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The Reed Thesis

You will complete your undergraduate experience with the senior thesis, an intense year-long project in which you will learn the subject of your choosing to the utmost level and present it in the utmost detail. Your thesis, which becomes a permanent resource in the Reed library, may well be the most challenging thing you will have ever done—certainly the most rewarding. You will never forget the experience, nor lose the confidence it builds.

Recent Theses Titles

A Diachronic Study of the Effects of Political and Economic Modernization on Choctaw Ethnic Identity: The Politics of Cultural Integrity
Jessica R. Hahn | anthropology

Melancholia and the Artistic Temperament
Wyatt T. Krajeski | art

A Study of Human Cytomegalovirus G Protein-Coupled Receptor US28 Signaling in Smooth Muscle Cells
Dora P. Pancheva | biology

Cloning of GTP Cyclohydrolase, fol E, and
Dihydroneopterin Aldolase, fol B, in Escherichia coli
Laurence A. Kahn | chemistry

Writing Qing, or ‘my most innermost feelings in Ci’: Marginality in the Poetry and Poetics of Liu Yong and Li Qingzhao
Jennifer J. Hong | Chinese

’Menstruation is the Uterus Weeping for Lack of Child’: Female Biological Theory in Ancient Medical Discourse
Miriam R. Aronoff | classics

Which is the Fairer Sex? Gender-Based Behavioral Differences in a Bargaining Experiment
Annick E. Chalier | economics

Well-Told Lies: Michael Ondaatje’s Fictional (Auto)Biographies
Miles D. Norton | English

The Disruption of Logic and the Use of Humor in the Prose of Comte de Lautreamont and Guillaume Apollinaire
Josie K. Foster | French

The Poet’s Autumn: The Depiction of Nature in the Early Poetry of Stefan George and Rainier Maria Rilke
Tracey A. Beck | German

Soldiers, Nurses, Symbols: American Army Women in the Vietnam War, 1962–1972 Tracy L. Menasco | history

The ‘Explicable PE’: A New Analysis of Coptic Verbal Morphosyntax
James L. Barrett | linguistics

Gorenstein Lattice Ideals
Benjamin Collett | mathematics

Signifyin’ On The Blues: Charles Mingus and the African American Music Tradition
Thomas Michael Feeley | music

The Philosophical Problem of Vagueness: Perspectives on the
Epistemic Theory, Semantic Incoherence, and Supervaluationism
Amanda M. Egge | philosophy

A Photometric Period Analysis of the Population II d Scuti -SX Phe Variable Stars XX Cygni and DY Pegasi Physics
Jonathan L. Fertig | physics

More Than Just Acid-Washed Jeans and Track Suits: Political Benefits from Economic Corruption in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation
Willa W. Johnson | political science

The Impact of Oppression Workshops on the Perceptions of Everyday Life Experiences: The Teen Personal Rights Workshop
Sophia S. George-Glasser | psychology

Discourse on Desire: Controversy over Spiritual
Marriage in Fourth-Century Egyptian Asceticism
Maggie D. Rosenbloom | religion

A Translation of Three Stories by Victor Pelevin
Todd W. Ruhlen | Russian

Beyond Autonomy or Dominance: The Political Sociology of Prison Expansion
Clayton J. Szczech | sociology

Una Movida Hacia la Mirada: Dystopian Visions of
Urban Space in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
Eleanor A. Roper-Ater | Spanish

Masks, Whips, and the Erection of the Big Top: A Study of
Status Relationships in Commedia dell’Arte and Modern Circus Theatre
Owen K. Edson | theatre

A Structure Function Analysis of Xylitol Binding in D-Xylose Isomerase
Marshall C. Miller | biochemistry and molecular biology