CEGU

Source: https://cegu.uchicago.edu/research/undergraduate/ Parent: https://cegu.uchicago.edu/research/

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2025

*denotes CEGU BA Thesis Prize winner

Beyond Convenience: Public Space, Urban Transformation, and Narratives of Bronzeville’s Neighborhood Retail Space from the mid-20th Century to the Present

Zach Ashby

BA Thesis

Mapping Fantastic Chicago: Fantasy Literature and the Urban Imaginary

Lena Birkholz

BA Thesis

Cultivating a Legacy: Exploring Inheritance and Succession Planning Strategies on Intergenerational Family Farms in Rural Georgia

Juliet Cairney

BA Thesis

Undermined Landscapes: The History and Geography of Iron Mining in Republic, Michigan, 1869–1996

Owen Castle

BA Thesis

From Lots to Lush: Repurposing San Antonio’s Underutilized Spaces to Combat Water Scarcity, Food Deserts, and Urban Heat

Dougie Donaghy

BA Thesis

Central Planning and Peripheral Protest: Contested Urbanism and Suburban Annexation in Paris (1852-1871) and Chicago (1889-1909)

C Hugh

BA Thesis

Practicing US Environmentalism From the Isolation of One’s Own Home: The Emotional Consequences of Green Consumerism

Ava Hedeker

BA Thesis

Advocacy or Complicity? Affordable Housing Organizing in Rural Communities

Laurel Hicke

BA Thesis

“Better” Chicken: Economic, Ethical, and Environmental Implications of the U.S. Industrial Broiler Debate

Gabi Karlan

BA Thesis

Until They Hear Us: Motivations, Justifications, and Effects of Extreme Climate Change Activism in the 21st Century

Samuel Klein

BA Thesis

Good transit versus good development: Evaluating the importance of transit service quality and Transit-Oriented Development on post-COVID-19 CTA ridership recovery*

Benjamin Kreisworth

BA Thesis

From Cheap Eats to Fine Dining: The Survival of Local Restaurants Amidst the Evolution of Capital in the San Gabriel Valley

Ellen Ma

BA Thesis

“Whose Blok? Our Blok.” Understanding Motivations Behind Community Resistance to Post-Socialist Urban Developments in New Belgrade

Maya McWilliams

BA Thesis

Transit in theory and in practice: Incorporating aspects of lived experience into measures of transit accessibility and justice

Jada Potter

BA Thesis

Going the Extra Mile: Investigating the relationship between bikeshare and public transit

Polly Ren

BA Thesis

“Many Girls Just Like Her”: Vice Districts, Gender Transgression, and the Fear of Female Modernity in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago

Sam Shelffo-McGrath

BA Thesis

Empowering Sovereignty: How Tribal Energy Enterprises Can Transform Native American Renewable Energy

Alex Szmyd

BA Thesis

Building on Fault Lines: Seismic Resilience and the Impact of 20th-Century Earthquakes and Housing Policy on 21st-Century Housing Affordability in San Francisco and Tokyo*

Ella Tang

BA Thesis

[Gendered Dynamic Choice Profiles: Costs of Transportation in Chicago for Women and Men](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.15529)

Tanvi Siddhaye

BA Thesis

Who Gives a Dam? An Examination of Stakeholder and Sovereign Perspectives on Dam Removal and Restoration of Lower Snake River Salmon Populations

Jed Whalen Stewart

BA Thesis

Going the Distance: Supercommuters and American car culture in tension with metropolitan identity in Rockford, IL

Georgia Wluka

BA Thesis

2024

Constructing Identity: (Re)Making ‘Armenian’ Space in Three American Cities

Shant Armenian

BA Thesis

From Brownfields to Greenspace: Evaluating the Calumet Open Space Reserve

Connor Bentley

BA Thesis

Addressing Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Wastewater Treatment Plants through Stakeholder-Engaged Regulatory Frameworks

Jane Candy

BA Thesis

The Important Role of the Physical Environment on Greenway Development: A Comparative Analysis of the Chicago Lakefront Trail, the Atlanta Beltline, and the Hudson River Waterfront and Walkway

Kimberly Carrillo Rivera

BA Thesis

Governing Public Multilateral Climate Finance: How Earmarked Co-Financing Affects Project Allocation in the Green Climate Fund

Domingo Cortinez

BA Thesis

Planning Beyond Cars: Disability Accommodations Driving Public Transportation Incorporation in Evacuation Plans

Savannah Doty

BA Thesis

Between Tradition and Innovation: Balancing Architectural and Societal Heritage through Conscious Stewardship of Garden Cities since 1903

Nate Drew

BA Thesis

Heads in the Sand: Beach Access and the Public Trust Doctrine Under Future Climate Scenarios on Illinois’s Lake Michigan Coast

Jonathan Garcia

BA Thesis

[Problematizing Temporary Protected Status Policy in Constructing a Framework for Climate Migration in the United States](https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12067)

Will Harding

BA Thesis

A User of What, Exactly? Infrastructures of Energy Transition and Planetary Digital Subjectivity

Eli Harrell

BA Thesis

Negotiating Ownership and Management of Public Green Space: How the TEP Ménilmontant Community Challenges Paris’s Top-Down Urbanization*

Sofia Johansson

BA Thesis

Repairing Communities Through Demolition: Who the Chicago Housing Authority’s Plan for Transformation Benefited and Who It Left Behind

Adam Light

BA Thesis

DuSable Lake Shore Driving Us Apart: Neighborhood Livability and Chicago’s Lakefront Expressway

Parker Otto

BA Thesis

Electrifying Residential Heating in Chicago: Equitable Decarbonization through Heat Pump Technologies

Will Sampson

BA Thesis

“A symbol of the city’s wellbeing”: Frederick Law Olmsted, Public Health, and Central Park, 1858-1893

Nathan Sander

BA Thesis

Missed Opportunities: The Impact of Opportunity Zones on Small Business Development in New York City

Regina Shen

BA Thesis

Mixed-Income, Mixed Motivations: Drivers of Socioeconomic Diversity in Rogers Park, Chicago and North Hollywood, Los Ángeles

Alexander Stern

BA Thesis

Aging During Environmental Crisis: Extreme Weather Vulnerability, the Age-Friendly City Framework, and Intergenerational Environmental Justice in Chicago*

Chloe Thompson

BA Thesis

Muddying the Waters: The Upper Mississippi River, Nitrates, and Environmental Regulation in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa

Carly Weigel

BA Thesis

Why Small Towns are a Big Deal: Evaluating the Lasting Impacts of Greensburg, Kansas’ Resilience Plan and its Role as a Model for Small Towns in the face of Climate Change

Alyssa Wiegers

BA Thesis

2023

Visualizing the Acceleration of Rare Earth Elements Mining In Kachin, Myanmar: A Polyspectral Spatial Database

Joe Geniesse

BA Thesis

Rational Risk-Taking or Atmospheric Theater? Understanding Atmospheric Modification Decision-Making

Laura Gersony

BA Thesis

Oil Change: Evaluating Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaigns and Commitments at U.S. Higher-Education Institutions

Meghan Hendrix

BA Thesis

A Tale of Two Rivers: Zoning Policy Conflict and the Production of Public Space on the Chicago River

Isadora Kron

BA Thesis

Negotiating Place Identity in a Multi-ethnic Immigrant Enclave: A Case Study of Los Angeles’s Koreatown

Alison Oh

BA Thesis

Let’s Farm Again This Year: Korean Ecologies Amidst American Militarization

Selin Oh

BA Thesis

Grave Dispositions: Implementing Alternative Methods of Burial in the United States of America*

Zoe Saldinger

BA Thesis

Using the Allotted Space: Community-Based Green Space Creation through the Repurposing of Publicly-Owned Vacant Lots in Chicago

Noelle Suh

BA Thesis

The Role of Language in the Environmental Movement: A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Spanish and English through an Ecolinguistics Framework

Alexandra Takoudis

BA Thesis

Major “L”: How the Chicago Transit Authority Gentrified its Elevated Trains

Micah Wilcox

BA Thesis