Senior Thesis
Recent Senior Theses
* denotes theses that were awarded honors
2021
- Madison Mehlman: Coming Up for Air: Motherhood in the Age of the Coronavirus Pandemic
2020
- Sierra Climaco: The (In)Convenient Truth: Exploring Waidner-Spahr Library as a Repository for Books, Scholars & whiteness
- Ethan Mayer-Rich: Resettlement and Resistance: A Critique of Classification and Social Domination Using Refugee and Host-Community Oral Histories
- Alana Richards: The Body as Enemy: Patriarchy and Women’s Acts of Gender Violence
2019
- Sarah Campbell: The Silencing of Anita Hill and Dr. Blasey Ford: An Examination of Gender-Specific Language Styles In Cases of Sexual Misconduct
- Selena Gould: The Genocide that Everyone Should Have Seen Coming, How the Cameroon Anglophone Crisis Extends Colonial Forces of Domination and Consent
- Megan McBride: #MeToo Means Who?: Shining a Light on the Darkness A Rhetorical Analysis of Inclusivity and Exclusivity Within the #MeToo Movement
2018
- Seto Olayomi: Negotiation of Self-Identity for Women of Color at Predominantly White Institutions
- Jessica Smith: Corruption as Status Quo: The US Justice System is Working Just Fine
- Aleksandra Syniec: "Where are you really from?" Contextualizing Distance between Polish Immigrant Parents and Their Frist Generation American Students
2017
- Isaiah Gibson: The Prison, the Man, and Society's Unwillingness to Forgive
- Jessica Lizardo: No Longer Silenced: The Experiences of Students of Haitian Descent in the Dominican Republic's Educational System
- Elizabeth Lowe: The Art of Collaboration: Improved Learning through Interdisciplinary Experiences
- Chloe Morakis: Inside Jobs: How Corrections Officers and Prison Support Staff Interpret their Work
- Paul-Anne Robb: The Same Old Song: Political Speech in Black Music during the Black Lives Matter Era
2016
- Sean Deveney: Messages from the Underground: An Analysis of Album Covers and Skate Videos from the Punk Rock and Skateboarding Subcultures
- Julie Foong: Adjusting to the Second Home: Transnational Migration of Filipino Women to Singapore
- Kimani Keaton: Oppression and Empowerment: How Black Millennial Women Navigate the Gray Area in Contemporary Mainstream Gangsta Rap
- Michele Metcalf: Managing Microaggressions: The Effects of Raced and Gendered MicroAggressions on Black Student Experience at ºìÐÓÖ±²¥app
- *Sara Tyberg: Entitlement and Anguish: An Analysis of Masculinity and Misogyny in American School Shootings