Undergraduate Senior Honors & ComPS Capstone Thesis Poster Session
- Annenberg School for Communication, Plaza Lobby
Four Communication majors will present their year-long individual research projects.
Four Penn seniors wrote a Communication honors thesis and/or a Communication and Public Service (ComPS) Capstone thesis this year. All will graduate at Annenberg’s Communication major celebration in May.
Undergraduate Communication majors have the option to write an honors thesis and/or a ComPS Capstone thesis during their senior year. In the two semester thesis seminar taught by Dr. Kim Woolf students complete a primary research study on a Communication-related topic of their choice.
The following Communication majors will present their thesis projects during this poster session:
2026 Honors Thesis & ComPS Thesis Students
Kiara F. Davis
Black Girlhood on Television: A Content Analysis of Emotional Regulation in Children’s Animated TV
Thesis advisors: David Lydon-Staley, Kim Woolf
Jada Eible Hargro
Parasocial Intimacy in a Platformed Public: Illusory Relationships in Social Media Discourse Among Reality TV Audiences
Thesis advisors: Jessa Lingel, Kim Woolf
Emma Lynn Luo
Crime in the Digital Age: Representation and Perception of Crime on Video-First Social Media Platforms
Thesis advisors: Matt O’Donnell, Kim Woolf
Sarah Usandivaras Klaehn
Words of Power: Presidential Speech and the Rhetoric of Political Reconstruction (1933-2025)
Thesis advisors: David Eisenhower, Kim Woolf
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