Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS)
Graduate Alumni — Senior Thesis
Limning Asian American Literature with Social Generationality: Violence and Subversion
Kim, Joseph Hakkyu ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2024
Advisor: Murphy, Dana
Characterizing the Molecular Structure of Preceramic Polysiloxanes for Freeze Casting of Silicon Oxycarbide Ceramics
Nandi, Ankita ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2024
Advisor: Faber, Katherine T.; Rossman, George Robert
Thinking Queerness and Forming Intimacies: Understanding Identity, Relationships, and Queerness in South Asian Diasporic Contemporary Literature, 1981–2022
Nandi, Ankita ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2024
Advisor: Murphy, Dana
Who’s Chinatown, Whose Chinatown? Visions of Urban Progress in Los Angeles Chinatown, 1970-2020
Jiang, Abigail Yuan-Shan ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2023
Advisor: Dykstra, Maura
“It’s Our War Too”: Barriers to Authorship by Women Writing Vietnam War Poetry
Liu, Grace ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2023
Advisor: Jurca, Catherine
Female Inventors and Narratives of Innovation in Late Twentieth-Century Computing
Cheng, Myra Miaobo ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2022
Advisor: Dykstra, Maura
Surveying Notions of Queer Asian American Community Through Literature: 1972–1998
Du, Yun Emily ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2022
Advisor: Dykstra, Maura
Navigating the Temporal Landscape of Trauma
Hu, Laura D. ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2021
Advisor: Weinstein, Cindy A.
Charles the Bald: the Story of an Epithet
Anderson, Margaret Audrey ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2020
Advisor: Brown, Warren C.
The Evolution of Dragons: From Living Serpents to Mythical Beasts
Lopezalles, Sierra MacKenzie ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2020
Advisor: Brown, Warren C.
Caught in the Middle: Homosexual Guilt, Liminality, and the role of the ‘Novel of Identification’ in Post-World War, Pre-Stonewall America
Goulet, Michael Anthony ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2019
Advisor: Sherazi, Melanie; Haugen, Kristine L.
Town Meeting: A Representative but Non-Sovereign Institution
Lymperopoulos-Bountalis, Filippos ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2019
Advisor: Dykstra, Maura
The Gun Wa Trials: Chinese Doctors, Narrative Advertisement, and Consumer Fraud in the Late Nineteenth Century American West
Li, Jessica Du ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2018
Advisor: Gronningsater, Sarah
What Makes a Narrative? Understanding the Portrayals of Hermenegild’s Rebellion
Schmidt, William Charles ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2018
Advisor: Brown, Warren C.
A Case for Ecclesiastical Minting of Anglo-Viking Coins
Schneider, Joseph Edward ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2018
Advisor: Brown, Warren C.
Chaucer the Beginner: Imagining Chaucer’s Creative Process in Creating “Book of the Duchess”
Edwards, Matthew Gene ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2017
Advisor: Jahner, Jennifer A.
Everybody Farts: Celebrating the Body and Refuting Medical Paternalism in Joyce’s Ulysses
Ann, Phoebe ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2015
Advisor: Gilmartin, Kevin M.
How Far from Jerusalem? Tropical Customs and the Question of Race in the Book of John Mandeville
Mukherjee, Eric S. ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2014
Advisor: Wey-Gómez, Nicolas
Edward Lewis and Radioactive Fallout: The Impact of Caltech Biologists on the Debate Over Nuclear Weapons Testing in the 1950s and 60s
Caron, Jennifer ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2003
Advisor: Kormos-Buchwald, Diana L.