Watzek Library Student Theses

• 2008-2009

  Economics

  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?

  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

  Krom, David - Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder and the Student’s quest for a normal sense of self: quirk and convention: esteem and success: an autoethnography

  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

• 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

  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

  Mesford, Megan - Sexual Images Creating Sexual Teenagers...or Not? Sexual Depictions in Two Decades of Advertisements in Cosmopolitan and the Influence on Adolescents Sexual Behavior

  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

  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

  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

  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

  Eandi, Cara - "He Always Advocated for Justice and Truth": The Mothers of Political Prisoners' Use of Combative Motherhood to Legitimize Human Rights in Kenyan Politics

  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

  Krom, David - Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder and the Student’s quest for a normal sense of self : quirk and convention: esteem and success : an autoethnography

  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

  Wynn, Gabe - Silencing the Roar of the River Columbia Or "How the United States Federal Government can Screw Indians Over and Make it Seem Legit"

• 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

  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

• 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

• 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

• 2003-2004

  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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