undergraduate dissertation handbook

Academic writing: a practical guide

Dissertations.

• Academic writing
• The writing process
• Academic writing style
• Structure & cohesion
• Criticality in academic writing
• Working with evidence
• Referencing
• Assessment & feedback
• Reflective writing
• Examination writing
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• Feedback on Structure and Organisation
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• Feedback on Referencing and Research
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Dissertations are a part of many degree programmes, completed in the final year of undergraduate studies or the final months of a taught masters-level degree. 

Introduction to dissertations

What is a dissertation.

A dissertation is usually a long-term project to produce a long-form piece of writing; think of it a little like an extended, structured assignment. In some subjects (typically the sciences), it might be called a project instead.

Work on an undergraduate dissertation is often spread out over the final year. For a masters dissertation, you'll start thinking about it early in your course and work on it throughout the year.

You might carry out your own original research, or base your dissertation on existing research literature or data sources - there are many possibilities.

What's different about a dissertation?

The main thing that sets a dissertation apart from your previous work is that it's an almost entirely independent project. You'll have some support from a supervisor, but you will spend a lot more time working on your own.

You'll also be working on your own topic that's different to your coursemate; you'll all produce a dissertation, but on different topics and, potentially, in very different ways.

Dissertations are also longer than a regular assignment, both in word count and the time that they take to complete. You'll usually have  most of an academic year to work on one, and be required to produce thousands of words; that might seem like a lot, but both time and word count will disappear very quickly once you get started! 

Find out more:

Key dissertation tools

Digital tools.

There are lots of tools, software and apps that can help you get through the dissertation process. Before you start, make sure you collect the key tools ready to:

• use your time efficiently
• organise yourself and your materials
• manage your writing
• be less stressed

Here's an overview of some useful tools:

Digital tools for your dissertation [Google Slides]

Setting up your document

Formatting and how you set up your document is also very important for a long piece of work like a dissertation, research project or thesis. Find tips and advice on our text processing guide:

University of York past Undergraduate and Masters dissertations

If you are a University of York student, you can access a selection of digitised undergraduate dissertations for certain subjects:

• History  
• History of Art  
• Social Policy and Social Work  

The Library also has digitised Masters dissertations for the following subjects:

• Archaeology
• Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies  
• Centre for Medieval Studies  
• Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies  
• Centre for Women's Studies  
• English and Related Literature
• Health Sciences
• History of Art
• Hull York Medical School
• Language and Linguistic Science
• School for Business and Society
• School of Social and Political Sciences ​​​​​​​

Dissertation top tips

Many dissertations are structured into four key sections:

• introduction & literature review

There are many different types of dissertation, which don't all use this structure, so make sure you check your dissertation guidance. However, elements of these sections are common in all dissertation types.

Dissertations that are an extended literature review do not involve data collection, thus do not have a methods or result section. Instead they have chapters that explore concepts/theories and result in a conclusion section. Check your dissertation module handbook and all information given to see what your dissertation involves. 

Introduction & literature review

The Introduction and Literature Review give the context for your dissertation:

• What topic did you investigate?
• What do we already know about this topic?
• What are your research questions and hypotheses?

Sometimes these are two separate sections, and sometimes the Literature Review is integrated into the Introduction. Check your guidelines to find out what you need to do.

Literature Review Top Tips [YouTube]  |  Literature Review Top Tips transcript [Google Doc]

The Method section tells the reader what you did  and why.

• Include enough detail so that someone else could replicate your study.
• Visual elements can help present your method clearly. For example, summarise participant demographic data in a table or visualise the procedure in a diagram. 
• Show critical analysis by justifying your choices. For example, why is your test/questionnaire/equipment appropriate for this study?
• If your study requires ethical approval, include these details in this section.

Methodology Top Tips [YouTube]  |  Methodology Top Tips transcript [Google Doc]

More resources to help you plan and write the methodology:

The Results tells us what you found out . 

It's an objective presentation of your research findings. Don’t explain the results in detail here - you’ll do that in the discussion section.

Results Top Tips [YouTube]  |  Results Top Tips transcript [Google Doc]

The Discussion is where you explain and interpret your results - what do your findings mean?

This section involves a lot of critical analysis. You're not just presenting your findings, but putting them together with findings from other research to build your argument about what the findings mean.

Discussion Top Tips [YouTube]  |  Discussion Top Tips transcript [Google Doc]

Conclusions are a part of many dissertations and/or research projects. Check your module information to see if you are required to write one. Some dissertations/projects have concluding remarks in their discussion section. See the slides below for more information on writing conclusions in dissertations.

Conclusions in dissertations [Google Slides]

The abstract is a short summary of the whole dissertation that goes at the start of the document. It gives an overview of your research and helps readers decide if it’s relevant to their needs.

Even though it appears at the start of the document, write the abstract last. It summarises the whole dissertation, so you need to finish the main body before you can summarise it in the abstract.

Usually the abstract follows a very similar structure to the dissertation, with one or two sentences each to show the aims, methods, key results and conclusions drawn. Some subjects use headings within the abstract. Even if you don’t use these in your final abstract, headings can help you to plan a clear structure.

Abstract Top Tips [YouTube]  |  Abstract Top Tips transcript [Google Doc]

Watch all of our Dissertation Top Tips videos in one handy playlist:

Research reports, that are often found in science subjects, follow the same structure, so the tips in this tutorial also apply to dissertations:

Other support for dissertation writing

Online resources.

The general writing pages of this site offer guidance that can be applied to all types of writing, including dissertations. Also check your department guidance and VLE sites for tailored resources.

Other useful resources for dissertation writing:

Appointments and workshops 

There is a lot of support available in departments for dissertation production, which includes your dissertation supervisor, academic supervisor and, when appropriate, staff teaching in the research methods modules.

You can also access central writing and skills support:

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Why use a dissertation or a thesis.

A dissertation is the final large research paper, based on original research, for many disciplines to be able to complete a PhD degree. The thesis is the same idea but for a masters degree.

They are often considered scholarly sources since they are closely supervised by a committee, are directed at an academic audience, are extensively researched, follow research methodology, and are cited in other scholarly work. Often the research is newer or answering questions that are more recent, and can help push scholarship in new directions. 

Search for dissertations and theses

Locating dissertations and theses.

The Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global database includes doctoral dissertations and selected masters theses from major universities worldwide.

• Searchable by subject, author, advisor, title, school, date, etc.
• More information about full text access and requesting through Interlibrary Loan

NDLTD – Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations provides free online access to a over a million theses and dissertations from all over the world.

WorldCat Dissertations and Theses searches library catalogs from across the U.S. and worldwide.

Locating University of Minnesota Dissertations and Theses

Use  Libraries search  and search by title or author and add the word "thesis" in the search box. Write down the library and call number and find it on the shelf. They can be checked out.

Check the  University Digital Conservancy  for online access to dissertations and theses from 2007 to present as well as historic, scanned theses from 1887-1923.

Other Sources for Dissertations and Theses

• Center for Research Libraries
• DART-Europe E-Thesis Portal
• Theses Canada
• Ethos (Great Britain)
• Australasian Digital Theses in Trove
• DiVA (Sweden)
• E-Thesis at the University of Helsinki
• DissOnline (Germany)
• List of libraries worldwide - to search for a thesis when you know the institution and cannot find in the larger collections

University of Minnesota Dissertations and Theses FAQs

What dissertations and theses are available.

With minor exceptions, all doctoral dissertations and all "Plan A" master's theses accepted by the University of Minnesota are available in the University Libraries system. In some cases (see below) only a non-circulating copy in University Archives exists, but for doctoral dissertations from 1940 to date, and for master's theses from 1925 to date, a circulating copy should almost always be available.

"Plan B" papers, accepted in the place of a thesis in many master's degree programs, are not received by the University Libraries and are generally not available. (The only real exceptions are a number of old library school Plan B papers on publishing history, which have been separately cataloged.) In a few cases individual departments may have maintained files of such papers.

In what libraries are U of M dissertations and theses located?

Circulating copies of doctoral dissertations:.

• Use Libraries Search to look for the author or title of the work desired to determine location and call number of a specific dissertation. Circulating copies of U of M doctoral dissertations can be in one of several locations in the library system, depending upon the date and the department for which the dissertation was done. The following are the general rules:
• Dissertations prior to 1940 Circulating copies of U of M dissertations prior to 1940 do not exist (with rare exceptions): for these, only the archival copy (see below) is available. Also, most dissertations prior to 1940 are not cataloged in MNCAT and can only be identified by the departmental listings described below.  
• Dissertations from 1940-1979 Circulating copies of U of M dissertations from 1940 to 1979 will in most cases be held within the Elmer L. Andersen Library, with three major classes of exceptions: dissertations accepted by biological, medical, and related departments are housed in the Health Science Library; science/engineering dissertations from 1970 to date will be located in the Science and Engineering Library (in Walter); and dissertations accepted by agricultural and related departments are available at the Magrath Library or one of the other libraries on the St. Paul campus (the Magrath Library maintains records of locations for such dissertations).  
• Dissertations from 1980-date Circulating copies of U of M dissertations from 1980 to date at present may be located either in Wilson Library (see below) or in storage; consult Libraries Search for location of specific items. Again, exceptions noted above apply here also; dissertations in their respective departments will instead be in Health Science Library or in one of the St. Paul campus libraries.

Circulating copies of master's theses:

• Theses prior to 1925 Circulating copies of U of M master's theses prior to 1925 do not exist (with rare exceptions); for these, only the archival copy (see below) is available.  
• Theses from 1925-1996 Circulating copies of U of M master's theses from 1925 to 1996 may be held in storage; consult Libraries search in specific instances. Once again, there are exceptions and theses in their respective departments will be housed in the Health Science Library or in one of the St. Paul campus libraries.  
• Theses from 1997-date Circulating copies of U of M master's theses from 1997 to date will be located in Wilson Library (see below), except for the same exceptions for Health Science  and St. Paul theses. There is also an exception to the exception: MHA (Masters in Health Administration) theses through 1998 are in the Health Science Library, but those from 1999 on are in Wilson Library.

Archival copies (non-circulating)

Archival (non-circulating) copies of virtually all U of M doctoral dissertations from 1888-1952, and of U of M master's theses from all years up to the present, are maintained by University Archives (located in the Elmer L. Andersen Library). These copies must be consulted on the premises, and it is highly recommended for the present that users make an appointment in advance to ensure that the desired works can be retrieved for them from storage. For dissertations accepted prior to 1940 and for master's theses accepted prior to 1925, University Archives is generally the only option (e.g., there usually will be no circulating copy). Archival copies of U of M doctoral dissertations from 1953 to the present are maintained by Bell and Howell Corporation (formerly University Microfilms Inc.), which produces print or filmed copies from our originals upon request. (There are a very few post-1952 U of M dissertations not available from Bell and Howell; these include such things as music manuscripts and works with color illustrations or extremely large pages that will not photocopy well; in these few cases, our archival copy is retained in University Archives.)

Where is a specific dissertation of thesis located?

To locate a specific dissertation or thesis it is necessary to have its call number. Use Libraries Search for the author or title of the item, just as you would for any other book. Depending on date of acceptance and cataloging, a typical call number for such materials should look something like one of the following:

Dissertations: Plan"A" Theses MnU-D or 378.7M66 MnU-M or 378.7M66 78-342 ODR7617 83-67 OL6156 Libraries Search will also tell the library location (MLAC, Health Science Library, Magrath or another St. Paul campus library, Science and Engineering, Business Reference, Wilson Annex or Wilson Library). Those doctoral dissertations still in Wilson Library (which in all cases should be 1980 or later and will have "MnU-D" numbers) are located in the central section of the third floor. Those master's theses in Wilson (which in all cases will be 1997 or later and will have "MnU-M" numbers) are also located in the central section of the third floor. Both dissertations and theses circulate and can be checked out, like any other books, at the Wilson Circulation desk on the first floor.

How can dissertations and theses accepted by a specific department be located?

Wilson Library contains a series of bound and loose-leaf notebooks, arranged by department and within each department by date, listing dissertations and theses. Information given for each entry includes name of author, title, and date (but not call number, which must be looked up individually). These notebooks are no longer current, but they do cover listings by department from the nineteenth century up to approximately 1992. Many pre-1940 U of M dissertations and pre-1925 U of M master's theses are not cataloged (and exist only as archival copies). Such dissertations can be identified only with these volumes. The books and notebooks are shelved in the general collection under these call numbers: Wilson Ref LD3337 .A5 and Wilson Ref quarto LD3337 .U9x. Major departments of individual degree candidates are also listed under their names in the GRADUATE SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT programs of the U of M, available in University Archives and (for recent years) also in Wilson stacks (LD3361 .U55x).

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How to write a dissertation

• September 12, 2023

When you start university, one of the final pieces of work – your dissertation – seems like a long way off. Three years passes more quickly than you think, and before you know it, you’re being told it is time to start work on your dissertation. It can feel incredibly daunting, especially if you aren’t accustomed to writing extended pieces of work. Although it probably won’t feel like an easy task (it is supposed to challenge you!) with the right preparation, you can minimise the amount of stress you encounter, and manage your project with enough time.

We’re not going to focus on how to carry out your research in this post, because there are too many variables between subjects, but rather, looking at how to tackle the writing-up process.

Table of Contents

What is a dissertation.

A dissertation is an independent piece of academic work that reports on research that you have carried out, and is much longer and more in-depth than a regular essay or research project. Word counts for UK dissertations are typically between 8,000 words to 20,000 words, but the length, along with the criteria for the sections that are required depend on the subject of your degree and the university you’re studying with.

In the UK, dissertations are different from theses. Although they are similar in that they are independent works, theses are significantly longer, and tend to refer to research projects for doctoral degrees. Theses are normally made accessible in the university library when the candidate has been awarded their doctorate. Undergraduate dissertations and theses for master’s degrees aren’t routinely available in libraries, but are sometimes made available by faculties. 

How long does a dissertation take to write?

How long your dissertation takes to write will be influenced by the word count, and how long your research takes. However, many professional writers who know their subject (and perhaps don’t require such accuracy) don’t write more than 5,000 words in a day – so don’t assume you can write your dissertation during the week before the deadline! You’ll have a good idea how many words you can write comfortably in a day, so take that figure, divide it and work backwards. If you can do 1000 words (many people work with a much lower number!) and your dissertation is 10,000 words – then you need an absolute minimum of 12 days, since you’ll need time for reading, editing, spotting mistakes, and getting your dissertation bound and handed in. 

Although many people thrive under a certain amount of time pressure, don’t leave getting started to the last minute. Give yourself more time than you think you’ll need for writing each section, and when you have completed a section, move straight on – don’t waste time waiting for the next writing window you have scheduled. You might find that other sections need extra time to complete. 

Don’t forget to leave plenty of time for editing your work – most students need to do a lot of editing – and leave contingency time in case of IT failure, illness, or any other interruptions. 

Why are dissertations so hard?

During dissertation time, university campuses worldwide are full of stressed students. Dissertation projects are massive pieces of work that have to be tackled by yourself, and your degree classification can be dramatically impacted by the mark you receive for your dissertation – which is why many students feel the pressure!

Dissertations present all kinds of problems, here are a few of the best tips we can to prevent you getting too stressed. 

• Planning ahead is essential – by planning, you’ll be able to manage your time much better, including breaks for eating, relaxing and exercise, which means you can think much more clearly and won’t be as stressed. 
• Create a plan for your work – knowing what you’re working on and when will keep you on track and ensure you don’t go off on a tangent or get too far behind. 
• Allow contingency time for emergencies – you don’t know if something will interrupt your writing time. Be sure to leave plenty of time ahead of the deadline to make sure you’re not over-stressed. 
• Don’t procrastinate – running out of time is one of the biggest problems that students encounter. Pulling a string of all-nighters to meet the deadline won’t result in your best work. 
• Set up autosave, and back up your work – IT staff aren’t miracle workers – so don’t work for three hours without saving, and be sure to save research in the cloud (in your Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox) as well as on your PC. 
• Do enough research – a dissertation requires much more than finding a few papers and quoting from them. You need to analyse resources in depth, and use the information correctly to support the points you are making.

How do I get started?

Start by attending all the sessions provided by the course team, and read all the information and guidance that are provided by the faculty, since this is where you’ll find out any specific requirements. Before you start writing, make sure you know:

• The word count (and whether you will be penalised for being too many words over or under) 
• Any compulsory sections and the structure required
• The style of writing required
• What types of sources are permitted
• The types of methodology you are allowed to use
• The deadline for submission
• The requirements for submitting your paper copy for marking, such as formatting and binding 
• Where, when, and how you submit your dissertation

Once you know these important points, you can start to get into the details and decide on your research topic. 

You can read much more about the different types of roles in these areas here .

By choosing an area that you find interesting and meaningful, you’re more likely to put more effort in, and your enthusiasm will be evident, which is likely to result in a higher mark.

How should i choose my research topic.

Choosing your research topic is possibly the most important part of your dissertation. By choosing an area that you find interesting and meaningful, you’re more likely to put more effort in, and your enthusiasm will be evident, which is likely to result in a higher mark. If you choose an area that is related to your career aims, you’ll be able to mention your work at future job interviews. 

If you don’t feel inspired, check course materials for modules that particularly interested you and head for the library. Academic journals and other publications in the field will contain ideas, and help you to know what is currently of interest in the field. 

You can also work with your dissertation supervisor or personal tutor to narrow the focus of your research topic, discuss the best methods and to ensure your proposal is a realistic study in the time you have to work with.

Do I need to write a dissertation proposal?

Dissertation proposals aren’t mandatory at every university, but where they are, they tend to have a 500 or 1000 word limit. Even if it isn’t a requirement for you, taking the time to put together a dissertation proposal can help you understand how to plan the project. It will help you to define: 

• The research area that your dissertation will focus on
• The questions you will examine 
• Some existing theories that you’ll refer to
• The research methods you will be using
• What you expect the outcome will be

What structure should my dissertation take?

In this next section, we’ll cover the sections that are usually required in a dissertation. Different universities and subjects have different requirements, so check the guidance from your faculty to ensure you have all the sections you need. 

There are usually strict guidelines for formatting your dissertation’s title page, but normally you’ll need to include:  

• The title of your dissertation
• The faculty or school you’re studying in 
• The name of the institution 
• The degree programme you’re studying
• Your student number 
• The name of your supervisor 
• The university’s logo

If your university requires your dissertation to be printed and bound, your title page is usually your front cover. 

Acknowledgements

This section may not be mandatory, but gives you space to thank people who have supported you through your dissertation. You might mention specific members of the course team, research participants, or simply friends and family.

This is a short summary section that gives readers a brief overview of what is contained in your dissertation. Abstracts are usually less than 300 words, and should include: 

• The topic and the aim of your research
• Details of your methods 
• A short summary of the results 
• Your conclusions

Since it needs to detail what is contained in your dissertation, abstracts should always be written when you have finished the rest of your dissertation.

Table of contents

Most institutions require dissertations to have page numbers and a list of chapters and subheadings, including any appendices. You can generate this automatically in Word when you have finished writing your dissertation. 

List of assets

If you have included lots of tables, graphs, or images in your dissertation, you may need to include an itemised list. You can generate this automatically using the Insert Caption function in Word.

List of abbreviations/glossary

This optional section may be appropriate if you have included a lot of specialist terms or abbreviations. If you have used both, you may need to include both sections separately.

Introduction

This is where you detail the topic, and explain what the reader can expect. The introduction provides more detail than your abstract, and will help readers to understand:  

• Your research topic and background information 
• The focus and extent of the research
• Current research and discourse around the topic 
• How the research will contribute to a wider issue or discussion
• The objectives and research questions
• Details of how you intend to answer the questions
• The structure of your dissertation

Keep your introduction succinct, and only include information that is relevant, so the reader can understand what your study is about, why you have chosen the topic, and how you plan to carry out the research. 

Literature review

Your literature review should show a deep understanding of existing academic work. It should be a substantial section, and you’ll need to gather sources, critically evaluate, and analyse the works, and make connections between them. Your literature review may help you to identify: 

• A gap in the literature 
• An opportunity to use a new theoretical or methodological approach 
• A solution for a problem that was previously unsolved
• That you can contribute to existing theoretical debate 
• That existing research needs strengthening with your data

You’ll be able to use your literature review to justify why you have chosen to carry out the research in your dissertation, so be sure to complete it in detail.

Methodology

This section will detail what research you carried out, and the methods you used, which is essential to show the validity of your work. This section is an account of what you did, and why you did it. You will need to include: 

• The approach and type of research (was it qualitative, quantitative, experimental, ethnographic?) 
• The methods used to collect data (did you carry out interviews, surveys, or use information from archives?) 
• Where and when your research took place, and information about any participants (you’ll need to anonymise personal information) 
• How you analysed the data (did you use statistical analysis or discourse analysis, for example) 
• Which tools or materials you used (computer programs or specialist lab equipment) 
• Information about any restrictions or hindrances you encountered and how you moved past them
• An assessment or evaluation of your methods

The results section should clearly illustrate what you found. This could mean you include tables, graphs, and charts to present the findings. Think carefully about the best method to show your results, and only use graphs, tables and charts where they provide extra information – don’t use them to repeat what is in the text. 

Don’t include raw data here – you can add that in your appendices. Depending on the type of research you have carried out (and faculty guidance) results may be combined with the discussion. 

This section reflects on the meaning of the work you have done. You’ll demonstrate understanding of what the results show, and whether they match what you expected. You’ll also examine other ways of interpreting the data, and if your findings are at odds with what you expected, you’ll suggest reasons for why this could have happened.

Whether your results support your hypotheses or not, you’ll contextualise your study with existing research to explain how it contributes to wider discussions about the topic.

Here you’ll go back to your research question, and demonstrate understanding of your research, and the validity of the study. You may make recommendations for future research in this section. 

As you already know, there are different referencing formatting conventions that are used by different subject fields. But since you’ll lose marks if you don’t do them correctly, it is essential to have your references stored accurately, and to format them correctly before you submit your dissertation.

You’ve probably already found the method of keeping references that suits you, such as using reference management software, or using Word referencing, but keep notes as you go, so you can compile your references section easily.

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If there is information that you want to be included but isn’t essential to understanding your research, you may add this as part of an appendices. This could include transcripts, copies of surveys or complete tables of raw data.  

Where can I get help with my dissertation?

Although your dissertation must be an independent piece of work, there are still sources of help if you get stuck. There are thousands of online resources, but here are a few more points of help:

Study skills support is available at most universities, and the team may be able to offer you assistance with your dissertation. Bear in mind there is likely to be a huge demand on this service during dissertation time, so ask early if you need their support.  

Your personal tutor or dissertation supervisor can provide general advice, and you’ll probably have several review meetings during the writing period. However, your supervisor is likely to have a large number of students and their availability may be restricted. 

Subject librarians will be able to advise you where to find relevant resources. 

If your mental health is the issue, support can be found from counselling services that are available both from university and from external agencies, while the multifaith chaplaincy team may be able to support you with spiritual matters during your dissertation.

Final thoughts

Your dissertation project is a major part of your final year, and with exams and the pressure to decide your next steps, life can get a bit stressful. You might be planning to apply for a postgraduate degree such as a master’s degree , another type of qualification or moving into employment, but the results of your dissertation will have a huge impact on your prospects, so performing to the best of your abilities is essential.

One top tip we have is to make sure you’re not getting overworked with stress. Try studying outside of your dorm room, in a coffee shop or library. You can discover the best places to study in London on our blog.

While your dissertation is a large piece of work, with great planning and careful management, you can start to enjoy the process. 

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Browse through the information below for general advice on the different aspects of a dissertation. 

You can download the advice in the following sections as a complete guide here.

Getting Started

What is a dissertation.

A Dissertation is a major assessment task, sometimes labelled as an Honours Project, Independent Study Module or another module of 30 credits or more with a single assessment point.  They typically involve researching a topic which has been agreed and approved by a programme tutor. Information on these will be found in your Programme and Module Handbooks. (Extract taken from The Student Regulation Framework: Major Assessment Tasks )

A number of elements distinguish a dissertation from other assignments you might have undertaken: 

• Independent – A dissertation is an exercise in independent study. Previous assignments might have had a great deal of guidance on the topic beforehand. A dissertation puts you in the position of researcher and subject-expert and is used to assess your ability to apply the principles of research to an original, independent project. 
• Focus – The focus of your dissertation will be much narrower than any assignment you’ve had in the past. The purpose of a dissertation is to conduct a detailed examination of a topic in your discipline. You will need to consider multiple perspectives and demonstrate your understanding through the development of a new point of view. 
• Length – A dissertation is substantially longer than other assignments, and for some students, it will be the longest piece of writing they compose in their whole life. An undergraduate dissertation can range from between 5,000 to 12,00 words depending on your discipline and your other modules. 
• Structure – There are some components that will be present in every dissertation, and others will vary depending on the discipline or word count. A dissertation is typically structured by major chapters and other minor elements. Specifics will be detailed in your module handbook. 
• Weight – A dissertation will have more module credits and therefore, will account for a larger percentage of your mark. You should be able to find specific details about this in your module handbook. 

Before you do anything else

Word count – Find out the word count for your dissertation. This will allow you to plan how many words should be dedicated to each section. 

Academic writing in your discipline –  Clarify if your discipline has any specific conventions to adhere to during the writing process, for example, if the use of first person is permitted or if subject-specific terminology requires an explanation or a glossary. 

When and how you must submit your dissertation – Get the due date in your calendar! Find out exactly how you need to submit your dissertation. Typically, you should submit a copy via Turnitin and submit a printed and bound copy to the Student Admin Office. You can get your copy printed and bound via the University Copyshop. 

Know who your supervisor is –  Every undergraduate conducting research will be assigned a dissertation supervisor. You will be assigned to an academic at Marjon with expertise in your chosen topic. Therefore, your supervisor might be someone you have never met before. Don’t underestimate the value of your supervisor; make every effort to attend all meetings and take on board their feedback and advice. 

Familiarise yourself with dissertations –  Make use of the Dissertation PCs in the Library to view other Marjon undergraduate dissertations. Getting acquainted with the style, content and structure of a dissertation early on will get you off to a good start and allow you to implement similar techniques in your own report. 

Developing your research question

What do we mean by a research question?

Put simply, a research question is a narrow focus or ‘question’ which you will plan and build your independent research around. It’s important to note that your research question is by no means set in stone from the minute it is devised, but is used to guide your reading and research, in order to maintain focus and direction. A research question needs to be:

• Clear – It provides enough specific information for the audience to be aware of the nature and purpose of the research without requiring additional information.
• Focused – It is narrow enough to allow an adequate explanation within the confines of the word count.
• Concise – It is expressed in as few words as possible.
• Complex – It isn’t answered by ‘yes’ or ‘no’ but rather through an examination of a number of influencing factors and perspectives.
• Debateable – It naturally lends itself to debate or argument and isn’t determined simply by accepted facts.
• Appropriate – It is appropriately related to your discipline or field of study.

(The George Mason University Writing Center, 2018)

Where to start?

One of the hardest parts of a dissertation is forming a research question that is narrow in focus but isn’t so narrow that it is impossible to find existing research! A dissertation should never be a demonstration of all you know about a topic. It should guide your reader through key argument. One piece of advice is to choose a topic that grabs your interest. A dissertation is a lengthy piece of work, so spend your time ‘doing what you love’, and you will have a much better outcome. Your dissertation supervisor is a great sounding board for these ideas. Here are some other things to ponder when considering your topic:

• Overly ambitious or challenging topics – You may want to change the world with your dissertation; but you probably want to graduate too! Your dissertation work will be governed by time constraints and your ability to be specific. There is no possible way you can write everything there is to know on a topic either, so be selective and realistic.
• Emotional links to topics – Sometimes, having an emotional link to a topic can make your research all the more meaningful, but in cases where it is likely to affect your well-being or stir up old memories, it is best to divert your focus. Dissertations by their very nature are meant to be objective pieces of research, so if you have an emotional connection to a topic, think how this might affect your research, your own ability and your own drive to complete the assignment.
• Contentious topics – If you feel particularly strongly or disgruntled by a topic, then it will be difficult to remain objective in your research. For instance, if your results challenge your expectations, then you might not be able to offer an impartial view or reflect on the research experience in full.
• Originality – If you are going to dedicate a great many hours to a piece of research, then you might as well make it worthy of that time and ensure that it is original. If you have an area where theorists or perspectives don’t agree, then this might be a good point to explore. If you admire a particular piece of research, try not to simply ‘replicate’ it, but rather put your own spin on it by changing some of the variables.

(Rudestam & Newton, 2001)

Narrowing it down 

The Dissertation proposal

What is a dissertation proposal?

A dissertation proposal is “a careful description of what your dissertation will be about and how you intend to carry out the work involved until it’s completion” (Walliman, 2014, p. 67). You will be asked to submit a proposal for most courses, not only so your supervisor can check that your dissertation is within the realms of possibility and conforms to course requirements, but also so you can justify what you intend to do and why; how you intend to apply what you have learned over the course of your degree and how you will make a useful contribution to your discipline.

What should a dissertation proposal look like?

Each discipline will have specific guidelines on the structure of a dissertation proposal, so consult your module handbook or assessment guidelines. A proposal is typically no more than 2-3 sides of A4, to provide your reader with a snapshot of your planned dissertation. It will typically be divided into subheadings, which will vary according to word count and discipline, but typically, you will be expected to include aims and objectives, an introduction, a methods section, literature and research concepts or limitations.

The title problem

You will be expected to submit a dissertation title/ research question. Try to capture the main themes of your proposed research in the title so your reader is able to summarise what you will be doing from the title alone. If you are unsure where to start, try to identify themes by returning to your reading and picking out the key concepts that occur in the literature. Once you have these key concepts, illustrate the scope of your research with additional words that limit location or time. Remember, that this will be a working title: you are likely to tweak it as your research progresses.

Aims & objectives

You should aim to summarise the aims and objectives of your dissertation in no more than 3-4 bullet points. These should be a very focused summary of the reasons for your research and should lead your reader neatly into the subject background. You should also clearly set out the limitations of your dissertation here, so that the exact scope of the research is distinct.

Introduce the subject background

Your introduction needs to outline the current situation in terms of subject literature to your reader in a way that could be understood by anybody; not just subject specialists. Therefore, take extra care to make define any subject-specific terminology and any complex theories or concepts. Additionally, your introduction will need to convince your dissertation supervisor that you have undertaken adequate preparatory reading in the subject you intend to study. You can do this by:

• Introducing research conducted so far and what is has discovered
• Stating what has not been determined by research so far
• Introducing the need for research in this particular area in light of literature

The use of evidence from a wide range of sources will be crucial to your dissertation proposal. Don’t dismiss literature if it isn’t directly linked to your topic; look for any subtle, indirect links and pull these out to draw relationships between concepts. Your dissertation supervisor will tell you if you have missed any critical readings and might be able to direct you towards helpful resources.

The key to an excellent dissertation proposal is the ability to deliver your understanding, argument and research intentions succinctly. You will need to contextualise your research in a concise style. Be selective: you are not expected to deliver everything you know on the topic in your proposal; just enough to demonstrate that you have a clear understanding of the literature and how your research feeds into this.

You will need to detail how you intend to carry out your research and link your chosen methods to the research question. Be as clear as you possibly can, especially if you intend to use more than one method. Stipulate clearly which aim a method intends to address. This may require a bit of background reading on research methods. If you are unsure where to start, Skills You Need is an excellent introductory resource on research methods. Here are a number of things you could address in your methods proposal:

• State a research design
• Identify the research population – lay out the situation
• Select a sample – size, location, number of people
• Collecting data – through interviews, surveys, observations etc.
• Analysing data – through coding statistical tests etc.

(Walliman, 2014, p. 74)

Expected outcomes

You should include a few sentences on what you expect the outcomes of your research to be and predict who might benefit from the findings. The outcomes should be linked closely to the aims and objectives of the research and should be relative to your timeframe and resources.

What do I do with a proposal once approved?

The proposal will be an excellent foundation for your dissertation in terms of research and write up, so expect to refer to it regularly in order to plan your research. Eventually, the proposal will be superseded by the dissertation document itself, but it is helpful to keep a copy to keep your research on track.

Major Dissertation Chapters

The following sections will be an essential part of every undergraduate honours dissertation. You should refer to your module handbook for precise guidance. The following advice centres on the main components, structure and style of each chapter. This does not supersede any advice given to you by your dissertation supervisor or in module handbooks. 

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Introduction

The purpose of the introduction

Mewburn, Firth and Lehmann (2019) liken a dissertation introduction to a map: your reader will never have encountered this exact piece of research, so the introduction needs to serve as guide to your reader on what’s to follow throughout the rest of your report. (See this guide to using signposts ). Additionally, your introduction should contextualise your research. You may find that broader background information is required to contextualise the literature referred to in your literature review, so the introduction would be the natural place for this to sit. However, don’t release all details of your research in the introduction; your reader just needs a taste of your research so they continue reading!

Introduction content checklist

Dissertation Tip #3

Don’t dismiss the value of a good introduction in a dissertation. You may find it easier to outline your introduction in the early stages of writing and then draft it thoroughly after you have completed the research and understand fully what you are introducing. This is because your ideas will develop over the writing and researching process and your introduction will need to reflect this process.

Further Resources

Skills You Need. (2019). Writing a dissertation: The introduction. Retrieved from https://www.skillsyouneed.com/learn/dissertation-introduction.html

Warwick University. (2017). Writing an introduction. Retrieved from https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/globalpad/openhouse/academicenglishskills/writing/moreinfo/

Literature Review

Your literature review is a major chapter in your dissertation and is your chance to present the current state of play for research in your chosen subject. You will need to consult the literature in your discipline to ensure that the research you are planning to conduct hasn’t already been carried out, and to justify why your chosen subject is worth investigation. Your literature review is the section of your dissertation where you begin to narrow your focus too, so you can examine all the nitty-gritty details of the research problem.

Dissertation Tip #4

You will need to refer to several sources in your literature review; some of these might be or be located in places you are unsure of. The University’s AIM sessions offer informative sessions on using Discovery, so you can optimise your searches, locate information quickly and make the research process easier. You can view all sessions and book on Learning Space.

What should I cover in my lit review?

The clue is in the title! You should be consulting a range of sources related to your research question and collating this information to provide your reader with a current state of events in your chosen subject. Here are some of the things you can look for in your dissertation reading:

• Theory – A consideration of your topic from the perspective of multiple theories and how they explain certain phenomenon. Draw upon the strengths and weaknesses of theories and compare and contrast them.
• History – How have we arrived at the current situation in your discipline? Examine problems or phenomenon that has developed over time, examine their consequences and argue whether it has helped or hindered the situation.
• Developments – What are the current ways of thinking in your discipline? What are the current problems and how are they being tackled? What conflicts exist within the subject?
• Research methods – what techniques have been used to research the issues so far? How has data been collected and analysed? How have the outcomes been explained?

(Walliman, 2014, p. 101)

Remember that you won’t be able to read absolutely everything that has ever been written in your field. The literature review is an iterative process; it will need to be drafted, adapted, edited and redrafted, so a source that is essential at the beginning of the process might be substituted for something more relevant at a later point.

Keeping a record

Throughout the dissertation process, it is vital that you keep a record of your reading so that you can easily refer back to material that you wish to include in your report and be able to track down details for citations. It can be difficult to know which parts of a source will be useful to your dissertation. For each source you read, write a summary in no more than 3 lines, so you will know the content at a glance. Create a standard way of noting themes, or papers that are essential.  Appendix C has a reading chart as an example of how to standardise your notes, engage critically and make the most of your reading.

Further Resources for Literature Reviews

• 2 Turning an annotated bibliography on steroids in a proper literature review (pp 138-144) in Mewburn, I., Firth, K. & Lehmann, S. (2019). How to fix your academic writing trouble: A practical guide.
• Skills You Need. (2019). Researching and writing a literature review. Retrieved from https://www.skillsyouneed.com/learn/literature-review.html

Methodology

Purpose of a methodology

The methodology chapter is a justification for your chosen research methods in terms of philosophy and your research question (Skills You Need, 2019a). It needs to demonstrate exactly how your research was conducted so that it can be replicated step-by-step and so that your reasons for using certain protocol or methods is clear (Rudestam & Newton, 2001).

What should I cover in my methodology?

What you cover and how you write about these elements in your methodology will be largely governed by your use of quantitative or qualitative research methods. Broadly speaking:

Quantitative research tends to involve relatively large-scale and representative sets of data, and if often, … presented or perceived as being about the gathering of ‘facts’. Qualitative research, on the other hand, is concerned with collecting and analysing information in as many forms, chiefly non-numeric, as possible … and aims to achieve ‘depth’ rather than ‘breadth’.

(Blaxter, Hughes and Tight, 2010, p. 65)

Your methodology needs to be written in the past or present tense so that you can reflect on what methods were used, what went well and what you amended. It also needs to distinguish your research methods and your data collection methods and discuss them in terms of their pros and cons for your research.

You should also remember to include details on any equipment or procedures used, details about your participants and how you ensured the validity and reliability of your research. You should consult your module handbook for more information on the specific subheadings for inclusion in your methodology or consult texts on research methods to differentiate between the methodological details of qualitative and quantitative research.

Dissertation Tip #5

Marjon TELKit has a lot of tools you can use to facilitate your research methods such as online surveys, SPSS for statistical analysis and recording software for interviews. Ensure that any software you use can store data ethically and that you include the name of the software used in your methodology chapter for potential replication.

Often, research is dependent on the involvement of other people. This means you must conduct your research in a way that adheres to ethical guidelines; whether this is guidelines within your discipline, or the guidelines set up by Plymouth Marjon University , you should design your research in a way that is ethical, safe and respectful. Your methodology should have a subheading for ethical considerations, so you can demonstrate how these ethical guidelines have been followed throughout the research process, for instance participant consent, anonymity and the right to withdraw. Please be aware that you cannot carry out any research until you have received ethical approval.

Further Resources on Methodology

• Chapter 5 – The method chapter: Describing your research plan in Rudestam, K. E. and Newton, R. R. (2001). Surviving your dissertation: A comprehensive guide to content and process. (2 nd ed). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Chapter 10 – What’s all this about ethics? In Walliman, N. (2014). Your undergraduate dissertation: The essential guide for success. (2 nd ). London, UK: Sage.
• Bryman, A. (2016). Social research methods. (5 th ). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Results & Discussion

Please note that this guide considers the results and discussion of your dissertation as one chapter. Some disciplines require separate chapters, so consult your module handbook for specific guidance.

Purpose of results

The results section of your dissertation is where you describe your results, or what has occurred. If you are using statistical tests, then this is the section where you would discuss statistical significance and whether it has been achieved or not. The results section should include charts, graphs and tables so that you can refer to them and ‘state what you see’. You should include snapshots of your results here including overall results, instances of high or low phenomena, and any anomalies. Your raw data will need to go into your appendices and can be referred to for specifics, such as answers in interviews. Make sure you guide your reader through what you consider to be the most important observations.

Purpose of discussion

The discussion section is where you review and link the findings from your research to the existing literature and critically evaluate your contribution against other research. Put simply, your discussion section explains why and should perform four major functions:

What should I cover in my results and discussion?

Think of your discussion section as a long, persuasive essay. It needs to refer to the readings in your literature review and any other sources you have deemed essential in light of your findings. It is important that your discussion is critical so that you can make appropriate links between your research question, the literature and your findings. This means building an argument to persuade your reader and using your results to construct an argument on multiple grounds:

• Agree with, defend or confirm a point of view you have found in the literature
• Propose a new point of view
• Concede on some facets of a theory, but use your results to warrant a re-examination of other facets
• Reformulate an existing point of view to provide a better explanation
• Dismiss another’s point of view on the grounds of inadequacy or irrelevance
• Reject or rebut the argument of another on various grounds
• Reconcile two positions that may seem at odds, but are connected
• Retract or reject your previous position in light of evidence or arguments

(Taylor, 2009, p. 112-113)

Dissertation Tip #6

Your discussion section will need to create a strong argument. The University’s AIM sessions include Advanced Critical Thinking which looks at how to create and write strong, persuasive arguments through the use of evidence, rejection of fallacies and evaluation of rhetoric.

Sources for Results and Discussion

• Chapter 6 – Presenting the results of empirical studies in Rudestam, K. E. and Newton, R. R. (2001). Surviving your dissertation: A comprehensive guide to content and process. (2 nd ed). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• University of Leicester. (2019). Writing a dissertation. Retrieved from https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ld/resources/writing/writing-resources/writing-dissertation
• ‘Where’s your evidence for this?’ : using what you know to make a case In Mewburn, I., Firth, K. & Lehmann, S. (2019). How to fix your academic writing trouble: A practical guide. London, UK: Open University Press.

The purpose of the conclusion

The conclusion is a chapter that should not be underestimated. The conclusion is your time to shine; your platform to state everything you have found out through your research and what this indicates. Furthermore, your conclusion is your chance to recommend as a practitioner in your field, so don’t pass up this opportunity in your dissertation writing!

Your conclusion should include:

• A brief summary of your key findings and essential results (try to avoid repetition of your introduction)
• An explicit account of the conclusions you have drawn from your research in relation to your research question, separating the confident conclusions from the uncertain
• An indication of why your research is important (to other researchers, practitioners, policy etc.)
• Recommendations for future research or future practice (within the realms of possibility!)
• A final statement to round off your dissertation; typically, a hedged prediction of the future or any explicit conclusions

(Skills You Need, 2019c; Taylor, 2009)

Reference List

A reference list is an absolutely essential component of your dissertation. every single work you mention in any chapter of your dissertation must be included in the reference list in the appropriate apa style. whilst there is no official guidance on how many references will sufficiently aid a dissertation, you should be reading widely and consulting more than just books and webpages..

Dissertation Tip #7

Don’t leave your reference list until last! Try using a referencing tool such as Mendeley to keep track of all your readings and automate citations for your dissertation report and the reference list. The University’s AIM sessions include Mendeley training and Organising Information , which equips you with the tools to manage your sources more effectively.

Additional Dissertation Sections 

The following sections might be essential for some courses, but optional for others. Please adhere to your module handbook in the first instance, or clarify with your dissertation supervisor. 

An abstract provides your reader with a ‘map’ to the structure of your dissertation and allows your reader to decide whether your dissertation is relevant to them (without reading the whole document). Your abstract should be written after you have completed your major chapters and therefore needs to be written in the past tense. It needs to describe the crucial elements of your dissertation in the fewest words possible, including:

• What the research question is and the aims and objectives
• Acknowledgement of a main theorist or theory (if applied)
• A short note on the main methods used
• A brief note on the major results
• Summary of the main conclusion and recommendations

An abstract should not include :

• Lengthy background information
• Waffle – be succinct and to the point
• Citations or references to other works
• Images, figures, tables
• Acronyms, abbreviations or subject-specific terminology

(University of Southern California, 2019)

TIP: Take a look at some of the journal articles you have read and note how they construct the abstract. These can act as a good model for this section of your dissertation.

Contents & Tables

Reports as standard require contents pages. You will need to include a table of contents, a list of figures and a list of tables so that your dissertation can be easily navigated. You can learn how to create these elements in your dissertation document, and more in the AIM Dissertation Formatting session. Book on Learning Space to attend!

Statement of originality

You will need to include a statement of originality in a standard format towards the beginning of your dissertation. This statement confirms that you have cited all sources within your work and that any work outside of these citations is your own. Good research is underpinned by academic integrity, including the acknowledgment of the work of others and having the confidence to undertake your own research and writing. Don’t fall at the final hurdle! If you are concerned about something, speak to your dissertation supervisor. Here is the  exact  statement that needs to be included:

I confirm that I have fully acknowledged all sources of information and help received and that where such acknowledgement is not made the work is my own.

Signed: …………………..

Dated: …………………..

Acknowledgements

The acknowledgements page is the part of your dissertation where you can thank anybody who has helped you during the research process. Typically, this should include your dissertation supervisor and any participants in your study; but be mindful of anonymity with the latter. The acknowledgements can extend to anyone you’d like to include and don’t need to be written in an academic style, as they are personal to you. However, don’t be unnecessarily offensive; your work will be viewed by many Marjon students in years to come, so set a good example!

A glossary is a list of key terms used in a specific context or technical terminology that might require some description in order to aid your reader’s understanding of the terms. A glossary is used to make your dissertation more available and accessible to a wider audience through clear explanations of words. You should only include a glossary if it is going to be of genuine use to your reader. A glossary should:

• Be alphabetical for easy look-up of terms
• Be restricted to words that your reader might need to clarify
• Not include acronyms – these should be included in a List of Acronyms if they are numerous

Bibliography/Supervision Log

A bibliography is a requirement for some disciplines, but not all. The same goes for a supervision log; this is a common requirement for teaching degrees. You should check your module handbook for any specific guidance. If you are required to include these, then they should be included directly after your reference list and listed in your Table of Contents. Your bibliography should be formatted in APA, alphabetically and with a hanging indent.

Remember: if you cite something from your bibliography in your dissertation then it needs to be moved to your reference list!

Think of your appendices as filing location for any essential documents that need to be submitted in conjunction with or referred to within your dissertation. Anything that supports or extends the main body of the dissertation should be submitted as an appendix. Traditionally, appendices are labelled A, B, C… with a short description of the contents, for easy referral within the main body of your dissertation. Things that typically get included in appendices are:

• Ethical clearance forms
• Consent forms
• Examples of blank questionnaires/interview questions/datasets
• Raw data from results
• Transcriptions of interviews or focus groups
• Coded data from thematic analysis

Your appendices are not suitable for the inclusion of material that you can’t fit into the allocated word count! If something is worth saying, the ensure you include it in the appropriate chapter of your dissertation and use artful editing to get within the word count limits.

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• Individual and group projects from 2015/16 - 2019/20 academic years for Civil and Mechanical Engineering are available on the open shelves in the Gallery.
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MSc Meat Science theses from 1979 to date and a small number of PhD theses. The majority of veterinary sciences PhD theses are housed in the Research Reserve.  See 'to find a University of Bristol thesis' section above for details of how to request.

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Collections of both Law and Earth Sciences theses.

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10. DISSERTATION AND FINAL ORAL EXAMINATION

In this Section, “dissertation” is used to cover both the Ph.D. dissertation and the M.S. thesis.

10.1. University and Department Regulations

• The Graduate Bulletin specifies those regulations pertaining to dissertations which have been set forth by the Graduate School. The dissertation must be prepared in accordance with the guidelines presented in the most recent version of the document entitled, Guide to the Preparation of Theses and Dissertations , available from the Graduate School. The style of referencing should adhere to the specifications in either the American Chemical Society Style Guide or the American Institute of Physics Style Manual , or another style guide if agreed upon by the student’s ACC.
• Time Limit. It is Graduate School policy that a candidate must satisfy all requirements for the Ph.D. degree within seven years after completing 24 credits in the Chemistry Graduate Program. In rare instances, the Dean of the Graduate School will entertain a petition to extend this time limit, provided it bears the endorsement of the GPD.

10.2. Reprints in Lieu of Manuscript

In lieu of a manuscript, the candidate may submit one or more reprints of published papers in journals which are acceptable to the dissertation committee provided that such papers are written exclusively by the candidate or the candidate’s contributions are clearly described for each manuscript. The candidate must obtain written permission from the publisher and from all co-authors to include the work in the dissertation. The format and instructions relating to published materials given in the Guide to the Preparation of Theses and Dissertations must be followed. Additional documentation for each manuscript should set forth:

• The candidate’s contributions to the published work;
• Purpose of the research, if not included in the original document;
• Historical setting, if not included in the original document;
• Additional details of archival interest (tables of data, etc.).

10.3. Oral Defense

As part of the procedure by which a dissertation is approved, the Chemistry Department requires a departmental colloquium followed by a formal oral defense before the candidate's examination committee.

• Composition of the examination committee: Three members (typically a student's ACC), with at least two members internal to the Chemistry program ( Faculty  or Affiliated Faculty ), with an additional member from outside the Department (the "Outside Member") are required for the Ph.D. Dissertation Defense. The student and research advisor will identify a qualified candidate to serve as the outside member of the committee, and establish that person’s availability. The external member of the committee should be an independent voice, and therefore should not be a collaborator on the research described in the dissertation. The names of committee members should be submitted to the GPC and the GPD and the Graduate School must approve the final composition of the examination committee. Faculty affiliates of the Chemistry Department and Graduate Program may not serve as outside members of doctoral defense committees in Chemistry. The University regulations governing the structure of the committee are described in the Graduate Bulletin .
• The student, in consultation with the examination committee, arranges the time and place for the defense and notifies the Department through the GPC. For a Ph.D. defense, the student must notify the GPD and GPC at least 4 weeks in advance of the scheduled date by submitting an electronic dissertation announcement form using the most recent template provided on the Graduate School website . The GPD then submits this form to the Graduate School for approval. Approval must be requested from the Graduate School at least 3 weeks before the intended defense date. Dissertation examination announcements must be posted in the Department. A copy of the notice is put into the student's file.
• Copies of the dissertation must be delivered to the examination committee at least two weeks in advance of the planned examination. Failure to meet this deadline may result in postponement of the defense.

10.4. Actions of the Examination Committee

The Dissertation Examination Committee can return the following judgments on the dissertation as a result of the Oral Defense:

• Acceptance.
• Acceptance with minor changes: This category requires the candidate and the Research Advisor to incorporate the minor changes, and explicitly calls for the signature (appendix) of all committee members at the conclusion of the defense.
• Acceptance with major changes: This category requires a reexamination of the corrected dissertation by the committee, but no repetition of the oral examination.
• Rejection: This category requires the student to prepare a new dissertation, and will generally involve further scientific work.

10.5. Deadlines

The initiative for the appointment of the Dissertation Examination Committee rests with the student in consultation with their Research Advisor. The Graduate School establishes a deadline each term (see the "Important Deadlines" section on the Graduation Information webpage ) for submission of the Examination Committee form, and it is the student’s responsibility to make sure this deadline is met.

The student who desires to receive a degree at a particular commencement must take the responsibility for learning about the deadlines for the various stages in the completion of the work and for informing the Research Advisor and the Chair of the Dissertation Committee of these matters.

Further restraints may be imposed by absences of members of the Dissertation Examination Committee. This should be taken into account in the process of nominating and screening potential members for the committee.

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All Geography Theses & Dissertations from UW Libraries .

Masters Theses, 1928-Present

• Hubert Anton BAUER  Tides of the Puget Sound and Adjacent Island Waters [1928]
• Wallace Thomas BUCKLEY  The Geography of Spokane [1930]
• Carl Herbert MAPES  The History and Function of the Map in Relation to the Science of Geography [1931]
• William Bungay MERRIAM  Geonomics of the Rogue River Valley [1933]
• James Allan TOWER  The Oasis of Damascus [1933]
• Vera C. CASS [Sawyer]  The Port of Stockton [1934]
• William Haskell PIERSON  A Regional Study of Texas [1934]
• Leonard Clarence EKMAN  The Geography of Occupance in the Skykomish Valley [1937]
• Harold Ellsworth TENNANT  The Columbia Basin Project [1937]
• Margaret TAYLOR [Carlstairs]  Intensification of Agriculture in Sub-tropical Japan [1939]
• Russel SHEE MCCLURE  The Hudson Bay Wheat Road [1939]
• Burton W. ATKINSON  The Historical Geography of the Snohomish River Valley [1940]
• Elmer ANDERSEN  The Eden-Farson Reclamation Project of Wyoming [1940]
• Woodrow Rexford CLEVINGER  The Southern Appalachian Highlanders in Western Washington [1940]
• Tim Kenneth KELLEY  The Geography of the Wenatchee River Basin [1940]
• Gertrude Louise MCKEAN [Reith]  Industrial Tacoma [1940]
• Chester Frederick COLE  Land Utilization on Vashon Island [1941]
• Violet Elisabeth RYBERG  Oasis Agriculture in Tacoma, Argentina [1942]
• Ernestine Annamae HAMBURG [Gavin]  Geography of Pen Oreille County Washington [1943]
• Enid Lorine MILLER [Stevens]  A Geographic Study of Jefferson and Clallam Counties Washington [1943]
• Marion E. MARTS  Geography of the Snoqualmie River Valley [1944]
• William Ross PENCE  The White River Valley of Washington [1946]
• Willert RHYNSBURGER  A Critical Bibliography of African Topographic Maps [1946]
• Richard M. HIGHSMITH, Jr.  Irrigation Agriculture in the Yakima Valley [1946]
• Herman Walter BURKLAND  The Yokohama Waterfront: A Study in Port Morphology [1947]
• Michael Perry MCINTYRE  Geography of the New Hebrides [1947]
• Elbert Ernest MILLER  Geography of Grant County, Washington [1947]
• Frederick William BUERSTATTE  The Geography of Whidbey Island [1947]
• Howard John CRITCHFIELD  The Geography of Boundary County, Idaho [1947]
• Oliver Harry HEINTZELMAN  The Urban Geography of Longview Washington [1948]
• Stanley Alan ARBINGAST  The Industrial Geography of Duluth, Minnesota [1948]
• Douglas Broadmore CARTER  The Sequim-Dungeness Lowland. A Natural Dairy Community [1948]
• Robert Nelson YOUNG  Geography of the Okanogan Valley [1948]
• John Olney DART  The Geography of the Roslyn-Cle Elum Coal Field [1948]
• Harold Ray IMUS  Land Utilization in the Sumas Lake District, British Columbia [1948]
• Donald Otto BUSHMAN  The Geography of Orcas Island [1949]
• Constance Demange CROSS  The Geography of Clackamas County, Oregon [1949]
• Roger Edward ERVIN  The Economy of Central Costa Rica [1949]
• Edward Clarence WHITLEY  Agriculture Geography of the Kittitas Valley [1949]
• Brian Henry FARRELL  The Study of an Evolving Habitat: Ahuriri Lagoon, New Zealand [1949]
• Keith Westherad THOMSON  The Manawatu Lowland of New Zealand [1949]
• Will F. THOMPSON, Jr.  Resources of the Western Aleutians [1950]
• Dale Elliot COURTNEY  Bellingham: An Urban Analysis [1950]
• Donald William MEINIG  Environment and Settlement in the Palouse, 1868-1910 [1950]
• Forrest Lester MCELHOE, Jr.  Physical Modifications of Site Necessitated by the Urban Growth of Seattle [1950]
• Clarke Harding BROOKE, Jr.  The Razor Clam Siliqua Patula of the Washington Coast and Its Place in the Local Economy [1950]
• Herbert Lee COMBS, Jr.  The Historical Geography of Port Townsend, Washington [1950]
• Wilfred Gervais MYATT  Urban Geography of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan [1950]
• Elaine May BJORKLUND  Changing Occupance in Davis County, Utah [1951]
• Francis William ANDERSON  The Urban Geography of Everett, Washington [1951]
• John Albert CROSBY  The Problem of Relief Representation on Maps [1951]
• Theodore HERMAN  The Manufacture of Aluminum Products in the State of Washington, as of June 30, 1950 [1951]
• Elizabeth SCHREIBER OXFORD  Phoenix: An Oasis in the Great American Desert [1951]
• Anthony SAS  The Coal Mining Industry in South Limburg, Netherlands [1951]
• Eva Kathleen DEKRAAY  Geography of Routt County, Washington [1951]
• John Richard HOWARD  Wichita – An Urban Analysis [1951]
• James Eugene BROOKS  Wahkiakum County, Washington: A Case Study in the Geography of the Coast Range Portion of the Lower Columbia River Valley [1952]
• Hazel Loraine LAUGHLIN  The La Connor Flats of Western Washington [1952]
• Gene Ellis MARTIN  Population and Food Production in the Philippine Province of Antique [1952]
• Dave Victoria GRAVES  A Geographical Study of Olympia, Washington [1952]
• William Reed HEAD  A Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of the Areal Arrangement of Retail Business in Communities and Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon [1952]
• Harold Earl BABCOCK  The Historical Geography of Devils Lake, North Dakota [1952]
• Jack Allen HARRISON  An Evaluation of Mackinder’s Heartland Theory in Light of Selected Pre-War Economic Developments in the Soviet Union [1952]
• Joseph LOTZKAR  The Boundary Country of Southern British Columbia. A Study of Resources and Human Occupance [1952]
• Thomas Edward STEPHENS  Temperatures in the State of Washington as Influenced by the Westward Spread of Polar Air Over the Rocky and Cascade Mountain Barriers [1952]
• Charles Dennis DURDEN  The Road System of San Juan County [1953]
• Harold Glenn LUNTEY  An Analysis of the Economic Benefits of Irrigation to Twin City Falls County, Idaho [1953]
• Francis E. SHAFER  Tourist Flow to the San Juan Islands [1953]
• Neil Collard FIELD  The Amu-Darya: Problems and Implications of Soviet Plans for Water Resource Development. An Application of Systematic Geographic Principles to Regional Research in the Soviet Field [1954]
• Burton Francis KELSO  Flow Pattern Changes in the Canadian Petroleum Industry. A Case Study in the Impact of Increased Oil Production Upon Petroleum Transportation in Canada [1954]
• Raymond Success MATHIESON  The Industrial Geography of Seattle, Washington [1954]
• Rodney STEINER  An Investigation of Selected Phases of Sampling to Determine Quantities of Land and Land-Use Types [1954]
• Fred Patrick MILETICH  The Historical and Economic Geography of Port Angeles, Washington [1954]
• William Angus ERWIN, Jr.  Medford as an Urban Economic Unit [1954]
• Willis Robertson HEATH  Limitations on Settlement in a Baja California Village – San Jose de Comodu [1955]
• Howard K. ALBANO  An Analysis of the Crop Production Potential of the Mongolian People’s Republic [1956]
• Ralph Edward BLACK  Maps and Mapping Agencies in Washington State – A Selective and Analytical Bibliography [1956]
• Howard Edward VOGEL  Maps and Maping Agencies in Washington State – A Selective and Analytical Bibliography [1956]
• William Robert Derrick SEWELL  The Conflict of Fish and Power: A Problem in the Water Resource Development of the Pacific Northwest [1956]
• Duane Francis MARBLE  The Spatial Structure of the Farm Business [1956]
• William Richard SIDDALL  I. Seattle and the Hierarchy of Central Places in Alaska; II. Wholesale-Retail Trade Ratios as Indices of Urban Centrality; III. A Historical Study of the Yukon Waterway in the Development of Interior Alaska [1956]
• Brian Joe Lobley BERRY  Geographic Aspects of the Size and Arrangement of Urban Centers: An Examination of Central Place Theory with an Empirical Test of Hypothesis of Classes of Central Places [1956]
• Rajanikant Nilkanthrao JOSHI  The Cotton Textile Industry of Bombay City. A Locational Analysis [1956]
• Chen WANG  I. The Role of Irrigation Ponds in the Agricultural Development of the Taoyuan Tableland, Taiwan; II. Irrigated Agriculture in Imperial Valley, California; III. Ch’ientao: An Irrigation Region of Northwestern China [1956]
• Robert Martin BONE  The Development and Significance of Tea Cultivation in the Soviet Union [1957]
• Carlos B. HAGEN  The Azimuthal Equidistant Projection [1957]
• Richard Leland MORRILL  An Experimental Study of Trade in Wheat and Flour in the Flour Milling Industry [1957]
• John David NYSTUEN  Locational Theory and the Movement of Fresh Produce to Urban Centers [1957]
• Richard Ellis PRESTON  I. Wenatchee, Washington: A Study in Community-Industry Relations. II. Java: A Study in Population and Settlement Geography [1957]
• Waldo Rudolph TOBLER  An Empirical Evaluation of Some Aspects of Hypsometric Colors [1957]
• William Frank KOHLER  An Investigation of the Feasibility of Making a Preliminary Classification of Soils from Aerial Photos and An Exploratory Field Investigation of the Soils, Vegetation and Terrain of the Copper River Martin-Bering Glacier Lowland of Alaska [1957]
• Ruth Ellen Marken KROMANN  Rural Settlements: Form and Function, with Southern Jutland, Denmark as an Example [1957]
• Nancy Houts NEWTON  The Evolution of Manufacturing in the Central Industrial Region of the U.S.S.R. [1957]
• Arthur Jacob DIENO  The Geography of the Southern Okanogan Valley of ritish Columbia [1957]
• Michael Francis DACEY  The Minimum Expectation Method for Computation of the Service Component of the Urban Economic Base [1958]
• Roger E. PEDERSON  The Procurement of Fruits. An Empirical Evaluation of the Factors of Fruit Procurement [1958]
• John Francis KOLARS  The Development and Use of Coal in Relation to the Turkish Energy Base [1958]
• Ernest LUCERO  Suggested Examination of Acculturation Aspects of Milpa Agriculture as Related to Resistance to Change [1958]
• Jeremy Herrick ANDERSON  The Agricultural Development of Yakutia [1959]
• John Graham RICE  Ideological Theory Underlying the Distribution of Industry in the U.S.S.R. [1959]
• Richard Louis EDWARDS  A Survey of Cotton Production on the Irrigated Lands of Soviet Central Asia [1959]
• Julian Vincent MINGHI  The Conflict of Salmon Fishing Policies in the North Pacific [1959]
• Charles Buckley PETERSON III  The Evolution of the Politico-Territorial System of the Ukraine Since January 1917 [1960]
• Richard William KEPPEL  Attitude Measurement as a Function of Map User Requirements Analysis [1960]
• John James SOUTHWORTH  Alternative Routes for the Great Slave Railroad: Some Geographical Considerations [1960]
• Visvaldis SMITS  Impact of Collectivization on Latvian Agriculture [1960]
• Eugene Thomas WEILER  I. Cost Determinants of River Basin Development: The Columbia River Power System Case; II. An Illustration of the Use of the Basic-Service Ratio in Seattle, Washington [1961]
• William James SHAW II  The Classification and Graphic Representation of Railroad Data [1961]
• George Kazuo SAITO  An Investigation of Some Visual Problems of Cartographic Lettering [1962]
• Robert G. JENSEN  Competition for Land in the Humid Subtropics of Soviet Georgia [1962]
• Ronald Everett SHOEMAKER  Screen Gray Value Uses for Cartographic Representation [1962]
• Donald Wesley PATTEN  The Air Traffic Patterns of the Seattle-Tacoma Hub [1962]
• Dexter Alden ARMSTRONG, Jr.  Loss of Detail in Halftone Reproduction of Aerial Photographs: An Investigation [1962]
• George Harold HAGEVIK  Locational Tendencies and Space Requirements of Retail Business in Suburban King County [1963]
• Richard Waldo WILKIE  Cartography as an Effective Tool in the Study of Social Change [1963]
• John Edward George BOYMAN  Alaska’s External Trade 1951-58: Some Characteristics and Developments [1963]
• Yun CHA  Political-Geographical Appraisal of Divided Korea [1963]
• Michael Iwan ANDERSON  Rangoon: A Study of Changing Functions of a Southeast Asian City [1963]
• Ladd JOHNSON.  The Cowlitz River Development: History, Effects, and Implications [1963]
• Keith Way MUCKLESTON  The Function of the Volga as Route of Transportation [1963]
• Robert Philip WRIGHT  The Russian Empire and the U.S.S.R.: A Cartographic and Tabular Presentation of Population: 1897-1959 [1964]
• Harris Henry HAERTEL  Irrigation, Mosquitoes, and Encephalitis: A Problem of Water Resource Development [1964]
• Paul Daniel MCDERMOTT  A Preliminary Investigation of the Suitability of Aerial Photographs for Developing Visualization and Comprehension of Map Symbols in the First, Second, and Third Grades [1964]
• James Robert HENDERSON  Depressed Areas and Location Theory Case Study: Cambridge, Ohio [1964]
• Frederick Joseph NAMMACHER  The Nineteenth Century Basic Ferrous Metallurgical Industry of South Russia: A Geographical Appraisal [1964]
• Roger Lee THIEDE  The Nineteenth Century Basic Ferrous Metallurgical Industry of South Russia: A Geographical Appraisal [1964]
• Marvin Alan STELLWAGEN  Housing Expenditure Patterns in Seattle 1950-1960 [1964]
• Per Sur HENRIKSEN  The Faroe lslands: A Political Geographic Case Study [1965]
• Kerry Josef PATAKI  Shifting Population and Environment Among the Auyana: Some Considerations and Phenomena and Schema [1965]
• Khalida Nuzhat QURESHI [Nasir]  The Political-Geographical Implications of “Pukhtoonistan” [1965]
• Evan DENNEY  Economic Development, A Case Study of the Caroni River Region, Venezuela [1965]
• Frederick Abraham HIRSH  Spatial Distribution of the Electronic Industry in the United States [1965]
• Richard Owen MERRITT  Land Use Allocation for Military Purposes: The U.S. Marine Corps at Pickel Meadows, California [1965]
• Stephen Keith NEWSOM  A Computer Program Which Constructs Interrupted Cylindric Map Projections [1965]
• Frank James QUINN  National Involvement in a Small International River Valley: The Okanogan, British Columbia and Washington [1965]
• Huibert VERWEY  The Problem in the Development of the Kulunda Steppe [1965]
• Kenji Kenneth OSHIRO  Jiwari Seido in the Central and Southern Ryukyus [1965]
• Harry Holman MOORE  Standardization of Geographic Names [1965]
• Philip Rust PRYDE  A Locational Analysis of the Cotton Textile Industry of the U.S.S.R. [1965]
• Philip Patrick MICKLIN  Electric Power Development in the Angaro-Yenisey Region of the U.S.S.R. [1966]
• Elisabeth Warriner PUTNAM  An Analysis of the Spatial Variation in Selected Agricultural Practices in the Georgia Piedmont [1966]
• Jack Francis WILLIAMS  China in Maps, 1890-1960. A Selective and Annotated Cartobibliography [1966]
• Allen Ralph SOMMARSTROM  The Impact of Human Use on Recreational Quality: The Example of the Olympic National Park Backcountry User [1966]
• David Lloyd STALLINGS  Automated Map Reference Retrieval [1966]
• Ernest Harold WOHLENBERG  Some Spatial Aspects of the Wood Pulp Industry in the United States and Canada [1966]
• Alan Anthony DELUCIA  SEMSID: An Automated System for Graphic Display of Series Map Status Information [1966]
• Daniel Benjamin Scott PRATHER  The Cities of the Soviet Second Metallurgical Base: A Study of the Origin and Distribution [1967]
• Barbara Mary BRERETON [Haney]  Viticulture and Viniculture in the U.S.S.R. [1967]
• Geoffrey John Dennis HEWINGS  Persistence of Precipitation and No Precipitation Described by a Markov Chain Probability Model: Case Studies from Selected Stations in Washington State [1967]
• Everett Arvin WINGERT  Tonal Enhancement and Isolation in Aerial Photographic Interpretation [1967]
• Donald Allen OLMSTEAD  Trend-Surface Analysis of Geographical Data Surfaces [1968] [Sherman]
• Alice Bent THIEDE  An Examination of the Map as a Conveyor of Propaganda [1967] [Sherman]
• Kenneth Joseph LANGRAN  The Political and Administrative Control of Water Pollution in International River Basins [1968] [Cooley]
• Joshua David LEHMAN  The Problem of Freeway Noise in Urban Areas [1968] [Ullman]
• Dennis Gene ASMUSSEN  I. Railway Timber Flows in the Soviet Union; II. The Conservation Commission: An Alternative Beginning for the Creation of Effective Environmental Policy; III. Wild and Scenic Rivers: Private Rights and Public Goods [1969] [Jackson]
• Thomas Pierce BOUCHARD  Politics and Environment: The Struggle for Wild and Scenic Rivers [1969] [Cooley]
• Lawrence E. GOSS Jr.  The Rise and Fall of Downtown Tacoma: Its Causes and Consequences [1969] [Boyce]
• Charles Edwin GREER  Chinghai Province: The Transformation of a Cultural Frontier [1969] [Chang]
• Dean R. LOUDER  Non-Urban Stagnation in a Regional Setting: The Case of the Pacific Northwest [1969] [Morrill]
• Victor Lee MOTE  Some Factors in Siberian Development: With Emphasis Upon the Western Siberian Butter Industry [1969] [Jackson]
• George Franklin SHERWIN Jr.  Automobile Ownership Patterns: A Study of Variables Affecting Automobile Ownership in Seattle [1969] [Boyce]
• Richard Robert SLOMON  The Hohsi Region Within the Han Frontier System : An Historical Geographic Approach [1969] [Chang]
• Dona Shirlene STROMBOM  The Kirkland Business District: A Case Study of the Discrepancy Between Potential Trade Area and Retail Responses [1969] [Boyce]
• Daniel Perry BEARD  Expansion of Outdoor Recreation Facilities: Two Case Studies Financed Under the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act in Washington State [1969] [Cooley]
• Philip Stephen KELLEY  Control of the Ocean Floor: A Conflict Between Reality and Idealism [1969] [Sherman]
• Cristine Jenner CANNON  Mapping Western North America and Puget Sound [1969] [Sherman]
• Robert James BARNES.  The Structural-Functional Approach to Socio-Spatial Organization [1970] [Cooley]
• Edward Fisher BERGMAN  Politics and the Geography of Transportation [1970] [Jackson]
• James Jefferson KYLE  The Nisqually Delta Controversy [1970] [Cooley]
• Paul J. MCCRAW  I. Determinism and Possibilism in the Case of China’s Economic Development; II. China’s Industrial Process and Reorientation in Foreign Trade [1970] [Chang]
• Barbara Ann WEIGHTMAN  Commercial Fertilizer Manufacturing in Communist China: An Analysis of the Development Process and Growth Pattern of a Newly Emerged Industry [1970 ][Chang]
• Larry Martin SVART  Field Burning in the Willamette Valley: A Case Study of Environmental Quality Control [1971] [Cooley]
• David A. MUNGER  A Survey of the Western Red Cedar Shake Industry of the Pacific Northwest [1970] [Marts]
• John Robert BRADEN  An Analysis of Models of Investments in Urban Outdoor Recreation Facilities [1971] [Beyers]
• Gerald Ray PETERSEN  A Survey of the Growth and Nature of Medical Geography with Special Emphasis on Its Content, Methods and Relationships to the Health Sciences [1971] [Sherman]
• Eugene James TURNER  The Functional Role of Animation in Cartography [1971] [Sherman]
• Randolph James SORENSEN  Indian-American Land Tenure Conflict: A Case Study of the Shoshone- Bannock Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Fort Hall, Idaho [1971] [Jackson]
• Olen Paul MATTHEWS  American Indian Cultural Change and Government Policy [1971] [Velikonja]
• Marilyn L. CAYFORD  Transportation in Micronesia [1971] [Fleming]
• Werner Johann LINDEMAIER  A Basic Study of an Endangered Natural Resource: The Ocean Shoreline of Washington State [1971] [Marts]
• Arnold Lee TESSMER  Transport Development in Thailand; Strategic Requirements and Economic Growth [1971] [Ullman]
• Kenneth Allan POPP  Gaming and the Evaluation of Population Forecasts. [1972] [Morrill]
• Saud H. RAAD  Towards an Assessment of Environmental Impact of Urban Mass Transit and Political Integration in Lebanon [1972] [Jackson]
• David William BAYLOR  Silver, Lead, and Zinc in the Economic Development of Shoshone County, Idaho [1972] [Thomas]
• Michael Lee TALBOTT  Movements of Soviet Oil and Gas Since World War II [1972] [Jackson]
• Philip ANDRUS  At Home in Tuwanasavi: The Perceived Integrity of the Hopi Environment [1972]
• Roger Earl DOBRATZ  A Special Theory of General Systems in Geography [1972] [Ullman]
• Lawrence Laird NYLAND  The Scandinavian Experiment: An Analysis of Various Aspects of Scandinavian Social Space Within the Confines of Western Europe [1972] [Fleming]
• Art CHIN  The Economic Regionalization of Hainan Island South China (1950-1965) [1973] [Chang]
• Leon C. JOHNSON  Black Migration, Spatial Organization and Perception in Philadelphia’s Urban Environment, 1638-1930 [1973] [Boyce]
• Fedva DIKMEN  Patterns of Turkish Migration [1972] [Morrill]
• Diane Lynn MANNINEN  The Role of Compactness in the Process of Redistricting [1973] [Morrill]
• Charles Everett OGROSKY  New Approaches to the Preparation and Reproduction of Tactual and Enhanced Image Graphics for the Visually Handicapped [1973] [Sherman]
• Gerald Ray JEWETT  Changing Social Objectives and the Columbia Basin Project: Past, Present, Future [1973] [Marts]
• James Robert BUCKNELL  The Impact of Avalanches in Three Selected Areas of the Cascades: A Study of Avalanches as Natural Hazards [1974] [Marts]
• William Redford ALVES  Three Papers on the Spatial Dynamics of Development: I. Critique of an Urban System Diffusion Model: Hudson’s (1969) Diffusion in a Central Place System. II. Decentralization of Manufacturing Location Theory of the Firm III. The Commuting Field and Its Spread Effects: Seattle, 1960-1970 [1974] [Beyers]
• John Philip KING  The Global Pattern of Wide-Body Jet Routes: A Study of Network Determination [1974] [Fleming]
• Moses Pui-Chuen LAI  Coal Industry in Mainland China: An Analysis of Its Changing Pattern of Growth and Distribution [1974] [Chang]
• Kathleen Elizabeth O’BRIEN [Braden]  The Petroleum Resource of West Siberia [1974] [Jackson]
• James Albert BUSS  Grouping, Regionalizing, Classifying: An Introduction [1974] [Morrill]
• John Timothy GRIFFIN  Uncertainty and the Strategy of Flexibility in the Space-Economy [1975] [Beyers]
• George Herbert HARMEYER  Rhine River Basin Water Pollution Problem [1975] [Fleming]
• Robert Graham MITTELSTADT  Landscape Realization in the Cinema: The Geography of the Western Film [1976] [Fleming]
• Jerome R. BROTHERS  The Subway Network in the Evolution of the Tokyo Mass Transit System [1976] [Velikonja]
• Kathryn Lynn ERICKSON  Land Settlement in Tropical Africa for Population Pressure and Agricultural Development [1976] [Velikonja]
• Thomas Randall REVIS  Geographic-Economic Problems and Development of a Soviet Population Policy [1976] [Jackson]
• Lawrence Alvin WOODWARD  International Influence Fields: A Study in Political Geography [1976] [Jackson]
• Hazel Lynn SINGER [Griffith]  The Spatial Distribution of Federal Funds for Research and Development [1976] [Thomas]
• Joseph P. CHURCHILL  Skid Row in Transition [1976] [Boyce]
• Diana DENHAM  Gypsies in Social Space [1976] [Velikonja]
• Jean CULJAK SHAFFER  An Evaluation of Fare-Free Transit in Downtown Seattle [1976] [Boyce]
• Lawrence Leonard MANSBACH  An Investigation of Locational Behavior as Viewed Through the Processes of Firm Growth [1976] [Krumme]
• David Alan FANSLER  Downtown Retailing: A Quarter-Century of Decline [1977] [Hodge]
• Sallie Ann MILLER [MacGregor]  Nonmetropolitan Growth as an Expression of Residential Preference [1977] [Morrill]
• George D. COOK  The Presentation of Two Algorithms for the Construction of Value-By-Area Cartograms [1977] [Youngman]
• David Paul BEDDOE  An Alternative Cartographic Method to Portray Origin-Destination Data [1978] [Sherman]
• John Henry BANNICK Jr.  Unbalanced Product Specialization and the Location of Branch Plants [1978] [Morrill]
• Donna Lee KLEMKA  Pacific Northwest Electrical Energy Planning. Problems of Institutional Redesign [1978] [Marts]
• Michael Kay MELTON  A Study of the Visual Perception of Analytical Hill-Shading Technique [1978] [Youngman]
• Paula Noel TWELKER  Ethnic Communities in Western Settlement [1978] [Velikonja]
• Masami HASEGAWA  Depopulation: Recent Trends in Rural-Urban Migration in Japan [1978] [Kakiuchi]
• Valerie Jeanette LEACH [HODGE]  Upfiltering and Neighborhood Change in the Madrona Area of Seattle, Washington [1978] [Hodge]
• Lawrence John KIMMEL  Siberian Development and Its Implications for the U.S.S.R. [1978] [Jackson]
• Wendy Terra PRODAN  Wilderness Review Procedures: Evaluating Alaska’s Wildlands [1979] [ZumBrunnen]
• Philip George HIRTES  Orienteering and Orienteering-Mapping: Implications for Geography and Cartography [1979] [Sherman]
• Francis Eugene SHERIDAN  The Gentrification of the Capitol Hill Community of Seattle in the 1970’s [1979] [Morrill]
• Lynn Phyllis WEINER [Anderson].  A Spatial Analysis of Regional Economic Change in the United States Between 1967 and 1975 [1979] [Beyers]
• Tamer KIRAC  Formulating Regional Input-Output Models. A Case Study of Turkey [1979] [Beyers]
• Chris Edward LAWSON  Hardrock Mineral Development Policy for National Forest Land [1979] [Beyers]
• Bridget TRUPIANO [Diekema]  Spatial Variation in Soviet Living Standard: 1959-1975 [1979] [ZumBrunnen]
• Jody Hamaka Matsubu YAMANAKA  The Geography of the U.S. Air Cargo Industry [1979] [Fleming]
• Nangisai Nason Kudzirozwa GWARADA  Historical Development and Future Aspects of Agriculture in Zimbabwe [1979] [Hodge]
• Elizabeth Carol HOLLENBECK  Open Space at the Urban Periphery [1979] [Mayer]
• Della Geneva O’CONNOR  Port Development in the People’s Republic of China: A Geographical Perspective [1979] [Chang]
• Craig Smith CALHOON  Population Redistribution and Regional Economic Structure in the System of U.S. Metropolitan Regions, 1965-1975 [1980] [Beyers]
• Kent Hughes BUTTS  Alberta’s Energy Resources: Their Impact on Canada [1980] [Jackson]
• James William HARRINGTON  Tan-Zam: Economic, Technological, and Political Perspectives on a New Transport Route [1980] [Thomas]
• Peter Haynes MESERVE  Convergence: The Unsummoned Response [1980] [Jackson]
• Claudia Ann SWEENY  The Effects of Equity Policies on Agricultural Mechanization in the People’s Republic of China [1980] [Chang]
• Paul WOZNIAK  Zoning in Urban Expansion and Its Urban Form Implications [1980] [Hodge]
• Christopher L. DOUM  Maps for Promotional Purposes: The Map in Travel [1980] [Sherman]
• Holly Jeanne MYERS-JONES  A Geographical Analysis of Political Opposition to Busing in Seattle [1980] [Morrill]
• Howard John TIERSCH  Network and Schedules: A Look at Airline Strategies. [1980] [Mayer]
• Sheila Jo MOSS  Stress, Change and A Sense of Place: Some Thoughts on Providing Care for Cancer Patients [1980] [Mayer]
• Jacob Henry SCHNUR  The Geographic Implications of Federally Established Fair Market Rents: Case of Seattle, Washington [1980] [Hodge]
• James Scott MACCREADY  Technological Processes and Geographical Dimensions of the Product Life Cycle [1981] [Thomas]
• Michael Robert SCUDERI  An Examination of the Spatial Behavior of Wilderness Uses, With Special Reference to Campsite Selection – A Case Study in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks [1981] [Beyers]
• Mary Elizabeth MONSCHEIN  Color in Cartography and Landsat Image Comparison for Land Use Change Detection: A Feasibility Study [1981] [Youngman]
• Mary Ann CIUFFINI  The Discriminability of Textures as Area Symbols on Tactual Maps and Graphics for the Visually Handicapped [1981] [Sherman]
• Laura Lee MCCANDLESS  Two Studies in Cartography: A Review of Color Perception Research and the Design of Maps in Travel Advertising [1981] [Sherman]
• Terry Lynn STORMS  The Crossed-Slit Anamorphoser: An Analysis of Its Characteristics and Utility in Cartography [1981] Sherman]
• John Michael MACGREGOR  Spatial Equity of Mass Transit Service: The Seattle METRO [1981] [Hodge]
• John Brady RICHARDS  Technology Transfer from Japan to the Transportation Sector of the Soviet Far East, 1970-1980 [1981] [Jackson]
• Richard Terry CAMPBELL  Industrial Growth and Regional Development in Japan: The Case of the Electric Power Industry [1981] [Kakiuchi]
• David WOO  Maps as Expression: A Study of Traditional Chinese Cartographic Style [1981] [Sherman]
• Patrick Henry BUCKLEY  A Study of Migration in India: Regionalization of India Based Upon 1961, 1971 Migration Streams [1982] [ZumBrunnen]
• Michael William CORR  The Lake Biwa Watershed: Problems of Agricultural and Industrial Pollution [1981] [Morrill]
• Larry Allen DIEKEMA  Spatial Variations of Defense Contract Awards by DOD Contractors [1981] [Beyers]
• Marjorie Beth PALMER  Residential Woodfuel Use in Western Washington, Estimated 1980 Consumption and Year 2000 Forecast [1981] [Beyers]
• Richard Arthur SNYDER  Regional Variations in Air Passenger Variations [1981] [Mayer]
• Matthew Okpani ALU  Cartography as an Essential Tool in Regional Planning and Development [1982] [Fleming]
• John Arthur BOWER Jr.  The Pacific Northwest Power Supply System: the Present and Future Operation of a Power Pool [1982] [Beyers]
• Lori Etta COHN  Residential Patterns of the Jewish Community of the Seattle Area, 1910-1980 [1982] [Mayer]
• Marilee G. MARTIN  The Geographical Distribution of Federal Civilian Employment, 1967-1978 [1982] [Beyers]
• Charles Robert ROSS, Jr.  Agricultural Land Conversion: A National Perspective and a Local Level Multiple Objective Planning Application [1982] [ZumBrunnen]]
• Janet E. FULLERTON  Transit and Settlement in Seattle, 1871-1941 [1982] [Velikonja]
• Elizabeth KOHLENBERG  Geography and the Demand for Mental Health Services [1982] [Mayer]
• Karen Louise MCFAUL  Municipal Annexation: A Study of the Urban Political Geography of King County, Washington, 1970-1980 [1982] [Hodge]
• Gene Edward PATTERSON  The Effects of Oil-Field Pollution on Residents in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, Area [1982] [ZumBrunnen]
• Judith PEFFERMAN  The Evolution of Land Transportation in Pre-Modern Japan [1982] [Kakiuchi]
• Stanley Winfield TOOPS  The Political Integration of Yunnan [1983] [Chang]
• Dean Lee HANSEN  The Newly Industrialized Countries. Industrialization Strategies and Geographical Trade Dependence [1983] [Fleming]
• Anjan BANERJEE  Structural Comparison of Three Regional Economies: A Case Study of Georgia, West Virginia and Washington [1983] [Beyers]
• Garret Harold ROMAINE  Analysis of the Creation of the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument [1983] [Beyers]
• Ahmed Eid AL-HARBI  Maps and Mapping Activities in Saudi Arabia; Annotation and Cartobibliography [1983] [Sherman]
• Mirko BOLANOVICH  I. Role of the Enterprise Zone in the Formation of Growth Poles in the Inner City. II. The Relationship of Race as an Identifiable Submarket to Housing Demand [1983] [Hodge]
• Richard Taber HAND  On the Value of Estuaries as Public Goods [1983] [Beyers]
• Jay Richard LUND  Living Aboard as an Element of an Urban Landscape [1983] [Mayer]
• Suzette Lorraine CONNOLLY  Geography of the Northwest Wine Industry: Development and Outlook [1983] [Beyers]
• Lydia M. HAGEN  Landscape Perceptions and Changes. A Case Study: The Journal of Susanna Moodie by Margaret Atwood [1984] [Jackson]
• Elizabeth Starnes SELKE  The Geographical and Seasonal Characteristics of Suicide in Washington State, 1973-1977 [1984] [Mayer]
• John Stewart SNOW  A Microcomputer Based Stereophotogrammetry System [1984] [Sherman]
• Mary Ellen BURG  Habitat Change in the Nisqually River Delta and Estuary Since the Mid-1800’s [1984] [ZumBrunnen]
• Michael Gerhard PARKS  Intra-Metropolitan Residential Mobility: A Simulation Approach [1984] [Hodge]
• Andrew Campbell DANA  An Evaluation of the Yellowstone River Compact: A Solution to Interstate Water Conflict [1984] [Marts]
• Peter N. V. SAMPLE  CHROMA: An Interactive Choropletic Mapping Package for Analysis in Geography [1984] [Hodge]
• Glenn Eric SIEFERMAN  The Location of Veterinary Services in the United States; and: Health and Development [1985] [Mayer]
• Frederick Ross TILGHAM  The Prospect for High-Speed Passenger Trains in the United States [1985] [Fleming]
• Becky Johnston REININGER  POLYMAP: A Microcomputer Based Geographic Information Display System [1985] [ZumBrunnen]
• Jon A. BOYCE.  Tsunami Hazard Mitigation: The Alaskan Experience Since 1964 [1985] [Marts]
• Peter Reppert GALVIN  The Private Plot in Transition. Recent Development in Soviet Private Agriculture [1985] [Jackson]
• Frank William LEONARD  A Study in Creating Multi-Level Tactile Maps and Graphics for the Blind Using Liquid Photopolymer [1985] [Sherman]
• Thomas M. PERRY  A Cognitive Approach to Instructional Techniques and Color Selection in Mapping [1985] [Sherman]
• Jana Claire HOLLINGSWORTH  Maps for the Fun of It: Tourist Maps and Map Use by Recreational Travelers [1986] [Sherman]
• Nancy Lee HUTCHEON  Automation in Municipal Planning Agencies: A Case Study [1986] [Hodge]
• Jonathan Kent VAN WYK  Spatial Variation in the Heavy Truck Market: A Study in Marketing Geography [1985] Krumme]
• Ric VRANA.  Electronic Atlases: Expanding the Potential for Graphic Communication [1985] [Hodge]
• Victoria B. ADAMS  The Effects of Recreational Development on Rural Landscapes and Communities [1986]
• Susan C. DANVER  The Historical Geography of Misty Fiords National Monument and Wilderness and Its Relationship to the Economy of Ketchikan, Alaska [1986] [Marts]
• Marcy A. FARRELL  Rural Alaskan Native Participation in Alaska’s Coastal Management Program [1986] [Sherman]
• Marjorie Beth RISMAN  An Examination of Peak-Season, Single-Family Residential Water Consumption in Seattle, Washington [1986] [ZumBrunnen]
• Elizabeth Leverett TAYLOR  Causation and Extent of Indian Tribal Influence on Environmental Protection in Washington State [1986] [Marts]
• Edward J. DELANEY  A Geographic Perspective on Invention [1986] [Morrill]
• R. Gordon KENNEDY  A Search for Definitions of Cartographic Accuracy [1986] [Sherman]
• John J. GRUBER  Potential for Automobile Energy Conservation in the United States: A Simulation Approach [1986] [ZumBrunnen]
• Robert Matthew RUDERMAN  The Role of Programming Languages and Cartographic Data Structure in Computer-Assisted Cartography [1987] [Hodge]
• Corrin M. CRAWFORD  The Utility of Cartographic Devices in Market Research [1987] [Sherman]
• Kathleen A. EVANS  Regional Administrative Centralization of Water Management Authority in the United States: Ideal or Impossibility? [1987]Morrill]
• Kenneth Riley HERRELL  Natural Language Processing of Spatial References for Cadastral Cartography [1987] [Nyerges]
• Jacqueline KROLLOP KIRN  The Skagit River – High Ross Dam Controversy: A Case Study of a Canadian-U.S. Transboundary Conflict and Negotiated Resolution [1987] [Marts]
• Douglas O. STRANDBERG  Oil and Gas Transport System of the North Sea [1987] [Fleming]
• Gardner PERRY III  Size as Related to Efficiency in United States Counties [1987] [Sherman]
• Joan TENG  The Evolution of the Chinese Seaport System [1987] [Fleming]
• Eileen ARGENTINA  Growth Management in King County: The King County Comprehensive Plan [1987] [Hodge]
• Brooke U. KENT  Central City – Suburban Variation in Female and Male Earning in the United States [1988] [Hodge]
• Andrew C. ROSS  A Spatial Analysis of the Residential Histories of Hodgkin’s Disease Cases [1988] [Mayer]
• Daniel EWERT  Public Policy and Race Relations in Malaysia: Some Geographical Dimensions [1988] [Jackson]
• Theodore HULL  The Filter-Down” Process of Nonmetropolitan Industrialization: A Case Study Approach [1988] [Krumme]
• Anne FAULKNER  Development, Women’s Status, and the Nature of Work: The Incorporation and Marginalization of Women In the Ecuadorian Economy, 1974 to l982 [1988] [Lawson]
• Steven W. LARSON  A Proposed Strategy for the Incremental Development of Geographic Information System Technology in King County, Washington [1988] [Chrisman]
• Kathyrn Y. MAURICH  Private Land in Lake Chelan National Recreation Area: An Integrative Approach to Landscape Protection for Stehekin, Washington [1988] [Beyers]
• Carlyn E. ORIANS  School Desegregation and Residential Segregation: The Seattle Metropolitan Experience [1988] [Morrill]
• Thomas J. NOLAN  A Land Information System Network for the Puget Sound Region [1988] [Nyerges]
• Charles P. RADER  A Functional Model of Color in Cartographic Design [1989] [Hodge]
• Nancy Kopsco RADER  Determining Lateral Boundaries for River Conservation Areas: The Case of the Upper Delaware River [1989] [ZumBrunnen]
• D. Timothy LEINBACH  Factors Affecting the Adoption of Transferred Technologies in Less Developed Countries: Some Theoretical Considerations [1989] [Thomas]
• Dan WANCURA  A Transportation Cost Approach to Integrated Freight Transportation [1989] [Fleming]
• Thomas W. CHOW  An Explanation of High-Tech Activities in Britain [1989] [Fleming]
• Amanda WHELAN  Geographic Aspects of Obstetrical Care in Washington State [1989] [Mayer]
• Sophia EBERHART  Assessing the Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries: Nigerian Palm Oil Industry Case Study [1989] [Thomas]
• Michael T. WOLD  After the Boldt Decision: The Question of Inter-Tribal Allocation [1989] [ZumBrunnen]
• Terri Lynne CARL  Residential Property Values In Seattle Neighborhoods [1990]
• Patricia Ortiz CHALITA  Meditacion en el Umbral (Meditation on the Brink): The Woman-Headed Household in Urban Latin America as Possibility and Constraint [1990] [Lawson]
• Julianna SISSON FORMAN  Is Money All That Matters? A Study of Recycling in Seattle [1990] [Morrill]
• George Walker HORNING  Information Integration for Geographic Information Systems in a Local Government Context [1990] [Nyerges]
• Frank W. MATULICH  Financial Transactions As Geographic information. [1990] [Nyerges]
• James Ethan BELL  Ideology and the Built Environment: Evolving Socio-Spatial Structures in Tashkent [1990] [Jackson]
• William Samuel ALBERT  The Use of Behavioral Data in a Geographical Information System for Transportation Planning [1990] [Nyerges]
• Kevin Patrick McCOLLISTER  Two-paper option: 1. Disease Ecology and Human Landscape Alteration: The Case of Lyme Disease in the United States; 2. Ecological Scale and Conceptions of Disease Causation in Urban Areas: The Example of AIDS in the United States [1990] [Mayer]
• Robert A. ROOSE  The Geographic Variables of Language Mobiliation: The Case of Belgium [1990] [Jackson]
• Curt NEWSOME  Transboundary Marine Water Pollution in the Puget/Vancouver Basin [1990] [Jackson]
• Teresa Anna KENNEDY  An Analysis of the Impact of Traffic Congestion on King County Employers and Possible Mitigation Measures [1990] [Hodge]
• Alice Marie QUAINTANCE  People Without Places: The Response of Capitol Hill Churches to the Homeless [1991] [Hodge]
• Marcus Kalani LESTER  Two paper option: 1. A Conceptual Model of Multidimensional Times for Geographic Information Systems; 2. A Comparison of Two Methods for Detecting Positional Error in Categorical Maps [1991] [Chrisman]
• Samuel Gary SHAW  Infrastructure, Development and the Mexican Border: A New Synthesis [1991] [Lawson]
• Thomas EDWARDS  Virtual Worlds Technology as an Interface To Geographical Information [1991] [Chrisman]
• Joseph EMMI  Japanese Economic and Spatial Change In Theoretical Perspective: A Case Study in the Execution, Results and Implications of Neo-Schumperterian Development Policy [1991] [Thomas]
• Timothy OAKES  The Spatial Constitution of Ethnicity and Tourism in Southwest China: An Appeal for a Theoretically Rejuventated Cultural Geography [1991] [Lawson]
• Trudy SUCHAN  Useful Categories: A Cognitive Approach to Land Use Categorization Systems [1991] [Chrisman]
• Meredith FORDYCE  Two-paper option: 1. Medical Geography: Its Practical and Philosophical Contexts; 2. The Utility of Small Area Analysis in Identifying Variations in Utilization of Hospital Services and the Implications of Those Variations [1991] [Mayer]
• Laurie L. ASMAR  What Are We Doing? The Actions and Perceptions of Service Providers Assisting the Suburban Homeless [1991] [Hodge]
• Joseph C. SPARR  Shaping Urban Growth: Urban Containment and Urban Concentration in Portland, Oregon [1991] [Hodge]
• Carrie S. ANDERSON  A GIS Development Process: Preparing an Organization For The Introduction of GIS Technology [1991] [Nyerges]
• Alan N. FORSBERG  The Cocaine Trade: Exploitation and Social Change Amongst the Bolivian Peasantry [1992] [Lawson]
• Nedra J. CHANDLER  The Search for Community Vision: Between Collective Lying and Learning [1992] [Hodge]
• Rose MESEC  A Gender and Space Analysis of Seattle’s Lesbian and Gay Communities [1992] [Hodge]
• Jon Hofheimer NACHMAN  Sex, Race and Role in World Geography Textbooks: Representations of Africans South of the Sahara and Americans of the United States [1992] [Fleming]
• Keeley S. WELFORD  The Construction of a Framework for Studying Home Based Work in Advanced Economies [1992] [Beyers]
• Charles K. DODD  Siting Hazardous Facilities in the Soviet Union: The Case of the Nuclear Power Industry [1992] [ZumBrunnen]
• Delia C. ROSENBLATT  Black Gold in Western Siberia: The Oil Industry and Regional Development [1992] [Jarosz]
• Cedar C. WELLS  The Ranking of Puget Sound Watersheds for Nonpoint Pollution Control: A Policy Analysis [1992] [ZumBrunnen]
• Brian D. LUDERMAN  A Geography of Financial Centers [1992] [Fleming]
• Michael MOHRMAN  Primary Health Care In Seattle, 1950-1990 [1992] [Mayer]
• Katherine HARRIS  Spatial Patterns of Helping Neighbor Networks for the Elderly: A Case Study [1992] [Mayer]
• Charles VAVRUS  The Intersection of Class and Ethnicity: Land Tenure and Indian Community in Colonial Oaxaca, 1519-1821 [1992] [Lawson]
• Gabriel GALLARGO  Urban-Spatial Behavior of Hispanic Immigrants [1992] [Hodge]
• Christine ROBERTS  Asthma Mortality in Washington State, 1980-89 [1992] [Mayer]
• Rachel SILVEY  Changing Migration Patterns of Women in Java: A Multiscale Analysis [1992] [Hodge]
• Irina GUSHIN  Trihalomethanes in the California State Water Project: A Study of Their Geography, Chemistry and Public Policy Implications [1992] [ZumBrunnen]
• Mary NEUBERGER  The Exodus To Oregon. The Emigration of Russo-Ukranian Pentecostals to the American West, 1988-93 [1993] [Velikonja]
• Ivan GATCHIK  A Topological Data Model and Some Algorithms for Three Dimensional GIS [1993] [ZumBrunnen]
• David BARBER  Understanding Jobs-Housing Balance: Implications On Affordable Housing Needs and Employment Accessibililty For the Urban Poor in King County, Washington [1993] [Hodge]
• Robert HOIBY  Congestion Pricing: The Effects of the Toll Ring in Oslo, Norway [1993] [Hodge]
• Craig DALBY  A Plan For the Implementation of GIS in the National Park Service, Pacific Northwest Region [1993] [Chrisman]
• Dion MATHEWSON  The Impacts of Economic Restructuing on Woman-Headed Households, 1980-1990: Connections Between Employment and Housing [1993] [Lawson]
• Nicole DEVINE  The Metropolis In Transition: Gender, Urban Restructuring and Residential Communities [1993] [Hodge]
• Terrance L. ANTHONY  Approaching Development: The Necessity Of Multiscalar Analysis [Beyers]
• Are BJORDAL  Hydrologic Modeling With Smallworld GIS. An object-oriented approach [1994] [Chrisman]
• Peter Sterling HAYES  Value Out, Value In: The Bone River and Wilapa Watersheds, 1854-1994 [1994] [Beyers]
• Rita ORDONEZ  Land Use Conflict and Sacred Space: Blackfeet Indians and the Badger-2 Medicine [1994] [Jackson]
• Jonathan SMITH  Cultural Change and Depopulation in the Americas [1994] [Mayer]
• Charles HENDRICKSEN  (two paper option). 1) A Model of the Migration Process; 2) Prescriptive Models in A Spatial Decision Support System: Intelligent Agents and Workflow Procedures [1994] [Nyerges]
• Deborah OHMANN  Social and Economic Change in Rural Pacific Northwest Communities [1994] [Beyers]
• Frederick ROWLEY  Urban Restructuring and the Spatial Redistribution of Men’s and Women’s Work Opportunities [1994] [Hodge]
• Joshua SKOV  Retail Firm Behavior In Global Food Systems [1994] [Jarosz]
• Brigit R. BAUR  Pronasol: Decentralization and Democratization of Development [1995] [Lawson]
• Renee F. GARBER  (two-paper option). 1. A New Approach to Introductory Courses in Undergraduate Geography Education 2. The Israeli Health Care System and the Arab Minority [1995] [Mayer]
• Lena Lynn HERON  Wandering the Wilderness Between Plan and Market: Contemporary Land Reform and Agricultural Restructuring in Russia [1995] [Jarosz]
• Stacy Lyn BIRK-RISHEIM  Digital Data for the 1994 Central California Environmental Sensitivity Index [1995] [Nyerges]
• Aaron Patrick GILL (two-paper option)A GIS data dictionary to support the site selection decision process & map displays to support the site selection decision process [1995] [Nyerges]
• Jeffrey Brandt MILLER  Concepts for Group Spatial Decision Support Systems for Political Campaigns [1995] [Nyerges]
• Sarah M. HILBERT  Revitalization of identity and place: The Zapatista Rebellion and the challenge to Mexican nationalism [1995] [Lawson]
• Mary Katherine GOODWIN  A locational analysis of abortion in Washington State [1996] [Mayer]
• Peter Alexander CLITHEROW  An analysis of factors affecting recent household travel behavior in the Puget Sound region [1996] [Morrill]
• Richard Allen MOORE  World Wide Web tools for collaborative development of a geographic information system database for the Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP) [1996] [Nyerges]
• Lise Kirsten NELSON  Neoliberalism as contested ideological terrain: State practices and peasant agencies in Michoacan, Mexico [1996] [Lawson]
• Peter Birger NELSON  The what and why behind the “West at War.” An empirical and theoretical analysis of migration to nonmetropolitan areas in the Pacific Northwest [1996] [Beyers]
• Gregory Paul SEGAS  The evolution of a hydraulic state: The case of Uzbekistan [1996] [ZumBrunnen]
• Douglas Grant MERCER  Rural Women founders of business service firms: New questions about old spaces [1996] [Beyers]
• Robert Alfred NORHEIM  Is there an answer to mapping old growth? Examination of two projects conducted with remote sensing and GIS [1996] [Chrisman]
• Terri L. SUZUKI  Towards a more complete understanding of poverty: examination of life stages, gender, and race from a geographic perspective [1996] [Morrill]
• Monica Weiler VARSANYI  Proposition 187: Xenophobia, the feminized immigrant, and public spaces of reproduction in a transnational era [1996] [Mitchell]
• Matthew James BARRY  Multiple Perspectives in Multimedia Maps [1996] [Nyerges]
• Susan Elizabeth GRIGSBY  GIS Applications in a Coho Salmon Habitat Study of the Stillaguamish Watershed [1996] [Nyerges]
• Martha Steinert COMPTON  Data models and the worlds they create: A comparison of remotely sensed riparian zones and GIS delineated riparian reserves in Canyon Creek watershed [1997] [Chrisman]
• Lara Anne DETWEILER  Alaskan surimi, the `Other, Other White Meat’: Globalization, migration, fish production, and modernity on the last frontier [1997] [Morrill]
• Caroline Archibald LANGE  Intermarriage on the medieval frontier: Undermining and defining the Anglo-Scottish border and technology, sexuality, and frontiers: Historical and geographic perspectives on Western pornography [1997] [Mayer]
• Yuko MERA  International labor migration trends in Asia. [1997] [Chan]
• Jessica Louise PETERS  Casinoization of native American cultures: Destruction or creation of the “authentic” Indian? [1997] [Jarosz]
• Cheryl Lynn CRANE  Therapeutic landscapes: A cast study of feminist health care [1998] [Jarosz]
• Brian David HAMMER  Circular migration in poverty countries in China [1998] [Chan]
• Charles Rene TOVARES  Is everybody going to San Antone? A metropolitan scale analysis of Chicano and Anglo migration to Texas [1998] [Hodge]
• Margaret Dickinson HAWLEY  (two paper option) 1.Filipino World War Two Veterans and Social Theory: A Critique of Racial Formation in the US and Immigrant Acts (“Racial Formation in the US” and “Immigrant Acts” should both be italicized, since they are book titles); 2.’Would you like rice with that?”: Globalization, Cultural Heirarchies and Filipina American Food Service Workers [1998] [Jarosz]
• Charles Malcolm O’DONNELL  Initiative 676. An attempt to reduce firearm violence in the State of Washington [1998] [Mayer]
• Mary Katherine KAEHNY  Citizen representation in growth management: An evaluation of Seattle’s neighborhood planning process [1999] [Hodge]
• Eugene W. MARTIN  Conservation geographic information systems in Ecuador: An actor-network analysis [1999] [Chrisman]
• Samuel ADAMS  GIS on the Rez: A Case Study of GIS Implementation On the Colville Indian Reservation, WA, USA [1999] [Nyerges]
• Chris DAVIS  Urban Stream Habitat Restoration: Thinking At A Landscape Scale [1999] [Beyers]
• Desiree DESURRA  Women’s Labor Resistance and Transnational Organizing: New Frameworks for Resistance and Theory [1999] [Lawson]
• Richard HEYMAN  Geographical Thought, Ideology, and the University: The Humboldt Brothers and Daniel Coit Gilman [1999] [Jarosz]
• Joanna SURGEONER  The North: Dissociation, Intimacy, and Beyond [1999] [Jarosz]
• Catherine VENINGA  The Political Economy of New Urban Space: A Case Study of Northwest Landing [1999] [Mitchell]
• Lili Catherine HEIN  The Location of Foreign Direct Investment In China [2000] [Chan]
• Xiaohong HOU  Experimenting with Migration Flow Representation Using GIS Software Components [2000] [Chrisman]
• David A. JESCHKE  A Carbon Cycle Model of Forestry in the Russian Far East [2000] [ZumBrunnen]
• Shawn Kenneth MCMULLIN  Trade Area Assessment and Customer Prospecting: A Case Study Utilizing Geographic Information Technologies [2000] [Harrington]
• Brigg Bromley NOYES  Human/Nature: Exploring Individual Interactions with American Wilderness [2000] [Jarosz]
• Daniel Alejandro REYES  Between County and State Data: Nuances of Archaeological Database Consolidation for GIS Modeling [2000] [Chrisman]
• Carolina KATZ  Remapping Rights and Responsibilities: A Legal Geography of the 1996 Welfare and Immigration Reforms [2000] [Sparke]
• Molly VOGT  Data Tiles in a Checkerboard Forest: Challenges of Data Integration with GIS [2000] [Chrisman]
• Hilary Nagle MCQUIE  Boomtown & busts: Unlayering Seattle’s “drugscapes” [2000] [Jarosz]
• Walter D. SVEKLA  Representation in GIS-based simulation model integration: A case study of earthquake loss estimation and mitigation [2002] [Nyerges]
• Linda Bich-Kieu WASSON  Exploring discursive constructions of contemporary Vietnam in the context of tourism and economic development [2001] [Lawson]
• Kristen Sedley SHUYLER  Telling salmon stories: A narative analysis of Nooksack struggles for treaty fishing rights in Washington State [2001] [Jarosz]
• Colleen Moira DONOVAN  Negotiating protest and practice: Development, rural livelihoods, and the Brazilian Landless Movement (MST) [2001] [Lawson]
• Maria E. FANNIN  Birth as a spatial process: Themes of control, safety, family and natural in “homelike” birthing rooms [2002] [England]
• Maureen Helen HICKEY  On “The Beach”. Travelers’ dreams, Hollywood magic, and development dilemmas in Southern Thailand [2002] [Lawson]
• Manija SAID  Cultivating the forbidden flower: War, vulnerability, and the geopolitics of opium in Afghanistan [2002] [Jarosz]
• M arcia Rae ENGLAND  Who’s afraid of the dark? Not Buffy! A feminist examination of the paradoxical representations of public and private space in Buffy the Vampire Slayer [2002] [Brown]
• Angela K. LEUNG  The role of technology and knowledge in foreign direct investment and regional economic development: a case study of Shenzhen in China [2002] [Chan]
• Joseph A. MILLER  Scales of Quality: a multilevel approach to coronary artery bypass grafting in New York state [2002] [Mayer]
• Dana MORAWITZ  All bare permanently or all bare fleetingly? Tracking land cover conversions and forestry practices through time by comparing spectrally unmixed remote sensing data with forest practice act data: a case study on the urban forestry [2002] [Chrisman]
• Joseph  LLOBRERA  Nutrition and the infant formula controversy: A case study of maternal dietary diversity and infant feeding practices in the Philippines [2002] [Jarosz]
• Joshua P. NEWELL  Land use and land cover on an urbanizing fringe: policy drivers and implications for conservation and forests of Russia’s far east: Rising threats of corruption and consumption [2002] [ZumBrunnen]
• Nandini Narayani VALSAN  Conceptualization and perpetuation of identity among middle class Indian women in Washington state [2002] [Withers]
• Christopher FOWLER  Missing the boat: The role of transportation networks in shaping global economic relations [2003] [Ellis]
• Jonathan GLICK  Neighborhood catch-22? Considering the place(s) of revitalization in the gentrification of Washington, D.C. [2003] [Withers]
• Andrew James WENZL  Consumption side up: The importance of non-earnings income as a new economic base in rural Washington state [2003] [Beyers]
• Robert Ian DUNCAN  Beneath Transition: Dialogic Landscapes of Modernisms and the St. Petersburg Subway [2004] [Brown]
• Chris CHAMBERLIN  Nationalism and development in the Indonesian census [2004] [Ellis]
• Steven GARRETT  (2 paper option) (1) Coming back to the foodshed: Geographic imagination, pedagogy and social action. (2) Short, thin or obese? Comparing growth indexes of children from high- and low-poverty areas [2004] [Jarosz]
• Caroline FARIA  Gendering roles and responsibilities: Privileging prevention in the Ghanaian fight against HIV/AIDS [2004] [Jarosz]
• Joseph EGGER  A political ecological analysis of the emergence of epidemic dengue/dengue hemorrhagic fever in Trinidad [2004] Mayer]
• Kevin RAMSEY  Stakeholder involvement and complex decision making: A case study into the design and implementation of a GIS for supporting local water resource management [2004] [Nyerges]
• Antonia BENNETT  (two paper option) (1) A review of new evidence for the aging and the dying processes. (2) Floating migrants in Guangdong: The invisible numbers behind China’s economic growth [2004] [Chan]
• Dominic CORVA  Localization, Globalization and the World Social Forum: Towards a Process Geography of Counterhegemonic Mobilization [2004] [Sparke]
• Derik ANDREOLI  Fuzzy Concepts and Fuzzy Borders: An interactions-based approach to defining the geography of industrial clusters [2004] [Beyers]
• Steve HYDE  Discursive strategies of displacement: a revisionist History of the anti-Chinese movement in the Puget Sound region of North America, 1885-1886 [2004] [Beyers]
• Naheed Gina AAFTAAB  Developing educated Afghan women: a critical case study [2004] [Jarosz]
• Anne WIBERG-ROZAKLIS  The educational gaze: the public classroom and competing national discourses post-September 11th [2005] [Mitchell]
• Erin GAULDING  Locating the gap between academic and school geographies: a study of truth in middle and high school social studies textbooks [2005] [Brown]
• Matthew W. WILSON  Implications for a public participation geographic information science: analyzing trends in research and practice [2005] [Nyerges]
• Elise BOWDITCH  The significance of geography in the transition to adulthood: the significance of geography for adult outcomes in intergenerational mobility [2005] [Withers]
• Ann BARTOS  Through a pink lens: the geographical imaginations of “Code Pink” [2005] [Brown]
• Dawn COUCH  From public works to the projects: a regulationist perspective on public housing [2005] [Ellis]
• Victoria BABBIT  Embodying borders: trafficking, prostitution and the moral (re)ordering of Sweden [2005] [Herbert]
• Megan TONEY  Media representations of women and credit card debt: a context analysis of two Seattle newspapers [2005] [England]
• Erica SIEBEN  Patterns of racial partnering of mixed-race individuals [2005] [Ellis]
• Jeff MASSE . Pure is Elsewhere: Bottled Water and the Geography of  Lack  [2006] [Jarosz]
• Sarah IVES  Contesting ‘National’ Space: Soap Operas in Post Apartheid South Africa [2006] [Jarosz]
• Serin HOUSTON  Spatial Stories: The Racial Discourses of Mixed-Race Households in Tacoma, Washington [2006] [Ellis]
• Rowan ELLIS  “Dravida Nadu for Dravidians”: Discourse on place and identity in early and mid-twentienth century Tamil Nadu [2006] [Mitchell]
• Cale BERKEY. Neoconservative Ideology and Geospatial Homeland Security at the City of Seattle [2006] [Nyerges]
• Doris OLIVERS. Neoliberal articulations: methodologies for the study of globalization and Counter-hegemonic dispersions: The World Social forum model [2006] [Sparke]
• David JENSEN. Homeless1@ spl.org : taking the bus to the Internet [2007] [Beyers]
• (Charles) Todd FAUBION. HIV/AIDS Care in South Africa: Examining Treatment Possibilities and the Context of Regressive Social & Health Policies Post-Apartheid [2007] [Mayer]
• Michalis AVRAAM. Geographic foundations as an interdisciplinary framework [2007] [Nyerges]
• Rebecca BURNETT. Relocating the welfare mother: Neoliberal discourses on women in the culture of poverty [2007] [Lawson]
• Heather DAY. Competing visions for the hemisphere: the role of the Hemisphere Social Alliance in constructing alternatives to the FTAA [2007] [Lawson]
• Juan GALVIS. The state and the construction of territorial marginality: The case of the 1961 land reform in Colombia [2007] [Jarosz]
• David MOORE. Equity: Environmental justice and transportation decision-making processes [2007] [Withers]
• Tricia RUIZ. Exploring the links between school segregation and residential segregation: A geographical analysis of school districts and neighborhoods in the United States, 2000 [2007] [Withers]
• Charu VERMA. Spatial tactics and protest zones: The zoning of dissent since 9/11 [2007] [Herbert]
• Anneliese STEUBEN. Segregated pedagogies in an era of standardization: Stories of progressive teaching in the Seattle metropolitan area [2007] [Mitchell]
• Jesse AYERS. Valuing natural amenities in spatially variable contexts, an hedonic pricing study in King County, WA [2007] [Beyers]
• Elizabeth UNDERWOOD-BULTMANN. Enforcing behavior: Transgression and spatial politics of zoning [2008] [Herbert]
• Zhong WANG. On-line public participation: Formalization and implementation [2008] [Nyerges]
• Michelle BILODEAU. Place-Based Suicide: The ‘Scene’ and the Unseen Meanings of the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge [2008] [Mayer]
• Anna MCCALL-TAYLOR. Care, Gender, and Households’ Pursuit of Employer-Based Health Insurance [2009] [Withers]
• Jack NORTON. Rethinking First World Political Ecology: The Case of Mohawk Militancy [2009] [Jarosz]
• TIM STILES. The Social Construction of Geospatial Technology and Sustainability in the Private Sector [2009] [Elwood]
• MILISSA ORZOLEK. Understanding Recovery: Belonging and Responsibility in Post-Katrina New Orleans [2009] [Elwood]
• Patricia LOPEZ. An Historically Situated Case For Children’s Right To Health: The Birth of the Model Cities Clinic of Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic [2009] [Mitchell]
• Gary SIMONSON. Forgotten Stayers: The Impacts of Gentrification on Long-term Working-class Residents in Columbia City [2009] [Brown]
• Mike BABB. Filling in the Blanks: Missing Data in the US Census and the Race Question [2009]  [Ellis]
• Kathryn GILLESPIE . Killing with Kindness? Reconceptualizing Humane Slaughter [2010] [Jarosz & Lawson, co-chairs]
• Josef ECKERT.  Tropes 2.0: Strategic Mobilizations of Geoweb Participation [2010] Herbert]
• Cindy GORN . “A Place Like This”: Producing Psychiatric Disablement In Adult Homes [2010] [Brown]
• Tiffany GROBELSKI . The Dynamics of Scale in EU Environmental Governance: A Case Study of Integrated Permitting in Poland [2010] [ZumBrunnen]
• Amy PIEDALUE.  Solving Violence Through Development: India’s National Family Health Survey-3 and the Framing of Domestic Violence [2010] [England & Lawson, co-chairs]
• Margaret RAMIREZ .  Food as an Engine: Race, Privilege and the Transformative Potential of Food Justice Work in Seattle [2011] [Lawson]
• Allison SCHULTZ.  (Re)Placing ‘The Fattest Americans’: A Critical Geography of Obesity and Diabetes Among the Akimel O’otham [2011] [Jarosz]
• Theron STEVENSON  . Balkan Ghosts in Heavenly Gardens: How Nature Parks and Tourism are Making a European Croatia [2011] [Sparke]
• Christopher LIZOTTE . The Children of Choice: Public Education Reform and the Evolution of Neoliberal Governance [2011] [Mitchell]
• Monica FARIAS.  Embodying Economic “Crisis”: Argentina’s Middle Classes and the Cultural Politics of Difference [2011] [Lawson]
•   Stefano BETTANI .’Queering’ Straightness: Heterosexual Experiences of Homonormative Spaces in Seattle [2012] [Brown and England]
• Elyse   GORDON . Cultivating Good Workers: Youth Gardening, Non-Profits and Neoliberalization  [2012] [Elwood]
• Skye NASLUND . Portraits of Parasites: Geographic Imaginaries in the Production of Health Knowledge [2012] [Mayer]
• Natalie WHITE.  Who is Transnational? Considering Ideologies of Return in Guatamalan Origin Communities  [2012] [Lawson]
• Jason YOUNG.  Selecting a Conceptual Basemap: Critical GIS and Political Theory [2012] [Elwood]
• Lynda TURET . Building Transformative Place-Making: Lessons From Washington Hall [2013] [Mitchell]
• Yolanda VALENCIA.  Leyes Crueles – Lugares Violentos: Mexican Women’s Testimonios Along the Migration Journey’ [2014] [Lawson]
• William MCKEITHEN .Governing Pet Love: ‘Crazy  Cat Ladies,’ Cultural Discourse, and the Spatial Logics of Inter-Species Intimacies [2014] [Brown]
• Annie   CRANE.  Uncaring Systems and the Production of Trans* Subjectivities: Exploring Digital Spaces of Trans* Care [2014] [Brown]
• Lila GARCIA.  The Revolution Might Be Tweeted: Digital Social Media, Contentious Politics and the Wendy Davis Filibuster [2014] [England]
• Kidan ARAYA.  Examining Claims of Food Justice in the Oxfam International’s Agenda: A Case Study of the GROW Campaign  [2015] [Jarosz]
• Meredith KRUEGER.  Care and Capitalist Crisis in Anglophone Digital landscapes: The Case of the Mompreneur [2015] [Lawson]
• Key   MACFARLANE.  “Noisy Sphere”: Sonic Geographies in the Era of Globalization [2015] [Mitchell]
• Margaret WILSON.   Ebola Exceptionalism: On the Intersecting Political and Health Geographies of the 2014-2015 Epidemic [2015] [Sparke]
• Phillip NEEL. Logistics Cities: Poverty, Immigration and Employment in Seattle's Southern Suburbs [2016] [Bergmann]
• Lee FIORIO. Neighborhoods Neighboring Neighborhoods: Adjacency, Sprawl and Tract-level Racial Change in the U.S., 1990 to 2010 [2016] [Ellis]
• Robert ANDERSON. From Non-native "Weed" to Butterfly "Host": Knowledge, Place and Belonging in Ecological Restoration [2017] [Biermann]
• Olivia HOLLENHORST. A Rights Based Approach to Humanitarian Data Protection Policies [2017] [Mayer]
• Edgar Sandoval. "Being Undocumented and Gay, Just Like Death, Means Having to Navigate Two Worlds": Geographies of Disidentifications and UndocuQueer as World-Making [2017] [Ybarra]
• Rebecca STUBBS. Place, Policy, and Parity: Examining Spatial and Socioeconomic Contributions to Hospital Charge Markup and MapSuite: An R Package for Thematic Maps [2017] [Ellis]
• Rod PALMQUIST. Does the NGO Sector Undermine National Health Providers? How to Measure Migrations of Health Workers Between Public and NGO Care Providers on a Cross-Country Basis [2017] [Sparke]
• Maeve DWYER. Urban Citizenship, Quality Domesticity, and the Queer Precarity of Rural Migrants in Beijing [2018] [Chan]

NON-THESIS M.A. (Special Projects)

• Jonathan Ferns MOULTON  Boundary & Arcedit. [1985]
• David Kenney BALTZ  Micro CENMAP: A Microcomputer Mapping Program for Census Data. [1986]
• John Hall GRIFFITH III  “SAGIS” User’s Guide. [1987]
• Jerome J. CORR  Proportional Symbols Program. [1988]
• Philip Michael CONDIT  Quality Report For Three Components of Seattle’s Geographic Base File. [1990]
• Ernest Moore  The Evolution of a GIS: Case of Thurston County, Washington. [1991]

Doctoral Dissertations, 1930-Present

• Hubert Anton BAUER  The Tide as an Environmental Factor in Geography. [1930]
• Albert Lloyd SEEMAN  The Port of Seattle. A Study in Urban Geography. [1930]
• James Allen TOWER  Land Utilization in Mason County, Washington. [1936]
• Carl Herbert MAPES  A Map Interpretation of Population Growth and Distribution in the Puget Sound Region.[1943]
• Arch Clive GERLACH  Precipitation of Western Washington. [1943]
• Willis Bungay MERRIAM  Thew Rogue River Valley and Associated Highlands.[1945]
• Tim Kenneth KELLEY  The Commercial Fishery of Washington. [1946]
• John Clinton SHERMAN  The Precipitation of Eastern Washington. [1947]
• Lucile CARLSON  Human Energy, Physical and Emotional, Under Varying Weather Conditions. [1948]
• John Henry THOMPSON  Geography of the Truckee and Carson River. [1949]
• Edna Mae GUEFFREY  Historical Geography of New Zealand (850 A.D. – 1840 A.D.) [1950]
• Richard Morgan HIGHSMITH, Jr.  Agricultural Geography of the Eugene Area. [1950]
• Clark Irwin CROSS  Geography of the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming [1951]
• Elbert Ernest MILLER  Agricultural Geography of Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho [1951]
• Howard John CRITCHFIELD  The Agricultural Geography of Southland, New Zealand [1952]
• Oliver Harry HEINTZELMAN ; The Dairy Economy of Tillamok County, Oregon. [1952]
• Willert RHYNSBURGER  The Puget Sound Drift Plain: Land Resources of Human Occupance. [1952]
• Albert William SMITH  The Development of the Kauri-Gum Industry and Its Role in the Economy of Northland, N.Z. [1952]
• Manuel John LOEFFLER  Phases in the Development of the Land-Water Resource in an Irrigated River Valley, Colorado. [1953]
• John Olney DART  The Renton-Sumner Lowland of Western Washington. [1953]
• Donald William MEINIG  The Walla Walla Country: 1805-1910. A Century of Man and the Land. [1953]
• Keith Westhead THOMSON  The Dairy Industry of England and Wales Since the Establishment of the Milk Marketing Board. [1953]
• Theodore HERMAN  An Analysis of China’s Export Handicraft Industries to 1930 [1954]
• William Rodney STEINER  An Investigation of Selected Phases of Sampling to Determine Quantities of Land and Land-Use Types.[1954]
• Woodrow Rexford CLEVINGER  The Western Washington Cascades: A Study of Migration and Mountain Settlement. [1955]
• Midori NISHI  Changing Occupance of the Japanese in Los Angeles County, 1940-1950.[1955]
• Charles Dennis DURDEN  Some Geographic Aspects of Motor Travel in Rural Areas – Empirical Tests of Certain Geographical Concepts of Location and Interaction.  [1955]
• Stanley Alan ARBINGAST A Geographic Study of the Pattern of Manufacturing in Texas.[1956]
• Robert Martin TAYLOR  International Mail Flows: A Geographic Analysis Relating Volume of Mail to Certain Characteristics of Postal Countries. [1956]
• Neil Collard FIELD  The Role of Irrigation in the South European U.S.S.R. in Soviet Agricultural Growth: An Appraisal of the Resource Base and Development Problem.& [1956]
• Burton Lawrence ANDERSON  The Scandinavian and Dutch Rural Settlements in the Stillaguamish and Nooksack Valleys of Western Washington [1957]
• James Eugene BROOKS  Settlement Problems Related to Farm Size in the Columbia Basin Project, Washington [1957]
• Douglas Broadmore CARTER  The Relation of Irrigation Efficiency to the Potential Development of Irrigated Agriculture in the Pacific Northwest. [1957]
• Francis William ANDERSON  Functional Interrelationship of Urban Centers[1958]
• Brian Joe Lobley BERRY  Shopping Centers and the Geography of Urban Areas. A Theoretical and Empirical Study of the Spatial Structure of Intraurban Retail and Service Business. [1958]
• Clyde Eugene BROWNING  The Structure of the Mexico City Central Business District: A Study in Comparative Urban Geography. [1958]
• Willis Robertson HEATH ; Maps and Graphics for the Blind; Some Aspects of the Discriminability of Textural Surfaces for Use in Areal Differentiation. [1958]
• John Doneric CHAPMAN  Land Classification in British Columbia. A Review and Appraisal of the Land Utilization Research and Survey Division. [1958]
• Dale Elliot COURTNEY  Problems Associated with Predicting Land Use in Low Latitude Humid Regions: A Case Study of the San Sebastian-Rincon Area, Puerto Rico. [1959]
• John Albert CROSBY  A Geographical Analysis of Seattle’s Wholesale Trade Territory. [1959]
• Duane Francis MARBLE  Transport Inputs at Urban Residential Sites. A Study in the Transportation Geography of Urban Areas.  [1959]
• Richard Leland MORRILL  A Normative Model of Trade Areas and Transportation: With Special Reference to Highways and Physicians’ Services.[1959]
• William Richard SIDDALL  Idiographic and Nomothetic Geography: The Application of Some Ideas in the Philosophy of History and Science to Geographic Methodology. [1959]
• Fleming Stanley MOORE  The Role of Floriculture in the Agriculture of Florida. [1959]
• John David NYSTUEN  Geographical Analysis of Customer Movements and Retail Business Locations: (1) Theories; (2) Empirical Patterns in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and (3) A Simulation Model of Movement [1959]
• William Wheeler BUNGE Jr.  Theoretical Geography. [1960]
• Michael Francis DACEY  Identification of Patterns on Maps with Special Reference to Data Reduction for Systems Analysis.  [1960]
• Robert Charles MAYFIELD  An Analysis of Tertiary Activity and Consumer Movement: The Spatial Structure of Ludhiana and Jullundur Districts, Punjab, in Terms of Central Functions and the Range of a Central Good. [1961]
• Ronald R. BOYCE  Comparative Central City Spatial Structure: Trends in the Location and Linkage of Selected Commercial Activities. [1961]
• Waldo Rudolph TOBLER;  Map Transformations of Geographic Space.  [1961]
• Sen Dou CHANG  The Chinese Hsien Capital: A Study in Historical Urban Geography.  [1961]
• Arthur GETIS  A Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry into the Spatial Structure of Retail Activities.  [1961]
• Julian Vincent MINGHI  Some Aspects of the Impact of an International Boundary on Spatial Patterns: An Analysis of the Pacific Coast Lowland Region of the Canada-United States Boundary.  [1962]
• Robert D. PICKER  Industrial Development in Central Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan: A Study of a Third Metallurgical Base in the Soviet Union.  [1962]
• Astvaldur EYDAL  Some Geographical Aspects of the Fisheries of Iceland.  [1963]
• Louis HAMILL  A Preliminary Study of the Status and Use of the Forest Resources of Western Oregon in Relation to Some Objectives of Public Policy.  [1963]
• Robert Allen LEWIS  Early Irrigation in West Turkestan.  [1964]
• Andrew Lee MARCH  Landscape in the Thought of Su Shi (1036-1101).  [1964]
• Robert Granville JENSEN  Soviet Agricultural Regionalization and Price Zonation.  [1964]
• Deane Richard LYCAN  Defense-Space Research and Development Contraction Expenditures: Analysis and Some Implications of Their Areal Patterns.  [1964]
• William Marvin ROBERTS, Jr.  Soviet Economic Regionalization in the Pre-Plan Period.  [1964]
• Jeremy Herrick ANDERSON  The Soviet Corn Program: A Study in Crop Geography.  [1964]
• Anne BUTTIMER  Some Contemporary Interpretations and Historical Precedents of Social Geography: With Particular Emphasis on the French Contributions to the Field.  [1964]
• William Robert Derrick SEWELL  Economic and Institutional Aspects of Adjustment to Floods in the Lower Fraser Valley.  [1964]
• Robert William MCCOLL  The Rise of Territorial Communism in China 1921-1934. The Geography Behind Politics.  [1964]
• John Lynden KIRBY  A Geography of Han China (206 B.C. – A.D. 221) According to the  Shi Chi , the  Han Shu , and Related Texts.  [1964]
• Bob Randolph O’BRIEN  The Yellowstone National Park Road System: Past, Present and Future.  [1965]
• Douglas Knowles FLEMING  Coastal Steel Production in the European Coal and Steel Community 1953 to 1963.  [1965]
• Elmer A. KEEN  Some Aspects of the Economic Geography of the Japanese Shipjack-Tuna Fishery.  [1965]
• Calvin Gus WILLBERG  Problems in Establishing an Automated Mapping System.  [1965]
• Gunter KRUMME  Theoretical and Empirical Analyses of Patterns of Industrial Change and Entrepreneurial Adjustments: The Munich Region.  [1966]
• Harold BRODSKY  Location Rent and Journey-to-Work Patterns in Seattle.  [1966]
• Guy Perry Frederick STEED  A Framework for the Study of Manufacturing Geography: With a Consideration of the Nature and Process of Manufacturing Changes in Northern Ireland 1950 to 1964.  [1966]
• John Brian PARR  Regional Development and Public Policy: North-West England and the Post War Period.  [1967]
• William Bjorn BEYERS  Technological Change and the Recent Growth of American Aluminum Reduction Industry.  [1967]
• Marvin Alan STELLWAGEN  An Analysis of the Spatial Impact of Federal Revenue and Expenditures; 1950 to 1960.  [1967]
• Ihor STEBELSKY  Land Tenure and Farm Holding in European Russia on the Eve of Collectivization.  [1967]
• David Williams WILCOXSON, Jr.  The Economic Geography of the Contemporary Steel Industry in the American West.  [1967]
• Robert Michael PEARCE  Land Tenure and Political Land Authority: The Process of Change and Land Relations and Land Attitudes in Vietnamese Villages of the Mekong Delta Since 1945.  [1968]
• Warren Emil HULQUIST  The Geographic Structure of the Soviet Sugar Industry.  [1968]
• David STRAUSZ  Specialty Crop Agriculture in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Hops: A Case Study.  [1968]
• Harvey Eric HEIGES  Intra-Urban Residential Movement in Seattle, 1962-1967.  [1968]
• Gregory Lloyd SMITH  The Functional Basis of the ZIP code and Sectional Center System.  [1968] [Morill]
• Robert EARICKSON  A Behavioral Approach to Spatial Interaction: The Case of Physician and Hospital Care. [1968] [Morrill]
• Gerald Lee GREENBERG  Map Design for Partially Seeing Students: An Investigation of White Versus Black Line Symbology.  [1968] [Sherman]
• Richard Waldo WILKIE  On the Theory of Process in Human Geography: A Case Study of Migration in Rural Argentina.  [1968] [Morrill]
• Hans-Joachim MEIHOEFER  The Use of the Circle in Thematic Maps: A Study in Visual Perception of Cartographic Symbol.  [1968] [Sherman]
• Frederick Abraham HIRSCH  Geographical Patterns of Inter-Metropolitan Migration in the United States 1955 to 1960.  [1968] [Morrill]
• Geoffrey John Dennis HEWINGS  Regional Industry Models Using National Data: The Structure of the West Midlands Economy.  [1969] [Fleming]
• Neil Robert Michael SEIFRIED  A Study of Changes in Manufacturing in Mid-Western Ontario 1951-1964.  [1969] [Thomas]
• Philip Rust PRYDE  Natural Resource Management and Conservation in the Soviet Union.  [1969] [Jackson]
• John CAMPBELL  The Relevance of Input-Output Analysis and Digraphg Concepts to Growth Pole Theory.  [1969] [Thomas]
• James B. CANNON  An Analysis of Manufacturing as an Instrument of Public Policy In Regional Economic Development: Canadian Area Development Agency Program 1963-1968.  [1969] [Thomas]
• Charles Buckley PETERSON III  Geographical Aspects of Foreign Colonization in Prerevolutionary New Russia.  [1969] [Jackson]
• Roger James CRAWFORD, Jr.  Factors Affecting the Location of Bank Facilities.  [1969] [Boyce]
• Jacek Ignacy ROMANOWSKI.  Factors of Location of Fresh Vegetable Production in Poland.  [1969][Jackson]
• Robert Walter TESHERA  The Territorial Organization of American Internal Governmental Jurisdiction.  [1970] [Jackson]
• Evan DENNEY  Urban Impact on Rural Environment: A Case Study of San Juan County, Washington.  [1970] [Cooley]
• Allan Ralph SOMARSTROM  Wild Land Preservation Crisis: The North Cascades Controversy.  [1970] [Cooley]
• Malcolm Algernon MICKLEWRIGHT  The Geography of Development in Northern Ireland.  [1970] [Thomas]
• Nangisai Nason Kudzirozwa GWARADA  Historical Development and Future Aspects of Agriculture in Zimbabwe. [1979]
• Ernest Harold WOHLENBERG  The Geography of Poverty in the United States: A Spatial Study of the Nations’s Poor.  [1970] [Morrill]
• Frank James QUINN  Area-0f-Origin Protectionism in Western Water.  [1970] [Cooley]
• Murray Thomas CHAPMAN  Population Movement in Tribal Society: The Case of Duidui and Pichahila, British Solomon Islands.  [1970] [Morrill]
• Siim SOOT  Changes in the Socioeconomic Spatial Structure of Milwaukee and Journey-to-Work Patterns.  [1970] [Boyce]
• Thomas Walter POHL  Seattle 1851-1861: A Frontier Community.  [1970] [Baron]
• Roger Lee THIEDE  Town and Function in Tsarist Russia: A Geographical Analysis of Trade and Industry in Towns of New Russia, 1860-1910.  [1970] [Jackson]
• Keith Way MUCKLESTON  The Problem of Implementing the Federal Water Project Recreation Act in Oregon.  [1970] [Marts]
• Phillip Patrick MICKLIN  An Inquiry into the Caspian Sea Problem and Proposals for Its Alleviation.  [1971] [Jackson]
• Jonathan Jung-Hui LU  The Demand in the United States Rice: An Economic-Geographic Analysis.  [1971][Morrill]
• Barbara Mary HANEY  Western Reflections of Russia, 1517-1812.  [1971] [Jackson]
• Paul Yvon VILLENEUVE  The Spatial Adjustment of Ethnic Minorities in the Urban Environment.  [1971] [Morrill]
• Dennis Gene ASMUSSEN  Children’s Cognitive Organization of Space.  [1971] [Baron]
• Edward Fisher BERGMAN  Metropolitan Political Geography.  [1971] [Jackson]
• Joseph Alan BRUFFEY  The Impact of the Super-Carrier upon Ocean Cargo Flows, Routes and Port Activity.  [1971] [Fleming]
• Ronald Richard SCHULTZ  The Locational Behavior of Physician Establishments: An Analysis of Growth and Change in Physician Supply in the Seattle Metropolitan Area, 1950-1970.  [1971] [Boyce]
• Victor Lee MOTE  Air Pollution in the Case U.S.S.R.  [1971] [Jackson]
• Marwyn Stevart SAMUELS  Science and Geography: An Existential Appraisal.  [1971] [Jackson]
• Hyun Kil KIM  Land Use Policy in Korea: With Special Reference to the Oriental Development Company.  [1971] [Jackson]
• Kenji Kenneth OSHIRO  Dairy Policies and the Development of Dairying in Tohoku, Japan.  [1972] [Kakiuchi]
• Stephen Miles GOLANT  The Residential Location and Spatial Behavior of the Elderly: A Canadian Example.  [1972] [Morrill]
• Clifford E. MAYS  The Dynamics of Retail Growth: An Investigation of the Long-Run and Short-Run Adjustments of Activities in the Growth and Decline of Retail Nucleations.  [1972] [Boyce]
• William Michael ROSS  Oil Pollution as a Developing International Problem: A Study of the Puget Sound and Strait of Georgia Regions of Washington and British Columbia.  [1972] [Marts]
• Kazuo Z. NINOMIYA  A View of the Outside World During Tokugawa Japan: An Analysis of Reports of Travel by Castaways, 1636 to 1856.  [1972] [Kakiuchi]
• Barbara Ann WEIGHTMAN  Study of the Indian Social Milieu in an Urban Environment.  [1972] [Chang]
• Dean R. LOUDER  A Distributional and Diffusionary Analysis of the Mormon Church 1850-1970.  [1972] [Morrill]
• John Richard KILCOYNE  Pictography Symbols in Cartography: A Study of Efficiency in Map Reading.  [1972] [Sherman]
• Rodney Allen ERICKSON  The “Lead Firm”; Concept and Economic Growth: An Analysis of Boeing Expansion, 1963-1968.  [1973] [Thomas]
• Daniel Perry BEARD  Electric Power Plant Siting Legislation: A Review.  [1973] [Marts]
• Peter HARRISON  The Land Water Interface in an Urban Region: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of the Nature of Significances of Conflicts Between Coastal Uses.  [1973] [Thomas]
• Richard LE HERON  Productivity Change and Regional Economic Development: The Role of Best-Practice Firms in the Pacific Northwest Plywood and Veneer Industry, 1960-1972.  [1973] [Thomas]
• Glen VANSELOW  Spatial Imagery and Geographic Scale.  [1973] [Morrill]
• Everett Arvin WINGERT  Potential Role of Optical Data Processing in Geo-Cartographic Spatial Analysis.  [1973] [Sherman]
• John Griffith SYMONS, Jr.  An Inquiry into Efficiency, Spatial Equity, and Public Facility Location.  [1973] [Morrill]
• Laurence E. GOSS, Jr.  Wholesale Trade in New England: A Study of a Central Place Function.  [1973] [Ullman]
• Charles Gilbert SMITH  Spatial Structure of Industrial Linkages and Regional Economic Growth: An Analysis of Linkage Changes Among Pacific Northwest Steel Firms, 1963-1970.  [1973] [Thomas]
• Larry Martin SVART  Natural Environment Preferences and Interregional Migration.  [1973] [Ullman]
• Roger HAYTER  An Examination of Patterns of Geographical Growth and Locational Behavior of Multi-Plant Corporations in British Columbia.  [1973] [Krumme]
• Kwawu Yao AGBEMENU  The Pattern of Growth in the Manufacturing Industry in Ghana, 1958-1969.  [1974] [Thomas]
• Marjorie Nanette RUSH  The Precession Wave of Urban Occupance: Conversion of Rural Land to Urban Use.  [1974] [Boyce]
• O. Fred DONALDSON  “To Keep Them in Their Place”: A Socio-Spatial Perspective on Race Relations in America.  [1974] [Morrill]
• Virginia R. HETRICK  Factors Influencing Voting Behavior in Support of Rapid Transit in Seattle and Atlanta.  [1974] [Morrill]
• Alan Anthony DELUCIA  The Map Interpretation Process: Its Observation and Analysis Through the Technique of Eye Movement Recording.  [1974] [Sherman]
• William H. FREEMAN, Jr.  An Analysis of Military Land Use Policy and Practice in the Pacific Northwest: 1849-1940.  [1974] [Marts]
• Richard Ivan TOWBER  The Locational Responses of Soviet Agriculture to Central Decision Making.  [1974] [Jackson]
• Russell Nozomi HORIUCHI  Chiseigaku: Japanese Geopolitics.  [1975] [Kakiuchi]
• David Lloyd STALLINGS  Environmental Cognition and Land Use Controversy: An Environmental Image Study of Seattle’s Pike Place Market.  [1975] [Morrill]
• Nathaniel H. BRYANT  Urbanization and the Ecological Crisis: An Analysis of Environmental Pollution.  [1975] [Kakiuchi]
• Charles E. GREER  Chinese Water Management Strategies in the Yellow River Basin.  [1975] Chang]
• Thomas Edward STEPHENS  Selected Geographic and Economic Aspects of the United States Railroad Freight Forwarding Industry with Recommendations for Procedures to be Used in the Selection of an Optimum Terminal Site Location.  [1975] [Boyce]
• Betsy Rose GIDWITZ  Political and Economic Implications of the International Routes of Aeroflot.  [1976] [Jackson]
• David Charles JOHNSON  The Population Age Structure of an Urban Area: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Change.  [1977] [Boyce]
• Eugene James TURNER  The Use of Shape as a Nominal Variable on Multipattern Dot Map.  [1977] [Sherman]
• Steven Anthony CARLSON  Land-Use Planning: A Rural Focus.  [1977] [Beyers]
• Philip Stephen KELLEY  Information and Generalization in Cartographic Communication.  [1977] [Sherman]
• Charles Everett OGROSKY III  The Ordinal Scaling of Point and Linear Symbols for Tactual Maps.  [1978] [Sherman]
• Yehuda HAYUTH  Containerization and the Load Center Concept.  [1978] [Fleming]
• Thomas Pierce BOUCHARD  Environmental Decision Making. The Wisconsin Environmental Policy Act and the Department of Natural Resources.  [1978] [Marts]
• Michael Lee TALBOTT;  Development of North Sea Oil and Gas.  [1978] [Jackson]
• Richard Akira TAKETA  Structure and Meaning in Map Generalization.  [1979] [Youngman]
• Gail Ann CHRISTENSEN KLEIN  The Expansion of Kentucky Fried Chicken and Wimpy in South Africa: A Study in the Diffusion of Innovation.  [1979] [Morrill]
• Maureen MCCREA  Evaluation of Washington State’s Coastal Management Program Through Changes in Port Development.  [1980] [Marts]
• Olen Paul MATTHEWS  Legal Elements in Mineral Development with Special Reference to Idaho.  [1980] [Velikonja]
• Dianne Lynn MANNINEN  Labor Forces Migration Associated with Nuclear Power Plant Construction.  [1981] [Morrill]
• Robert Houston ALEXANDER  Adaptation of Land Use to Surficial Geology in Metropolitan Washington, D.C.  [1981] [Marts]
• Kathleen Elizabeth BRADEN  Technology Transfer to the USSR Forest Product Sector.  [1981] [Jackson]
• Charlette Kay HIATT  The Function of Color Legibility of Linear Symbology on Maps for Partially Blind.  [1982] [Sherman]
• Barbara Jeanne DOWNING  Nonmetropolitan Migration in the Context of Cultural Change and Social Structure.  [1983] [Morrill]
• James William HARRINGTON  Locational Change in the US Semiconductor Industry.  [1983] [Thomas]
• Lance Douglas WERNER  Socio-Economic Development and the Growth of Pre-School Services: A Geography of Socialist Construction in Peripheral Soviet Republics, 1959-1970.  [1983] [Jackson]
• Barbara Lynn BRUGMAN  A Spatial Perspective on the Process of Technological Innovation in Technology-Intensive Industry.  [1983] [Thomas]
• Godfrey Emmanuel CHISANGA  The Wood Products Industry of the Lower Columbia Region: Technological Change, Evolution and Its Role in Regional Economic Development.  [1983] [Thomas]
• Godfrey Goliath MUYOBA  Labor Recruitment and Urban Migration: The Zambian Experience.  [1983] [Chang]
• Barbara Pfeil BUTTENFIELD  Line Structure in Graphic and Geographic Space.  [1984] [Sherman]
• Thomas James KIRN  Service Sector Growth and Regional Development in the United States: A Spatial Perspective.  [1974] [BEYERS]
• Jois Catherine CHILD  Creating a World: The Poetics of Cartography.  [1984] [Sherman]
• Arthur William LEON  Place Image Choice: The Central Place of Images in Migration Decision Making.  [1984] [Morrill]
• Sherry Lynn MCNUTT  An Analysis of Remote Sensing Information for Ice Forecasting Models in the Eastern Bering Sea.  [1984] [Sherman]
• Kent Huges BUTTS  Resources Geopolitics: U.S. Dependence on South African Chromium.  [1985] [Jackson]
• Anne Jeanne OSTERRIETH  Space, Place, and Movement: The Quest for Self in the World.  [1985] [Morrill]
• Randolph SORENSEN  Waterways and the State in Imperial China. [1985] [Chang]
• Lawrence Gary HART  Geographic Variations in Medical Resource Use During Office Encounters with Family Physicians.  [1985] [Morrill]
• Barney Louis WARF  Regional Transformation and Everyday Life: Social Theory and Washington Lumber Production.  [1985] [Beyers]
• Nasser Mohammed SALMA  The Selection, Allocation, and Arrangement of Arabic Typography on Maps.  [1986] [Sherman]
• Nancy A. FISHER-ALLISON  Urban Path to Health: Spatial Organization, Everyday Life, and the Use of Primary Care Service.  [1986] [Mayer]
• John Brady RICHARDS  Changing Patterns in Taiwan’s Aquaculture, 1957-1983.  [1986] [Fleming]
• James Conrad EFLIN  Technology and Social Power: Social Action, Intentional Technology and the Social Basis of Space-Time Autonomy.  [1987] [Hodge]
• Eric A. FRIEDLI  Competition Among Equals: A Study of Interstate Conflict, Public Policy Making, and Job-Growth Policy.  [1987] [Hodge]
• James Edward RANDALL  Household Production in an Industrial Society.  [1987] Beyers]
• Holly Jeanne MYERS-JONES  Power, Geography, and Black Americans: Patterns of Black Suburbanization in the U.S.  [1988] [Morrill]
• Peter MESERVE  Boundary Water Issues Along the Forty-Ninth Parallel: State and Provincial Legislative Innovation.  [1988] [Jackson]
• Patrick ALDWELL  Technological Rejuvenation and Competitiveness in the Washington State Woodpulp Industry, 1960-1985: A Global Perspective.  [1988] [Thomas]
• Janos L. WIMPFENN  International Transport Regimes and Contiguous Countries: Goods Movement Between the United States and Canada.  [1988] [Morrill]
• Marc-Andre L’HUILLIER  The Metropolitan Concentration of Minorities in the United States and Britain.  [1988] [Morrill]
• Joseph NOWAKOWSKI  Itinerary Choice Among Korean Periodic Market Traders: A Cultural, Economic, Social and Time-Geographic Analysis.  [1989] [Krumme]
• Gail LANGRAN  Time In Geographic Information Systems.  [1989] [Chrisman]
• John COURTNEY  Canadian Grain Exports To the Soviet Union: A Case Study In Spatial Interaction.  [1989] [Jackson]
• Lynn STAEHELI  Public Services and the Reproduction of Social Sedge-Baed Structured Modeling: An Application to Stream Water Quality Management.  [1989] [Hodge]
• Erick J. HOWENSTINE  Misperception of Destination Encouraging Migration of Mexican Agricultural Labor to Yakima Valley, Washington.  [1989] [Morrill]
• Iain M. HAY  Lo(o)sing Control: Money, Medicine and Malpractice in American Society.  [1989] [Mayer]
• Robert PAVIA  Appropriate Technology for Community Control of Hazardout Chemical Accidents.  [1989] [ZumBrunnen]
• Elizabeth KOHLENBERG  Friends in Places: Friendship in Country, Town and City [1989] [Mayer]
• John A. BOWER  The Hydrogeography of Yakima Indian Nation Resource Use.  [1990] [Beyers]
• Neil SORENSON  Airline Competitive Strategy: A Spatial Perspective.  [1990] [Fleming]
• Stanley TOOPS.  The Tourism and Handicraft Industries in Xinkiang: Development and Ethnicity in a Minority Periphery.  [1990]Jackson]
• Dean L. HANSEN  Acquiring High Technology: The Case of the Brazilian Computer Industry.  [1990] [Krumme]
• Edward Joseph DELANEY  New Firms’ Innovative Search In A New-Technology Industry: Evaluation of Biotechnology Firms.  [1991] [Thomas]
• Rowena AHERN  International Strategic Alliances: The Use of Cooperation by Canadian Firms.  [1991] [Krumme]
• Raguraman KRISHNASAMY  Understanding International Air Travel Choice: A Case Study of the Singapore – Western U.S.A. Route.  [1991] [Fleming]
• Eugene PATTERSON  Sense of Place In an Emerging Home Area: Investigations In the Bear Creek Area of King County, Washington.  [1992] [Jackson]
• Susanne TELTSCHER  Informal Trading in Quito, Ecuador: Economic Integration, Internal Diversity, and Life Chances.  [1992] [Lawson]
• Kurt ENGELMANN  The Introduction of Market Forces and Structural Changes In Command Economies: A Linear Programming Analysis of Irrigated Agriculture in Uzbekistan.  [1993] [Jackson]
• Timothy Roger STRAUSS  Spatial Assessments of Infrastucture: The Importance of Space in Analyses of the Relationship Between Public Capital and Economic Activity.  [1994] [Hodge]
• Frank NORRIS.  Spatial Diffusion of Intermodal Rail Technologies.  [1994] [Mayer]
• Mike PIRANI  Understanding the Effects of Small Hospital Closures on Rural Communities.  [1994] [Mayer]
• Ilya Naumovitch ZASLAVSKY  Logical Inference About Categorical Coverages in Multi-Layer GIS.  [1995] [Chrisman]
• Jesse Harrison BROWNING  Regional Development, Technological Paradigms and Policies: A Framework for Conceptualizing Socioeconomic Processes.  [1995] [Thomas]
• Eric Hugh LARSON  Geographic Variation in the Risk of Poor Birth Outcome in the Non-Metropolitan Population of the United States, 1985-1987.  [1995] [Mayer]
• Daniel Bruce KARNES  A Dynamic Model of the Land Parcel Network.  [1995] [Chrisman]
• Timothy Steven OAKES  Tourism in Guizhou, China: Place and the Paradox of Modernity.  [1995] [Chan]
• Francis James HARVEY  Geographic Information Integration and GIS Overlay.  [1996] [Chrisman]
• Delia Clare ROSENBLATT  A Political Economy of the Russian Oil Industry: Can Western Capital, Technology and Management Facilitate Change?  [1996] [Jarosz]
• James Ethan BELL  A place for community? Urban social movements and the struggle over the space of the public in Moscow.  [1997] Lawson]
• David James ALLEN  The effects of language and economic restructuring and electoral support for sovereignty in Qeubec, 1976-1995.  [1997] [Morrill]
• David Persson LINDAHL  New frontiers of capital. A geography of commercial real estate finance.  [1997] Beyers]
• Edward Donald MCCORMACK  A chained-based exploration of work travel by residents of mixed land-use neighborhoods.  [1997] [Nyerges]
• Patricia Lynn PRICE  Crafting meaning from economic chaos: Low-income urban women and neoliberal reform in Mexico.  [1997] [Lawson]
• Christine ROBERTS  A process of community action: Vashon-Maury islanders and the local nursing home.  [1997] [Mayer]
• Linda BECKER  Invisible Threads. Skill and the Discursive Marginalization of the Garment Industry’s Workforce.  [1997] [Lawson]
• Mark HUYLER  Redefining Civic Responsibility: The Role of Homeowner Associations and Neighborhood Identity.  [1997] [Hodge]
• Rachel SILVEY  Placing the migrant: Gender, Identity, and the Development in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.  [1997] [Lawson]
• Ric VRANA.  Monitoring Urban Land Use Transition with Geographic Information Systems.  [1998] [Chrisman]
• Joan Aileen QAZI  The hands behind the apple. Farm women and work in North Central Washington. [1998] [Jarosz]
• Debra Ruth OHMAN  Understanding change on the Ocean Coast: Restructuring and the meaning of property, nature, and development. [1999] [Beyers]
• Haihua YAN  The impact of rural industrialization on urbanization in China during the 1980’s [1999] [Chan]
• Peter NELSON  Hegemony and the Rural: Economic and Cultural Perspectives on Restructuring in the Rural West. [1999] [Beyers]
• Douglas Grant MERCER  The Nature of Fairness: What the Biggest Cleanup Effort in History Has to Say About the Culture of American Environmental Management. [1999] [Beyers & Mitchell, co-chairs]
• Alexander Sergeievich PEREPECHKO  Spatial Change and Continuity in Russia’s Political Party System(s): Comparison of the Parliamentary Elections in 1917 and 1995. [1999] [Chrisman & ZumBrunnen, co-chairs]
• David ABERNATHY  Bound to succeed: Science, territoriality and the emergence of disease eradication in the Panama Canal zone [2000] [Mayer]
• Harold FOSSUM  Formation and function of industrial districts in the rural northwest: Two cases. [2000] [Beyers]
• Gabriel GALLARDO  The socio-spatial dimensions of ethnic entrepreneurship: Business activities among African-American, Chinese, Korean and Mexican persons in the Seattle metropolitan area [2000] [Hodge]
• Wonho LEE  Industrial reform, ownership structure and labor market segmentation: understanding a changing inequality in the post-reform China. [2000] [Lawson]
• Lise Kirsten NELSON  Remaking gender and citizenship in a Mexican indigenous community. [2000] [Lawson]
• Li ZHANG  The state and urbanization in China: A systemic perspective. [2000] [Chan]
• Evelynes Kawango AGOT  Widow inheritance and HIV/AIDS interventions in sub-Saharan Africa: Contrasting conceptualizations of “risk” and “spaces of vulnerability”. [2001] [Jarosz]
• Alana Bridget BOLAND  Transitional flows: State and market in China’s urban water supply.[2001] [Chan
• So-Min CHEONG  Korean fishing communities in transition: Institutional change and coastal development.[2001] [Harrington]
• Jackson Tyler ZIMMERMAN  Re-mapping transborder environmental governance: Sovereign territory and the Pacific Salmon Treaty. [2001] [Sparke]
• Ta LIU Internal migration in socialist China: An institutional approach. [2002] [Chan
• Christina Helen DREW . The decision mapping system: Promoting transparency of long-term environment decisions at Hanford. [2002] [Nyerges]
• Kim D. VAN EYCK  Neoliberation and democracy? The gendered restructuring of work, unions and the Colombian public sphere. [2002] [Lawson
• Charles S. HENDRICKSEN  The Research Web: Asynchronous collaboration in social scientific research [2002] [Nyerges]
• Judith Marie BEZY  Driving behavior in a stratified sample of persons aged 65 years and older: Associations with geographic location, gender, age and functional status. [2003] [Morrill]
• Nicholas HEDLEY  3D geographic visualization and spatial mental models. [2003] [Nyerges]
• Karin Elena JOHNSON  Bordering on health: Origins and outcomes of the idea of global health. [2003] [Mayer]
• James PEET  Measuring equity in terms of relative accessibility: An application to Seattle’s Duwamish Corridor seaport facilities.[2003] [Nyerges]
• Pervin Banu GOKARIKSEL  Situated modernities: Geographies of identity, urban space and globalization. [2003] [Mitchell]
• David Michael PASCHANE  A theoretical framework for the medical geography of health service politics. [2003] [Mayer]
• Barbara Shepherd POORE  Blue lines: Water, information, and salmon in the Pacific Northwest. [2003] [Chrisman]
• Charles TOVARES  Race and the Production of Public Space [2003] [Mitchell]
• Clare NEWSTEAD  (Dis)entangling the politics of regional possibility in the post-colonial Caribbean. [2004] [Lawson]
• Joanna SURGEONER  Books and worlds: A literary study of the Canadian North. [2004] [Jarosz]
• Scott MILES  Participatory assessment of a comprehensive areal model of earthquake-induced landslides. [2004] [Nyerges]
• Carolina KATZ-REID  Achieving the American dream: A longitudinal analysis of the homeownership experiences of low-Income families [2004] [Withers]
• Meredith REITMAN  Race in the workplace: Questioning whiteness, merit and belonging.[2004] [Ellis]
• Sarah WRIGHT  Harvesting knowledge: A study of the contested terrain of intellectual property rights in the Philippines. [2004] [Lawson]
• Richard HEYMAN  Locating civil society: Knowledge, pedagogy and the production of public space. [2004] [Sparke]
• Amy FREEMAN  Contingent Modernity: Moroccan women’s narratives in “post” colonial perspectives. [2004] [Lawson]
• Hyung-Joo (Julie) KIM  IT goes to school: Interactions between higher education institutions and information technology companies in U.S. metropolitan areas. [2004] [Harrington]
• Deron FERGUSON  An event-historic analysis of short-term U.S. regional employment adjustment, 1975-99. [2004] [Harrington]
• Barbara TEMPALSKI.  The uneven geography of syringe exchange programs in the U.S.: need, politics and place.[2005] [Mayer]
• Catherine VENINGA  The transgressive geographies of integration: school desegregation in Seattle. [2005] [Brown]
• Enru WANG  Retail restructuring in post-reform urban China: the case of Beijing. [2005] [Chan]
• Jamie GOODWIN-WHITE  Placing progress: contextual inequality, internal migration and immigrant incorporation. [2005] [Ellis]
• Brian HAMMER  New Urban Spaces for a Twenty-First Century China [2005] [Mitchell]
• Meredith FORDYCE  An evaluation of the Consistency of Selected County-Level Rural Typologies in Determining Rate and Risk: the Case of Inadequate Prenatal Care [2005] [Mayer]
• Nathaniel TRUMBULL  The environmental impacts of transition: water resources planning in the urban environment. [2005] [ZumBrunnen]
• Maria FANNIN  Birthing subjects: midwifery and the politics of self-determination [2006] [England]
• Elizabeth BROWN. Crime, culture and the city: political geographies of juvenile justice [2006] [Herbert]
• Matt SOTHERN. “the extraordinary body” and the limits of (neo)liberalism [2006] [Brown]
• Jessica GRAYBILL. Contested space in the periphery: Perceptions of environment and resources on Sakhalin Island [2006] [ZumBrunnen]
• Darrin MAGEE. New energy geographies: powershed politics and hydropower decision making in Yunnan, China [2006] [Chan]
• Joseph HANNAH. Local Nongovernmental Organizations in Vietnam: Development, Civil Society and State-Society Relations [2007] [Jarosz]
• Britt YAMAMOTO. A Quality Alternative?  Quality Conventions, Alternative Food and the Politics of Soybeans in Japan [2007] [Jarosz]
• Chris FOWLER. From lived experience to economic models: a mixed methods analysis of competitive policies in Gioia Tauro and Genoa, Italy [2007] [Ellis]
• Greg SIMON. Brokering development: Geographies of meddiation and energy sector reforms in Maharashtra, India [2007] [ZumBrunnen & Jeffrey, co-chairs]
• Jie WU. Artifact management and behavioral discourse in the software development process for a large Public Participatory Geographic Information System [2007] Nyerges]
• Joshua NEWELL. Studies in foreign direct investment in the Eastern Russia, urban water infrastructure in US Cities, and global buyer-driven furniture chains [2007] [ZumBrunnen]
• Nicholas VELLUZZI. Fermenting Growth: Institutions, Agency and the Competitive Foundations of Localized Learning in the Walla Walla Wine industry [2007] [Harrington]
• Andrew WENZL. Wealth, consumption, and regional economic development in the United States [2008] [Beyers]
• Sunil AGGARWAL. The Medical Geography of Cannabinoid Botanicals in Washington State: Access, Delivery, and Distress [2008] [Mayer]
• Mona ATIA. Building a House in Heaven: Islamic Charity in Neoliberal Egypt [2008] [Mitchell]
• Anne BONDS. Placing the Prison: The politics of prisons, poverty, and neoliberal restructuring in the rural American Northwest [2008] [Lawson]
• Astrid CERNY. In Search of Greener Pastures: Sustainable Development for Kazak Pastoralists in Xinjiang, China [2008] [Chan]
• John CARR. The Political Grind: The Role of Youth Identities in the Municipalities of Public Space [2008] [Herbert]
• Courtney DONOVAN. Ideology and Identitiy in France: An Examination of Prenatal Health Care Choices Among Immigrant Women [2008] [Brown]
• Kris ERICKSON. Hacker Mentality: Risk, Security and Control in the Information Society [2008] [Herbert]
• Sarah STARKWEATHER. Defining Extraterritorial Citizenship: the Case of Americans Living Abroad [2008] [England]
• Guirong ZHOU. Ontology, Sensemaking and Architecture of an Online Participatory Geographic Information System [2008] [Nyerges]
• Jonathan GLICK. Household Benefits From the Housing Boom: Expanding Gains and Reconcentrating Wealth in the United States 1995-2005 [2008] [Withers]
• Tony SPARKS. As Much Like Home As Possible: Geographies of Homelessness and Citizenship in Seattle’sTent City 3 [2008] [Sparke]
• Matthew WILSON. Coding Community [2009] [Nyerges]
• Kevin RAMSEY. Adapting (to) the “Climate Crisis”: Urban Environmental Governance and the Politics of Mobility in Seattle [2009] [Nyerges]
• Rowan ELLIS. Civil Society, Savage City: Urban Governance and the Liberalizing State in Chennai, India [2009] [Mitchell]
• Amber PEARSON. Health and Vulnerability: Economic Development in Ugandan Pastoralist Communities [2009] [Mayer]
• Caroline FARIA. Imagining a New Sudan: The Diasporic Politics of Body and Nation [2009] [Jarosz]
• Jean CARMALT. Geographic Perspectives on International Law: Human Rights and Hurricane Katrina. [2010] [Herbert]
• Maureen   HICKEY. Driving Globalization: Bangkok Taxi Drivers and the Restructuring of Work and Masculinity in Thailand [2010] [Lawson]
• Sarah PAIGE. Social, Behavioral and Spatial Dimensions of Human Health and Primate Contact in Western Uganda [2010] [Mayer]
• Stephen YOUNG. The Global Redline: Mapping Markets and Mobilities In the Financialization of India. [2010] [Sparke]
• Dominic CORVA . The Geo-politics of Narco-Governance in the Americas: A Political Economy Approach [2010] [Lawson & Sparke)
• Ann E. BARTOS. Remembering, Sensing and Caring for their Worlds: Children’s Environmental Politics in a RuralNew Zealand Town [2011] [Brown]
• Jaime KELLY. Pilgrims of Modernity: Beijing Luxury Hotel Workers in Pursuit of an Urban Future [2011]  [Chan]
• Kacy MCKINNEY. Seeding Whose future? Exploring Entanglements of Neoliberal Choice, Children’s Labor, and Mobility in Hybrid Bt Cotton Seed Production in Western India [2011] [Jarosz]
• Todd FAUBION. Discourse, Power and Policy:  Constructing AIDS Treatment Access in South Africa [2011] [Jarosz]
• Juan Pablo GALVIS.   Managing the Living City: Public Space and Development in Bogota [2011] [Lawson]
• Michalis AVRAAM. Improving Designs of Online Participatory Decision Support Systems [2011] [Nyerges]
• Tricia RUIZ. Separate and Unequal? Exploring the Racial Geographies of School Quality and Student Achievement [2011] [Ellis]
• Ron SMITH. Occupation “from the river to the sea”: Subaltern Geopolitics of Graduated Incarceration in the 1967 Occupied Palestinian Territories”. [2011] [Sparke]
• Arnisson Andre ORTEGA . Building the Filipino Dream:  Real Estate Boom,  Gated Communities and the Production of Urban Space [2011] [Withers]
• Man WANG. Dynamics of Housing Attainment in Urban China: A Case Study of Wuhan [2011] [Chan]
• Elise BOWDITCH.   Youth Rights, Truancy and Washington State’s Becca Bill [2012] [Withers]
• Dena AUFSEESER. ‘” Managing” Poverty: Care and Control in the Everyday Lives of Peruvian Street Children [2012]  [Lawson]
• Hong CHEN . “Villages-in-the-City” and Urbanization in Guangzhou, China. [2012] [Chan]
• Leonie NEWHOUSE . South Sudan Oyee! : A Political Economy of Refugee Return Migration to Chukudum, South Sudan [2012] [Mitchell]
• Agnieszka LESZCZYNSKI.  Thinking the Geoweb: Political Economies, ‘neo’geographies, and Spatial Media[2012 ] [Elwood]
• Muthatha RAMANATHAN.  Repoliticizing Development: Tracing Spatial Technology in the Rural Development Landscape of South India [2013] [Jarosz]
• Rebecca BURNETT . From Safety Net to Tightrope: New Landscapes of Welfare in the US [2013] [Lawson]
• Robert Ian DUNCAN . Therapeutic Landscapes and the Public Health Conceptualization of Alcohol-Related Illness in Moscow, Russia [2013] [ZumBrunnen]
• Guilan WENG.  Moving Towards Neoliberal(izing) Urban Space? Housing and Residential Segregation in Beijing [2014] [Chan]
• Kathryn GILLESPIE.   Reproducing Dairy: Embodied Animals and the Institution of Animal Agriculture [2014] [Brown]
• Patricia LOPEZ .  Disease and Aid: 100 Years of US (de)Construction of Health Citizenship in Haiti [2014] [Mitchell and Sparke]
• William BUCKINGHAM.  Assembling the Chinese City: Production of Space and the Articulation of New Urban Spaces in Wuhan, China [2014] [Chan]
• Wilawan THANATEMANEERAT . Geodesign for Water Quality Management [2015] [Nyerges]
• Srinivas CHOKKAKULA.  Politics of Interstate Water Disputes in India    [2015] [Sparke]
• Brandon DERMAN.  Making Climate Justice: Social Natures and Political Spaces of the Anthropocene [2015] [Herbert]
• Ryan BURNS.  Digital Humanitarianism and the Geospatial Web: Emerging Modes of Mapping and the Transformation of Humanitarian Practices [2015] [Elwood]
• Michelle DAIGLE. Embodying Self-determination: Re-placing Food Sovereignty Through Everyday Geographies of Indigeous Resurgence [2015] [Sparke]
• Spencer COHEN. Geography of Local Political Economy and Land in China [2015] [Chan]
• Amy PIEDALUE. Geographies of Peace & Violence: Plural Resistance to Gender Violence and Structural Inequalities in Hyderabad and Seattle [2015] [Lawson]
• Stefano BETTANI. Religion and Religious Places: Rethinking Hybridity [2016] [Brown]
• Yanning WEI. Under Chinese Rural-Urban Dual System: The Crisis of Rural-Hukou Children [2016] [Chan]
• Eloho BASIKORO. Pathologies of Patriarchy: Death, Suffering, Care and Coping in the Gendered Gaps of HIV/AIDS Interventions in Nigeria [2016] [Sparke]
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The career center: 2024-25 graduate assistant for international student career development, organization, description, responsibilities, and qualifications.

• Recruit, train, and lead students who volunteer as a group leader for the Career Certificate - International Students Program (CC-I)
• Maintain and update career resources for international students, including the weekl newsletter and blogs
• Develop and present workshops for international students in collaboration with The Career Center, campus partners, and RSO’s
• Reach out to international student organizations to promote services and resources provided by The Career Center
• Assist in creating and developing opportunities for international students to connect with alumni and employers
• Collect and summarize data for semester reports, conduct program evaluations, and recommend modifications
• Provide one-on-one resume, cover letter, and Linked-In profile reviews
• Coach students on career exploration and job/internship search strategies, individually and in groups
• Collaborate with The Career Center staff and other campus partners
• Meet regularly with the supervising Assistant Director or Sr. Assistant Director
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Assistant Director or Sr. Assistant Director
• Experience working with diverse groups of students; knowledge and appreciation of culturaldifferences
• Exceptional leadership, organizational, communication, interpersonal, and teamwork skills
• Experience developing and/or presenting programs or workshops
• Experience with information technology, including use of online resources and presentationsoftware
• Excellent customer service and public relations skills
• Able to work a flexible schedule, including evenings and occasional weekends, ability to balance assistantship duties with coursework/class schedule
• Prior experience with and knowledge of career planning resources and activities is preferred
• Experience of having lived outside the U.S. for more than three years is preferred
• Lived experience as an international student in the U.S. is preferred
• Ability to speak additional languages besides English is preferred

Compensation

Application procedure.

Apply to the position:  go.illinois.edu/2024-25INTLGA. Application Deadline: 04/30/2024 11:59 pm. 

Evaluation of qualified applicants will begin immediately and continue until a candidate is selected. Interested candidates should complete an application and submit a resume and a cover letter describing how this GA position connects to their field of study and career goals. Interested applications must submit their application here: go.illinois.edu/2024-25INTLGA. For questions regarding the position or application process, reach out to Dr. Pankaj Desai, Senior Assistant Director for Inclusion Initiatives at [email protected].

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Biostatistics Graduate Program

Shengxin tu dissertation defense – may 10.

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PhD candidate Shengxin Tu will defend her dissertation on Friday, May 10, at 8 a.m. Central Time, at 2525 West End Avenue, in the 11th floor large conference room (suite 1100, room 11105). Her advisor is Bryan Shepherd . All are invited and encouraged to attend.

Rank-Based Analyses and Designs with Clustered Data

Clustered data are common in biomedical research. It is often of interest to evaluate the correlations within clusters and between variables with clustered data. Conventional approaches, including intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) and Pearson correlations, are commonly used in analyses with clustered data. However, these conventional approaches are sensitive to extreme values and skewness. They also depend on the scale of the data and are not applicable to ordered categorical data. In this dissertation, we define population parameters for the rank ICC and between- and within-cluster Spearman rank correlations. These definitions are natural extensions of the conventional correlations to the rank scale. We show that the total Spearman rank correlation approximates a weighted sum of between- and within-cluster Spearman rank correlations, with weights determined by the rank ICCs of the two random variables. We also describe estimation and inference for these four rank-based correlations, conduct simulations to evaluate the performance of our estimators, and illustrate their use with real data examples. Furthermore, we apply the rank ICC in the design of clustered randomized controlled trials (RCTs), proposing unified and simple sample size calculations for cluster RCTs with skewed or ordinal outcomes. Our calculation involves inflating the sample size for an adequately powered individual RCT for an ordinal outcome with a design effect that incorporates the rank ICC. For continuous outcomes, our calculation sets the number of distinct ordinal levels to the sample size. We show that with continuous data, our calculations closely approximate more complicated sample size calculations based on clustered Wilcoxon rank-sum tests. We conduct simulations to evaluate our calculations’ performance and illustrate their use in the design of two cluster RCTs, one with a skewed continuous outcome and a non-inferiority trial with an irregularly distributed count outcome.

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The Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Harvard Griffin GSAS) is proud to announce the 2024 Commencement Marshals. One of Harvard's most cherished traditions, to be named a marshal is considered an honor for a graduating student.

Selected by the Harvard Griffin GSAS Student Council and nominated by fellow students, graduate program administrators, or Harvard faculty, the Commencement Marshals play a crucial role on graduation day, assisting the School's deans in organizing the procession from the Lawns at Richards Hall to Harvard Yard. As they lead the graduating class into Tercentenary Theatre, they proudly raise the Harvard Griffin GSAS gonfalon, a symbol of its history and tradition.

The 2024 Commencement Marshals representing the doctor of philosophy are:

• Jonathan Boretsky, PhD, mathematics
• Iman Mohamed Said Darwish, PhD, history of science
• Gino Domel, PhD, engineering sciences
• Kelcee Alexandria Everette, PhD, biological and biomedical sciences
• Sonya V. Gupta, AM, regional studies–Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia
• Ayana LaShae Henderson, PhD, biological and biomedical sciences
• Chanthia C. Ma, PhD, biological and biomedical sciences
• Amy Tsang, PhD, sociology.

Sonya V. Gupta, AM, regional studies—Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, has been chosen as the 2024 Commencement Marshal representing graduates with a master of arts, master of science, or master of engineering. Ms. Gupta and Ms. Henderson have also been selected as the student speaker for their respective Harvard Griffin GSAS Diploma Awarding Ceremony. 

Congratulations to all the 2024 marshals on behalf of the entire Harvard Griffin GSAS community!

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Former UCLA Graduate Student Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero Wins the 2024 Dorothy Thomas Award

Former UCLA Graduate Student Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero, now a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, won the Population Association of America’s highly competitive 2024 Dorothy Thomas Award for best graduate student paper. Her paper, entitled “Sent Away: The Long-Term Effects of Slum Clearance on Children and Families,” documents how Chile’s mandated slum-clearance programs between 1979-1985 had large, negative long-run effects on children and parents. Displaced children earned 14% less as adults, achieved 0.64 fewer years of education, and were more likely to work in informal jobs. Displaced parents had higher mortality rates and died at younger ages.  While at UCLA, Fernanda was a recipient of CCPR’s Treiman award, and received her Ph.D. in economics in 2022. Her dissertation was advised by Professors Dora Costa (chair), Adriana Lleras-Muney, and Michela Giorcelli.

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