Admission
The Reed Thesis
You will complete your undergraduate experience with the senior thesis, an intense year-long project in which you will learn the subject of your choosing to the utmost level and present it in the utmost detail. Your thesis, which becomes a permanent resource in the Reed library, may well be the most challenging thing you will have ever done -- certainly the most rewarding. You will never forget the experience, nor lose the confidence it builds.
Recent Theses Titles
"A Diachronic Study of the Effects of Political and Economic
Modernization on Choctaw Ethnic Identity: The Politics of Cultural Integrity"
Jessica R. Hahn, anthropology
"Melancholia and the Artistic Temperament"
Wyatt T. Krajeski, art
"A Study of Human Cytomegalovirus G Protein-Coupled
Receptor US28 Signaling in Smooth Muscle Cells"
Dora P. Pancheva, biology
"Cloning of GTP Cyclohydrolase, fol E, and
Dihydroneopterin Aldolase, fol B, in Escherichia coli"
Laurence A. Kahn, chemistry
"Writing Qing, or ‘my most innermost feelings
in
Ci’: Marginality in the Poetry and Poetics of Liu Yong and Li Qingzhao"
Jennifer J. Hong, Chinese
"’Menstruation is the Uterus Weeping for Lack
of Child’:
Female Biological Theory in Ancient Medical Discourse"
Miriam R. Aronoff, classics
"Which is the Fairer Sex? Gender-Based Behavioral
Differences in a Bargaining Experiment"
Annick E. Chalier, economics
"Well-Told Lies: Michael Ondaatje’s Fictional
(Auto)Biographies"
Miles D. Norton, English
"The Disruption of Logic and the Use of Humor in
the Prose of Comte de Lautreamont and Guillaume Apollinaire"
Josie K. Foster, French
"The Poet’s Autumn: The Depiction of Nature in
the Early Poetry of Stefan George and Rainier Maria Rilke"
Tracey A. Beck, German
"Soldiers, Nurses, Symbols: American Army Women in
the Vietnam War, 1962–1972"
Tracy L. Menasco, history
"The ‘Explicable PE’: A New Analysis of Coptic
Verbal Morphosyntax"
James L. Barrett, linguistics
"Gorenstein Lattice Ideals”
Benjamin Collett, mathematics
"Signifyin’
On The Blues: Charles Mingus and the African American Music Tradition"
Thomas Michael Feeley, music
"The Philosophical Problem of Vagueness: Perspectives
on the
Epistemic Theory, Semantic Incoherence, and Supervaluationism"
Amanda M. Egge, philosophy
"A Photometric Period Analysis of the Population II
d Scuti -
SX Phe Variable Stars XX Cygni and DY Pegasi Physics"
Jonathan L. Fertig, physics
"More Than Just Acid-Washed Jeans and Track Suits:
Political Benefits from Economic Corruption in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation"
Willa W. Johnson, political science
"The Impact of Oppression Workshops on the Perceptions
of Everyday Life Experiences: The Teen Personal Rights Workshop"
Sophia S. George-Glasser, psychology
"Discourse on Desire: Controversy over Spiritual
Marriage in Fourth-Century Egyptian Asceticism"
Maggie D. Rosenbloom, religion
"A Translation of Three Stories by Victor Pelevin"
Todd W. Ruhlen, Russian
"Beyond Autonomy or Dominance: The Political Sociology
of Prison Expansion"
Clayton J. Szczech, sociology
"Una Movida Hacia la Mirada: Dystopian Visions of
Urban Space in Contemporary Spanish Cinema"
Eleanor A. Roper-Ater, Spanish
"Masks, Whips, and the Erection of the Big Top: A Study
of
Status Relationships in Commedia dell’Arte and Modern Circus Theatre"
Owen K. Edson, theatre
"A Structure Function Analysis of Xylitol Binding in
D-Xylose Isomerase"
Marshall C. Miller, biochemistry and molecular biology
