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Theses from 2021
A Fair Assessment of the American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, Kyle Jones Shah , '22
Raciolinguistic socialization and subversion at a predominantly white institution, Momoka Keicho , '21
Kinetics Studies on Isomerization and Unimolecular Decay Processes of the Criegee Intermediate, Methacrolein (MACR) Oxide, Hyun Kyung Lee , '21
“Either on Account of Sex or Color”: Policing the Boundaries of the Medical Profession During Reconstruction, Adam Lloyd-Jones , '22
A Mechanistic Study: O–H Bond Activation by Tripodal Tris(nitroxide) Aluminum and Gallium Complexes, Mika L. Maenaga , '21
DeepCIP: Probing Compensated Isocurvature Perturbations in the CMB using deep neural nets, Matiwos A. Mebratu , '21
Confronting Colonial Violence: Pueblo Women Using Indigenous History for Community Activism and Healing, Sierra Mondragón , '21
Foul: A Critique of Collegiate Athletics, Recruitment, and Admissions, Pempho Moyo , '21
Pushout, Persistence, Pullback, and Resistance: The Unnecessarily Complicated Experiences of Women of Color in STEM, Edna A. Olvera , '21
Climate Change Education through a Social Justice Framework: A necessary first step towards solving the climate crisis, Leah Owen-Oliner , '22
The Fundamental Jolt: The Native’s Untethering from the Character of the Colonized Subject Through the Inherent Dialectics of Colonial Violence, Maleyah Peterson , '21
The Hidden Curriculum of Silence: How implicitly transmitted values in U.S. schools silence immigrant ESL students and perpetuate low social capital, Katherine E. Phillips , '21
“The Music Did All the Talking:” Community, Resistance, and Improvisation in Louis Armstrong’s Cultural Diplomacy, Leo Posel , '22
Visions du voile: La quatrième-dimensionnalité dans la société néocoloniale française, Christian L. Precise , '21
Synthesis and Characterization of α-diimine Complexes of Aluminum, Judah B. Raab , '21
Remembering “Der Noether”: The Gendered Image and Memory of Women in Mathematics, Gwendolyn Rak , '22
Not Just Teaching How: Supporting a Culture Shift in STEM Education, Miryam Ramirez Velazquez , '21
Mitotic rounding drives Ciona robusta pre-cardiac cell asymmetric division and cardiac cell fate specification through influencing polarized FGFR redistribution, Twan W. Sia , '21
Nés pour un petit pain? Une analyse de classe de la communauté franco-américaine du Maine, Timothy St. Pierre , '21
Reclaiming Civics: Negotiating Priorities for Civic Education Pedagogy, Skylar Thoma , '21
La créolisation de Caliban: Plurilinguisme, contrôle colonial, et créativité linguistique dans Une Tempête d'après "La Tempête" de Shakespeare; Adaptation pour un théâtre nègre d’Aimé Césaire, A. Josephine Thrasher , '21
Korean Transnational Adoption as an Act of Violence, Isabelle Titcomb , '22
Thinking through Spirits: “God Material” and Counterculture, Cameron Tumey , '21
Exploration of Left-Right Asymmetric Gene Expression within Ciona robusta, Cameron R. Tumey , '21
Strange Fruit on the Iron Range: Myth and Memory of a Northern Lynching, Samantha Wagner , '21
Redefining Belonging: Memory and Place-Making for Peruvians of Chinese and Japanese Descent in the 21st Century, Tiffany Wang , '21
Talking the Talk:” Mathematical Language, Linguistic Bias, and The Delusion of Meritocracy in the Study and Practice of Mathematics, Gene T. Witkowski , '21
Qui est Ourika?: Méditations sur une figure littéraire et la condition de la femme noire, Abigail X. Young , '21
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