Senior Theses from 2021
Jay Chou’s Kuso Music: Cultural Fusion in the Age of the Internet, Stz-Tsung (Stone) Han
An 'Obstinate and Stubborn Woman': The Beguine Clergesse Marguerite Porete and Le Miroir des Ames Simples et Aneanties, Gillian Hart
Why Do You Wear A Mask? Children’s Conceptualizations of COVID-19 and Contagion Avoidance Behaviors, Emily Hillman
Barriers to Tunisia’s Gender-Based Security Sector Reform, Selina Ho
"Any One of Us Could Be Accused:" How White Men Appropriated Black Male Victimhood to Claim '#MeToo', Rebecca Hoving
Deconstructing Social Anxiety: Through Gifs and the Inspiration of Artists' Books, Ashley Hsieh
The Right to the City: San Francisco's Chinatown Before and After the 1906 Earthquake, Alexandra Hsu
CAN NORMCORE SAVE US? HOW SUBVERSIVE FASHION FARES IN LATE CAPITALISM, grace Huettel
The Impostor Phenomenon Among Asian Americans: Parental Expectations, Model Minority Expectations, and Self-Differentiation, Justine Iwata
ABORTION ACCESS IN AMERICA A LOOK INTO HOW FEMALE STATE LEGISLATORS PUSH THE MOVEMENT FORWARD, Gabriella Jacoby
GOODBYE BEAUTIFUL: THREE STORIES, Claire Joseph and Claire Joseph
Can Technology Empower? The Impact of Technology Access On Women's Decision-Making Power in India, Manali Joshi
Identification and Sequence Analysis of SET Superfamily Genes in Hymenopteran Insects, Tanima Joshi
The Impact of the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program on Healthy Days, Health Inequity, and Hospital Community Benefit Spending, Samhita Kadiyala
THE COMFORT WATCH: PSYCHOLOGY AND MEDIA THEORY PERSPECTIVES ON NOSTALGIA AND FILM, Sohni Kaur
اللغة العربية في النشر الأمريكي: من الرابطة القلمية إلى الحاضر, Julia W. Kelly
Examining a Functional Interaction Between Chromatin Remodeler CHD1 and Histone H1 in D. melanogaster, Breanna Kim
Convergence Time of the Recombination Markov Chain on Small Planar Graphs, Emma Kolesnik
WITNESSING DIFFERENCE: AN EXPLORATION OF LIVING IN THE AFTERMATH OF TRAUMA IN POST-HOLOCAUST AMERICA IN CYNTHIA OZICK’S “ROSA”, Anastasia Kourotchkina
Abiotic/Biotic Effects Influencing Balanus glandula Size and Frequency Within Intertidal Environments, Elena Kovachevich
Remote Learning in the Era of COVID-19: Accounting for Students' Personal Verve, Marissa Langley
Ἀντιάνειραι: Applying a Model of Homeric Warriorship to Female Warriors in Ancient Greek Literature, Ruby M. Laufer
Fracture Patterns: Communicating the Surreal Through Dance Film, Chloe C. Lesh
Using Improvisation Games to Facilitate Social Skills Behaviors in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder via Telehealth, Tova Levine
Let's Get Free: Family Policing, Prison Industrial Complex Abolition, and Transcendent Love, Emma Li
Greening the Economy While Centering Justice: A Case Study of Green Business Incentives in Riverside, California, Vanessa Lincoln
Through the Lens of COVID-19: The Impact of Gender and Emotion on Perceptions of Leadership, Daphne Liu
The Impact of the Paris Agreement on International Public Finance of Overseas Coal Projects, Fanwei Liu
Clinique Concierge App, Julia Lohman
Using Augmented Reality as a Tool for Distance Learning of VSEPR Theory, Isabelle Lopez
Documenting Hong Kong's Disappearing Cultural Practices, Mabel Lui
The Body After Representation: Figuring Posthumanist Corporealities in Contemporary Art, Devon Ma
Race and Labor in Saint Domingue: "Let Us Die Rather Than Fail to Keep This Vow", Monet Massac
The Intersection Between Black Hair and the Environment: Hair as a Site for Environmental Justice and Sustainability, Dafina Matiku
Using an Intervention to Promote Social Development in Kindergarten During Remote Learning, Vivian Matthews
The Cycle of Human Fate: Exploring Inevitabilities Through AI & Science Fiction, Samantha McFadden
Influence of Iceberg-Discharge Events on the Climate and Circulation of the Central North Atlantic Ocean During the Last Glaciation, Ava McIlvaine
Transactivation and Mitochondrial Activity are Affected by High Temperature in C. elegans Sperm, Jacqueline McVay
Factors in Survival and Outcome of Costa Rican Wildlife Rehabilitation, Charlotte Meigs
Identity Formation Among BIPOC at Elite Boarding Schools, Angelica Meneses
Established Civil Society and Democratization: A Comparative Analysis of the Role Played by Civil Society in Ukraine, Latvia, Egypt, and Tunisia, Matison Miller
Avoiding “No Brand’s Land”: Social Identity and Political Stances in Advertising, Corinne Mitchner
RELAPSE PREVENTION: TREATING AUD IN YOUNG ADULTS, Lexy Mitchner
THE SUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT ACT (SGMA): LONG OVERDUE, BUT IS IT LIVING UP TO ITS POTENTIAL?, Bailey Mknelly
The Effect of Demonetization on India's Tax Base and Tax Revenues, Chhavi Monga
Painting While Black: Exploring Racial Identity Through Iconography, Blake Morton
Imperfect Perfection, Julia Mueller
The Quasi-Natural Santa Ana River: A Historical Perspective, Moira Mulhern
Rehabilitation and Recidivism in California's Prison Complex: The Perpetuation of an Ineffective Carceral State, Sarah Muzquiz
Neuroimaging on Brain Aging and Neurodegeneration, Katelynn Nguyen
Archival Fault Lines: Resistance and Survival in the Photos of Edward S. Curtis, Samantha Norrito
More than a Weapon: How Cyberspace is Impacting U.S. security Dilemmas, Gabrielle Ollig
Perceptions of Equality and Justice in African Americans: Implications for Well-Being and Success, Elaney C. Ortiz
The Impact of Arts Education on Social-Emotional Development and Subsequent Academic Outcomes, Therese Oshiro
Hospital and home birth: The relationship between birthing choice and attachment, Juliana Parker
What's in a Name? The Effect of Superfund Designations on Vicinal Housing Markets, Claire Payne
The Impacts of Forest Fragmentation on Human-Tick interactions and Lyme Disease Risk and Incidence, Cynthia Perez
Ghosts Who Linger- How Dictators Retain Partial Legitimacy Post-Transition, Lillian Perlmutter
Mothers Behind Cameras: Mother-Artist, Mother-Child Dyads In Sally Mann’s Immediate Family And Elinor Carucci’s Mother, Hayley A. Pierpont
"She's Gotta Have It", "The Bisexual" & "High Fidelity": An Analysis of Representations of Desire for Bisexual BIPOC Female Characters, Mackenzie Priest-Heck
Tangible Symbols in Palestinian Speculative Realities: The Navigation of Memory, Nostalgia, and Resistance in Palestinian Science Fiction, Sabreen Rashmawi
Autonomy and Research on People with Dementia, Rebecca Reisman
A Religiously Polarized State?: An Examination of Latter-Day Saints' Impact on Utah's Electoral Trends and Outcomes, Mary K. Roberts
Minoritized Identities in Physics: A Case Study of Experiences in Keck Physics Courses as Related to Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Identities, Victoria Rodriguez
College Students "Coupling Up" with Reality Dating Shows: The Interpersonal Relationships Fostered by Reality Dating Show Viewership, Juliana Romeo
Double Take: The Shock of Urbanization and The Doppelgänger in Nineteenth Century Euro-American Gothic Literature, Lauren Romero
Racial Politics in the Iranian American Diaspora: Analyzing the Impact of Ethnic Enclaves on Coalition Building, Alyssa Rowshan
She’s a Killer Queeen, Phillipeo Sanguine: (De)Racilizations of Cleopatra VII in Augustan era Literature, Alyssa Rowshan
A Transformative Environmental Justice Movement: The Role of Legal Tools, Building Networks, and Abolition, Sarah U. Rozario
Predicting Risk of Negative Child Pain Outcomes: Parental Pain Responses, Overprotective Parenting, and Attachment Style, Christina Rusu
“NO MORE COPS IN NYC”: ABOLITIONIST STRATEGIES OF BUILDING COMMUNITY IN NEW YORK CITY, Mackenzie Rutherford
Cost of Co-infection in Peromyscus leucopus Mice, Ananya Sagar
DEVELOPMENT OF INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS IN CATALONIA AND THE BASQUE COUNTRY: THE IMPORTANCE OF COALITIONS AND ELITE CHOICES, Alexa Sanchez
Stereotypes and disparate criminal sentencing of Native Hawaiians, Kawaiuluhonua Scanlan
Examining a Legacy of Inadequate Pastoral Responses to Survivors of Sexual Violence in Roman Catholic Scripture and Tradition, Claire Schnadig
Real Estate in the Digital Age: An Empirical Analysis on the Rise of Online Real Estate Marketplaces and its Effect on Overall Housing Efficiency and Liquidity, Grace Zhirui Shao
Intersectional Race and Gender Crime-Stereotypes and Defendant Perceptions, Javanna Sharpe-Young
StuckIn BurnOut: HOW BURNOUT IS A COMMON SENSATION, BUT AN EXPERIENCE UNIQUE TO THE INDIVIDUAL, Eloise Shields
"Pull Yourself Up by the Bootstraps" A Neoliberal Guide to Democracy: How Western Banking Institutions Prevent Economic Equality in Tunisia, Elise Silberhorn
“Send Me No Husband” How Succession Anxiety in Elizabethan England Influenced the Marital Politics in Shakespeare's Comedies, Olivia Silva
Year of the Woman: State Legislative Composition and Female Candidate Emergence in 2018 and 2019, Katherine P. Simon
Comparing Information Processing Methods for Rational and Emotional Complexity in Trivia Shows, Nadya Siringo Ringo
The Gospel and Race, Aisha Skye
STUDYING THE IMPACT OF RESTRICTIVE POLICIES ON COMPANIES IN THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY, Anisha Soin
The Impact of Culturally Responsive Teaching on Student Well-Being, Madeline Statton
Individual Variation in Sensorimotor EEG Rhythms during Action Execution vs. Observation, Caroline Strang
Llegó La Futura: La Cuirificación del Género Urbano, isabel streiffer and Isabel S. Streiffer
WILDFIRES: THEIR EFFECT ON THE LABOR MARKET OF THE CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY, Eleanor Strotz
"Exceptional Friends:" Sisterhood and Neoliberal Feminism Among Girls' School Graduates from High School to College, Claire Sulzer
The Golden, Kerry Taylor
Weaver Dreams & Other Stories, Priya Thomas
Racial Disparities in Liver Disease in the US: Addressing the High Prevalence of Hepatitis B Infection in the APIA Community, Lindsey L. Trinh and Lindsey Trinh
Growing Food Sovereignty in Community Gardens, Kathryn Tuemmler
The Groundswell of Black Lives Matter in High School Classrooms, Allie Umemoto
HTTP/2 vs HTTP/3: Toolsets for Measuring Tradeoffs, Loise M. Velazquez