Class of 2006
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, and Psychology
- Interdisciplinary
- Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Arts
Vera Clare Alcorn
Music
Rota Taro: Telling Stories with Songs
Michelle Christiana David
Art
Sequential Art and Cyclical Trauma: In the Shadow of No Towers
Ross McGuire Donaldson
Music
Poetry Writ Large: The Music and Verse of Francis Poulenc's Tel Jour, Telle Nuit
Megan Philipa Driscoll
Art
Picturing Sex: Art and Pornography in Contemporary Visual Culture
Allison Nicole Furlotti
Art
The Presence of Possessions
Devon Wade Granmo
Theatre
Dirty Water
Lotus Leora Grenier
Art
In Order : To Process
Alyse Rowen Haigh
Theatre
A Moving World: A Comparative Study of JoAnne Akalaitis, Anne Bogart, and Ariane Mnouchkine
Emily Susan Hamilton
Art
Reading the "Vie de St. Denis" Manuscript as a Historical document: Urban Representation, Social Reality, and Historiography in Fourteenth Century Paris
Mont Christopher Hubbard
Music
You Shouldn't Be Hearing This: Film Scoring Techniques of Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson in The City, The Plow That Broke the Plains, and The Heiress
Michael James Murch
Art
Back of the Bread
Leela Ann Outcalt
Art
Manet, Flaubert, and Modernism as a Delayed Symptom of Modernity
Michael Christian Pape
Theatre
Finding Artaud Between Gesture and Thought
Éva Judit Pelczer
Art
The Role of the Visual in Phenomenological Manipulations of Space
Mary Lorraine Purnell
Art
Simulation and Recreation: The Digital Construction of Hyperreal Landscapes
Elizabeth Diane Raby
Music
Keep Talkin' Happy Talk: Civil Rights on Broadway in the Late 1940s
John Ryrie Waugh
Art
Combined Program, Columbia University
Laura Eileen Weiser
Art
A Reconsideration of the Wiener Werkstätte and Adolf Loos and the Place of Women's Fashion in Turn-of-the-Century Viennese Design
Sarah L. Wright
Art
Word as Image: A Survey of the Aesthetic Formality of Text
History and Social Sciences
William Reed Allmendinger
Political Science
Intersections of Global Capitalism and Indigenity: Problems of International Environmental and Social Justice
Stephane Cristin Barile
Anthropology
French Islamic Altercommodities: Value and Subjectivity Creation
Scott Thomas Beutel
Political Science
Water in the Ferghana Valley: A Source of Conflict or Cooperation?
Graeme Douglas Blair
Political Science
The Myth of Consociationalism? Explaining Social Stability Amidst Racial Fragmentation in South Africa and the Hegemony of the African National Congress
Adam Bondy
Political Science
From Lyre to Loudspeaker: Music as Power
Derek MacDowell Bradley
Political Science
A Theory of Rights Applied to Eminent Domain
Alexandra K. Bradspies
Sociology
An Exploration of Individual and Contextual Factors Affecting the Racial Wealth Gap
Andrea Victoria Brambila
Anthropology
Roots and Wings: Reconstructing the Past in Two American Danza Azteca Groups
Celeste Mari Broderick
Anthropology
A Spectacle of Robots: Japan, Robot Friends, and Robot Enemies
Jamaica Ai-Etsuko Brown
Sociology
"Remember to Eat and Sleep"- Online Games, Offline Lives
Brian Robert Burrell
Economics
Islamic Equity Investments: Financial Performance and Impact on Firm Behavior
Sarah Catherine Carlin
History
"And Further Saith Not:" Bastard Bearers and the Law in Eighteenth Century England, 1700-60
Joseph Patrick Cleveland
History
Nietzsche's Aesthetic Revaluation of Knowledge
Parker Michelle Cooper
Anthropology
The Use of Labeling in Agriculture and Food to Create Distinctions
Nicholas Novikoff Creamer
History
Industrialization and Environmental Degradation in The People's Republic of China: A Historical Examination of the Third Front Program
Kristen Michelle Cross
History
Consuming Identities: Fashion, Gender, and Class in Nineteenth Century France
Israel Cruz
Anthropology
Suspending the Plot of the Real: Narratives of Collective Action in Chicana/o Literature and History
Bryan Dennis Early
History
English and Ottomans in Trade: Commerce, Development, and Identity in Early Modern Exchange, 1500-1689
Elizabeth Nicole Ebright
Anthropology
Zombis and The Contours of Material, Bodily, and Spiritual Possession in Haiti
Leah Edith Dundes Faw
Political Science
Being Salt and Light: Conservative Christian Politics at the Grassroots
Kean Ives Fleming
Anthropology
Changing Places
Scott Edward Foreman-Murray
History
Reckless Ambition: The Political Ideology of U.S. Expansion, 1840-48
Rebecca Erin Fureigh
Sociology
The Backlash Against Political Correctness
Eva Galanes-Rosenbaum
Political Science
Escalator of Doom: Deescalation in European Nationalist Terrorist Organizations
Adam Michael Goldstein
Sociology
The Community Context of Form Conversion
Elizabeth Ann Griffing
Anthropology
Satisfying Creations and Creation's Satisfying Presence: Meaning in Portland Community Gardens
Emilie Hayward-Allen
Anthropology
The Demolition of Zhejiangcun: A State Spectacle of Destruction in a Beijing Migrant Enclave
Alexandra Ellen Hoffman
Economics
Historic Preservation and the Housing Market: A Hedonic Study of the Historic Preservation Property Tax Freeze in Portland, Oregon
Geoffrey Fitzgibbon Hughes
Anthropology
Narrating the Nation: The Moroccan Monarchy
Lindsay Radcliffe James
History
The Framework of Fear: Reason and Rationality in the Soviet Great Terror, 1936-38
Emma Chandler Jenrette
History
Who Was Really Watching the Children?: Challenging the Myth of the 1950s Family
Katherine Cody Jones
Political Science
The American News Media: Our Nation and Its Withering Fourth Estate
Antonia Marie Keithahn
History
Tradition, Terrorism, and the Struggle for Political Privilege: The Union of the Russian People and the Russian Orthodox Church
Amanda Marina Keppeler
Anthropology
Identity, Action, and "the story you didn't read about last summer...": The 2005 AFL-CIO Split and Organized Labor in Twenty-First Century American Discourse
Lauren Elizabeth Lanahan
Sociology
Overcoming Racial Inequalities: Recent Integrating Trends in the United States
William Hayes Levin
History
Beating a Dead Horse(car): Portland Trolleys and the Shift to Cars
Joshua Sol Lewis
Anthropology
Aqui en La Esquina: An Ethnography of Latino Day Laborers in Portland
Brenna Colleen McDonald
Anthropology
Gathering Tradition: Land Use and Culture Change on the Columbia Plateau
Elena Clare McGrath
History
Indigenismo and the National Question in Peru, 1900-30
Anna Elizabeth Melichar
Anthropology
"The Opinion and The Other Opinion": Aljazeera News and Cultural Politics of Mass Mediation
William Clark Melton
History
A Failure of Diplomacy: The United States, Cuba, and the Path to the Bay of Pigs
Peter A.M. Miller
Political Science
A Gun and a Kind Word: War Crimes Trials in Rwanda and Sierra Leone
Joshua David Newton
History
The Politics of the Loss of Minorca
Charles Allen Peirson
Political Science
Samuel P. Huntington, Structural-Functionalism, and The Clash of the Civilizations
Joshua Charles Rahtz
History
Marcusean Aesthetics
Christopher Jonathan Rempel
Economics
Long-Term Elder Care Quality
Raymond Parker Rendleman
History
Power, Culture, and Gluten: Early-Modern Assimilation of American Staple Foods in English Societies
Thea Nadja Riofrancos
Political Science
The Co-evolution of Neoliberalism and Social Movements in Bolivia
Aleck C. Ross-Frye
Political Science
Civil Rights and the Family: Examining the Debate over Same-Sex Marriages
Emma Lillian Rowe
Anthropology
The Emergence of Equador's Comunidad Gay: Constructing Ecuadorian Authenticity and Identity in Nationalist and Transitional Processes
Shanen William Rubenfeld
History
Loyalty and Lordship in Tudor Ireland: Disparate Worldviews and the "Irish Problem"
Clio Reese Sady
Sociology
Trash Talking in Queer Activism
Todd Benjamin Schifeling
Sociology
Inside the Environmental Planetarium: How Green Ideas Move
Jennifer H. Seminatore
Sociology
From Negotiation to Critique: The Changing Character of U.S. Labor and Environmental Movements Confronting Issues of International Trade
Bojana Skarich
Anthropology
Imagining Dubrovnik: A Floating City in the Balkan Matrix
Stewart Waring Stone
Anthropology
Selling Itself: Persuasion, Danger, and American Capitalism
Sarah Wolfe Sugarman
History
Teaching Children "Why We Fight": Propaganda Aimed at American Children During World War II
Taylor Bethany Sutton
Sociology
Trusting the Human Genome Project
Dawn Langan Teele
Economics
Child Labor and the Minimum Age to Work Convention
Peter Benjamin Twieg
Economics
Complexity and Control: An Analysis on Synthetic Economy Design
Andreina Antonieta Velasco
Anthropology
"¡Maldito Aquel Que Se Enriquece a Costa de Los Pobres!": The Cultural Politics of Microfinance
Thomas Gordon Weaver
History
Directing the Invisible Hand: Alexander Hamilton's and Thomas Jefferson's Conceptions of American Political Economy
Eleanor Curtiss Williams
Anthropology
Urban Space, Spectacle, and Race: The Transformation of Social Politics Concerning Congo Square in New Orleans 1783-1846
Justin Aaron Wilson
Political Science
Anarchism and the Legitimization of Political Violence
Robin Valli Woods
Economics
Self Governance and Tribe Economic Development: A Case Study of the Northern Cheyenne and Crow Tribes
Literature and Languages
Alea Janine Ogugua Adigweme
Russian
"See What A Husband You Have? You Can Make Us Some Jam": A Discussion of Marriage, Social Policy, and Culture in Abram Room's Bed and Sofa
Thomas Pitman Allen IV
English
To Steal a Language: The Tactics of Textual Plurality in Roland Barthes
Alice Rebecca Beckett
English
Interchanges With Culture: Proliferation, Consumption, and Subjectivity in Three Postwar Novels
Sophie Elizabeth Bennett
Spanish
Memorias del subdesarrollo and the Function of Art in the Cuban Revolution
Benjamin Aaron Boyce
Russian
Narrating Selfhood in Andrei Platonov's Happy Moscow
Hillary Elizabeth Brevig
Russian
Vladimir Sorokin's "Dostevsky-trip": Translation and Analysis
Melinda Kristine Brown
English
Katherine Mansfield and the Performance of the Self
Katherine Elizabeth Bruens
English
The Realization of Horror: The British Fin-de-siècle and the Development of a Gothic Mode
Om Indra Buffalo
Chinese
Su Shi's "Poems Matching Tao"
Rachel Danielle Carlson
Classics
Versiculi Molliculi et Truces Iambi: Love and Invective in Catullus
Jillian L. Christian
Classics
Reverse Oresteia: Euripides' Electra, Orestes, and Iphigenia in Aulis in the context of Aeschylus and the Peloponnesian War
Ana Leigh Cooke
English
Identifying Resistance in the Work of Charles Bernstein
Lucas Donahue
General Literature
Representing Violence in Tropological Topographies, Chiasmatically
Josey Rose Duncan
English
In This House Where We Were Both Outsiders
Ben Levine DuPree
English
Romanticism, Realism, and Satire in Bret Harte's Gilded Age The Story of a Mine
Mollie Copley Eisenberg
English
Plain Words: The Social Function of Reading Practices in Ulysses
Rebecca Bea Embler
French
Void and Creation in Rue des Boutiques Obscures
Jonathan Ray Eskew
French
The Poetics of Creation: Readings in the Liminal Spaces of Valéry, Reverdy, and Eugéne Guillevic
James Aaron Flippin
Classics
Epicurus Transformed: Epicurean Religion in Lucretius' Roman Context
Claire Rudy Foster
English
We Can Make Each Other Happy
Rebecca Gaydos
English
"The Map of Sound Got Fleshed Out": Dis/Locating Place, Sound, and Race in C.S. Giscombe's Giscome Road
Sarah Emily Geis
English
Poems in Two and a Half Dimensions: Mina Loy's Conception of Art
Jonathan Shadrach Gilbert
Classics
"Abortion" and Ritual in Classical Athens
Hannah Teresa Gildea
English
"The Vanity and Power to Know I am Desirable": Language, Violence, and Sexuality in Aphra Behn's Restoration Comedy, The Rover
Lindsay Rose Helms
English
Maintaining a Terrifying Reality: Dialogue, Language, and Ethics in the Book of Job
Anna Elizabeth Henke
German
Tales of Origin: The Romantic Märchen and its Discontents
AdriAnne May Huff
English
The Flow of Absence: Asian Influence from Ezra Pound to Gary Snyder
Justin Heller Humphreys
Classics
On the Arts of Love and Deception: Thucydides and Aristotle on the City and Man
Benjamin Read Hutchinson
English
Around Every Circle Another Can Be Drawn
Matthew John Kielt
English
"Taking Harlem's Heartbeat": Blues, Bebop, and Epic in Langston Hughes' Montage of a Dream Deferred
Rebecca Lynn Kluth
English
The Scientific Method
Kayu Lam
English
The Sustenance of Pleasures: Narrative, Taste, and Memory in Gastronomic Discourse
Laura Dawn Larsell
English
Migration at Night
Alexander B. Leibowitz
Classics
A Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: Virgil's Poem of the Farm
Michael Benjamin Lubing
English
Home and Abroad: Space, Travel, and Transformation in E.M. Forster's Novels
Crockett Keyser Marr
Classics
Egypt - Pythagoras - Plato: Reading Plato's Egyptology back into the Republic
Hannah Catherine Mathewson
Spanish
Race and Identity in the Poetry of Luis Palés Matos
Jennie McCulloch
German
Sensuality and Intellect in Thomas Mann's Early Stories
Dana Kathryn Meade
English
Postcolonial Pickles: Or, Theories of History in Midnight's Children and The God of Small Things
Tyler Lane Murphy
English
Pictures and Conversation: Films of Alice In Wonderland and Pastoral
Dayna Marie Offenbacher
English
The Quick and the Dead in D. H. Lawrence's Short Fiction
Elizabeth Cady Olney
English
Counter-History: Humor and the Construction of a Preterite Past in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
Benjamin Kaplon Olson
Classics
De Re Publica Romanorum et De Cicerone
Rachel Oriana Perry
General Literature
Kingship in Seventeenth Century Neo-Classical Drama
Rachel Kathleen Preminger
Classics
Speech and Power in Ovid's Metamorphoses: In Pursuit of the Transcendent
Daniel Jeffrey Rankin
English
The Unfinished: Symbol and Self in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats
Ariana Lowell Reeve-Rossi
Spanish
Cortázar and the Camera
Mara Julia Reynolds
English
"This Monster, The Body, This Miracle, Its Pain": Illness and "Moments of Being" in the Fiction of Virginia Woolf
Paige Jacqueline Richmond
English
The Postmodern Question: Death, Feminism, and Sex in John Irving's The World According to Garp
Donald Leroy Roberts
English
Articuluum: Toward a Corporeal Textual Practice of Radical Subjectivity
Melinda Irene Ross
English
. . . And I Knew the Silence of the World
Katharine R. Rutledge-Jaffe
English
Cowboy, This Will Never Work Out
Aaron M. Sharpe
English
Thomas Pynchon and William Gibson are Cool
Molly Elinor Shaver
English
Poetic Speech in Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories: Bridging the Divide Between Oral Discourse and Poetic Language
Adele Maxine Shea
English
"Men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts!": The Search for Compassion in Charles Dickens' Bleak House
Arianna Rose Sloat
Spanish
The Deconstruction of Spanish Postwar History and the Fantastic in Carmen Martín Gaite's El cuarto de atrás
Tracy Adrien Steindel
Classics
The Priapic Narrator in Martial, Book 7
Lurline Lauren Sweet
English
Jewish-American Absurdist Tragicomedy: Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift and Woody Allen's Annie Hall
Anna Rebecca Tellez
Spanish
Rewriting Indecision: A Translation and Discussion of Los Planetas
Edwin Way Thanhouser Jr.
English
Urizen Wept: William Blake and the Sublime in Milton: A Poem
Monika G. Tomsinski
English
Dethroning the Kitchen God: Storytelling as Empowerment in Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife
Evan A.J. Trimble
French
Proust: Self-impressions
Adelaide L. Wainwright
English
Narrating the Body: Models of a Body Ethics in (and out) of Colette's Break of Day
Chalcedony B. Wilding
English
Braiding the River Poems
Nicholas Edward Yurchenco
Spanish
Popular Songs in the Zapatista Resistance
Xie Yi Zhu
English
Moebius Strips, Funhouses, and Electrolytic Jelly: The Very Strange Fictions of John Barth and Donald Barthelme
Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Nicole Carol Mei Lin Adelstein
Chemistry-Physics
Calculating Depolarization Ratios for Resonance Raman Scattering by Octahedral Molecules
Sara Belen Albornoz
Biology
Chorus in the Canyon?: Evaluating the Translocation of the Pacific Treefrog, Pseudacris regilla, into the Reed Canyon as a Component of a Long-Term Restoration Project
Jillian H. Anderson
Biology
Anthocyanins and Drought Response in Delphinium nuttallii, D. leucophaeum, and Their Hybrids
Andre Milton Bach
Physics
Modifying the Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac Equation for a Point Charge
Paul Thomas Baker
Physics
Electrodynamics and an Investigation of Weak Field Kerr Geometry
Susan Michelle Beaver
Chemistry
Charting the Miniscule: Exploratory Synthesis and Characterization of Manganese Doping in ZnO Quantum Dots
Nicholas Blanchard-Wright
Biology
A GFP Fusion Protein with the N-terminal Telomere Binding Domain of Xenopus laevis POT1
Edna Bonhomme
Biology
Neurosecretion and Proteolysis of the Egg-Laying Hormone (ELH) Precursor in the Bag Cells of Aplysia californica
Christopher Thomas Boniface
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
B-Arrestin 1 is a Putative Target of 17-B-Estradiol-Mediated Splice Site Regulation in MCF-7 Human Breast Cancer Cells
Kimberly Ann Camacho
Biology
A Plan for the Modification of the Reed Canyon as Frog Habitat: Perspectives of Adaptive Management and Surrogate Translocation
Anna María Carmona
Biology
Understanding Virulence: in vitro Analysis of H-NS and Ler Mediated Regulation of the LEE5 Regulatory Region in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
Hsin-Chieh Chen
Biology
The Effect of STU2 Overexpression on Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (BYDV) ORF 3 Stop Codon Readthrough Efficiency in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Dorothea Hope Coffer
Biology
Identification of Chemototherapeutic Agents Against Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Using the Model Organism Caenorhabditis elegans
Kevin Thomas Connolly
Physics
Quantum Mechanics of the Electric Dipole Potential
Leah Parsons Cook
Biology
Live or Die: A First Enclosure Experiment with Coho Salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, in the Canyon
Leslie Beth Cooperman
Biology
The Bordetella pertussis Protein BpH3 Shows Ler-like Activity at the LEE5 Operon of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
Dorien Skye Coray
Biology
What Does This Have to do with Goats: Identifying Host Genes Involved in Stop Codon Readtrhough in Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus
Matthew Lee Davidson
Physics-Biology
Spatial Frequencies of Natural Scene Stimuli Determine the Response Functions in LIF Model Neurons
David Pieter de Regt
Physics
A Computational Model of Combustion Reactions Toward MBT Calculation of the Internal Combustion Engine
Jordan Jay Devereaux
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Investigation of the Kinetic Parameter of the Calf Spleen Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase-Hypoxanthine Complex
Mark Alan DeWitt
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Conformational Dynamics of the Bacillus Subtilis manganese Metalloregulatory Protein MntR
William Ernest Draper
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Metal Binding in ScaR: Mutation and Titration
Forrest Elliott-Farren
Mathematics
An Exposition of Hutchinson's Theorem
Oren M. Elrad
Physics
The Feynman Spaghetti Problem
Tristan Shane Eversole
Biology
Does Hsp90 Play a Role in Canalizing Slowly Evolving Floral Traits?
Arsalan Farooq
Physics
Combined Program, California Institute of Technology
Jessica Julianne Foster
Biology
Avian Influenza: An Emerging Threat
Fawntia Shay Fowler
Mathematics
Braid Groups of Graphs
Jason Douglass Givens-Doyle
Mathematics
Mapping Harmonic Extensions in Two and Three Dimensions
Aaron Eliezer Golden
Mathematics
Triangulations and Circle Packings on Genus-1 Tori
Jessica Marie Griffith
Biology
Evolution, Conservation, and Gastrulation: The Story of Two Cell Masses
Jessica Lauren Hacker
Chemistry
Design and Synthesis of a TAML (TetraAmidoMacrocyclicLigand) with Dual Electron-Withdrawing Substituents
David Stewart Ham
Chemistry
Thin-Film Polymeric Metalloporphyrin Membranes as Possible Colorimetric Sensors
Elizabeth Anne Hopkins
Physics
Characterizing the Acoustics of the Eliot Hall Chapel
Katharine Laura Horback
Biology
Characterization of the C-terminal DNA Binding Domain of Ler
Brian Gareth Howell
Biology
Gene Expression of Structural Genes in the Anthocyanin Biosynthesis Pathway of Delphinium nuttallii and Delphinium leucophaeum
Jennifer Lillian Hubbs
Chemistry
Synthesis of New Alkali Niobates in Molten Salt Fluxes
Victoria Kathryn Jenkins
Biology
Effect of 17-B Estradiol on Regulation of Retinoic Acid X Receptor a in Breast Cancer Cells
Helina Joshi
Chemistry
Aerogels, Ambigels, and Xerogels of Vanadium Pentoxide
David Samuel Katz
Physics
Surface Phenomena in Ferrohydrodynamics
Joseph Ian Kliegman
Chemistry
Structure and Purpose of Activating Residues in MntR from Bacillus subtilis
Benjamin James Kukull
Biology
Purification of Host Proteins Associated with HIV-1 Restriction Factor Rhesus TRIM5a
Beverly Amy Lau
Physics
Constructing a Magneto-Optical Trap
Leslie Ann Lilly
Biology
The Synergy of the Plant-Microbe Interaction in Selenium Bioremediation
John Alexander Lind
Mathematics
Theta Lifts of Automorphic Forms
Kellie Marie Linn
Chemistry
Pink Meets Green Oxidation Chemistry: Progress towards the Synthesis of Tetra-Amido Macrocyclic Ligands for Hydrogen Peroxide Activation
Andrew Lewis MacKinnon
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
31PNMR Studies of the Substrate Binding Stoichiometry of Orotidine 5'-monophosphate and -D-5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate to Orotate Phosphoribosyltransferase from Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
Colin Stephen Magowan
Biology
Morphogenetic Movements during Inversion of the Spider Embryo
Brian Christopher Moore
Chemistry
One Fellow's Contributions to the Resonance Raman Excitation Profile of Chromium Hexacarbonyl
Colin William Morrow
Biology
Towards an Understanding of the Intracellular Actions of Pre-B-Cell Colony Enhancing Factor
Marc William Nolan
Biology
Finding Neverland: An Examination of Female Hormone Replacement Therapy
Stacy Lee O'Neill
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Effects of T89D and Q96E Amino Acid Substitutions on QacR Protein-Drug Binding
Diana Christine Parrish
Biology
The Role of Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) in the Immune Response in Xenopus laevis
Timothy John Pennycook
Physics
Three-sate -Configuration Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Room Temperature Rubidium
Aleksandar Velizarov Petrov
Mathematics
Quadratic Fields and Cryptography: Classical and Quantum Aspects
Darren Joseph Platt
Mathematics-Physics
Self-Adjoint Extensions and Quantum Mechanics
Max Henry Quinn
Mathematics
Toward a New Approximation Algorithm for the HP-Model of Protein Folding
Rebecca Elaine Reilly
Biology
Using Genetic Data as a Guideline in Examining Potential Local Adaptation by Quercus garryana in the Pacific Northwest
Leila Elizabeth Rieder
Biology
Molecular Concerted Evolution of the 5.8 S rDNA Multigene Family in Delphinium
Julia Mae Robinson
Chemistry
The Synthesis of the ABC Isoingenane Ring Skeleton
Seth Francis Samuel
Mathematics
Building Consensus: Can't We All Just Get Along?
Rachel Hart Voloshin Sandy
Mathematics
Counting Patterns
Roger Benezet Scott
Physics
Gyroscopically Coupled Mechanical Oscillators
Jason Robert Seifter
Physics
Colloidal Synthesis and Optical Characterization of Monodisperse CdSe Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Conrad Aarne Shultz
Chemistry
A Synthetic Investigation of Compounds with Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds
Lindsay Kathryn Swanson
Biology
Effects of the Overexpressed Host Genes STU2 and YHR213W-A on Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus Stop Codon Readthrough in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
Lawrence Vincent Valby
Mathematics
A Category of Polytopes
Jeremy Gregory Waen
Chemistry
Jarosite KFe3(SO4)2(OH)6, Fayalite (Fe,Mg)2SiO4, and Mars, Oh My!: An Exploratory Study of Unusual Weathering Reactions
Evan Thomas Ward
Mathematics
Prime Filtrations of Monomial Rings
Joy Louise Wattawa
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Studies of T4 Lysozyme Structure by Site-Directed Fluorescence Labeling
Susanna Holley Wegner
Biology
Bisphenol A Enhances ER Recruitment to Estrogen-Responsive Genes in MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cells
David Williams
Physics
Optical Tweezers: Accuracy and Automation
Jessica Lynn Youngberg
Biology
One Plant, One Pollinator: Morphology Makes a Marriage
Philosophy, Religion, and Psychology
Elizabeth Geneva Blodgett
Psychology
Women and Sexuality in the Health Care Setting
Evan Maxwell Brewer
Religion
One Ray of the Sun: The Education and Early Theology of Nikolaj Velimirovic
Eliza Marie Buhrer
Religion
From Theologian to Physicus: William of Conches and a Twelfth Century Rift between Theology and Natural Philosophy
Michael Phillips Casper
Religion
Day of the Living Dead: The Spirit Possession Paradigm in Early Modern Yiddish
Daniel Chevalier
Psychology
Variation and Selection in Context
Amanda Leigh Cooper
Religion
Facing Indra's Net: A Text-based Analysis of the Case for an Innate Buddhist Environmentalism
Tristram Coffin Dammin
Religion
"Hail to the Chief": Ideology and Religion
Michael Clark Deen
Psychology
Hookups and Women's Social, Psychological, and Sexual Health in College
Kara Arielle Fischer
Psychology
Overt and Covert Transfer of Statistical Reasoning Training
Joseph Preston Franklin
Philosophy
Dancing About Architecture: Wittgenstein and Aesthetics
David Trexler Gatta
Psychology
The Differential Effects of Oleoylethanolamide on Ingestive Behavior in Free-Feeding Rats
Sarah Spotswood Gishe
Philosophy
Names as Demonstratives
Anna Marian Gordon
Religion
The Meditative Brain in Contemporary Neuroscience
Miriam Sara Grotte
Philosophy
Assuming Rationality and Truth: The Significance of a Charitable Assumption in Radical Interpretation and Ordinary Practice
Simon Kurt Hilarides
Philosophy
Realism in the Philosophy of Science
Lauren Elaine Hudgins
Psychology
Written Emotional Disclosure: A Potential Therapeutic Intervention for Chronic Pain
Aaron Russell Jacobs-Smith
Philosophy
The Mystery of Freedom: In Search of a Viable Account of Free Will
Samuel Benjamin Kigar
Religion
Islam on the Inside: An Ethnographic Case Study of Muslims in an Oregon Prison
Margot Pyne Kniffin
Religion
Falun Gong and Li Hongzhi's Mechanized Redemption in the Information Age
Megan Lawther Lakeland
Psychology
Effects of Sexually Objectifying Magazine Advertisements on Late Adolescent's Gender Attitudes and Stereotypes: Reinforcing Traditional Roles and Ideologies
Catherine Elinor Liggett
Philosophy
The World in a Wild Flower: A Kantian Approach to the Aesthetics of Nature
Samantha Rose Lundequam
Religion
Hallowed Ground: Arlington National Cemetery, Sacred Space, and American Symbol-Making
Megan Sara McClintic-Gilbert
Psychology
The Relationships Among Early Adolescents' Motivational Orientations, Learning Strategies, and Academic Achievement
Miranda Noel Meadow
Religion
Rewriting Religion: W. D. Muhammad's Construction of an African-American Muslim Identity
Benjamin Paul Murphy
Religion
(Re)readings of Paul: The Epistle to the Ephesians and the New Paul Paradigm
Shorey Alison Myers
Psychology
The Cultural Psychology of Confirmation Bias: Dialectics, Logic, and the Evaluation of Hypotheses
Matthew Liam O'Sullivan
Psychology
Environmental Influences on Developmental and Adult Injury-Induced Plasticity: Effects of Dietary Sodium Restriction during Early Development and Chorda Tympani Regeneration on Salt Taste Behavior
Reanne Theresa O'Sullivan
Religion
Woman, the Last Fortress of Every People: The Grail Movement, Feminist Theology, and American Catholicism
Jeffrey Wyatt Peterson
Religion
The Immortal Discourse: Tracing Ge Hong's Tradition of Transcendence
Jacob Benjamin Rothstein
Psychology
Ceiling Effects in Assessments of Choice Variables
Bonnie Elizabeth Sailer
Psychology
The Cost of Switching Languages and Switching Categories in Two Bilingual Auditory Tasks
Michael Jared Salk
Religion
From Spiritual Beings to Counterintuitive Agents: God-Beliefs, Cognitive Science, and the New Naturalism in Religious Studies
Lauren Rose Scheiner
Psychology
Lexical Access in Spanish-English Bilinguals During Auditory Comprehension
Roberta Alexandra Schriber
Psychology
The Interactive Effect of Regulatory Focus and Self Construal on Global-Local Processing
Alexandra Ashley Seckar-Bandow
Philosophy
Virtue Ethics Avoids the Alienation of Consequentialism and Kantianism: The Implications for Friendship
Ethan Oliver Selfridge
Psychology
The Role of State-Anxiety in Cognitive Dissonance Induced Attitude Change
Kendra L Speicher-Eisenstark
Psychology
Individual Differences in Visualization: Not a Binary Categorization
Penelope Rose Stanton
Psychology
One for One and All for All?: The Effect of Group Identity and Communication on Self-Interested Behavior and Trust in Social Dilemmas
Maureen Tara Steckler
Psychology
Heterosexism and Attitudes toward Same-Sex Parenting
Sarah Alice Stickney
Psychology
The Effects of Fear and Sadness on Automatic Intergroup Discrimination in the Minimal Group Paradigm
Mary Elizabeth Ungerecht
Psychology
Gendered Power Relations and Condom Use in Heterosexual Relationships: A Critique of the Theory of Reasoned Action
Rosa M.M. Walker
Psychology
An Investigation of Variability-Training in Electromyography (EMG) Biofeedback
Interdisciplinary
Robert Owen Daly
Linguistics
Language Revitalization and its Sociocultural Context: Chinook Jargon
Julian Pearce Emanuel
Literature-Theatre
Catharsis through Comedy
Daniel Christopher Gidycz
Mathematics-Economics
Interest Rates and Deficit Expectations Using Real-Time Data
Jesse Gauthier Hallett
Linguistics
Lexical Semantics for Natural Language Processing
Eliah James Hecht
Linguistics
The Syntax and Semantics of Focuser Like
Leah Garrott Johnston
Linguistics
Sheng and the City
Aaron Thrall Kheifets
Philosophy-Mathematics
On Material Completeness Proofs
Paul Mark Robertson
Classics-Religion
Didymus the Blind and his Commentary on Paul's Epistle to the Romans
Miriam Nehama Rosenberg
International and Comparative Policy Studies
Speaking of Birth: The Intersection of International Development and Childbirth in Chiapas, Mexico
Katherine Withee Sweaney
Literature-Theatre
The Legible Body: Refiguring Anatomies in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Alexandra Kristine Urza
International and Comparative Policy Studies
Rearticulating Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Deforestation in Panama
Alexander Mark Wallace
Linguistics
The Linguistic Construction of Events and the Production of Knowledge: Reported Speech and Translation in French Newspaper Reports
Jeffrey Andrew Wermer
Classics-Religion
Jesus as a Principle of Meditation in the Philosophy of Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Susan Teresa Benson-Zoref
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
A Sense of Doubleness in Twentieth Century Literature by Two Jewish American Writers
Nita L. Countryman
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
"Lucifer Joy": Complexities of Tone in Gregroy Corso's Poetry
Janet Ellen Marthers
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Feminism and the Daughters of the American Revolution: 1890-1920
Paul Marthers
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Faculty Salary Policies at Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Has Market-Driven Differential Pay Replaced the Equity Principle?
Linda Jeanne Meng
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
"These Two Emerge Together but Have Different Names": Chuang-tzu Meets Nagarjuna in the Excluded Middle
Ruthie Macha Petty
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
The Work of Art in the Age of Nuclear Enchantment
Paul Andrew Platosh
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Reenvisioning the Marketplace A Radical Redesign of the Modern Supermarket
Laura Lee Ross
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Ursa Minor: An Exploration of the Present Moment, the Personal Essay, and Virginia Woolf
Vonda Lynn Van Farowe
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
The History of the Portland Story: Looking for Native Americans in the Popular Historiography of Portland, Oregon