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CAPSTONE DAYFEATURINGThe Mary Wig JohnsonSenior ForumSCRIPPS COLLEGEBette Cree Edwards Humanities BuildingWednesday May 2, 20129:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Capstone Day ScheduleThis will mark our 4th annualCapstone Day, a budding Scrippstradition and permanent feature onthe spring calendar. On this specialday the entire Scripps communitycomes together in celebration of thesenior class’ accomplishments. Itscenterpiece, the Mary Wig JohnsonSenior Forum, is intended to fostercollaboration among students andfaculty across the disciplines and toenhance the intellectual life of theCollege. Attentive to the diversity ofstudent interest and accomplishment,the Forum will include a variety offormats for the presentation of studenttheses and capstone work: formaltalks, poster sessions, and exhibitions,as well as musical performances.Capstone Day activities are open totrustees, students, faculty, staff,family, alumnae, and friends ofScripps College.9:30 a.m. A-session presenterscheck in with the Forum Clerk inthe Humanities Courtyard9:45-10:45 a.m. Mary Wig Johnson Senior Forum –A Sessions10:45 a.m. B-session presenterscheck in with the Forum Clerk inthe Humanities Courtyard11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Mary Wig Johnson Senior Forum –B Sessions12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Scripps Community Luncheon -Elm Tree Lawn12:20 p.m. President’s and Dean’s address -Elm Tree Lawn1:15 p.m. C-session presenters checkin with the Forum Clerk in theHumanities Courtyard1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Mary Wig Johnson Senior Forum –C Sessions2:30 p.m. D-session presenterscheck in with the Forum Clerk inthe Humanities Courtyard2:45 p.m.-3:45 p.m. Mary Wig Johnson Senior Forum –D Sessions3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Scripps Tea: “Celebrating ourSeniors” – Seal Court5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Seniors vs. Faculty/Staff SoccerGame – Tiernan6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Student-Faculty Mixer – HamptonRoom

interdisciplinary Core curriculum as a foundation for focused research in liberal arts disciplines.Thus, each class is united in a common intellectual experience, and the Mary Wig JohnsonSenior Forum showcases capstones of outstanding Class of 2012 students’ academic career.A Sessions9:30 A-session presenters check in with the Forum Clerk in the Humanities Courtyard9:45-10:45 Session A1 Latin-American Studies Humanities 105Moderator: Professor Marina Perez de Mendiola1. ADRIENNE BEITCHERLatin American Studies“Ni la tierra, ni las mujeres somos territorio de la conquista”This thesis focuses on the roots of Bolivian transnational motherhood and the feminization of migration within the larger frameworks ofneoliberalism/globalization. These policies and reforms undertaken in Bolivia transform patterns of migration, gender relations and householdformations, fostering the phenomenon of transnational motherhood. I argue that neoliberalism has exacerbated the migration of Andean womenand explore the greater implications of this focusing specifically on poor indigenous women because neoliberalism most directly and profoundlyaffects them.Advisor: Marina Perez de Mendiola2. JULIA T. SCHEIBMEIRLatin American StudiesFilm, Fashion and Fotografía: The Exoticism and Eroticism of Female Victims in JuárezThis thesis examines the phenomenon of feminicide in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and the representation of female victims in U.S. and Mexicanmainstream media and performance activism. Specifically analyzing representations of maquiladora workers and feminicide victims in film, fashionand photography, this thesis explores the simultaneous fetishization and devaluation of border women in patriarchal society. By broadening thebase of pressure for justice, via performance and internet activism, misogynist governments and policies can and will change.Advisors: Miguel Tinker Salas, Carmen Sanjuan and Marina Perez de Mendiola3. ANTOINETTE MYERSLatin American Studies & Politics/International RelationsFrom A Xicanadyke Imagination: An Examination Of Queer Xicanidad, Citizenship And National Identity Through The LWord, The Hungry Woman, And Mosquita y MariThis thesis examines the ways in which popular media forms explore ideas of national identity, citizenship, and the politics of representation withregards to queer Xicana women, especially those residing in Los Angeles. Specifically, through an analysis of the television show The L Word,Cherrie Moraga’s play The Hungry Woman and Aurora Guerrero’s film Mosquita y Mari, this thesis argues that the queer Xicana experience isbest represented in popular culture by queer Xicanas themselves.Advisor: Nancy Neiman Auerbach9:45-10:45 Session A2 Biology Humanities 119Moderator: Professor Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert1. RACHEL A. KINGBiologyThe Effects of Invasive Grasses on the Survival and Germination of Native ForbsInvasive species are an increasingly severe threat to the conservation of native species. This thesis examined whether the presence of invasive grassesaffects the survivorship and germination of native annuals. Later germinating seeds had higher survival rates than early germinants, while invasivegrasses did not significantly affect the survival of native seedlings. Overall, there is evidence that germination timing influences seedling survival,while competition potentially decreases the survival of later germinants.Advisor: Diane Thomson2

2. JULIA M. BEHNENMolecular BiologySIVagm Vif counters African green monkey APOBEC3G and APOBEC3F in vivoSimian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) is the primate predecessor to HIV. It is unclear what host factors drive adaptation in SIV and HIV.Candidates include the APOBEC3 family of genes that restrict HIV/SIV replication and that are degraded by viral Vif proteins. This thesisexamined whether Vif adaptation to APOBEC3G in African green monkeys (AGMs) compromised Vif’s ability to combat APOBEC3F. It wasfound that Vif maintained its ability to counteract APOBEC3F while adapting to APOBEC3G.Advisor: Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert3. MEGAN SWIMMolecular BiologyUnderstanding the Mechanism of a Misogynistic ChromosomeNormally chromosomes, the carriers of the hereditary material, are partitioned equally into daughter cells during cell division. I have investigated astriking exception to this trend - a deviant chromosome in the jewel wasp N. vitripennis that acts against the rest of the genome for its own selfishtransmission. My work has provided insights into how this chromosome destroys half of the wasp genome and is transmitted at a near-perfectfrequency to new progeny.Advisor: Dr. Patrick Ferree4. HANNAH ROSE BRADLEYHuman BiologyImplications of Land Development on Nomadic Pastoralism: Ecological Relaxation and Biosocial Diversity in HumanPopulationsUsing the lens of human biogeography, this thesis examines the effects of expanding land development on nomadic pastoralists. Though there issome correlation between land use change and declining nomadic populations, analysis indicates that social factors may have a larger effect onnomads than simply habitat loss. Nomadic and sedentary societies have been historically balanced in an ecological symbiosis that may be disruptedby continuing development, threatening the social diversity of the human ecosystem.Advisor: Karthik Panchanathan5. MEGAN LEWISHuman BiologyAn Investigation of the Effects of Pitocin for Labor Induction and Augmentation on Breastfeeding SuccessMedical interventions during labor have become increasingly common in the U.S. Half of all labors are induced or augmented with Pitocin, asynthetic form of the hormone oxytocin, often for non-medical reasons. However, studies have found that Pitocin can have adverse effects on themother and fetus and can impact breastfeeding. Therefore, I propose a study to investigate the effects of Pitocin on early breastfeeding successusing the LATCH scoring system.Advisor: Jessica Malisch9:45-10:45 Session A3 Mathematics Humanities Courtyard (101 if rain)Moderator: Professor Anie Chaderjian1. AMANDA CLEMMMathematicsGeneralized Sato-Tate ConjectureFollowing the work of Fité, Kedlaya, Rotger and Sutherland, we present the Gerneralized Sato-Tate Conjecture, which states that given a genus gcurve, the distribution of the coefficients of its L-polynomial converges to the distribution of the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial of arandom matrix in some infinite compact subgroup of the group USp(2g). We describe the implications of this conjecture for genus 1 and genus 2curves and present supporting statistical evidence.Advisor: Chris Towse3

2. ANNA CHOMathematicsConstructing Phylogenetic Trees Using Maximum LikelihoodMaximum likelihood methods are used to estimate the phylogenetic trees for a set of species. DNA base substitutions are modeled by continuoustimeMarkov chains. We use these probabilities to estimate which DNA bases would produce the data that we observe. The topology of the tree isdetermined using base substitution probabilities and conditional likelihoods. Joseph Felsenstein introduced this method of finding an estimate forthe maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree. We explore this method in detail.Advisor: Christopher Towse3. LAURA PASSARELLIMathematicsThe Mystic Hexagon and Riemann’s Theorem: Topics from William Fulton’s Book Algebraic CurvesThe thesis takes the reader through important chapters in William Fulton’s book Algebraic Curves, culminating in a discussion of Riemann’stheorem and the Riemann-Roch theorem. The poster will introduce the concepts of algebraic sets, varieties, and projective space and includeexplanatory proofs to Pascal’s theorem (also known as the mystic hexagon) and Riemann’s theorem.Advisor: Dagan Karp (Harvey Mudd College)4. LEAH F. ROSENBAUMMathematicsExploring the On-line Partitioning of Posets ProblemPartitioning involves dividing a poset's elements into the fewest number of chains. In 1950, Dilworth established that any partition uses at least theposet’s width number of chains. Such a bound in on-line partitioning was harder to establish. This thesis explores the work that established abound for width 2 posets and for on-line partitioning using the Greedy Algorithm. This thesis concludes by contributing a bound on incomparableelements in graded, (t+t)-free, finite width posets.Advisor: Shahriar Shahriari5. EMILY WATTERBERGMathematicsBirack Dynamical Cocylces and Projection InvariantsBy studying previous knot invariants such as the Jones polynomial and the HOMFLY polynomial we are able to define a new type of invariantusing biracks. In this paper we define a new enhancement of the integral birack counting invariant by dynamical cocycles analgously to thepreviously studied rack dynamical cocyles case. These new invariants can be understood in terms of grouping birack homomorphisms in order tocreate a polynomial that represents the knot invariant. Then we provide examples to show that the new invariant is stronger than the unenhancedbirack counting invariant.Advisor: Sam Nelson, Winston Ou6. MIRANDA ELIZABETH MURRAYMathematicsThe Paths to Proving Quadratic ReciprocityThis thesis looks at methods of proving The Law of Quadratic Reciprocity. The proofs hinge on the property of quadratic residues to behave like theinteger 1 and nonresidues to behave like the integer -1. The combination of these methods reveals how crucial The Law of Quadratic Reciprocity is toNumber Theory and how different discoveries in mathematics are interrelated. In particular, it illustrates the unity between algebraic andgeometric conceptions of this fundamental theorem.Advisor: David Bachman9:45am-10:45pm Session A4 English Humanities 120Moderator: Professor Warren Liu1. HILLARY MATTHEWSHonors English“When he put the pistol in my hand I didn’t”: Homoeroticism and Gender Performance in Faulkner’s The Sound and theFury and Absalom, Absalom!4

2. MARGARET C.A. DICKMANHispanic StudiesLa Educación de Niños Gitanos en Escuelas Españolas: Historia y PolíticasThis thesis examines education policy surrounding gypsy children in Spain. By starting with a historical understanding of the gypsy situation andproceeding to an investigation of their artistic representations, this thesis offers a more complete perspective of the gypsy condition before delvinginto the actual education policy. Various studies are examined with regards to the success or failure of teaching gypsy children in public schoolsfollowed by the proposed programs to improve the educational systems.Advisor: Marina Perez de Mendiola3. STEPHANIE LESTERPolitics and International Relations and Hispanic StudiesThesis Title: “La Generación Ni Ni” and the Exodus of Spanish Youth”: National Crisis or Functioning European UnionMarket?More than 300,000 Spaniards have left Spain since 2008, the majority being the well-educated youth. The exodus of youth represents an unusualand concerning phenomenon for Spain. This thesis explains the factors contributing to the emigration of Spanish well-educated youth, and fromthere extrapolates on implications for the nature of an internal market in the European Union. It concludes that push-pull economic factors and anaffiliation with the European Union internal market encourage intra-European migration. Additionally, political disillusionment within Spainerodes the sense of national loyalty among youth to further promote emigration. The Spanish case demonstrates that within a community asintegrated as the European Union, tensions between international markets and national sovereignty are bound to permeate the community. Thistension is demonstrated by the validity of both terms "national crisis" and "functioning European Union market" to describe the emigration.Advisor: Nancy Neiman Auerbach11:00-12:00 Session B2 Foreign Languages Humanities 203Moderator: Professor Marina Perez de Mendiola1. EVA VALENTIForeign Languages - Comparative Philology: French and SpanishLa sociolinguistique postcoloniale en Amérique hispanophone et en Afrique francophone : Un drame linguistique en deuxactesThis thesis compares the sociolinguistic situations in postcolonial Latin America and francophone Africa. Specifically, it examines the ways inwhich Spain and France’s colonial agendas and language ideologies affected the relationships between colonizer and colonized, and, consequently,the role that Spanish and French play(ed) in these regions after decolonization. Finally, it explores how Spain and France’s contemporary discoursesframe colonial participation in the two languages’ development, and these ideologies’ psychological effects on the formerly colonized.Advisors: Thierry Boucquey and Marina Perez de Mendiola2. MIRABELLE KORNForeign Languages: French and GermanLa Réconciliation de la tradition et de la modernité dans l’adaptation cinématographique contemporaine du conte de féesen France et en AllemagneThis thesis examines the adaptation of fairy tales in ten recent French and German films. It looks specifically at narrative structures, representationsof magic, portrayals of childhood, and manifestations of good and evil. This thesis asks how and why contemporary French and Germanfilmmakers choose, consciously or not, to update some of the central motifs of fairy tales for a modern audience and what attitudes toward thereconciliation of tradition and modernity those choices express.Advisors: Nathalie Rachlin and Hans Rindisbacher3. OLIVIA IZABEL GORDON LOPESForeign Languages: Spanish & French, Africana Studies minorRap Versus Rule: The Language of Resistance in SenegalLanguage supports action, ideology, and power. My thesis treats rap, language-centered music, as a form of capital engaged in power struggle.Extending “capital” to encompass rap’s broader cultural, social, political, and symbolic purchase, I trace it from its ideological underpinnings to thepossibilities it offers for resistance. Enter rappers protesting power outages, chronic poverty, and unconstitutional presidential candidacy in Senegal’scurrent citizens’ movement as I argue that their wordplay re-raps a model for democratic society.Advisor: Marina Perez de Mendiola and Marie-Denise Shelton7

4. MICHELLE D. GLOSTERForeign Languages: Spanish and FrenchLa comercialización del turismo étnico en Guatemala y MarruecosThis thesis examines the commercialization of ethnic tourism in Guatemala and Morocco in a postcolonial world. Addressing notions ofauthenticity, Western expectations of the ethnic tourism experience, and the colonial portrayal of the Mayas and the Berbers, the thesis argues thatthe Guatemalan and Moroccan governments reduce their indigenous populations to ‘authentic’ living museums, exploiting them for touristicpurposes, while simultaneously culturally repressing them.Advisors: Carmen Sanjuán-Pastor, Fazia Aitel, and César López11:00-12:00 Session B3 Writing Humanities 120Moderator: Professor Kimberly Drake1. ARIEL BLOOMERCreative Writing: Fiction (self-designed)Fall of the Limes: A Young Adult Historical Fiction NovellaDepression-era life is a challenge for 16-year-old Donald Foyle and his sisters as they tiptoe around a grieving father and eke out a living from afailing lime orchard. When the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane bears down on Florida’s Upper Keys, Donald’s struggle turns to one of survival. Withdetails culled from historical documents and survivors’ accounts, this novella explores the devastation of the first Category 5 hurricane to makelandfall in the United States.Advisor: Kimberly Drake2. JULIA RIGBYSelf Designed Major in Environmental WritingA Celebration of Ceremony Among the Juañeno Band of Mission Indians, Acjachemen NationI plan on sharing stories that have been shared to me by indigenous leaders of the Acjachemen Nation. Two of the Acjachemen’s sacred ancestralvillages, the Bolsa Chica Cogged Stone site in Huntington Beach and Putuidem in San Juan Capistrano, are the epicenters of land use debates. Inmy effort to better understand why these places are sacred and worthy of protection, I have come to realize how traditional Acjachemen worldviewsare manifested in contemporary ceremonies which celebrate the sanctity of these ancestral sites.Advisors: Kimberly Drake, Leda Martins11:00-12:00 Session B4 Art History Humanities 202Moderator: Professor Juliet Koss1. JENNIE WALDOWArt HistoryBeyond Boring Art: Humorous Critique in the Work of John Baldessari, 1966–1974John Baldessari (b. 1931) created his own unique brand of Conceptualism that combines commentary and humor. This thesis examines three keyworks from 1966 to 1974, years of great change in Baldessari’s commercial and critical fortunes. The thesis analyzes the aesthetic strategies of thethree works and charts Baldessari’s change in critical focus from explicit appraisal of the work of his peers to a more nuanced evaluation of thetenuous relationship between imagery and reality.Advisor: Mary MacNaughton2. STEFANIE SAPERSTEINArt HistoryThe Vision of Reality as a Paradox: Salvador Dalí’s Creative Process from 1927-1939From 1927 -1939, Salvador Dalí went through a pursuit to visualize his perspective on reality. While Dalí wrote of and incorporated Einstein’s,Freud’s and Lacan’s ideas into his art, he came to his own conclusions, which he envisioned in his artworks. To illuminate Dalí’s process this thesisexamines Un chien andalou (1929), The Persistence of Memory (1931), and The Endless Enigma (1938), as Dalí expressed his changes in thought mostclearly in these works.Advisor: Mary MacNaughton8

3. SURIA MARKUSArt HistoryWenceslas in Revolution: Cerny’s Kun as Czech National SymbolAdvisors: Juliet Koss and George Gorse (Pomona)This thesis explores how David Cerny responded to the ensuing democratic atmosphere in Prague in the decade following the fall of Communismand what factors influenced his creative process during this period. As the antithesis of Myslbek’s monument, Kun reveals a prism through whichquestions concerning the role of monuments and public art and their function in public spaces, the necessity of national symbols, past and presentnational identities, politics, tradition, satire, and crime may be examined.11:00-12:00 Session B5 Anthropology Humanities 121Moderator: Professor Lara Deeb1. NEHA DESHMUKHAnthropologyCapitalism and Whiteness: The Indoctrination of the United States’ Indian Immigrant CommunityThis thesis explores how the interlocking systems of whiteness and capitalism exert power over the lived reality of Indian immigrants living in theUnited States, particularly the U.S. born second generation. Specifically, it examines how white supremacy, the model minority myth, and themyth of meritocracy have informed the education and career choices of Indians in the U.S. and influenced their notions of family, home,community, and self-esteem. It concludes that these socio-economic phenomenon ultimately reinforce pre-existing racial and class hierarchies andperpetuate systematic oppression for all minorities in the United States.Advisor: Lara Deeb2. LIA TAMMINENSociocultural Anthropology“We are all about collaboration. That’s who we are.” The Importance of Collaboration in a Dual Language ImmersionEducation ProgramThis thesis examines the importance of collaborative relationships at a public elementary school’s dual language immersion program (DL). Based onethnographic fieldwork, it argues that the DL model facilitates collaborative relationships and in turn, these relationships among students, teachers,administrators, and parents strengthen the program. This collaborative educational environment helps bridge diverse linguistic, cultural, andsocioeconomic backgrounds, equalizing students’ participation in their education, particularly important for those students historically marginalizedin a mainstream school setting.Advisor: Lara Deeb3. NADIA C. DANILOVICHAnthropology and Hispanic StudiesRacialization, Language Acquisition and Community Formation: A Case Study of Day Labor in Southern CaliforniaThis thesis examines the various aspects of day labor through the lens of a specific, regulated site in Pomona, California, while also situating daylabor in larger historical processes of migration and globalization. Specifically, through in-depth interviews with day laborers, this thesis examinesthe intersection of discrimination, English language acquisition and activism. Ultimately, this thesis argues that day laborers negotiate theirstigmatized status as transient, “illegal,” Latinos, by forming community and advocating for themselves.Advisor: Lara Deeb4. KATYA SHACKELFORDAnthropologyComplexities of Participation: Education and Authority in Primary Care Patient-Provider Interactions in the Age of theInternetThis thesis is about the dynamics of patient-provider interactions in primary care today. Drawing from individual interviews conducted withmedical professionals practicing in the U.S., I discuss providers’ objectives and challenges in primary care and their perceptions of patientparticipation and online research. Providers’ emphasis on education, I argue, informs their views of patients’ independent research and involvementin care. Providers’ positivity regarding patient involvement and education, however, does not overcome their authority in consultations.Advisor: Lara Deeb9

11:00-12:00 Session B6 Gender & Women’s Studies Humanities 201Moderator: Professor Christine Guzaitis1. CLAIRE H. CALDERÓNGender & Women’s Studies and Latin American StudiesVital and Unseen: An Investigation of the Role and Experience of Service Staff at Scripps CollegeThis thesis critically evaluates Scripps College’s commitment to an inclusive multicultural community outlined in the “Principles of Community”and the “Principles of Diversity”. It investigates the historical and contemporary role of service workers at Scripps and problematizes theirexclusion from this commitment. Ultimately, this thesis suggests that as a college dedicated to empowering historically underserved members ofsociety, we have a unique responsibility to address and amend the invisibility of service labor with the same vehemence with which we targetsexism.Advisors: Chris Guzaitis and Marina Perez de Mendiola2. ANDREA KOZAKGender and Women's Studies and German StudiesDie Frauen, Der Strafvollzug, und Der Staat: Incarceration and Ideology in Post-WWII GermanyGermany's women's prison system is complex and imperfect, yet quite progressive. In the past sixty years, it has been uniquely shaped by thecapitalist and communist histories of the once-divided state, reflecting the remarkable rebuilding of Germany since the end of the horrific WWII.This thesis explores the complex development of the German state through a study of its ideologies of gender, crime, and incarceration as theyevolved and eventually merged.Adviser: Susan Castagnetto3. SHAYNA ORENTGender and Women’s StudiesFetuses Are People, Too?: How Images of Sonograms in Popular Culture Affect our Conception of Fetal PersonhoodThis thesis explores the way popular culture reinforces a sentimentalized reading of the sonogram image, which has been appropriated by theconservative Right for their pro-life campaigns. It analyzes several popular culture texts to discover how their use of the sonogram imagepersonifies the fetus. Connecting this sentimentalization of the image with recent anti-abortion legislation, this thesis argues there is a need for amore critical reading of these images.Advisor: Chris Guzaitis4. LILLY ESTENSONGender and Women’s Studies and Music, Media, and Culture (self-designed)(R)Evolution Grrrl Style Now: Disidentification and Evolution within Riot Grrrl FeminismThis thesis examines the evolution of feminist praxis within the riot grrrl movement, focusing on two specific riot grrrl demographics - foundingriot grrrls in the early 1990s and currently active riot grrrls in southern California. This thesis argues that riot grrrl activism is still thriving but indiverse, strategically adapted ways. Using José Muñoz’s concept of “disidentification,” it analyzes how contemporary riot grrrls have appropriatedthe original movement’s tenets to allow for greater accessibility.Advisor: Chris Guzaitis5. BERENICE VILLELAChicano Studies & Gender/Women’s Studies“Nudge A Mexican And She Or He Will Break Out With A Story:” Complicating Mexican Immigrant Masculinities ThroughCounternarrative StorytellingIn this thesis, I explore Latino masculinities and contest their uniformity by exploring the micro and macro manifestations of gender policing in myown father’s life. Following storytelling traditions of Mexican culture, I converted my father’s oral history into a collection of stories. I place thetheories of performativity, borderland identities and disidentification in conversation as a framework through which to understand masculinity in anew light.Advisor: Chris Guzaitis10

5. SARAH C. STRINGERFrench and PsychologyAutism in France and the United States: Integrating Perspectives from Psychoanalysis to Cognitive ScienceAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a topic of considerable debate in France and the United States. This thesis explored the differences in rhetoricand approaches to autism within and between the two countries as well as some of the reasons behind these divisions. It then applied a cognitivemeasure of sensory integration and physical embodiment to test French psychoanalytic claims about ASD, suggesting the possibility of integratingseemingly incompatible viewpoints to better understand the disorder.Advisors: Alan Hartley and Eric Haskell6. MELANIE R. WILLIAMSFrench StudiesL’Infirmière française: Entre la laïcité et la sentimentalitéWhile modern nursing developed easily in other countries during the 19 th and 20 th centuries, the French political situation paved a nebulous coursefor its growth. Numerous ideological and physical battles hindered and helped the professionalization of the French nurse. This study examines theimpact of secularization and World War I on the establishment of the nursing profession and its acceptance in French society.Advisors: Gina Zupsich, France Lemoine1:30-2:30 Session C2 Economics Humanities 121Moderator: Professor Latika Chaudhary1. KRISTINA B. STANFORDMathematical EconomicsThe Impacts of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster on Electricity Consumption: An Examination of TEPCO’s Daily LoadCurveThis thesis analyzes the aggregate and hourly effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster on Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) electricityload, using alternative event study methodology. The results indicate a significant, negative relationship between the disaster and TEPCO’s load,especially during peak hours. Additionally, this paper comments on the timeline for which TEPCO’s loads will reach pre-disaster levels, providinginsight into the economic implications of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster both in Japan and worldwide.Advisor: Roberto Pedace2. COURTNEY SIBERTEconomics and MathematicsSchool Choice and Voucher Systems: a comparison of the drivers of educational achievement and of private school choiceEconometric analyses of voucher systems often find that they have been unsuccessful in improving measures of educational success. This paperexamines a possible explanation of this phenomenon by comparing the drivers of educational achievement and of school popularity. The findingsof this paper indicate that there is a disconnect between school success and school popularity, adversely effecting the theorized benefits of vouchersystems. Additionally, this paper reviews matching mechanisms that efficiently match students with schools.Advisor: Latika Chaudhary3. SHAILINI S. PANDYAEconomics and PsychologyWorth Its Weight in Gold: An Analysis of the Gold-Collateralized Loan Industry in IndiaGold-collateralized loans, a financial service in India, allow borrowers to pledge gold jewelry as collateral against personal loans. In this paper, Iassemble a data set to investigate the characteristics affecting loan participation and loan amount received. Results indicate that current employmentinfluences both loan participation and amount. Participation in the gold-lending market is significantly affected by personal and communityperceptions. However, collateral value is the most influential factor in determining the loan amount received.Advisor: Sean Flynn and Stacey Wood12

1:30-2:30 Session C4 Music / History Balch AuditoriumModerator: Professor Charles Kamm1. MARISA B. MENDOZAHistory Major and Hispanic Studies MinorCanciones del Movimiento Chicano/Songs of the Chicano Movement: The Impact of Musical Traditions on the 1960s ChicanoMovement.This thesis analyzes resistance songs as key representations of the identity and political formation that took place during the 1960s Chicanomovement. Examining particular musical traditions, this thesis highlights the value of placing songs of the Chicano struggle in national narratives ofhistory as well as in the context of an enduring and thriving legacy of political and social activism that continues to allow the Chicano communityto recognize and validate their current social realities.Advisor: Julie Liss and Tomas Summers Sandoval2. FELICIA A. PALMERMusic: Vocal PerformanceUnsung Heroines of History, Myth, and LiteratureThis performance thesis examines strong women characters whose roles are integral to the Western canon of history, religion, myth, and literature.Employing vocal performance practices from the late Renaissance, Baroque, and Romantic periods, this thesis also features two new workscommissioned from Moshe Shulman. A manipulative queen, a Gypsy seductress, a forgotten matriarch, and a childless wife are just a few of themany archetypes of the female experience.Advisor: Anne Harley3. KARIN WESTONMusic Performance - VoiceWitches, Queens and Warriors in Early and Contemporary Classical MusicIn classical music, male composers have often portrayed women as victims, or as passive objects of adoration. To offer a musical counterargument,in my recital, I perform selections that bring to life powerful female characters: woman warriors, queens, and witches from early and contemporaryclassical music. Additionally, in a performance that represents women, I wanted to give women composers a voice: half the pieces on my programwere written by women.Advisor: Anne Harley1:30-2:30 Session C5 Religious Studies Humanities 203Moderator: Professor Andrew Jacobs1. CALLIE BALLARDReligious StudiesCan’t Be Tamed: A Feminist Analysis of the Apocrypha and Other TextsThis paper is my own unique feminist analysis of certain apocryphal texts. Though the texts I use have common themes, they are divided intowhat I consider the three most societally important aspects of an ancient woman’s identity: virgin, mother, and whore.Advisor: Andrew Jacobs2. BRENNA J. DONNELLYReligious Studies and Hispanic StudiesAljamiado Literature and the Preservation of Faith in the Crypto-Islamic Communities of Early Modern SpainThis thesis examines the role of aljamiado literature (aljamiado is Spanish written in the Arabic alphabet) in Crypto-Islamic communities underChristian rule in the years following the Reconquista in Spain. Through the exploration of primary aljamiado texts, this thesis argues that aljamiadoliterature played an essential role in the preservation of Islam and Muslim identity within these communities.Advisors: Andrew Jacobs, Cesar Lopéz, Kenneth Wolf14

3. KIMBERLY ANDERSONReligious Studies“The world is made up of stories, not atoms”: Imagining the Other Through Metaphysics and PoetryThis thesis is an exercise in imagining and excavating a real, human other in the work of process philosopher Charles Hartshorne and Leftist poetMuriel Rukeyser. Paying particular attention to the methodology of Hartshorne’s metaphysics, his social conception of reality and Rukeyser’semphasis on the other in her poetics, the thesis argues that theology hoping to move toward the other requires both theoretical and concreteexpressions. Finally, it explores the ways poetry is inherently equipped to help theology to make this move.Advisor: Andrew Jacobs1:30-2:30 Session C6 Humanities Humanities 119Moderator: Professor David Roselli1. KELSEY FIGONEHumanities: Interdisciplinary Studies in CultureThe Hegemony of English in South African EducationThis these examines the way language operates within a framework of power in South African education. The majority of South African schoolsuse English as the medium of instruction; however, most students are mother-tongue speakers of indigenous African languages and struggle tosucceed in the educational system. This is an issue which perpetuates inequality from South Africa’s past. To create a society which recognizes thecapabilities of each individual, South African education must be reimagined.Advisors: Tony Crowley, David Roselli, and Carmen Fought2. TESSA JACOBSHumanities: Interdisciplinary studies in CultureThe Monkey in the Looking Glass: Fairies, Folklore and Evolutionary Theory in the search for Britain’s Imperial SelfThis Thesis situates fairy folklore and literature from the Victorian era within the context of greater social and political ideologies of the agepertaining to national identity, imperial power, and race, which developed in the wake of Darwinian theory. This work analyzes texts from authorsas varied as Lewis Carroll and Charlotte Brontë, arguing that the British self proposed by these works was an uncomfortable manifestation, hauntedby the anxieties and discontinuities of imperial ideologies.Advisors: Aaron Matz; Emily Cuming3. LEAH PLAISIER MORTENSENHumanities Major: Interdisciplinary Studies in CultureIsland Inquiries: Nature, Culture and Environmental ManagementI looked at the restoration of Santa Cruz Island National Park to examine the interconnected relationship between nature and culture in theUnited States. I conducted literature research on the changes in conceptual construction and environmental policy, and grounded my analysis ininterviews I conducted with National Park Employees involved in the Primary Restoration Plan. Through the language of their responses, Ianalyzed how specific words, process and possibility, affect the restoration and consequently our concept of nature.Advisor: Marina Perez de Mendiola4. JENNA TICOHumanitiesBody Language: Representations of Dis/Ability in Life Writing and Improvisational DanceThis thesis analyzes autobiographical depictions of physical disability and illness in life writing, a flexible form of creative nonfiction, and ContactImprovisation, a postmodern dance form. Specifically, it examines the spontaneity, interdependence, performance, and multiplicity of identityinherent in these formats in order to consider why looking at dance and writing together—blurring the categories between the physical andintellectual—provides for a deeper understanding of embodiment, disabled or otherwise.Advisors: Emily Cuming and Gail Abrams15

1. LILY BURGESSArt and PsychologySpelling Gratitude: An Aesthetic ExplorationThis thesis is founded in the positive psychological theory of gratitude, the experience of thankfulness and its benefits on both the individual andthe community. My explorations via personal journaling, careful reflection, and engaging in craft, led me to cultivate a new definition forgratitude: present moment awareness. Using sheer fabric and the meditative act of embroidering, the language of gratitude was relearned andcultivated. My piece aims to incite further explorations in thanks.Advisor: Susan Rankaitis2. VIVIAN HAESLOOPStudio ArtThe ClaremontThe Claremont is an exploration in painting and drawing of the apartment complex I live in and its inhabitants. I aim to assume the role of artist asethnographer and present a visual documentation of both people and spaces within the site. The setting and the subject interact with one anotherto create a narrative of the space and those who occupy it.Advisor: Susan Rankaitis3. KATHERINE HEGARTYStudio ArtClothing the Body, Baring the Soul: The Intersection of Art and Fashion as a Vehicle for the Conceptual Discussion ofIdentity in Contemporary Practice.This thesis is a foundational investigation into the tensions between the worlds of art and fashion, an academic consideration of my artistic interestin how the two fields merge. By reviewing a range of artists and designers who have pushed the boundaries of these two spheres, this thesis arguesthat fashion must be recognized for its ability to explore the creation of identity through conceptual development that is equally as powerful asother contemporary art practices.Advisors: Susan Rankaitis, Adam Davis4. ASIA L. MORRISArt MajorRE-EMERGENT POST-MINIMALISM: AN ART HISTORICAL AND PERSONAL INVESTIGATIONMy thesis proposes that a Re-emergent Post-Minimalist movement exists today, where artists focus on craftsmanship, materials, and thecomplications of the creative process. My work explores my vision and how it can exist in others’ minds. My project later became focused on thecontrasts between organic forms attached to more industrial structures. It's about the give and take of living in spaces previously built and adaptingto these spaces within their constructs.Advisor: Susan Rankaitis5. ALLISON PERRYArtWomen and Video Games: Pigeonholing the PastAcademic work dealing with the overlap between video games and female representation is limited in both volume and proper research. Most textsagree on three supposed flaws with video games: they alienate female participants, there are no games for female players, and female players cannotrelate to female characters. This thesis sheds light on these points, not only citing specific counter-examples, but also showing how many of theseissues reflect on a larger societal problems.Susan Rankaitis6. MICHELLE PLOTKINArt and PsychologyQueering the Female Image: Post-Modern Feminism and the Power of the UncannyThis thesis is an exploration into the visual representation, experience and psychological realities of women. My fall work transitioned into aninstallation made up of individual pieces that fit together to make a greater whole. The compilation of images purposefully defies easycategorization, challenging the viewer to explore the dualities of corporeality and consciousness, the natural and the unnatural, fantasy and reality.The final piece is entitled, “Now That I’m in Rome and Can Think”.Advisors: Susan Rankaitis and Elana Mann17

7. ELISABETH SALZBERGArtEngulfedThrough a site-specific installation I am transforming coffee filters into a new entity. I explore concepts of abundance, and obsession, the power ofmultiples, and how when amassed, everyday objects can resonate and or take on new relationships with the viewer. The coffee filters seduce me ina way that is indescribable. The only way to get that point across, is to surround yourself with them, and drown out the noise.Readers: Susan Rankaitis and Adam Davis8. KRISTA SHARPEStudio ArtTechnological Transcendence: Shifting Artistic Explorations of Technology and Transhumanistic ArtTo develop my thesis project, I first researched William Kentridge. I used his methods as a starting point for my own exploration of the medium.In my thesis paper, “Technological Transcendence: Shifting Artistic Explorations of Technology and Transhumanistic Art,” I researched art thatinvolved the technological body. As artists wrangle with the idea of reaching humanities true potential, their representations of the body haveshifted and allowed for interesting new forms of artistic expression.Advisor: Susan Rankaitis9. TIFFANY YAUStudio Art and Media StudiesMapping the Metaphysical: Creating Narratives From DatabasesMy project in two parts explores the issues of managing archives of objective data as portraits of subjective experiences. I propose two approachesto graphing personal data tracking data: a digital, dynamic map of the virtual social network Twitter evolves based on the similarity of salient topicsbetween communities, and a self-portrait in the form of a positivist graph of my personal vital statistics presents physical data to suggest personalexperience.Advisor: Susan Rankaitis and T. Kim-Trang Tran10. LAUREN ESCOBARStudio ArtArt of Identity: Childhood, Race, and Feminism2:45-3:45 Session D2 Physical Sciences - Chemistry & Physics Humanities 201Moderator: Professor Mary Hatcher-Skeers1. ALEXANDRA B. PINCUSBiologySequence Context and Methylation Dependence of the Conformation and Binding Affinity of DNAThe ability of molecules to bind DNA plays an important role in many biological processes. This thesis examines the effects of sequence contextand binding-site methylation on the binding affinity and conformation of DNA dodecamers. Four sequences were chosen to test the predictivepower of a previously published dinucleotide scale. The binding affinity of each sequence and the BII conformation of each phosphate weremeasured using fluorescent titration and 2D NMR spectrometry.Advisor: Mary Hatcher-Skeers2. KELLY A. GARTONBiochemistry31 P NMR of Backbone Conformation and Dynamics in DNA at Cre Binding Site in Terms of Sequence ContextThe Cre sequence is a site responsible for the binding of specific transcription factors that determine the activation of genes. In this study, theeffects of flanking sequence around the Cre binding site on the conformation (BI or BII) and the dynamics (energy barrier) of DNA wereinvestigated through 2D 31 P-NMR experiments. Low and high %BII character lead to a large energy barrier, whereas average %BII character lead toa small energy barrier.Advisor: Mary Hatcher-Skeers18

3. KELSEY LUBETICHPhysicsWhere is the Best Place to Sit on a Roller Coaster? Forces, Physics, and Fun at DisneylandThe goal of this thesis was to quantitatively determine the best place to sit on a roller coaster by maximizing the time spent feeling weightless andachieving the highest value of negative Z acceleration. Acceleration values were measured on the California Screamin’ roller coaster at DisneyCalifornia Adventure Park using an iPhone accelerometer. It was determined that the front row had the greatest negative Z acceleration and wastherefore the “best place” to sit.Advisor: Scot Gould4. JHENNA VOORHISDual Physics and PhilosophyParsimony and Quantum Mechanics: An Analysis of the Copenhagen and Bohmian InterpretationsParsimony, sometime referred to as simplicity, is an effective criterion of theory choice in the case of Quantum Mechanics. The Copenhagen andBohmian interpretations are rival theories, with the Bohmian interpretation being more parsimonious. More parsimonious theories have a higherprobability of being true than less parsimonious rivals. The Bohmian interpretation should thus be preferred on these grounds.Advisors: Professor Locke, Professor Gould2:45-3:45 Session D3 Psychology Humanities Courtyard (119 if rain)Moderator: Professor Stacey Wood1. LEAH F. NUNKEPsychologyMindfulness and Concern for the Poor: The Roles of Empathic Concern and Emotion RegulationAs a state or trait characterized by a non-judgmental awareness of one’s moment-to-moment experience, mindfulness has been shown to increaseempathy, compassion, and perspective-taking. The current study investigated the role of mindfulness in predicting prosocial behavior towards ageneral outgroup including the possible mediating roles of empathy and emotion regulation. A significant positive relationship was found betweenmindfulness and concern for an outgroup, and empathic concern was found to mediate this relationship. Other findings support a model ofmultiple pathways that lead to prosocial behavior.Advisor: Stacey Wood2. ALLISON J. MIDDENPsychologyMemory vantage point and visual imagery: Effects on recall in younger and older adultsThe influence of vantage point at retrieval on the recall of younger and older adults was explored. It was hypothesized that recollections would bemore likely to include certain features when retrieved through the field vantage point than through the observer vantage point and vice versa.Although some differences were found, the results overall indicate that retrieval vantage point does not influence one’s recollections on mostmeasures for younger or older adults.Advisors: Stacey Wood and Alan Hartley3. MELISSA MESINASPsychology and Hispanic StudiesThe Role of Generational Differences and Cultural Participation in the Identity Development of Zapotec Descent Migrantsin Los AngelesA qualitative study was carried out to analyze the influence of cultural participation on ethnic identity of Zapotec migrants in Los Angeles. Fifteenfamilies were interviewed (parents) and given written questionnaires (children). It was hypothesized that the more parents and children participatedin cultural activities, the more likely they would identity as Zapotec or indigenous. The data did not support this hypothesis; yet, it highlightedsignificant differences in identity regarding gender and language preferences.Advisor: Sheila Walker19

4. KATE M. PLUTHPsychologyAlexithymia, Emotional Intelligence, and Their Relation to Word Usage in Expressive WritingThis thesis examined how people's levels of emotional understanding relate to the way they write about their emotions. Expressing one's emotionsverbally has been found to reduce stress and improve health, but emotional understanding may influence those results for an individual. Sixty-eightparticipants wrote about their emotional experiences; I used word coding software to analyze their writing. I found that people with different levelsof emotional understanding do tend to use different types of words.Advisors: Alan Hartley, Jennifer Ma5. DANIELLE E. TUCCIPsychologyMeasures of social cognition in the laboratory and real world: Towards temporal dynamics of implicit other-regardSocial cognition is a central aspect of human life that is critical to well-being in aging. My thesis investigated the relationship between behavioralmeasures of other-regard and self-report measures of empathy and the extent and quality of social networks in older adults. Increased other-regardassociated with decreased personal distress (r = -0.36, p = 0.01), and showed a marginal association with greater social network extent and quality(r = 0.20, p = 0.11).Advisor: Michael Spezio2:45-3:45 Session D4 Theater / Modern Visual Culture Humanities 121Moderators: Professors Art Horowitz (PO) and Sabrina Ovan1. COREY M. JAYTheatre Design – Emphasis in CostumesThe Unraveling of Shakespeare’s OthelloThis thesis analyzes one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies from the perspective of its costumes, and chronicles the start-to-finish process of thecostume design for the April 2012 production of Othello held at Pomona College. Incorporating the Pre-Raphaelite art movement with highfashion’s late Alexander McQueen, this thesis brings to light Othello’s predominant themes of race and honesty by means of luxurious textiles anddistinct silhouettes.Advisor: Sherry Linnell, Pomona College2. MIHYE (MICHELLE) NOItalian and European Studies with a concentration in Modern Visual CultureThe Cronaca Nera and the Italian Fascination with the Spectacle of DeathMy thesis will evaluate the cronaca nera, a subsection of Italian journalism focused on crime news, as a platform for cultural discussion and a majorforce in the production of social knowledge. Through the analysis of three crime cases chronicled by the cronaca, this thesis will explore crimenews’ role in exemplifying and actively modifying the sociopolitical realities during the cases’s respective eras.Advisors: Sabrina Ovan, Marc Katz3:30-5:00 Scripps Tea “Celebrating Our Seniors” Seal Court5:00-6:00 Seniors vs. Faculty / Staff Soccer Game Tiernan FieldSeniors Team:Abigail Jones, Sarah Cronin, Olivia Lopes, Rachel King, Evan Friede, Danielle Tucci, Karin Weston,Julia Scheibmeir, Leah Mortensen, Alexandra Pincus, Elizabeth Shulterbrandt, Katie Norwood,Stephanie Lester, Marissa Enfield, Rosa Ahn, Elissa Ronquillo, Asia Morris, Katya ShackeFaculty/Staff teamRoberto Pedace (Coach/Captain), Marylou Ferry, Cheryl Pump, Junelyn Peeples, Kim Drake, AmyMarcus-Newhall, Candida Jaquez, Keri Sanchez, Nancy Neiman, Jill Hawthorne, Copeland Andrews,David Cubek, Hector Ramirez, Becky Ballinger, Aaron Matz, Sabrina Ovan, Lola Trafecanty, CarmenSanjuan-Pastor, Thierry BoucqueyReferee: Molly Freed; Play-by-play Commentators: Marc Katz, Rob van Riel, and Ron Friedman6:30 Student (Seniors) - Faculty Mixer Hampton Room20

A special thank you to the Organizing Committee and other contributors: President Bettison-Varga,Dean Marcus-Newhall, Dean Lee, Maureen McCluney, Roberto Pedace, Mary Bartlett, Matt Hutaff,Marylou Ferry, Karen Bowman, Terry Young, Becky Ballinger, Kathy Castro, Michele Palstring, EleanaZeits, Staci Buchwald, Tamsen Burke, Sam Haynes, Socorro Chavez, Marla Love, Tina Brooks, LauraStratton, Marge Kligerman, Rob Van Riel, Ron Friedman, Susan Kullmann, Christina Kelly, HannahGravius, Seana Rothman, Tori Sepand, Hee Chung, Antoinette Myers, Taylor Thornton, Amanda Clemm,Annsley McKinney, and Thierry Boucquey21