Class of 2022 Honors Thesis Papers

Alana Agron – Racial Disproportionality in North Carolina: An Analysis of Identification Practices for Special Education Programs and Educator Perspectives

Christy An – Facial Recognition Technology as an Investigation and Surveillance Tool for Law Enforcement: Comparing China, the United States, and the United Kingdom

Lucy Callard – At Home or on Campus? How students Decide Where to Register to Vote

Noah Charlick – Separate and Unequal: An Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Disproportionality in Exclusionary Disciplinary Practices in North Carolina

Mikayla Curtis – Examining the Effects of Geography on Levels of Political Participation Among Lower-Income Individuals

Emma Dries – The Power of “Stability”: Alfredo Stroessner’s Classification by the US Government as  a “Stable Leader” & its Effect on the Dictator’s Longevity

Blake Faucher – Political Socialization and Impressionable Years: Young People, Donald Trump, and Covid-19

Sofia Girvin – How the Media and the Masses Confront Gun Violence: The Evolution of Print Media Coverage of School Shootings Since Columbine, in Correlation with Subsequent Changes in American Public Opinion

Violet Greene – Diversion Programs in the Era of Raise the Age

Rhea Jain – Examining the Quality of Care for Pregnant Women in Jails in North Carolina

Jacob Jeffries – Preparing for an Infrastructure Revolution: Policy Considerations for Autonomous Vehicle Data Collection

Anna Jiang – Child Marriage in the United States: An Exploration of Related Factors

Zac Johnson – Deserved Workers? Historicizing Labor Relations and Racial Criminal Pathologization as They Appear in North Carolina’s General Statutes

Amanda Kang – Seeing Red: Exploring How a Communist Country of Origin Affects Republican Partisanship in Asian American Immigrants

Caroline Kassir – Split-Ticket Voting in the 2020 General Election

Hunter Kaufman – The Academic Impacts on College STEM Achievement of High-Rigor Secondary Courses

Joanne Kim – Your Mental Health Data is For Sale!: The Impact of Data Brokers on the Exchange and Use of Mental Health Data and the Related Implications on the Personal Privacy of Depressed and Anxious Individuals

Allison Kunstler – Exploratory Analysis of North Carolina’s Raise the Age Law in 2020: Expectations versus Reality

Jason Kwak – Examining Non-Response Bias Among Trump Voters in the 2020 Presidential Election

Daisy Lane – Exploring the Intersection of College Students, Social Media, and Political Participation

Alexis Mandel –What Comes Next?: Student Mental Health Policy in North Carolina High Schools Post-Pandemic

Kyle Melatti – The Politics of Affirmative Action in North Carolina’s Higher Education

Samarth Menta – The Impacts of Accountable Care Organizations on Health Outcomes and Health Disparities Across Different Demographics: A Scoping Review

Maya Miller – From the Nineties to Now: Investigating How Local Newspapers Cover Their U.S. House Members

Julia Murphy – Carbon Price Pass-Through in the Chinese Emissions Trading Scheme: Lessons from the Republic of Korea and the European Union

Arya Patel – The Triple Burden on Tribal Female Circular Migrants: Restrictions on Mobility and Access to State Relief During Covid-19

Olivia Reneau – Justice Delayed: An Analysis of Municipal-Level Proposals for Slavery Reparations

Leah Somerville – Poverty Frameworks and Public Welfare: A State-Level Analysis

Ysanne Spence – Pickney Fi Learn: An Analysis of Jamaica’s Response to COVID-19 for Elementary-Aged Students

Micalyn Struble – Punishment, Privacy, and Profit: How Data Brokers Advertise and Sell the Personal Information of Justice-Involved People

Ruhama Tereda – More than Just Essential: Poultry Processing Workers’ Perceptions of Covid-19 and Collective Bargaining

Michaela Towfighi – Policy Proposals and Pinky Promises: Framing Media Coverage of Female Presidential Candidates

Liyu Woldemichael – Carcerality and the Climate Crisis: Incarcerated People & the Prison-to-Pollution Pipeline