Past Undergraduate Thesis Titles

2023

John Anderson, Department of Economics
“Power Play: The Effect of Locational Marginal Pricing on Market Power in the United States Electricity Sector”
Advisor: Nicholas Buchholz
Susan Baek, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
“What It Means to Be ‘Asian American’ in New York City: An Interview-Based Analysis of an Evolving Political Category”
Advisor: Tanushree Goyal
Elizabeth Boeckman, Department of Anthropology
“From Playing Fields to Zoom Calls: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Princeton Student-Athletes”
Advisor: Jeffrey Himpele
Christina Bradley, Princeton Neuroscience Institute
“Consciousness and the Social Brain: Neuronal Priming in Neurological Machinery Pertinent for Attentional Awareness Performance and Awareness Attribution in Social Cognition”
Advisor: Michael Graziano
Kaelani Burja, Department of Anthropology
“Not Your Great White Way: An Ethnography of New York City and New Jersey’s Latiné and New Theatrical Works Rehearsal Room Processes”
Advisor: Elizabeth Davis
Kathryn Chou, Department of Computer Science
“OCR and Asian American History: Creating a Search Tool for the Survey of Race Relations Records”
Advisor: Brian W. Kernighan
Gisell Curbelo, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
“The End of Cuban Exceptionalism: A Post Wet-Foot/Dry-Foot Analysis of Cuban Migration”
Advisor: Sahar Aziz
Meghan Curran, Department of History
“The Silenced Movies: The Oppression of Women in the Film Industry from the Golden Age of Hollywood to the Rights Revolution”
Advisor: Laura Edwards
Katherine Elmlinger, Department of Computer Science
“My Data, My Choice? An Analysis of the Data Broker Industry and the Exercise of Privacy Choices”
Advisor: Brian W. Kernighan
Michael Fording, Department of Religion
“In the Meantime: Culture and American Christian Apocalypticism”
Advisor: Eric Gregory
Londy Hernandez, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
“Ver Demonios Es un Don: A Look at (Swimming, Horseback-Riding, Retching) Guatemalan Demons”
Advisor: Nicole D. Legnani
Alison Hirsch, Department of Art and Archaeology
“Monsanto as Image Maker: Feeding the World Lies”
Advisor: Rachel Z. DeLue
Tiffany Huang, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
“A Random Walk Approach to Quantifying Racial Segregation and Food Access in Atlanta, Georgia”
Advisor: Elizaveta Rebrova
Sloan Huebner, Department of Sociology
“Show Me the Green: A Comparative Study of the Value Ascribed to Philadelphia Neighborhood Pocket Parks”
Advisor: Benjamin Bradlow
Ergene Kim, Department of English
“Photographic Angst: Desire, Defect, & Death in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando & Dazai Osamu’s No Longer Human”
Advisor: Anne Cheng
Christopher Lugo, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
“Pandemic Policy and Mutual Aid: An Application of Elinor Ostrom’s Polycentricity to Princeton’s Pandemic Response”
Advisor: Anastasia Mann
Riley Martinez, Department of Politics
“Remedy’s Ruin: Limiting Redress Against Government Wrongdoing in the Supreme Court’s 2021 Term”
Advisor: Paul Frymer
Tanzila Morshed, Department of Computer Science
“Tweeting Prejudice: Analyzing the Evolution of Attitudes Toward Asian Americans During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Advisor: Suma Bhat
Grace Ni, Department of History
“Wanna Grab Some Take Out? A History of Chinese Food in America From 1850 to the Present”
Advisor: Jacob Dlamini
Kaitlee Ornelas, Department of Psychology
“Latinidad in the Legal System: The Effects of an Expert Witness with a Spanish Accent on Individual Juror Decisions”
Advisor: Joel Cooper
Gianni Pacheco, Department of Sociology
“Playing a Role with Me: Mother-Son Relationships and the Performance of Family among Formerly Street-Involved Men in Chicago, Illinois”
Advisor: Kathryn Edin
Megan Pan, Department of Comparative Literature
“Paper Boats”
Advisors: Karen Emmerich and Ilya Kaminsky
Angelica Qin, Department of Sociology
“Chinatown Divided: A Relational Account of the East Asian Co- ethnic Gentrification of Flushing, Queens”
Advisor: Benjamin Bradlow
Carmina Rangel-Pacheco, Department of Sociology
“Eating Alone, Eating Together: An Investigation of the Barriers and Strategies Surrounding Food Acquisition at Princeton University”
Advisor: John Robinson
Zachary Sahin, Department of English
“The Last Romantic Poet of Sympathy: Arthur Henry Hallam”
Advisor: Lee Clark Mitchell
Claire Schmeller, Department of History
“‘The Best Camp in America’: The Hypocrisy of Nazi Prisoner of War Experiences in Camps Clinton and Shelby, Mississippi during World War II”
Advisor: Alison Isenberg
Taryn Sebba, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
“Why the Caged Bird Can’t Sing in a Jail Made of Gold: A Mixed Methods Analysis of The Efficacy of United States Indefinite Detention Practices, History, and Consequences on Migrant Case Outcomes”
Advisor: Stanley Katz
Sophia Singletary, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
“Shielding Sovereignty: America’s Defense of Democracy in Confronting Russian Aggression in Ukraine, 2014-2022”
Advisor: Aaron Friedberg
Serena Starks, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
“Minor Feelings about Major Changes: Post White America’s Mechanisms for Voter Mobilization”
Advisor: Susan Fiske
Grace Stone, Department of African American Studies
“Finding a Philosophy of Love: Toni Morrison’s Beloved Imagined and Reimagined”
Advisor: Kinohi Nishikawa
Juliet Sturge, Department of Anthropology
“Pottery in Practice: Gender, Tourism, and the Nature of Authenticity in Acoma Pueblo”
Advisor: Jeffrey Himpele
May Tieu, Department of Economics
“(No) Effect of Recreational Marijuana Legalization on Young Employees’ Work Capacities”
Advisor: Kate Ho
Emily Trieu, Department of Comparative Literature
“Moms are the Future: The Influences of Maternal Mental Health on Child Behavioral Development”
Advisor: Jean B. Grossman
Ava Vilensky, Department of German
“‘Dies Buch ist ausschließlich für die Frau geschrieben’: Unmasking Gender Ideology in the Health Rhetoric of Bess Mensendieck’s Körperkultur der Frau”
Advisor: Susan Morrow

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”