Past Undergraduate Thesis Titles
2021
- “Who Gets to Rock the Vote? An Analysis of the Structural Barriers to Voting for Asian American Collectives Within the State of Georgia”
Lucy Chuang, Department of Politics
- “Driving Old Dixie Down: Faulkner as a Lens for Analyzing Monumentality, False Narratives, and Legacy in the South”
Abby Clark, Department of English
- “La Casa del Árbol: An Immigrant’s Story of Loss and Forgiveness. An Original Song Cycle”
Mariana Corichi Gomez, Department of Music
- “Seen and Unseen: Asian American Actors and Representation in Hollywood”
Jacy Duan, Department of Sociology
- “Rare Trips to America”
Lindsay Emi, Department of English
- “‘Latino Vote’: Immigration and Identity Appeals in Political Campaigns”
Christian Flores, Department of Politics
- “‘Honor’: Rapping and Representing Asian America”
Glenna Jane Galarion, Department of Anthropology
- “Property Technology in the Age of Algorithmic Discrimination”
Laura Molina, Department of African American Studies
- “The Embodiment of Asian Masculinities & Femininities in Genre: Generic and Gendered Representation in Film and Television”
Alyssa Nguyen, Department of English
- “A New ‘Invisible Man’: The Vietnamese Refugee Question and Black Activism in Cold War America”
Khanh-Linh Nguyen, Department of History
- “Voting 101: What Universities Can Learn from the COVID-19 Pandemic about Increasing Student Voter Turnout”
Emma Parish, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
- “Unprecedented: How the Events of 2020 Affected the Outcome of the 2020 Presidential Election”
Madeline Pendolino, Department of Politics
- “Capabilities Justice in Education: A Defense of Inclusion for Students with Cognitive Disabilities”
Lauren Sanchez, Department of Politics
- “Boundaries, Redistricting and Identity in North Carolina”
Ryan Schwieger, Department of Sociology
- “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”
Gabriella Tummolo, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
- “Understanding and Evaluating Racial Biases in Image Captioning”
Dorothy Zhao, Department of Computer Science
2020
- “Feminine Products: A Theatrical Exploration on Feminism, Post-Feminism, and the Ultimate Quest Towards True Womanhood”
Tessa Albertson, Department of English
- “Doing Right by Our Children: Understanding and Redressing President Trump’s ‘Zero Tolerance Policy’”
Tabitha Belshee, Department of Politics
- “Perils for Low-Income Boys: A Look into How School Cut-off Dates Unfairly Hurt Low-income Boys”
Juston Forte, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
- “The Origins of a Nation: Constructing a ‘Korean Nation’ from the Three Kingdoms of Korea”
Grace Koh, Department of History
- “A Case Study of Culture Institutions in Albuquerque, NM”
Kate Leung, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
- “The Politics of Poverty: A Case Study Analysis of Interest Groups in Conservative State Legislatures”
Nathan Levit, 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”
Kade McCorvy, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
- “A Sculptural Affair: How the Sculptures on the Theaterama at the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair Flourished as Public Art”
Mariah McVey, Department of Art and Archaeology
- “Stubborn As An Ass? Shifting Democratic Party Framing of the Charter School Question”
Hugo Myron III, Department of Politics
- “‘Our Task’: The New Deal and Meteorological Catastrophe in 1936”
Jeremy Nelson, Department of History
- “Sugar and Slavery: Remembering the Narratives of Former Slaves of Louisiana’s Sugar Plantations”
Julia Pak, Department of History
- “Time Commences in Xibalba: A Queer Analysis of Gender Mestizaje and Trauma Temporalities”
Alejandra Rincon, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
- “The Untold Side of Artificial Intelligence: A Call For Researcher Protection From Vicarious Traumatization”
Haneul Ryoo, 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”
Jenna Shaw, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
- “They Only Wanted to Belong: Frustrated Stories of Queer Emergence in Modernist Women’s Fiction”
TJ Smith, Department of English
- “The Millennial Caregiver as the ‘Canary in the Coal Mine’: The Politics of Injury, Slow Violence and Field ‘Care’”
Linda Song, Department of Anthropology
- “Machinery of the Law: Edmund Du Cane and the English Prison System, 1850-1895”
Audrey Spensley, Department of History
- “The Model Maternity Myth: An Exploration of AAPI Experiences in the U.S. Maternal Healthcare System”
Jenny Xin, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
2019
- “Socioeconomic Determinants of Health Outcomes in American Urban Environments”
Temi Aladesuru, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- “Til Death Do Us Part: Re-Imagining the Role of Inheritance and Gifts in American Society”
Noah Bramlage, Department of Politics
- “New South Renewal: The Uphill Battle for Upward Mobility in Charlotte”
Wesley Brown, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
- “Curating Queer Utopia in Queer/Trans Asian/Pacific Islander Nightlife”
Stephen Chao, Department of Anthropology
- “Reconfiguring the Double Bind: The Individual and the Collective in Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN”
Lou Chen, Department of Music
- “Ghost Melodramas and the Staging of American History”
Katherine Duggan, Department of English
“Disposable Ghosts”
Katherine Duggan, Program in Theater
- “The Role of Language Transfer: Spanish Speaking Children’s Success in Artificial Language Production”
Ana Patricia Esqueda, Department of Psychology
- “Borders, Bridges, and Burdens: Latinas Navigate Our Bodies, Ourselves, 1969-Present”
Katherine Fleming, Department of History
- “It Matters What You Call a Thing: Sovereignty, Material Culture and Palestinians in Exile”
Majida Halaweh, Department of History
- “Decoding Decarceration: Race, Risk, and Reform in New Jersey, 1986-2017”
Micah Herskind, Department of African American Studies
- “Towards a Nation of Neighbors: A Study of Immigrant-Welcoming Initiatives in Kentucky”
Kauribel Javier, Department of Sociology
- “The American Blackstone: The Inception, Creation, and Dissemination of a Legal Treatise in the Early Republic”
Nathaniel Jackson Jiranek, Department of History
- “‘DON’T SEE ME WHITE’: A Study of the Constructions of Roma Identity in the United States”
Tylor-Maria Johnson, Department of Sociology
- “A Hostile Dependency: Qatar and the Gulf Cooperation Council”
Matthew Miller, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
- “Unaccounted: Exploring the Impact of Ethnic Attrition on Estimates of Social and Economic Progress for US Hispanics”
Adalberto Rosado, Department of Sociology
- “Cutting Imperial Ties: Resisting Uncle Sam’s Filipino Puppet Ferdinand Marcos”
GJ Sevillano, Department of Politics
- “Spilling the Tea: An Exploration of Tea Pads in 1930s Harlem”
Sarah Spergel, Department of History
- “In Political NewsPartisan Slant and Viewer Polarization in Local and Late-Night Broadcast Television”
Elizabeth Van Cleve, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
- “From Revolution to Diaspora: Societal Responses to Venezuelan Migrants in Cúcuta and Boa Vista”
Samuel Vilchez Santiago, Department of Politics
- “Towards a Nation of Neighbors: A Study of Immigrant-Welcoming Initiatives in Kentucky”
Angela Wu, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
- “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”
Alis Yoo, Department of History
2018
- “More Money, More Problems: The Impact and Implications of Campaign Finance Deregulation in the United States”
Molly Bordeaux, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
- “Parties at the Podium: Analyzing Ideological Rhetoric at Presidential Nominating Conventions”
Nicholas Fernández, Department of Politics
- “‘We Would Have Never Found These People’: Black Students’ Right to University Membership and Protest at Rutgers University, 1965-71”
Arlene Gamio Cuervo, Department of History
- “Too Much of a Good Thing? A Study on the Evolution of Executive Privilege”
Haley Giraldi, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
- “Climate Change in American National Parks: Impacts, Management, Communications, and Public Perception”
Mark Goldstein, 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.”
Collin Gurgul, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
- “Opioid Abuse Prevention, Harm Reduction, and Recovery Strategies for Colleges and High Schools”
Colton Hess, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
- “Making the Mormon Question Difficult to Answer: Polygamy, Political Potency, and Legal Ambiguity in 19th-century America”
Isabel Hetherington, Department of History
- “The Implications of China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ for U.S. Foreign Policy”
Christian F. Krueger, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
- “Brain Bait: Effects of Neuroscience Evidence on Cognitive Biases in Legal Decision-Making”
Alicia Lai, Department of Neuroscience
- “Winslow Homer and Cullercoats”
Katherine Walker Pratt-Thompson, Department of Art and Archaeology
- “Obergefell Families: The Disciplinary Intersection of Marriage and Parenthood”
Sarah Reeves, Independent Study in Gender and Sexuality Studies
- “‘A Phenomenal Presence That is Unequivocally Black and Beautiful’: Redefining Beauty Through the Art of Kerry James Marshall”
Katherine Shifke, Department of Art and Archaeology
- “Protecting Hate Speech: The Failing American Experiment”
Emily Smith, Department of Politics
- “Collecting Alaska: Sheldon Jackson, Louis Shotridge, and the Pursuit of Northwest Coast Artifacts, 1879-1932”
Aaron B. Stevens, Department of Art and Archaeology
- “An Analysis of the Effect of Local Budget Policies on Police Killings”
Anna Stillman, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
- “Finding Safe Passage: Analyzing Juvenile Asylum Determinations in the United States and the European Union”
Nicholas Wu, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs