Honors Thesis Archives

 

2025

 

Denied, Dismissed, Detained: A Comparative Analysis of Mental Health Inequities, Medicaid Policy, and the Criminalization of Black Communities in Alabama and Louisiana
Bayle Leanna Boyd

Iran's Cycle of Control: Cultural Encroachment, Revolutionary Upheaval, and the Unbroken Pattern of Domination
Milad Asadi

Deepfakes and the Erosion of U.S. Democracy: Societal Trust and AI Regulation
Natalie S.K. Ringdahl

A Potential President in a Divided Era: Kamala Harris’s Identity in Play
Howard Yuwen

The Plot to Steal the 2024 Election, Donald Trump’s Grand Plan to Subvert American Democracy
Frank Granda

Navigating College Students’ Perceptions of U.S. Immigration: The Roles of Contact, Media, and Politics
Meera Rajitha Manoj

The Reign of the Media: How the Media Affects Modern Politics
Annika Massey

The Military Aerospace Supremacy Index: A Comprehensive Score of America’s and China’s Multirole and Fighter Aircraft Based On Quantity, Performance, Cost, and Strategic Effectiveness
Angel Avila-Nieto

How Algorithmic Discrimination Exacerbates U.S. Partisan Tensions on Social Media Platforms
Valerie Giron

Divided by Design: The Polarizing Impact of the Electoral College
Lilia Djavanmard

The Role of Community-Building and Cross-Racial Solidarity in the U.S. Student-Led Encampments for Palestinian Liberation
Madelyn Nall

Ancient Origins of Democratic Norms in Africa
Mahteme Legesse

The Impact of Social Media Usage on Political Participation
Nicholas Meshcheryakov

Mind Over Machine: Adapting U.S. Intellectual Property Law for an AI-Driven Future
Sophia M. Stevenson

Foreign Investment Under Scrutiny: The Role of State-Level Regulations and Political Alignment in Chinese FDI Inflows
Nima Movahedi

Political Climate as a Determinant of Immigrant Health: A Comparative Analysis of Reagan and Trump Eras
Leslie Jimenez

Judicial Discretion and Structural Bias in U.S. Asylum Adjudications: The Role of Political Ideology, Experience, and Regional Context
Lavanaya Garg

Marxist Feminism: Balancing the Paradox of Sweatshops and Hyper-Consumerism
Leyna Vo

UNSC Support for Resolution 1483: A Puzzle of Manufactured Legitimacy after the Iraq Invasion
Aiyat Rhaima

Beyond Legal Boundaries: Unpacking The Political-Economic Drivers of the Philippines’ Ukay-Ukay Trade
Jacqueline Acosta

Explaining Economic Outliers in the Post-Communist Era
Esmé Fritton

Democracies Are Better How Domestic Accountability Forces Compliance with International Law
Ryan Nyce

Following The Leader: Explicit Racial Appeals in Congress After Donald Trump
Selma Nessari

Examining the Impact of State and County-Level PPE Policies on Healthcare Systems During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analyzing Experiences, Political Influences, and Lessons for Future Public Health Crises
Nicholas Roshan

Calculating Dissensus: Opinion Writing and Multi-Variate Incentives under U.S. v. Marks
Damien Sanchez

 

2024

 

Divergences in Data Protection: A Comprehensive Analysis of GDPR Implementation in Germany, Austria, and Ireland
Sarah Elizabeth Russell

The Puzzle of UN Security Council Intervention: Artsakh Conflict Revisited
Lilya Ohanyan

The State Divide: Differences in Climate Legislation and Rhetoric Among States
Matthew Krater

The Effects China’s Strict COVID-19 Policies Have on the Movement of People
Esther Zhong

An Analysis of how the Supreme Court has narrowed the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Alexis Diaz

Lives, Deaths, and Afterlives: The Memory Politics of Martyrdom in the Chinese Adaptation of French Resistance Last Letters, 1950-1990
Yitang Zhang

Measuring the Impact of the Freedom Caucus on Congressional Efficiency
Jason Buentgen

Geopolitical Power Through Critical Mineral Resources: The Strategic Role of Rare Earth Elements in China’s Post-2010 Foreign Policy and Its Implications for Energy Security and Global Alliances
Isabella (Xueqian) Huang

Unveiling Bias: Political Polarization in Mass Media
Harleen Sandhu

Shifts in Climate Policy in Germany, South Korea, and the United States: The Impacts of Leadership, Political Polarization, and Policy-making
William Mason

Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s Shortcomings and Inabilities
Adrian Setaghayan

The Fentanyl Crisis and Its Uncanny Rise: An Analysis and Proposed Solutions
Arvin Kupumbati

Examining Class-based and Race-based Inequities within the American Healthcare System
Ian McDougall

Engendering and Activating Emotions Through Presidential Television Advertisements
Corey Tran

External Factors Outside of Presidential Duties and the Extent of their Impact on Public Opinion
Susan Ellen Demirchyan

Dehumanization: An Early Warning Sign of Future Political Violence
Rocio Celeste Rivera

U.S. State Immigration Policies: The Influence of Public Opinion and Presidential Executive Orders
Bunnie Cortez

How do Domestic Taiwanese Politics Affect Taiwan’s Relationship with China?
David Mkrtchyan

 


 

2023

 

 


 

2022

 

How Immigration Attitudes Shifted Among Racial Minorities in the Era of Trump and its Inherent Impacts on the Democratic Coalition
Jonathan Bogens

Police Brutality: Impact of the Black Lives Matter Movement
Dania Cervantes

Erasure and Exclusion: Who is a Radical Black Queer Feminist?
Camille Edwards

What is the Community Character of Venice, CA? How Can This Be Used to Inform Future Actions by the California Coastal Commission?
Nervana Fadle

The Impact of Adding Puerto Rico and D.C. on the Distribution of House Voting Power
Logan Knight

Delving into the Missing White Woman Syndrome in the Age of Social Media
Angelene Obedoza

Explorations of Institutional Betrayal Within Title IX Procedures as a Response to On-Campus Sexual Misconduct
Kylee Ocampo

The “Only Cure?”: Greek Debt, Austerity, and Narratives of Crisis
Trevor Oggins

Coptic Orthodox Christian Resilience in the Face of Ongoing Discrimination
Anne Ostos

Identity and Partisanship in Flux: How Shifts in Type and Salience of Cultural Identity of Vietnamese Americans Affects the Generational Partisan Shift within the Vietnamese American Community
Joon Park

La Raza Cósmica, El Movimiento, and a Legacy of Anti-Black Erasure
Josue Ruedas

Asian, American, and Female: An Examination of the Politics of Representation within the 117th Congress
Chloe Shin

Self-Made: The Story of American Identity
Joshua Swank

Empire, Then and Now: Examining Imperial History in Nigeria with a Game Theoretic Framework
Spencer Towne

The Politicization of Covid-19: Public Trust, Vaccine Hesitancy, and Political Polarization
Anqi Wang

The Effects of Ethnic Courses on Latino Civic Engagement
Carlos Zepeda