Senior Theses from 2014
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
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
