This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
To browse dissertations and theses by academic department or program, please go to the Schools, Colleges, and Departments page. Graduate dissertations and theses may also be found using the Library's catalog.
To browse Undergraduate Honors Theses click here.
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Meat Shack and Other Creative Works, Susannah Katherine Jayroe (Closed Thesis)
A New Meridian, Catherine Ann Johnson (Closed Thesis)
Building Energy Model Calibration for Retrofit Decision Making, Nicolas R. Johnson (Thesis)
Lexical Bundles in Applied Linguistics and Literature Writing: a Comparison of Intermediate English Learners and Professionals, Kathryn Marie Johnston (Thesis)
GIS Spatial Analysis of Arctic Settlement Patterns: A Case Study in Northwest Alaska, Justin Andrew Junge (Thesis)
Expanding Metabolic Diversity of Two Archaeal Phyla: Nanoarchaeota and Korarchaeota, John Forad Kelley (Thesis)
Charles A. Moose: Race, Community Policing, and Portland's First African American Police Chief, Douglas Jon Kenck-Crispin (Thesis)
Human Subjects, Stephanie Wong Ken (Closed Thesis)
Ecosystem Recovery in Estuarine Wetlands of the Columbia River Estuary, Sarah Ann Kidd (Dissertation)
Out in "The Numbers": Youth and Gang Violence Initiatives and Uneven Development in Portland's Periphery, Dirk Kinsey (Thesis)
Novel Compound, 84F2, Inhibits Calmodulin Deficient RyR2, Robert Carl Klipp (Dissertation)
An Efficient Pipeline for Assaying Whole-Genome Plastid Variation for Population Genetics and Phylogeography, Brendan F. Kohrn (Thesis)
Forget Nostalgia, Jon Jerome Krill (Closed Thesis)
Soputan Volcano, Indonesia: Petrological Systematics of Volatiles and Magmas and their Bearing on Explosive Eruptions of a Basalt Volcano, Syegi Lenarahmi Kunrat (Thesis)
Intraminority Support For and Participation In Race-Based Collective Action Movements: an Intersectional Perspective, Jaboa Shawntaé Lake (Thesis)
High-Quality Chemical Vapor Deposition Graphene-Based Spin Transport Channels, Lester Florian Lampert (Dissertation)
Regulating Pavement Dwellers: the Politics of the Visibly Poor in Public Space, Lauren Marie Larin (Dissertation)
Invertebrate Community Composition Across Inundation Regimes and Its Potential to Reduce Plant Stress, Inez Ilicia Lawson (Thesis)
What is the Nature of the Conflict Experienced by Japanese Workers in International Companies Based in Japan and What Type of Conflict Management Do They Access?, Tomoko Shinohara Le (Thesis)
Non-Native Mangroves (Rhizophora mangle) of Moloka'i, Hawai'i: a Socio-Ecological Analysis, Casey Lynette Lewis (Thesis)
( stay ) go ( put ) through, Andrew P. Longhofer (Closed Thesis)
New World Massive, Miguel Anthony Lopez (Closed Thesis)
Microwave Instrumentation and Sensing Techniques for Quantum Efficiency and Minority-Carrier Lifetime Measurements, Kyle Benjamin Lu (Thesis)
Structural Behavior of Lap Shear Connections with Thermally Insulating Filler Plates, Salih Qasim Mahmood (Thesis)
Making Software, Making Regions: Labor Market Dualization, Segmentation, and Feminization in Austin, Portland and Seattle, Dillon Mahmoudi (Dissertation)
Investigation of Ambient Reactive Nitrogen Emissions Sources and Deposition in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Jacinda L. Mainord (Dissertation)
Using Critical Physical Geography to Map the Unintended Consequences of Conservation Management Programs, Melanie Malone (Dissertation)
Food Access Narratives in Southeast Portland, Oregon, Gwyneth Genevieve McKee Manser (Thesis)
Knowing Nature in the City: Comparative Analysis of Knowledge Systems Challenges Along the 'Eco-Techno' Spectrum of Green Infrastructure in Portland & Baltimore, Annie Marissa Matsler (Dissertation)
The Use of Evidentials in Hearsay Contexts in Japanese and English, Tomomi Matsumura (Thesis)
The Sub-Country, Jason Maurer (Closed Thesis)
Anthropogenic Effects on the Fouling Community: Impacts of Biological Invasions and Anthropogenic Structures on Community Structure, Whitney Elizabeth McClees (Thesis)
Shouts of the Khori-Challwa: Andean Mythological and Cosmological Reconsiderations of the American Identity in Gamaliel Churata’s El pez de oro, Stephen Delaney McNabb (Thesis)
Can a Three-Day Training Focusing on the Nature of Science and Science Practices as They Relate to Mind in the Making Make a Difference in Preschool Teachers' Self-Efficacy Engaging in Science Education?, Colleen Meacham (Thesis)
Socioeconomic Determinants of Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity: the Mediating Role of Social, Psychological and Behavioral Factors, Amanuel Zimam Melekin (Dissertation)
The Downward Spiral: Postmodern Consciousness as Buddhist Metaphysics in the Dark Souls Video Game Series, Paolo Xavier Machado Menuez (Thesis)
Animals Coupling: Stories, Corey Robert Millard (Thesis)
Uncovering Coxiella burnetii's Pathogenicity by Elucidating its Metabolism and Host Interactions, Jess Annai Millar (Thesis)
The Function of Religion in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Stephanie Claire Mitchell (Thesis)
Multilingualism and Multiculturalism: Opinions from Spanish-Speaking English Learners from Mexico, Central America, and South America, Cailey Catherine Moe (Thesis)
Policing in an Era of Sousveillance: the Influence of Video Footage on Perceptions of Legitimacy, Megan Elizabeth Mohler (Thesis)
"First"-Matters: Projecting the Displacement of Responses to Questions in the Context of Presidential Primary-Campaign Debates, Kristella Marie Montiegel (Thesis)
Communicating at Terahertz Frequencies, Farnoosh Moshirfatemi (Dissertation)
Matryoshka, Darla Mottram (Closed Thesis)
Application of Numerical Modeling to Study River Dynamics: Hydro-Geomorphological Evolution Due to Extreme Events in the Sandy River, Oregon, Sarkawt Hamarahim Muhammad (Thesis)
Assessing the Impact of Land Use and Travel on Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Portland, Oregon, Zakari Mumuni (Thesis)
Trade-offs: the Production of Sustainability in Households, Kirstin Marie Elizabeth Munro (Dissertation)
A Collection of Poetry, Michael Edward Murray (Closed Thesis)
A Conservationist Takes Flight: the Early Career of William Lovell Finley, 1887-1911, Carey Elizabeth Myles (Thesis)
Development of Physics Curriculum for Pre-Health Students, Elliot Eckman Mylott (Dissertation)
Analyzing Dam Feasibility in the Willamette River Watershed, Alexander Cameron Nagel (Thesis)
Designing In-Headset Authoring Tools for Virtual Reality Video, Cuong Nguyen (Dissertation)
Physics Based Approach for Seafloor Classification, Phu Duy Nguyen (Thesis)
A Pilot Study on Methods to Introduce Teachers to New Science Standards, Noelle Frances Garcia Niedo (Thesis)
Patients and Nurses and Doctors Oh My!: Nurse Retention from a Multi-Foci Aggression Perspective, Kevin Oliver Novak (Thesis)
Holocaust, Memory, Second-Generation, and Conflict Resolution, Leslie O'Donoghue (Thesis)
An Analytical System for Determining Disciplinary Vocabulary for Data-Driven Learning: an Example from Civil Engineering, Philippa Jean Otto (Thesis)
Home Is Where the Gator Is: a collection of memoir and essays, Rachel Heather Palmer (Closed Thesis)
Design and Experimental Investigation of 500kV Current Transformer Seismic Retrofit Utilizing Structure Rocking and Supplemental Damping with Self-Centering, Ilya S. Palnikov (Thesis)
Living Between Worlds: Arrival and Adjustment Experiences of the Somali Community in Portland, Oregon, Neil A. Panchmatia (Thesis)
Lithography Hotspot Detection, Jea Woo Park (Dissertation)
Using the Task Analysis Process with Teachers to Uncover Language Demands within an Eight-Week NGSS Summer Course, Leah Plack (Thesis)
Building a Multivariable Linear Regression Model of On-road Traffic for Creation of High Resolution Emission Inventories, James Eckhardt Powell (Thesis)
Examination of Human Impacts on the Biodiversity and Ecology of Lichen and Moss Communities, Hannah Marie Prather (Dissertation)
Certifying Loop Pipelining Transformations in Behavioral Synthesis, Disha Puri (Dissertation)
Investigation into Effects of Instability and Reactivity of Hydride-Passivated Silicon Nanoparticles on Interband Photoluminescence, Christine Marie Radlinger (Dissertation)
Generalized Differential Calculus and Applications to Optimization, R. Blake Rector (Dissertation)
Sustaining the Human Spirit of the High School Principal Leading for Equity, Ryan David Richardson (Dissertation)
Investigating the Role of Small Noncoding RNAs in Vertebrate Anoxia Tolerance, Claire Louise Riggs (Dissertation)
Transcriptomic Regulation of Alternative Phenotypic Trajectories in Embryos of the Annual Killifish Austrofundulus limnaeus, Amie L. Romney (Dissertation)
Influence of the Presidential Inaugural Address on Audience Perceptions of Candidate Image and the State of the Nation, Kyle Alexander Rush (Thesis)
Intimate Partner Violence Impact Panels for Batterer Intervention: a Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Restorative Justice Process, Kate Louise Sackett (Thesis)
Vagrant of the El Camino: a Memoir, Jacob Kevin Sauvageau (Closed Thesis)
"Neither of the Boxes": Accounting for Non-Binary Gender Identities, Erin Patricia Savoia (Thesis)
Synthesis of Linear Reversible Circuits and EXOR-AND-based Circuits for Incompletely Specified Multi-Output Functions, Ben Schaeffer (Dissertation)
An IR and RF Based System for Functional Gait Analysis in a Multi-Resident Smart-Home, Erich Reinhardt Schafermeyer (Thesis)
Quadded GasP: a Fault Tolerant Asynchronous Design, Kristopher S. Scheiblauer (Thesis)
Music and Race in the American West, William Steven Schneider (Thesis)
Mineral Evidence for Generating Compositionally Zoned Rhyolites of the Devine Canyon Tuff, High Lava Plains, Oregon, Erik Paul Shafer (Thesis)
Assessing a Fluorescence Spectroscopy Method for In-Situ Microbial Drinking Water Quality, Taylor Jeffery Sharpe (Thesis)
Computational Algorithms for Improved Representation of the Model Error Covariance in Weak-Constraint 4D-Var, Jeremy A. Shaw (Dissertation)
Newspaper Construction of Homelessness in Western United States Cities, Charlie Allan Sheese (Thesis)
Exploring the Positive Utility of Travel and Mode Choice, Patrick Allen Singleton (Dissertation)
Controlling Water Exchange Kinetics and Improving ParaCEST Imaging, Jacqueline R. Slack (Thesis)
Contexts of Reception and Constructions of Islam: Second Generation Muslim Immigrants in Post-9/11 America, Shahriyar Smith (Thesis)
Loanwords in Context: Lexical Borrowing from English to Japanese and its Effects on Second-Language Vocabulary Acquisition, Andrew Michael Sowers (Thesis)
Investigating Cable: the Potential and Actual Value of PEG & Franchise Fees, Duncan Chaz Stewart (Thesis)
Investigating the Relationship Between Supervisor Status and the Modus Operandi of Juvenile Sexual Offenders: a Routine Activity Theory Perspective, Kelly E. Stewart (Thesis)
Rural Interprofessional Health Care Education: a Study of Student Perspectives, Curt Carlton Stilp (Dissertation)
The Discovery and Development of Metal-Free Arylation Reactions with Unsymmetrical Diaryliodonium Salts, Sunil Kumar Sundalam (Dissertation)
Foundational Knowledge and Other Predictors of Commitment to Trauma-Informed Care, Stephanie Anne Sundborg (Dissertation)
An AFM-SIMS Nano Tomography Acquisition System, Richard William Swinford (Dissertation)
Sampling Fish: a Case Study from the Čḯxwicən Site, Northwest Washington, Laura Maye Syvertson (Thesis)
Contextualization: an Experimental Model for EFL Writing Instruction in China, Guimin Tang (Dissertation)
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Additive Manufacturing Titanium Alloys After Thermal Processing, Ahmet Alptug Tanrikulu (Thesis)
The Influence of Sense of Community on the Relationship Between Community Participation and Recovery for Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses, Rachel Elizabeth Terry (Thesis)
Quantifying the Impacts of a Novel Predator: the Distinctive Case of the Oregon Spotted Frog (Rana pretiosa) and the Invasive American Bullfrog (Rana (Aquarana) catesbeiana), Kyle Scott Tidwell (Dissertation)
"Are We Building Biking Solidarity": Gendered, Racial, and Spatial Barriers to Bicycling in Portland, Oregon, Kyla Jean Tompkins (Thesis)
When You Aren't Who Your Friends Are: the Moderating Influence of Racial Similarity on the Association Between Friendships and Mental Well-Being, Philip Tostado (Thesis)