Louise talks about learning to accept criticism, and how an influential class got her interested in Aristotle.
Reed community members can read Louise’s thesis, “An Aristotelian Argument for Restorative Justice: How We Can Use Forgiveness Instead of Punitive Punishment to Heal from Wrongdoings,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive.
When Kieran learned that high school chemistry teachers reportedly teach climate change at the lowest rate among STEM teachers, he decided to study this for his thesis. You won’t learn much about climate change in this episode, but you will learn about Kieran’s learning process as he discovered how education research is done (lots of analyzing of interview transcripts).
Reed community members can read Kieran’s thesis, “Incorporation of Climate Change Topics in High School Chemistry: Teacher Practices, Beliefs, and Barriers to Implementation,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive.
Kavi wrote a thesis that centered around writing two case studies examining the fictional worlds of a 1994 Nintendo game called EarthBound, and a television series called Adventure Time.
Reed community members can read Kavi’s thesis, “World between Bits,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive.
Leila spent a pandemic year remotely studying the members and activities of a lab that had quickly pivoted to study COVID-19 at the beginning the pandemic.
Reed community members can read Leila’s thesis, “In Our Hands: How Biologists Negotiate Unpredictability to Make and Share Knowledge,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive.
Burn Your Draft is taking a break for the summer and will be back in fall 2022 with our new student producer and host, Albert Kerelis ’24. We’ll have a bunch of interviews with ’22 grads to share, as well as a couple more from the class of 2020 and 2021.
Infinite thank yous and appreciations go to Amelie; we’ll miss you!
While we’re on break, check out these other podcasts which have Reedies working on them:
Nearly all Reedies take Hum 110, the year-long humanities conference that serves as an introduction to the Reed education. Max decided to go back to Hum 110 to study how students engage with social justice for their linguistics thesis.
Reed community members can read Max’s thesis, “Just Saying(s): Discursive Practices and Social Justice in a Humanities 110 Conference,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive.
Amelie and Demeter talk about Demeter’s thesis on nationalism, gender, and culture in Kazakhstan.
Reed community members can read Demeter’s thesis, “Blossoming from the Steppe: Nationalism and Culture in Urban Kazakhstan,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive.
Evan Griggs ’22 wrote a thesis in the math department, and talks about his path from community college to the math department at Reed.
Reed community members can read Evan’s thesis, “Cyclic Cones & Non-singular Refinements of Cyclic Fans,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive.
Ema Chomsky ’21 wrote her thesis on the environmental history of Haiti by focusing on U.S. interventions in the country.
Reed community members can read Ema’s thesis, “Pigs and Plantations: US Environmental Interventions in Haiti in the Twentieth Century,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive.
From dancing for nine hours to techno in Berlin to applying critical theory to bodies in movement, Soroa talks about her pandemic year of diving deeply into her thesis writing.
Reed community members can read Soroa’s thesis, “Assembled and Undone: Bodies Beyond Subjection,” online in the Electronic Theses Archive.