# CEGU

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

## [Platforms](https://cegu.uchicago.edu/research) [Faculty Research](https://cegu.uchicago.edu/research/faculty) [Doctoral Research](https://cegu.uchicago.edu/research/doctoral/) [Undergraduate Research](https://cegu.uchicago.edu/research/undergraduate)

#### 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](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.15485)

Zach Ashby

BA Thesis

[Mapping Fantastic Chicago: Fantasy Literature and the Urban Imaginary](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.15486)

Lena Birkholz

BA Thesis

[Cultivating a Legacy: Exploring Inheritance and Succession Planning Strategies on Intergenerational Family Farms in Rural Georgia](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.15488)

Juliet Cairney

BA Thesis

[Undermined Landscapes: The History and Geography of Iron Mining in Republic, Michigan, 1869–1996](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.15487)

Owen Castle

BA Thesis

[From Lots to Lush: Repurposing San Antonio’s Underutilized Spaces to Combat Water Scarcity, Food Deserts, and Urban Heat](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.15489)

Dougie Donaghy

BA Thesis

[Central Planning and Peripheral Protest: Contested Urbanism and Suburban Annexation in Paris (1852-1871) and Chicago (1889-1909)](https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/15205?ln=en)

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](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.15519)

Laurel Hicke

BA Thesis

[“Better” Chicken: Economic, Ethical, and Environmental Implications of the U.S. Industrial Broiler Debate](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.15520)

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](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.15522)\*

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](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.15525)

Maya McWilliams

BA Thesis

[Transit in theory and in practice: Incorporating aspects of lived experience into measures of transit accessibility and justice](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.15526)

Jada Potter

BA Thesis

[Going the Extra Mile: Investigating the relationship between bikeshare and public transit](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.15527)

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](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.15528)

Sam Shelffo-McGrath

BA Thesis

[Empowering Sovereignty: How Tribal Energy Enterprises Can Transform Native American Renewable Energy](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.15597)

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](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.15654)\*

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](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.15652)

Jed Whalen Stewart

BA Thesis

[Going the Distance: Supercommuters and American car culture in tension with metropolitan identity in Rockford, IL](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.15655)

Georgia Wluka

BA Thesis

#### 2024

[Constructing Identity: (Re)Making ‘Armenian’ Space in Three American Cities](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.12723)

Shant Armenian

BA Thesis

[From Brownfields to Greenspace: Evaluating the Calumet Open Space Reserve](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.12698)

Connor Bentley

BA Thesis

[Addressing Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Wastewater Treatment Plants through Stakeholder-Engaged Regulatory Frameworks](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.12726)

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](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.12699)

Kimberly Carrillo Rivera

BA Thesis

[Governing Public Multilateral Climate Finance: How Earmarked Co-Financing Affects Project Allocation in the Green Climate Fund](https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/11860?ln=en)

Domingo Cortinez

BA Thesis

[Planning Beyond Cars: Disability Accommodations Driving Public Transportation Incorporation in Evacuation Plans](https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12707?ln=en)

Savannah Doty

BA Thesis

[Between Tradition and Innovation: Balancing Architectural and Societal Heritage through Conscious Stewardship of Garden Cities since 1903](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.12710)

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](https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12704?ln=en)

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](https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12708?ln=en)

Eli Harrell

BA Thesis

[Negotiating Ownership and Management of Public Green Space: How the TEP Ménilmontant Community Challenges Paris’s Top-Down Urbanization](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.12706)\*

Sofia Johansson

BA Thesis

[Repairing Communities Through Demolition: Who the Chicago Housing Authority’s Plan for Transformation Benefited and Who It Left Behind](https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12705?ln=en)

Adam Light

BA Thesis

[DuSable Lake Shore Driving Us Apart: Neighborhood Livability and Chicago’s Lakefront Expressway](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.12724)

Parker Otto

BA Thesis

[Electrifying Residential Heating in Chicago: Equitable Decarbonization through Heat Pump Technologies](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.12725)

Will Sampson

BA Thesis

[“A symbol of the city’s wellbeing”: Frederick Law Olmsted, Public Health, and Central Park, 1858-1893](https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12720?ln=en)

Nathan Sander

BA Thesis

[Missed Opportunities: The Impact of Opportunity Zones on Small Business Development in New York City](https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12709?ln=en)

Regina Shen

BA Thesis

[Mixed-Income, Mixed Motivations: Drivers of Socioeconomic Diversity in Rogers Park, Chicago and North Hollywood, Los Ángeles](https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12721?ln=en)

Alexander Stern

BA Thesis

[Aging During Environmental Crisis: Extreme Weather Vulnerability, the Age-Friendly City Framework, and Intergenerational Environmental Justice in Chicago](https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12722?ln=en)\*

Chloe Thompson

BA Thesis

[Muddying the Waters: The Upper Mississippi River, Nitrates, and Environmental Regulation in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa](https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.12728)

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](https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12727?ln=en)

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](https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/6375?ln=en)

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](https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/6382?ln=en)

Selin Oh

BA Thesis

[Grave Dispositions: Implementing Alternative Methods of Burial in the United States of America](https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/6362?ln=en)\*

Zoe Saldinger

BA Thesis

[Using the Allotted Space: Community-Based Green Space Creation through the Repurposing of Publicly-Owned Vacant Lots in Chicago](https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/6383?ln=en)

Noelle Suh

BA Thesis

[The Role of Language in the Environmental Movement: A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Spanish and English through an Ecolinguistics Framework](https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/6384?ln=en)

Alexandra Takoudis

BA Thesis

[Major “L”: How the Chicago Transit Authority Gentrified its Elevated Trains](https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/6385?ln=en)

Micah Wilcox

BA Thesis