• Are We Living in the Racial Capitalocene?: Anthropocene Discourse, Racial Capitalism, and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ "Between the World and Me" 

  Wooley, Samuel (University of Washington Libraries, 5/7/2018)

  As global temperatures continue to increase, it becomes clear that we are living in an era of human-induced climate shift. This era has commonly been labelled the “Anthropocene” in both the sciences and the humanities, a ...

• Vice and Visibility: Changing Attitudes toward Prostitution and Sexual Behavior in Victorian Britain 

  Morgan, Melissa (University of Washington Libraries, 3/14/2018)

  This essay explores the story of the Contagious Diseases Acts, a series of bills from Britain in the 1860s which subjected female prostitutes to forced medical examinations. Early feminist activists, largely middle-class ...

• Automatically Classifying Art Images Using Computer Vision 

  Oh, Chris (University of Washington Libraries, 5/7/2018)

  Millions of art images have been digitized over the last several decades. This has created new opportunities for art scholars and historians. However, searching and navigating these art images is difficult because of the ...

• Respeta mí Existencia o Espera Resistencia: Mobilization and Political Participation of the Latino Immigrant Rights Movement Under Threat 

  Venegas, Yulenni (University of Washington Libraries, 5/4/2018)

  Current immigration law in the United States is amongst the harshest in our nation’s history, where for an immigrant, all roads come with the threat of deportation. This paper examines how the threat of deportation in ...

• Une Voix prématurée: La Féminisme d’Olympe de Gouges en Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne 

  Sprague, Carly (University of Washington Libraries, 3/13/2018)

  This is my final research paper from my 18th-21st century history/literature French class discussing the importance and ramifications of Olympe de Gouges's 1791 pamphlet Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne, ...

• The Impact of The Government-Linked Companies Transformation Program (GLCTP) on The Performances of Government-Linked Companies (GLCs) in Malaysia 

  Khoo, Elaine Synn Yie (University of Washington Libraries, 5/7/2018)

  This paper examines the impact of the 10-year long Government-Linked Companies Transformation Program (GLCTP) on the performances of the Government-Linked Companies (GLCs) and non-Government-Linked Companies (non-GLCs) in ...

• Precarious Whiteness: Reimagining the Seattle Sephardic Origin Story 

  Lewis, Annie (University of Washington Libraries, 3/14/2018)

  “Precarious Whiteness: Reimagining the Seattle Sephardic Origin Story” seeks to investigate narrative formation around Sephardic Jewish identity from the early twentieth century to the present. While Sephardim are commonly ...

• Rehabilitation in Washington’s Juvenile Justice System: How Longer Sentences may be Well-Intentioned yet Ineffective 

  Farrell, Hannah (University of Washington Libraries, 5/7/2018)

  This research aims to determine whether sentence length affects the rate of re-offending after release (called recidivism) for children who are incarcerated at juvenile rehabilitation facilities in Washington State. Some ...

• Accommodating Public Space to Uphold Rape Myths: The Danger of Using Environmental Design to Prevent Sexual Violence 

  Graham, Katelyn (University of Washington Libraries, 5/7/2018)

  This paper investigates the ways environmental design perpetuates rape myths through critiquing of the use Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design strategies as a preventative measure against sexual assault in public ...

• Animal Agriculture and Antibiotic Resistant Disease 

  Huang, Muh-En (University of Washington Libraries, 12/10/2017)

  What social, economic, or political factors affect the way antibiotic use is regulated in the US? In the United States, farmers feed their animals antibiotics at low doses to prevent disease and promote their growth. Because ...

• Implications and Limitations of Ireland’s Abortion Law 

  Estabrook, Melissa (University of Washington Libraries, 5/7/2018)

  In this research paper I explore the implications and limitations of Ireland’s abortion law. I specifically address the issue with a human right’s framework. In this paper, I argue that mounting historical court cases and ...

• Dal Principe di Machiavelli a Trump: Somiglianze in Politica Basate sulla Natura Umana 

  Carcoana, Allison Dumitriu (University of Washington Libraries, 3/14/2018)

  I wrote this paper as the final project for my independent study in Italian 499. It discusses the similarities between the tactics that worked for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and the recommendations of 16th ...

• An Overview of Brazil's HIV Epidemic: From Past Challenges to Future Directions 

  Duncan, Sarah (University of Washington Libraries, 5/7/2018)

  This research project aims to investigate the course of the HIV epidemic in Brazil. After exploring the history of HIV/AIDS and the current state of the epidemic, this paper explores the current challenges that Brazil faces ...

• New Foundations: Emotional Acculturation of Ethnic Chinese Abroad 

  Cheung-Daihe, Bill (University of Washington Libraries, 3/15/2018)

  My research paper, “New Foundations: Emotional Acculturation of Ethnic Chinese Abroad”, was written as a Term Paper for Honors 211/Slavic 426. In 11 pages, I argue that Chinese-American emotion is at the intersection of ...

• The Music of the Marching Band: Collectivity, Embodiment, and Performance 

  Brennan, Sage (2018-05)

  This paper explores the ways that music embodiment and performance can make students in marching band have closer relationships compared to many other group organizations, clubs, or jobs. In the first section of the text, ...

• Strategies for Sustainable Funding: A metadata review of the Independent Library District Model 

  Goldman, Matthew (2017-05)

  Public libraries have seen a decline in public funding, relying on a mixture of external types of funding to keep services running. With state and local governments continuing to face financial pressures, some libraries ...

• ANTI-RACIST EDUCATION REFORM IN BRAZIL 

  Stockdill, Alyssa; Novachuk, Iryna; Abt, Timothy; Campbell, Margaret; Choi, Dajung; Fuller, Sarah; Jessup, Elizabeth; Kidane, Feruz; Lipney-Burger, Ondina; Nacanaynay, Darielle; Nolasco, Jonathan; Novachuk, Iryna; Toews, Katrina; Trevarthen, Olivia; Waller, Ian; ; ; (2016)

  This report is the product of the collaboration between sixteen students in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington under the guidance of Professor Jonathan Warren, and in ...

• A Comprehensive Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis: Highlighting the United States’ Role in the International Effort 

  Ryder, Jennifer; Bolme, Diane; Celustka, Kevin; Conklin, Sarah; Engstrom, Daniel; Kono, Michael; Kurtz, Carly; Moussa, Ismail; Nguiakaramahawongse, Paritt; Ryder, Jennifer; Sandoval, Amanda; Smiley, Natali; Stamenkovska, Maja; Talantuli, Ayaz; Tono, Jo; Young, Payton; ; (2016)

  The Syrian refugee crisis is the largest humanitarian and geopolitical problem facing the world today. The consequences of this crisis, which are rooted in an ongoing civil war, are far reaching and have affected not only ...

• Assessing the Obama Administration’s Pivot to Asia 

  Reininger, Brent; Stewart, Sarah; Fung, Emily; Loong, Alvin; Atwater, Alex; Coppenrath, Luke; Huang, Jinghe (Lizzie); Kim, Dorothy; Wu, Emilee (Chen Fan); Barry, Creighton; Clark, Kate; Choi, Erik (Hyeokjin); Dolan, Sean; Lee, Elissa; Chung, Andy; Hansen, Stephanie; Husniyah, Athiyya; Wang, Ruidi (Cindy) (2016)

  On October 11, 2011 then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote an article for Foreign Affairs , titled “America’s Pacific Century”. In it she states that over the past decade U.S. attention has been preoccupied with ...

• US POLICY AT ASIA’S STRATEGIC CROSSROADS: AFTER THE 2015 ELECTIONS IN BURMA 

  Ellis, Heather; Johnson, Devi; Flick, Jason; Isberto, Cherryl; Karmali, Natasha; Markovc, Jernej; Sasson, Camille; Sethi, Tharin; Shen, Victor (2016)

  On November 8, 2015, Burma’s first credible elections in 25 years welcomed a promising democratic change: the handover of power from a government led by the military to one led by a popularly elected, former opposition ...

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