Commencement 2015

The Arts

Marisa Rose Barone

Art

DEEP SET

Willamae Ensign Boling

Theatre

Who Killed B. B. Homemaker?: Normative and Critical Whiteness in Beyoncé’s Videos

Hannah June Choi

Art

Self-Portrait of a Korean American Third Culture Kid

Cancy King-Cyn Chu

Art

The Catalogue of Ships: Portable Books of Postcolonial Cultural Exchange

Eli Jason Coplan

Art

Still Sounding Elsewhere

Anneke Cara De Bont

Art

Spaces of Memory: Giulio Camillo’s Memory Theater and Lady Anne Bacon Drury’s Architext

Christopher Neil Falcone

Art

Fascist Ecclesial Urbanism in Rome, 1936–1955

Megan Kathleen Finley

Art

Just Think Happy Thoughts: The Transmutation of 9/11 images and the Aesthetic of Memory

Melissa Beth Fisher

Art

The Post-Crisis Aesthetics of Afterlife

Nora Eurydice Fisher Campbell

Art

Dead Space: Fear and Creativity in the Paris Catacombs

Kaori Hannah Freda

Art

Immersions and Visuality of a Religion: A Study of Ritual and Space at the Unification Church’s Holy Ground

Genevieve Katherine Fondafas Goffman

Art

In Memoriam

Vita Haas

Art

Impossible Goals, Terms in Flux, and Uncommon Ground at The 9/11 Memorial Site

Kira Wei-Hsin Jacobson

Art

through___looking___

Kathryn Anne Jarvinen

Art

Life in the Dreamhouse

Andrew Jackson Johnson

Music

Nobody’s Business

Marisa Joelle Kanai

Theatre

Here, Now: Immersion and Interactivity in Live Performance Events

Anna Laura Kastama

Art

You Can Barely Tell

Tiphanie Persei Laney

Art

Time Warp: A Personal Analysis of Ethiopian Weaving

Claire Spangler Lewis

Theatre

A Physical Trust: The Influence of Narrative on Circus Performers’ Relationships

Michael William Mandeville

Music

Couples

Georgia Marie Janu Miller

Art

Reassembling Authenticity: The Museumification of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Houses

Bronwyn Amalia Murray-Bozeman

Music

While Echo Shall in Sounds Remote: Foreign Influence in Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen

Ian Wilson Nichols

Music

Trick Music

Dwayne Bernard Okpaise Jr.

Art

The Hour of Noise and Looking: Sadistic Performance Art in Argentina in the 1960s

Grace Rittenberg

Theatre

Philology Leads to Disaster: The Role of Physical Acting in Absurdist Plays

Harrison Taylor Salton

Art

The Introverted Eye: Modeling Böhmean Visual Systems

Rebecca Anne Shafer

Art

A Perspective on Perspective

Gillian Fiona Spencer

Art

Take a Break From Now: Future Youth

Amy Caroline Stewart

Art

The Flowers of Evil: Beauty and the Grotesque

Colin Hoult Trevor

Theatre

Live the Thing: Stanislavski’s Psychophysical Technique at Work in the Plays of Eugene Ionesco

Genevieve Celeste Ward

Art

Historical Veils in the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp

Austen Camille Weymueller

Art

A (Tenuous) Body (of Work)

Samuel Enzo Yehros

Art

Militarized Architecture and Mutable Landscapes

History & Social Sciences

Kai Ashonte Addae

Economics

Productivity Effects of Sexual Victimization

Mariuxi Estefania Andrade

Anthropology

DACAmented-Generation Migrants Contesting

Hegemonic Notions of Citizenship through the DACA Relief and Education

Rachel Kathryn Apone

Anthropology

Satan on the Skin: Divine and Demonic Mediation in Papua New Guinea’s Pentecostal Public Sphere

Noah K.H. Atchison

Economics

People, PACs, and Piles of Cash: Electoral Competitiveness and Campaign Contributions in the US House of Representatives

Sara Bahmanyar

Anthropology

In Their Own Image?: Online Media Fandom and Processes of Subject-Making

Lilian Charlotte Breidenbach

Anthropology

Privileging Presence: Healing the Collective Shadow of the Holocaust

Joshua David Brown

History

Exhibition matters: reconsidering the conditions of reception in the history of early American movie-going, 1905–1926

Gretchen Elizabeth Bueermann

Economics

Agricultural Price Shocks and Gender Based Violence in India

Maya Elizabeth Campbell

History

“So we don’t have to beg anymore”: Black Power and Self-Defense in Radical Social Movements in the United States and United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s

Jacob Anthony Cascio

History

Ideology in Practice: Letrado Constructions and Lived Confrontations of Modernized Buenos Aires,

1870–1907

Elisa Cibils

History

A Mexican American Racial Project: The League of United Latin American Citizens’ Beginnings in the Twentieth-Century Texas

Kelli Ann Collins

History

Imagining Americanness: American Protestant Responses to the Irish Catholic Threat, 1840–1855

Keegan Reid Covey

Political Science

Natural resources, water management, and the importance of state capacity in sub-Saharan Africa

Salish Jordan Davis

Anthropology

Birth in the El Paso Borderlands: Navigating Latina Migrant Citizenship and Il/legality

Logan Thomas Donoughe

Economics

Consumer Flight, Repeat Purchases, and Lemons Markets: an Agent-Based Study

Lauren Kinue Faris

History

It’s Not About the Sports: International Politics and National Identities at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics

Rebecca Anne Forman

History

“I Must Tell You, I Can Help It”: Kleptomania in 19th-Century British Medical Theory, Legal Reform and Public Knowledge

Hannah Frishberg

Political Science

Post-Recession Gentrification in New York City’s Residential Neighborhoods: the Impact of Zoning, Affordable Housing, and Landmarking on Socio-Economic Change

Susannah Elizabeth Glickman

Anthropology

A Conspiracy of Cartographers: Models, Medicine and Macrocosm (Why We Should Accept the Robots)

Sita Diane Goetschius

Political Science

Hindustani Ya Asian Hai?: Exploring the Differences in Political Behavior and Identity between South Asian Americans and East Asian Americans

William Alexander Grimshaw

History

Humanity and its Discontents: The Impact of Cybernetics on the Ontological and Epistemological Status of Human Beings in the Modern Era

Luke Charles Hackenberg

Economics

Experimental Evidence for the Endowment Effect Under Conditions of Induced Resource Scarcity

Kalina Valentinova Hadzhikova

History

Ancient Rome and the Configuration of Imperial Authority During the Reigns of Manuel I Comnenus and Frederick Barbarossa

Meagan Ariella Harris

History

“Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way”: Settler Colonialism In Oregon County

Mary Carolyn Hepburn

History

From Missionaries to Colonizers: Mary Walker and the Tshimaikain Mission, 1838–1848

Edwin Paapa Kwaku hMensa

Economics

Missio-nomics: Examining the Effect of Historic Missionary Activity on Current Economic Development

Mary Michael Howard

History

1836: Rivière | Foucault:1973

Lucas Benjamin Inn

History

“Where the Livin’ is Easy, Where the Future is Bright”: California City, California and American Surburbia at a Crossroads, 1945–1970

Clio A.W. Isaacson

History

Women’s Captivity Narratives in Colonial New England: A Comparison of the Accounts of Mary Rowlandson and Elizabeth Hanson

Daniel Dyssegaard Kallick

Political Science

The Jewish Question: An Essentially Contested Concept

April Inez Kaplowitz

Economics

De We Really Know that the TTIP Will Increase Trade? A Study on the Effectiveness of Regional Trade Agreements in Promoting Trade

Malena Holly Keys

Economics

Gender Differences in Competition and Cooperation: Explaining the Gender Wage Gap

Zoey Baird Koontz

Economics

Investigating Domestic Drivers of Cross-Border Capital Movement

Darci Leigh Kovacs

Sociology

Will No Financial Institution Be Safe? Cooperative Identity Drift and U.S. Credit Union Adoption of Market-Based Practices

Montgomery Douglas La Salle Hill

Political Science

Transforming Conflict: Unofficial Civil War Mediation And The Implementation of Peace OR How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb Unofficial Diplomacy

James William LaBelle

Economics

US Income Tax Progressivity as an Automatic Macroeconomic Stabilizer

Neera Monica Lal

History

English Only?: a study of the redefinition of bilingual education in United States legislation from 1968–1980s

Anika Marie Ledlow

Sociology

College Campus Safe Spaces

Taylor Magdalena LeGrande

History

Ni Lindo, Ni Querido: How Mexican-Americans became Chicanos

Paige Serene Leishman

Economics

Benefit Corporations: A New Era of Corporate Social Responsibility

Jacob Bailey Lovell

Political Science

Are We There Yet?: The Distance-induced Costs of Voting

Mary Elizabeth Lubbers

Sociology

Friendships from Behind the Computer Screen: Developing Social Capital through Online Interactions

Anna Ma

Economics

The Rise of Fast Fashion Retailers and Their Effects on the Price of Clothing Over Time

Mikayla Marie MacNally

History

José Martí ’s Ongoing Revolution: Evolving Cuban National Identity Through the Writings of Martí

Erica Rose Maranowski

Sociology

Institutional Foundations of High School Closure in Portland Public Schools: Race, Class, Enrollments, and Budget Cuts

Nicole Alber Marino

Anthropology

Intimate Strangers: How Dogs and their Humans Combat Ambivalence about Companion Animals in the United States

Alexander Charles McCracken

Political Science

Political Rhetoric and the Limits of Logos: Thucydides on Rationality in Democratic Discourse

Dylan Schloesser McKenna

Economics

The Interest Rate Parity Condition: A Golden Opportunity?

Paul Joseph Messick

Political Science

Pathologies of the Learning Organization: A Study of the Mayor’s Office of Housing Recovery Operations

Shabab Ahmed Mirza

Economics

Thinking Outside the Box Office: Earned Revenue and Other Determinants of Programmatic Conformity for Nonprofit Theatres in the United States

Mathew Alfred Olson

Economics

The Relevance of Irrelevance: Exploring Decoy Effect and Conjunction Fallacy

Eleanor Shepley Parmentier

Sociology

“It’s a wonderful life?”: Community bank impacts on small business and entrepreneurship

Patrick James Peterson

History

“Expansionism Rebounding”: The Second Ottoman Siege of Vienna and the End of the Traditional Ottoman State

Robyn Elizabeth Popp

History

Stop Making Sense: The Social Implications and Hidden Legacies of Three Human Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Eli Gavin Rau

Political Science

The Calculus of Vote-Selling: Electoral Trust and the Value of a Vote

Alexander Thomas Recinos

Economics

Understanding the Free Trade Debate: the Determining Factors of Individual Trade Policy Preferences

Annemarie Gueco Reyes

Anthropology

Playing a Serious Game: Bodies and Gender Performativity in “Women’s” Artistic Gymnastics

Joanna Wilson Rothchild

History

Méndez v. Westminster: Mexican Americans and School Desegregation in Southern California, 1946

William Andrew Schmid

Economics

The Impact of the 1999 Collective Bargaining Agreement on Competitiveness in the NBA

Nikole Lauren Shahbazian

Anthropology

“Air-Conditioning the Nation”: Technopolitics, Spatial Conceptions, and Performances of Citizenship under Singaporean Street and Internet Surveillance

Daniel Spielberger

History

“A Screw in a Machine”: The Emergence, Emancipation and Explosion of Subjectivity in the Cultural Revolution and Deng Xiaoping Era

Cole Dallas Sprague

Economics

Estimating the Effect of Decriminalized Prostitution on STI Transmission Rates

Nicholas Stephan Upshaw

History

The First Diplomatic School in Old Regime France: Education and Expertise at the Académie Politique

Christopher Samuel Weber

Economics

An Econometric Analysis of Grocery Store Strategy and Competition in Portland, OR

Austin Shane Weisgrau

Economics

Towards a Theory of Coercive Advertising

Helene Elizabeth Wierzbicki

Sociology

Rationing Out Justice: An Examination of Court Fees among the United States in the Aftermath of the Great Recession

Emma Justine Williams-Baron

Sociology

Girls and Boys Who Work: Effects of Gendered Adolescent Work Experiences on Career, Education, Family, and Work-Life Balance Aspirations and Expectations

Amelia Freida Wolf

Anthropology

“My Heart is in the East and I am in the Uttermost West”: material representations of the homeland in Jewish and Palestinian diaspora

John Basil Young

History

The Discerning (Re)Public: American Medical Culture, Politics, and Epidemic Disease in 1793 Philadelphia

Stella Michelle Louise Ziegler

Anthropology

Unsettling Non-Native America: Challenging Ideologies with Documentary Film

Daniel Ray Zuniga

Political Science

We’re All Mad Here: Robert Dahl, Steven Lukes, and Michel Foucault on Psychiatric Power as Examined Through the Soviet Union’s Conception of Schizophrenia

Literature & Languages

Belle Kingston Aykroyd

English

A Body Filled

Margaret Marie Black

Spanish

A Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: A Critical Analysis of the Works of Pedro Almodóvar and Alfred Hitchcock

Alexandra Rachel Boss

English

Native American and First Nations Oral and Written Literature: The Problems with Transcription and the Power of the Autonomous Voice

Nicholas Michael Brancaccio

Classics

Life in Second Exile: Xenophon’s Reconception of Panhellenism in the Anabasis

Ashley Rachel Mascoli Brandt

English

Triangulation: Locating the Reader in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and Humbert Humbert’s Narration

Keegan Luke Burns

Chinese

Iconoclasm and Subjectivity: Reflections on Locating Reverence in Lou Fu’s Driftwood

Marilyn Sarah Carlin

Classics

Tragic Gender Performance in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon

Fedora Anemone Copley

Spanish

Indigenous Hip-hop: Transnational Identification and Resistance to Coloniality

Alexandra McKenzie Corey

English

A Song of Multitudes: The French Reception of Walt Whitman

Amanda Rose Dempsey

English

Postmodernism for Unbeginners: An Exploration of the Postmodern De/Reconstruction of Discourses of Knowledge and Metanarratives in Literature

Aman Gifford Desai

English

Fictions of The Author: Don Quixote and Inquisition Spain

Benjamin Lee DeYoung

German

The Will to Remember: Representations of the Nazi past in Jenny Erpenbeck’s Heimsuchung and Christian Kracht’s Faserland

Patrick Hoth Duffey

English

“My Creatures”: Samuel Beckett’s Molloy and the Status of the Literary Character

Christopher Nicholas Evans Embrey

Classics

Social Unity, Class Conflict, and the Aristotelian pÒliw

Evan Ellis Filkins

English

Mont Blanc and Shelley’s Sublime Dialectic

Zachary Valson Garriss

Classics

Acerrimus

Bailey Leandra Georges

English

Fortunate falls, innocence, knowledge, and redemption in Philip Pullman’s “His dark materials”, John Milton’s “Paradise lost”, and Heinrich von Kleist’s “On the marionette theatre”

Della Green

English

“I had not minded—Walls—”: Perils, Possibilities and Metapoetics in Dickinson’s Depictions of Boundaries

Nicole Mae Guldin

Chinese

Abandoned Trails and False Peaks: A Journey Through the Xiyouji

Sophia Rosita Helverson

General Literature

From Polis to Paris: The Orestes Myth as Political Education

Sung Pyo Hong

English

Evolving Representations of the Metropolis in Postmodern Literature

Victoria Sophie James

Chinese

Biographies of Tang Military Officials: An Exercise in Genre

Danielle Morgan Juncal

English

Japanese American Internment Poetry: Lawson Inada and Mitsuye Yamada’s Re-Mappings of Memory and Identity

Dong Bin Lee

English

Repeated Deconstruction: A Phenomenological Reading of The Waves

Natasha Elyse Lelchuk

English

The New Woman and the Little Girl Business: New Girls in the Novels of J. M. Barrie, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Henry James

Antonio Marín

Chinese

The Daoist Hero’s Tale: Moral Doctrine in the Ba Xian De Dao Zhuan Stories of Lü Dongbin

Joseph Daniel McMahon

English

Representations of Ineffability in Henry James and Gertrude Stein

Brian Merson McPherson

English

Narcissism and Trauma in the verse of Golding, Milton, and Shakespeare

Owen Maurice Mee

Chinese

Tying Together a Classic: An Analysis of the Interpretation of The Book of Changes Found in The Great Commentary

Susana Mizrahi

Spanish

La visión estelar: Representación de la simultaneidad temporal en La media noche de Valle-Inclán

Laura Angela Moser

Classics

Madness and Meaning: Signs of Epic and Tragedy in Sophocles’ Ajax

Anna Celisse Perling

English

Gastronomic Narratives and the Codification of Class: Examining Response to Julia Child’s My Life in France and The French Chef

Lael Kyra Pollack

English

A Changing World: British and American Anxiety and the Postwar Novel

Madeline Browne Reese

French

“Les poètes sont parmi nous”: Ma’ohi Literature & Identity in French Polynesia

Elise Katherine Ringo

English

“Woe unto world’s end”: Apocalypse in Tolkien’s Silmarillion

Samuel MacLean Sexton

English

Hearts and Minds: Genre Displacement in Vietnam War Literature

Serra Delores Shelton

English

The Semi-dialogic Novel: Children’s Literature, Lewis Carroll, and the Effects of Humor

Amanda Peyton Strenz

Russian

Emigrants and Immigrants: Transnational Authors on Balancing and Creating National Identities

Jacob Krouse Strickland

English

About Time: Temporality and Normativity in Back to the Future

Zoe S. Tambling

English

Fields

Jack Walter Taylor

English

Going Beyond the Zero: An Examination of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow as a Source of Insight Into Our Contemporary Creative Moment

Kevyn Leigh Tompkins de Garcia

English

Modern Gothic Literature of Joyce Carol Oates as a Call to Action

Brynn Anh Tran

English

Uprooted

Anna Kathryn Veltkamp

English

In Overdrive

Alexandra Claire Wood

English

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities: Herman Melville’s Denunciation of Truth in Literature

Mathematics & Natural Sciences

Taras Abolfathi

Physics

Intraband Transitions in CdSe quantum dots

Sandesh Mohan Adhikary

Physics

Quantum State Measurement of Polarization Entangled Photons

Alejandro Anasal

Biology

Climate Change and the Forests of the Pacific Northwest

Mark James Angeles

Chemistry

Synthesis of Cobalt, Rhodium, and Iridium Acetyl(imino)pyridine Compounds for the Reductive Dehalogenation of Chlorinated Ethylenes

Melissa Yokoe Ashbaugh

Biology

A comparison of genome-guided and de novo RNA-seq analysis for non-genomic model organisms: A test case in cichlid fish

Christina Lord Barrett

Biology

Bad Mothers Make For Bad Neighbors: The Intersection of Social and Maternal Behaviors in Mouth-brooding Astatotilapia burtoni

Conrad James Barry

Biology

The Discovery of a New Flavonoid Regulating MYB in Delphinium nuttallii and Delphinium leucophaeum

Andrew Richard Blount

Mathematics

Sequential Model-Based Optimization of Expensive Blackbox Functions -or- How to Do Well When You Don’t Know What You’re Doing

Reid Pearl Bondurant

Biology

Effect of Retinal Ganglion Cell Input on Growth in the Zebrafish Optic Tectum

Madeline Virginia Brandt

Mathematics

Intersecting Hypergraphs and Decompositions of Complete Uniform Hypergraphs

Alexandra Kate Bray

Biology

NMDARs as Potential Regulators of the Xenopus Laevis Vocal Circuit

Alison Elizabeth Bryant

Biology

Effects of Collagen 15a 1b Knockdown on Stem Cell Behavior in the Ciliary Marginal Zone

Robin Alexis Byron

Biology

Testing Drosophilia Self-Medication using Ethanol against Parasitoid Wasp Infection

Arthur William Chang

Chemistry

Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy: Brute Force Elemental Analysis

Margaret Elaine Cheney

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The Role of Hfq in the Reduction of Virulence in EPEC by Zinc

Hannah Laurel Youngsun Choi

Biology

The role of chemical signals in the establishment of a cycad-cyanobacterial symbiosis

Jay Randal Pruitt Collins

Physics

Using the Photon Wave Function to Compute

Behavior of Single Photon Wave Packets Traveling Through Linear Material Interfaces

Michael Bonmati Conner

Physics

Tunneling in a Quantum Analog: An Experimental Investigation of a Bouncing Oil Drop System

Matthew Putnam Durant

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Exploring the effects of siRNA induced knockdown of CPSF73 on CCND1 splicing

Alexander Zack Emerman

Physics

A Geometric Approach to kT Clustering

Megan Anne Flood

Chemistry

DFT Analysis of a Platinacyclobutane Rearrangement

Jackson Kenny Flowers

Physics

Searching for a Charge-Density Wave in Laughlin’s Model of High-Temperature Superconductivity

Rachel Giulia Fox

Biology

Cellular Energy Allocation and Phenotypic Response to Hypoxia in the Aquatic Crustacean Daphnia magma

Lisa Frueh

Chemistry

A Contribution to the Fight Against Malaria: Novel Synthesis and Characterization of 3-Alkylarylether-4(1H)-quinolones with Antimalarial Properties

Shawn Geller

Physics

Wave Packet Dynamics in Graphene in a Magnetic Field

Jonathan Graham Gerhart

Biology

Investigation of a Method to Identify the Mechanism of PerC’s Action on ler

Drew Scott Gingerich

Chemistry

Towards Enantioselective Bismuth(III) Lewis Acid Catalysis via Utilization of a Chiral Counteranion Method for Asymmetric Induction

Susannah Elizabeth Glickman

Mathematics

The Character of an Optimal Query: An examination of queries in the dihedral hidden subgroup Problem

Varchas Gopalaswamy

Physics

Exact Coherent Structures with Broken Symmetry in Plane Couette Flow

Elizabeth Simpson Grace

Physics

Properties of H II Region Populations in the Whirlpool Galaxy: Hubble Space Telescope Pab Imaging

John Stewart Green

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Toward a Synthesis of Bismuth Triacetazolamide: Activity against Helicobacter pylori

Yudan Guo

Physics

Scalar Gravity with Self-Field Coupling

Kathryn Hunter Halloran

Biology

Genome size variation and transposable element proliferation in three lines of Capsicum annuum (Solanaceae)

Shanee Alanna Harriott

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Determination of Actinomycin D’s role as an inhibitor in Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1

Galen Samuel Harrison

Mathematics

Differentially Private Statistics: Implementation and performance of PTR and objective perturbation methods

Joel Elias Hawkins

Physics

Looking at Pictures: Topological Analysis of Complex Reaction-Diffusion Patterns

Ivy Ellen Hellickson

Biology

Trypanosomatids in Drosophila and the effects of infection on adult fly fitness

Daniel Isaac Herman

Physics

Slow Light Propagation in Synthetic Ruby

Emmeline Sophie Hill

Biology

Watch and Learn: Transitive Inference & Female Mate Choice in a Species of African Cichlid Fish

Wilson Hunter Horner

Biology

Retinoic Acid Signaling and Retinal Ganglion Cell Neurogenesis in the Developing Zebrafish

Nicholas Price Irvin

Physics

Vibrations in Transitionally-Asymmetric Crystals

Christina Snyder Johnson

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Towards an Understanding of Metal-Binding in Metal-Dependent Repressor 1 (MDR1) from Archaeoglobus fulgidus

Jolie Dava Kaner

Biology

The 2014–2015 Ebola Epidemic: A Synthetic Review of the History, Biology, and Public Health Consequences of Ebola in West Africa

Hyun Gu Kang

Chemistry

Size-Dependent Molecular-Level Characterization of Secondary Organic Aerosol from NO3 Initiated ∆-carene Oxidation using Nanospray Desorption Electrospray Ionization High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry

Neima A Kashani

Physics

Quasi-Steady State Analysis of the Chain Fountain

Justin Erik Katz

Mathematics

Eigenfunction decompositions of function spaces on various physical domains

Natalie Irene Keehan

Chemistry

Detecting Organic Nitrates Using Thermal Dissociation Cavity Ring-down Spectroscopy (TDCRDS)

Devon James Kesseli

Physics

An Experimental and Numerical Analysis of 2-Dimensional Kolmogorov Fluid Flows

Agnes Kim

Biology

Post-translational modifications of a-tubulin

Maxwell Thomas Peter Koenig

Biology

Patterns of Genome Dominance, Gene Loss, and Silencing in the Allotetraploid Soybean Glycine dolichocarpa

Jacob Benjamin Kraus

Biology

Where the Wild Things are: Diversity and Distribution of Small Mammals in the Reed College Canyon

Kathleen Lisa Kruzich

Chemistry

Predicting Depolarization Ratios and Relative Intensities for Resonance Raman Spectroscopy Using the Irreducible Tensor Method

Jacob Edward Luton

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Asp8 and the Metal-Binding Properties and Selective Activation of the Manganese Transport Regulator

Alexandra Bryn Mariani

Biology

Dose-Dependence of Off-Target Effects of Antimalarials in the Xenopus laevis Vocal Central Pattern Generator

Kata Sachi Martin

Chemistry

Natural Bond Orbital Analysis of the Congested Hydrogen-Hydrogen Interactions in exo-exo-Tentracyclododecane

Damon Fletcher Melton

Mathematics

Jordan Canonical Forms of Commuting Nilpotent Matrices

Jacob Lee Menick

Mathematics

The Discrete Wavelet Transform and Applications to Data Compression

Lukas Morick

Chemistry

Toward the Synthesis of a Novel Bismuth Catalyst Using Chiral BINOL-derived Phosphoric Acids to Effect Enantioselectivity Through Asymmetric Counterion-Directed Catalysis

Eve Madeline Mozur

Chemistry

The Composition of Secondary Organic Aerosols at an Urban Site

M. Kai Nalipinski

Physics

An Experimental Investigation of Neutron-Induced Defects in Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide Superconductors

Jennilyn Marie Seton Nelson

Biology

Zinc as an Antibacterial Agent

Ha V. Nguyen

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Regulation of Sexually Differentiated Vocal Behavior via Androgen Receptor Expression in the CNS of the South African Clawed Frog Xenopus laevis

Anna Elizabeth Nuxoll

Physics

Millimeter Interferometric Observations of Molecular Emission from Galaxy Merger NGC 3256

Mustafa Stephan Okar

Physics

Simulation of a Gas-Cooled Fast Breeder Reactor

Jossef Fleck Osborn

Biology

Whole-transcriptome analysis of the PerC regulon identifies novel niche-adaptive mechanisms in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

Rachael Genevieve Otto

Chemistry

Binding Characteristics of FOX1 with Insulin Receptor RNA

Ross Charles Petersen

Physics

The Optical Properties of Reflection Nebulae

Jeffrey Thomas Poon

Chemistry

Combined Program, Columbia University

Richard Harvey Posert

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Structural Characteristics of the PinX1 Telomerase Inhibitory Domain

Carl John Proepper

Mathematics-Physics

Generalized Statistical Techniques for Differentiating Dark Matter Models at the Large Hadron Collider

James Emiliano Reed

Biology

Is there Interaction Between xPinx1 and xTERT in the Xenopus laevis shelterin complex?

Robert Joseph Rennie

Mathematics

Toward a Minimal Finite for the Real Projective Plane

Sarah Jennifer Resnick

Biology

Relative Expression of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Acetyltransferase Genes ATF1 and ATF2 Predict the Profile of Select Acetate Esters in Fermented Products

Jacob Merritt Robertson

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Effects of Invasive English Ivy (Hedera helix) on Soil Microflora

Theodore Joseph Sangenitto

Physics

Fluorescence Intermittency in CdSe and CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dots

Christine Rose Schmidt

Biology

Neuropeptide Activity in Sex-Role Conventional and Sex-Role Reversed Julidochromis

Julia Lucile Selker

Physics

A Computational Model to Investigate the Evolution of Electrospray Plumes

Ferruh Ali Senan

Physics

Evolution of Dark Matter Haloes

Nikolai Brown Smirnow

Physics

Detecting Axion Towers at the Large Hadron Collider

Michael Joon Song

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Rethinking Transposon Dynamics of the Germline and Soma: from transposition to silencing

Audrey Ellen Spaeth

Biology

The evolution of predation-induced plastic responses in Bombina orientalis tadpoles

Zachary August Stout

Mathematics

Lobachevsky, Poincaré, and Hyperbolic Geometry

Jason Tyler Swinderman

Biology

Investigating Large Conductance Calcium-activated Potassium Channel Contribution to Neural Rhythemogenesis in the Xenopus laevis Vocal Central Pattern Generator

Jonathan Harrison Tamsut

Chemistry

A Novel Approach to the Source Region Impact Factor Using Outputs from the Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory Model

Aashis Thapa

Biology

The effects of the anti-malarial drug Mefloquine on NMDA receptors in the vocal central pattern generator of Xenopus Laevis

Vania Wang

Chemistry

The Electrochemical Properties of Vitamin B12, a Reductive Dehalogenation Catalyst

Jules Bailey Weinstein

Biology

Altering Ler Linker Hydrophobicity Diminishes Regulatory Activity

Neal Dawson Woo

Physics

A Large-Volume Scintillation Detector for the Study of Cosmic-Ray Muons

Christopher David Yan

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Bi(III) Interaction with Helicobacter pylori Neutrophil Activating Protein: A foundation.

Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, & Linguistics

Erin Melissa Ho Appleby

Linguistics

“We learn differently”: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Activists’ Discursive Construction of the LD Identity

Josephine Elizabeth Aris

Psychology

Visual Awareness at the Perceptual Threshold

Anthony Phillip Arterburn

Philosophy

On Pascal’s Pensées, the Wager, and How One Ought to Live

Stella Breeze Baker

Philosophy

Giving Reasons for Irrationality: A Knowledge-Based Account of Belief-Behavior Dissonance

Phoebe Elisabeth Bauer

Psychology

The Figure is in the Brain of the Beholder: Neural Correlates of Individual Perceptions in the Bistable Face-Vase Image

Peter Beaudoin Beach

Psychology

Assigned Achievement Goals and Self-Handicapping

Dylan Brooks Bowlus

Philosophy

Emergent Panpsychism: Mind, Matter, and Continuum

Timothy Hall Brandow

Religion

The Fool’s Hermeneutic: Toward a Trialogic Model of Understanding Authority within the Confines of the Tarot Divination Event

Emma Taylor Brockway

Psychology

Investigating Possible Anxiety Effects of Anandamide into the Edinger-Westphal Nucleus

Amanda Elizabeth Carnegie

Psychology

A First Empirical Look into the Nature of the Trigger Warning: Anxiety and Behavioral Functions as Tested by an Approach-Avoidance Task

Kendra Dee Chalkley

Linguistics

Applied Asymmetries: Syntax of applicative constructions in Tukang Besi

Gabriella Sophia Chronis

Linguistics

Structural aspects of figurative and literal word senses within a vector space model of semantics

Eliya Cohen

Philosophy

Some Considerations on Problems of Time and Tense

Mirell Jacob Cohen

Philosophy

There but for the Grace of God goes I: Luck and Judgment

Elizabeth Louise Crisman

Psychology

Don’t read the comments: Online comment sections as prejudicial pretrial publicity

Frida Cruz

Linguistics

Sound Symbolism in SJQ Chatino

Orian Jefferson Evans

Psychology

Sex and age differences in alcohol drinking behavior in socialized vs isolated C57BL/6J mice

Maren Fichter

Linguistics

Social and Linguistic Taboos in Terms for Women and their Genitalia

Maya Nicole Frodeman

Philosophy

Beautiful Knowledge

Allesandra Jade Geffen

Linguistics

Haitian Creole Genesis: Language Contact and Language Creation

Christopher C. Gray

Psychology

Assessing the role of ghrelin in the mesotelencephalic reward circuit using a conditioned place preference paradigm

Gianmarco Greci

Philosophy

Combined Program, Columbia University

David Christian Grovic-Rauenzahn

Religion

The Light of Gnosis, The Prism of Reason, and the Spectrum of Truth: A Dialectical Critique of Jeffrey Kripal’s (Post)modern Gnosticism And Pure Rationalism in Religious Studies

Samuel Lionni Guss

Philosophy

Transcendental Arguments Against Various Skeptical Threats: or How to Philosophize With a Shovel

Wyatt Rocco Heidenfelder

Religion

From Religion to “Transreligion”

Caitlyn Hudson Hoeflin

Psychology

“It’s Not Me, It’s My Brain”: How Neuroscience Evidence Affects Perceptions of Free Will

Meredith Johanna Horel

Psychology

The Roots of Prosocial Behaviors in Preschool Children: Theory of Mind and Empathy

Corinna Constance Jackson

Psychology

Binge-like methamphetamine consumption in a selected mouse line

Molly Louise Jackson-Nielsen

Psychology

Awareness doesn’t come for free: The attentional costs of gist perception

Xin Hooi Khoo

Psychology

Perceptual Awareness in Human Ventral Stream Visual Cortex: Neural Correlates of Consciousness or

Reporting?

Marisol Carmela Lauffer

Psychology

Developing an Animal Model of the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART)

Molly Kathleen LeCompte

Philosophy

The Stages of Me, Myself, and ’I’: Personal Identity Crises, Resolved

Elizabeth V. Lisitsa

Psychology

Blame It On The Alcohol: Effects of Perpetrator Alcohol Use on Implicit and Explicit Attributions of Blame for Sexual Assault

Christopher Lu

Religion

A Study of Transmedia Types in Academic Forms

Sienna Monagan Lyon

Religion

Mallikā’s Hermeneutics: A Feminist Revalorization of the Jātaka Stories

Heather Shauna MacFarlane

Linguistics

Professionalization as a Method of Native Language Revitalization in Alaska

Teresa Machiko Maita-Keppeler

Psychology

A Person-Centered Examination of Academic Motivation, Emotions, and Marijuana Use Among Undergraduates

Genevieve Medow-Jenkins

Linguistics

Trinidadian English Creole: Uncovering Ethnolinguistic Variation through an Intonational Model

Yevgeniy Vasilyevich Melguy

Linguistics

Hearing Across Languages: Bilinguals’ Perception of (Not-So-)Non-Native Stop Contrasts

John Henry Mills

Philosophy

Revealed Peer Disagreement and The Equal Weight View

Cloe Beth Moctezuma-Bender

Psychology

Central Amygdala Endocannabinoid Neurotransmission Alters Emotional Memory Processes in Female Rats

Ileana Morales

Psychology

Differential Involvement of Dopamine and Opioid Signaling in Food Preference and Effort-Related Decision-Making in Rats

Benjamin Cuyler Morris

Psychology

Preschool Children’s Learning and Motivation in Game-Based Learning Contexts

Orestis Papaioannou

Psychology

Investigating the validity of the additive model as a control in audiovisual integration studies

Brice Thomas Ponteri

Psychology

Studying Social Motivation Using the Valproic Acid Animal Model of Autism in Rats

Michael Joseph Connell Reichert

Philosophy

Epistemic Partiality

Nicole Ying Wah Scherm

Psychology

Neural Correlates of Speech Perception

Helen Louisa Cook Seay

Linguistics

Connections Between Second Language German Competency and National Identity in a Study Abroad Context

Joaquin Andres Selva

Psychology

Ventral Tegmental and Systemic Ghrelin Stimulate Ethanol Intake

Lina Marie Shadrach

Psychology

The Psychological Study of Morality and Gender: A Feminist-Postmodernist Perspective of Moral Psychology

Peter Thorn Smith

Religion

Muslim Interfaith Marriages in America

Zachary August Stout

Philosophy

Aristotle’s Prime Mover: How to Import the Good into the World

Bianca Angilletta Valcarce

Psychology

Inoculating Jurors Against Expert Hindsight Bias in Medical Malpractice Litigation

Molly Rebecca Waggett

Linguistics

The Use of Presupposition Triggers in Improv Comedy

Interdisciplinary

Emily Craig Agan

Biology-Psychology

The Effects of Mouthbrooding on Brood Size, Growth, and Mobile Behaviors in Astatotilapia burtoni

Leah Michelle Artenian

Literature-Theatre

Listen Well: an examination of the relationship between literary and theatrical narratives through a devised theatrical adaptation of Kevin Brockmeier’s “The Year of Silence”

Su Yun Bang

Classics-Religion

Radical Love: Paul’s Epistle to Philemon

Katrina Elizabeth Bastian

Literature-Dance

Unsettled and On the Margin: The Grotesque in the poetry of Kim Hyesoon and Carl Phillips, and the choreography of Ohad Naharin

Isobel Kea Eliot Bradbury

Literature-Theatre

Indescribable Magic: A Comparison of Theatrical and Filmic Treatments of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Claire Diane Brumbaugh-Smith

Environmental Studies-Biology

Sublethal Effects of a Common Herbicide, Atrazine, on Amphibian (Bombina orientalis) Growth and Development Under Environmentally Relevant Conditions

Meghan Leigh Comer

Literature-Theatre

Half-Lights and Profound Shadows: Towards A Theatre of Relationships

Sophia Germaine Dunn-Walker

Literature-Theatre

To Passion Sorrow Clings: Adaptations of Kieu, The Vietnamese National Poem

Amah Orphelia Carenne Ellogne

Mathematics-Economics

The effect of rainfall shocks on intimate partner violence against women

Adriana Taline Escobedo-Land

Environmental Studies-Biology

Biofertilizer Potential of Oregon Cyanbacterial Strains

Christian Joseph Graulty

Biology-Psychology

Neuronal Dynamics of Grapheme-Color Synesthesia

Kieran Deckard Hanrahan

History-Literature

Writing in Water, Building with Sand: American Military Strategy and the Soldier’s Experience in the Iraqi Environment during the Iraq War

Marisa Jane Hazell

Environmental Studies-Political Science

Superfund and Environmental Justice for Native American Nations: A Policy Implementation Analysis

G Grant Luhman

Environmental Studies-Chemistry

Problematizing Trees: Ecosystem Analysis of Urban Trees’ Impact on Air Quality

Riley Ward McMath

Environmental Studies-History

Buried Evil: Uranium’s Place in South Africa’s History

Rennie Savannah Meyers

Environmental Studies-History

Justifying the Field: The Evolution of Marine Science in Monterey Bay, 1880–1970

Elizabeth Ann Pekarskaya

Biology-Psychology

Cyclical Feelings: Effects of Continuous Hormonal Contraception on Stress Behavior and Circulating Hormones in a Mouse Model

Helena Danielle Pennington

Literature-Theatre

Public Bodies, Private Lives: The Development and Contributions of the Early Modern Commedia dell’Arte Actress

Patricia Alexandra Peters

History-Literature

“The State Built by Stalin Still Lives”: The Intersections of Soviet Industrialization and Russian Nationalism in Policy and Literature

Katharina Laura Schwaiger

American Studies

Of Homes and Homelessness: De_domestications in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Rose Ausländer

Benjamin Adam Steele

American Studies

The Rise of Walkability: Assessing the Socioeconomic Impact of the New Urbanist Paradigm

Tamara Rebekah Torrez-Koll

History-Literature
Barbaric Liberty: Tropical Forests in Argentina during National Consolidation and Modernization (1845–1926)

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

Maria de la luz Petra Fortes-Schramm

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

Labor Unions, Community Organizing, and a Liquor License: William H. McClendon’s Early Years of Activism in Portland, Oregon, 1938-1955

Gwendolyn Rector Herrin

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

From Banned to Celebrated, yet Regulated and Segregated: The Struggles of the Female Footballer

Robert Nathan Stonehill

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

A Close Reading of Varlam Shalov’s “On Tick” from Kolyma Tales

William Douglass Susich

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

Minsky, Behavioral Economics, and the Long Trend Toward the Great Recession

Matthew James Zussman

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Planet of the Apes and the Destruction of the Earth: Visions of Post-Apocalypse, Eden, Wasteland, and Wilderness