Interdisciplinary Individual PhD
Alumni
Interested in what our alumni have to say about the program? Read direct quotes from IPhD alumni about the unique experience of pursuing this degree, and how it has benefitted their career.
| Name | Dissertation Title | Chairperson, Department | Graduated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ginger Farrell | A Possible Self Program for the Foreign Language Class | Paula Nurius, Social Work | 2024 |
| Kimberly Perkins | Optimizing Risk Mitigation: Advancing Socio-Processing Capacity in Sociotechnical Systems for Enhanced Efficacy of Aviation Safety Models | Cecilia Aragon, HCDE, and Crystal Hall, Evans School | 2024 |
| Ronnie Thibault | The Myth of Intellectuality and Development: Exploiting the Feebleminded Subject in Discourses of American Philanthropy | Benjamin Gardner, IAS UW Bothell | 2023 |
| Rie Tsujihara | Expressing Gratitude in a Foreign Language: Concept-Based Language Instruction to Teach Thanking in L2 Japanese | Amy Ohta, Asian Language & Literature | 2023 |
| Judy Twedt | Listening to Climate Data: artful experiments in the auditory representation of numerical measurements | Dargan Frierson | 2023 |
| Benjamin Meoz | The Reported Processes and Outcomes of Supervisor Social Identity Verbal Self-Disclosure and Social Identity Topic Management in Social Work and Higher Education | Valerie Manusov, Communication | 2020 |
| Ryan Chase Campbell | Engineering to Care: Exploring Engineering in Humanitarian and Social Justice Contexts through a Lens of Care Ethics | Denise Wilson, Electrical Engineering & Philip Bell, Education | 2016 |
| Derek F. Greenfield | White Face, Black Space: My Journey as a Chief Diversity Officer at an HBCU | Laada Bilaniuk, Anthropology | 2015 |
| Charles William Cange | A Post-Conflict Assessment of Breast Cancer in Kuwait Using Mixed Methods | David Grembowski, Health Services | 2013 |
| Simon Js Wickham-Smith | The Interrelationship of Humans with their Environment in G.Mend-Ooyo’s ‘Altan Ovoo’ | Ilse Cirtautas, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization | 2012 |
| Lisa Mennet | The Impact of Infant Attachment Disorganization and Maternal Lack of Resolution on Child Narrative Incoherence and Related Behavior Problems at 54-Months | Susan Spieker, Family and Child Nursing | 2011 |
| Katherine Larson | Norwegian Double-Weave and the Warp-Weighted Loom: The Northern Gudbrandsdal Tradition | Terje I. Leiren, Scandinavian Studies | 2011 |
| Kevin P. Haggerty | Long Term Effects of Staying Connected with Your Teen: Exploring Race Differences and Biological Mechanisms of Family Preventive Interventions | Richard F. Catalano, Social Work | 2011 |
| Ainius Lasas | Burdened by History: EU and NATO enlargements through the lenses of collective guilt | Christine Ingebritsen, Scandinavian Studies | 2009 |
| Maura O’Neill | Cognitive Myopia: A thinking error that can result in serious judgment and decision-making mistakes | P. Dee Boersma, Biology | 2009 |
| William Joseph King | Toward the Human-Computer Dyad | Thomas A. Furness, Industrial Engineering | 2002 |
| Janet M. Powell | Effectiveness of comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury | Ilene Schwartz, Education | 2001 |
| Tami Christine Bond | Light absorption by primary particles from fossil-fuel combustion: Implications for radiative forcing | Timothy Larson, Civil Engineering | 2000 |
| Kathryn J. Keller | Racing immunities: How Yellow Fever gendered a nation | Susan Jeffords, English | 2000 |
| Alice Maria Egyed | Theory and practice of music in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastic tradition | Ter Ellingson, Music | 2000 |
| Walter Frank Hatch | Rearguard regionalization: Protecting core networks in Japan’s political economy | Kozo Yamamura, International Studies | 2000 |
| Andrew Walsh Bartlett | The free place: Literary, visual, and jazz creations of space in the 1960s | Johnnella Butler, American Ethnic Studies | 1999 |
| Daryl William Hochman | Chloride-cotransport modulation of synchronous epileptiform discharge | Philip Schwartzkroin, Neurological Surgery and Mark Cooper, Zoology | 1999 |
| R. Christopher Halaska | Engaging community in the technical design process: An analysis of the development of the Seattle Public Schools’ budget builder World Wide Website | Andrew Gordon, Public Affairs | 1998 |
| Andrea Edith Glassberg | Genetic testing for susceptibility to breast and ovarian cancer: A case study of clinical decision-making in medical genetics | Albert R. Jonsen, Medical History & Ethics | 1997 |
| Jeffrey M. Bradshaw | Mediating representations and constructivist knowledge acquisition | Earl Hunt, Psychology | 1996 |
| Mary L. Laucks | Quantifying the uncertainties in measurements of aerosol optical properties relevant to the direct shortwave forcing of climate | Robert J. Charlson, Atmospheric Sciences | 1996 |
| Graciela Etchart | Sustainable development in one Amazon varzea | Robert G. Lee, Forest Resources | 1995 |
| Matthew Wayne Dunn | A theory of animate perception | David K. Farkas, Technical Communication | 1995 |
| Galen Eaholtz | Molecular mechanisms of block of sodium channels by inactivation gate peptides | William A. Catterall, Graduate Program in Neurobiology | 1995 |
| Andrew Harris Dittman | Behavioral and biochemical mechanisms of olfactory imprinting and homing by Coho salmon | Thomas P. Quinn, Fisheries | 1994 |
| Nancy Ellen Langston | The general riot of the natural forest: Landscape change in the Blue Mountains | Sievert Rohwer, Zoology | 1994 |
| Joseph Calvin Dupris | The effect of cultural assimilator training on cross-cultural bargaining outcomes | Ralph Johnson, Law | 1994 |
| Craig Jesus Poulenez-Donovan | Public policy impacts on organizational behavior: A case study program evaluation – transportation demand management in Washington State | Cyrus G. Ulberg, Public Affairs | 1994 |
| Karen Marie Lajoy | Generalization of social skills training with traumatically brain-injured patients | Felix Billingsley, Education | 1993 |
| Mary Beth Raum | Decision anatomies of three technology based public bodies in the state of Washington | Fremont Lyden, Public Affairs | 1992 |
| Robert David Keppel | An analysis of the effect of time and distance relationships in murder investigations | Joseph Weis, Sociology | 1992 |
| Gordon V. Wolfe | The cycling of climatically active Dimethyl Sulfide (DMS) in the Marine Euphotic Zone: Biological and chemical constraints on the flux to the atmosphere | Robert J. Charlson, Atmospheric Sciences | 1992 |
| Akihiko Kitano | Stress-induced structural changes in thermoplastic composites | James C. Seferis , Chemical Engineering | 1991 |
| Pamela Ann Mitchell | Clinical and organizational impact of multiple changes in critical care: A case study | Edward Perrin, Health Services | 1991 |
| Virginia L. Butler | Distinguishing natural from cultural salmonid deposits in Pacific Northwest North America | D.K. Grayson, Anthropology | 1990 |
| Claudia Lynn Haglund | The development and testing of a multidimensional instrument for assessing patient satisfaction with hospital care | Diane Martin, Health Services | 1990 |
| Karen Ellen Sjostrom | Biochemical and immunological analysis of amino acid metabolism in the mycoplasmatales | George Kenny, Pathobiology | 1990 |
| Bernice Laden | A model of tonality cognition which incorporates pitch and rhythm | Douglas H. Keefe, Music and Cognitive Science | 1989 |
| Mark Douglas Schaaf | Modeling the lateral diffusion of fluorescent particles within a forest canopy | Leo Fritschen, Forest Resources | 1989 |
| David H. Monroe | Species and diet related resistance to chemical carcinogens: Biochemical mechanisms of aflatoxin B1 detoxification | David L. Eaton, Environmental Health | 1988 |
| Ann Marie Adams | Taxonomy, systematics, and ecology of Helminth Parasites of the Ringed Seal, Phoca hispida Schreber, in Alaskan waters | Robert L. Rausch, Pathobiology | 1988 |
| Ghada Bathish Hallaq | Discourse strategies: The persuasive power of early Khariji poetry | Farhat J. Ziadeh, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization | 1988 |
| Theresa Eileen Julnes | Collective bargaining among residents and interns in U.S. hospitals: Significant outcomes and implications | Fremont James Lyden, Public Affairs | 1988 |
| Timothy S. Bates | Evidence for the climatic role of marine biogenic sulfur | Robert J. Charlson, Atmospheric Sciences | 1988 |
| Michael Stafford Donley | An X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) study of in-situ fractured reaction bonded silicon nitride (RBSN) | Thomas G. Stoebe, Materials Science and Engineering | 1987 |
| Robin Allison Heller-Harrison | Structure and functional interactions of human type VI collagen in extracellular matrix and tissue | William G. Carter, Pathobiology | 1987 |
| Wilma Lorrene Nicolai | Foundations of cognitive objectivity | Philip S. Dale, Psychology | 1986 |
| Paula Rae Sundstrom | Germ tube-specific antigens of Candida Albicans cell walls | George E. Kenny, Pathobiology | 1986 |
| Mary Frances Lee Wilkie | The effects of antihypertensive drugs on cognition and performance | Earl Hunt, Psychology | 1986 |
| Marjorie Bangs Bennett | Individual and community style in personal narratives of storyteller Del Ringer of North Bend, Washington | Henning Sehmsdorf, Scandinavian Languages and Literature | 1986 |
| Mostafa Kamal El-Din Mohamed | Effects of methylmercury on testicular function in Macaca Fascicularis monkeys | N. Karle Mottet, Pathology | 1986 |
| Mark Dale Morgan | Thermoluminescent mechanisms of Gamma-Irradiated Calcium Sulfate doped with Dyasprosium | Thomas G. Stoebe, Materials Science and Engineering | 1986 |
| Everett Junior Nichols | Carbohydrates of human fibronectins and their transformation-dependent alterations | Sen-itiroh Hakomori, Pathobiology | 1986 |
| Frank V. Brozovich | Muscle force and stiffness: Implications for the actomyosin ATPase | Albert M. Gordon, Physiology and Biophysics | 1986 |
| Carmen Cecilia Fernandez | Refinement of fish oil for human consumption: engineering investigations | George M. Pigott, Food Science and Technology | 1986 |
| Elisa B. Miller | Economic policy in the Soviet Far East, 1965-1980: One aspect of Soviet economics relations in the Asia Pacific Region | Herbert Ellison, USSR – East Asian International Relations | 1986 |
| Roger Oliver Silfvast | Transferability of management skills between the public and private sectors | Morton Kroll, Public Affairs/Political Science | 1985 |
| Bruce E. Torian | Antigens of pathogenic flagellated protozoa | George E. Kenny, Pathobiology | 1985 |
| Julianne Clark | The persistence of hierarchy in participatory systems: Yugoslavia, Peru, and a critical theory alternative | Lyman Legters, Russian and East European History | 1985 |
| Michael William Corr | An ethnophenology for Kyoto with applications of geographical relativism to East Asian medicine | Eugene J. Hunn, Anthropology | 1985 |
| Lynn Ellen Averill | Elucidation of the mechanism(s) responsible for the decline in B and T lymphocyte Mitogenic activity with age in mice | Norman S. Wolf, Immunopathology-Radiological Sciences | 1984 |
| Richard Scott Stephens | Monoclonal antibodies to Chlamydia trachomatis | Cho-chou Kuo, Pathobiology | 1984 |
| Andrew Marc Garfinkle | Improvement of small diameter vascular graft performance with glow discharge treatment | Allan S. Hoffman, Center for Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering | 1984 |
| Lynn Robert Frumkin | Pharmacological asymmetry in the human brain: Evidence for the differential hemispheric action of amobarbital | John E. Carr, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Psychology | 1984 |
| Neelima D. Courtney | Possible neural control of lipoprotein lipase | Stephen C. Woods, Psychology | 1984 |
| Michael R. Pendleton | Police Stress: Value disparity, self-esteem and occupational strain | Morton Kroll, Psychology | 1983 |
| Wael B. Hallaq | The gate of Ijthihad: A study in Islamic legal history | Farhat Ziadeh, Near Eastern Languages and Literature | 1983 |
| Robert David Stevenson III | The ecology of body temperature control of terrestrial ectotherms | Raymond B Huey, Zoology | 1983 |
| James Haywood Satterwhite | Varieties of Marxist Humanism: Philosophical revision in post-war Eastern Europe | Lyman Legters, Russian/East European Studies | 1982 |
| Robert Edward Nelson | Late quaternary environments of the western Arctic Slope, Alaska | Matsuo Tsukada, Botany | 1982 |
| Nanette Marie Pyne | The impact of the Seljuq Invasion on Khuzestan: An inquiry into the historical, geographical, numismatic, and archaeological evidence | Michael B. Loraine, Near Eastern Languages and Literature | 1982 |
| Dirgham Hanna Sbait | The improvised-sung folk poetry of the Palestinians | Farhat J. Ziadeh, Near Eastern Languages and Literature | 1982 |
| Rosalind Ward Gwynne | The Tafsir of Abu Ali al-Jubba: First steps toward a reconstruction, with texts, translation, biographical introduction and analytical essay | Nicholas Heer, Near Eastern Languages and Literature | 1982 |
| William Alexander Pearce | Functional and antigenic aspects of Fimbriae of Neisseria Gonorrhoeae as correlated with structure | Thomas Buchanhan, Immunochemistry of Infectious Diseases | 1981 |
| Sharon Lynn Mates | Neuronal maturation and synapse formation in layer 4 of Macaque Striate Cortex | John S. Edwards, Zoology | 1981 |
| Roger Maro Enoka | Muscular control of a learned movement | Robert S. Hutton and Doris I. Miller, Kinesiology | 1981 |
| Antje Rubach | Neutron dosimetry with spherical cavity ionization chambers | Donald K. Reynolds, Electrical Engineering | 1981 |
| James Joseph Mule | In Vivo studies of local and systemic immune reactions to tumors | Ingegard Hellstrom, Microbiology and Immunology | 1981 |
| Robert James Matthews | Thermoluminescent mechanisms in calcium sulphate doped with dysprosium | Thomas G. Stoebe, Division of Metallurgical Engineering | 1981 |
| Gerrit van der Wees | Mobility and choice of technology in the development process in rural areas of developing countries: A study of change in northwest Tanzania | Edgar Winans, Anthropology | 1981 |
| Marie Elailne Cantino | Electron Microprobe studies of the Acrosome reaction in sea urchin sperm | Dale E. Johnson, Center for Bioengineering | 1981 |
| David Lloyd Urdal | The biochemistry of tumor associated Gangliotriosyl-ceramide and the use of this Glycolipid as a target for antibody dependent, Avidin mediated drug killing of tumor cells | Sen-itiroh Hakomori, Biochemical Oncology | 1980 |
| Jovan Emil Howe | The Soviet theories of primitive history: Forty years of speculation on the origins and evolution of people and society | Lyman H. Legters, Russian and East European | 1980 |
| Virginia Dale Adams | The implications of being an obligately outcrossing plant species: With particular reference to Pedicularis and its Bombus Pollinators | Roger del Morel, Botany | 1980 |
| Joan Frantz Vesper | The development of ideas, form, and flavor in children’s compositions, 2-12 | William F. Irmscher, English | 1980 |
| Susan Tucker Blackburn | The effects of caregiving activities in the neonatal intensive care unit on the behavior and development of premature infants | Kathryn E. Barnard, Nursing | 1979 |
| Gary Seiji Morishima | A systems study of natural resource development on the Quinault Indian Reservation | B. Bruce Bare, Forest Resources | 1979 |
| Charles Francis Lough | Factors influencing uncertainty in decisions about health and illness problems | Robert F. Rushmer | 1979 |
| Marie Jeanette Cowan | Quantification of myocardial infarct size | Dennis D. Reichenbach, Pathology | 1979 |
| Tomas Ybarra-Frausto | Three contemporary Chicano poets: Antecendents and actuality | Michael Predmore, Romance Languages | 1979 |
| Nancy Kay Johnson | Cultural and psychosocial determinants of health and illness | Samuel F. Dworkin, Medicine | 1979 |
| Alice Lee Condgon | Studies on Mycoplasmatales Viruses | George E. Kenny, Pathobiology | 1979 |
| John Michael Cook | The planter and the Gael: The Ulster experience in the poetry of John Hewitt and John Montague | Donna Gerstenberger, English | 1978 |
| Sylvia Lynj Parriott Youngberg | The effect of cycled and uncycled lighting on the sleep behavior of neonates | Kathryn E. Barnard, Nursing | 1978 |
| Barbara Jean Martin McArthur | An epidemiological study of nosomial infections attributed to Acinetobacter Calcoaceticus (Herellea Vaginicola) featuring a bacteriocin typing system | C. George Ray, Nosocomial Infections | 1976 |
| Charles Richmond Garthwaite | Laboratory control language; a laboratory automation system. | T.M. Kehl, Physiology and Biophysics | 1976 |
| Margaret Ann Singer | Attitudes about sex roles and the women’s liberation movement as predictors of psychological adjustment and eight case histories of modern and traditional women | Nathaniel N. Wagner, Psychology | 1976 |
| Helen Mae Hanlon | Social and organizational influences on the nursing care of the institutionalized elderly | Mildred A. Disbrow, Nursing | 1976 |
| William John Young | Impact of the administration of justice on criminal offenders: Perceptions of stigma by men on parole | Ezra Stotland, Program in Society and Justice | 1976 |
| Frederick William Allendorf | Genetic Variability in a species possessing extensive gene duplication: Genetic interpretation of duplicate loci and Examination of genetic variation in populations of rainbow trout | William K. Hershberger, Fisheries | 1975 |
| Beverly M. Horn | An ethnoscientific study to determine social and cultural factors affecting Native American Indian women during pregnancy | Madeleine M. Leininger | 1975 |
| Leo Edward Lindbloom | A catheter system for measuring blood vessel cross sectional area and blood pressure | Charles A. Sleicher, Chemical Engineering | 1975 |
| Warren T. Hinds | An ecological assessment of energy and cargon pathways in swards of Bromus Tectorum L. on contrasting slope exposures | Roger Del Moral, Botany | 1974 |
| Rose Therese Sullivan | The subculture of the aging and its implications for health and nursing care to the elderly | Madeleine M. Leininger, Nursing | 1974 |
| James W. Balsiger | A computer simulation model for the eastern Bering Sea king crab population | D. Chapman, Fisheries | 1974 |
| Alan George Fantel | Fetomaternal potassium relations | Marshall T. Newman, Anthropology | 1974 |
| Michael John Meighan | Some characteristics of conversational behavior among people in a natural setting | Robert L. Burgess, Sociology | 1974 |
| Henry Albert Kennedy | A behavioral study of the usefulness of financial ratios | Lee Roy Beach, Psychology | 1973 |
| Mary Louisa Baird Carlsen | A four-year retrospective view of the educational experience of a group of mature women undergraduate students | Maurice Freehill, Education | 1973 |
| Sharon Leanne Zablotney | Antigenic analysis of human cytomegaloviruses | George E. Kenny, Pathobiology | 1973 |
| Joel Thomas Champion | Some consequences of rapid managerial succession in complex organizations | William G. Scott, Business Administration | 1973 |
| Carl John Jensema | An application of latent trait mental test theory to the Washington pre-college testing battery | Clifford E. Lunneborg Psychology | 1972 |
| George Alfred Racette | Risk and the required rate of return | William W. Alberts, Business Administration | 1972 |
| Kathryn Elaine Barnard | The effect of stimulation on the duration and amount of sleep and wakefulness in the premature infant | Helen Bee Douglas, Psychology | 1972 |
| Chan Jin Kim | Foreign investment of Korea: Law and Administration | Dan F. Henderson, School of Law | 1972 |
| Dennis Schuetzle | Computer controlled high resolution mass spectrometric analysis of air pollutants | A.L. Crittenden, Chemistry and R.J. Charlson, Civil Engineering | 1972 |
| Joseph Patrick Geraci | Nucleic acid metabolism in X-irradiated rat thymocytes | Gerald M. Christensen, Radiology | 1972 |
| John Glennace Varni | Cognitive and physiological control of bilateral differences in autonomic activity | Hans O. Doer, Psychiatry and Psychology | 1971 |
| Patrick Edward Connor | Reward protocols in technical organizations: interpersonal competence versus technical competence | William G. Scott, Business Administration | 1970 |