Senior Theses from 2016
L'Identité Déracinée: La Traduction de la Mémoire Culturelle dans l'Art de Zineb Sedira, Lily M. Spang
The Philosophy of Ecology in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Stephanie A. Steinbrecher
The Power of Perks: Equity Theory and Job Satisfaction in Silicon Valley, Kristi Sun
Anti-Human Trafficking Efforts: A Case Study of Argentina and Its Federal Capital, Maya K. Suzuki-Jones
The Influence of Economic Ideologies on U.S. K-12 Education Policy: Testing, Markets, and Competition, Corinna M. Svarlien
Machine Translation and Text Simplification Evaluation, Elmira Tapkanova
Evaluating Effects of Non-Compete Agreements on Entrepreneurship, Sofie C. Thixton
Performing the Uncanny: An Exploration of Self Through Alternative Process Photography, Caroline Thomas
The Philosophy of Mathematics: A Study of Indispensability and Inconsistency, Hannah C. Thornhill
Love in the Golden Years: A Narrative Examination of Romantic Relationships in Older Adulthood as Compared to Young Adulthood, Ariana Turner
An Ecofeminist Critique of the Alternative Food Movement, Delia Ley Tyrrell
Social Comparison and Self-Presentation on Social Media as Predictors of Depressive Symptoms, Janet L. Uhlir
An Analysis of Intentional Kinesthetic Empathy: A Somatic Therapeutic Approach, Talia B. Vilaplana
"Pa'l Norte," "Sueño Americano" e "Ice El Hielo": Un Análisis del Video Musical en el Desmontaje de la Retórica Anti-Inmigrante en los Estados Unidos, Aida M. Villarreal-Licona
Macro Self-Portraiture and the Feminine Grotesque, Emily C. Wages
Self-Expansion and Romantic Partner Request for Friendship Termination, Emily C. Wages
You’re Not a Superhero, or Even an Artist! How the “Alias” Comic Book Holds the Answers, Lorraine Wang
Henry Cowell, The Great Experimenter: Uncovering the Catalysts that Generated a Composer’s Ultramodernist Piano Techniques, Chessa Catherine Wathen
Reclaiming the Female Suicide Narrative: Rebirth, a Plunge, and the Absurd, Shelby T. Wax
Charlie Hebdo: The Politics of French Identity & Exclusion, Madison J. Welsh
Tipping the Scales: The Public Health Crisis in Mexico, Haley M. Wilhelm
Mirrors and Windows Ab 101 and the Feasibility of a Statewide Ethnic Studies Curriculum in California, Tess M. Williams
Flow and Performance Competency in Modern and Ballet Dancers, Ella Wilson
Inner Connectivity and Outward Expressivity: A Phenomenological Investigation of Dancers' Psychological Experiences, Ella Wilson
The Accountability of Private Prisons in America During the Era of Mass Incarceration, Olivia S. Wilson
Gender, Physical Disability and Perceived Social Support in the Workplace, Isabel G. Wozencroft
Neighborhood Change an Gentrification: The Effects of Government Urban Revitalization Policies, Grace H. Xue
Space Between: Asian-American Women Identity, Culture and Contemporary Art, Grace H. Xue
Awakening the Mind-Body Connection: Yoga as Embodied Knowledge in the K-5 Curriculum, Jacci Yin
A Skin-Deep Analysis on Deconstruction: How Transforming the Modern Surface Transformed Notions on Gender, Elise K. Young
One in Four, Nicole V. Zwiener
Senior Theses from 2015
Coming Out of the Margins: LGBTI Activists in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, Samantha Abelove
A New Battleground, Samantha Abernathey
The Impulse to Punish: A Critique of Retributive Justice, Devika Agrawal
Not Just a Legend: The Gendered Conquest of a Spanish American Society, Angie I. Aguilar
Interior, Concept and Clay: A Study of Self and Space, Lily Alan
Our Bodies Below the Belt: Navigating Agency in Childbirth in the Contemporary United States, Gabriela M. Al-Shamma
Civic Participation: Factors That Drive an Individual to Become Politically Involved, Alexandra L. April
Take a Deep Breath: How Yoga Postures and Breathing Techniques Can Impact PTSD Symptoms, Sophia E. Armington
Why Yoga Feels Good: The Integration of Somatics, Anatomy, Yoga, Sophia E. Armington
Oxytocin, Adrenocorticotropic Hormone and Cortisol: Roles of Oxytocin in the Stress Response, Amira Athanasios
Someone Else's Honor: Women as Repositories of Male Honor and Their Subsequent Vulnerability to Sexual Violence in India, Teesta Bhandare
The Politics and Economics of Outsourcing: Where did all the jobs go?, Ambika Bist
Cairns: A Journey into Art and Nature, Teagan B. Blain-Rozgay
A Tale of Two Sisters: An Exploration of the Marquis de Sade and 21st Century Western Cultural Production, Lucy E. Blumberg
Grotesque Depictions and Seduction: Exotification of Asian/American Women, Mabelle Bong
Aunty Flow and Avoir Ses Anglais: The Cultural Expectations of Menstruation, Vicky A. Bouche
A Cryptographic Attack: Finding the Discrete Logarithm on Elliptic Curves of Trace One, Tatiana Bradley
Why Ask Alice?, Katherine A. Brastow
Hamlet #PRINCEOFDENMARK: Exploring Gender and Technology through a Contemporary Feminist Re-Interpretation Of Hamlet, Allegra B. Breedlove
The Digital Soliloquies of Hamlet, Allegra B. Breedlove
The Wisdom in Folly: An Examination of William Shakespeare's Fools in Twelfth Night and King Lear, Siri M. Brudevold
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
