Past Undergraduate Thesis Titles

2022

Maricar Almeda, Department of Molecular Biology
“Identification and Characterization of Positive Regulators Governing Hepatitis C Virus Host Tropism”
Advisor: Alexander Ploss
Lauren Almstead, Department of Sociology
“A Comparative Analysis of Agricultural Systems and Risk Based on Self-Sufficiency in France, Argentina, and the United Kingdom”
Advisor: Miguel Centeno
Rachel Chen, Department of Economics
“Crash Landing on You: An Error-Corrected Approach to the International Trade Creation Effects of the Korean Wave”
Advisor: Iqbal Zaidi
Emma Daugherty, Department of Sociology
“Negotiating Rurality & Modernity: Access to the Internet, the COVID-19 Pandemic, & Defining Culture in Appalachia”
Advisor: Timothy J. Nelson
Tara Frederick, Department of Politics
“The Impacts of Socioeconomic Status on Political Socialization in the United States”
Advisor: Patricia Kirkland
Alejandro Garcia, Department of Politics
“The Fifth Threat to Democracy: An Analysis of the Federal Judiciary’s Politicization and Its Role in Democratic Backsliding”
Advisor: Paul Frymer
Violet Gautreau, Department of English
““Change Come Fast, and Change Come Slow”: Caroline, or Change, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and the Disruption of Normative Female Sexuality in American Musical Theatre”
Advisor: Tamsen Wolff
Chloe Horner, Department of Politics
“Diversifying Congress: Political Amateurism and Women’s Representation in the House of Representatives”
Advisor: Frances Lee
Talha Iqbal, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
“A Predictive and Case Study Analysis to Examine the Potential Impacts of Proposed Healthcare Expansion Policies under the 116th Congress”
Advisor: Paul Frymer
Andrew Kim, Department of History
“The Role of Media in the Evolution of Public Intellectuals”
Advisor: Sean Wilentz
Nicole Kresich, Department of English
“Look at Me Looking at You: An Examination of the Female Gaze in the Fraternity of Rock and Roll”
Advisor: Susan J. Wolfson
Cammie Lee, Department of English
“The Entropy of Smell: Theorizing a Logic of Olfaction Through the Art and Literature of Asian Women”
Advisor: Anne Cheng
Sarah Lee, Department of Sociology
““Rent Eats First”: The Social Contract of Korean Tenants and Landlords in Immigrant Enclaves”
Advisor: Kathryn J. Edin
Marissa Michaels, Department of Sociology
“Theaters of Accountability: A Performance Studies Analysis of Discipline in Newark Youth Court”
Advisor: Shamus Khan
Ashley Morales, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
“Preserving Our Homes: An Analysis of the Mitchell-Lama Affordable Housing Program”
Advisor: Anastasia Mann
Noel Peng, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
“DIÓJUÀ (or Mai travels through Nepantla...and not back)”
Advisor: Christina Lee
Michael Phillippy, Department of English
“Transcending Limitation: Exploring the Fiction vs. Nonfiction Distinction”
Advisor: Russ Leo
Sara Sacks, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
“Not Just a Rich, White Woman’s Problem: Addressing Disparities in Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies”
Advisor: James Raymo
Emily Sanchez, Department of History
“Dismantling Development: How Black Activists Spearheaded Affordable Housing in Paterson, New Jersey, 1950-1980”
Advisor: Alison Isenberg
Kate Semmens, Department of History
“Entertaining History at America’s Theme Parks: Knott’s Berry Farm, Disneyland, and Freedomland USA, 1940-1964”
Advisor: Emily Thompson
Maria Jose Solorzano Castro, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
“In Times of War: Salvadoran-American Counterpoetics”
Advisor: Rachel L. Price

2021

Lucy Chuang, Department of Politics
“Who Gets to Rock the Vote? An Analysis of the Structural Barriers to Voting for Asian American Collectives Within the State of Georgia”
Abby Clark, Department of English
“Driving Old Dixie Down: Faulkner as a Lens for Analyzing Monumentality, False Narratives, and Legacy in the South”
Mariana Corichi Gomez, Department of Music
“La Casa del Árbol: An Immigrant’s Story of Loss and Forgiveness. An Original Song Cycle”
Jacy Duan, Department of Sociology
“Seen and Unseen: Asian American Actors and Representation in Hollywood”
Lindsay Emi, Department of English
“Rare Trips to America”
Christian Flores, Department of Politics
“‘Latino Vote’: Immigration and Identity Appeals in Political Campaigns”
Glenna Jane Galarion, Department of Anthropology
“‘Honor’: Rapping and Representing Asian America”
Laura Molina, Department of African American Studies
“Property Technology in the Age of Algorithmic Discrimination”
Alyssa Nguyen, Department of English
“The Embodiment of Asian Masculinities & Femininities in Genre: Generic and Gendered Representation in Film and Television”
Khanh-Linh Nguyen, Department of History
“A New ‘Invisible Man’: The Vietnamese Refugee Question and Black Activism in Cold War America”
Emma Parish, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
“Voting 101: What Universities Can Learn from the COVID-19 Pandemic about Increasing Student Voter Turnout”
Madeline Pendolino, Department of Politics
“Unprecedented: How the Events of 2020 Affected the Outcome of the 2020 Presidential Election”
Lauren Sanchez, Department of Politics
“Capabilities Justice in Education: A Defense of Inclusion for Students with Cognitive Disabilities”
Ryan Schwieger, Department of Sociology
“Boundaries, Redistricting and Identity in North Carolina”
Gabriella Tummolo, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
“Caring for Our Nation’s Caregivers: An Analysis of Domestic Worker Wellbeing and Mobilization during the Era of Covid-19 in Miami-Dade County, Florida”
Dorothy Zhao, Department of Computer Science
“Understanding and Evaluating Racial Biases in Image Captioning”

2020

Tessa Albertson, Department of English
“Feminine Products: A Theatrical Exploration on Feminism, Post-Feminism, and the Ultimate Quest Towards True Womanhood”
Tabitha Belshee, Department of Politics
“Doing Right by Our Children: Understanding and Redressing President Trump’s ‘Zero Tolerance Policy’”
Juston Forte, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
“Perils for Low-Income Boys: A Look into How School Cut-off Dates Unfairly Hurt Low-income Boys”
Grace Koh, Department of History
“The Origins of a Nation: Constructing a ‘Korean Nation’ from the Three Kingdoms of Korea”
Kate Leung, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
“A Case Study of Culture Institutions in Albuquerque, NM”
Nathan Levit, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
“The Politics of Poverty: A Case Study Analysis of Interest Groups in Conservative State Legislatures”
Kade McCorvy, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
“A Tale of Three Cities: Effects of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection on Border Town Economies”
Mariah McVey, Department of Art and Archaeology
“A Sculptural Affair: How the Sculptures on the Theaterama at the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair Flourished as Public Art”
Hugo Myron III, Department of Politics
“Stubborn As An Ass? Shifting Democratic Party Framing of the Charter School Question”
Jeremy Nelson, Department of History
“‘Our Task’: The New Deal and Meteorological Catastrophe in 1936”
Julia Pak, Department of History
“Sugar and Slavery: Remembering the Narratives of Former Slaves of Louisiana’s Sugar Plantations”
Alejandra Rincon, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
“Time Commences in Xibalba: A Queer Analysis of Gender Mestizaje and Trauma Temporalities”
Haneul Ryoo, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
“The Untold Side of Artificial Intelligence: A Call For Researcher Protection From Vicarious Traumatization”
Jenna Shaw, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
“Testing the Waters: A Case Study of the Relationship Between Risk Perception and Water Consumption Habits in Trenton, NJ”
TJ Smith, Department of English
“They Only Wanted to Belong: Frustrated Stories of Queer Emergence in Modernist Women’s Fiction”
Linda Song, Department of Anthropology
“The Millennial Caregiver as the ‘Canary in the Coal Mine’: The Politics of Injury, Slow Violence and Field ‘Care’”
Audrey Spensley, Department of History
“Machinery of the Law: Edmund Du Cane and the English Prison System, 1850-1895”
Jenny Xin, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
“The Model Maternity Myth: An Exploration of AAPI Experiences in the U.S. Maternal Healthcare System”

2019

Temi Aladesuru, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
“Socioeconomic Determinants of Health Outcomes in American Urban Environments”
Noah Bramlage, Department of Politics
“Til Death Do Us Part: Re-Imagining the Role of Inheritance and Gifts in American Society”
Wesley Brown, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
“New South Renewal: The Uphill Battle for Upward Mobility in Charlotte”
Stephen Chao, Department of Anthropology
“Curating Queer Utopia in Queer/Trans Asian/Pacific Islander Nightlife”
Lou Chen, Department of Music
“Reconfiguring the Double Bind: The Individual and the Collective in Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN”
Katherine Duggan, Department of English
“Ghost Melodramas and the Staging of American History”
Katherine Duggan, Program in Theater
“Disposable Ghosts”
Ana Patricia Esqueda, Department of Psychology
“The Role of Language Transfer: Spanish Speaking Children’s Success in Artificial Language Production”
Katherine Fleming, Department of History
“Borders, Bridges, and Burdens: Latinas Navigate Our Bodies, Ourselves, 1969-Present”
Majida Halaweh, Department of History
“It Matters What You Call a Thing: Sovereignty, Material Culture and Palestinians in Exile”
Micah Herskind, Department of African American Studies
“Decoding Decarceration: Race, Risk, and Reform in New Jersey, 1986-2017”
Kauribel Javier, Department of Sociology
“Towards a Nation of Neighbors: A Study of Immigrant-Welcoming Initiatives in Kentucky”
Nathaniel Jackson Jiranek, Department of History
“The American Blackstone: The Inception, Creation, and Dissemination of a Legal Treatise in the Early Republic”
Tylor-Maria Johnson, Department of Sociology
“‘DON’T SEE ME WHITE’: A Study of the Constructions of Roma Identity in the United States”
Matthew Miller, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
“A Hostile Dependency: Qatar and the Gulf Cooperation Council”
Adalberto Rosado, Department of Sociology
“Unaccounted: Exploring the Impact of Ethnic Attrition on Estimates of Social and Economic Progress for U.S. Hispanics”
GJ Sevillano, Department of Politics
“Cutting Imperial Ties: Resisting Uncle Sam’s Filipino Puppet Ferdinand Marcos”
Sarah Spergel, Department of History
“Spilling the Tea: An Exploration of Tea Pads in 1930s Harlem”
Elizabeth Van Cleve, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
“In Political News: Partisan Slant and Viewer Polarization in Local and Late-Night Broadcast Television”
Samuel Vilchez Santiago, Department of Politics
“From Revolution to Diaspora: Societal Responses to Venezuelan Migrants in Cúcuta and Boa Vista”
Angela Wu, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
“Towards a Nation of Neighbors: A Study of Immigrant-Welcoming Initiatives in Kentucky”
Alis Yoo, Department of History
“Chinese-Irish American Relations and the Rhetoric of the Chinese Question: A Study of Working-Class Activism, Comparative Racial Hierarchy Debasement and Integration, 1850-1902”

2018

Molly Bordeaux, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
“More Money, More Problems: The Impact and Implications of Campaign Finance Deregulation in the United States”
Nicholas Fernández, Department of Politics
“Parties at the Podium: Analyzing Ideological Rhetoric at Presidential Nominating Conventions”
Arlene Gamio Cuervo, Department of History
“‘We Would Have Never Found These People’: Black Students’ Right to University Membership and Protest at Rutgers University, 1965-71”
Haley Giraldi, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
“Too Much of a Good Thing? A Study on the Evolution of Executive Privilege”
Mark Goldstein, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
“Climate Change in American National Parks: Impacts, Management, Communications, and Public Perception”
Collin Gurgul, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
“Policy and Populism: How Immigration Proved to Be a Winning Issue in the U.S. and U.K.”
Colton Hess, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
“Opioid Abuse Prevention, Harm Reduction, and Recovery Strategies for Colleges and High Schools”
Isabel Hetherington, Department of History
“Making the Mormon Question Difficult to Answer: Polygamy, Political Potency, and Legal Ambiguity in 19th-century America”
Christian F. Krueger, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
“The Implications of China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ for U.S. Foreign Policy”
Alicia Lai, Department of Neuroscience
“Brain Bait: Effects of Neuroscience Evidence on Cognitive Biases in Legal Decision-Making”
Katherine Walker Pratt-Thompson, Department of Art and Archaeology
“Winslow Homer and Cullercoats”
Sarah Reeves, Independent Study in Gender and Sexuality Studies
“Obergefell Families: The Disciplinary Intersection of Marriage and Parenthood”
Katherine Shifke, Department of Art and Archaeology
“‘A Phenomenal Presence That is Unequivocally Black and Beautiful’: Redefining Beauty Through the Art of Kerry James Marshall”
Emily Smith, Department of Politics
“Protecting Hate Speech: The Failing American Experiment”
Aaron B. Stevens, Department of Art and Archaeology
“Collecting Alaska: Sheldon Jackson, Louis Shotridge, and the Pursuit of Northwest Coast Artifacts, 1879-1932”
Anna Stillman, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
“An Analysis of the Effect of Local Budget Policies on Police Killings”
Nicholas Wu, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
“Finding Safe Passage: Analyzing Juvenile Asylum Determinations in the United States and the European Union”