Senior Capstone Projects from 2019
The modern refugee: the smartphone holds the key to digital citizenship, Karlian Achenie
Terminology in American dragon boat: a linguistic investigation, Matthew 區智強 Alain Au
Understanding intuitive design, Rebecca Andrews
Situating spatial cognition within relational ecologies: the experiential (socio)natures of affordances, Robert Appleby
Inscriptions of the French conception of race: an analysis and re-imagination of post World War II Parisian public housing, Claudia Ashworth
Reflections: Explorations on popular representations of mathematics, Sarah Baer
"I hope y'all hear me" : Chicago hip hop & counter-narrative, Tamar Ballard
“To make his own hearthstone smile”: working-class fatherhood and the Chartist movement, Nicholas Barone
Conflict exposure and human capital development: evidence from the Rwandan genocide, Remy Beauregard
A multiplicity of singularities: isolation and interdependence in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, Maria Octavia Bell
Dora the Explorer, Latinidad, and the crisis of identity in the transition to neoliberalism, Ilan Berkman
Designing a 21st century community: an exploration of the ford plan in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Sophie Blumenstock
A platform of her own: an examination of feminist attempts to reclaim pregnancy from medicalized gynecology, Cece Bobbitt
Common sense?: gentrification, rezoning, and community along Brooklyn’s 4th Avenue, James Boyd
The bootstraps have snapped: the stigmatization of those on American welfare in present day, Edmond Tyler Boyle
Dancing in the stars: the radical capacity of utopic thought, Zoë Bracken
“For the girls, scare the boys”: social media as a means of access for women in skateboarding culture, Lauren Brady
Dissecting our heroes: Paul Atreides as catastrophic superhero in Frank Herbert’s Dune, Louie Brown
Notions of the biologically inferior: using 17th century medicine to analyze the early modern woman, Setse Bush
Under obstruction: looking at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alexander H. Butler
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
Stopping the spread of pathogen and panic: the creation and effects of moral panic in the SARS outbreak, Lily Carruthers
Movement building, activism, feminism and celebrity culture in the digital age: an analysis of politics and political identity on social media, Hope Challenger
Untitled, Dana Chang
The journey’s not over: a veteran’s homecoming in The Odyssey and Ulee’s Gold, Leah Clark
The journey’s not over: a veteran’s homecoming in The Odyssey and Ulee’s Gold, Leah Clark
When women whisper: rumor and gossip as transcripts of resistance, Violet Cole
Predicting pandemics: past disease outbreaks and what they teach us about preparing for the next pandemic, Acadia DiNardo
Close quarters: reimagining campus living and the student module, Annie Duncan
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
The digital divide: the impact education and in students color/low income in urban communities, Magno Enriquez
“The Seattle way”: urban governance before and during Amazon’s boom, Katherine C. Fallon
Out of her oak frame freebies, gifts, and throwaways in James Joyce’s Ulysses, Sadie Frank
All that we are going to become / all that we have ever been: a patchwork of life in collective memory, Evelyn Frick
“I called you sister”: liner notes on women, songwriting, and self-representation, Isabel Furman
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
Anxiety box: the making of, Austin Han
Get rich quick, on principle, Drew Hardin
Navigating masculinty through portrait photograpy, Jackson Hardin
Artificial intelligence and finance: case study, Alexander Harrison
Writing the model lesbian: on parallel narratives in lesbian literature, Aidan Heck
Fragmented temporalities: critical investigations in technology, subjectivity, and narratives of future, Ichar Heffernan
How to change Michael Pollan’s mind: a critical analysis of ‘addiction’, spirituality, and psychedelics, Max Henderson
Fashioning Frankenstein: a fundamentalist experiment in edenic after-tastes, Haley Hill
You are what you wear: a conceptual exploration of clothing and the body in identity formation, Kayla Holliday
Characterizing the frequency spectra of Caenorhabditis Elegans using fourier analysis of dynamic diffraction, Miranda Rose Hulsey-Vincent
Worlds in-between: Afro-caribbean immigrants and black ethnic conflict in the U.S., Lorraine Jabouin
Social script to screenplay: heteronormativity in contemporary romantic comedies, Aurora Jeffrey
A s b u r y: mending the living through landscape, memory, and writing, Hyun Ji (Tammy) Jung
Feeling more & messy places: exploring stortelling, the myth of the individual's power, healing and white supremacy with Oprah Winfrey & myself, Sophie S. Kaplan
Moving with our eyes closed: a rumination of the body on white masculinity, the carceral imaginary, a habitus of violence and other worlds, Maggie Kennedy
Days of smoke, Paul Kennedy
New media strategies for inclusive financial opportunity, Will Kyle
Inequality, development, and cities in the global south: a view of Chinese foreign direct invesment and Argentina’s urban network, Ian Thomas LaBash
Laughing out loud: activism and identity politics of American queer female stand-up comedians, Tori LaFon
Medicine and black fugitivity: escaping and evading disparities in health, Jhamelya Lee
In search of a city: essays on Los Angeles, food trucks, and home, Nicole Lipman
“(re)birth”: on how gendered assumptions and family dynamics influence the perception of self in women with depression, Taylor Lodise
The optimal socialization of modified mosquitoes to combat infectious disease, Fiona MacLeod
The consistencies and shifts in American television portrayals of Latinx immigrant families, Lisset Magdaleno
Gendered conceptions of the American dream in country music from 1994 to 2018: how the belief in the myth maintains the status quo, Hailey Marchand-Nazzaro
Barriadas: peripheral placemaking in Lima, Peru, Diego A. Martin
Measuring economic segregation based on what matters for creating opportunity, Kai Matheson
Criminalizing blackness and humanizing whiteness: policy, media, and the racialization of drug use in America, Alysha McKenzie
Redefining Medea’s magic and power in Ovidian poetry, Caelie McRobert
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
Black birthing mothers: the historical context and potential benefits of midwifery-based care, Julie Morel
A perspective of the dental state in America: interpreting the socioeconomic costs from poor oral care, Jesse Mulham
‘Female Viagra’ and the intersection of medicine, gender, and desire: reinforcing misconceptions of female sexuality in the sexopharmaceutical era, Mikayla O'Bryan
Assessing the arterials: environmental impacts and injustice along Poughkeepsie’s east-west arterial roads, Rebecca Odell
The personal archive unfolded: remediating ephemeral experiences, Anna Ijiri Oehlkers
Case studies on contemporary Asian migration, diaspora, and community building practices in Montana, Sabrina Oh
Peculiarity of socialist healthcare systems: North Korea & Cuba, Do Hyeon Kevin Park
The ketogenic diet: its origin, transformation, and future, Eric Parlin
Re-narrating lost infrastructures of care: lessons from America’s abandoned asylums, Allia Casey Parsons
InBetween poetics: im/migrant writing as collective resilience and political consciousness, Ankoor Patel
Shopping for good: the socialized practice of conscious consumption in America, Michelle Perri
It’s a common feeling, Dakota Peterson
Why we still “watch tv”: remediating television and viewer experiences in the digital age, Julia E. Pollak
Investigation of optimal receptive field size for maximizing mutual information and increasing learning efficiency, Thomas J. Possidente
All you need is love (and support): restorative practices for families of those incarcerated, Christiana Prater-Lee
« 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
Tools for engagement: mediating design and use, Oshana Reich
Chicks who make flicks: the effect of blockbusters by, for, and about women, Clare Reynders
“A stench in the nostrils of Brooklyn:” whole foods, gentrification, and environmental inequality along the Gowanus Canal, Cullen M. Riley-Duffy
Do straws suck? The drinking straw in American culture: exploring the drinking straw as a symbolic and deeply embedded apparatus in U.S. culture, Julia Q. Roellke
The mothers of modern gynecology: an historiographical and poetic exploration of medical racism, Vanessa Claire Rosensweet