Humanities

“The Seriousness of Play”: Humor as Resistance in Post-Apartheid South Africa 

by Ellie Burke (’24)

A Case for African American Reparations: The Inheritance of Racist Hierarchies and Moral Harm 

by Ko Lyn Cheang (’21)

Performance and Fantasy in Edwardian Childhood: Representations of Class, Gender, and Education 

by Amy DeLaBruere (’21)​

Exhibiting Text as a Spatial Object in the Beijing Lu Xun Museum 

by Formosa Deppman (’21)

Tabula Rasa: Mechanism, Intelligence, and the Blank Slate in Computing and Urbanism 

by Claire Gorman (’20)

"The Stories Behind the Stories": Mediation of Narratives in David’s Story 

by Naima Gupta (’22)​

Spectacular Interiority in Post-Apartheid South African Literature 

by Jaehyun Kim (’24)

The War on Fire: Construction of Enemies and the U.S. Forest Service 

by Isabel Kirsch (’23)

Costuming Characters in Early Medieval Irish Literature 

by Lydia Lee (’23)

Social Sciences

Optimal Information Design in Two-Sided Trade 

by Pradhi Aggarwal (’21)

The Run on Repo and Bank Stock Returns 

by Madison Marie Battaglia (’20)

Returning to the Gender Gap in College Major: How Much Can Pre-College Skills Explain? 

by Nathalie Beauchamps (’21)

Recognizing the Pitfalls of the Past: Community Health Workers in the Time of COVID-19 

by Sam Brakarsh (’21)

Xenophobia in the ‘Rainbow Nation’: An Analysis of Intergroup Conflict in Contemporary South Africa 

by Rachel Calcott (’22)

An Indigenous-Informed Archaeological Approach to Dating the Taos Pueblo 

by Cameron Chacon (’23)

“Developing” Gender Equality: A Transnational Feminist Critique of International Development Theory and Practice 

by Caroline Crystal (’22)

Barriers to the Diagnosis of Dyslexia in Children 

by Maria Elena Cunningham (’21)​

The Impact of Climate Change on Security in the Middle East: A Review of the Literature 

by Yara El-Khatib (’21)​

The Cuban Vote: How a Very Unreligious Group Votes for a Very Religiously Affiliated Party

by Kelly E. Gouin (’22)

Sounding the Alarm: Down-Ballot Setback for the Democrats in 2020

by Yaakov Huba (’23)

Troubles of the Coast:  Industrialization, Climate Change, Marginality, and Collective Action among Fishing Communities in Kerala, India

by Abigail V. Maher (’24)

"Our Neighbors In The Americas": Obama, Empathy, and The Cuban Thaw

by Sarah McKinnis (’22)

Art as Protest: How Creative Activism Shaped “Black Lives Matter” in Richmond, Virginia

by Anaheed Mobaraki (’21)​

Social Media and the Construction and Propagation of Populist-Nationalist Discourse

by Paula Pineda (’22)

Decolonization: The Litmus Test of the Human Rights Framework

by Isiuwa Omoigui (’23)

Access to Drinking Water and the Empowerment of Women in the Southwest Coast of Bangladesh: Intersections of Gender, Class, and Space

by Sunehra Subah (’24)

The Morality of Pronoun Flexibility: Establishing Connections Between Language and Cognitive Identity Alignment

by Mafalda von Alvensleben (’23)​

Shadow Banks, Money Market Funds, and Regulation: How Much is Too Much?

by Ainsley Weber (’22), Sigridur Benediktsdottir

Canines and Commons: An Institutional Analysis

by Andy Xie (’21)

The Conscience of the Dollar: Are Religious Donors Sensitive to Moral Infractions?

by Bradley Yam (’21)

An Upstander Is a Person in Your Neighborhood: Children, Sesame Street, and Race in 2020

by Gemma Yoo (’23)

STEM

Turning Science Fiction into Reality:  Enhanced Motor Learning for Prosthetic Limbs

by Makayla R. Conley (’23)

Incomplete? Or Indefinite? Intuitionism on Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem

by Quinn Crawford (’21)

Tail-Anchored Protein Insertion under ER Stress Conditions: Calcium is Key

by Matthew Jordan (’22), Malaiyalam Mariappan

The Multifaceted Nature of Cofilin’s Severing Mechanism

by Ethan R. Lester (’20)

Strong Inclination Pacing of Climate in Late Triassic Low Latitudes Revealed by the Earth-Saturn Tilt Cycle

by Miranda Margulis-Ohnuma (’24), Jessica H. Whiteside, Paul E. Olsen

Metabolic Control of Stem Cell Ageing and Longevity through Caloric Restriction

by Valerie Navarrete (’21)​

Examining the Viability of Computational Psychiatry: Approaches into the Future

by Mitchell Ostrow (’22)​

Analysis of the Electronic Effects and Reactivity of Benzhydrols in the Formation of Benzhydryl Ethers

by Katherine G. Quesada (’22), Daniel Chabeda, Jaeger Johnson, and Alex Shore

A Dispersive Force Model of Caribbean Island Biogeography

by Anthony Sarkiss (’21)