Senior Theses from 2013
Danger in Deviance: Colonial Imagery and the Power of Indigenous Female Sexuality in New Spain, Mariel Frechette
Post Citizen United: The Lack of Political Accountability and Rise of Voter Suppression in a Time of Newly Defined Corruption, Hannah S. Fullerton
Undocumented Youth in Texas: The Lone Star State’s Effort to Educate the Youth Falls Short, Brittney Taylor Garza
How You Have Fallen: Exploring the Benevolence of an Early Christian God as Seen Through a Progressively Embodied Satan, Kari J. Geiger
Was Roe v. Wade Enough?: The Effects of Post-Roe Policies on Low-Income Women, Elena Ginebreda-Frendel
DTC Advertising and Medicalization: Understanding the Way the Pharmaceutical Industry Selectively "Informs" Consumers, Laura F. Goforth
Gateway of Sucess: China’s Gaokao Test as a Representation of Modern China's Paradigm for Success, Hannah R. Gravius
Women’s Empowerment Through The Erotic, Devin Grenley
En la Uva: La Lucha por Contratos Laborales en el Valle de Coachella/The Struggle for Labor Contracts in the Eastern Coachella Valley between 1965 & 1973, Lindsay Gutierrez Leal
Handcraft and Environmental Knowledge: Mapuche Women Weavers, Priscilla Pambana Gutto Bassett
Thermal selection in Sceloporus occidentalis during exercise recovery, Morgan A. Halley
Adaptation and Resistance of Mapuche Health Practices within the Chilean State, Caitlin Hanavan
Motivation in Athletes With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder: Sq, Eq and Aq Relationships to Preferred Feedback, Julia C. Harreschou
Eat Your Heart Out, Natalie H. Hendricks
Racializing Spaces: Harlem, Housing Discrimination, and African American Community Repression in the War on Drugs, Mary Hershewe
The Contributions of Fiscal and Monetary Stimulus Policies to the Economic Recovery Process of Recessions in the United States, Amanda M. Hiatt
Exceptions to Costa Rican Exceptionalism: National Identity, Race, and Nicaraguan Labor Migration in Costa Rica's Tourism Industry, Amy L. Hollander
Predicting Short-Term Exchange Rates with a Hybrid PPP/UIP Model, Xiaoyan Huang
The Impact on Poverty when Empowering Women Politically, Rossana Huerta
‘Nothing is Sure’: An Exploration of Post-War Gender Dynamics Through Hemingway’s Use of the Erotic Triangle, Julia S. Hughes
"Nothing is Sure": An Exploration of Post World War I Gender Dynamics Through Ernest Hemingway's Use of the Erotic Triangle, Julia S. Hughes
Changes in Cell Morphology and the Cellular Localization of Protein Kinase Dsk1 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe in Response to Butylated Hydroxyanisole, Jacqueline T. Humphries
Started from the Bottom…and We are Still Here: An Assessment of Black Student Performance in Los Angeles and San Bernardino County, Jasmine Johnson
Transnational Resistance Against Large Dams: States, Social Movements, and Struggles for Democracy, Emily E. Jovais
Reddit Alert: The Function and Future of Reddit as a Crisis Communication Tool, Meredith O. Kertzman
How Do Insurance Markets Respond to Natural Disasters?, Tiffany Kindred
Power and Nostalgia in Eras of Cultural Rebirth: The Timeless Allure of the Farnese Antinous, Kathleen LaManna
Children Having Children: The Construction of a Pathological Black Family in News Coverage of the Underclass of the 80's and 90's, Yuliya Lantsman
Factoring the Duplication Map on Elliptic Curves for use in Rank Computations, Tracy Layden
The Grand Paris Express: An Analysis of Social and Political Trends towards Mass Transit Planning in the Île-de-France Region, Charlotte M. Leasia
Creating AlphaBoodle: A Children's Educational iOS Application, Skyler A. Lipscomb
Inhibition of the Ubiquitin Proteasome System Enhances Long-Term Depression in Rat Hippocampal Slices, LeeAnn N. Louie
The Association of Psychosocial Factors on HIV/AIDS Disease Progression, Melissa Margolis
The Political Will of the Bundesbank in the European Monetary Integration Process, Julia M. Markham-Cameron
A Male-killing Bacterium Targets the Neural Tissue in D. melanogaster, Jennifer Martin
A Return to the Body: Individual Wholeness and Community Harmony, Hannah Mason
Clustering Methods and Their Applications to Adolescent Healthcare Data, Morgan Mayer-Jochimsen
“Children I Love You”: Children and Sexuality in Stephen King’s The Shining, It, and ’Salem’s Lot, Ann Mayhew
Living in the Moment: Dispositional Mindfulness and Its Differential Relationships to Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being, Marika R. McClenahan
"These Are Preying Grounds" - How the Tulalip Tribes of Washington State are Fighting Violence Against Native American Women, Rosemary O. McClure
La Identidad Femenina Durante la Epoca Franquista: Las Novelas de Josefina Aldecoa y Carmen Martin Gaite, Elizabeth C. McGinnis
Canonizing the Colosseum: Remembering, Manipulating, and Codifying Memory in the Eternal City, Sonia M. Mehrmand
Building Bridges to Transcend Borders: Radical Transnational Feminist Praxis in Response to US Systems of Incarceration and Violence, Marian RC Miller
Facilitative Interactions Among Native Perennial Shrubs and Native and Exotic Annuals in Recovering Coastal Sage Scrub, Courtney Elizabeth Miranda
Women's Advancement in Francophone West Africa: A Comparison of Mali and Senegal, Refilwe M. Moahi
Pause, Rewind: Temporal Manipulation in Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Carla Mokin
Designing AlphaBoodle: An iOS App for Kids, Robin Momii
Modern Conservative Judicial Activism in the Supreme Court and the Entrenchment of Privilege as a Rights Claim, Carmen Beatriz B. Mooradian
Breaking Down Masculinity in Breaking Bad and the Western Genre: Performance and Disruption, Emily Morris
Talk Over Me, Naomi R. Moser
Drama, Roxanne Narasaki
Play in Place: The Role of Site-Specific Playgrounds in Community Space, Allison Nkwocha
Rawlsian Foundations for Justification and Toleration of Civil Disobedience, Christina R. Noriega
“To Live Confidently, Courageously, and Hopefully": Challenging Patriarchy and Sexual Violence at Scripps College, Gavin M. Odabashian
"A Facade of Most Exquisite Gallantry": The French Educational Reforms of the Late Nineteenth Century and their Impact on Women's Education, Willa D. Oddleifson
Every Child Left Behind: The Effects of No Child Left Behind on Private School Enrollment, Julia J. Ogburn
Roots of Polynomials: Developing p-adic Numbers and Drawing Newton Polygons, Julia J. Ogburn
Eradicating Malaria: Improving a Multiple-Timestep Optimization Model of Malarial Intervention Policy, Taryn M. Ohashi
The Existence of State Dependence and Switching Costs in the Transition From MySpace to Facebook, Taryn M. Ohashi
Locked In: Introspection, Diana Orihuela
The Affect of Low Tide on the Digestion of Balanus glandula, the Acorn Barnacle., Jesse Osborn
The Use of Anti-CD3 Treatment and Genetic Screening to Delay Further Beta Cell Destruction in Type 1 Diabetes, Natasha Uday Pabrai
Our Language of Dreams, Madison K. Pathe
Does the Internet Affect the Relationship Between Government Regulations and New Firm Entry Rates? Evidence from a Cross-Country Study, Emilia Perez-Orselli
Humanitarian Aid in Question: The Case of Rice Imports to Haiti, Madeleine R. Potter
The Failure of a Constitution: The Changing Role of Ethnicity in Party Politics and State Formation in Nepal, Joan M. Pradhan
Health Inequality in the 21st Century: A Case Study on the “Diabetes Belt” in the Southern United States, Hannah Rapp
The Stories of Environmental Ethicists in Word and Image, Camille Robins
The “Twice-Looted” Archives: Giving Voice to the Long-Silenced Witnesses of World War II, Jessica S. Rosenthal
Les Enfants dans les Coins: Une Comparaison d’Autisme en France et Aux Etats Unis, Danya J. M. Rubin
#SaveChuck: The Effectiveness of Fan Campaigns to Save Television Shows, Ariel E. Saland
Art and Dance: Sediments, Segments, and Movement, Avantika Saraogi
The Bollywood Item Number: From Mujra to Modern Day Ramifications, Avantika Saraogi
Érotiques ou Pornographiques? Une Enquête du Procès du ‘Love-Shop’ 1969 Curiosités Désirables, Peyton Scott
Evidence for the Bypass of the Response-Selection Bottleneck in Tasks with Reflexive Responses in Younger and Older Adults, Brandi S. Seaman
Dialectic of Celebrity Politics: Identifying Public Personalities and Political Performers in Twenty-First Century America, Molly M. Serizawa
Agricultural Development in Nepal: Analyzing the Struggle to Modernize, Madeline C. Sheldon
Water Reuse as Part of San Diego's Water Portfolio, Hillary P. Shipps
Future Digital Advertising Trends: Finding a Balance Between Privacy and Personalization, Madison L. Shove
Food Security on Maui: Reinventing Agriculture in the Aloha State, Jade Silver
The Invention and Impacts of Hell’s Atmosphere: A Study of the Influence of Sartrean Themes in Two Plays by Alfonso Sastre, Hope W. Simpson
From Dolores Haze to Dakota Fanning: How Nabokov's Little Girl Went from Being a Victim of Sexual Assault to a Fashion Icon, Priya Shyam Srivats
The Impact of the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami on the Japanese Electricity Industry, Misato Suzuki
"I'm A Little Pony And I Just Did Something Bad:" Feminist Pedagogy and the Organizing Ethics in the Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls, Caitlin Sweeney
Justifying Slavery: An Exlopration of Self-Deception Mechanisms in Proslavery Argument in the Antebellum South, Peri Tenenbaum
Do BHA and BHT Induce Morphological Changes and DNA Double-Strand Breaks in Schizosaccharomyces pombe?, Amy V. Tran
My Family of Women: Celebrating Blackness and Exploring Themes of Black Feminism, Denise Tupper
The (Real)ity of Representation on MTV’s 16 and Pregnant: Reproducing and resisting controlling images of deviant motherhood., Denise Tupper
Stereotyping a Killer: Perceptions of Guilt, Deserved Punishment and Character of Mass Murderers and Killers, Holly J. Underhill
River Basin Management and Restoration in Germany and the United States: Two Case Studies, Abigail J. Volkmann
The Effects of Thermal Stress on Balanus glandula, Breanna E. Walker
Carving Out New Spaces of Resistance: An Analysis of the Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Joi Ward
Case Studies on the Implementation and Impact of Gender Quotas in European Legislative Bodies, Alexandra R. Weaver
Perceptions of Rape Victims: Rape, Pregnancy, and Abortion in Akin's 'Legitimate' America, Rachel H. Weiner
La Crisis de Salud en Guatemala: La Biomedicina y la Medicina Maya en Conflicto, Sophia Willis-Conger
Hunger: Black Women Recasting the Shadows that Obscure Intellectual Tradition, Bonita M. Wilson
