Senior Capstone Projects from 2019
Understanding intuitive design, Rebecca Andrews
Situating spatial cognition within relational ecologies: the experiential (socio)natures of affordances, Robert Appleby
Conflict exposure and human capital development: evidence from the Rwandan genocide, Remy Beauregard
The role of agricultural science in the Washington state apple industry: extension, education, and its environmental health consequences, Mariah Caballero
The impact of foreign labor demand on international student enrollment in the United States, Yunhao Cai
The journey’s not over: a veteran’s homecoming in The Odyssey and Ulee’s Gold, Leah Clark
Iconicity in the age of social media: Augmenting theories of iconicity through the study of a contemporary iconic photograph, Jakob Eckstein
Ways of seeing, Brendan Elefante
Investigating potential barium sources at Mormon Mesa, Nevada: an integrated geochemical-geomorphological study, India Futterman
Stead: visions of outer space in the American West, Saskia Globig
Measuring economic segregation based on what matters for creating opportunity, Kai Matheson
Redefining Medea’s magic and power in Ovidian poetry, Caelie McRobert
Black birthing mothers: the historical context and potential benefits of midwifery-based care, Julie Morel
Assessing the arterials: environmental impacts and injustice along Poughkeepsie’s east-west arterial roads, Rebecca Odell
Case studies on contemporary Asian migration, diaspora, and community building practices in Montana, Sabrina Oh
It’s a common feeling, Dakota Peterson
Investigation of optimal receptive field size for maximizing mutual information and increasing learning efficiency, Thomas J. Possidente
« Les Français de l’orient » : Persian art in the cultural imagination of fin-de-siècle France, Noah Purdy
Performing performance: the development of the actress character in dramatic literature from the early twentieth century to modernity, Altemose Rachel
“A stench in the nostrils of Brooklyn:” whole foods, gentrification, and environmental inequality along the Gowanus Canal, Cullen M. Riley-Duffy
Does social capital compound moral hazard? evidence from Naloxone access, Katherine Shively
Loneliness and society: theory, practice, and mismatches, Maxwell Singer
The death of American homes: A consideration of everyday objects, ritual, and emotions at the estate sale, David Stiles Sparks
Tattooing in Japan: the art of living boldly, Sarah Vermillion
How communication evolved: reflections on the evolution process of an in silico embodied robotic system, Xiaoqing Xu
Senior Capstone Projects from 2018
Shehar katsuri, Udbhav Agarwal
Not all trees are timber: looking past the ontology of American homeownership through the lens of Detroit, Conor Mckay Allerton
Commodity, conservation, and nation building: the orchid and the Singaporean identity., Jonathan Alperstein
Deep in the heart of Texas: analyzing spatial contestation using perspectives on urban farming in Austin, Liza Ayres
Psychic splitting and the rupture of self: a Freudian analysis of the double in literary theory and Frankenstein, Alexander Barzacanos
Primo Levi il chimico interlocutore: la scienza come un paradigma onnicomprensivo nel sistema periodico, Alexander G. Bashaw
Queer becomings and other situated worlding, Sofía Benitez
With Obāchan, transnationally and transgenerationally: folding gender and modulating race from soviet-occupied Manchuria to Japanese America, Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard
Placing (in)justice: a reassertion of urbanism in the age of mass incarceration, Sophia L. Burns
Women who butcher: gender bias, knowledge politics, and solidarity in meat processing systems, Maria Cali
Alright: hope, flight, realism, and business savvy in the music video for the most important song of the 2010s, Paul Joseph Cannata
Body talk: perceptions of the body and performative roles in Japanese anime, as seen through Scum’s Wish, Sabrina Castillo
Grow your own: New York City’s community gardens as technological artefacts, Kristina N. Catomeris
Love, rape, and godly metamorphosis: gender mutability in ancient Roman and Early Modern English literature, Helen Cattan-Prugl
An un-bridged divide: the disconnect of an elevated urban experience at the Walkway Over the Hudson, Elise Chessman
Reflecting on the past, looking toward the future: a collection of essays, Mandy Chin
明湖春, Samuel Chiou
Advertising in the beauty industry: digital media and conceptions of beauty, Hannah Cho
CRISPR in the wake of the GMO controversy: navigating the pitfalls with an emerging technology, Bria Corham
Whose body, whose choice: interactions between the pro-choice and pro-life social movements outside the abortion clinic, Sophie Deixel
The star from Japan, Dehui Deng
Cowper's animals, Jacob Dompier
Beyond the speculum: a shifting metaphor for visual representations of human reproduction, Delphine Douglas
A comparative analysis between Chinese opera and Vietnamese cai luong: the play of the butterfly lovers, Ngoc Duong
“The Seattle way”: urban governance before and during Amazon’s boom, Katherine C. Fallon
Mothering and othering: an exploration of the state’s policing of motherhood through child protective services, Grace Findlen-Golden
Multi-species worlding on a toxic planet and other stories for earthly survival: a paper and some posters, Charlotte M. Foley
Constructing identity in East Berlin: housing, identity, and power in the GDR, Max Frank
lacunae: an undergraduate journal for queer of color critique, Spencer Garcia
Kabbalah is not rocket science: Jewish mystical symbolism in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, Will Garner
Reaching toward whiteness won’t save you: an intersectional approach to racial formation, Sara Goldberg
"O beauty!": a liberationist critique of the New York City Opera's renaissance LGBTQ initiative, Jason Goldman
Heterotopias of consumption, Diana Dian Xi Guo
Women, islam, and the state in Pakistan, Laena Haagensen
We are stardust, we are golden: an exploration of female hippie ideals and an emerging hippie feminism in the 1960’s counterculture, Claire Harper
The genealogy of repetition: reading Becket reading Proust, John Haug
Daydreams, Halle Hewitt
Manifestopheles: an investigation into the Faustian nature of adaptation, Patrick Higgins
Colorful, Sarah Hollis
What a drag: a study on drag queens and the reasons they have become popular, Lily Horner
Tongsu: the untold story of 1 / 78,000, Lilia Su Hutchinson
More than memes: analyzing social justice and the spread of information on Tumblr, Megan Jackson
Treating the American disease: heroin-assisted treatment as a potential response to America’s opioid epidemic, Lily Kitfield-Vernon
In search of Mademoiselle O: remembering Nabokov’s Swiss governess through translation, migration, and imagination, Landon Kramer
Prison theater: how drama programs in correctional facilities challenge the roots of the prison industrial complex, Fran Kuperberg
The paleo diet: a (selective) rejection of modernity, Nora I. Kyrkjebø
Tourism and the environment in Bocas del Toro: manifestations of the neo-colonial metabolic rift, Anika Rose Lanser
Designing for the Anthropocene: sympathies, tensions and hypocrisies in clothing, Zachary Leazer
Tensions between design and logistics in the creation of a multi-media space, Emily Lin
Narratives of Hong Kong: post-colonial identity, fears, and social movements, Robyn Lin
Stand up comedy, narrative, and pain; a case study: Homecoming King, Rachel A. Ludwig
Water as a privilege: how sociopolitical factors underlie water disparities in the San Joaquin Valley, California., Jennie Lytel-Sternberg
Who’s the terrorist?: the production of anti-Muslim racism through historical amnesia, Victoria Majarali
On the ethics of street photography in the digital age, Chiara Mannarino
Between “the potential” and “the actual”: lead poisoning in New Orleans as state sanctioned environmental racism, Eliana Marcus-Tyler
As Filipino as barbecue: NYC Filipino restaurant owners’ power over food, restaurants, and identity, Jasmine Raizel Basbas Martinez
Why don’t Americans vote?: a study of modern challenges to the would-be voter, Emily McDaniels
Memories, a place, Gabrielle Miranda
Involvement of women and mothers in the U.S. Modern anti-vaccination movement: an analysis of second wave feminism and historical power imbalances, Sarah Jane Muder
The prevalence of atheism in the sciences and its impact on scientists of color, Meenakshi Nag
Conservation in conflict: an assessment of plurality in environmental management, Frank Najarro
Nonbinary, Camden Neely
The liberations and limitations of schooling: insights into the curriculum and environment of U.S. private and public schools, Allegra Pauline Neely-Wilson
It’s happened a thousand times before: the process of adapting Ariadne - a new musical, Michael Oosterhout
The gendered and racialized profitability, expansion, and decline of the New York City garment industry, Hanna Park
El eterno retorno: latinx youth radicalism and resistance through art, Yesenia Rose Perez
Inadequate high-speed internet access in American rural communities: bridging the digital divide, Madeleine Jane Pieper
The pound “Arrow”—on the being of poetry and truth, Yibei Qian
Are you still watching?: an exploration of Netflix, binge watching, adaptation, and narrative structure, Leora Randall-Tavori
Pix pls: a middle school sexting scandal, Lena Redford
What does technology got to do with it?, Penina Remler