Theses from 2017
Transfer Student Experiences at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, Rachael Madison
The Intersection of Culture and Activism in the Filipino Community in SoMa, Ericka J. Martynovych
Undocumented Students’ Access to Higher Education in San Francisco, Bay Area, Sandra Miklosic
A Novel Model of “Remedy and Elimination of Tuberculosis”, Akanksha Mishra
Do Marketing Strategies Impact Condom Sales in Uganda?, Meyhar Mohammed
Articulated Indigeneity and Tourism in Hawaiʻi, Erika Nielsen
Urbanization, Land Rights and Development: A Case Study of Waterfront Communities in Lagos, Nigeria., Gideon Olaniyi Omoniyi
Financial Sector Development and Agricultural Productivity, John J. Onoja
Drawings from Syria's Lost Generation: Psychological Impacts of the Refugee Crisis, Rafael Panlilio
Japan's Employment 'Catch-22': The Impact of Working Conditions for Women in Japan on Japan's Demographic Population Crisis, Mary Perkins
Reducing Vulnerability through Reintegration: The Case of the Syrian Refugees in Jordan., Felipe Hernan Rodriguez
Rapping Back: Counter-narratives from Auckland, New Zealand, Mariel Lopez Rogers
Goal Effectiveness in Achieving Educational Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from 9th Graders in Medellin, Colombia, Daniel Salicath and Alessandra Cassar
The Acquisition and Analysis of Electroencephalogram Data for the Classification of Benign Partial Epilepsy of Childhood with Centrotemporal Spikes, Jessica A. Scarborough
Transnational ‘Interruptions’ in Eritrean Refugee Lives in the Bay Area, Meron Y. Semedar Mr
Embodying the Oppressed and the Oppressor: Critical Mixed Race Studies for Liberation and Social Justice Education, Gwendlyn C. Snider
How Patriotic Are Albanians? The Comparative Study of Patriotic Attitudes in Albania and the Albanian Diaspora, Anxhela Spahiu
The ReSisters: Contemporary Ethiopia through a Feminist Lens, Eldana Mathias Temesgen
Migrant Ridesharing Drivers in San Francisco: A Case of Blocked Mobility?, Shireen Tofig
Exploring Employment Equity: Diversity & Inclusion in Canada’s Legislation & Policy, Vanessa Toussaint Miller
Planning Cities, Economically or Communally: A comparative study of Amsterdam and San Francisco, Raina Dawn Whittekiend
Inentives and Education: Experimental Evidence from Medellin, Colombia, Theodore D. Wisinski and Alessandra Cassar
People, Land, and Profit in the South of Market: A Critical Analysis of the Central SoMa Plan, David Woo
Financing and Productivity: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Industry, TIngyi Wu
Theses from 2016
Rape as a weapon of war in Darfur, Fardowsa Abdullahi
Financial Openness and Trade Volatility in Argentina, Joseph H. Asciuto
The Eurasian Agenda: The International Relations of Kyrgyzstan, Azamat Baiyzbekov
An Analysis of Mongolia’s Resource-Led Development: the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment in the Extraction Industry, Belguun Bat-Erdene
“Mexico, Public Policy and Obesity in a Global Context”, Daniela Carina Bermudez
Historical Trauma and Refugee Reception: Armenians and Syrian-Armenian Co-Ethnics, Nicole M. Campos
Assessing the Effectiveness of Micro-level Poverty Interventions in the Highlands of Guatemala, Jacqueline A. Castro
The Investment Casualties of War: Global Impacts of Armed Conflict on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows, Reinhard J. Cate Mr.
NOTIONS OF DISCONTENT AND DISTINCTION: REFLECTIONS OF YOUNG DIASPORIC TAIWANESE AMERICANS, Andrew T. Chen
Air Pollution and Fetal Loss in the Global Tropics, Shuqiao Cheng
Private remedial services in public schools: Evidence from ISHA’s GSAP Program in Tamil Nadu, Douglas Conway
The Effect of Financial Sector Development on FDI led Growth in China, John Costigan
"Who Am I?": The Development of a Male Palestinian Political Identity, Tala J. Dayyat
Emigration, Repatriation and the Reality of Returned Youth in El Salvador, Isabel C. Duarte Vasquez
Behavioral Determinants of Biofortified Food Acceptance: The Case of Orange-fleshed Sweet Potato in Ghana, Chinonso E. Etumnu
UNDERSTANDING HOW INTENTIONALLY UNPLUGGING FROM CELL PHONES SHAPES INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS AND THE UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE, Jadelin P. Felipe
Plastic Oceans: A New Way in solving Our Plastic Pollution, Dakota S. Floyd
Finding Our Way: Female Students at Oakland International High School, Nicole M. Germanov
Beyond the Cloth: Exploring How Women are Represented in Human Rights Organizations through Bangladesh's Garment Industry, Briawna Gillespie
Financial Development and Growth in India, Anek Grewal
The Persuasive Effect of YouTube Videos on Food Waste Habits, Deeti Gupta
The acidic sulfonimidation of aryl–oxazolines and the electrophilic fluorination of aryl–oxazolines, David Gutierrez
CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH IMPROVING THE NUTRITIONAL QUALITY OF FOODS AVAILABLE IN SCHOOLS: THE CASE OF SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, Marianne Hoeidal
The Political Economy of Conflict in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d'Ivoire: Foreign Economic Intervention and the Spatial Distribution of Violent Conflict, Sarai-Anne N. Ikenze
Educational Opportunities for Adolescent Girls' Empowerment in Developing Countries, Mary J. Kober
Traditional Agricultural Practices and Sex Ratios at Birth in Modern Times, Patrick Krause
Does Infant Formula Availability Reduce Breastfeeding?, Ingvild Madsen Lampe
Climate Variability Influences Women’s Attitudes Towards Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), Jean Lee
Sino Ako? (Who am I?): Exploring Filipino American identity In Philippine Studies courses, Omega Loren Letana
State Failure in Venezuela, Marcus Littman
Dendrimer Modified Silica Nanoparticles as Fluorescent Chemosensors for the Detection of Copper and Cyanide Ions, Alicia Luhrs
Loss of Identity, Radicalization, and Terrorism, Magdalena Martinez
Challenging Filipino Colonial Mentality with Philippine Art, Francesca V. Mateo
Testing Ostrom: an Analysis of Water User Committees in Uganda, Emily McPartlon
Evaluating Stolper-Samuelson: Trade Liberalization & Wage Inequality in India, Anthony M. Michael
A Political Ecology of Copper Production and Environmental Degradation In Zambia, Chalwe C. Mwansa
Long Working Hours, Happiness, and Quality of Democracy With the Case Studies of Japan and Denmark, Yu Namie
Supporting Emerging Multilingual Newcomer Students and their Teachers in California Public High Schools, Rosa Lea V. Ojeda
The Electoral Success of Communist-Successor Parties in the Czech Republic and Romania, Harley L. Roe
Savings Groups and Banks: Complements or Substitutes? Financial Inclusion in Rural Tanzania, Shirleen Rubangura Teta
Effect of Non-Monetary Incentives on Women's Competitive Inclination: Experimental evidence from Ancona, Italy, Kalkidan Shebi
The Taiwanese-American Perspective on Discrimination in English Language Teaching, Kuan Cheng Song
Distorting the Life of Maca (Lepidium Miyenii), Fabiola Tavui
The Politics of Contagion, Joseph M. Young
Phylogenetics, biogeography, and climate niche variation of South Pacific and Hawaiian Psychotria, Elaine Zhang
Theses from 2015
The Impact of Borehole Wells and a Hygiene and Sanitation Program on Diarrhea: Evidence from Rural Southwest Uganda, Morgan Adams
Gender Bias in Microlending: Do Opposites Attract?, Kanyinsola Adepoju
Europe’s Refugee Crisis: Assessing the Factors Preventing a Coordinated EU Response, Ali Albassam
A Test of the Household Separation Hypothesis in Rwanda, James E. Anderson
Authoritarian Member States in International Organizations, Matt Barg
Dislocation and Adjustment of International Student-Athletes, Thiago Brito Lopes
The Tunisian Revolution: Empire and the Power of The Multitude, Caroline A. Burns
Privatization & FDI: Examining Growth in Vietnam's Provinces, William T. Clark
Investigations of Thioether Generation for S-D-Ribosyl-L-homocysteine Synthesis, Brendan Corcoran
Consumption Smoothing and Labor Supply Allocation Decisions: Evidence from Tanzania, Dustin Davis
Crowded Out: The Effect of Sex Ratios on the Sex Worker Labor Market and Migration in India, Michael Dickerson
Evolution of a Nation after a Dictatorship: How Law, Politics and Society of the 1973 Dictatorship in Uruguay and of the Subsequent Return of Democracy in 1985, Potentially Helped Evolve the Nation of Today., Jonathan A. Fein Proaño
Does Poverty Really Impede Cognitive Function? Experimental Evidence from Tanzanian Fishers, Virginia Graves
Pace, Academic Progress, and the Antecedents of Student Motivation, Aaron Randall Hiatt
Postcolonialism and the Marshallese Diaspora: Structural Violence and Health in the Marshallese Community in Springdale, Arkansas, Alexander J. Hirata
The Impact of Migration and Remittances on Children's Education in El Salvador, Philip H. Jakob
The Role of Gender and Education in the Perpetration and Prevention of School-related Gender-based Violence, Sabrina James
The curious case of Greece: The impact of fiscal policy shocks on key macroeconomic variables. A VAR based approach., Manny Kaliontzakis
Muslim Brothers or Overstaying Guests? The Reception of Syrian Refugees in Southeastern Turkey, Irem Karaçizmeli
"100 Years Later, It Is Still So Powerful": Navigating the Effects of the Armenian Genocide and its Trauma on Armenian American Youth, Lara S. Kleine
The German Army at a Crossroads of Modernization, Sarah E. Liebig
Terpyridine Functionalized Dye-Doped Silica Nanoparticles (DDSN) for Detection of Metal Ions, Jonathan J. Liu