Past American Studies Senior Thesis Titles:

2015-16

• Jinna Johnson,“ 'Dans le pays des Huron': Female Spirituality, French Jesuits, and the Huron Nation in France and New France during the Seventeenth Century"
• Lora Funk, "The Pacific Crest Trail Thru-history: Thru-Hiking Culture and American Wilderness”
• Grace Dahlstrom, "The War on Drugs: Competing Ideologies of Libertarianism, Racial Control and Rational Choice”
• Harry Manin,"Black Armed Resistance in Mississippi's Freedom Summer"
• Madeline Pierson, "A Model For Empowerment: Lugenia Burns Hope's Community Vision Through the Neighborhood Union"

2014-15

• Anna Marburger, “Queer Content in Science Fiction: Is It In Disguise?”
• Olivia Buntaine “Howls on the Heath: Shakespeare in American Prisons”
• Laurel Schwartz, “#Flawless: The Intersection of Celebrity Culture and New Media in the Feminist Movement”
• ShaKayla Rouse, “A Call to Action Remix: Black and Brown Experience at Pomona College”
• Hilary Slauson, “This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land: An Analysis of Presidential Immigration Rhetoric Employed by Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton in the 'Nation of Immigrants”
• Rachel Brownell, “Higher Learning”
• Beatriz Maldonado, “Papers and Legitimacy: An Analysis of Legal Documentation and Migrant Salvadorans’ Perceptions of ‘Being American’”

2013-14

• Catherine Holcombe, Willa Cather’s Pioneer Spirit: Ecofeminism on the Frontier
  
• Theresa Michelle Iker,  Gals Getting “Reno-Vated”: Individual Transformation and National Change During the Rise and Fall of the Reno Divorce Ranches
  
• Emily Mischel, On Buying Good Taste: The Cultural Significance of Amy Vanderbilt
  
• Maddy Ruvolo ,Sick of Being Excluded: Chronically Ill Young Adults, Social Isolation, and the Need for a More Inclusive Disability Community
  
• Clara Shelton-Remember and Retaliate: Country Music’s Contributions To Post-9/11 Society
  
• Abeni Tinubu , Death, Dealing, and Dawson: An Exploration of Grief
  
• Emma Wartzman , First We Cook An exploration of why Americans should return to the kitchen — and what it will take to get them there
  
• Catherine Young, The National Rifle Association in Context: Gun Rights in Relation to the National Security State
  

2012-13

• Kristen Trofa, Misremembering MLK: A Study of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial.
  
• Theresa Garcia, On a Mission: Exploring Social Studies in California's Fourth Grade Classrooms"
  
• Brittney Garza, Undocumented Youth in Texas: The Lone Star States Effort to Educate the Youth Falls Short"
  
• Jenessa Irvine, Gangster Puppets and Underclass Cars: How Non-human Characters Signify Race in Contemporary Film”
  
• Ariel Saland. "#SaveChuck: The Effectiveness of Fan Campaigns to Save Television Shows
  
• Rachel Hennessey, Embracing Technology Without Replacing Print: How Traditional Magazines Can Survive in a Digital World
  
• Caitlin Sweeney, ’I’m a Little Pony and I Just Did Something Bad’: Feminist Pedagogy: and Organizing Ethics in The Rock ‘N’ Roll Camp for Girls
  
• Abigail Volkmann, River Basin Management and Restoration in Germany and the United States: Two Case Studies
  
• Chloe Judell-halfpenny, Not Your Mother’s Bath Salts: Examining Popular Understandings of Synthetic Cathinones through Media, Policy, and Public Opinion.
• A Framing and Discourse Analysis of ‘Bath Salts’-Related Panic and Policy in 2012
  
• Yuliya Lantsman, Children Having Children: The Construction of a Pathological Black Family in News Coverage of the Underclass of the 80's and 90's
  
• Lucia Reynolds, Bush, Buzan and Biopolitics: A Critical Interpretation of September 11th and the Birth of American Homeland Security
  

• Caroline Daly - Collective Memory, Commemoration & ways of Remembering Little Rock: 50 Years after the Integration Crisis at Cental High School
  
• Breanna Deutsch - Firm Principles, and Fluid Policy: A Reevaluation of Senator Barry M. Goldwater's Legacy
  
• Jennifer Plumlee - Televising Memory: The Tenth Anniversary of 9/11
  
• Marshall Anderson - The Mobil Generation, Spheres of Modern Communication and Coordination: Smartphone Dependence among Americans 18-24
  
• Kate Harter - The Kids Really Are Alright: A Study of Gay Americans Raising Families and What it Took to Aee Acceptance in Courts Nationwide
  
• Rosie Kaller - 30 Going on 13: America's Romanticiation and Scrutinization of Childhood Sexuality and Beauty and the Use of Increasingly Younger Models in Advertising Photography

2010-11

• Kate Campbell Strauss, "Contribution, Love, and Community: Performing Transformative Blackness in the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra"
  
• Alexandra Easton, "The State and Development of Underground Hip- Hop in Minneapolis, Seattle and the Bay"
  
• Melissa Munoz, "The Reclaiming of Community in Urban Los Angeles: How Three Youth Outreach Program Influenced a Paradigm Shift in the Approach to Reducing Gang Violence"
  
• Charla Wilson, "An Experience to Treasure: A Critique of the American Girl Doll Company's Depiction of American History"
  
• Nicholas Bancolini, "A Czar is Born: Will Hays, the Production Code and the Birth of Hollywood Censorship"
  
• Christian Alvarez, "A Different Class of Criminal"
  
• Sylvie Froncek, "Women in Bicycle Cooperatives"·