Watzek Library Student Theses
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2011-2012
Art
Skordal, Delaney - Art from the Dust: Contemporary Papunya Painting and Discourses of Authenticity
Biology
Bogar, Laura - Ms.
Bubriski, Ryan - Investigating the Environmental Context of Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Species Interactions Provides Novel Evidence for Facilitation
East Asian Studies
Goldstein, Lars - The Road to Rejuvenation: Conflict and Kitsch in China's National Museum
Economics
Dlamini, Lutfo - CAN A MARSHALL PLAN WORK IN AFRICA?
English
Newbegin, Casey - "These Frail Vessels": Three Heroines in George Eliot and Henry James
Environmental Studies
Holz, Zachary - Portland’s Prestige Ecosystems and the Competition for World-City Status: A History of Three Gardens
French
Buchanan, Jason - Par la fenêtre : l'inexprimable, la folie, et la condition féminine dans Le Chant des ténèbres
Coggeshall, Megan - La mer et le néant dans L'Aventure ambiguë de Cheikh Hamidou Kane
Wasserman, Claire - Maïmouna et Khadidja : L’échec du rêve dans deux romans liminaux sénégalais
German
DuBois, Maelia - Selbsterkenntnis durch Abenteuerlust: die Bedeutung von Bildung in Graf Gustav Adolf von Götzens Reisebericht Durch Afrika von Ost Nach West, 1893-1894
History
Katzman, Emily - Transnational Black Power: Indigenous Australian Activism, 1920-1976
Sullivan, Maley - Traitors or Martyrs? The Irish National Volunteers in War and Revolution, 1912-1921
International Affairs
Ancheta, Serena - Barriers of Entry: A Consideration of the In Transit Provision in Dominican Immigration Policy
Langer, Rebecca - Ecopolitics: Sweden's Pioneering Role in Environmental Policy
Nazzal, Renda - Liberty and Justice for Whom? America's Search for Security through the USA Patriot Act
Romick, Lyndsey - A Decade of Turmoil: US-Pakistani Relations in the 21st Century
Music
Allred, Ethan - Historicism and Resistance in Poulenc’s Early Choral Music
Preston, Will - "Funk Pop a Roll": The Stylistic Development of XTC
Political Science
McIntosh, Libby - Sentencing Initiatives in Oregon and Arizona
Morgan, Ashley - THE NATION-STATE AND IMMIGRANTS : EXPLAINING VARIATION IN DANISH AND SWEDISH IMMIGRATION POLICY
Phillips, Randi - Tocqueville on the Condition of American Labor and Industry and its Contribution toward Democratic Despotism
Sociology / Anthropology
Belsky, Marcia - Stand-Up Comedy as Postmodern Performance Art: an exploration of Portland, Oregon’s comedy community
Blechert, Danielle - Separate but Equal?: A Case Study of Community Transitional School in North Portland
Breslau, Michelle - Hybridity and Hypocrisy: Intentional Communities in a Postmodern Age
Chiriboga-Flor, Dre - "The Whole World is Watching": An Ethnographic Study on Spatiality, Identity, and Marginalization within the Occupy Portland Movement
Clarke, Jessica - Fear of the Flow: Deconstructing Menstrual Taboos and Redefining Notions of Culture in Olasiti, Tanzania
Coombs, Kenny - Home Is Only What You Make It: Illegally Constructed Skateparks as Reappropriations of Public Space Amidst the Urban Decay
Dole, Natalie - Bury or Burn?: Re-ritualizing Mortuary Practices in Contemporary American Society
Dubchansky, Alison - "Estoy en el medio": Language Brokering and the Identity of Bilingual Children
Flanagan, Claire - Stand Up, Fight Back! : Remembering Injustice and Student Resistance at Lewis and Clark College
Frearson, Daisy - Mother Matters: Epigenetics Discourse and Maternal Blame
Glowacky, Paige - Beyond Witchcraft and Sorcery: The Practical Magic of Biodynamic Wine in the Willamette Valley
Horton, Deanna - “Have You Hung Out with Jesus Lately?”: Religious Space, Christian Identity, and the Meaning of Hip in a Portland, Oregon Evangelical Church
Jagudajev, Nikima - Tracey Drubin's Dance Class: Embodying Knowledge Kenaesthetically
Koenning, Anne - "Let's Let Jesus Invade Us": An Exploration of the Ways in Which the American Megachurch Appeals, Attracts and Permeates the Lives of Religious Consumers
Lauden, Elie - Eating An Image: Food Porn and American Consumption
Lindstad, Ingrid - Global Migration and Local Racism in Norway: Migrant Experiences of Exclusion and Discrimination in the Context of Modern State Politics.
McGieson, Kira - Finding A Place at the Table: Bureaucratic Alignment for Queer Parents
Miller, Andrew - Facebook and YouTube Present...the Revolution? New Social Media and Global Consumer Capitalism
Munkacsi, Rachael - "Don't Yuck My Yum": Analyzing the Institutional Perpetuation of Normalized Sexualities through Planned Parenthood Programs
Olson, A. Elliot - Our Policy Is Changing: Facebook and Digital Rights in the Modern Era
Ransbury, Alyssa - A New Lens for an Ancient Road: Interaction Ritual Chains on El Camino de Santiago
Relyea, Caitlin - If the Shoe Fits: Sneakerheads & Identity Construction through Consumption
Scherer, Alaina - Decolonizing the Screen: Indigenous Videography in Southern Mexico
Seidel, Maya - “Having the blues never felt so good”: Building Community in Portland Blues and Jazz Dance Society.
Seiler, Marissa - Revolution Grrrl Style Now?: Exploring Nostalgic Longing Within Portland’s Music Subculture
Simms, JJ - Investing in Leadership: The Use of Outdoor Programs by Entrepreneurial Individuals
Smith, Kaitlin - The Most Desirable Body: Ethnography of Competitive Swimming at Lewis & Clark College
Starkey, Blaze - Colonialism, Methodology, and Water Rights on the Yukon
Sullivan-Bing, Gillian - Playing by the Rules: The Embodied Agency of the Female Athlete
Sullivan-Bing, Gillian - Playing by the Rules: The Limited Embodied Agency of the Female Athlete
Tjian, Hilary - "You Know You Love it": Understanding the Shift in Kraft Marketing Strategies
Tuscher, Nicole - Islamophobia and Language Practices in the French Projects: Violence, Innovation, and Social Identity
Weinstein, Sean - Corporate Horizons: Diversifying Definitions of the Organic Food Movement
Spanish
Klabunde, Rachel - Memoria e Identidad de Julia Álvarez: In the Time of the Butterflies
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2010-2011
Biology
Higgins, Logan - Comparing the diversity and structure of Frankia assemblages in Mexican and Pacific Northwest Alnus forests
Chemistry
Baker, Devon - Investigation of the Mechanisms of Phosphonothioate Hydrolysis
Communications
Harris, Erika - The Lost Battalion of Platonic Conversationalists: Identity formation, Constitutive Rhetoric and Jazz Music
Yang, Lee - Exploring the Racial Climate at Lewis & Clark College
International Affairs
Flanagan, Zoe - Balancing the Soviet Threat: U.S. Accommodation of Israel's Ambiguous Introduction of Nuclear Weapons into the Middle East
Jack, Meredith - The Causes of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988): Rivalry, Relative Capabilities, and Revolution
Lodal, Jessica - Activism, Advocacy and the End of Apartheid: The International Dynamics of Domestic Policy Change in South Africa
Philosophy
Raskoff, Sarah - Particularism and Moral Debate
Physics
Stadler, Dylan - Photometric Investigations of Eclipsing Binary Stars and Exoplanets
Sociology / Anthropology
Aguilera, Kali - Hope or Horror? Negotiating Apocalyptic Anxieties of Nuclear Threat and the AIDS Epidemic With a Politics of Possibility
Alpine, Megan - Ideological Interpellation through Nostalgia and Multicultural Universalism in the Radio Program, This American Life
Dilworth, Claire - An Alternative to Violence: Encouraging Forgiveness in a Post 9/11 World
Eng, Holiday - Meat Matters: Examining Locally-Sourced, Small-Scale Meat Production
Herbert, Kiran - Sacred Medicine: Ayahuasca, the Santo Daime, and Western Re-Enchantment
Hiatt, Michi - Pele Pursued: Examining and Explaining Contemprory Views of the Hawaiian Fire Goddess
Johnson, Liz - This is Only a Part of My Story: Queer Homeless Youth in the Portland Area – An Ethnographic Approach
Khalsa, Har Rai - Apple: The Social Impacts of a Post-Fordist Corporation
Krussel, Katie - Collectivist Ideology and Organizational Change in a Small Cooperative Grocery Store
Lignell, Shayna - The Mitzvah of Matzoth and Medicine: Analyzing Jewish Mission Trips to Cuba through an Humanitarian Tourism Lens
Marini, Samantha - Constructing Crime and Controlling Class: The American “War on Drugs” and the Growth of the Penal State
Olavarria, Claire - The Historical Roots of Contemporary Nationalist and Linguistic Tensions
Pampanin, Nicole - Perceptions of the United States and Its Citizens Through the Lens of a Ghanaian Community
Price, Molly - Keeping Calm: An Investigation of Discipline and Resistance in a Wellness Education Program for Children
Schaffner, Wyatt - Not A Flat World After All: Insurgent Public Space and Strategies of Subsistence Through Popular Culture
Schildmeyer, Jennifer - The Monkees vs. The Music Machine: Contested Authenticity in 1960s American Pop Culture
Scroggs, Emily - Deconstructing Abortion: Turning the Conversation from Political Debate to Women’s Experience
Smythe, Caitlin - Steampunk Fashion Cyborgs: Resistance in the Cog of Consumer Capitalism
Troutman, Rhiannon - Transitioning from Crisis: Creating 'Home' for Transgender Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care
Walker, Neal - Exploring the Role of Education in the Experiences of Youth Refugees
Wash, Jon - The Omnivorous Assumption: A Study of Dietary Anomie in the United States
Worthge, Carolyn - Praying for Prosperity: Pentecostal Christianity and Community Identity in Ghana’s Globalizing Economy
Spanish
Wedgwood, Grace - La esperanza es infinita: El posibilismo en tres obras de Antonio Buero Vallejo
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2009-2010
Biochemistry
Hilken, Lindsay - Investigating the Association between Dense Core Granules and Myosin Va at Synaptic Sites in Hippocampal Neurons
Chemistry
Zachreson, Cameron - Effect of Macroporous Morphology and ZnO Coating on Layared MnO2 for Li+ Battery Cathode Applications
Communications
Aroxa, Mari - "Pop Will Never Be Low Brow:" The New Representation of the Female in Popular Culture
Computer Science
Pellegrino, Seth - Investigating the Effects of Playout Strength in Monte-Carlo Go
East Asian Studies
Carter, Alia - Ancient Traditions in Modern Clay: Prehistoric Pottery in Post-WWII Japanese Ceramics
Upsal, Aaron - The Tokyo Trial’s Comic Trial
Economics
Davy, Andrew - What are the Benefits and Costs of the Food For Peace Title II Program in Tanzania?
Foote, Andrew - How Sensitive is Transit Ridership to Gas Prices?
Heirshberg, Scott - What are the social costs and benefits of salmon aquaculture?
Johnson, Sean - Does the Presence of Solar Panels Affect the Value of a Home?
Kearl, Zachary - What were the costs and benefits of “Cash for Clunkers?”
Morgan, Sami - What are the Costs and Benefits of a Subsidy for Cars Powered by Alternative Fuels?
Nazim, Jasin - The costs and benefits of food subsidies in Malaysia
Rogers, Claire - Are Grants or Loans more efficient in producing College Graduation Rates?
Sloan, Daniel - Why Not Just Lower the Price?: Mail-in Rebates, Coupons and Other Promotions
English
Katz, Asher - Models of Art and Love in the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Shields, Kit - Misguided Lovers and Ghost Writers: Submission and Authorship in Hawthorne
Environmental Studies
Brown, Kimberly - Redefining Quality-of-Life in Portland, Oregon
Tomita, Hiroshi - Chinese Energy Investment in Central Asia
Foreign Languages
History
Cathcart, Michael - From the Battlefield to the Diamond: The Importance of Baseball During the Post-WWII American Occupation of Japan
Harper, Kali - The Displacement of an Imagined People: Tourism, Biblical Romanticism, and Orientalism in Pre-Mandate Palestine 1840-1922
Heveran, Michael - Chinese National Identity and the Rediscovery of Martial Arts
Liebenstein, Katie - The Roots and Consequences of Nazi Environmentalism: Construction and Destruction of the Earth and the Other
van Waarden, Betto - Trials and Tribulations of Transfer: Isaac Titsingh and the Transfer of Knowledge from Japan to Europe in the Late Eighteenth Century
Math
Peden, Dylan - A Group Theoretic Approach to Music Theory
Music
Hilken, Lindsay - The Realization of Heinrich Schenker's Nationalist, Philosophical, and Spiritual Views in his Musical Theories
Nelson, Emily - "Music isn't about Anything": Issues of Program in Leonard Bernstein's Second Symphony "The Age of Anxiety"
Philosophy
Tierney, Hannah - The Racist and the Existentialist: A Testimonial Account of the Basing Relation
Physics
Prahl, Louis - Investigating the localization and dynamics of proteins involved in memory formation
Political Science
Gusinow, Sander - Towards a Labor-Based Conceptualization of Commodity Fetishism in Karl Marx’s Das Capital
Psychology
Larsen, Bart - A P300 Event-Related Potential Investigation of the Stroop Effect
Sociology / Anthropology
Aldinger, Kelly - Deconstructing Stigma: An Analysis of Discursive Power within Male and Female Sex Work in Senegal
Barakan, Shin - Globalized Ink: The Commercialization of Japanese Tattoo Art & The Power of Westernization
Blood, Caitlin - Preserving Ritual: Counterhegemonic Practice in the Wisdom of the Elders Public Radio Program
Brotemarkle, Kaitlin - Tourism in Hood River, Oregon: A Catalyst for Revitalization
Comstock-Ross, Julia - Bound by Culture, Bound by Words: How Historical and Contemporary Discourses of Sexuality Shape Today's Two-Spirit Identity
Elvendahl, Carly - Por La Izquierda: Inspired by Limits, Sustained by Networks: Black Market Housing in Havana, Cuba
Frochtzwajg, Jonathan - "All That Really Is Happening Is Happening To Me": Imagination and Experimentation in Social Scientific Texts
Giamario, Caitlin - Born of Silence: Exploring Fourth Generation Japanese American Ethnic Identities
Gibbs, Anna - STO’s and Student Activity on Lewis and Clark Campus
Girma, Haben - Blindness through Sighted Eyes: Sighted Americans, Ableism, and Guide Dogs
Hamilton, Collin Hamslam - Tourists and "Natives:" Authenticity and the Power of Maasai Identity
Hernandez, Larissa - A Moveable Feast: Understanding the Similarities and Differences Between Immigrant and American-Born Food Cart Workers
Himelfarb, Jessie - I Just Want to Be Normal: The Contradiction between Normalcy and Activism in HIV/AIDS Memoirs
Jones, Addie - Redressive Summer Camps for Seriously Ill Children: Normalization and the Experience of Childhood in a Liminal Space
Lenz, Jami - Disenchanting the World of Disney: Childhood Interpretations of Walt Disney's Cinderella and Mulan
Martin, Melanie - Combating Stigma from the Bottom Up: Case Study in an Urban High School
Mathewson, Heather - Human-Dog Relations in Portland’s Indian Diaspora Community
Morse, Lauren - You Say ‘Potato,’ I Say ‘Political’: Framing Community Supported Agriculture as a Subpolitical Movement
Riley, Andrew - Dislocated priests, colonial legacies, and the patron saint of the potato harvest: Aymara-Catholic syncretism in northern Chile
Riley, Devon - From Grannies to Graduates: The Transformation of Modern Midwifery
Speakman, Maile - No Hay Manera Apagar el Ocio (They Can’t Stop The Leisure): Queer and Countercultural Youth Space in Contemporary Havana
Stein, Samantha - Imagining Community: The Role of Bumper Stickers in Israeli Identity Formation
Thompson, Fiona - The Ski Bum: The Foreclosure of an Identity in an Increasingly Aflluent Community
Witwer, Ellie - What’s In A Word: An Ethnographic Study of Labels, Language and Disclosure of Portland Polyamorous Women
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2008-2009
Economics
Berglund, Jared - Implementation of the NFL Salary Cap:The impact on the structure of salary distribution, team and league revenue
Carleton, Tamma - Sharecropping and the 50:50 Share Rate: an Evolutionary Game Theoretic Approach
Meacham, Matt - What are the economic determinants in the relocation of NFL franchises
Meub, Alex - The Nature of Price Dispersion: Evidence from the Online Market for Consumer Electronics
Olsen, Chelsea - Impacting Oregon Public High School Students’ Math SAT Scores: A Look into the Influence of Math Teacher Quality
Olson, Allison - Is the clustering of restaurants a key determinant of success in Portland, Oregon?
Osterweil, Cass - Oregon's Solar Industry: Decreasing Costs, Demand Diffusion, and the Case for Subsidies
Papenfuss, Tyson - Do GDP, population size, social factors, athletic contribution and past medal counts determine the weighted total of medals won by countries in the Summer Olympic Games?
History
Halvorson, Charles - "The Work of a Few Farmers": The Willamette Greenway and the Divide Between Environmentalists and Laborers
Philosophy
Long, Emily - The Socratic Account of Virtue’s Relation to Happiness
Sociology / Anthropology
Adleson, Ilana - SCULPTED SELVES: EXPLORING THE PLURAL IDENTITIES OF THE CULTURAL HYBRID
Brown, AJ - Student-Athletes and the College Experience: A View from Lewis and Clark College
Cordes, Julia - Viva Viagra: Viagra, Sexuality, and the Pharmaceutical Construction of Gender
Hale, Katelyn - Hyperroads and Ghost Ramps: Shifting Urban Priorities and the Death of the Mt. Hood Freeway
Kaufmann, Nick - Machizukuri: Reshaping Local Space and Community in Japan
Kelley, Celeste - Preserving Tradition and Embracing Modernity: Women's Changing Gender Roles in the Autonomous Development Practices of the Zapatistas
McCombs, Maggie - Jumping for the Camera: Maasai and the Commodification of Authenticity
Odell, Shanti - Willing, Thinking, Feeling: The Threefold Philosophy of Waldorf Education as an Opposition to Mind-Body Dualisms
Paden, Natalie - Sheltering the Family: State Hegemony and Ideologies of the Family in a Youth Crisis Shelter
Parker, Laura - Playing with Masculinity: the reproduction and subversion of dominant gender ideologies in baseball and softball at Lewis and Clark College
Prewitt, Ashley - The Dual Identity of First Generation Iranian-Americans: Finding the Balance of Iranian heritage and American culture
Ringer, Danielle - You Are What You Adorn: Temporary Body Adornment and the Performance of Gendered Identity
Runyan, Elspeth - I Want It All!: Celebrity Culture and the New American Dream
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2007-2008
Biology
Holzer, Katie - Amphibian Conservation in Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge
Chemistry
Delaney, Frances - RNA Synthesis Employing 2’-Allyl Protection Chemistry and RuII(H2O)6 Deprotection Catalyst
Communications
Bjork, Nick - Music's Role in Young Adults' Gender Construnction: Rhythm, Content, and the Search for Identity
Burnett, Katie - Political Advertising & New Media Technologies: Websites, Facebook, and YouTube in the 2008 Presidential Primaries
Chapman, Ryan - Can I Buy You a Drink? - An Analysis of Male Flirting Goals and Messages
Corso, Jeff - Defamed Electronically: The Modification of Traditional Defamation Law to Suit the Electronic Media Frontier
Farr, Al - The Copycat Phenomenon: The Influence of News Media on the Future of School Shootings
Franks, Hunter - Stuart Scott: Hip-Hop Broadcaster
Housman, Lisa - Go For the Goal: Mass Media Representations of Female Athletes in the 2007 Women's World Cup
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
Saunderson, Andrew - Soda: I Don't Want It! A Counter Advertising Proposal in Response to Television Nutrition Ads Contribution to Childhood Obesity
Smith, Nicki - Feeling Foreign: How Communication Competence Affects the Extent of Culture Shock
Steelman, Lisa - Scream Queens and Final Girls: The Depiction of Women in American Slasher Films of the Past Decade
Takayama, Teal - "One Nation Under God": Religious Metaphors in State of the Union Addresses Since 1961
Vielma, Adan - 360 OS: The Future of Communication with the Computer
Wennerlind, Mike - Pastor Polarity:Sermon Success From Diverse Perspectives In The Megachurch Movement
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?
Mandsager, Paul - Childhood Diseases and Health Outcomes in Developing Countries
Matthews, Morgan - PRIVATE SCHOOL VOUCHERS AND STUDENT SORTING: AN APPLICATION OF THE RECENT PEER EFFECTS LITERATURE
Smith, Dylan Tyler - Still Searching for the Sunk Cost Effect
Van Otterloo, Josh - Incomplete Public Contracting: Theory and an Application to Emergency Ambulance Service
English
Waarvick, Alice - Desire Gratified: Method and Female Liberation in 'Visions of the Daughters of Albion'
Environmental Studies
Garvey, Megan - Ross Island: The Value of a Post-Industrial Urban Greenspace
Nuss, Meagan - See[me]: An Intersection of Environmental Studies and Art
Shannon, Megan - Landscapes of Modernity: Class, Power & The Production of Natural Space
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
Sandgren, Kate - Du Texte à l’image : représentations du Loup et l’agneau à travers l’histoire
History
Hayes, Jeffrey - Grounds for Neutrality: Britain and the American Civil war
Hayes, Jeffrey - Multiple Nations, Multiple Nationalisms: A Study of Nationalist Ideology as Expressed in Union, Confederate and British Newspaper Editorials, 1861-3
Kerr, Allie - “The Wild and the Wonderful”: Penny Dreadfuls and Victorian Social Responses
Rodgers, Anna - The Cadbury Conscience: How a Quaker Industrial Family Pursued Social Justice
International Affairs
Jiang, Hongda - THREAT PERCEPTION AND SINO-RUSSIAN RELATIONS
Philosophy
Braich, Matt - Strawson and Allison on Kant's Transcendental Idealism
Political Science
Steele, Trevor - Campaign Database Systems: Centralization of Political Party Structure in the Race for Microtargeting Supremacy
Tawney, Whitney Lee - SENATOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON: CHANGING RHETORIC TO FIT IN A MASCULINE WORLD
Psychology
Van Gelder, Martha - Evaluations of Active and Passive Ova in Human Fertilization
Sociology / Anthropology
Anderson, Leah - Bioprospecting In-between Borders: Re-enchanting the Science of Taxol among Researchers and American Indians of the Northwest
Anthony, Madeleine - Of C-Sections and Cyborgs: The Rise in Medically Unnecessary Birth Interventions in the United States
Bailey/Farber, Max - Advertising as Graffiti: The Changing Streetscape of Varanasi
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
Case, Amber - The Cell Phone and Its Technosocial Sites of Engagement
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
Golden, Haley - The Transformative and Subversive Possibilities of Online "Meeting:" A Brief Look into the Craig's List Personals Section
Grundy, Diane - A Genetically Modified Fallacy: An Examination of the Failure of Transgenic Bt Cotton in Indian Agriculture
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
Nelson, Casey - Women, Poverty, and HIV/AIDS: Matrices of Oppression and the Struggle for Agency in the Lives of Nairobi's Female Sex Workers
Phillips, Kate - Deconstructing Sibling Abuse: Uncovering the Roots of a Socially Naturalized Form of Violence
Sander, Karyne - Are the Superheroes of Today the Same as Yesterday?: A gendered examination of comic book superheroes and the subsequent films
Sutherland, Cailen - Melting Your Addiction: The Solidity of Societal Factors Constructing the Ibogaine Debate in America
Thierry, Nick - Mis-Education Through Mis-Representation: American Cultural Ideology Exposed: White Minds and Black Bodies
Tran, Chatasha - Time, Space, and Kinship: Emerging Identities in a Vietnamese-American Family
Vannet, Clea - Life, Liberty and the Fear of Death: Condsiderations of the Experience of Terminal Illness in Contemporary American Culture
Wright, Christie - Producing PDX Culture
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2006-2007
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
Perkins, Andrew - Assimilation or Empowerment?
Sanchez, Adam - The Terror is in the Truth
International Affairs
David, Justin - Why Don't They Just Buy Bottled Water? Cooperation and International River Basins
Lanier, Frazer - Indigenous Voices in the International Community
Law, Dawson - Liberal Intergovernmentalism and European Integration: A Case Study of European Immigration Policy
Plotnick, Mischa - The Spread of Microfinance: Conditions for Microfinance Proliferation
Physics
Gerwick, Erik - Using Strings to model the Strong Nuclear Force
Psychology
Garrison, Nicole - Role of Regulatory Focus in Self-Oriented Perfectionism
Heveran, Chelsea - The Effects of Test Anxiety on Test Performance: Psychological versus Physiological Responses.
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
Coats, Laurel - From Curious Invention To Appropriate Technology: Bicycles, Women, and The Underdevelopment of Rural Africa
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
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2005-2006
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
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2004-2005
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
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2003-2004
Foreign Languages
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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