Undergraduate Honors Theses and Student papers
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Maternal and Reproductive Health Experiences of Francophone Refugee Women Living in Durham, North Carolina
(2018-04-16)Maternal and reproductive health experiences of Central African and French-speaking refugee populations in the United States have not been well studied, despite the fact that the United States has resettled 50,000 Congolese ... -
For One Tooth, the Entire Jaw: Cross-Border Extremism, Coercive Diplomacy, and the India-Pakistan Security Dyad
(2018-01-01)This thesis analyzes the factors that affect the stability of the current security dilemma between India and Pakistan. In particular, it develops a strong link between the advent of cross-border militant attacks and the ... -
Bipartisanship in the 21st Century Cures Act
(2017-12)In the 114th Congress, only 2.7% of introduced bills became laws. During this Congress, the 21st Century Cures Act passed with an overwhelming majority of 392 to 26 in the House and 94 to 5 in the Senate. The purpose of ... -
The Use of Children as Props in Political Campaign Advertising
(2018-02-03)This project explores the ways in which children are used in political campaign advertising. Analyzing 97 videos from the 2016 presidential and congressional elections, I coded for the types of children that appeared in ... -
Neither White, Nor Black, but Fully Southern
(2018-02-01)Just one year before Barack Obama rocked the world by becoming the first black, and more generally non-white, president of the United States, another race-related political upset occurred with the election of Governor ... -
To Seek or Not to Seek: Examining Health-Seeking Behaviors among Ethiopian Immigrants in the United States
(2018-01-25)Existing literature suggests that immigrants underutilize U.S. health care. Care utilization is associated with poor health for both patients and those around them. Current health care research lacks data specific to ... -
Barriers to Health Engagement for Emerging Adults in Postsecondary Institutions of Durham, North Carolina
(2018-01-25)The goal of this research project was to identify trends of and barriers to health engagement for emerging adults in postsecondary institutions. The motivation for studying health engagement—which includes all actions taken ... -
Emerging Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategic Giving in the Motor City
(2018-01-25)The complex social problems facing cities in the United States today will require more accountability and collaboration from the public and private sectors. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be a key driver in ... -
A Woman’s Place Is in Populism? Female Leadership in the Rise of Right-Wing Populist Movements
(2018-01-25)This research project focuses on the identity formation of female leaders within the patriarchal ideology of right-wing populism. Case studies of Laura Ingraham and Michele Bachmann attempt to explain the emergence of ... -
Garnering Support for the Sugar Sweetened Beverage Tax through Strategic Messaging
(2018-01-18)This project aims to gain insight into public opinion regarding the Sugar Sweetened Beverage (SSB) tax, and how framing of the SSB tax can influence public opinion. This type of empirical evidence valuable, as the U.S. is ... -
Philanthropy as Redistribution: A Geographic Analysis of Domestic Foundation Giving
(2018-01-17)Private foundations, and philanthropy more broadly, have long been critical players in the American civic sector. By seeking out and funding projects otherwise left behind by the public and private sectors, these grantmakers ... -
Punishing Illegal Firearm Possession in Durham
(2018-01-17)Gun violence is a high-priority crime problem in Durham and other cities across the nation. In the first half of 2017, over 20,000 Americans died from gun violence. In Durham, as of 2016, gun homicides and injuries are at ... -
Assessing Cardiovascular Disease Burden in Rural Uganda and Informing Future Interventions
(2018-01-07)This senior thesis seeks to investigate cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in a rural region in Uganda and to use insights from field experience and the literature to explore possible interventions. The thesis research ... -
Model-based Reinforcement Learning in Modified Levy Jump-Diffusion MarkovDecision Model and Its Financial Applications
(2017-11-15)This thesis intends to address an important cause of the 2007-2008 financial crisis by incorporating prediction on asset pricing jumps in asset pricing models, the non-normality of asset returns. Several different machine ... -
Woman, Nature, and Observer in Tess of the D'Urbervilles and To the Lighthouse: An Ecofeminist Approach
(2017-09-19)This thesis discusses narration as a tool that mediates the portrayal of women and nature by subjecting both to the perspective of an observer. Realist fiction provides us with material to study this phenomenon in depth ... -
I’m Not Sure But… Undergraduate Women’s Confidence in the Elite University Setting
(2017-08-24)This paper investigates women’s confidence in the elite university setting in the United States and argues that women often experience a decline in confidence in this space. Within the scope of this paper the elite university ... -
Policing Bodies in Transit: Borders, Detention and Migrant Narratives Along the Balkan Route
(2017-08-23)In summer 2016, I travelled along the Balkan route conducting semi-structured interviews with local organizations (n=24) and refugees (n=16) in an effort to explore the consequences of stasis within mobility. Through hearing ... -
The Person in Society: Active and Relational
(2017-07-02)This paper is a three-part examination in philosophical anthropology that reflects the curricular framework of my Program II major, "Markets, Society, and Personalism," which focuses on the consequences of a society's ... -
Marine Protection in the Baltic Sea: An Analysis of the Implementation Duration for Marine Protected Areas
(2017-06-30)This project examines the problem of why there is often a long duration between proposing a marine protected area (MPA) and implementing the MPA. The European Union has a vast network of proposed MPAs, but not enough are ...
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