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"Do You Want to Build a Nation" employs a novel approach to learn political philosophy, history, and international relations by tasking students with creating and defending their own states--with both the pen and the sword. In this project, the idea, adapted from an ASU college-level course of the same name, was held for an audience of high school students at the SunMUN conference in November, 2024.
ContributorsNelson, Liam (Author, Co-author) / Lennon, Tara (Thesis director) / Sivak, Henry (Committee member) / Iheduru, Okechukwu (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor) / Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies, Sch (Contributor) / School of Politics and Global Studies (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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One dress can’t fix the foster care system—but it can make one girl feel powerful, seen, and celebrated. That’s where my story begins.
Glamour for Good: Fashion Gala was never just about fashion. It was about creating a moment that mattered—for a young girl in foster care, for a community rallying behind a cause, and for me, as a student and event producer, learning how creativity can drive meaningful change.
This project brought together the three worlds I care about most: fashion design, nonprofit advocacy, and event production. What began as a class project evolved into a full-scale, student-led gala that raised funds for Hope & A Future and highlighted the strength, resilience, and beauty of foster youth.
Every aspect of the evening was thoughtfully designed—from venue selection and program flow to the silent auction layout and the energy of the runway show. One of the most powerful moments was the finale, where a young girl from foster care walked the runway in a custom dress created just for her. That moment represented more than style—it symbolized transformation, hope, and the importance of being seen and celebrated.
This paper shares the journey of bringing the gala to life, from initial vision to final execution. It reflects on what I learned about leadership, storytelling, and the potential of fashion to serve as a platform for advocacy. Ultimately, Glamour for Good proves that fashion can be more than beautiful—it can be bold, meaningful, and deeply human.
ContributorsBest, Jessica (Author) / Pontes, Megan (Thesis director) / Boonlorn, Jennifer (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor) / School of Art (Contributor) / School of Community Resources and Development (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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GLOW delivers thoughtfully curated wellness and snack boxes designed to support student energy, focus, and overall well-being. Each box features a balanced mix of functional items, including Liquid I.V. with caffeine, premium trail mix, and a daily supplement pack. The premium version also includes Wiff aromatherapy as a calming boost. These selections are carefully chosen to help students reset and recharge throughout the week. Priced at $15, GLOW offers an accessible and budget-friendly solution for students looking to prioritize their health. Sourcing and packaging decisions are made with care, reflecting a strong commitment to sustainability and responsible choices.
ContributorsNelson, Spencer (Author) / Israel, Anoushka (Co-author) / DeMartin, Claire (Co-author) / Greenhill, Dylan (Co-author) / Vanderwey, Lina (Co-author) / Byrne, Jared (Thesis director) / Howell, Travis (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / WPC Graduate Programs (Contributor) / Department of Finance (Contributor) / School of Accountancy (Contributor)
Created2025-05
DescriptionContained in this collection are some of the author's favorite poetic creations from her undergraduate writing career.
ContributorsMann, Angelina (Author) / Irish, Jennifer (Thesis director) / Sayet, Madeline (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law (Contributor) / American Indian Studies Program (Contributor) / Department of English (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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The Computer Science(CS) students who attend Arizona State University(ASU) are required to participate in a capstone project. For two semesters, they work on a team with other students to help a sponsor who has requested some work to be completed by the students. In some cases, this results in a group of young students, typically ages 20-22, creating a project intended for an audience much older than themselves, 45 and above. This can pose specific challenges as younger computer users can overestimate others' familiarity with technology. Students may create designs they feel are well crafted, which fail to account for an older demographic’s detached web browsing experience. With this situation in mind, a survey was created to test the web design sensibilities within a group of college students and a group of people 30 years their elders. When analyzing the results, the answers didn’t display a large discrepancy across age groups, however, the free response sections showed a large divide between the age groups. The 18-24 age block conveyed a greater familiarity with the technology they use. They’re more confident in their ability to use the tools provided to them compared to the 45+ age block whose short answers display a hesitant attitude toward the computer. This disconnect was further exemplified by survey questions, which resulted in short and unhelpful answers.
ContributorsEllis, David (Author) / Malpe, Adwith (Thesis director) / Dorsey, John (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Computer Science and Engineering Program (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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This thesis examines how the narrative of the Camp Grant Massacre has been shaped, distorted, and selectively remembered across different sources and time periods. Early newspaper coverage, such as the Arizona Citizen and Arizona Miner, framed the massacre as a justified response to Apache “depredations,” reinforcing a settler-colonial worldview that painted Indigenous survival strategies as threats. In the 1919 History of Arizona, Volume 8, settlers are openly described as desiring a “war of extermination,” yet the massacre is portrayed more as a regrettable consequence of frontier tensions than as a moral or legal atrocity. By 1939, Arizona Highways published an article in which participant William S. Oury refused to call it a massacre at all, claiming it was “a necessary defense against murderous Indians,” revealing a continued effort to heroize settler violence. The 2004 Arizona Teacher Resource Guide reduced the event to a single vague sentence, omitting victims and context altogether, while the 2022 Camp Grant historical summary referenced the massacre only in relation to the fort’s relocation, excluding the event itself. In contrast, modern works such as Karl Jacoby’s Shadows at Dawn and Chip Colwell’s The Massacre at Camp Grant: Forgetting and Remembering confront the racialized violence directly, elevate Indigenous voices, and explore the dynamics of historical erasure. These shifting representations—across journalism, education, and scholarship—reveal how public memory is not neutral, but actively constructed to reflect and reinforce prevailing power structures.
The paper further connects the lack of memorialization of Camp Grant to broader trends in how racial violence is acknowledged—or ignored—across American history. By analyzing the Tucson newspapers’ portrayal of the massacre, the justification of the violence through the lens of settler-colonialism, and the commodification of Apache captives, this study reveals how the massacre was framed to align with dominant power structures. The role of historical silences, as discussed in The Camp Grant Massacre in the Historical Imagination, underscores how systemic suppression of Indigenous voices has persisted for generations. However, a recent cultural shift, evidenced by the rise in historical scholarship on Camp Grant since the early 2000s and the increasing influence of Indigenous voices in political debates—such as the opposition to the Resolution Copper mine—demonstrates a growing call for redress and recognition.
Image 1: The first image recorded of the city of modern day Tucson (taken outside of the courthouse prosecuting the Camp Grant Massacre (Tucson Archives)
Ultimately, this thesis argues that reckoning with the Camp Grant Massacre is not just an exercise in historical analysis but a necessary step in understanding how memory, violence, and justice interact. The continued marginalization of Indigenous communities in contemporary policy debates mirrors the historical erasure of atrocities like Camp Grant, highlighting the need for more inclusive memorialization and historical discourse.
Arizona State University’s formal land acknowledgment in 2015, followed by the establishment and expansion of the Labriola National American Indian Data Center, signals a shift toward a more intentional reckoning with Indigenous histories—one that contrasts sharply with the public silence that followed the Camp Grant Massacre. While the massacre was erased, justified, or reduced to a footnote in official narratives for over a century, ASU’s acknowledgment openly names its location on the ancestral lands of 22 Native Nations, embracing responsibility rather than denial. This act of recognition, though symbolic, reflects a contemporary movement in Arizona toward more critical engagement with the past—one that prioritizes Indigenous presence, sovereignty, and scholarship.
Unlike the historical dismissal of Apache voices after Camp Grant, this new framework offers an emerging, though still imperfect, model for institutional accountability and inclusion. By examining how grief and remembrance evolve over time, this study contributes to a broader understanding of how societies confront—or fail to confront—historical violence and its enduring consequences.
ContributorsKennett, Asia (Author, Co-author) / Tezcür, Günes (Thesis director) / Mokwa, Michael (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Life Sciences (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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Yōkai is a general term that encompasses monsters, ghosts, and general supernatural creatures in Japan. They originate from both natural and man-made phenomena, are deeply connected to the geography of Japan, and have adapted their manifestations alongside the progression of time. Yōkai are born through stories. The more popular yōkai have stories that are so varied, sometimes they seem to describe different creatures. My project will be a study on the various ways one monster can encompass different ideas and how these stories change through time. The project contains a short story written about tengu and a story about various yōkai set in a post-apocalyptic environment.
ContributorsChua, Yueh-Yun (Author) / Hedberg, William (Thesis director) / Tuck, Robert (Committee member) / Giner, Oscar (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Molecular Sciences (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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San Francisco and Phoenix are two major cities that experienced rapid growth in different development periods, exemplifying differing development patterns because of policy and technology. Today, many cities nationwide are struggling with a housing affordability crisis. This Thesis aims to investigate the future of development and how these cities are working to address the problems.
The Thesis focuses on how different cities affected by the housing crisis adjust development patterns in newly planned development areas. The project compares the old plans in the areas and how they have been adjusted to increase the amount of housing and reflect the future development patterns. The focus is on the barriers to development and the area of the law or code that encourages transportation, community, or density.
ContributorsFifer, Collin (Author) / Parker, James (Thesis director) / Chester, Mikhail Vin (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / WPC Graduate Programs (Contributor) / Dean, W.P. Carey School of Business (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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There are multiple present challenges that arise for the diaspora of African individuals once they set foot and build a life in the United States. One of these challenges is the preservation of cultural heritage and the fear of not being able to pass down said cultures to the generations to come. Growing up in predominantly white institutions can further the feeling of instability and insecurity concerning the cultural backgrounds of young African individuals. This in turn can limit the exposure of the creative, historical, and artistic facets of African culture to the global fashion industry. In this thesis, the aim was to participate in the organizational aspects of the African Students Association’s (AFSA) Annual AFROWORLD fashion show, titled “AFSA FOR THE WORLD”. By doing so, it was analyzed how this event promotes the further sharing of culture possessed by African minorities, provides opportunities for upcoming African fashion designers to break into the industry, and fosters a sense of community among African individuals where they can freely express themselves in a culturally affirming environment. In addition, the designing and construction of two African looks catered towards young African women adequately portrayed the beauty of African ancestry as well as what this culture has to offer the global fashion industry today.
ContributorsLawson, Rachel (Author) / Ju, Yang Soon (Thesis director) / Stephenson, Kathy (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Molecular Sciences (Contributor) / ASU FIDM (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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While wildfires are not historically common to the Sonoran Desert, wildfire disturbances are becoming increasingly frequent in aridland ecosystems due to human activity, invasive grass, and altered seasons. Sycamore Creek, an intermittent stream in central Arizona, has recently experienced two large fire events: the 2020 Bush Fire, which burned half of the stream catchment, and the 2024 Sand Stone Fire, which burned a smaller extent of the catchment. Wildfire ash is transported to the stream during rain storms and influences stream ecosystems by decreasing dissolved oxygen and increasing dissolved organic carbon, organic nitrogen, and inorganic nitrogen; these carbon and nitrogen inputs are important because they interact with stream biota in metabolic functioning and biogeochemical cycles. Benthic periphyton contains a mixture of autotrophic algae, heterotrophic invertebrates, bacteria, fungi, and detritus, in addition to inorganic components. Algae are vital to stream ecosystems because they are responsible for most primary production and play an important role in nitrogen and carbon cycling. The ash nitrogen input is expected to enrich algal biomass growth and pigment production because nitrogen has been shown to be limiting to primary production in this stream. However, the addition of dissolved organic carbon from the ash could benefit the heterotrophic elements of periphyton more than the autotrophs, increasing competition for nutrients against algae. Because previous experiments have not commonly focused on the algal component of stream response to fire events, this study aims to begin to fill in this knowledge gap as wildfires become increasingly prevalent in aridland watersheds. A field experiment of nutrient diffusing substrata found that ash exposure slightly stimulates growth of autotrophs more than heterotrophs in stream periphyton, particularly in comparison to environments with increased nutrient availability.
ContributorsSteckling, Carly (Author) / Grimm, Nancy (Thesis director) / Sweat, Ken (Committee member) / Harms, Tamara (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2025-05