Beginning in 2009 (for degrees awarded in August, 2009) all theses and dissertations completed at Washington University were required to be submitted in electronic form. Print submissions are no longer accepted. Dissertations are submitted directly in electronic form to UMI / Proquest Dissertation Services. Master’s theses are locally submitted in electronic form directly into the Washington University Open Scholarship Repository. Please contact your academic department document for information on the preparation and formatting requirements of the thesis itself.
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
A Social Network Analysis of Active Transportation Policy Networks, Marissa Zwald
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Disabling Modernity: Disability and Sexuality in British Literature, Film and Culture, 1880-1939, Courtney J. Andree
Bodies in Transgression: Exploring Same-Sex Relations in Contemporary Francophone Caribbean Literature, Andia Augustin-Billy
Assessment of Real-World Upper Limb Activity in Adults with Chronic Stroke, Ryan Bailey
Truth, Knowledge, and the Value of False Belief in Plato, Nicholas Ryan Baima
Peripheral and Central Mechanisms of Temporal Pattern Recognition, Christa Ann Baker
Optimization of Blalock-Taussig Shunt and Anastomotic Geometry for Vascular Access Fistula Using a Genetic Algorithm, Guangyu Bao
The Heart of Whiteness: Interracial Marriage and White Masculinity in American Fiction, 1830-1905, Lauren M. W. Barbeau
Murals, Montage, Modernism: Public Art in the United States Between the Wars, Clara Barnhart
The Role of RNA Helicase DHX9 in Breast Cancer, Kathleen Christie Baysac
Alternative Histories: Imagining Ancient Britain on the London Stage, 1560-1642, Meredith Anne Beales
Online Modeling and Tuning of Parallel Stream Processing Systems, Jonathan Curtis Beard
Rural Primary Health Care Providers' Response to Intimate Partner Violence and Survivors' Perceptions of Helpfulness, Annah Bender
K-Ras, but Not H-Ras or N-Ras, Hyperactivation Regulates Brain Neural Stem Cell Proliferation in a Raf/Rb-dependent Manner, R. Hugh F. Bender
Essays in Modeling the Consumer Choice Process, Taylor Bentley
Understanding the Fitness Effects of Cis-Regulatory Evolution: Experimental and Theoretical Approaches, Andrew C. Bergen
Thermophysical Properties and Structural Evolution of Supercooled Metallic Liquids, Matthew Blodgett
Identification of FGF14 as an Essential Regulatory Subunit of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels, Marie Alana Kozel Bosch
Graphs with Eigenvalues of High Multiplicity, Casey Boyett
Ion Selectivity and Allostery in the NaK Channel, Joshua B. Brettmann
The MLL Family of Histone Methyltransferases Plays Important Roles in Retinal Development, Diana Schorry Brightman
Using the Encoding Specificity Principle to Assess the Nature of the Secondary Memory Component of Working Memory, Dung Chi Bui
Human Ipsilateral Motor Physiology and Neuroprosthetic Applications in Chronic Stroke, David Thomas Bundy
Genetic Factors that Contribute to the Pathogenesis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Janet Elizabeth Cady
The Comic Grotesque: Troubling the Body Politic in American Graphic Satire from World War I to the Great Depression, Bryna Rae Campbell
Regulation of Host and Viral RNA Expression during Gammaherpesvirus Infection, Susan Priscilla Canny
Essays on the Econometrics of Financial Data, Yunfei Cao
Lysosomal RNASET2 is Required for Metabolic Stress-Mediated ROS Generation and Cell Death, George Caputa
Endocannabinoid System Genes Interact with Lifetime Trauma Exposure to Predict Marijuana Dependence: A Systems-Level Gene-Based Analysis, Caitlin E. Carey
Applying Bayesian Machine Learning Methods to Theoretical Surface Science, Shane Carr
"Am I Winning?", Diana J. Casanova
Striatal Activity is Associated with Deficits of Cognitive Control and Aberrant Salience for Patients with Schizophrenia, Alan E. Ceaser
Rapid Detection and Use of Non-verbal Confidence Cues During Adaptive Memory Biasing, Jihyun Cha
Collective Action Dynamics in Urban Neighborhoods: A Study of Urban Community Gardens, Nishesh Chalise
Nonparametric Bayesian Quantile Regression via Dirichlet Process Mixture Models, Chao Chang
Using Fluorescence – Polarization Endoscopy in Detection of Precancerous and Cancerous Lesions in Colon and Pancreatic Cancer, Tauseef Charanya
Characterizing the Role of Sialylated Milk Glycans and the Infant Gut Microbiota in Growth and Metabolism, Mark Richard Charbonneau
Are There Multiple Kinds of Episodic Memory? An fMRI Investigation Comparing Autobiographical and Recognition Memory Tasks, Hung-Yu Chen
Regularity of the Bergman Projection on Variants of the Hartogs Triangle, Liwei Chen
Contributing Factors to Forefoot Deformity in the Diabetic, Neuropathic Foot, Victor Cheuy
From Tibetan Refugees to Transmigrants: Negotiating Cultural Continuity and Economic Mobility Through Migration, Namgyal Choedup
The Birds of Paradise Have Congregated, Lucy B. Clark
Fabricated Images and Bodily Failures, Andrea Coates
Essays on Microeconomic Theory, Ceyhun Coban
“We Average Unbeautiful Watchers”: Reflexive Fans and the Readerly Stakes of American Sports Narratives, Noah Cohan
The Influence of Word Frequency and Aging on Lexical Access, Emily Rebecca Cohen-Shikora
Threat Come Close, Aaron R. Coleman
Functional Consequences of Cantu Syndrome Associated Mutations in the ATP Sensitive Potassium Channel, Paige Cooper