Theses from 2015
Morphology and Characterization of Abscission Zone Development and its Role in Domestication in Setaria viridis and Setaria italica, John Gerard Hodge
Darkness of Draws, Catherine Louise Howl
Inherent Problems With Nuclear Deterrence And The Need Of Disarmament, Hiromi Ishikawa
The Scientific and Theological Superiority of Divine Timelessness, David Christian Justice
Leaf-cutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) Behavioral Ecology of Folivory in a Mixed-use Guyanan Lowland Rainforest, Elizabeth Brianne Karslake
Effects of Invasive Lonicera maackii on Bat Activity via Changes in Vegetation Structure and Food Resources, Iwona Kuczynska
The Instability of "The Law of Peoples" and a Suggested Remedy, Lavender McKittrick-Sweitzer
Factors Influencing Asiatic Oak Weevil Interactions with Native Ecosystem Engineers Over Time, Daniel Rothschild O'Brien
Four Domains of Knowledge in Education, Justin Tyler Ormsby
The role of Philornis downsi in avian disease transmission in the Galápagos Islands, Courtney Lauren Pike
The Chorus of 302, Marisol Ramirez
Riot and Ruckus: Nationalism on Stage in the Early Modernist Theater of the Futurists and Ballets Russes, 1909-1914, Ashley DiAnn Ray
How to Fail College, Rafal L. Redlinski
Psychology's Ontology as Antinomy, Kevin Rice
Tense and Truthmaking: Addressing the Problem of Tense After the Ontological Turn, Elliott Risch
Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jeff Sjerven
Environmental and density-dependent modulation of type III secretion system genes in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000, Jennifer Louise Stauber
Two Indexical Theories of Names, Costigan Thomas
Missing Things, Matthew Paul Vivian
Latin on the Walls, Kent Walker
A Letter to the Universe, Stacey Leanne Walker
Theses from 2014
Comparing Perspectives on Cause and Reason in Intentional Action: Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention and Donald Davidson's "Actions, Reasons and Causes", Victoria White Berger
Rules and Habits, Andrew Ross Bramman
Recasting the Darwinian Dilemma, Abram L. Brummett
Dead Girls Don't Like Horses, Christy Callahan
Lessons in Betrayal, Donald Quentin Counts
Harmless Stories, David Wraith Dandridge
The Reliability and Nature of Philosophical Intuitions, Matthew Allen DeStefano
Transformation or Revival: St. Louis Culture Before and After the Great Fire of 1849, Daron Patrick Dierkes
Traps in Plain Sight, Nathan Garrett Doyle
Galapagos Mosquitoes as Avian Disease Vectors, Daniel Anthony Hartman
Advertising, Hook Up, Public Radio, Yoga, Ryan William Krull
To Merge Them In the Start of Superior Journeys: Community Identity, Education, and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights in North Webster, Missouri, 1865 - 1952, Lara Katherine Kuehling
Phylogenetic patterns of rarity in a regional species pool of tropical trees, MARIA ISABEL LOZA
New Developments or More of the Same? A Historical, Sociological, and Political Look at Missouri's Sex Offender Laws from 1995 to 2013, Robert MacKenzie
Terms and Conditions, Megan Emily McCormack
Rape, Lynching, and Mythmaking in Missouri, 1804-1933, Jessica LeKay McCulley
“Una Isla Caribeña Sobrepoblada”: Luis Muñoz Marín’s overpopulation discourse, 1922-1948, Luimil Mishette Negrón-Pérez
Those Who Breathe Once, Kasey Ryan Perkins
Purloined Sperm, Victim-Blaming, and Procreative Asymmetry: A Critique of Christine Overall’s Analysis of Prospective Parent Disagreement, Jordan Gabriel Potter
The Politics of Environmental Regulations: What Happened to Market Based Regulations?, Eugene Paul Schmittgens Jr
Eagles Circle the Drum, Mark Shaw
We Got the Memo That Conformity Was Bad: Stories and Novel Chapters, Chin Tina Shen
On The Necessary Connection Between Law and Ethics: The Ethical Content of Law, Michael D. Sigler
Bridging the Mississippi: A History of the Rivalry between Suspension and Arch Modes of Engineering, Kurt Timmerman
The Sages and Philosophers: Reevaluating the Interaction Between Ancient Israel and Greece, Mike Tolliver
Shrimp, Jason Nicholas Vasser
Love Stories, Timothy Wombles
the New Relevance: Motives behind YouTube Use, Xinchen Xu
Theses from 2013
Enhancement of Antibiotics and Nucleic Acids by Novel Synthetic Compounds, Jason Lee Atkins
The Rational Authority of Morality: Reason Internalism and Negative Duties, Kyle Stewart Barrett
Matter, Spirit, and Cosmogony: The Context and Meaning of Thomas Vaughan’s Alchemical Vitalism, Adam Heinrich Borrego
Advanced Statistical Analysis of the Pupil Project Program, Erin Marie Brooks
Effects of nest and nest site characteristics on Humboldt penguins’ breeding success at Punta San Juan, Peru: Implications for conservation, Alonso Joaquin Bussalleu
Order Out of Chaos: The Growth of Botanical Science in Nineteenth Century St. Louis, Nuala F. Caomhánach
Secondhand Blues, Dennis Michael Davis
Abscond, Jessyka Lee DSouza
Akrasia and the Elusive Self, Frank R. Faries
This is How I Sing to You, Sarah Elizabeth Gray
Ink Traces, Adam Patric Hayward
Is Theoretical Rationality Derivatively Normative?, Kevin Charles Kifer
Toward a General Account of Improvisation, Kevin Thomas Lepore
There's Too Many of Us To Be Afraid, Brigitte Denisse Leschhorn
At Cross Purposes: Protrestant Missionaries Among the Osage Indians 1820-1837, Joshua Nathan Luparell
Concepts, Universals, and the Abstract, David Keith McGraw
A Defense of the Kalam Cosmological Argument and the B-Theory of Time, Curtis John Metcalfe
This Is the Best I Can Do, Amy Renee Milton
Cluttered with Wandering Monsters, Raymond Scott Morgan
Sustainability and Our Current Food Production System, Jennifer Nott
Golfing The Ho Chi Minh Trail, Angela Mary O'Gorman
A Physicalist Account of Consciousness and the Conceivability Argument, Christopher John Owen
Forks to the Forehead, Kerstin Parmley
The Explanatory Indispensability of Mathematics: Why Structure is 'What There Is', Nils Richards
A Dilemma for Non-descriptive Cognitivism, Ayoob Shahmoradi
Environmental Virtue, Callicott and the Land Ethic, John Charles Simpson
Aristotle’s Conception of Equity in Context, Andrew Sucre
Brave Brave Men, Ryan Trattles
Floristics and above-ground biomass (AGB) in Peatlands in Peruvian Lowland Amazonia, Loreto – Peru, Elvis Valderrama
Philosophical Disagreement and Skepticism, Eric Thomas Wilcox
Reconsidering the Battered Woman Syndrome Defense for Women Who Kill, Krista J. Wiley
Judicial Perspectives of Domestic Violence Courts, Monica Elizabeth Wingler
A Moment of Obvious Joy, Lauren Christine Wiser
Epistemic Uniqueness, Permissiveness, and Peer Disagreement, Tung-Ying Wu
Accommodating Species Evolution: Aristotle’s Essentialism Revisited, Yin Zhang
Theses from 2012
Temporal Operators and (Metaphysical) Presentism, Matthew J. Bell
Defending the Role of Unconscious Intentions: A Response to Wegner, Hannah Bondurant
Don't Be a Stranger, Sarah Ashley Bzdega-Welch
Knowing For: A New Path in Testimonial Justification, John Allan Scott Camacho
NGOs, Soft Power, and Environmental Politics, Benjamin James Chambers
A Better Life, Jessica L. Chou
The Emotions and Two Aesthetic Paradoxes, Nicholas James Curry
The Mythology of Flight, Eileen Ryan Ewen
Still Singing, Baby, Joseph George Grailer III
Peel Yourself like Fruit, Emily Grise
The Remaining and Other Stories, jarrett daniel kaufman
Classification of Phase Transition Behavior in a Model of Evolutionary Dynamics, Dawn MIchelle King
Thomas Aquinas: Soul-Body Connection and the Afterlife, Hyde Dawn Krista
The Luggage-Smuggled Concertina, Kevin William Kyle
Morphological, Phylogenetic, and Ecological Analyses of the New Model Grass Species Setaria viridis (Poaceae) and its Close Relative Setaria faberi, Daniel J. Layton