Keel, Seán617079322008-08-282017-05-112008-08-282017-05-112005http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1693textThis Thesis provides an elementary construction of the Moduli Space of Stable Maps M0,0(P r , d). It is constructed as a sequence of “weighted blowups along regular embeddings” of a projective variety. This is a corollary to a more general GIT construction that places M0,n(P r , d), P 1 [n], and M0,n into a single context.electronicengCopyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.Moduli theoryThesis3181695