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Theses from 2021
The Double-Edged Sword of Orientalism: How Orientalism Influenced the Perception of Chinese Restaurants in the Nineteenth Century, Catherine Zhao , '22
Theses from 2020
Politeness, Self-Mastery, and the Shameful Sodomite: Disciplining Masculinity and Sexual Practice in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Jissel Becerra , '20
Quantitative Analysis of Silver Nanoparticle Dissolution Kinetics in Complex Matrices Using Point-of-Use and End-of-Use Models, Daniel J. Boehmler , '20
Structural Characterization of Two Glycan-Recognizing Antibodies Against the HIV-1 Env Glycoprotein, Naomi S. Bronkema , '20
Le Rôle du choix de langue dans la littérature et le cinéma multilingues, Amatullah Brown , '20
Measurement of Angular Correlation of Two Protons in Quasielastic Neutrino-Nucleus Cross-Section, Matthieu Chalifour , '20
A Hip Hop Episteme: Understanding Hip Hop Culture’s Ways of Knowing and Expressing Knowledge through Time Travel and Traditional African and Afro-Diasporic Spirituality, Brandon N. Ekweonu , '20
Characterization of Influenza A Virus full length matrix protein 1 (M1) in order to probe M1-M2 interaction, Elizabeth A. Erler , '20
Multiple Anti-Predatory Behaviors in Red-Tailed Monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius) Groups Reveal Distinct Landscapes of Fear, Lillian J. Fornof , '20
Différentes et semblables: Représentations du queer féminin dans la littérature marocaine de langue française, Emilie A. Hautemont , '20
The Making of The Unwalled Beijing: Revolutionaries and Legacy Infrastructures (1949-1959), Houyi He , '21
Soccer and Sectarianism: Derry City F.C. and Irish Nationalism, Sectarian Tension, and the Catholic Community, 1970-1985, Nick Hirschel-Burns , '21
Purification of DNA Origami Nanostructures Using Capillary Electrophoresis, Janan Hui , '20
Characterizing the NF-κB pathway of the innate immune system in the sea anemone Exaiptasia pallida, Maria V. Ingersoll , '20
Fascism, Traditionalism, and the Reconquista in Franco-era Educational Materials, Cameron Johnson , '21
Resistance, Resilience and Survival: Central American Refugee Women Across the U.S.-Mexico Border, Lucy Jones , '20
philosophy : algorithm :: game : sport: The Formation of the Modern NBA From Sports Analytics Research, Lucas F. Katz , '21
Convulsion stérile: Nadja et la muse surréaliste, Jonathan Kay , '20
God’s Sovereignty Amidst Evil: A Defense of the Complex Good of The Christian God With Reference to C.S. Lewis, Sawyer C. Lake , '20
La Couleur Violette: Peaux Rouges, Hommes Bleus, et le Chemin de Fer Transsaharien, Samuel H. Leonard , '20
Biophysical and Structural Characterization of Non-Canonical DNA Structures, Linda Yingqi Lin , '20
"To make their bid for democracy for all people under all circumstances…": The 1944 Philadelphia Transit Strike and New Deal black activism in World War 2, Joe Mariani , '20
Humanisme universaliste et identité sociale: Une étude des discours concurrents dans Trois femmes puissantes de Marie NDiaye, Pauline McMurry , '20
Media’s Changing Perspective on Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight, Jason Meuth , '21
Rape-Revenge Films During the Antirape Movement: 1972-1988, Elisabeth Miller , '21
Réforme, Religion, et Républicanism? The “Three Rs” of Education in Nineteenth-Century France, Emma Novak , '22
Development of Electroanalytical Techniques to Quantify Silver Nanoparticle Dissolution, Aggregation, and Release Kinetics, Zachary J. O'Dell , '20
RNA Phase Separation in Cancer: Investigating HSATII RNA folding and function, Jack D. Rubien , '20
Moderately elevated corticosterone levels increase mate choosiness in female Cope’s gray treefrogs without impacting sexual proceptivity or preferences, Stewart C. Silver , '20
Gut Microbiota Composition is Correlated to Host Hummingbird Protein Requirements, Ryan C. Stanton , '20
Land of the (Un)Free: Slavery and Memory at the President’s House, Sophia Stills , '21
Theses from 2019
“Unspoken Understanding”: The Evolution of Chinese American Adoption Communities, Annie Abruzzo , '20
LDA Clustering on the #STEM Dataset: Applications of Unsupervised Text Mining to Education, Byron Biney , '19
Comparison of the cardiopharyngeal gene regulatory networks in Corella inflata and Ciona robusta provides insights into developmental systems drift, William N. Colgan , '19
"She Sneezed and the Germs Went Onto Him!": Children's Conception of Probabilistic Causality in Illness, Seetha Davis , '19
Monitoring Silver Nanoparticle Aggregation In situ by Integrating Particle Impact Voltammetry and UV-Vis Spectroscopy, Laela Ezra , '19
Creative Resistance: Minority Students Transform Negative Stereotypes into Drivers of Academic Success, Elizabeth Flores , '19
Progressive Ambivalence: Upholding and Upending Tradition in Philadelphia’s First Public Bathhouse, Gabriel Hearn-Desautels , '20
Diastereoselective Synthesis of Cyclopentenes via RhII-Catalyzed C-H Insertion Directed by a Planar Chiral N-Oxazolidinoyl Iron(0) Tricarbonyl Diene Complex, Benjamin G. Hejna , '19
Overrepresented and Underserved: How IDEA 97' Shaped the Intersection of Blackness and Disability, Maya Henry , '20
Diastereoselective Cyclizations of Enantiopure Planar Chiral N-Oxazolidinoyl Diene Iron(0) Tricarbonyl Complexes, Colin C. Howell , '19
The Biblical Spirit and its Cognitive Functionality: A Jungian Hermeneutic of Biblical Theory, Jasmine Jimenez , '19
Structural Studies of DNA Repeats Implicated in Cancer, Deondre Jordan , '19
Understanding the Racial Achievement Gap: How Social-Historical Perspectives Win Over Scientific Perspectives, Cedric L. Lary , '19
L’affaire d’Antoine: Colonial Tensions of Freedom and Power, Marisa Mancini , '20
“Those Pequots Again!”: A Case Study of Local White Backlash in an Era of Color-Blind Racism, Alex Marsh , '20
Reconstructing Insurgent Migrant Testimonials: An Analysis of the Esmor Immigration Prison Rebellion and Its Legacy, Diana Martínez-Montes , '20
The Inner Revolution: Shuddhi and the Reinvention of Hinduism, Nirav Mehta , '20
Analysis of an Early Intermediate Antibody from a Broadly Neutralizing Antibody Lineage and Its Interaction with HIV Envelope, Julia W. Morriss , '19
Positive Women: Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases and Narratives of Emotional Triumph at the Height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1990s, Eleanor Naiman , '20
Una Iglesia Desaparecida: The End of an Era for the Chilean Catholic Church, September S. Porras , '20
"Our situation is 180 degrees different": Resettled Refugees' Understanding of Citizenship, Formal Schooling, and Agency, Ava Shafiei , '19
The Morris Worm: Cyber Security, Viral Contagions, and National Sovereignty, Roman Shemakov , '20
Synthesis and Characterization of a Family of Novel Aluminum Complexes of Nitroxide-Based Redox-Active Ligands, Mackinsey A. Smith , '19
Identifying TIR domains and protein-protein interactions in the sea anemone Aiptasia pallida, Serena W. Sung-Clarke , '19
Identification of Candidate Human Satellite II RNA Binding Proteins in a Human Cancer Cell Line, Anthony J. Velleca , '19
Site-Directed Spin Label EPR Studies of the Interaction Between the Influenza A Proteins (M1 and M2) Involved in Viral Assembly, Abigail J. Wong-Rolle , '19
Synthesis and Characterization of Tripodal Tris(nitroxide) Aluminum, Gallium, and Indium Complexes, Audra J. Woodside , '19
Characterizing mutant intermediate Fabs to probe affinity maturation in the HIV-1 CH103 broadly neutralizing antibody lineage, Jeffrey O. Zhou , '19
Theses from 2018
Aquí no hay protestas: Activism Against Gender-Based Violence in Cuba, Jasmine Anouna , '18
From the Margins to the Center: Queer and trans teachers of color in K-12 Public School, Esteban Cabrera-Duran , '18
Regulating paradise: Following the changing culture of smoking in Buenos Aires, 2003-2018, Naomi Caldwell , '19
No Last Words: Class, Cultural Production, and the Black Radical Tradition in the Pre-Classical Civil Rights Movement, 1909–1948, Anna Livia W. Y. B. Chen , '18
Political or AP®olitical? AP Economics teachers, neoliberalism, and the political classroom, Min Cheng , '18
The Women of Father Knows Best, The Andy Griffith Show, and Julia, Elizabeth Curcio , '19
Jiu-Jitsu Socialism: Dean Reed and the Cultural Revolution in East Germany, Philip Decker , '18
Retention STEMs From Inclusion: Experiences Navigating Diverse Identities Among Eight Undergraduate Women in STEM, Cal Dobbs , '18
Spectroscopic and Crystallographic Characterization of Enantiopure Planar Chiral N-Oxazolidinoyl Diene Iron (O) Tricarbonyl complexes For Use in Diastereoselective Synthesis, Nathan W. Dow , '18
Los Angeles County: Housing Policy Effects on the Opportunity Gap for Latinx Students, Abigail Gomez , '18
Socioeconomic Predictors of Recognition and Recall Memory in Infants, Ashley Greaves , '18
Amantadine Membrane Partitioning and Induced Conformational Changes in the Influenza A M2 Protein, Aaron N. Holmes , '18
Crossing the Century: Cross-Dressing in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century San Francisco, Alexander Jin , '19
Baseball and Masculinity During the Reagan Era, Max Kassan , '18
Compañeras en Acción: Female Teenage Activism in the Chilean Student Movement, Meghan Kelly , '18
Investigations of the Quorum Sensing Repressor LsrR from Escherichia coli and Salmonella Typhimurium and the Putative AI-2 Receptor LsrB from Clostridium antoethanogenum, Elijah N. Kissman , '18
The Burdens They Carry: How Black College Students Resist and Internalize Received Messages about Race and Racism, Lydia E. Koku , '18
Speaking Power: Analyzing the expectations of 20th-Century Black Womanhood Through Thomas vs. Hill, Tiauna Lewis , '19
Carnival in Vincennes: Reiterations of “France” at the 1931 French Colonial Exposition, Scott Ma , '19
The Hidden Gems of 218: The importance of contextualized learning for student and teacher's growth, Joshua Medel , '18
Pitch Measurements in a Chiral Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal: Temperature and Dopant Concentration Dependence of the Pitch, Timothy Ogolla , '18
If We Must Die: Armed Self-Defense during the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1967, Martin Palomo , '19
Investigations of the Putative AI-2 Receptor Protein LsrB from Thermobacillus composti and Truncations of the Salmonella enterica ser. Typhimurium LsrE Protein, Nicholas E. Petty , '18
Investigating Noncanonical DNA Structures as Anti-Cancer Drug Targets, Barrett M. Powell , '18
Conformation and Directionality of the Influenza A M2 Protein Domain Essential to Viral Replication, Hayley E. Raymond , '18
Where Do We Go From Here? Anti-Semitism and Solidarity Organizing in the United States, Abby Saul , '19
The Call for Freedom and Independence in West Papua, Samira L. Saunders , '18
Cultivating More Planetary Peacemakers, Healers, and Caretakers: Inspiring an Ecological Identity through Informal Environmental Education, Bridget Scott , '18
Compression and Acceleration of Taylor State Plasmas on SSX, Jaron Shrock , '18
Political Goals: Soccer as a Language of Politics in Kenya, Dan Siegelman , '19
White Rage: Investigating the implicit nature of state sanctioned White violence, Kerry Sonia , '19
Agent Provocateurs Invade The Cottages: An Examination of Norms, Space and the Consequences of Policing Practices in 20th Century London, Marit Vike , '19
Structured Randomness: Jamming of Soft Disks Within Lattices of Pinned Particles, Prairie Wentworth-Nice , '18
Gee’s Bend and the Commodification of an African-American Tradition, Catherine Williams , '19
A Theory for Allosteric Temperature-Sensitive Transcription Factors, Zechen Zhang , '18
Theses from 2017
De Causette à Cosmopolitan: Une étude comparée de l'utilisation des discours feministes dans la presse magazine française, Luella R. Allen-Waller , '17
Our Liberation is Bound Together: Exploring Reciprocal Solidarity between the Black Lives Matter and Free Palestine Movements, ShaKea K. Alston , '17
EPR Studies of Curvature-Dependent Conformational Equilibrium in Full-Length Influenza A M2 Protein, D. Stuart Arbuckle Jr, '17
Le choc à la banalisation: Réponse du Monde à l’ascension du Front National, Daniel Asplin , '17
Wait, don't mate (yet)! Reproductive urgency, not investment underlies female choosiness in Hyla versicolor, Brandon L. Bastien , '17