Watzek Library Student Theses

 

2007-2008 Academic Year

Communications

Burnett, Katie - Political Advertising & New Media Technologies: Websites, Facebook, and YouTube in the 2008 Presidential Primaries

Franks, Hunter - Stuart Scott: Hip-Hop Broadcaster

Loebner, Katie - Multicultural Garden Discourse: The Self, The Group, and The Land

Ross, Becka - Creating A Love That is as Broad[band] as the Universe: Creating Romantic Relationships Through Online Dating Services

Smith, Nicki - Feeling Foreign: How Communication Competence Affects the Extent of Culture Shock

Yarranton, Rachel - Framing Political Culture: An Analysis of the 2004 Televised Presidential Campaign Ads

Economics

Broz, Thomas - Has Superfund Liability Reduced the EPA's Burden to Lead Cleanup Actions?

Environmental Studies

Garvey, Megan - Ross Island: The Value of a Post-Industrial Urban Greenspace

Schmidt, Alexa - Place Attachment and Forced Migration: Reimagining Home, Roots, and Environmentalism

French

Anderson, Zven - Construire un modèle du roi : Responsabilité, justice, raison et d’autres aspects fondamentaux du monarque dans la littérature médiévale

Hellmich, Emily - Libérer la femme à travers le fou ? Pinel, Sand et la condition féminine au XIXe siècle

History

Rodgers, Anna - The Cadbury Conscience: How a Quaker Industrial Family Pursued Social Justice

Sociology / Anthropology

Anderson, Leah - Bioprospecting In-between Borders: Re-enchanting the Science of Taxol among Researchers and American Indians of the Northwest

Brandt, Oliver - The Kids Love Jagged: Portland's Pearl District and The Appropriation of Urban Symbols

Capsalis, Cate - La Murga es la comunidad: Song, Community, and Praxis in Argentine Carnival

Carpenter, Brienne - The Fifth Dimension: An Ethnography of a Spiritual Subculture in Oregon

Desautels, Devon - Structure and Antistructure: The Stage for Artistic Revolution

Dilley, Riana - "Exploring" The Favela: A Personal and Ethnographic Investigation in Favela Tourism

Doescher, Karen - Identity in Ruins: Toward an Understanding of National Identity, Ethnic Conflict, and Belize Valley Archaeology

Dubey, Lauren - The Politics of Representation: T-shirts and Transformation of HIV/AIDS Stigma in Peru

Glusman, Ellie - Activism and Commodification: Celebrities Meet Generation Y in the New Public Sphere

Hackett, Amanda - Defining the Ethnic Self: Malleable and Multiple Identities and the Greek Experience in the United States

Hobstetter, Lauren - Meat: An Investigation into Meat Production in the United States

Jorgensen, Selena - Managing Health Disparities in the Age of Neoliberalism: An Ethnographic Study of an Urban Safety-Net Clinic

Kiehl, Kate - From Psychiatry to Core Shamanism: Madness as a Matrix of Institution, Theory and Lived Reality

Nabb, Heather - No Joke: Unabashed or Muted Humor as a Means of Power and Resistance for Women in the Workplace

Phillips, Kate - Deconstructing Sibling Abuse: Uncovering the Roots of a Socially Naturalized Form of Violence

Vannet, Clea - Life, Liberty and the Fear of Death: Condsiderations of the Experience of Terminal Illness in Contemporary American Culture


 

2006-2007 Academic Year

Biology

Arnold, Erika - Edge effects in Portland's urban forests: Variation in carabid beetle abundance, richness, diet, and origin

Phillips, Jennifer - A Comparative Analysis of Juvenal Plumage Variation in Terns

English

Bronston, Allie - "Stability in a Changing World": Objects as Consolation for Declining Religious Faith in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out

Pollak, Ben - Untold History and the Official Record in the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines

Environmental Studies

McBride, Megan - Nutritional Inequities and the Food Environment

History

Haker, Joe - Let Them Grow Grapes: Statewide Land Use Planning and the Rise of "Wise Use" in Oregon

Hayes, Becky - Retelling the Apocalypse: The formation and use of sacred History in the apocalyptic eschatology of Saints Augustine and Bonaventure

International Affairs

David, Justin - Why Don't They Just Buy Bottled Water? Cooperation and International River Basins

Law, Dawson - Liberal Intergovernmentalism and European Integration: A Case Study of European Immigration Policy

Plotnick, Mischa - The Spread of Microfinance: Conditions for Microfinance Proliferation

Psychology

Garrison, Nicole - Role of Regulatory Focus in Self-Oriented Perfectionism

Religious Studies

McCartan, Emily - Upon This Rock: Temple Conversion and Sacred Space in Early Christian Rome

Sociology / Anthropology

Alsberge, Joseph - Marginal Medicine: Structural Violence and Health Care in Portland, Oregon

Hinson, Leah - Women, Work, and Union Organizing: An Analysis of Gender and Labor Unions

Lowrey, Kestryl - No Man's Land: Dialectics of Masculinity in Non-Male Individuals


 

2005-2006 Academic Year

Foreign Languages

Barnes, Beau - Germany's Future in the World: Foreign Policy and Rhetoric in the 2005 Bundestag Election

Brones, Anna - La Problématique de la situation de la Martinique et de la Guadeloupe dans la Caraïbe contemporaine

Hill, Sarah - Die sozialen Netzwerke und der politische Aktivismus von ostdeutschen Lesben vor und nach der Wende

Shupe, Kendra - "Para que la generación siguiente vea florecer esa unidad:"  El panamericanismo y el pacifismo en la visión mistraliana

History

Blackmar, Charles - Architects and Blueprints: Acheson, Truman, and the Origins of the Vietnam War

Oothoudt, Deanna - For God or Country: Latter-day Saint Missionaries and English Protestants in Early Victorian England

Porterfield, Sara - Mount Rainier National Park: An Illustration of the 19th Century American Environmental Movement


 

2004-2005 Academic Year

Economics

Carlson, Sonya - Is Wal-Mart's "Efficiency" Based on a Government Subsidy: A Case Study of Oregon

Chu, Angela - Why Are Employee Contributions Towards Health Insurance Rising?

History

Jenkins, Sierra - An Imagined Community: How KGST "La Mexicana"1600 AM Served, Strengthened and Helped to Form the Mexican-American Community of California's Central Valley

Owenius, Victoria - Oregon Posten:  The Importance of a Newspaper to Cultural Identity

Schreiner, Aili - Lessons in Domesticity, Lives of Autonomy: The Authoritative Voices of Field Matrons, Civilizers of the Indian Service


 

2003-2004 Academic Year

Foreign Languages

Antonioli, Kathleen - "Cette Mystérieuse et Fantastique Créature": Désir et Création dans "la Cafetiére" de Theophile Gautier" - "This Mysterious and Fantastic Creature": Desire and Creation in Theophile Gautier's "The Coffee Pot"

Vitiello, Elizabeth - Une Histoire en Sept Plats - A Story in Seven Courses

International Affairs

Ablutz, Kate - Linguistic Complexity and the Construction of International Relations

Arnold, Julia - Patriarchy and Microcredit: A Conflict

Bingham, Paul - Al Qaeda: Smashing the Myth of Realism, Advancing a Loose-Regime Theory

Freitas, Casia - Nonviolent Action: A Study of Overthrowing Dictators in Chile, The Philippines and China

Luckey, Javad - China's Spiraling Human Rights Crisis

Takahashi, Rintaro - The Crisis of Japanese Libreralism and the Rise of the Right-Wing

Taylor, Sara - The "Constitution" of Europe: Social Influence and the Legal Integration of the EC

Vizcaino, Agustin - Neo-liberalism and Development

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