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All doctoral dissertations authored by Washington University doctoral degree candidates are directly submitted to the UMI Dissertation Services , a division of the ProQuest Company. (For more information on submitting your dissertation through ProQuest, please see the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences' web pages on the Submission of the Dissertation .)

Beginning in 2009 (for degrees awarded in August, 2009) all theses and dissertations completed at Washington University were required to be submitted in electronic form. Print submissions are no longer accepted. Dissertations are submitted directly in electronic form to UMI / Proquest Dissertation Services. Master’s theses are locally submitted in electronic form directly into the Washington University Open Scholarship Repository. Please contact your academic department document for information on the preparation and formatting requirements of the thesis itself. D.Sc. and Masters Thesis Format Guidelines . See the Theses & Dissertations (ETDs) for more information on submission and access options and links to details for PhD Candidates and Master’s Candidates.

Theses/Dissertations from 1991 1991

Chinatown: Place and Memory, A Case Study of St. Louis' Chinatown , Tai Yeow Au

The Early Career of Thomas Moran, 1853-1870 , Anne Roberts Morand

Theses/Dissertations from 1990 1990

The Paleodemography of the Read Shell Midden, 15BT10 , Nicholas Paul Herrmann

Theses/Dissertations from 1989 1989

The Effect of Parental Symptoms, Parental Relationships, and Parenting Practices of the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcoholism and Depression , Sandra Johnson Holmes

Theses/Dissertations from 1988 1988

Caregiver Strain: A Structural Equation Model , Christopher Philip Rice

Theses/Dissertations from 1987 1987

Tyrosine Sulfation in A431 Cells , Naili Liu

A Quantifiable Model for Local Bond Stress-Slip Relationship under Generalized Excitations , Sakul Pochanart

The Rite of Spring: A Rhythmic Perspective , Kathy Maria White

Theses/Dissertations from 1986 1986

A Descriptive Analysis of Selected Choral Works of Lena Johnson McLin , Donna Marie McNeil Cox

Burmese Philosophy as Reflected in Caturangabala's Lokaniti , Khin Win Kyi

Kinship, Dominance, and Social Organization in a Semi-Free Ranging Group of Ringtailed Lemurs (Lemur catta) , Linda Linda Taylor

The Prohibition of Successive Prosecutions and Multiple Punishments for the Same Offense : in Search of Standards. Volume 1. , George Conner Thomas III

The Prohibition of Successive Prosecutions and Multiple Punishments for the Same Offense : in Search of Standards. Volume 2. , George Conner Thomas III

Theses/Dissertations from 1984 1984

The Auchinleck Manuscript: Contexts, Texts and Audience , Jean Harpham Burrows

Geology, Petrology, and Tectonic Setting of the Mafic Rocks of the 1480 MA Old Granite-Rhyolite Terrane of Missouri, USA , Paul Joseph Sylvester

Theses/Dissertations from 1982 1982

Hardy and Lipschitz Spaces on Unit Spheres , Leonardo Colzani

Theses/Dissertations from 1981 1981

Implications of Life History Changes for Genetic Polymorphisms , Scott Matthew Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 1980 1980

Pruitt-Igoe Site: Development Plan , Somesh R. Debnath and Satish M. Dohe

The Pomerium of Marchettus of Padua: A Translation and Critical Commentary , Ralph Clifford Renner

Theses/Dissertations from 1978 1978

Artistic Uses of Supernaturalism in the Fiction of Brown, Irving, and Hawthorne , Agnes Mavis Bonney

Theses/Dissertations from 1977 1977

Society, Consciousness, and Planning , Thomas Allen Dutton

Theses/Dissertations from 1976 1976

The Marian Paintings of Jan Van Eyck , Carol Jean Purtle

Alienation in the Novels of Ana Maria Matute , James Townsend Shelby

Theses/Dissertations from 1973 1973

Francis Poulenc's Songs for Voice and Piano , Vivian Lee Poates Wood

Theses/Dissertations from 1972 1972

A Stylistic Analysis of the Piano Sonatas of Johann Gottfried Eckard , Susanne Elisabeth Bell

Theses/Dissertations from 1970 1970

The Historical Progression from the Picaresque Novel to the Bildungsroman as Shown in El Busco´n, Gil Blas, Tom Jones and Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre , Evelyn Neufeld

Theses/Dissertations from 1969 1969

Prognostic Validation of Several Measures for Indices of Cognitive Functioning in Educable Mentally Retarded Pupils , Richard Harris Freer

An Experimental Study of Achievement Motivation Training as a Function of the Moral Maturity of Trainees , Kelvin Richard Ryals

Theses/Dissertations from 1967 1967

An Analysis of Cognitive and Psychological Differentiation in Perceptual and Impression Formation Tasks , Paul F. Kleine

Theses/Dissertations from 1966 1966

Cattle Ranching as a Cultural Ecology Problem in San Miguel County, New Mexico , Thomas J. Maloney

Theses/Dissertations from 1965 1965

The Community Development Corporation as a Response to Poverty , Harry Edward Berndt

Theses/Dissertations from 1963 1963

An Analysis of Contemporary Efforts to Explicate Community Organization Practice and a Proposal to Utilize Intervention in Process as a Conceptual Framework for Such Practice , Charles William Laughton

Theses/Dissertations from 1962 1962

A Study of Indices of Competence Used by Supervisors to Evaluate Case-Worker Performance , Geraldine Louise Conner

Social Casework and Pastoral Counseling: A Study of Perceived Similarities and Differences of the Goals and Methods of Two Helping Professions , Charles Yecheskel Hartman

Teachers' Judgments of Children's Functioning, By Sex and Social Class of Child, in Classrooms of Different Social Class and Racial Composition , Virginia Holmes Turner

Theses/Dissertations from 1958 1958

Origin and Early History of the United Hebrew Congregation of St. Louis, 1841-1859, The First Jewish Congregation in St. Louis , Donald Irving Makovsky

History of Alton, Illinois, 1840-1848 , Dora Brown Tickner

Theses/Dissertations from 1952 1952

Geographic Factors in the Education of Negroes in Six Selected Areas of Missouri , Alice McGee Smart

Theses/Dissertations from 1951 1951

Un Analisis del Guzman de Alfarache de Mateo Aleman , Michael Roberts Ramon

Theses/Dissertations from 1950 1950

A History of the Missouri Training School for Boys, Boonville, 1917 to 1944 , Jack Reichenstein

Theses/Dissertations from 1949 1949

Strike of Coal Miners at Pana, Illinois 1898-1899 , Eleanor Anna Burhorn

Theses/Dissertations from 1947 1947

The Sequent Occupance of Mill Creek Valley , Virginia Anne Henry

Theses/Dissertations from 1946 1946

Missouri State Industrial Home for Negro Girls, Tipton, Missouri, 1909-1944 , Nancy Ellen Cole

Theses/Dissertations from 1944 1944

Medical Care Among Mexican Families in the Guadalupe Neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri , Carmen Rivera de Alverado

Torsional Deflection of Miter-Type Lock Gates and Design of the Diagonals , Edwin Gustav Hoffman

Theses/Dissertations from 1942 1942

Piero di Cosimo and His Place in Florentine Painting of the Late Fifteenth Century , Margaret Felice Stampfle

Theses/Dissertations from 1935 1935

Lead Mining in Missouri 1700-1811 , Welton Lyle Willms

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