Senior Theses from 2014
The Pleasure Gap: Harnessing Pleasure to Increase Global Condom Use, Claire Courtney
Oxygen Tension Modulates Growth Of Ovine Newborn Pulmonary Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells, Belen A. Cruz
Shoulder Impingement in Water Polo Players, Kelly A. Davis
‘Nadie la puede besar’: El Arquetipo Mujer Araña , de Ovidio a Manuel Puig, Charlotte Day-Reiss
“Of the Woman First of All”: Walt Whitman and Women's Literary History, Vivian Delchamps
Cultural Factors in Mental Health Referral Among Asian Americans, Ishani Deo
Psychological Processes Involved in Skilled Golf Performance, Elizabeth Diebel
Pseudodemocratic Rhetoric and Social Hierarchies: The Relative Lack of Influence of Rousseau's Radical Egalitarianism on Early American Political Thought, Summer Dowd-Lukesh
Mad Love and Narrative Uncertainty in the Twentieth Century: A Study of the Good Soldier and Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein, Rose DuCharme
Structure, Composition, and Emplacement History of Orbicular Granites and Comb Layering, Sierra and Sequoia National Forests, CA, Jane L. Eisenberg
The Sharing Economy: Exploring the Intersection of Collaborative Consumption and Capitalism, Ellyn E. Erving
Be Heard: Narratives of Sexual Assault and Rape, Stephanie H. Feldman
Holocaust Memorialization: Perceptions of the Workplace, Translation of Memory, and Personal Experiences of Museum Staff and Volunteers, Rachel L. Fidler
Using Radio Relics to Constrain the Dynamics of 1 RXS J0603.3+4214, Emily Q. Finney
Soy Latina and My Story Matters: Negotiating My Experiences at a Women's College, Jacqueline A. Flores
The Use of Facebook per Patterns of Attachment, Ann A. Franklin
Disidentified Masculinities, Jacqueline Hope Freedman
Disidentified Masculinities, Jacqueline Hope Freedman
A Comparitive Study of the Impact of Special Economic Zones on Economic Development in China and India, Sweta Garapati
Cross Cultural Predictors of Blame Attribution in Marital and Non- Marital Rape, Nikita Gettu
"Other than Dead": Queering Vampires in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Interview with the Vampire, and The Gilda Stories, Megan E. Gianniny
Politicizing Apollo: Ovid's Commentary on Augustan Marriage Legislation in the Ars Amatoria and the Metamorphoses, Tara N. Godzich
The Foraging Areas of Attine Ants at the Firestone Reserve, Costa Rica, Elana A. Goldstein
Clinton Connected: A Qualitative Analysis of the Portrayals of Hillary Clinton on Online News Blogs during the 2008 Presidential Primaries, Jessica Gonchar
The Great Galactic Oversight - Characterizing the Most Numerous Stars in the Galaxy, Alexandria Gonzales
“Am I Sexy Yet?”: Contextualizing the Movement of Exotic Dance and Its Effects on Female Dancers’ Self-image and Sexual Expression, Maximanova O. Greenberg
How Attention is Affected by Anxiety Among Individuals with Social Phobia, Mary Willa A. Green
The Impact of Sea Surface Temperature on Outbreaks of Acanthaster planci on the Great Barrier Reef, Laura A. Grossman
What it Means to be Singaporean: Nation-Building, National Identity and Ethnicity in Twentieth Century Singapore, Sharmishtha Gupta
"The Footprint of the Monster": California and the American Nightmare, Lauren Halberg
Vitamin D and Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis, Celina Hayashi
Effects of Diet on Escherichia Coli O157:h7 Growth and Nutritional Content of Beef, Genevieve G. Heger
Hope for Appropriation, Katrina Heger
Juror Decision Making: The Influence of Personal Beliefs When Deciding Rape Cases, Asia B. Henderson
La Educación Como Camino Hacia la Revitalización de Lenguas Indígenas: Problemas y Prospectivas, Isabella Hendry
What Is the Impact of the Technology Boom on Housing in San Francisco?, Ina Herlihy
Urban Farm and Community Garden Hybrid Models: A Case Study of the Huerta del Valle Community Garden, Leah Hochberg
Willa Cather's Pioneer Spirit: Ecofeminism on the Frontier, Catherine T. Holcombe
Kitchen Justice: Gender Difference in Building Common Ground, Julia Howard
The Biomorphic Grotesque in Modernist and Contemporary Painting, Audrey Howell
Seattle Public Schools Educators' Perceptions of the Efficacy of Autism Inclusion Programs, Roslyn Clare Hower
Soup, Fins, and Exploitation: An Analysis of the Current State of Shark Finning, Katie Huang
Cutting Out Worry: Popularizing Psychosurgery in America, Antonietta Louise Iannaccone
Gals Getting "Reno-Vated": Individual Transformation and National Change During the Rise and Fall of the Reno Divorce Ranches, Theresa M. Iker
Cold War in the Courtroom: The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and the Development of the Cold War, Janessa Ingram
Effects of Phylogeny on Structural Correlations of Vertebrate Eyes, Amanda YL Jacobs
Let’s Talk about Sex: An Examination of Sexual Discourses at the Claremont Colleges, Laura R. Jeddeloh
The Effects of Matching/mismatching Learning Style and Learning Task on Academic Self-efficacy in College Students, Elizabeth K. Jones
Criminal Stigma to Activist Authority Among the Formerly Incarcerated, Laura R. Jones
Troika of Fortune Tellers, Sophia D. Kalin
Effects of Delivery Mode on Initial Infant Gut Colonization And Subsequent Immune System Development, Christina Kang
Politicized Historiography and the Zionist-Crusader Analogy, Emma Kellman
Chemical Dental Plaque Control: Chlorhexidine Tooth Staining and Efficacy of Common Whitening Procedures, Zoe Kiklis
The Effect of Religiosity on the Economic Performance of the United States of America, May F. Kim
"Playthings of a Historical Process": Prostitution in Spanish Society from the Restoration to the Civil War (1874-1939), Ann Kirkpatrick
Farmworkers and Strawberry Cultivation in Oxnard, California: A Political Economy Approach, Jean Larsen
The Plots of Alexanderplatz: A Study of the Space that Shaped Weimar Berlin, Carrie Grace Latimer
The Y-Word: The Development of Anglo-Jewish Identity as Evidenced by Tottenham Hotspur Soccer Club's "Yid Army" Supporters, Blake Laufer
Reconciliation and The Rule of Law: The Changing Role of International War Crimes Tribunals, Oriana H D LaVilla
Understanding the Luxury Handbag Market: Do Used Handbags Make Viable Investments?, Aileen Le
Gendered Souls: Female Religious and Imperial Power in Early Byzantium, Jessica R. Lee
Factors of Achievement and Persistence of Minorities in Physics, Pejing Lee
Designing A Better Internet Search Engine Based On Information Foraging Theory, Szeyin Lee
An Ethnographic Inquiry: Contemporary Language Ideologies of American Sign Language, Anya A. Leyhe
The Crisis of Migrant Motherhood: Exploring the Cultures of Servitude embedded within North Indian Domestic Work, Emery Lieberman-Auerbach
Feminist Stereotypes: Communal vs. Agentic, Emily R. Lindburg
The Pacific Crest Trail: A History of America’s Relationship with Western Wilderness, Jenn Livermore
Early Life Epigenetic Programming and Later Psychological Ramifications: Programming Positivity, Sarah E. K. Loebner
The Effects of Music Therapy on Stress Induced Muscle Pain, Jamie Lowe
How the Myth Was Made: Time, Myth, and Narrative in the Work of William Faulkner, Katherine A. MacDonnell
The City and The Stage: Ethics of Performance in Ex-Yugoslavia, Julia MacNelly
The Effects of CpG Methylation on BI-BII Equilibrium in DNA, Georgia A. Macy
Heart Rate Variability and Oxytocin: Measures of Parasympathetic Control, Amelia Mainardi
La Tirania de la Invisibilidad: La Necesidad de Reconocer y Analizar la Violencia de Genero en la Argentina, Laura Mallison
"Sea Water Fish in a Freshwater Pond:" An Institutional Approach to Understanding Cooperative Scarcity in the United States, Caroline E. Malone
Looking Back, Moving Forward: The Role of Gandhian Economic Philosophy in India's Development, Sanggeet Mithra Manirajah
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
