Commencement 2014

The Arts

Caleb D. Allen

Art

“On second thought, let’s not go to Camelot. It’s a silly place”: Eric Rohmer and the postmodern medieval

Corinne Elena Bachaud

Theatre

Gradations of Self: Autobiographical Solo Performance and the Utopian Performative

Anna Helen Baker

Art

The Object of Moscow Conceptualism

Jessica Wong Camhi

Art

Basket Cases: Ahistorical Display of American Indian Art Objects in North American Museums

James Richardson Clark

Music

I Fear That I’m Ordinary: The Smashing Pumpkins’ “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” as a Serious Rock Work

Eleanor Frances Ford

Art

The Ambient and Visual Arts: A Study of Gallery Space, Web Browsers, and Unproductivity

Benjamin Phillip Friars-Funkhouser

Art

Camouflage: Imaging Poetic Landscape, 1480-2006

Eric Andrew Goldman

Music

Other Oceans: Rethinking Diegesis in Modular Video Game Scores

Laura Hollis Grotenstein

Art

Worn: Figuring the Body in Clothing and Trash

Tracy Lynn Harp

Art

Subtle Interplays

Walker John Holden

Theatre

Laughter and Liberation in The Successful Life of 3 by Maria Irene Fornes

Chloe Nicole Kubo

Art

Body Presence

Duncan Michael Law

Music

Musical Symbolism and Realist Opera: An Analysis of Debussy’s Pelleas et Melisande

Kathryn Isabelle Lawrence

Art

Cyber Corpus

Santiago Bates Leyba

Art

Chroma Field

Jennifer Ann Lindell

Theatre

Lend Me Your Ears: Audiological Effects on Audience Experience

Maria Sakiko Maita-Keppeler

Art

Look Again: Formation of Mixed Race Identity through Revisitations of Ukiyo-e

Christopher William McKelway

Music

Segni di Vita [Incomplete] Sun-Up Clothesline Cat’s Cradle Form in the Final of Claude Debussy’s Sonate pour Flûte Alto et Harpe

Katherine Dahle Morics

Music

An Ethnographic Examination of Ideology in a Non-Profit Music Education Program

Jonathan Robert Pape

Music

For The Entire Family: The Political Dissidence of Unsound

Alexandra S. Park

Art

Performance and Mental Illness in the Art and Life of Yayoi Kusama

Deirdre Michelle Quirk

Theatre

Bodies and Boundaries: Set Designs for Slaughter City and The Fever Chart

Maxwell Nathan Smith-Holmes

Art

Objects of Laughter: Ad Reinhardt, Claes Oldenburg, André Cadere

Allison Stevens Theriault

Art

The Big Drift: An Odyssey Through Film Noir and Immersive Installation

Sarah Catherine Tiffany-Appleton

Art

Situation, Orientation

Madelyn White Villano

Music

Noise Beats: Technological Mediations of Style

Vladimir Vince

Art

Group EXAT-51 and Performance of Alternative Forms of Socialist Collectivity in Communist Yugoslavia

Roger Wallace

Music

Some Comments on the Percussive Piano and Some Original Music

John Andrew Wilhite

Music

Lines and Figures

History & Social Sciences

Christian Miguel Acuña

History

The Sea as Arable Fields: The Hokkien Re-imagination of Asian Maritime Space in the Selden Map of China c. 1619

Serena Lauren Ahmed

Anthropology

Problem-Posing Pedagogies in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro

Kelsey Lauren Appleton

Anthropology

Hooray for All Kinds of Things! Iceland’s Anarcho-Surrealist Mayor and Gnarratives of National Identity

Alexandra C.C. Arpaia

Political Science

Us v. Them: Examining Racial Resentment from 1992-2012

Christine Marie Atkins

Political Science

A Matter of Equality Under Law: the Case of Unmarried Partners Who Conceive Children

Caroline Lai Hung Blair

Economics

The United States of Hollywood: An Analysis of Motion Picture Tax Competition

Elena Socolar Blanc

Anthropology

Workplace protections in the home: regulating caring labor in the post-Fordist domestic scene

Alberta Read Bleck

History

“By Right of Discovery”: An American Indian Land Rights Struggle in 20th Century Seattle

Alexander Charles Blum

Political Science

Neutral Principles and the Living Constitution

James Howard Brewer

Political Science

Influence and Citation in State Constitutional Interpretation

Ryan Thomas Butcher

Political Science

Coastal Management: Investigating Pacific CZMA Plans at the Local Level

Jacob Samet Canter

Political Science

Two Critiques of Standing Doctrine

Adam Chase Casey

Anthropology

Marking Indigeneity: Race-Shifting Performers at the Site of Emergent “Cherokee” Identity

Jonathan Joon Hyung Chai

Economics

International Spillovers of United States Quantitative Easing Policy: An Examination of Emerging Economy Equity Markets

Bernadette Alexandra Clark

History

Collecting Empire: British Women and Imperial Objects in India before the Raj

Rachel Nina Clark

History

Dry Bones and Credit Cards: 1970s Prophecy and the Techno-Apocalyptic Millennium

Rachel Susan Dallal

Anthropology

The Politics of History and Gendered Nationalisms: Contested Memories of Japan’s “Comfort Women”

Marianna Elizabeth Deutsch

History

Standardizing and Mass Producing The American Way of Life: Henry Ford’s Ideological Evolution and his Social Engineering of the Worker, Man, and Society

Anjuli Charlotte Dharna

Economics

Questioning Fair Trade Chocolate: An Analysis on Food Price Policy and Alternate Trading Methods

Ariel Karenina Dooner

Political Science

Restoring What is Missing: Liberal Public Reason, Religious Contributions, and Barriers to Meaning-Making

Ari Brendan Galper

Sociology

Beyond Decoupling: Possibilities for Institutional Change in Accountable Care Organizations

Benjamin Scott Goggin

Political Science

Reading Windsor: Constructing Judicial Gay Rights through Equal Protection

Eric Sebastian Harvey

History

Perfect Symbiosis: Entertainment & Politics in 20th Century America

Alexandra Jane Hemmings

Economics

The Real Cost of Parking: Two Case Studies in Portland, OR

Leslie Anne Hemstreet

History

Harold Rugg and His Textbooks: An Attempt at Educational Reform Thwarted

Alexi Louis Horowitz

History

Excavating and Empire: Science, Archaeology, and the Nation in 19th Century America

Alanna Marguritte Hoyman-Browe

Economics

Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence From the National Violence Against Women Survey

John Isaac Iselin

Economics

Renewable Portfolio Standards: Examining the Effect of State Policy on Renewable Electrical Capacity

Svetoslav Valentinov Ivanov

Economics

Identification and Estimation of the Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks

Martha Janicki

Economics

Hidden Status? The Role of Male Circumcision in the Zambian Marriage Market prior to the Introduction of VMMC

Eric Michael Jennings

Economics

Inequality, Norms, and Taxation: Evidence from Top Shares of Income and Wealth, 1900-2013

Jason Jin

Economics

College Income Premium Trend and Skill-Biased Technological Change

Marina Elizabeth Kaminsky

Economics

Conditional Cash Transfers and Education Outcomes for the Poor: An Analysis of Bono 10 Mil in Honduras

Aaron Christian King

Economics

What’s a Meta For? Modeling Player Learning in Rock-Paper-Scissors

Kira Marie King

Anthropology

Zaum: Three Waves of Poetic and Semiotic Experimentation

Shruti Korada

Economics

Determinants of Older Women’s Coresidence with Young Households in Urban China

Nicholas Fox Kosieradzki

History

Politics & Poetics of Terroir or: Alice Waters, the Accidental Terroirist

Thomas Alexander Koskores

Economics

Zipf’s Law and International Integration: An Exploration of the Rank-Size Distribution for Cities

Tess Lallemant

Political Science

Thailand and the Politics of Hope

Samuel Law

Anthropology

Aspirational Sovereignties: Indigeneity and the Law in a Guatemalan Mining Conflict

Samuel M Levin

Sociology

Count Me In: Industrial Outcomes of Mathematicians in the United States

Maocairang Li

Anthropology

Commoditization of Land and Moral Dilemmas: Yartsa Gunbu Practices in Tibet, Western China

William Finn Lynch

Economics

Connecting to Modernity: The Internet’s Role in Chinese Economic Development

David Dietrich Mackenbach

Anthropology

Self-Imaging and Self-Making: Women’s Normative Ethics in the Hindu Nationalist Movement

Alexander James Maguire

Anthropology

Moroccan Sufi Modernities

Stephanie Jane Maurer

Sociology

Teacher Talk: English Language in Refugee Resettlement in Portland, Oregon

Samuel Pontzer May

History

Fish Out of Water: The Partitioning and Demise of Celilo Falls and Pyramid Lake

Emma K. Mclean-Riggs

Sociology

Just a Piece of Paper? An Examination of Restraining Order Hearings in Multnomah County, Oregon

Jennifer Kimball McNeal

Anthropology

Whose Istanbul?: Taksim Square a Site of National Imaginations and Contest

Grace Lauren Mekarski

Anthropology

Call Me Coco: The Construction of the Modern Woman Changing Normative Views on Class and Sexuality in the Twentieth Century

Cody William Melcher

Economics

Tax Income Elasticities Across U.S. States

Aron Hillel Milberg

Political Science

Science and Democracy: An Inquiry into the Relationship between Truth and Politics

Anna Lynne Montgomery

Anthropology

The Production of the U.S.-Mexico Boarder As Legal, Securitized, & Inhumane

Enrique Fernando Montygierd

History

July 31st, 1793: L’Embuscade and the French Navy during the Revolution

Hoyoung Moon

Anthropology

“Here, One More Ingyo˘!”: Being a Surplus Human in Contemporary South Korea

Elizabeth Mendelsohn Olson

History

Who Controls the Past?: Symbolism, Censorship, and Historical Memory of the 1989 Beijing Spring

Chiara Clio Packard

Sociology

Voices Against Violence: The Woman’s Movement and the Wave of Mobilization Against Rape in India

Nicolas Antonio-Enrique Peress-Escolar

Anthropology

iKasi Ama-Get-Down!: Nonpolitics and the Black Atlantic in Urban South Africa

William Lee Purtzer

Anthropology

Class, Space, and “Post-politics” in the 2011 London Riots

Amina Yasmin Rahman

Anthropology

Through the Eyes of Immigration: Politics, Entextualization and Bureaucratic Arbitrariness of the U-Nonimmigrant Visa

Rebecca Anne Richman

Anthropology

That’s Crazy Talk: Trajectories of Schizophrenia and Political Psychiatry in China

Colin Maxwell Rosemont

Anthropology

Transforming the Body: Waorani Ontologies and Historical Perspectives

Jeremy Wayne Rucker

Political Science

Assessing Urban Power Structures and Subsidized Sports Stadiums: A Comparative Urban Regime Theory Analysis

Paulina Saba

Sociology

Sí Se Puede: How Undocumented Immigrants Overcome Barriers to Political Activism

Hugh Lee Fowler Schlesinger

Sociology

An Alternative Ulster: Community Influence on Armed Group Action in the Troubles

Shubba Srimoyee Shanmugam

Economics

Processions of Rectangles Within Triangles: Geometric Proofs for Game-Theoretical Oligopoly Models

Kasra Che Shokat

Political Science

Preserving the Contradictions: Rereading Hannah Arendt’s “Truth and Politics”

Laura Monroe Shumway

History

The Man Who Saw America: On Mythological Multiplicity in The Life and Adventures of Nat Love

Shannon Mearl Smith

Anthropology

Subterranean Secrets: Defection, the Bayakou, and Social Inequality in Haiti

Wesley Martin Snell

History

Paternalistic Populism: Local Response to Huey Long’s Occupation of New Orleans circa 1934

Vasishth Vidyadhar Shah Srivastava

Political Science

When Does Congress Do Big Things? An Expansion of David Nayhew’s Divided We Govern

Stuart James Steidle Nix

Anthropology

“Pure and Valuable”: The Removal of Muslims from Myanmar amidst Ritual Inscription of the Sacred, a Burmese Ghost in New Robes

Gage Elias Swan

History

Bavaria in a Time of Revolution, 1797-1818

Htet Lin Thu

Economics

Why are Real Estate Prices in Urban China so High? Is there a Bubble?

Spencer James Trumm

History

Anti-Communism and Delegitimization of American-ness in the 1930s: Three Cases of Violence

Ian M.H. Walling

Political Science

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out: Erôs, Muthos, and Dialectic as the Platonic Art of Politics

Andrew Douglas Watson

Economics

How does progressive redistribution affect income inequality in the United States?

Grahame Gordon Watt

Political Science

International Relations Theory and U.S. Involvement in UN Security Council Elections

John B Whitman

History

Building and Aestheticizing Modernity in Porfirian and Revolutionary Mexico City, 1876-1940

Yu-Ting Yang

Sociology

What It Takes to Advance: A Study on Portland’s Community-Based Alternative Education System

Literature & Languages

Gabriel Christopher Andreen

German

The Brothel of the Bourgeois Imagination: Frank Wedekind’s Frühlings Erwachen: Eine Kindertragödie (Spring Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy)

Cade Joseph Anslem

English

Stay Awhile and Listen: Unpacking the Narratological Approach to Video Games

David Alexander Beame

English

Apology Of Genius: The Poetry and Poetics of Mina Loy

Claire Grey Berkowitz

English

Dancing Corpses: Response to Catastrophe in Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Satan in Goray and Enemies, A Love Story

Linnea Ann Blank

English

Gethsemane

Theodore Francis Bryan

German

Counter-publicity and German National Identity: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's “Berlin Alexanderplatz”

Johanna Rose Burgess

Classics

The Management of Artistic and Architectural Heritage as a Base of Power in Early Imperial Rome

Olivia May Capozzalo

Russian

Inscribing Memory: Lyrical Subject in the Memoir-Prose and Post-Holocaust Poetry of Boris Slutsky

Jaye Whitney Dale Debber

Classics

Forces in Opposition: The Polis and the Dionysiac in Euripides’ Bacchae

Madeline Spencer Engelfried

English

Rocks Fall; Everyone Dies: The Narrative Aesthetics of a Tabletop Role-Playing Session

Claire Mae Gordon

English

“I who was reflected in the mirror”: Aesthetic and Rhetorical Models of Being in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Heather Rose Hambley

Classics

Gender and Genre in Ovid’s Heroides 16 and 17

Erica Dionne Iannitti

English

Revenge and The Female: Intertextuality in Hamlet and Wuthering Heights

Molly Kate Isken

English

“A pencil for a wing-bone”: Lorine Niedecker’s Evolving Poetics

Scott Joseph Jenkins

General Literature

Analysis, Material and Immaterial: The Philosophy of Self-Interpretation after Psychoanalysis

Hailey Elizabeth Jones

English

“You Would Have to be Born There”: Death, History, and Myth in American Southern Fiction

Clarissa Aviva Kerner

English

(The Linguistic-Corporeal (explosion) in Clarice Lispector)

Madeline Marie Kinkel

Russian

Suspended and Without Salvation: Apocalypse and the Empty Christ in Andrei Platonov’s The Foundation Pit

Noah Reid Kittleson

English

Country Only for Old Men: Magical Realism and the Portrayal of the Nation in García Márquez and Allende

Kriya Mira Krisnabai-Gitanjali

Spanish

Watching Violence: The Performing Spectator in Griselda Gambaro and Teresa Margolles

Benjamin Daniel Meyerson

English

Adorning the Abstract: Rhetorical Innovations In Geoffrey Hill’s Without Title

Preston Paul Micalizio

English

Legends of the Dark Knight: Batman and the Deconstruction of the Comic-Book Superhero

Kylie Charlotte Moses

English

Becoming Human: Vampires from Early Folklore to the Late Twentieth Century

Christopher Ray Muñoz-Calene

German

“In einer Diktatur kann es Städte geben”: Ideology and Space in the Works of Herta Müller

Caroline Lockwood Nelson

English

Men are Wolves: A study of Webster's “The White Devil”

Lukas Hadrian Ovrom

French

La Farce, ou la Machine Encore à Lire: The Place of Language and Authority in Three Medieval French Farces

Larisa Maria Owechko

English

A Self-Conscious Muse: John Barth’s Conceptualization of Authorship and Inspiration

Anna Wakefield Ploegh

English

On Character, Law and Violence in William Shakespeare’s King Lear

Justin Conner Radtke

Russian

Vasily Zhukovsky’s Ballads: Themes and Their Christian-Spiritual Meanings

Elaina Michelle Ransford

English

The Thought of Heaven

Chang Woo Seo

Russian

Staff-Captain Rybnikov

Micah Curtis Shapiro

English

The Tree Houses of Central Park

Benjamin H.Q. Stephens

Classics

The Social and Economic Reforms of Diocletian

Jo Elizabeth Stewart

English

In Pursuit of Authenticity: An Existential Examination of Jean Toomer’s Circular Symbol

Joseph Anthony Vincent

Chinese

Samadhi Through Pleasure: Three Readings and a Translation of the “Voice and Countenance” section (聲容部) of Li Yu’s (李漁, 1611-1680) Xianqing Ouji (閒情偶寄)

Kate Althea Weinreich

Russian

The (Im)possibility of Bearing Witness: Representations of Trauma in Soviet Literature

Benjamin Reid Williams

English

The Vulnerable Power of Joan Didon’s New Journalism

Mathematics & Natural Sciences

Hannah Marie Allen

Chemistry

The air you breathe: A chemical characterization of the inorganic gas-aerosol system in the atmosphere above Portland, OR and Centerville, AL

Prakher Bajpai

Physics

Attraction Between Two Charged Conducting Circles

Jennifer Rose Balmagia

Biology

Macroinvertebrate Diversity in the Reed College Canyon

Nisa Melek Beceriklisoy

Biology

Brooding Females: The Role of Dopamine in Maternal Care in Astatotilapia burtoni

Brett Timothy Beutell

Mathematics

To Bayes or Not to Bayes: Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Approximation of the Posterior Distribution of Bayesian Networks

Scott Joseph Breitenstein

Biology

Nitrogen Fixation in the Biological Soil Crusts of Eastern Oregon

James Leigh Cahill

Chemistry

A Computational Analysis of the Kinetics of Trinaphthyl Methyl and Tri(2-Fluoro-1-Naphthyl) Methyl Cation Racemization

Max LeMoyne Carpenter

Mathematics

Quasicrystalline Combs in De Bruijn’s Generalized Function Space

Alison Leila Nouri Chalker

Biology

The Isolated Xenopus Laevis Brain as a Model for the Exploration of the Off-Target, Central Nervous System Effects of Mefloquine

Christopher James Cogell

Chemistry

NOx de Plume: A Spatial Analysis of Nitrogen Dioxide Plume Near the Brooklyn Railyard in Southeast Portland, Oregon

Natalie Field Cowan

Biology

Host Lipid Mobilization by Parasitoid Wasp Venom

Adrian Kathleen Dannis

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

MDR1: Characterization of an Archaeal Metal-Dependent Repressor found in Archaeoglobus Fulgidus

Daniel Sithylemenkat Dashevsky

Biology

Virus-like particles in the venom of parasitoid wasps

Max Forest Del Giudice

Mathematics

A Simple Case of the Siegel-Weil formula

Anya Michele Demko

Physics

Dynamic Stabilization of an Inverted Pendulum

Sydney Elise Dent

Biology

The neuronal basis for sex-specific vocalizations in the Aquatic frog Xenopus laevis: possible roles for testosterone in regulating the NR2 subunit identity in N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors

Karen Marie Dewey

Biology

PerC Enhances Oxidative Stress Response in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

Emily Marie Drew

Chemistry

Towards the Synthesis of a Novel Chiral Ligand for Bismuth for Use in Asymmetric Catalysis

Nathan Alexander Eisenberg

Biology

Modularity and Adaptation: Nova-mediated RNA processing and functional synaptic organization

Logan Pendleton Emery

Physics

Spectroscopic Characterization of Water Adsorption on Calcium Carbonate and its Astrophysical Implications

Jennifer Marie Farrell

Biology

Using Bacteriophages to Clear Bacterial Biofilms

Lainey Marie Fergusson

Chemistry

An Investigation into the Photocatalytic Activity of Molybdate and Tungstate Containing Mixed Metal Oxide Semiconductors

Smith Isa Freeman

Biology

Characterization of Xenopus laevis Shelterin Complex: Interaction of TRF1 and PinX1

Emma Jane Furth

Mathematics

Hamiltonian Cycle Algorithms For Square and Triangular Grid Graphs

Emily C.R. Gastelum

Biology

The Effect of Porcine Zona Pellucida Immunocontraception on Feral Horse Behavior: A Study of Mare Fidelity on Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland

Alaïa Victoria Giglio

Biology

Assessment of the cumulative natural and anthropogenic threats to Columbia River Basin salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha using Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch criteria with implications for management

Jedediah Burr Grabman

Mathematics

Two Player Zero-Sum Games

Jesse Conrad Grillo

Physics

Symbolic Regression of the Damped Driven Pendulum

Blake David Hall

Mathematics

Classifying the Hundred Acre Wood

Tessa Juliet Hoppenfeld

Mathematics

The Structure of the Jacobian Group of a Graph

Austin Wayne Humphrey

Mathematics

Volume of SLn(ℤ)\SLn(ℝ)

Phillip Robert Jahelka

Physics

Assessing The Validity of the Envelope-Function and Effective-Mass Approximations

Adriana L Jemison

Chemistry

Toward a Novel Chiral Organobismuth Catalyst for Asymmetric Organic Transformations

Matthew Paul Keeslar

Biology

The Effects of Antimalarial Drugs on the Vocal Central Pattern Generator in the Frog, Xenopus laevis

Mason Dean Kennedy

Mathematics

Representation Theory and the Spherical Laplacian

Isaac Hansen Khader

Physics

A Magneto-Mechanical Nonlinear System

Augustus Mallett Kilgore

Biology

Understanding the Mechanism of ler Regulation by PerC

Gregory M Kohler

Physics

Bound States in Singular Potentials

Tobias Noah Koppel

Physics

Demonstrating a Negative index of Refraction

Atsuya Kumano

Mathematics

Seeking unpredictability in deterministic systems: definitions of chaos in topological dynamics

Thomas Joseph LaMarre

Mathematics

Massively Parallel Computation with Graphics Processing Units

Abraham Yoav Leiser

Biology

Hydrophobicity of the Ler Linker is Necessary for Transcriptional Activation

Talya Sophia Levitz

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

A biochemical characterization of BosR, the Borrelia burgdorferi oxidative stress sensor

Ellen Rebecca Levkoy

Biology

A Search for Nuclear Phylogeographic Markers in Delphinium Nuttallii

Luke Cameron Liechty

Physics

Power Output of the Stirling Engine

Trevor Daniel Lohrey

Chemistry

Elucidating the Role of Acetic Acid in the Formation of Vanadium Pentoxide Gels from Triisopropoxy Vanadium(V) Oxide

Laura Abigail Lyman

Mathematics

Principal Series of GL(2) Over a Finite Field

Miranda Lyons-Cohen

Biology

Examination of Stress Tolerance and Nitrogen Fixation in Medicago truncatula

Molly Nell Maguire

Physics

The Shovel Method: Digging for Dark Matter in Noisy Data

Aaron Ivor McCray-Goldsmith

Physics

The dynamics of the falling slinky

Will Scott McKeen

Chemistry

Metal Binding Selectivity and the Role of Asp8 and Glu99 in Manganese Transport Regulator MntR

Andrew Michael McNutt

Physics

Nonequivalent Lagrangian Mechanics

Peter Francis McTigue

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Synthesis and Biological Evaluations of N-acetyl-4’-sulfatoxy-3-iodothyronamine

Allison Christine Morgan

Physics

Relativistic Strings and Ehrenfest’s Paradox

Manh Huy Nguyen

Physics

Quantum Monte Carlo Calculation of the Imaginary-Time Green’s Function in the Hubbard Model

Galen Michael O'Sullivan

Mathematics

Counting on Simpicial Complexes

Rachel Lee Pincus

Chemistry-Physics

Photoacoustic spectroscopy: a method for investigating weak molecular absorption

Stuart Gordon Pickell

Physics

Gravitons in the D4/D8/D8 Configuration

Sara Yin-Ling Post

Biology

Trypanosomatid Parasitism Activates Conserved Innate Immune Response, Visualized for the First Time in a Drosophila Host

Ariana Maria Remmel

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Towards the Total Synthesis of a Sesquiterpene

ϒ-Lactone Scaffolding

Yotam Reshef

Mathematics

Formalization and Mathematical Rigour

Desmond Rgwaringesu

Biology

Investigating the Link between Gluthione-S-Transferase Activity and Nitrogenase Activity in Red Alder (Alnus Rubra Bong) and Bitterbrush (Purshia Tridentata)

Andrew Joseph Roetker

Mathematics

The State of Process Calculi and Concurrency

Patrick Scott Sadil

Biology

Searching for the neural rhythmogenesis of Xenopus laevis’ vocal communication necessitates troubleshooting

Hannah Curtin Schaupp

Biology

Mechanistic Basis of Maternal Behavior in a

Cichlid Fish

Kevin Wolf Schmidt

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The Role of CPSF-73 in Splicing of the Terminal Intron of FOS pre-mRNA

Erin Michelle Sheffels

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Characterization of Telomerase Products in Xenopus laevis Tissue Extracts

Vyom Shukla

Chemistry

Synthesis and Derivatization of a Red Shifted BODIPY scaffold for Super Resolution Microscopy

Shelly Anne Skolfield

Biology

Racing the red queen: An examination of the effects of parasitoid wasp infection on Drosophila melanogaster homologous recombination

Molly Jane Spilka

Biology

Female Sex Steroids Alter Subcellular Localization of Receptor Activator of Nuclear Factor ϰB Ligand (Rankl) in MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cells

Kimberly Anne Stanton

Biology

The Genetic Basis of the Floral Color Transition in the Divergence of Delphinium leucophaeum and Delphinium nuttallii

Veronica Jane Stewart

Chemistry

Structure and Electronic Properties of Low-Temperature Annealed Vanadium Pentoxide Sol-Gel Materials

Ryan Joseph Streur

Biology

R2R3-MYB Discovery in Delphinium nuttallii

Kathleya Anne Strode

Chemistry

Towards a Library of Catalytic Bismuth Cryptands: Self-Assembled Nanovessels and the Quest for Solubility in Aqueous Media

Poornima Subramanian

Biology

Zinc Metal Competition and Oxidative Stress

Amanuel Melesse Tafessu

Biology

Retinoic Acid Signaling and Retinal Stem Cell Behavior in the Zebrafish Ciliary Marginal Zone

Ingrid Veronica Tower

Biology

The Role of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Cues in Rescue of Retinal Stem Cell Proliferation and Differentiation in Zebrafish

Joshua Alexander Urrutia

Biology

Pot1, Tpp1, and Telomerase in Xenopus laevis

Nicole Susan Valentine

Biology

Inhibition of Telomerase and the PCR by 3xPinX1

Eric William Van Baak

Biology

Activity of glutathione-ascorbate cycle enzymes in the cycad-cyanobacterial symbiosis

Elijah Peregrine Van Wing

Mathematics

Present Value Under Non-Constant Models of Interest

Ulagammai Venkat

Biology

Spatial and Temporal Organization of Neurogenesis in the Zebrafish Retina

Christopher David Vittal

Mathematics

Non-Unique Factorization in Rings of

Integer-Valued Polynomials

Katherine Michaela Voorhees

Biology

Newly Formed Neurons in Adult Cichlids

William Nelson Voss

Biology

Inhibition of transcription of the apoptotic gene EGR1 by the bromodomain protein Brd4

Mark Stephen Walth

Mathematics

Manifolds and Maps: An Introduction to Cobordism

Andrew Joseph Warren

Mathematics

Nonstandard Analysis is Sometimes Useful: Several Applications

Erin Marie Marion Weisenhorn

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

An Analysis of MBNL1 Zinc Finger Binding using Fluorescence Anisotropy

Audrey Miller Williams

Biology

Dorsal-ventral patterning and cell proliferation in the vertebrate retina

Sofia Doreen Wright

Mathematics

Generating the Superstable Configurations of a Graph via its Acyclic Orientations

Yuan Xue

Biology

Sigma E-Dependent Pathway Mediates Inhibition of LEE Virulence by Zinc

Rachel G.C. Yahn

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The Search for an Ideal SERM: Towards the Design and Synthesis of a Novel Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator

Phoebe Allegra Long Young

Biology

Enhanced Drought Tolerance in vtc2-transgenic Poplars

Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, & Linguistics

Manuel Arturo Abreu

Linguistics

Accusative Clitic Doubling in Dominican Spanish

Anna M.L. Aden

Linguistics

Environmental Discourse: How we talk about the environment, and what we’re really saying

Zain Arif Alattar

Philosophy

On the Deductive-Nomological and Unificationist Models of Scientific Explanation

Reed Sebastian Arroyo

Philosophy

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Logical Behaviorism and the Meaning of Sensation-Language

Brent Lucien Bailey

Philosophy

Parts, Properties, and Persistence: How Objects Persist in a Relativistic Setting

Abbey Laura Benak

Psychology

The effects of pre-call instructions and voice distinctiveness on earwitness identification

Megan Michelle Bradley

Religion

Between Oppression and Opposition: The Muslim Brotherhood’s Articulation of Islam in Post-Revolutionary Egypt

Jennifer Maureen Byers

Religion

The Psychological Dao: A History of Carl Jung and The Secret of the Golden Flower

Shantanu K. Chatterjee

Philosophy

Legal Normativity

Alison Elizabeth Chavez

Psychology

A Person-Centered Investigation of Academic Motivation, Emotions, and Drinking in a High School Setting

Kirsten J Collins

Religion

Negotiating Edith Stein: Bildung and Identity Politics in the Making of a Modern Saint

Winifred Jeane Conrad

Linguistics

Mirativity & Evidentiality in Lhasa Tibetan

Chandler Alexis Corallo

Psychology

Girls and Academic Achievement in the Elementary-Middle School Classroom: Examining the Relationships among Gender, Evaluative Feedback, and Beliefs about the Self

Grace Claire Covill-Grennan

Psychology

Personal Narrative, Development, and Identity: Men at a Minimum Security Prison

Rena Tian Dimes

Linguistics

The Language of Leading and Following: An Analysis of Dance Partners and Linguistic Accommodation in the Portland, Oregon Blues Dancing Community

Chanelle Nicole Doucette

Psychology

“That’s (not) what she said”: How Sexual Arousal Influences the Interpretation of Facial Expressions

Katherine Rose Duffy

Psychology

Influences of Gender and Sexual Orientation Identity Salience on Group Dynamics

Abby Denora Dufresne

Linguistics

Insubordinate Conduct: Deontic Necessity Modals Hack the System

Anna Ingrid Fimmel

Psychology

Fluoxetine’s mediation of corticosterone-induced amygdalar volume change in the female rat

Mackenzie Ellen Goldberg

Religion

“Old Wine and New Bottles”: Rabbi T. Wine, Secular Humanistic Judaism and the Unaffiliated Jew

Christina Lee Gremore

Linguistics

Written on the body: Representations of “non-standard” speech and embodiment in African-American fiction

Esmeralda Jaqueline Herrera

Linguistics

Racializing Gay Speech, Sexualizing African American English: Style and /t/ Release among Black Gay Men

Lisa Christine Hiura

Psychology

To Free, or Not to Free: The Relative Reinforcing Values of Food Reward vs. Social Contact in Rats

Jordan James Horowitz

Philosophy

The Critical Use of Intuition: A Reply to the Skeptical Challenge of Experimental Philosophy

Imani Elizabeth Jackson

Religion

Towards a New Heaven: Reading Black Catholicism in the Work of Sister Thea Bowman

Alison Farley Kafka

Psychology

Overprescribed & Under-Researched: A look into the effect of chronic, low-dose, oral exposure to DL amphetamine in the developing male Sprague-Dawley

Samuel John Kennedy

Philosophy

Virtue and Generality

Eleanor Elizabeth Kinney

Linguistics

When Sounds Speak for Themselves: An Exploration of Synesthetic Sound Symbolism In Shape and Affect Associations

Rebecca June Kleinberg

Linguistics

Structure and Function in Stand-up Comedy

Molly Kathleen Krumholz

Linguistics

Sufficiency Beyond the Scale: The Uncivilized Realm of Degree Semantics Across Possible Worlds

Isabelle Zoe Leighton

Psychology

Women’s Effort Perceptions, in STEM and Beyond: An Assessment of Accuracy, Motivational Correlates, and Potential Moderators

Samuel Benjamin Liebling Liebow

Psychology

Are There Statistical Heuristics for the Law of Large Numbers?

Kathryn Platt Linthicum

Psychology

There’s an App for That: Investigating mindfulness, context, and moods

Aaron Mark MacCarley

Philosophy

Economic Science and Value-Neutrality

Sharon Amanda Massey

Religion

“What the Hell is a Syrian Jew?”: Religious Change and Ethnic Persistence in the History of Syrian Jewish Immigrants in New York

Joshua Sloan McCarty

Religion

Carthusian Desire

Erica M. Meadow

Psychology

A Part of Me, Apart from Me: A Qualitative Exploration of Depression Diagnosis and Its Impact on the Self

Stephen Andrew Metzler

Psychology

Conscious and Non-Conscious Visual Processing of Shape and Color Depends on Task-Orientated Attention

Elisabeth Merritt Miles

Linguistics

Language and le cri: Embodied Identity in the Moroccan Journal Souffles

Julianne Marie Myers

Psychology

Imagine the Possibilities: Familiarity Effects on the Subjective Vividness of Auditory Imagery of Speakers and Singers

Zuzu Rebecca Myers

Religion

Between Language and Violence: A Dialogue Group’s Attempt at Communicating with the Religious Other

Alexander John Nord

Philosophy

Approaching Epistemology Through Memory

Celina Paola Ortiz Hinojosa

Psychology

The anxiogenic and orexigenic effect of ghrelin microinjected into the Edinger-Westphal nucleus: A repeated measures design using the elevated plus maze and open field test

Katina Maria Papadakis

Linguistics

Nasal Spreading in Paraguayan Guaraní: An Acoustic and Aerodynamic Study

Ivan Rivera

Linguistics

Spanish-English Codeswitching at the Aux-V Boundary: A Congruence Study of Grammatical Interaction

Brice David Roberts

Linguistics

Searching for Stress in Shanghainese Tone Domains

Aaron Michael Salomon

Philosophy

The Puzzle of Moral Deference

Antonia Jaye Scarcello

Psychology

Social and Empathetic Nudges: An evaluation of two intervention strategies to influence handwashing behavior

Kathryn R Schelonka

Psychology

The neural correlates of word perception during inattentional blindness

Dean Carl Schmeltz

Linguistics

Effect of Bilingualism on Hyperarticulation in Foreigner-Directed Speech

James Alexander Shelstad

Psychology

Interspecies Behavioral Biases and the Conceptual Components of Crosslinguistic Syntactic Patterns

Gabriele Ann Slaughter

Linguistics

It is Known: Evidentiality and Mirativity in Tajik Persian

Mackenzie Lange Sullivan

Philosophy

An Essay on Metaphysical Grounding

Sonia Annam Swanson

Psychology

Even Educated Fleas Do It: An Achievement Goal Theory for Sex Education

Anna Case Walden

Religion

Political Islam and the Rushdie Affair: transnational Islam in the late 20th century

Louise Webster

Religion

Goddess, Gray Areas, and Cyborgs: The Contemporary Apotheosis of Pele, A Hawaiian Volcano Goddess

Eva Susanne Wiedmann

Philosophy

Desires, Interests, and Rights

Jeannie Yoon

Linguistics

Learning the global language: Language ideologies and cultural perceptions of Korean English students

Interdisciplinary

Audrey Augenbraum

International and Comparative Policy Studies

Strait to Hell, Boys: Obstacles to Cooperation in Combating Maritime Piracy in Indonesian Waters, 1945-2009

Alan Thomas Cline

Literature-Theatre

A Play is Not Only So But Also: Aesthetic Immediacy and the Structure of the Dramatic Narrative in the Theatre of Gertrude Stein

Jacqueline Marie Davis

Dance-History

Kurt Jooss’ The Green Table: An Anti-War Ballet?

Kevin Yoshiaki Gallagher

Mathematics-Economics

Building a Better Mortgage-Backed Security: Correctly Pricing Associated Risks

Allison Beal Giffin

Environmental Studies-Economics

Lessons in Growing up: Assessing Optimal Growth Scenarios within Portland’s Urban Growth Boundary

Archit Guha

International and Comparative Policy Studies

“Bangladeshi” v. Union of India: Constructing the “Illegal” Immigrant Identity in (Post)colonial India

Erin Michelle Guy

Art-Religion

Monstrance in Miniature: The Granville Manuscript’s Painted Windows on the Crystal Palace

Johannes Myrberg Harkins

Mathematics-Economics

Testing the Efficiency of Sports Betting Markets: An Examination of National Football League and English Premier League Betting

Tristan Gregory Hechtel

Mathematics-Economics

Income-Based Tuition Repayment: A Critical Analysis

Dove Kathryn Henry

Environmental Studies-History

Displacing the Organism: Mid-Twentieth-Century Biology’s Molecular Representation of Life in Diamond v. Chakrabarty

Kelly Martha Holob

Classics-Religion

Rise and Shine: Contextualizing the Hymns of Synesius of Cyrene

Weiqi Hu

Mathematics-Economics

Innovation and Information Communication Technology in China

Maya Isabel Talley Jarrad

Environmental Studies-Economics

Valuation of Urban Steam Restoration in the Johnson Creek Watershed: A Repeat Sale Hedonic Hybrid Analysis

Olivia Claire Jensen

Dance-Sociology

Interactions Between Marginalized Status & Social Structure: Quantitative & Choreographic Approaches

Bryan Kim

Mathematics-Economics

The Effects of Exchange Rates on Intrafirm Trading by Multinational Corporations: Evidence from US Trade in 1985-2010

Erin Elizabeth Warren McAllester

Environmental Studies-Biology

Objective Crosstalk: The interaction between method and diversity using the 16S rRNA gene of symbiotic cyanobacteria

Torrey Lance Payne

Mathematics-Economics

The Economics of New Technology and Wages: Estimating the Value of Two-Point and Three-Point Shooting in the National Basketball Association

Mia Rose Costin Reback

Environmental Studies-Economics

The Distributional Effects of a Carbon Tax in Oregon: Review of the Literature and Detailed Methodology for Assessing the Incidence

Alma Victoria Siulagi

Environmental Studies-History

Imperial Portland: The Creation of a Progressive Transit Regime in the 1970s

Alexandra Marne Smith

Literature-Theatre

Salomé/Salome: Representations of Desire in Wilde’s Play and Strauss’s Opera

Taylor Rose Stinchcomb

Environmental Studies-Biology

Effects of the herbicide diuron on multiple life stages of Bombina orientalis: implications for pesticide use and amphibian conservation

Rebecca Lauren Thurber

Literature-Theatre

For the Sake of Harmony: An Original Play and an Examination of Representing Consciousness in Theatre

Alan Tuan

Environmental Studies-Chemistry

Observational Study of Brooklyn Rail Yard and its Effects on Air Quality in Portland

Joan Jo-En Wang

Mathematics-Economics

Spatial Economic Analysis of Neighborhood Characteristics and Food Access in Portland

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

Patrick Thomas Artz

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

Utopia, Allegory, and Palimpsest: Trajectories of Intercultural Exchange in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Word for World is Forest

Janis Eileen Carpenter

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

Images of muteness: A reading of Anne Carson's “Nox”

Anthony M Elmore

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

Muslim Nationalism: Allama Muhammad Iqbal and The Origins of an Ideal

Maylorie Elizabeth Townsend

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

How Can Feedback Increase Self-Determined Motivation to Keep Writing?

Edith Maria Zdunich

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

The Cracks Between the Binaries: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl as a Work of Iconoclasm