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

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.