• 2012-2013

  Art

  Lancelot, Camille - Ordinary Encounters Extraordinary: The Logic of Orality and Literacy in West African Art from Senufo, Yoruba, and Urban Senegalese Societies

  East Asian Studies

  Kwok, Jennifer - "I'd rather cry in a BMW than laugh on the backseat of a bicycle": How Only Children Confront Issues of Re-traditionalization While Maintaining their Individuality

  Nash, Laura - Molding Creative Workers Through Art Education in Contemporary China

  Smith, Abby - Wandering out of the Cabaret, out of the Clinic: Hourou Musuko and Transgender in Language and Discourse in Japanese Popular Media

  Economics

  Frank, Hannah - Juvenile Property Crime, Student-Teacher Relationships, and Absenteeism

  Provost, Will - What are the relative welfare effects of bans, product charges, and deposit-refund systems on plastic bags?

  Rose, Natalie - Are high-income households more sensitive to changes in crime rate?

  Environmental Studies

  Bernstein, Sally - Rising from the Ruin: The Aestheticization of Detroit's Industrial Landscape

  Watnick, Darya - "But God was not in the earthquake:" Theodicy in biblical and contemporary responses to natural disasters

  French

  Lancelot, Camille - L'Ordinaire et l'extraordinaire: Le fantastique et l’oralité dans Cycle de sècheresse et Le Cavalier et son ombre

  Le Pichon, Sarah - « « Tous enfants d'Adam » : épistolarité, colonisation et individualité dans les lettres de Marie Tyl »

  History

  Boley, Charla - The Irish Civil War and the Manipulation of Historical Memory

  Thompson, Faolan - Polishing the Tarnished Rose: Police Sergeant Earl R. Biggs, Moral Panic, and Sexuality in Cold War Portland, Oregon

  Philosophy

  Dalbey, Bryce - Representationalism and the Hard Problem of Consciousness

  Political Science

  Lyon, Kristofer - Red Batons: Explaining Variation in Police Use of Force at Public Protests in the United States

  Religious Studies

  Aronson, Kayla - Apocalypse Then: Applying a New Theory of Apocalyptic to the Byzantine "Apocalypse of Anastasia"

  Emmerling, Casey - Finding Your Box-Top: Eckankar and the Pacific Northwest

  Kleinman, Alanna - Remembering the Future: Jewish Youth Pilgrimage to Poland and Israel as a Means of Identity Construction

  Sociology / Anthropology

  Condon, Kevin - Don't Show me the Money: A Statistical Analysis between Economics, Attitudes towards Islam and Population Favorability towards Hamas

  Delgado, Elise - Exorcizing America: The Rise of Catholic Exorcism in Modern America

  Eisenberg, Clare - Environmental Sustainability and Economic Development in the Chinese Tourism Industry

  Hogan, Matt - Restrained Reproduction and Controlling Communications; Biopower, Actor-Network Theory, and Cyborg Theory on the implications of technology in dystopian fiction

  Jacobs, Jane - Problems or Pets? The Violation of Imagined Boundaries By Pigeons and Their People

  Kellogg, Sam - Digitizing Dissent: Cyborg Politics and Fluid Networks in Cuban Activism

  Kilbourn, Katie - Knowing Birth: Mothers’ Negotiation of Knowledge and Authority through Midwife-Assisted Childbirth

  Lofstrand, Anna Britt Gordon - An Economy of Goodness: Everyday Morality and Modernity in South India

  Matchinske-Brehmer, Erin - Walking on Thin Ice: Tourist Experiences of Risk in Nature

  Miller, Nathan - Where Fluidity Meets Solidarity: A Case Study of an Informal Community

  Nagata, Megumi - Politics of Memory: Representation and Memory at the Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots

  Nimmo, Ella - Negotiating Identities: The Acculturative Encounters of African Refugee Students at School

  Rangel, Sara - Making Light of the Grey: BDSM and the Mainstreaming of Erotica

  Salazar, Goldann - Power Over Space: Race Talk at Lewis & Clark College

  Scott, Lindsey - Multispecies Identities in Furry Fandom: Collapsing Dichotomies and Embracing the Co-constitution of Selves

  Sharif, Meagan - Equitable health opportunities: Portland Public School District as a model for creating conscious consumers

  Stratton, Sara - "Taking back my identity": Indigenous Intellectual Identity Formation and Movement Participation as Critical Praxis

  Taylor, Clara - Making Meaning in an Undecided Landscape: A Case Study of Portland's South Waterfront

  Thompson, Amy - “You’ve Got to Stick With Your People”: The Making of a White South African Social Identity Post-Apartheid

  Wickramasekera, Amanda - Where do I fit? Identities of Sri Lankan Youth Abroad

  Wilson, Katie - Fractionalization vs. Unification: The Role of Political Structure in Forming Ethnic or National Identity

• 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 fen�tre : l'inexprimable, la folie, et la condition f�minine dans Le Chant des t�n�bres

  Coggeshall, Megan - La mer et le n�ant dans L'Aventure ambigu� de Cheikh Hamidou Kane

  Wasserman, Claire - Ma�mouna et Khadidja : L��chec du r�ve dans deux romans liminaux s�n�galais

  German

  DuBois, Maelia - Selbsterkenntnis durch Abenteuerlust: die Bedeutung von Bildung in Graf Gustav Adolf von G�tzens Reisebericht Durch Afrika von Ost Nach West, 1893-1894

  History

  DuBois, Maelia - Competition, Collaboration, and Parallel Development: The Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft and the Imperial British East African Company in East Africa, 1884-1895

  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 Limited Embodied Agency of the Female Athlete

  Sullivan-Bing, Gillian - Playing by the Rules: The 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 �lvarez: In the Time of the Butterflies

• 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

  Hetz, Molly - We Are The New Revolution: Exploring a Community-based Organization Working Towards Development and Post-war Healing in Guarjila, Chalatenango, El Salvador.

  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

• 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

  VanKoten, Kimberly - Макаревич и Гребенщиков: два направления в формировании русской рок-личности: Boris Grebenshchikov and Andrei Makarevich: Two Different Paths in the Formulation and Expression of Russian Rock

  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

• 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

  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

  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

  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

  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 mod�le du roi : Responsabilit�, justice, raison et d�autres aspects fondamentaux du monarque dans la litt�rature m�di�vale

  Hellmich, Emily - Lib�rer la femme � travers le fou ? Pinel, Sand et la condition f�minine au XIXe si�cle

  Sandgren, Kate - Du Texte � l�image : repr�sentations du Loup et l�agneau � travers l�histoire

  History

  Hayes, Jeffrey - Multiple Nations, Multiple Nationalisms: A Study of Nationalist Ideology as Expressed in Union, Confederate and British Newspaper Editorials, 1861-3

  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

  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

• 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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