The Girlventures Culture: Supporting People of Color in the Organization, Charlotte A. Tabeson
Quandles of Virtual Knots, Sherilyn K. Tamagawa
Empirical Analysis of Causes of Income Inequality: A Level Playing Field for Children at the Start of School Career, Ei P. Theint
Sex, Slaves, and Saviors: Domestic and Global Agendas in U.S. Anti-trafficking Policy, Chelsea L. Thompson
The Frozen Moment: Representations of Space, Time and the Experiential in Installation Art, Alexandra Trimm
Dine Food Sovereignty: Decolonization through the Lens of Food, Mariah Tso
Annie Proulx's Wyoming: Subversive Storytelling from the Bunchgrass Edge of the World, Elizabeth P. Tyson
James Deen: The Feminist Enigma, Taylor Jade Ulrich
Witches, Warlocks, and...Fulgurites?: Learning Information from Fantasy Fiction, Julie Vaisarova
Robbing the Cradle: Gender, Sociosexuality, and Age Gap Direction’s Effects on Mate Acceptance and Likelihood of Entering an Age Gap Relationship, Adriana Valdivias
The Factors for Choosing a Partner: Using Economic Theory to Enhance Readings of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, Ingrid C. Van Valkenburg
"Votes For Mothers": The National Woman's Party's Conflicted Arguments for Women's Suffrage, 1913-1920, Gillian H. Varney
Virginia Woolf and Literary Impressionism, Alejandra Veyna
A Study of Post-Fire Recovery in Invaded Coastal Sage Scrub at the Bernard Field Station, Dana Marie Von Schaumburg
AB 32 and SB 375: Investigating Land Use and Transportation Policy on a Regional and Local Scale, Caroline Vurlumis
The Discrimination of the Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia and Perceptions of Nationality, Amanda Walujono
Growing Together Separately: An Analysis of the Influence of Individualism in an Alternative Educational Setting, Jessica L. Warren
First We Cook, Emma Wartzman
These Are the Days, Alexandra Alden Weaver
Structural Limits of Liberal Neutrality: Understanding Problems for Sustainabiity, Madison R. Williams
American Influence on Korean Popular Music, Zaneh M. Williams
(Un)Focusing the Gaze, Cassandra L. Won
The Economic and Behavioral Success of Riot Games In an Undifferentiated Video Game Market, Maxine J. Yakobi
Identity and Trauma in A Song of Ice and Fire, Jasmine E. Ye
The National Rifle Association In Context: Gun Rights in Relation to the National Security State, Catherine L. Young
The Genre Formerly Known As Punk: A Queer Person of Color's Perspective on the Scene, Shane M. Zackery
Musical Missteps: The Severity of the Sophomore Slump in the Music Industry, Shane M. Zackery
A Paradoxical Paradise: The Marquesas as a Degenerate and Regenerative Space in the Western Imagination, Christine A. Zenel
Metamorphism of Cretaceous Standstones by Natural Coal-Fires, San Rafael Swell, Utah, Alexa R. Zilberfarb
Senior Theses from 2013
Rebranding the Aristocracy: The British Aristocracy in the Twentieth Century as Portrayed in Contemporary Nostalgic Writing, Caroline W. Anderson
The Beauty Standard Trade-Off: How Ebony, Essence, and Jet Magazine Represent African American/Black Female Beauty in Advertising in 1968, 1988, and 2008, Jerrika M. Anderson Edwards
The Concrete River: Industry, Race, and Green Justice on the Banks of the Los Angeles River, Carolyn M. Angius
GIS Analysis of Forest Fragmentation in the Vicinity of the Firestone Reserve, Costa Rica, Kristen Bair
Foraging Ontogeny in an Urban Population of Black Phoebes (Sayornis Nigricans), Jessica N. Baker
Siblings of Individuals with Autism: Levels of Social Anxiety and Social Skills, Jessica N. Baker
Auras, Adele Ball
The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Sympathizing with Rape Victims, Alexis Barab
The Effectiveness of Resistance Exercises in the Management of Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome, Amanda E. Bard
Brain Basis of the Placebo Effect: A Proposed Integrative Model Implicating the Rostral Anterior Cingulate, Annie Belanger
It's In the Bag: Balancing Notions of Need, Superficiality, and Preparedness by Carrying Objects, Bria Biesman-Simons
How Consumption and Content of Documentary-Based Reality Television Influence Viewers’ Gratification Levels, Kristina Block
