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)
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)
#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)
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)
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)
Breaking the Rules: Post-Translational Modifications and Proteome Dynamics During Anoxia, Chelsea Jordan Hughes (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)
"Significant Bodily Intrusions": Investigations into Law Enforcement Phlebotomy, Anne Kathleen Johnson (Dissertation)
ritr, Kathryn Elizabeth Johnson (Closed 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)
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)
The Failure of the Annan Plan and Suggestions for Peace in Cyprus, Haley Grace Morrow (Thesis)
Turbulent Structures in Coupled Wind-Wave Flows, Cerrina Mouchref (Thesis)
Price-Signal-Based Control Strategy for Heat Pump Water Heaters in Demand Response Applications, Othman A. Murad (Thesis)
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)
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)
The Lake, Erica Anne Popple (Closed Thesis)
Evaluation of Social Worker Knowledge of Human Trafficking at the Oregon State Hospital: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Education, Training, and Victim Identification, Jamie Sue Pryde (Thesis)
"This Revolution Been Televised": Media as a Tool of Justice and an Apparatus of State Violence, Nahal Rastegarpour (Thesis)
Reproductive Rights at Work: The Role of Organizations in Menstrual Support, Emily Julia Ready (Dissertation)
Estimated Amounts of Terrestrial Carbon Mobilized and Sequestered by the 1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption, Washington State, USA, Lizzet G. Reyes (Thesis)
Weak Formulation for Solving Inverse Problems in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (With Applications to Learning Dynamical Systems), Victor William Rielly (Dissertation)
Enabling New Synthetic Platforms for Aryne Synthesis with Aryl Thianthrenium Reagents, Riley Augustus Roberts (Dissertation)
The Role of Cultural Mathematical Caring Relations in Supporting Two Latina Undergraduates’ Rate of Change Development within a Constructivist Teaching Experiment: An Anti-Deficit Investigation Bridging Sensemaking and Cultural Experiences, Christopher Orlando Roman (Dissertation)
What This Work Really Takes: Lessons, Tensions, and Student Perspectives in a Social Justice Math Classroom, Kathryn Elizabeth Roman (Dissertation)
Navigating the Neoliberal Assemblage: The Role of a Nonprofit Organization Shaping Disaster Governance and Community Resilience, Andrew Michael Russo (Dissertation)
Experiences of Minority Workers: A Three-Study Dissertation Evaluating Recruitment and Workplace Experiences for Minority Workers, Jennifer Saucedo (Dissertation)
A Resource-Based Perspective of STEM Career Development: A Latent Class Analysis, Erika Ann Schemmel (Dissertation)
The New Normal: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Experiences of Today's Academic Nursing Faculty, Lisa R. Scott (Dissertation)
"I'll Just Say It's Been a Racist Process": The Power Dynamics Within and Outside Diversity Requirement Classrooms at a Minority-Serving Institution, Kazusa Seko (Dissertation)
Special Delivery: Special District Use of Collaboration to Solve Challenges, Kelly Irene Fahl Sherbo (Dissertation)
The Art of Memory: The Medieval Peutinger Map, Amber Shrewsbury (Thesis)
Uncovering Moral Injury at Work: The Development and Initial Validation of the Moral Injury at Work Scale (MIWS), Megan J. Snoeyink (Dissertation)
Is Ride-Hailing a Potential Solution for Older Adults After Driving Cessation? The Role of Objective and Perceived Accessibility, Minju Kim Song (Dissertation)
A Fifty-Year Assessment of Historical Planning Processes and Green Space Distribution (1975-2025): A Case Study of Portland, OR, USA, Quadri Olatunbosun Taiwo (Thesis)
Pesticides as Multiple Stressors to Bivalves and Echinoderms, Alexandra Gabrielle Tissot (Dissertation)
When You Know: Essays, Kayla Jewel Vokolek (Closed Thesis)