Undergraduate Theses—Unrestricted is a collection of papers by Washington University undergraduates that students wish to make widely accessible on the World Wide Web.

Follow

Theses from 2015

PDF

Black Culture: A Societal Problem, Quamesha Brown
Art (Sculpture), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Ghosts in the Garden: Cultural Critique through the Lens of the Absurd, Andrew T. Catanese
Art (Painting), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Investigating the Role of Wolbachia Endosymbionts in the Expansion of the F Element in Drosophila ananassae, Elizabeth J. Chen
Biology, Bachelor of Arts

PDF

Process as Practice : Expressions of the Numinous, Morgan Dowty
Art (Printmaking), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Word Muscles, Jimena O. Gracia
Art (Printmaking), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

The C-terminal Linker of FtsZ Acts as an Intrinsically Disordered Peptide during Cell Division in Bacillus subtilis, Steven Grigsby
Biology, Bachelor of Arts

PDF

Landmarks for Sleepwalkers, Isaac S. Howell
Art (Painting), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Imagining New Possibilities Through Social Practice, Sarah O. Hull
Art (Sculpture), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

The Role of Gpr126 in Myelin Maintenance and Regeneration in the Peripheral Nervous System, Jessica A. Joseph
Biology, Bachelor of Arts

PDF

Pharmacology of Organic Cation Transporters: Focus on Structure-Function Relationships in OCT3 (SLC22A3), Dan C. Li
Biology, Bachelor of Arts

PDF

In-Betweeness On Stage, Qiyuan Liu
Art (Painting), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

The Girl Who Didn’t Know She Wasn’t Singing, REBECCA M. LOTHAN
Art (Printmaking), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

1. What is the relationship of the finite subject to the infinite ground? 2. How do we use where we segregate the subject from the ground to construct reality? 3. In what ways can we destabilize this constructed reality to highlight its inherent instability?, Calvin M. Miceli-Nelson
Art (Painting), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Ritual Embodiment: The Body Remembers Through Ritual, Ayesha Mohyuddin
Art (Sculpture), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

The Final Frontier: Navigating from Material to Virtual, Alexandra Neuman
Art (Sculpture), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Unguided Tour, Catalina Ouyang
Art (Sculpture), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Pressing: Where the Objective Meets the Subjective, Mariana Parisca
Art (Printmaking), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Contemporary Family Portrait: The Hidden Uncomfortable Truth of Family Dynamics, Ji Won Park
Art (Painting), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

The Representation of Non-Traditional Bodies, Elizabeth J. Perkins
Art (Painting), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Untitled (Too real is this feeling of make-believe), Tucker Pierce
Art (Printmaking), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Syncing Umbanda and Science (SUS): Using Umbanda’s Holistic Healing Methods to Increase Access to Healthcare, Alex E. Rosenthal, Bachelor of Arts

PDF

The Disinheritance of Power, Jared Stein
Art (Sculpture), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Into the Fold: Deleuze, Desire, and Art, Madeline Wells
Art (Sculpture), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

Theses from 2014

PDF

MAKING IT HARDER THAN IT HAS TO BE or THIS IS THE SCULPTURE or *SIGH, Todd Barry
Art (Sculpture), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Experiments in Remix and Worldmaking, jesse firestone
Art (Photography), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Countering the Voyage of the Present: Histories Speak Fragmented in 25 Frames Per Second, Vanessa Kelly Gravenor
Art (Photography), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Creatures of Habit, Joyce Hankins
Art (Printmaking), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Implicit Prejudice and its Implications for how Communities should Respond to Racial Injustices, Harry Kainen
Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology, Bachelor of Arts

PDF

Simus inter Exempla: Exempla and Innovation in Valerius Maximus, Seneca and Juvenal, Grace Kroner
Classics

PDF

Observance: A Record of Experiments, Olivia L. Mosley
Art (Printmaking), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Paiting, Lucas Page
Art (Painting), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Something Gained: Translation as Process, Amanda V. Rothschild
Art (Painting), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Wouldn't It Be Funny If, Taryn Sirias
Art (Painting), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Ergonomically Designing Art Objects, Ambika Subramaniam
Art (Sculpture), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Survey of ‘Low-Z’ Particles from the Interplanetary Dust Collection in Search of IDPs, Harison Wiesman
Physics

PDF

The Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector Crater Origins and Hypervelocity Cratering at Oblique Angles in Aluminum Foil, Harison Wiesman
Physics

Theses from 2013

PDF

Determination of Average Loss Lifetimes for Near‐Earth Electrons in Solar Storms, John Blears
Physics

PDF

From the Museum to the Parking Lot: A Scrutiny of the Everyday, Julie D. Cronan
Art (Printmaking), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Parenting Preschoolers with Disruptive Behavior Disorders: Does Child Gender Matter?, Antonya M. Gonzalez
Psychology

PDF

Risking It: An Examination of Risk Perception Amongst Obstetricians and Certified Professional Midwives in Missouri, Allison R. Horan
Anthropology

PDF

Humanitarianism and the Anthropology of Hunger, Kate Klein
Anthropology

PDF

Active, Disorienting, and Transitional: The Aesthetic of Boredom(s) in the Multimedia Works of Nam June Paik (1932-2006), Eugene Kwon
Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities, <--Please Select One-->

PDF

Aliquot Cycles for Elliptic Curves with Complex Multiplication, Thomas Morrell
Mathematics

PDF

Evolutions in Class Visibility, Morality, and Representation in Chilean Teleseries: From Military Regime to Current Moment, Sadie Smeck
International and Area Studies, Bachelor of Arts

Always Be A Wilderness: to cross over and rise, Katharine E. Walker
Art (Printmaking), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Superfluidity in Neutron Stars, Samuel J. Witte
Physics

Theses from 2012

PDF

From Seed to Mighty Tree: Susan Blow and the Development of the American Kindergarten Movement, Madelyn Silber
History, Bachelor of Arts

PDF

High Risk: Michigan's Coastline in Danger, Adira Jenna Weixlmann, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

PDF

Delicious-ology: The Science of Delicious Food, Sasha Yan
Communication Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

Theses from 2011

PDF

“God and Posterity Will Show Me Favor”: A Search for the Historical Lady Jane Dudley in Light of Her Later Portrayals, Rachel Wisdom, Bachelor of Arts