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The Senior Thesis

From the outset of their time at Princeton, students are encouraged and challenged to develop their scholarly interests and to evolve as independent thinkers.

The culmination of this process is the senior thesis, which provides a unique opportunity for students to pursue original research and scholarship in a field of their choosing. At Princeton, every senior writes a thesis or, in the case of some engineering departments, undertakes a substantial independent project.

Integral to the senior thesis process is the opportunity to work one-on-one with a faculty member who guides the development of the project. Thesis writers and advisers agree that the most valuable outcome of the senior thesis is the chance for students to enhance skills that are the foundation of future success, including creativity, intellectual engagement, mental discipline and the ability to meet new challenges.

Many students develop projects from ideas sparked in the classes they’ve taken; others fashion their topics on the basis of long-standing personal passions. Most thesis writers encounter the intellectual twists and turns of any good research project, where the questions emerge as they proceed, often taking them in unexpected directions.

Planning for the senior thesis starts in earnest in the junior year, when students complete a significant research project known as the junior paper. Students who plan ahead can make good use of the University's considerable resources, such as receiving University funds to do research in the United States or abroad. Other students use summer internships as a launching pad for their thesis. For some science and engineering projects, students stay on campus the summer before their senior year to get a head start on lab work.

Writing a thesis encourages the self-confidence and high ambitions that come from mastering a difficult challenge. It fosters the development of specific skills and habits of mind that augur well for future success. No wonder generations of graduates look back on the senior thesis as the most valuable academic component of their Princeton experience.

Navigating Colombia’s Magdalena River, One Story At A Time

For his senior thesis, Jordan Salama, a Spanish and Portuguese major, produced a nonfiction book of travel writing about the people and places along Colombia’s main river, the Magdalena.

Embracing the Classics to Inform Policymaking for Public Education

For her senior thesis, Emma Treadwayconsiders how the basic tenets of Stoicism — a school of philosophy that dates from 300 BCE — can teach students to engage empathetically with the world and address inequities in the classroom.

Creating A Faster, Cheaper and Greener Chemical Reaction

One way to make drugs more affordable is to make them cheaper to produce. For her senior thesis research, Cassidy Humphreys, a chemistry major with a passion for medicine, took on the challenge of taking a century-old formula at the core of many modern medications — and improving it.

The Humanity of Improvisational Dance

Esin Yunusoglu investigated how humans move together and exist in a space — both on the dance floor and in real life — for the choreography she created as her senior thesis in dance, advised by Professor of Dance Susan Marshall.

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The Princeton University Archives located within the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library is the official repository for Undergraduate Senior Theses, Master's Theses and Ph.D. Dissertations. Princeton University undergraduate senior theses range from 1924 to the present.

The following page includes all information for submission, searching & accessing copies of a Princeton University Undergraduate Senior Theses, Princeton University Ph.D. Dissertations or Master's Theses.

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The Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library is the central repository for Princeton University undergraduate senior theses from 1924 to the present.

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To obtain Princeton Ph.D. Dissertations from 2010 and earlier, if you are associated with an institution that has a ProQuest Library Subscription, the dissertation may be available to download for free through the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global search .

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The Under-the-Radar Thesis Topic: A Retrospective on my own Experience

Many Princeton students, when writing their senior theses, will be required to submit something resembling a “literature review,” where they give a broad summary of the extant literature on their respective senior thesis topics. Surveying the extant literature on a topic can help students to develop their own independent thoughts on the matter. For many students, the literature ends up being a very important part of the actual final text of the senior thesis. 

After reaching this stage when researching my senior thesis topic, a relatively-unknown Arabic Christian legal text from 18th-century Lebanon called the Mukhtaṣar al-Sharīʿa of ʿAbdallāh Qarāʿalī, I realized that only a few paragraphs and couple footnotes had been written about the text in English. All told, the entire body of English-language academic work on the Mukhtaṣar totalled a mere two pages. This lack of a developed scholarly conversation about my topic came with its own challenges and opportunities. The relative obscurity of this topic was a large part of why I chose to write my thesis about it— I found it to be very intriguing and wished there was more written about it. In this post I intend to look back at my own experience writing a thesis on such a niche topic, and hope to offer some considerations on how such a project might be approached. 

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My Experience

In my view, there were two main problems which stemmed from the lack of scholarship on my thesis topic and which I had to find a way around. First, if I didn’t understand something about the text, there was nothing which I could consult for a simple explanation. Second, I would have to work hard to find material to argue for or against. I approached these issues through two main avenues. First, I made use of scholarly writing which was not written in English. After doing a bit of digging, I uncovered a few sources written in German, French, and Arabic which discussed my topic. I used AI-based translation software to get a rough translation of the French and German works. While there are definitely pitfalls associated with such a move (these translators are sometimes inaccurate, although on the whole they do a good job of rendering long texts from European languages into English), it allowed me to access useful information much more easily, and I made sure to look closely at the original French and German for any quotations I leaned on in my thesis. I just had to work through the Arabic material on my own. To some extent, the lack of scholarly work on my topic had been an illusion— broadening my horizons to include non-English materials made my thesis much stronger. My other strategy was to look for more information about topics which had less-obvious connections to my text and look for parallels. Sometimes I would find these hidden in the footnotes of articles which discussed my topic, often they were recommended by a professor, and occasionally they were even readings I had done in previous Princeton coursework. For example, an article about a 13th-century Syriac Christian legal text from Iraq was very important to me because it showed me different ways to approach my own 18th-century Lebanese Christian legal text. 

When I read through older scholarship about my thesis topic, I got the sense that little had been written about this text because scholars had treated it dismissively, either claiming that it was just like every other legal text of its time or instead emphasizing one highly unusual aspect of the text while ignoring the rest. After looking at the text very closely for a number of months, I didn’t agree with either of these arguments, and so I decided to write about the text’s approach to older legal texts. I really enjoyed this process, in large part because I didn’t have to worry about the possibility that someone had already made the exact same argument. Choosing such an under-the-radar topic gave me great liberty to argue along whatever lines I liked best and to chart my own path of thinking.

What You Could Do

One of the amazing things about pursuing research as an undergraduate at Princeton is that you have the freedom to study just about anything. You can tackle the biggest questions in a field, or you can look at something that nobody has researched in-depth before. Some advantages that I found while looking at a more obscure source was that I was able to look at it from a bigger angle (as opposed to looking at a very particular aspect of some more prominent topic) and ask bigger questions. Not having to wade through tomes of previous scholarship was both a blessing and a curse, but I really enjoyed researching in these uncharted waters. If this sounds appealing to you, here are a few things to consider.

Finding a very niche topic could be difficult. If you do end up studying something like this, you’ll probably come upon it by accident. It is hard to find “undiscussed” subjects through a standard library search precisely because they don’t show up in the sources where you would normally look. If you do end up finding a very under-the-radar topic which excites your interests, you might also have a bit of a harder time finding an adviser, since your proposed topic might not align perfectly with any single professor’s field of expertise. In my case, I stuck with my JP adviser because of how much I had benefited from his advising while writing my JP, and was confident that he could help me tackle this topic. Once this hurdle is past, your adviser will be your greatest ally. No matter how obscure your research interests are, your adviser will be able to connect it to better-known areas of study and to suggest helpful strategies for tackling such a singular topic. Princeton has many resources to support seniors writing their theses which you can absolutely take advantage of. No matter how mainstream your topic is or isn’t, the thesis process can be a very rewarding experience and there are many people at Princeton here to help you succeed.

Shane Patrick, Humanities Correspondent

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These princeton students are raising the bar for accessible satellite technology.

By Molly Sharlach

June 6, 2024

Shannen Prindle, who graduated from Princeton in 2023 with a degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering, tested three student-built systems for small satellites on board a Zero-G research flight. Photo credit: Zero Gravity Corporation and Steve Boxall

The capstone of Shannen Prindle’s Princeton experience came nearly a year after she graduated. It began with a sensation of falling toward the ceiling, and ended with a game of grabbing floating jellybeans and globs of water in mid-air.

These otherworldly episodes bookended some serious engineering tests. This spring, Prindle , who graduated from Princeton in 2023 with a degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering (MAE), boarded a Zero-G research flight in Florida. Her aim was to test three student-built systems for small satellites called CubeSats , which are about the size of a loaf of bread. The flight consisted of 30 parabolic cycles that simulated space flight by allowing passengers (and their experiments) to experience weightlessness.

Prindle now works as a launch tower engineer for SpaceX’s Starship , which is the largest rocket ever built and could someday serve as a reusable vehicle for satellite launches and missions to the moon.

“When I started at Princeton, I didn’t even think I wanted to major in MAE, but I slowly discovered that I really like hands-on mechanical and structural engineering, and space systems,” she said.

As a first-year student, Prindle attended an interest meeting for the Princeton Rocketry Club , where she heard a talk by Michael Galvin . A senior technical staff member in MAE, Galvin had recently launched the TigerSats lab. He showed students how they could create their own systems for small satellites to withstand launch and collect images and data in low Earth orbit.

When she saw the possibilities of a CubeSat project, she thought, “Oh yeah, I’ve got to join,” said Prindle.

She is one of more than two dozen students who have worked in the TigerSats lab, designing and building novel satellite systems involving sensing, communications, flight mechanics, and ground testing — including eight students who have completed senior thesis projects advised by Galvin. These students have expanded the capabilities of low-cost satellite systems built with accessible tools, and many have gone on to careers at places like NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Firefly Aerospace, and Skydio, a drone manufacturer.

“Being part of Mike’s lab, I was able to put all the theory and homework that I was doing into a very concrete project,” said Prindle, who was part of the lab’s inaugural ProtoSat project in 2019. During her junior year she built a solar charging simulator for CubeSats, and for her senior thesis she designed a system called a reaction wheel module for stabilizing and pointing CubeSats.

On the Zero-G flight, Prindle tested her reaction wheel, as well as another stabilization technology called a gravity boom , built by 2021 graduate Michael Hauge , and a suite of devices designed by 2023 graduate Kyle Ikuma for measuring a CubeSat’s velocity, acceleration and orientation. The experiment provided the first-ever zero-G performance comparison of 3 such devices popular in the CubeSat community.

“There’s so much richness in these projects for students, and not just mechanical engineering students, but also disciplines like electrical and computer engineering, and physics,” said Galvin.

“I try to tailor the projects to each student’s skill set, but also to their skill gaps,” he said, “rather than have them only work on what we absolutely need to get us to a launch. I think it’s working as an educational model.”

It’s one thing for students to design electronics for satellites and then send the plans to a company for fabrication, but quite another to make the components by hand or use an in-house prototyping machine — and build part of something that could function and collect data in space, said Galvin.

“With just undergrad-level hands-on fabrication skills, they can actually make a lot of these components and know that their handiwork is what’s going into space,” said Galvin, whose other roles at Princeton include serving on the staff of Princeton’s StudioLab makerspace and as principal mechanical engineer for the University’s Space Physics group .

Students are continuing to test systems for the Princeton CubeSat Kit , a way for the lab to share its expertise with others as well as enable more student-led projects at Princeton, said Galvin. The lab also has a growing number of experiments that are pushing the limits of student-built hardware on both orbital and suborbital launches. These launches range from free-flying satellites and hardware onboard the International Space Station, to high-altitude balloon launches and zero-G flights.

“We’re regularly getting things off the ground in some fashion,” said Galvin. “Anything that can get your experiments into space or a space-like environment is a good [return on investment] and good educational value.”

When it comes to small free-flying satellites, getting data back to Earth is a major challenge — one that the TigerSats team experienced firsthand on one of its early launches as part of a fleet of educational ThinSat experiments in 2021.

For her senior thesis, Candace Do , a 2024 MAE graduate, tested a tiny radio for a PocketQube , which is only one-eighth the volume of a CubeSat. Typically used for satellite phone connections on Earth, the radio could connect a PocketQube in low Earth orbit to a communication satellite at a higher altitude, which would then beam data back to Earth. The radio that Do tested is a fraction of the cost of those currently in use on small satellites. In her experiments, the radio successfully beamed data from indoors, through a rainy Princeton sky, to a satellite constellation at a 500-miles altitude, which itself then successfully downlinked her “Hello, World!” message. Do received the Morgan W. McKinzie ’93 Senior Thesis Prize at the MAE department’s Class Day ceremony on May 27.

“There’s no clouds in between” the PocketQube and the communications satellite, said Galvin,” and “it’s a persistent satellite network that has full global coverage. If you can get it to work on Earth it’s going to work in space.”

Galvin feels he’s succeeded in building an undergraduate space program focused on technology development. For the moment, most of the work is “not cutting-edge science yet,” he said. “But if we can get the foundation in place, we may be able to start doing some real space science as well.”

In addition to the technology itself, the lab is training students for graduate work and careers in space systems. Hauge and Kevin Tong , a 2022 Princeton graduate, have earned master’s degrees at Georgia Tech’s Space Systems Design Lab , where Do also plans to enroll this fall. Hauge is now an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Tong is at Firefly Aerospace in Texas.

Galvin himself earned a bachelor’s degree at Georgia Tech, and came to Princeton in 2009 for a master’s degree while working as an engineer at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Pennsylvania. Jeremy Kasdin , now the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Emeritus, hired Galvin as part of a team developing an exoplanet telescope in 2012.

Kasdin said that “we are trying to make science, but don’t ever forget that the real product is people,” Galvin recalled. “We’re generating students who leave Princeton and go on to create bigger and better things.”

Students are drawn to the TigerSats lab and to working with Galvin in part because he balances the lab’s priorities with “what you as a student would enjoy, and also what you would gain the most from,” said Prindle. She came to the lab with an affinity for building mechanisms, but was less experienced with electronics, and Galvin knew which project “would teach me those skills that I needed to refine.”

“It was just fun to come into the lab every week and talk with Mike,” she said. “You knew that you could turn around in your swivel chair and he would be there to help answer your question. I feel like I had one of the coolest thesis experiences because I had such an attentive and knowledgeable mentor.”

The TigerSats lab is supported by the MAE department, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Princeton’s Council on Science and Technology, as well as Rutgers University, the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority, and NASA’s New Jersey Space Grant Consortium. Prindle’s zero-G flight and a balloon launch experiment by Kevin Tong of the Class of 2022 were also supported by the Fred Fox Fund of Princeton’s Office of Religious Life.

A full list of students, projects and opportunities may be found on the TigerSats website .

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The Humanities Council celebrates seniors in the Class of 2024 who were awarded 73 certificates and seven independent majors across five Council undergraduate programs – European Cultural Studies, Humanistic Studies, Journalism, Linguistics, and Medieval Studies. Congratulations to all our students and thank you to our faculty! 

Program in European Cultural Studies

Certificate Students: Paul-Louis Biondi ( Comparative Literature ), Isabelle Casimir ( Classics ), Paul Fletcher ( History ), Lana Gaige ( Comparative Literature ), Tommy Goulding ( German ), Theodore Gross ( Politics ), Lucy Gutman ( Art & Archaeology ), Kayra Guven ( History ), Lucia Heminway ( Art & Archaeology ), Carolina Moore ( Art & Archaeology ), Aybars Önder ( Philosophy ), Drew Pugliese ( Art & Archaeology ), Kelsey Wang ( Chemistry ), Nomi Willis ( Comparative Literature ), Karina Wugang ( Politics ), Noori Zubieta ( Mathematics )

Read more about the Program in European Cultural Studies.

Program in Humanistic Studies

Certificate Students : Paul-Louis Biondi ( Comparative Literature ), Sam Bisno ( History ), Gabriel Chalick ( Art & Archaeology ), Sandra Chen ( Comparative Literature ), Kristiana Filipov ( German ), Lana Gaige ( Comparative Literature ), John Raulston Graham ( Architecture ), Sebastian Hayden ( Philosophy ), Sage Kanemaru ( History ), Lara Katz ( Comparative Literature ), Hank Lin ( Philosophy ), Emma Mohrmann ( Art & Archaeology ), Hope Perry ( Classics ), Matthew Pickering ( SPIA ), Elizabeth Poku ( Economics ), Cecilia Quirk ( ORFE ), Olivia Ragan ( SPIA ), Calla Schultz ( East Asian Studies ), Sydney Spector ( Politics ), Tori Tinsley ( Politics ), Bethany Villaruz ( English ), Kelsey Wang ( Chemistry ), Karina Wugang ( Politics ), Noori Zubieta ( Mathematics )

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Program in Journalism

Certificate Students : Paige Cromley ( Astronomy ), Katherine Dailey ( SPIA ), Jasmyn Dobson ( Politics ), Sam Kagan ( Near Eastern Studies ), Albert Lee ( Sociology ), Laura Robertson ( History ), Hannah Su ( Architecture ), Tori Tinsley ( Politics ), Valerie Wales ( Politics )

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Program in Linguistics

Independent Majors : Caleb Gibson, Natasha Hurwitch, Elise Kim, Delaney M. Savidge, Tal Schaeffer, Sebastian Geary Suarez, Batsheva Leah Weinstein

Certificate Students : Katherine Baldwin ( Computer Science ), Jeremy Dapaah ( Computer Science ), Kira Fitzgerald ( Computer Science ), Helen Gao ( Computer Science ), Rowen Gesue ( Neuroscience ), Ryan Gibbons ( Computer Science ), John Hart ( Computer Science ), Arjun Jagjivan ( ORFE ), Emmanuel Jamero ( History ), Brendan Kehoe ( Electrical Engineering ), Teddy Leane ( English ), Jessica Lopez ( Classics ), Saumya Malik ( Computer Science ), Ronan Soni ( Mathematics ), Louis Viglietta ( Computer Science ), Myla Wailoo ( African American Studies )

Program in Medieval Studies

Certificate Students: Fahim Azaz ( Near Eastern Studies ), Marta Baziuk ( Classics ), Paul Fletcher ( History ), Sebastian Hayden ( Philosophy ), Ellie Marquardt ( History ), Shane Patrick ( Near Eastern Studies ), Claire Schultz ( English ), Matthew Wilson ( Politics )

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Asher Hinds Prize for Excellence in the Program in European Cultural Studies Tommy Goulding , German “Die Bandenführer streiten daher wie Staatsmänner”: Reading Theories of Bonapartism in Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht Thesis Adviser : Hal Foster ( Art & Archaeology )

Joseph R. Strayer Prize in Medieval Studies Fahim Azaz , Near Eastern Studies Scenes of Liminality: Jewish Identity in Medieval Egypt Thesis Adviser : Marina Rustow ( Near Eastern Studies )

Abigail Glickman , Comparative Literature Text and Textile: Reading Clothing in Cairo Geniza Society and Scholarship Thesis Adviser : Lital Levy ( Comparative Literature ) and Marina Rustow ( Near Eastern Studies )

Richard D. Challener ’44 Senior Thesis Prize in Canadian Studies Jaspar Lydon , School of Public and International Affairs Grass-Roof Homes as Grassroots Hubs: Intentional Communities on the Frontlines of Sustainability Policy in the U.S. and Canada Thesis Adviser : Anastasia Mann ( SPIA )

Senior Thesis Prize in Linguistics Elise Kim , Independent Major An Investigation into the Obligatory Decomposition of Opaque Morphemes and Pseudomorphemes in Chinese Thesis Adviser : Alexander Göbel

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