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 2022
Representations of the Cuban Revolution in the American Gaze: The Case of African-American Activists, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
Modeling Metastasis in Breast Cancer Patients Using EHR Data, the Area Deprivation Index (ADI), and Machine Learning Models, Vishesh Patel
Victimhood and Its Perversion: Masochistic Narratives and Cultural Identity in Cold War Central Europe, Katja Perat
The roles of time and measurement in within-person purpose variability, Gabrielle N. Pfund
Effectiveness of Community Development Organizations in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area, Kyle Pitzer
Modernism as Public Art: Reawakening the Social Agency of Abstract Public Sculpture, 1950–1980, Tola Porter
Not like Other Girls: Feminist Modernisms, Domestic Labor, and the Trouble with Conventional Women, Ana Elizabeth Quiring
Behavioral, Neural, and Psychiatric Correlates of Responses to Social Feedback, Brent Rappaport
Functionalized Plasmonic Nanostructures for Ultrasensitive Single Cell Analysis, Priya Rathi
Dealing with Dimensionality: Problems and Techniques in High-Dimensional Statistics, Cezareo Rodriguez
Canonical and Noncanonical Mechanisms of Resistance to Arginine Starvation in Cancer, Leonard Christopher Rogers
Active Testing of Executive Functions: Toward More Efficient and Equitable Individual Behavioral Modeling, Mariluz Rojo Domingo
Defining the role of rare genetic variants that drive risk and pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease, Matthew James Rosene
Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of Hemodialysis in Patients with an Arteriovenous Fistula, Maximilian Roth
Ligand- and Strain-Specific Control of Microbial Communities, Austin Grant Rottinghaus
El nacimiento de la novela colombiana: campo literario y políticas de la literatura nacional (1959-1987), Santiago Rozo Sanchez
Validation and Verification of the Wray-Agarwal Turbulence and Algebraic Transition Models for 2D External Airfoil Flows, Dean Ryan-Simmons
Enhancing PET Functionalities with Novel Geometries and Multimodal Imaging Techniques, Suranjana Samanta
Properties of Cyclic Functions, Jeet Sampat
Harnessing synthetic biology to create novel protein materials for applications on the nano and macro scales, Cameron Jay Sargent
Understanding the role of involucrin in skin inflammation, Alina Schmidt
Politics During and After Democratic Backsliding, Benjamin Rieth Schneider
Roles of Behavioral Novelty and Organismal Energetics in the Evolution of Extreme Encephalization, Erika Laurie Schumacher
Speeding up the quantification of Contrast Sensitivity functions using Multidimensional Bayesian Active Learning, Shohaib Shaffiey
Fate of metals in presence of minerals and mineral-organic assemblages, Neha Sharma
The Bidirectional Relationship between the Circadian Clock and Alzheimer’s disease, Patrick Sheehan
Molecular Characterization of Integrase-RNA Interactions and Their Role in the Replication of HIV-1 and Other Retroviruses, Christian Shema Mugisha
Laywoman of Right Faith: The Religious Writings of Wang Peihua (1767-1792), Meijie Shen
Quantum Curves and Asymptotic Hodge Theory, Soumya Sinha Babu
Low-Temperature Plasticity of Rock-Forming Minerals, Michael Keith Sly
Using Proteomics to Discover New Connections in the Arabidopsis Circadian Clock, Maria Lynn Sorkin
Sex Differences in Cancer Metabolism Contribute to Sex-Specific Treatment Responses, Jasmin Inge Sponagel
Cahokia's Hidden Landscape: Mound Building and Landscape Modification in the Ramey Field, John Grant Stauffer
The role of affect and exercise goals in physical activity engagement in younger and older adults, Marta Stojanovic
Genome-wide and Targeted Screening Methods Reveal Host Antiviral Mechanisms to Limit Norovirus Infection, Meagan E. Sullender
Droplet Dynamics and Heat Transfer During Condensation on Lubricant-Infused Surfaces, Jianxing Sun
Calcium Bearing Mineral-Hydrogel Composites for Phosphate Removal and Recovery, Albern Xuan-Wei Tan
Distributed X-ray Sources for X-ray Imaging and Small Animal FLASH Irradiator, Yuewen Tan
A Universal Mechanism of G Protein Inhibition, Tyson Daniel Todd
Candida Species and Bacterial Strains in the Vaginal Microbiome, Brett Tortelli
Dysregulation of Gene Expression in Non-photosensitive Trichothiodystrophy, Brittany Townley
Exploring the Solar System through Space and Time via Laboratory Investigations of Extraterrestrial Material, Kainen Lee Utt
International Modernism and Queer Feeling: Small Literature in Interwar Latvia, 1918–1940, Karlis Verdins
Non-Canonical Beta-Lactam Antibiotics, Brett Wesley Virgin-Downey
Mechanisms Regulating Photoreceptor Subtype Specification and Chromophore Utilization in Zebrafish, Leo Volkov
Weighted Estimates for the Bergman and Szegö Projections, Nathan Andrew Wagner
Characterizing the role of interferons in host-microbe interactions in disseminated murine norovirus infection and steady-state hematopoiesis, Forrest Walker
Mechanisms for High Light Tolerance in a Fast-Growing Cyanobacterium, Patricia Walker