• What Are the Implications of Increasing Euroscepticism in Politically Confused France? 

  Spencer, Maddie (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  This research paper attempts to make sense of the current political situation in France by analyzing France’s interactions with the European Union, French citizens’ opinions of those interactions, and potential consequences ...

• La Censure sous le Second Empire: la Condamnation des Fleurs du Mal et l’Innocence de Madame Bovary 

  Walkley, Ethan (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  My research focused on literary censorship during the Second Empire France by examining two censorship trials: the 1856 trial of Gustave Flaubert’s realist novel Madame Bovary and the 1857 trial of Charles Baudelaire's ...

• The Challenges of Recent Migrations to Scandinavia 

  Quiroga Roldan, Andres (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Despite having nearly identical historical, ethnic, and social backgrounds, Sweden and Denmark have taken fairly different approaches to the issue of immigration over the last half-century. While Denmark surrendered to ...

• Battle of the Filter Feeders: Bacterial Transmission in the Presence of Ascidians 

  Lopes, Heather (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Marine diseases are a major cost to fisheries and aquaculture industries, and as we continuously rely on marine organisms for protein, we increase our interaction with illnesses like gastroenteritis from undercooked oysters. ...

• “It Must be Odd to be a Minority”: Multiracial Japanese Americans, Racial Segregation, and the U.S. Empire 

  Russ, Hannah Fumiko (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Multiracial Japanese families posed a problem for the U.S. government during the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. The Mixed Marriage policy was an attempt to reconcile the question: Who did the ...

• Spiritual Humiliation: Sectarian Torture Tactics in Assad’s Prisons 

  Shalabi, Malak (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Using an Islamic lens, this paper will explore spiritual humiliation, a method of torture used by guards in Syria’s government torture facilities to violate religious boundaries and demean the spiritual identity of detainees. ...

• Cultural Differences in Feedback Interpretation and Mindset: Implications for Intervention 

  Im, Hohjin (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Growth mindset literature suggests that an emphasis the ability to improve yields positive learning outcomes for many American institutions, where a fixed mindset philosophy is common. Growth mindset interventions, however, ...

• Female Genital Cutting in Sudan 

  Jacobsen, Katherine (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Female genital cutting (FGC) is a hot topic in anthropological and public health. My paper strives to identify the culture around FGC in Sudan. I looked at the pros and cons of medicalization of FGC, and how different ...

• "L’identité et la Francophonie: Examining the Interplay of Language Attitudes and Identity Construction in Moroccan Students" 

  Horst, Martin (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Today, the continuing presence of French as the language of higher education and economic opportunity in Morocco illustrates the widespread influence that France still exercises over her former protectorate. French has ...

• "It Gets Better": Towards a Deeper Analysis of Pan-Queer Identity 

  Gill, Colin (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  In this thesis I interrogate the “It Gets Better” (IGB) video project by Dan Savage, using an intersectional analysis to reveal the ways in which it reinforces politics of respectability, neoliberalism, and lacks an ...

• Four Papers Exploring Victorian Scientific Culture: Mock Turtle Soup, Cosmetics, Bicycles, and Psychical Study 

  Christman, Laura (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  This collection of four papers was written for a History 498 Senior Seminar. This particular class was unusual because instead of writing one long paper we wrote four shorter papers. The subject of the class was Science ...

• Improvements to the Ion Doppler Spectrometer Diagnostic on the HIT-SI Experiments 

  Chandra, Rian (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  An Ion Doppler Spectrometer diagnostic system has been constructed to measure impurity ion temperature and velocity on the HIT-SI and HIT-SI3 spheromak devices with improved spatiotemporal resolution and lower error. ...

• Focus Structure in Modern Standard Estonian 

  Gwin, Ian Tracy (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Discourse configurational languages show a bewildering variety of word orders dictated less by word class or case than by the pragmatic roles of information in the sentence. Within the field of generative syntax Kiss (1995) ...

• Viability of Fulfilling the Nuclear-Nonproliferation Treaty in a Post-Cold War World 

  Bridston, Anna (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty has an end goal of complete disarmament. Despite the creation of successful programs - such as Megatons to Megawatts between the United States and Russia - which have aimed at the gradual ...

• Seeing Red: Maoist Rumors, Hidden Transcripts, and the End of the 2014 Mount Everest Climbing Season 

  Bellows, Ian (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Himalayan adventure travel is a burgeoning industry in some mountainous regions of Nepal, but with its rapid, uneven, and largely unregulated growth have come the creation of new economic and social arrangements and renewed ...

• The Emancipation of Urban Noise: John Cage’s Music as Acoustic Ecology 

  Beausire, Jocelyn (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  The built environment frequently under-emphasizes the role of auditory perceptions in shaping experience. In an urban planning context, this disregard can impact the whole of society. Raymond Murray Schafer proposed ...

• The Failures of Consent: How the (En)gendering of Sexual Scripts and Desire within Consensual Sex Preserves Rape Culture within the University 

  Narvaja, Tomás (2016-08)

  The epidemic of sexual assault on American university campuses that was first acknowledged by Mary P. Koss in 1987 has resulted in the centering of consent as a key way of distinguishing between acceptable, normal sex and ...

• How Eco-Drone Monitoring and Successful Conservation Methodology can Mitigate Deforestation 

  Winkler-Schor, Sophia (University of Washington Libraries, 2015)

  Forest cover is declining at an unsustainable rate as development frontiers expand. Though the amount of conservation science being conducted and policy being implemented is ever increasing, forests continue to decline ...

• Gulbadan and Nur Jahan: The Role of Women in the Creation of the Mughal Court and Imperial Policy 

  Schrieve, Hal (University of Washington Libraries, 2015)

  Using translated primary sources (principally Gulbadan Begum's biography of Humayun) and secondary sources, I analyze the position of women in the early Mughal court and how Akbar's new institutions altered their position. ...

• The Impact of September 11th on Arab-American Youth 

  Sabha, Reem (University of Washington Libraries, 2015)

  The events of September 11th deeply shook the American psyche, leading to a shift in political and social realities that impacted every citizen. Overwhelmingly divisive, the response to September 11th drew a clear boundary ...

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