Commencement 2009
Class of 2009
Graduating seniors are listed alphabetically under each of Reed’s five academic divisions, followed by interdisciplinary majors and master’s graduates. The listing includes the academic department in which the student majored, followed by the title of the student’s senior thesis or graduate degree paper.
- Arts
- History and Social Sciences
- Literature and Languages
- Mathematics and Natural Sciences
- Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics
- Interdisciplinary
- Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Arts
Europa Christina Babbini
Art
The Dawn of Morphological Empiricism: Vesalius’ Methodology of Image Reception in De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septum
Zarina Rebecca Bell
Art
Good Bye, Lenin: The Fate of Political Monuments in the German Democratic Republic during the Revolution of 1989
Alexandra Dahout
Dance-Theatre
It is a Truthful Soup: Tanztheater and Related Performance Forms
Stephanie Margaret Gervais
Art
Apotheosis, Reward, Triumph: A Journey in Possibility
Lily Marie Hirdler
Art
Threads of Recollection: A Self Portrait in Fibers and Fabric
Monica Kahye Johnson
Art
Mindscapes
Owen Reed Kolasinski
Art
Forging Purity: Food Photography and the Mythology of American Cuisine
Gelsey Christine Kurrasch
Art
Revealing the Dualities in Hand-Made Domestic Textiles
Blake Tyler Mason
Art
Friday Day
Natalie Mayme Pellolio
Art
Reality Check: Vision and Truth in Walker Evans’ Subway Portraits, 1938–41
Leah Christine Peterson
Art
Fantasy and Control in the Forbidden City: The Trompe-l`oeil Theatre Murals in the Juanqin zhai or Lodge of Retiring from Hard Work
Erika Lehn Reed
Art
Aging into Abjection: Imaging the Decline Narrative of Old Age
Zoë Elizabeth Roller
Art
Beyond Reality: The Fantasy Worlds of Simon Rodia and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Alexandra Maree Schmidt
Art
Abject Internet: The New Natural An Analysis of Ryan Trecartin’s A Family Finds Entertainment (2004)
Mariel A. Torres
Art
Eternal Youth and the Fear of Finishing
Gregory Stockton Vielhaber
Art
Interrogation: Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law and the Semiotic Expansion of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons
Naomi Maayan Zeichner
Art
All Sisters Will Be Makers Now: Corita Kent and Art for Question-Posing and Celebration
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History and Social Sciences
Athena Lee Abrams
Anthropology
Artifice and Androgyny: David Bowie and the 1970s Glam Rock Counterculture
Lucas William Adams
History
So Fresh and So Clean: Frederick Law Olmsted, Calvert Vaux, and the Creation of Sanitary Park Spaces in New York City
Ravindra Aldis
History
The Seeds of Empire: The East India Company in Bengal: 1755–65
Elica Yordanova Angelova
Economics
The Effects of European Union Accession Announcements on Foreign Direct Investment in Bulgaria
Douglass Eric Barron
History
Nicaragua 1979–90: The Counterrevolutionary Alliance
Andrew Warlick Betson
History
Nicholas of Autrecourt: A Quest for Medieval University Reform
Najmus Sakib bin Salam
Economics
Factors behind Corruption
Alexander Botero-Lowry
Anthropology
Formal Failure: Anthropology in the World of the Mind
Nicholas Joseph Bradish
History
Émile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss, and Georges Bataille: An Anthropological Venture into Political Economy or From the Triumph of Reason to the Acephalic
Benjamin Austin Raber Bray
Political Science
Deforestation and Governance: Taking Measure of the Amazon
Julia Mitchel Canright
History
“Crafty Old Sophister”: William Bradford and The Early Colonial Print Industry
Jessica Ying Chan
Economics
The Welfare of the Elderly in Rural China: The Impacts of Coresidence and Financial Transfers on Health
Adrian Michael Chen
Sociology
Death Talk: Media Discourse and the Right to Die Movement, 1990–95
Michael Timothy Clark
Political Science
The Mainstreaming of Neoconservative Foreign Policy
David Joseph Colt
Economics
Factors Affecting Cost in Solar Photovoltaic Installations
Jacob Thomas Connell
Anthropology
La Piñata del Sida: An Ethnographic Study of the Neoliberal Political Economy of AIDS in Managua, Nicaragua
Ryan Francis Cook
Sociology
Taking on Goliath: The Emergence of the Wind Energy Industry
Rachel Birchard Cooper
Sociology
The Struggle between Rehabilitation and Punishment: Access to Psychiatric Treatment in State Prison Systems
Judson James Steele Daffern
Anthropology
“It Comes up Better”: Helping Nature Along in the Indigenous Miwok Landscape of the California Sierra Nevada
Savanna Rachael Marietta Davenport
History
Whitewashing the Redman: Attempted Civilization and Assimilation through American Indian Boarding School Education, 1878–1928
Kathryn Chandler Deane
Economics
How Liberal Arts Colleges Respond to Periods of Economic Decline
Zachary Brygart Ellison
History
“The Chamberlain Game”: American Imperialism in East Asia and the Pacific, 1784–1911
Laura Alice Evans
Anthropology
Tanzania in the Limelight: Responding to Witchcraft-Related Killings of Tanzanian Albinos
Eric Skell Faulk
Political Science
A Bomb in the Brain: Towards a Composite Model of Insurgency
Jonathan Randall Feder
Political Science
Putin’s Russia: Simulated Opposition in a Managed Demoncracy
Jose Manuel Fernandez
Economics
The Demand for Gasoline in Ecuador
Robin Anne Fink
Anthropology
Fuera de la Oscuridad: Shifting Subjectivities among Evangelical and Catholic Kichwa through Discourses of Illness and Modernity
River Enz Finken
Economics
Sales Taxes and the Household Savings Rate
Andrea Monique Fisk
Anthropology
Labor of Love: The Performance of Erotic Agency in the Sex Industry—How Cultural Value, Gender Subversions, and Resistance are Worked
Gabriel Tianjiao Gao
Anthropology
Gifting Nationhood through Tourism: Taglit-Birthright Israel, Travel, and Contemporary Zionism
Katarina Rose Geckle
History
Beverly the Hillbilly: Women, Motherhood, and Maternalist Reform Efforts in the Appalachian South, 1900–39
Jacob Isaac Gervich
Anthropology
Correlations between Religion and Cinema: India’s Religious Film Genre
Molly Trumbo Gingras
Sociology
Journalists’ Conceptions of Journalistic Objectivity: Strategy, Credibility, and the Construction of a Paradigm
Ryan T.G. Goehrung
History
Respice Post Te. Hominem Te Esse Memento: Power and Representation in Augustan Rome and Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Eva Esther Goodyear
History
Foreign Policy from Below: British Intervention in the Taiping Rebellion
Ellen Martin Green
Economics
The Public Good: Rationales and Mechanisms for Distributional Weighting in Public Sector CBA
James Joseph Harper
Anthropology
A Multi-Sited Analysis of the Production, Marketing, and Consumption of Willamette Valley Wine
Amanda Ann Helmers
History
Planting Forests for the Nation: Society, Politics, and Forests in Late Imperial and Republican China
Eliza Hofkosh-Hulbert
Anthropology
Processing Fragmentation: A Phenomenology of Intimacy and Authority in a Postmodern Practice of Spiritual Healing
Jessica Julia Hwang
History
The Noble Experiment: National Prohibition and the Cult of Expertise
Nathan Anthony Jones
Economics
Corporate Social Responsibility: A Case Study in the Stone Industry
Zemen Kidane
Anthropology
The Drama of Cyberspace and the Materiality of the Melodrama: A Media Reflection of Eritrean Transnational Identities
Matteson Knox
Anthropology
Cultural Xenology: Science Fiction, Aliens, and Alterity
Charli Rena Krause
Sociology
Live Free or Drive: Bike Activism and Civic Engagement in Portland, Oregon
Nicholas Carl Lee-Wunderlich
Economics
The Effect of a Biomass Value on Optimal Timber Rotation
Katie Ruth Johnson Lichter
History
Mujeres, Madres, y Ciudadanas: The Roles of the Domestic and the Political Realms in the Struggles of Antifascist Spanish Women
Michelle Pauline Lopez
Economics
Congestion Pricing at Seattle-Tacoma Airport
Ian P.M. Lowrie
Anthropology
Cognitive Practice and Non-Local Being: Pragmatic Activism in a Transcendent American Context
Lisa Marie Manson
History
The United States v. John Hansl: The Problem of Determining Criminal Intent in the United States Legal System after the Holocaust
Dominic Martin McDevitt-Parks
History
The Araucanian and the Construction of Chilean Nationhood
Natalie Anne McGarry
Economics
Intervention and the Facilitation of Community Management of Common Property Resources
Michael Orion McManus
Anthropology
Teaching Transformation: Technology, Sound, and Embodied Worship Practices in a Kingdom Fellowship
Klaus Rigatto Neumann
History
Towards a Twenty-Six County Republic: The Impact of World War II on the Island of Ireland
Marushka Kareen Ngahane Baoh
Economics
Deforestation in the Congo Basin: Can Carbon Markets Provide a Mechanism to Promote Sustainable Development?
Lindsay Aileen O’Neill
History
Home Front Democracy: American Home Economists’ Rhetoric of Democracy 1940–43
Sally Ann Passmore
History
Promoting the Perfect Aryan Family: Women’s Roles and Social Welfare Programs in Nazi Germany
Noah Mantell Pepper
Economics
When Markets Value Innovation: Patents, Citations, and the Research Trajectory
Polia Petkova Petkova
Economics
The Impact of Formula Apportionment on the State Corporate Tax Revenues in the United States
Caleb William Plakum
Anthropology
Under a Broken Blue Sky: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Violence in Mongolia
Meriam Lee Pope
History
Naked Ladies, Cursed Shoneens, and a Transnational History of National Identity: The Irish-Argentine Community and their Press, 1900–23
Brian Joseph Radzinsky
Political Science
The Power and the Glory: Libya and the Social Construction of Nuclear Prestige
Lauren Elizabeth Raheja
Anthropology
Outsider Art, Art Therapy, and the Mutual Constitution of Madness and Creativity
Rinna Vickie Rem
Anthropology
Chinese Gold Farmers Must Die: Killing for the Fantasy of Play, Identity, and the Commodity in “World of Warcraft”
Travis Morgan Ricker
Political Science
What a “Rogue” is Worth: A Study of the Discursive Currency of “Rogue States” in American Foreign Policy
Sidney Allen Rothstein
Political Science
Our Color-Conscious Constitution: Racial Diversity as a Compelling Interest in K-12 Education
Cristina Isabel Rovira-Gonzalez
Anthropology
A Biography of Mexican Cuisine: A Story of Cross-Cultural Consumption and the Politics of Representation
Mariza Isabel Ruvalcaba
Anthropology
Vamos a bailar al son que toca: Neoliberalism and the People of Corn
Anuradha Samarajiva
Economics
Inclusion and Opportunity in Individual Development Accounts: An Analysis of Match Rates and Saving Outcomes
Emily Frances Samstag
Anthropology
Culture as Communication: Anthropology’s Journey Out of Reflection
Nicholas Paul Silverman
Political Science
A Positive in Going Negative? Attack Advertising in American Presidential Elections
Genevieve Skruodys
Anthropology
Imagining Intimacy: Discourse, Power, and Subjective Navigations of Commercial Sex
Kendall Turner Taggart
Anthropology
Torture: The Social Logics of the Exception in the War on Terror
Manako Tamura
Anthropology
In Search of Totoro in Contemporary Japanese Society
Jenny Tso
Anthropology
Faint Echoes of Common Voices: The Red Lantern Shining
Avery Shoshana Ucker
Political Science
Structure First: A Social Network Analysis of the Decision to Invade Iraq, Again
Natalie Irene Ung
History
Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge: The Development of Nationalism in Cambodia
Zoë Mae Vrabel
Sociology
The “We” in “Yes, We Can”: Activist Identity Creation in Obama Volunteers
Joseph Aaron Wasserman
Anthropology
Literacy, Meritocracy, and the National Assessment of Educational Progress: The Problem of Standardized Testing in America
Natalie Julia Wenzell
Political Science
Explaining the Onset of Civil War in Sub-Saharan Africa: How Democratic Reversal and Ethnic Grievance Cause Conflict
Brenin Tyrone Wertz-Roth
History
From Stumptown to Forest Park: 100 Years of Parks in Portland, Oregon
April Elena Ybarra
History
Lilla Leach and Rae Berry: Botanical Lives and Legacies in Twentieth-Century Portland
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Literature and Languages
Katherine Laurel Agnew
Classics
τέχνη ἰατρική / τέχνη πολιτική: Art, Experience, and Persuasion in Post-Periclean Athens
Edward Sterling Alexander
English
One Arc Synoptic: Hart Crane’s Aesthetics in The Bridge
Hannah Elizabeth Baker
English
Things Aren’t as Bad as They Seem: The Development of Religious Emotions in Two Novels by G.K. Chesterton
Meggie Lynn Baker
French
Travel Literature in Early Modern France: Rabelais, Montaigne, Du Bellay
Sarah Rose Barrett
English
Towards a Baedeker of the Mind: Space, Mapping, and Italy in E.M. Forster
Fani Clarke Benhabib
English
Train Wreck Syndrome or The Obsessive Nature of Typographical Metafiction
Rene Elyse Bermudez
Classics
Nonsense in the Production(s) of Meaning: Gorgias and the Fifth-Century polis
Madeline Sarah Blodgett
English
Textual Healing: Queer Writing and Testimony in Bastard out of Carolina
Ariana Dane Boffey
English
Go with Me: Poems
Andrew Raymond Branch
French
Imaginée d’un bout à l’autre: Inauthenticity and Verisimilitude in the American Writing of Boris Vian
Nicholas Michael Brody
Classics
Xenophon’s Politically Foundational Mῡθος: Views on Persia in the Anabasis
Hilary June Bromell
English
What We Write about When We Write about Food: The Gastronomic Autobiographies of M.F.K. Fisher, Ruth Reichl, and Patience Gray
Adams Pope Carroll III
Russian
Езжает Последний Трамвай: The Symbology of the Streetcar in 20th-Century Russian Literature
Sophia Angelica Case-Gabbard
Russian
An Exploration of Exile in Gaito Gazdanov’s Buddha’s Return
Raymond Kee Dennison
English
“These Accents Seem Their Own Defense”: The Lyric Form of John Ashbery and Luci Tapahonso
Caitlin Truesdale Dick
French
Simone de Beauvoir et la question de liberté: Literary Accounts of Freedom and Demands for Social Reform
Naomi Lynn Dickerson
Russian
KomMissia and the Russian Comics Subculture
Leah Ann DiMatteo
English
Gender, Race, and Class Identity: The Power of Representation in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko
Hardie Edmunds Duncan
Russian
The Early Films of Otar Iosseliani
Sophia S.R. Frank
English
Mainstreaming Mondo: The Remediation of Mondo Cinema
John Chandler Fredrick
English
Big Love, Long Story: Cultural Perceptions of Mormonism and Polygamy in American Literature and Television
Jack Daly Friend
English
The Revenge of the Daimonic: A Mayist Reading of All the King’s Men
Alejandra Gonzales
Spanish
The Crónicas of José Martí: Landscapes of Modernity in New York City
Matthew Stewart Harper
English
Truthiness or Consequences: Investigating Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
Ambalila Hemsell
English
Linguistics in the Colony
Clara Liis Hillier
Classics
Forbidden Words: The Language and Master Acting of Clytemnestra in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
Sarah Chelsea Hoffer
English
We Are The Monsters: Complicating Degeneration in Fin-de-siècle Fiction
Maeve Catherine Hooper
German
Exposures and Developments in The First World War
Brooke Laurel Hulteen
English
Made Grace: Recovering Earthly and Narrative Ecosystems in the Stories of Barry Lopez
Neima Jahromi
English
Othello, Othello, and the Role of the Audience
Clare Elaine Johnston
English
Reassessing the Rake: The Discussion between Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Stefanie Kam Li Yee
English
Poetic Subjectivity: Conceptions of Interiority in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Madeleine Sutherland Linares
English
Through the Magic Mirror: Exploring Sexuality in the Imaginative Fiction of George MacDonald and Lewis Carroll
Theresa Ann Lingrey
English
Interruptions: Stories
Leslie Andrea Loy
English
Creating Community through the Fantastic: How the Quotidian and the Supernatural Blend in the Sexual Experience in Louise Erdrich’s Fiction
Lucian Pollard Maloy
Classics
Happiness and the Good Life in Lucianic Satire
Kailyn Margaret McCord
English
She and I
Jonathan Ray McCoy
English
Becoming a Happy Bandit: Readings of Resistance within the Works of Jean Genet
David Warren McEnulty
German
Representing the Impossible: Traumatic Memory in W.G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten and Austerlitz
Gabriel Stone Mehlman
English
Seeking Narratives: A Reading of Moby Dick
Anne Frances Miano
English
The Harmonies of Silence: Thomas Merton’s Poetry and Poetics
Miriam Joan Miller
General Literature
Two Versions of The Twelve Chairs: Texts of Appropriation and Revolution
Whitney Leigh Mims
Classics
The Father of History and the Judicial Tyrant City: Herodotus’ Histories and the Damning Despotism of Empire
Lauren Crescencia Morales
Spanish
The Theory of the Fantastic in Four Stories by Julio Cortázar
James Kwesi Ocran
French
The African Detective Novel: Born from Defying Expectations
Diana Christina Oliva
English
Everything that Never Happened to Me
Brendan Paul Olsen
French
Albert Camus on Space, Discourse, and Judgment
Jodi Bree Romero
English
“A World Made of Stories”: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony
Corie Ann Sanford
English
“A Sense of New and Sudden Vision”: Representations of Epiphany in the Modern Novel
Melissa Claire Schatz-Miller
English
A Loud and Empty House: The Status of Friendship in Contemporary South Asian British Literature
Marissa Sophia Schneiderman
English
Captives and Captors: Mary Rowlandson, Susanna Rowson, and the Evolution of an American Role
Alina Serebryany
English
“Their Throat is an Open Sepulchre”: Archival Descent and Song in Susan Howe’s The Nonconformist’s Memorial
Prashant Sharma
English
“To Spiritualize the Burden”: The Inward Quest in The Scarlet Letter
Jennifer Nicole Sherman
Russian
Poshlost’ in the Russian Literary Tradition: Romantics, Symbolists, and Nabokov
Kerry Robyn Sherman
Spanish
The Indigenista Literary and Social Revolution in Peru: Túpac Amaru II and His Legacy
Kerelyn Rebecca Smith
English
Descriptive Designs: Deep Focus and Natural Background in Thomas Hardy’s Wessex Novels
Theresa Rika Smith
French
Perspectives sur l’éducation et la capacitation des femmes dans la France Prérévolutionnaire
Andrew Clarke St. Maurice
French
Le visage nu, le visage poudré: Representations of Japan in Barthes, Resnais, and Williams
J. Quinn Swoope
Spanish
Changing Modes of Criticism in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar
Brittany Morgan Taylor
English
America, Yes: The Myth of the People in the Industrial Poetry of Carl Sandburg
Sherry Tiao
Spanish
Science and Degeneration in Pío Baroja’s El árbol de la ciencia
James Roberts Timberlake
English
Cyborg Visions: Looking through Popular Representations of Meeting Technological Advancements
Emma Bly Tupper
English
“The Jig-Saw Gists Beginning to Fit”: Reading as Recovery in the Poetry of Lorine Niedecker
Brian Matthew Urrutia
Classics
Dancing with Plato through the Laws
Katherine Elliott Walsh
English
White Girls with Problems: The Postfeminist Film Reel-ity
Laura Marie West
Spanish
Todo lo que quiero: The Construction and Translation of Alejandra Pizarnik’s Árbol de Diana
Flint Egan Brannin Whistler
English
The Bluebeard Tales: Crossing Boundaries with Marriage and Murder
Joshua Michael Willey
Chinese
Cinematic Absence
Isaac P. Zisman
English
Narrative Silences: A Reading of Absalom, Absalom!
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Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Xeno Acharya
Biology
Growth and Viability of the Red-legged Frogs (Rana aurora) Introduced in the Reed College Canyon
Michael Christopher Allard
Mathematics-Physics
Anomalous Diffusion, Fractional Calculus, and Random Walks
Robin Ann Bjorkquist
Physics
Hidden Momentum
Laura Anne Bradley
Biology
Inhibiting Secretion during Stimulation Increases Localization of Pro-Egg Laying Hormone mRNA in the Neurites of Bag Cells
Eric Edward Brattain-Morrin
Mathematics
Entropy, Computation, and Demons
Austen Allen Brown
Biology
Examination of GFP-tagged ELH Prohormone with Peptide Specific Antibodies
Laila Rose Bryant
Biology
Ecological Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Distribution and Abundance of Fishes in the Reed Canyon Stream
Marion Jessica Burrill
Biology
Testing the Role of the Cellular Organizer of a Spider Embryo
Julia Beth Carleton
Biology
One Bad Mother: Functional Genomics of Maternal Aggression in Asratotilapia burtoni
Steven Thomas Case
Physics
Numerical Calculations of Charge Distributions on Conductors
Thomas Michel Chartrand
Mathematics-Physics
Trajectories in the Hydrodynamic Formulation of Quantum Mechanics: A Computational and Theoretical Investigation
Emmeline Lea Chuu
Biology
Mechanisms of Estrogen-Mediated Gene Repression
Regina Elizabeth Collecchia
Mathematics
The Entropy of Musical Classification
David Angus Constant
Biology
Production and Purification of X. laevis PinX1, a Putative Telomerase Inhibitor
Tiffany Anne Cook
Biology
Pollen Viability and Effects of Flavonols in Two Native Larkspurs of the Pacific Northwest, Delphinium leucophaeum and Delphinium nuttallii
Jessica Lynne Covey
Chemistry
Synthesis of a Tetra Amido Macrocyclic Ligand with Catechol Substitution on the Six-Membered Chelate Ring
Maria Cuellar
Physics
Using Weak Gravitational Lensing to Find Dark Matter Distributions
Lindsay Nicole Deis
Biochemistry-Mathematics
Application of Numerical Simulation to the Determination of Half-of-Sites Reactivity: A Case Study in Biotin Carboxylase
Todd Michael Dembo
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Of Granules and Gastropods: Toward the Isolation and Characterization of Neuronal Ribonucleoprotein Particles Containing a Prohormone mRNA
Daniel James Eichelsdoerfer
Chemistry-Physics
The Effect of Inorganic Shell Growth on Exciton Recombination Rates in CdSe Quantum Dots
Joseph Spanjaard Elias
Chemistry
The Coordination of Acetic Acid to Oxovanadium(V) Triisopropoxide: A Multinuclear NMR Investigation
Carolyn Nicole Elya
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
MRSA, Manganese, and Metalloregulation: Attempted Purification and Characterization of Staphylococcal Iron Regulator Repressor (SirR), a Manganese Metalloprotein Native to Staphylococcus epidermidis
Jennifer Ruth Eng
Biology
Flower Color in Delphinium: Sequencing and Expression of Flavonol Synthase
Federico Espinosa
Chemistry
On the Synthesis of a Symmetric Double pH Switch
Benjamin Douglas Fischer
Mathematics
Funny Ways to Count Dots: Relating the Discrete and Continuous Volumes of Rational Polyhedra
Rachel Frost Fordyce
Physics
Chaotic Waterwheel
Laura Nicole Freeman
Physics
Dynamics of a Nonlinear String: The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou Problem Revisited
Celia Elizabeth Gellman
Biology
Toward the Identification of the Retinal Bipolar Cell Antigen in Melanoma-Associated Retinopathy
Daniel Henry Glaser
Biology
Ingestion by Caenorhabditis elegans Provides Protection Against Chemical Treatment to Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli
Vimal Golding
Biology
Ragamuffin to Riches, Gulch to Glen: The Restoration of an Urban Ecosystem and Long Term Amphibian Monitoring in the Reed College Canyon
Benjamin Daniel Greenberg
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Isolation of Large Dense-Core Vesicles toward Identification of Novel Vesicle-Associated Proteins
Aaron James Grier
Mathematics
Digital Sampling Theory
Josie Ann Griffin
Biology
Conservation Genetics: Quantifying Genetic Diversity in South Korean Populations of the Oriental Fire-Bellied toad (Bombina orientalis)
Alexander Jacob Gurfinkel
Physics
Simulating Quantum Computational Algorithms in Mathematica
Maxwell Symes Hallock
Mathematics
The Tutte Polynomial and the Critical Configuration Polynomial on Acyclic Digraphs
Kimberly Ann Hartfield
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
MDR1: An Iron-dependent Transcriptional Repressor from a Hyperthermophilic Archaeon
Bryan Christopher Head
Mathematics
An Abstraction of Evolution through Algebra
Joshua Rudy Hoak
Mathematics
Mathematical Games
Tristan Tory Hormel
Physics
Polarized Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy
Gildevin Jagudajev
Chemistry
The SHArK Project: A Combinatorial Search for a Metal Oxide Semiconductor with Which to Split Water and Produce Hydrogen Using Sunlight
Matthew Lionel Jemielita
Physics
Quantum Walks on Graphs
Eugene Jin
Biology
Is the Interaction between Human Telomere Proteins TIN2 and TRF1 Conserved in Xenopus laevis?
Candice Hoi-yan Kam
Biology
Classification of Indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase in Xenopus laevis as Compared to Humans
Melati Kaye
Biology
Effects of Abiotic Niche on the regional population distribution of Delphinium leucophaeum and Delphinium nuttallii
Cameron William Kellett
Chemistry
Towards the Synthesis of a Double pH Switch: Synthesizing a Symmetric Ethylene Bridged Camphoric Diamine
Hyeon Jeong Kim
Biology
Production of Polyhydroxybutyrate in Euphorbia pulcherrima
Molly McCarthy King
Biology
An Investigation into the Interaction of X. laevis Telomeric Proteins TRF1 and PinX1
Jordan Neil Kohn
Biology
The Putative Testis-Differentiating Gene, Dmrt1, is Expressed in Both Males and Females during Sex-Determination in Threesprine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
Lillian Miller Kuehl
Biology
Glucosinolates and Selenium Might Interact in the Face of Adversity to Form an Anti-Herbivore Superpower Coalition, But I Can’t Figure it Out, So Let’s Go Play Basketball
Jennifer Marie Leonard
Biology
Introduction of Several Populations of a Species of the Endangered Wildflower Delphinium leucophaeum into Two Different Parks in the Northern Willamette Valley, Oregon
Ryan Wesley Loney
Physics
Vibrational Spectroscopy of the Clathrin Hub
Helen Lillian Magee
Biology
Aggression in Lab Stock and Wild Stock Male Astatotilapia burtoni
David Carl Mavor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Sixteen Fragments: A Structural Study
Cody Ryan Myers
Physics
Monochromatic Plane Waves in a Corrugated Tube System
My Linh Thi Nguyen
Biology
Astatotilapia burtoni Maternal Mouth-Brooding Cichlids As a New Model for Appetite Regulation
Joshua Steven O’Rourke
Mathematics
Frobenius Numbers of Consecutive Squares
Jonathan David Packer
Biology
Transcriptional Regulation of the Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 and the Procto-Oncogene Mdm2 in Xenopus laevis
Clare Elise Parker
Biology
Sex and Violence in Juveniles: Size, Aggression, and a Possible Social Mechanism for Sex Determination in Astatotilapia burtoni
Meera Yogendrakumar Patel
Biology
A Phosphoinositide 3-kinase Like Kinase Blocks Transcription of Cyclin G2 in MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cells
Elana Esther Peach-Fine
Biology
The Role of Soybean Biotin Production on Poly-β-hydroxybutyrate Degradation and Rhizobial Root Nodule Colonization
Alex Edward Perez
Chemistry
Probing the Role of Deliberate Imperfection in the Lithium Ion Insertion Behavior of V2O5 Ambigel Films
Jacob Gallagher Perlman
Mathematics
Sandpiles: A Bridge between Graphs and Toric Ideals
Thomas Chapman Proctor
Physics
Self-Force in Classical Electrodynamics: Recent Developments in Particle Models and the Landau-Lifshitz Equation
Kamesh Chandra Regmi
Biology
In Situ Hybridization of Glutathione-S-Transferase 9 in Glycine max Root Nodule
Benjamin Daniel Webster Rhiger
Physics
Pyrometric Determination of the Temperature Coefficient of Resistance (α) of Tungsten: An Application of the Blackbody Spectrum
William Bailey Rosenbaum
Mathematics
Analysis on Circles: A Modern View of Fourier Series
Annika Nordin Saltman
Biology
Diversity and Distribution of Fish in the Reed College Canyon: Using Fish Assemblages to Assess Water Quality and Ecosystem Health
Charles Kelly Scanlan
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Testing Protein Synthesis in Axons with Probe of Local Vesicle Cycle
Molly Esther Schumer
Biology
Gene Expression, Hormones, and Behavior in a Sex-Role Conventional and Sex-Role Reversed Cichlid Species Pair (Julidochromis)
Clara Hart Siegel
Mathematics
Radiocarbon Dating of Mount Baker Lahars: Implications for Volcanic Hazard Assessment
Patricia Snarski
Biology
Zinc Non Specific Effects on Inhibiting Ler Binding Activity
Sarah Czecholinski Stafford
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
A Study of Salmonella typhimurium Orotate Phosphoribosyltransferase Binding Stoichiometry with Respect to Orotidine-5’ -Monophosphate
James Dustan Stokes
Physics
Quantum Frustration on the Hyper-Kagome Lattice
Anna Davis Stonestrom
Chemistry
Portland Aerosol: Characterization by FTIR
Nava Indah Suryawan
Physics
Quantum Eraser
AmearaCatherine Whitney Tanner
Biology
Challenges in Motherhood: Support for the Challenge Hypothesis in Maternal Astatotilapia Burtoni
Nayram George Tay-Agbozo
Mathematics
An Investigation into Image Segmentation Using Graph Cuts
Jeannette Lynn Tenthorey
Biology
Regulation of Virulence in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli: In Search of a Consensus DNA Binding Sequence for Ler
J.D. Tobin
Chemistry
Development of Satellite Analysis of Atmospheric Nitrogen Oxides and Aerosol
Kristen Marie Vaccaro
Physics
Teaching Computers Prejudice: Applications of Speech Recognition Systems to Sociolinguistics
Emily Jo Warschefsky
Biology
A Nematode Model for an Inconvenient and Deadly Disease: Using Caenorhabditis elegans to investigate the Pathogenesis of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli
Melissa Lynn Weinrich
Chemistry
Toward the Synthesis of a Merged pH-Switch
Angeline Renee Wolski
Biology
Predicting the Potential Distribution of the Invasive Species Brachypodium sylvaticum According to the Niche Conservatism Theory
Mingrui Zhang
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
MntR Mutants and Reporters: Probing the Structural Basis for Metal Ion Selectivity in the Manganese Transcriptional Regulator
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Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics
Gregory Scott Ackerman
Philosophy
I Can’t Believe You’re Asking That: A Study of the Semantic Content of Wh- Interrogatives
Lindsey Taylor Allen
Linguistics
Iconicity in the Perception of Speech Rhythm
Eric Thomas Alwine
Philosophy
Strawson’s Basic Argument and the Impossibility of Libertarian Free Will
Rachel Rebecca Baikie-Rick
Psychology
The State of the Art: Impacting Women’s Artistic Creativity through Stereotype Susceptibility and Competition
Robertson Tyne Earthman Beasley
Psychology
Hearing outside the Box: An Exploration of How Categories Mediate the Auditory Attentional Blink
Dustin Andrew Bowers
Linguistics
Ojibwe Gender and Derivation: A Final Analysis
Andrew John Price Buchanan
Philosophy
Memetics, or I Hope This Is Catchy
Christopher Michael Casey
Psychology
Are Individual Differences in Preference for Consistency and Cooperation Predictive of Behavior in Social Dilemmas?
Bryson Elliot Davis
Philosophy
Defense of Contractualism
Matthew James Davis
Psychology
Ghrelin Microinjection into the Ventral Tegmental Area Induces Conditioned Place Preference
Charles William Emrich
Philosophy
Free as in Speech: The Right to Free Expression and the Right to Information
Peter Arcus Farago
Linguistics
To Have and Have Not: Unifying Possession in the Sentential and Nominal Domains
Mariah Dyan Bernard Federow
Psychology
Hidden in Plain Sight: A Detailed Analysis of Dog Social Cue Preference
Benedict John Frederick
Psychology
Adolescent Substance Abuse and Comorbid Psychopathology: The Youth Relapse Model
Irina Alexandrovna Gladkova
Linguistics
In Her Image: Iconic Modalities Driving Law, Gender, and Cultural Perceptions of Rape
Sarah Jeannette Gould
Linguistics
On the Hive Mind: Explorations in Social Semiotics
Aline Michelle Grueneisen
Psychology
Feeling the Weight of a Cognitive Backpack: The Mind’s Effect on Visual Perception
Wesley Calm Hilton
Linguistics
The Status of Remote Past BIN in Standard American English
Samara Reigh Holub-Moorman
Religion
Hazrat Inayat Khan and His Metaphysics of Vibration
Michael Peter Horvick
Psychology
The Relationship between Stress, Burnout, and Leisure as a Coping Strategy Within a Student Population
Katherine Marie Judson
Linguistics
The Legal Performative, Race, and the Modern Civil Rights Movement: A Study of the Battle Over Semiotic Production of Identity
Jonathan Frank Kominsky
Psychology
Are You Reading through Time? Two Studies of the Relationship between Space and Time in English Speakers
Molly Lawrence Lewis
Linguistics
A Parallel Formulation of Whorfian and Neo-Whorfian Linguistic Relativity
Jessica Lee Liddell
Psychology
The Black Hole of Motherhood: A Decrease in Perceived Competence and Hirability for Female Physics Job Candidates with Children
A.K. Lipton
Religion
The Problem of Dignity: Exception and the Heterosexual Norm in Conservative Halachah
Katherine Elizabeth Loera
Psychology
Serotonin Attenuates the Orexigenic and Anxiogenic Actions of Ghrelin within the Paraventricular Nucleus of the Hypothalamus
Anna Joyce McGee
Psychology
Do You See What I See? Canine Understanding of What is New and Old in the Experience of Others
Jamie Taylor McNellis
Psychology
Transference of Handling Effects between Rats
Chase Nebeker Munson
Religion
Race, Religion, and Revival: The Story of William J. Seymour
Diana Nicolas
Philosophy
The Philosophical Significance of an Evolutionary Account of Morality
Rebecca Jade Ok
Philosophy
On the Consistency of Common Sense and a Kooky View
Caitlin Rose Oliver
Religion
American Civil Religion: Myth, Terror, and Story
Tessa Diane Orbach
Psychology
Rationalizing Overimitation
William Benson Pickett
Linguistics
Language and the “White Horse”: Two Interpretations of the Gongsun Longzi
Dora Emily Pollak
Religion
The Cosmos in Ink: Spirit Resonance and Correlative Realms in Early Chinese Philosophy of Landscape Painting
Jaine Leigh Powers
Psychology
The Way the Ball Bounces: Seeking Direct Connections between Intrinsic Motivation and Mindfulness as well as Investigating the Presence of Both in Jugglers
Aviva Frieda Blum Raskin
Linguistics
Japanese Women’s Language as a Covert Standard: A Case Study on the Speech of the Gothic-Lolita
Juliet Marion Robboy
Psychology
Intergenerational Child Abuse, Revictimization, and Coping
Lily Wynne Scheyhing
Linguistics
Deixis: A Meaningful Interface between Reality and Our Interpretive World-Views
Gregory Alan Sides
Linguistics
Around the Edges of Language: Prosody and Linguistic Systems
Cara Leigh Siegel
Psychology
Oxytocin Mediates Partner Preference in the Polygamous Rat
Seneca James Siegel
Psychology
Exploring Asymmetries in Figurative Language between Spanish and English Speakers
Martin Manuel Souza
Religion
Do the Impossible, See the Invisible: Ritual as Self-Cultivation in the Liji
Roy Patrick Staples
Psychology
Who Are They? Group Entitativity, Subgroup Relations, and Immigration Policy
Alexandra Elizabeth Tinsley
Psychology
You Can Tell by the Way I Use My Walk: Gait Symmetry and Judgments of Attractiveness, Competence, Friendliness, and Desirability
Natasha Bessie Utevsky
Psychology
Spirituality in the Context of Risk and Protection
Sandra Kristina Voss
Psychology
Differences Between Spanish and English Speakers’ Perceptions of Animal Gender
Daniel Gilbert Wall
Psychology
Pretreatment with Insulin Detemir Attenuates the Orexigenic Effect of Ghrelin
Kate Hendry Williams
Religion
“Dancing for an Audience of One”: Megachurches, Ballet, and the Creation of Bodily Religious Identity
Julia Caitlin Wood
Psychology
Automatic Activation of Disability Stereotypes
Thaddeus Josef Woodman
Philosophy
Composition & Common Sense
Tian Yu Yen
Psychology
How to Motivate Yourself to Write a Bibliography When You Expect It to Be Boring: Interest Expectations and Students’ Use of Motivational Strategies
Charles H.P. Zuckerman
Linguistics
Meaning and “Sociolinguistics”: A Qualitative and Quantitative View
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Interdisciplinary
Nii Amartey Amarteifio
Mathematics-Economics
The Role of Foreign Direct Investment: A Sub-Saharan Perspective
Dana Ann Bublitz
Classics-Religion
“Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.” A Study of Thomas of Froidmont’s Odoeporicum et Pericula Margaritae Iherosolimitanae
Nicholas Chandler-Klein
Mathematics-Economics
Predictive Validity of the New SAT Reasoning Test
Rachel Rita Ferst
Mathematics-Economics
Combined Program, Columbia University
Margaret A. Grove Nelson
Classics-Religion
A Mind against the Mindless: A Commentary on Gregory of Nazianzus’ First Letter to Cledonius
Joseph Alexander Hand
Mathematics-Economics
Creative Destruction in a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Framework: Evaluation Through Calibration and Simulation
David Peter Jackson
Mathematics-Economics
Production Effects of U.S. Agricultural Program Payments: An Empirical Examination
Mallory Joan Keeler
Mathematics-Economics
Estimating the Effects of the Federal Estate Tax on Charitable Behavior: Evidence Since EGTRRA 2001
Devin Thomas McGeehan Muchmore
American Studies
American Citizens of the Sea: Maritime Labor, the Seamen’s Act, and the Languages of Citizenship, 1890–1915
James Clifton Meador
Religion-Russian
Moscow Tantric Blues: Bidiya Dandaron’s Letters to Natalia Kovrigina 1956–59
Daniela Morar
Mathematics-Economics
Power Laws in the Stock Market
Amrita Indumathi Rajasingham
Economics-Psychology
A Punishment to Fit the Crime: The Use of Actuarial Science to Forecast Recidivism
Andrew Charles Shapiro
Mathematics-Economics
Music Industry Business Models in the Digital Millennium: An Empirical Analysis of Streaming Music and Multi-Product Profits
Tolga Safer Yilmaz
Economics-Physics
From Brownian Motion in The Stock Market to Stochastic Option Pricing Models: A Theoretical Investigation
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Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Michael Scott Andersen
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Moral Imagination and Compassionate, Just Attention in Iris Murdoch’s The Good Apprentice
Timalyne Marie-Lindquist Frazier
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Arms of the Sea
Michael Lee Knapp
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
The Language of the Making: Nominative Conflict in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea
Virginia Nolte Tillman
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Transgressing the Boundaries: South Seas Hybridity in the Work of Paul Gauguin and Robert Louis Stevenson
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