This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2025
When My Intersecting Identities of Being Racially Oppressed and Privileged Become Blurred: An Autoethnographic Dive Into Unlocking the Polarities of Who I Am, Susan Acosta (Dissertation)
Layout-Aware Quantum Circuitry and Algorithmic Extensions to Grover's Algorithm, Ali Al-Bayaty (Dissertation)
"I'm strictly t4t": Trans for Trans Connections in the Contemporary, Madi Lou Alexander (Thesis)
Detecting and Analyzing Frequency Events in Power Systems Using Tunable Parameters-Based Algorithms: Development, Optimization, and Analysis, Hussain A. Alghamdi (Dissertation)
A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of the Workplace Challenges Experienced by Women, Ahmed Mohammed Almousa (Dissertation)
Latino Threat Perceptions and Immigration Attitudes: An Examination Across Generations of Latinos, Michelle Angel (Thesis)
Shock Effects Including Maskelynite Formation in Three Shergottite Meteorites From Mars, George Ayeh Anim (Thesis)
Japanese and English Code-Mixing: A Study on the Grammar and Functions by L1 Japanese-Speakers in Oregon, Takefumi Ariga (Thesis)
Magma Evolution and Eruptive History of Three Fingered Jack: A Mafic Composite Volcano in the Central High Cascades of Oregon, Javaria Aziz (Thesis)
Monitoring and Modeling Legacy Tree Response to Restoration Treatments in the Klamath Mountains, Oregon, USA, Isaac Joseph Ball (Thesis)
"We're Not Gonna Take It": The Parents' Music Resource Center and Reformist Tendencies in American Society, Nathaniel Todd Belcik (Thesis)
Tree-equity and Environmental Justice Discourses Among Urban Forestry Professionals in Portland: Current Impacts and Future Implications, Axcelle Deone Bell (Thesis)
Identifying the Drivers Behind the Decline of Douglas-fir and True Fir Species in SW Oregon, Alexander Bryant Bentley (Thesis)
The Silk Butterfly Effect: Japan and the United States 1853-1941, Melodee Birlew (Thesis)
The Call of Cucurrucucú, Rachel Olivia Blair (Thesis)
Occurrence of Pesticides in Oregon Coastal Waters and Effects on the Intertidal Sea Anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima, Gabriella Mae Bleil (Thesis)
Dog Days, William Conrad Boechler (Closed Thesis)
Optimizing Boys' Motivation Over the Transition to Middle School: A Pattern-Centered Approach to Identifying Boys' Profiles of Engagement and the Interpersonal Resources Important in Supporting Optimal Engagement of Boys Across Sixth Grade, Brandy Anne Brennan (Dissertation)
Mental Health in Prisons: Examining Variations in Disorders Across Custody Levels, Ariel Bysiek (Thesis)
Their Will is Wealth: American Billionaires, Illiberal Capital, and their Immunity to Federal Law, Conor Kawika Carroll (Thesis)
Tweeting the Past, Present, and Future of Social Welfare: Public Political Speech, Cultural Resonance, and Debates about Defunding the Police, Kevin Noel Cherry (Dissertation)
A Mixed-Methods Study on Extended Parental Separation Among Mexican and Central American Immigrants: Insights From Legal Violence and the Stress Process, Natalie J. Cholula (Dissertation)
Beyond Translating Cultures: Organizational Cultural Brokering and Latin@/e/x Community Resilience after the "Mobile Home Parks" Fire, Christine Atalie da Rosa (Dissertation)
Capturing Processes of Influence in Students' Social Interactions: Examining a Two-Part Strategy to Detect Patterns of Reinforcement in Continuous Real-time Observations in the Classroom, James Lamar DeLaney III (Dissertation)
#Clandestini: How Italy's Center-Right Parliamentary Coalition Frames the Migrant Crisis on Social Media, Jenna Lynn DePasquale (Dissertation)
Support Beyond Services: Examining the Role of Neighbor Relationships, Housing Staff, and Place in Mental Health Recovery, Kenna Estell Dickard (Dissertation)
Becoming a Learner: An Autoethnography, Joshua Dickinson (Thesis)
Sex and the Genetic Architecture of Mitonuclear Evolution, Zachary Paul Dietz (Dissertation)
Model Explanations for Gender and Ethnicity Bias Mitigation in AI-Generated Narratives, Martha Otisi Dimgba (Thesis)
An Exploration of Holistic Admissions Protocol in Graduate School: Implications for Access and Equity, Kelly Doherty (Dissertation)
Forest Fires Increase Mid-Winter Snowmelt in the Western Oregon Cascades, Sage Ebel (Thesis)
Commensality in the Eateries of Roman Pompeii, Amaya Yolanda Eckersley (Thesis)
Direct Numerical Simulation of Unstably Stratified Turbulent Flow Over Riblets, Max Eltzroth (Thesis)
Pressure and Force Dynamics in Artificial Muscle Actuators: A State-Space and Optimization-Based Approach, Mohammad Elzein (Thesis)
The Effects of Family Cohesion on the Relationship Between Trauma and State-Level Social Policy Provision in the United States, Brandon Kendall Ross Fielding (Dissertation)
The People's Rivers: Early Environmental Regulation and the Oregon State Sanitary Authority, Avery Morgan Fischer (Thesis)
Spread, Natalie Ann Flaherty (Closed Thesis)
The Legend of the Renata, Part One, Derrick Edward Galloway (Closed Thesis)
Ecological Drivers and Temporal Dynamics of Daphnia in a Diverse Environmental and Spatial Landscape, Crysta A. Gantz (Dissertation)
Alignment of Perceptual Similarity Metrics with Human Perception, Abhijay Ghildyal (Dissertation)
Influence of Inselbergs on Bat Diversity in Afrotropical Ecosystems, Amanda Lee Grunwald (Dissertation)
The Role of Homocysteine Redox Chemistry in Biomolecular Mechanisms, Megha Gupta (Dissertation)
Urban Beavers at the Crossroads: How Ecological Knowledge, Sociodemographic, and Spatial Context Shape Public Perception and Coexistence Preferences, Matthew Guziejka (Thesis)
Financial Metrics as Predictors of Financial Vulnerability and Nonprofit Failure, Yossi Haimberg (Dissertation)
Structural Earthquake Resiliency of Rocking Core Systems with Floor Enabled Recentering, S. Taban Hajimirza (Dissertation)
Development Scenarios and Wildfire Risk in Central Oregon, Samantha Hall (Thesis)
Development of a Low-Cost Electron Microscope for Educational Purposes, Christopher Halseth (Dissertation)
Race, Reflection and Resistance: An Autoethnographic Journey in Social Studies Curriculum Development, Jesse Nicholas Hendryx-Dobson (Dissertation)
Sustainability of Recycling Perovskite Solar Cells: Economic and Environmental Perspectives, Juan P. Herrera Meza (Thesis)
Impact of Black Shale Weathering on Stream Water and Sediment Quality in Eastern Kentucky, Brett Hopt (Thesis)
Fostering Meaningful Learning: Experiences of Linguistically Diverse Trainers in Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Professional Development, Anna Howell (Dissertation)
Breaking the Rules: Post-Translational Modifications and Proteome Dynamics During Anoxia, Chelsea Jordan Hughes (Dissertation)
Evaluation of Fano Resonance in Silver Nanotriangles and Complementary Triangular Apertures for Enhanced Refractive Index Sensing, Nabila Islam (Dissertation)
Critical Mineral Mining and Native American Rights, Spencer Beeman Janes (Thesis)
Photocathodes from Aerobic Oxidation of Tellurorhodamines, Amelia Jellison (Thesis)
Experiences of Support and Success for Students of Color in the Midwifery Educational Setting, Laura Jenson (Dissertation)
Integrative Approaches to Climate Resilience Planning: Application of a Plan Evaluation Framework, Maulsri Jha (Dissertation)
Investigation into Thermodynamic and Kinetic Phenomena in Arylation Reactions with Diaryliodonium Salts, Soocheta Jha (Dissertation)
A Critical Appraisal of Poverty in the Context of Nature-Based Communities: Selected Cases from the Philippines, Carla Edith Gonzales Jimena (Thesis)
Synoptic-scale Meteorological Patterns Associated with Extreme Precipitation Over the Contiguous United States and Concomitant Seasonal and Regional Variability, Amy Johnson (Thesis)
"Significant Bodily Intrusions": Investigations into Law Enforcement Phlebotomy, Anne Kathleen Johnson (Dissertation)
ritr, Kathryn Elizabeth Johnson (Closed Thesis)
A Groundwater Flow System Investigation in the Upper Rowena Creek Drainage, Oregon, CateLee YaMei Kambur (Thesis)
Seismic Fragility Analysis of Above-ground Liquid Storage Tanks, Pooyan Khajeh Shahzanian (Thesis)
Trauma-Born Generations and Intergenerational Conflict: A Study of Tensions in the Contemporary South Korean, Daihyun Kim (Thesis)
Agglomeration Economies in Social Economy Clusters: The Role of Networks, Mina Kim (Dissertation)
Adolescent Preventive Care Outcomes Before and After COVID-19 Onset: What is the Role of Telehealth?, Sarah Hayden Knipper (Dissertation)
Rising from the Ashes: Reading Impacts and the Effects of Recovery Educational Services Following a Major Natural Disaster, Tiffanie Lousia Lambert (Dissertation)
A Volume of Things, Rachael Lane Stedman (Closed Thesis)
The Rainbow War: Ballot Measure 9 and the Fight Over Gay Rights in Oregon, Patrick Douglas LaSalle (Thesis)
"I know who I am": Draw-and-Tell Conversations with Gender-Creative Children, Eline Leemans Lenne (Dissertation)
Neural Visual Synthesis for Graphics, 4D Gaussians and Videos, Zhan Li (Dissertation)
Discourse Analysis of Partner-focus in Intimate Partner Violence, Maureen Theresa Lowell (Thesis)
Quantum Pseudorandom Primitives Beyond Pseudorandom States, Chuhan Lu (Dissertation)
Characterizing Rainfall Variability Within a Series of Storms Over Northern California in February 2017, Parker Jan Malek (Thesis)
Prayer and Gunpowder, Muhammad Saqif Maqsud (Thesis)
I, as in We, CJ Maruyama (Thesis)
Accessibility to Public Spaces: Intersections Between the Courts and the Houseless Community, Margaret Maxey (Thesis)
dwelling, Kelly Erin McLysaght (Thesis)
Youth Experiences of Participation, Inclusion, and Influence Within a Youth-Serving Organization Implementing Participatory Processes, Rhen M. Miles (Dissertation)
The Geologic History of the Chehalis Forearc Basin, Washington State, USA, Rud Lamb Moe (Thesis)
Examining County-Level Implicit Stereotypes and Prejudice as Predictors of Racial and Gender Disparities in Incarceration Across the United States, Emma Elizabeth Lee Money (Dissertation)
From Model to Behavior: Methodological Challenges in Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps to Represent Mental Models, Catherine Elizabeth Moore (Dissertation)
Developing Workflows for Passive Acoustic Detection of Bedload Transport, Quinn Morgan (Thesis)
The Failure of the Annan Plan and Suggestions for Peace in Cyprus, Haley Grace Morrow (Thesis)
The Social and Political Identities of Latine Republicans in the U.S., Gabriella M. Mota (Thesis)
Turbulent Structures in Coupled Wind-Wave Flows, Cerrina Mouchref (Thesis)
Mechanistic Rationale for Toxic Aerosol Formation from Vaping and Dabbing with a Focus on Ketene Formation from Semi-Synthetic Cannabinoids, Kaelas Ryan Munger (Dissertation)
Price-Signal-Based Control Strategy for Heat Pump Water Heaters in Demand Response Applications, Othman A. Murad (Thesis)
Building Belonging Infrastructure in Cities: Arts/Culture-based Critical Participatory Action Research and Youth, Kimberly Rae Nightingale (Dissertation)
Dynamics of Urban Heat and Green Infrastructure, YunJae Ock (Dissertation)
Navigating Sovereignty and Human Rights: A Legal Analysis of Palestinian Detention Under Israeli Jurisdiction in Comparison to International Law, Amani Nidal Odeh (Thesis)
Design and Evaluation of an Electromagnetic Band Gap Structure for Self-Interference Reduction in mmWave Full-Duplex Systems, Adewale Kehinde Oladeinde (Dissertation)
Institutions, Indigenous Peoples, and the Structure of Power in Columbia River Basin Salmon Governance, Christopher Michael Page (Dissertation)
Influencing Factors of Angle-of-arrival Estimator Based on Deep Learning, Guohao Pang (Thesis)
Beyond Skins: The Far-flung Impacts of Sea Otter Fur Capitalism, Callie Pappas (Thesis)
Geotechnical Centrifuge Test of a Pile-Supported Wharf in Silt (Test AEP01), Andrew Earl Parrott (Thesis)
The Effects of School Safety Strategies on K-12 Schools: Armed Civilians, School Resource Officers, and Metal Detectors as Contributors to the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Rebeca Petean (Dissertation)
Geography of Non-Daytime Work and Employer-Centered Transit Accessibility, Julia Mai Plotts (Thesis)
Culturable Microbial Communities in Root Nodules of Red Alder (Alnus rubra Bong.) and Scotch Broom (Cytisus scoparius L.): Patterns of Diversity and Composition, Felisha (Fay) Rene Pooler (Thesis)