Class of 2025 Senior Theses
Senior Writer: Sam Coffman
Thesis Topic: "American Evangelical Traditions' Quests for Power in the Antebellum South and Today"
Advisor: Peter Cajka
Senior Writer: Paige Jenkins
Thesis Topic: The Legacy of Censorship and the Literary Impact of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker
Advisor: Perin Gurel
Senior Writer: Joey Kositzke
Thesis Topic: Blueprints to Chaos: Halloween, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and 1970's Horror Films as Cultural Capsules of America's Deepest Fears
Advisor: Peter Cajka
Senior Writer: Laurel Daen
Thesis Topic: "I'm so OCD": An Examination of How Disability is Understood Through Children's and Young Adult Literature
Advisor: Julianna Lopez
Senior Writer: Joey Lutfi
Thesis Topic: The Chaldean Catholic Church in Southern California: Tradition, Diaspora, and Renewal
Advisor: Jennifer Huynh
Senior Writer: Connor Marrott
Thesis Topic: "I Gave it to the Panthers:" Transnational Coalitions Between Black Power and Irish Republicanism
Advisor: Perin Gurel
Senior Writer: Luisa Romero
Thesis Topic: "Cruzando La Frontera: Narrating Immigration in Latinx and Latin American Telenovelas"
Advisor: Jason Ruiz
Senior Writer: Emma Nunez
Thesis Topic: "American Carceral Culture Through the Boom Box"
Advisor: Peter Cajka
Senior Writer: Ryan Sullivan
Thesis Topic: Not Another War Metaphor: A Rhetorical and Cultural Analysis of the School Choice Debate
Advisor: Peter Cajka