Thesis Archive

Organized chronologically by semester and year.

Copies of Senior Theses can be found archived in Watzek library and in the department office.

Spring 2006

Sara Dasta. No Child Left Behind and the Achievement Gap: Mistreating the Symptoms, Ignoring Their Roots
Abstract: This thesis explores the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, focusing on whether or not it is suited to the task of eliminating the achievement gap for low-income and minority students. The study draws on both primary and secondary research to examine the effects of its implementation and its general potential for efficacy. The general findings are the NCLB will not result in the elimination of the achievement gap, because it neither acknowledges nor addresses the structural and cultural factors that contribute to the gap. Additionally, several of its policies are, in fact, shown to be exacerbating the problems they were designed to resolve. At the conclusion of the study, more realistic policies for easing educational inequalities are explored.

Lizzy Flaum. The Age of Female Violence
Abstract: Over the past couple of decades, accounts of girls acting in aggressive and even violent behavior has increased at frightening rates. Adolescent girls are, for he first time in America, surpassing adolescent males in physical fighting, joining both all-female and mixed-sex gangs, being arrested on drug charges and dropping out of high school. The thesis will explore girl violence by focusing on one Hollywood California middle school called Bancroft Performing Arts. Frustration Theory, Equality Theory and Cinema Theory are investigated as possible explanations for the recent increase in girl fighting, bullying and even girl killing.

Tara Ganser. Flex or Sex?: The Nature of Female Sports
Abstract: This thesis is an investigation of the increase in female sport participation the United States has seen over the past thirty years. It examines the structural and cultural changes which have occurred to allow for this increase. I critically explore the positive and negative ways this change is occurring, looking for the potential negative side effects in what, for the most part, has been a wide and positively received trend. In this way, I shed light on positive and negative ways that women are incorporated into modern sports activities in the United States. I conclude by offering potential solutions.

Rachael Goldberg. Politicizing the Private Sphere: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Abstract: In this thesis I trace the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo’s movement from its origin to its current status. My goal is to explain how it was possible for a group of housewives to mount an important challenge to one of the most violent military regimes know to the world. I explain the event leading up to the military take over in 1976, which resulted in the emergence of the Mother’s organization. I also look at the ways social network theory and social capital, and in turn the international media, were pertinent to the success of their movement. I then outline the 1983 fall of the junta, and the Mother’s activities from 1983 to present day.

Gabrielle Haber. Imaging Gender: Nationalist Icons and Chicana Feminism
Abstract: This thesis examines iconic representations of Chicana femininity and their use in nationalist narratives of the Chicano movement. The figures chosen for discussion are Tonantzin, Coatlicue, La Malinche, La Llorona, and the Virgen of Guadalupe. These icons incorporate myth and social convention to prescribe ways in which Chicanas are to conceptualize themselves. In these icons, ethnic and gender empowerment help catalyze social activism to create an oppositional consciousness that unites theory and practice.

Monika Korsnes. To Die with Dignity: Empowerment through Physician Assisted Suicide
Abstract: This thesis examines the emergence of Death with Dignity laws in Oregon and the controversy surrounding the subject. I review the arguments for and against allowing terminally ill individuals to commit suicide with the help of legally prescribed drugs. By examining the current trends in medical and funeral practices, I demonstrate the ways in which the choice to end one’s life becomes an empowering tool for the terminally ill. I show that, contrary to popular portrayals of suicide, physician assisted suicide incorporates community and social support in order to legitimize the decisions of autonomous actors at the end of their lives.

Genesis A. McKernan-Allen. There But Here: A Study of Transnational Migration and Gender in Azuay, Ecuador and Michoacan, Mexico
Abstract: The aim of this thesis is to examine the ways transnational migration affect traditional gender roles and ideologies in Azuay, Ecuador, and Michoacan, Mexico. Divisions of labor, economic responsibilities, and marriage patterns in Azuay and Michoacan each have traditionally gender specific roles that are being challenged by contemporary migration patterns. Each case study region has a different migration history. This goal of this research is to highlight how these two regions have arrived at different ways of interpreting gender role and ideology changes within their specific historical frameworks.

Amy Poole. The Caduceus and the Lotus: An Analysis of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States
Abstract: The following thesis investigates the growing popularity of complementary and alternative medicine in the United States. In addition, discontent with conventional medicine is shown to be a primary factor in the growing use of complementary and alternative medicine. Many people also feel that using both forms of medicine, complementary and conventional, is the most effective way to combat health ailments. In conclusion, integrative medicine needs to be emphasized by complementary and conventional practitioners.

Nicola Wood. Vika Chahije, Vinash Nahin! The Movement to Stop the Narmada River’s Sardar Sarovar Dam Project
Abstract: This thesis is about the history of the Sardar Sarovar Dam Project, which is located in the Narmada River Valley in India. It specifically deals with the effect that the dam will have on the lives of the poor farmers and Adavasi people living in the valley who will have to be resettled. It will also explain the anti-dam movement that they started in the 1980s and how they have peacefully fought their government through until the present. This movement highlights the social and environmental effects big development can have on a developing nation when not properly researched and planned.

Issac Kaplan-Woolner. Dialing In Democracy: The Power of Independent Radio 
Abstract: Radio is one of the most important communication technologies of all time, and has remained the most consistently popular medium in the United States. It has the power to create community and a democratic public sphere. This thesis is an examination of the potential applications of community radio as a democratizing force in the media, by examining movements in alternative radio throughout history and discussing emerging technological innovations that will aid in this effort.

Fall 2005

George Bordash IV. Sell Your Car –Ride a Bicycle: A Thesis Advocating for an Increase in Bicycle Use 
Abstract: This research paper argues that the Americans should look to alternatives to automobile in order to curb its negative impacts on human health, the environment, the US economy and communities. To do this, people should embrace alternative modes of transportation, primarily bicycles. By promoting the benefits of bicycle use and advocating for increased usage, this paper aims to illuminate how bicycles can combat these negative trends.

Sara Calvert. Pinochet to Bachelet: Women in the Transition to Democracy in Chile 
Abstract: This paper evaluates the role of women in the transition to, and the maintenance of, democracy in post-dictatorship Chile. In this paper I address some of the ways women fought against the dictatorship and what has been done since the re-establishment of democracy to improve women’s rights and lived experiences.

Alyssa Chapin Denisco. Turning Cute into Cash: How Japan Targets the Global Millennial Child Consumer 
Abstract: Japan’s global marketing strategy towards children consumers is so exceptionally successful in America because its characters have appeal beyond ethnicity, age, and gender. How its producers shaped the character loosely enough to be adjusted for American audiences –but maintain just enough similarities to identify it with the Japanese product –creates a complicated cultural mediascape that affirms a global identity while reproducing cultural distinctions between Japanese and American child consumers.

Katie Detwiler. Reclaiming the Colonized Body: Colonialism, Addiction and Recovery in The American Southwest 
Abstract: This paper describes the history of the United States imperialism in the American Southwest. I argue that the dispossession of northern New Mexican residents from their land cause severe alienation from their cultural traditions and identity. Religion is presented as a grassroots post-colonial response to drug addiction, and, by extension, U.S. colonialism.

Suzanne Flory. Cultural transitions and academic achievement: The Hmong Roses Project and the development of social capital beneficial for Hmong schoolchildren in Portland, Oregon. 
Abstract: This thesis examines a number of factors important for the discussion of academic achievement of Hmong schoolchildren. Ethnographic research details how the Hmong Roses after school program empowers the Hmong community by fostering social capital necessary for school success. This non-profit organization provides the Hmong community the attention they deserve by American educators and the assistance they require in order to ensure productive academic and social development for Hmong children.

Monica Harris. Lost and Found: Objects as Symbols of Life Transformation 
Abstract: The objects that people own and cherish can serve as symbols of personal transformation. While the acquisition of cherished objects can enhance one’s identity, the loss of these objects can diminish one’s identity. Important events of life changes are often made memorable or meaningful by objects –whether these objects are kept as tangible relics of a past identity or only remembered as important links to the past.

Colleen McNally-Murphy. Inking Out Deviance: The Shift of Tattooing and Piercing towards the Mainstream in Western Society 
Abstract: Body modifications such as tattoos and piercings have been markers of inclusion and exclusion in Western society for millennia. I will argue that in the past few decades, tattoos and piercings have come to signify youth rather than membership to a deviant or marginal group. Western society is undergoing a cultural shift away from viewing tattoos and piercings as deviant behavior.

Gianmarco Savio. Representing the Nation-State: Cultural Nationalism and Homogenization
Abstract: This senior thesis explores the concept of national identity and adopts that argument that nations are founded on abstract narratives. These narratives, in turn, contribute to the emergence of what I have identified as a ‘nationalist’ perspective, which, I argue, represents a view of nation as culturally and ideologically homogenous entities. The paper then considers the role of hybridity, multiculturalism, and globalization in providing counternarratives to homogenous views of the nation.

Lindsey Stuart. Dividing the Finite: Conflict over Public and Private Control of Water and Recommendations for a Holistic Approach towards Sustainability 
Abstract: The finite amount of fresh water –for human consumption, agriculture, industrial development, and natural ecosystems –is rapidly diminishing. The future of water resource sustainability lies in the ability of the free-market and public realms to communicate and cooperate, so that there can be a combination of the free-market sector’s economic practicalities with the public sector’s community-needs recognition and organization.

Kara Thielman. Feminism and Cosmetic Surgery: Do the Arguments Apply to Poor and Ethnic Minority Women? 
Abstract: This paper evaluates feminist arguments about cosmetic surgery from the standpoint of poor and ethnic minority women. It argues that approaches emphasizing cosmetic surgery as a solution to individual problems or advocating the redeployment of the technology to destabilize ideals of beauty and the construction of gender are inadequate. The role of racial, as well as gender, ideology much be acknowledged if feminist arguments are to be.

Tristan Van Stirum. The Manipulation of Urban Space: Urban Development and African American Identity with a focus on Portland, Oregon 
Abstract: This thesis examines the problems that African Americans have faced within the American urban environment since World War II. Harsh residential segregation practices initially prevented African Americans from inhabiting the spaces of their choice. Despite this, communities were formed and place-based identities were adopted as a result of their segregation to an isolated space. Looking at a case-study of Portland, Oregon, this thesis reveals the problems that an African American community faced as certain urban renewal projects began to fragment their community.

Spring 2005

Camille Coleman. Capitalism, Spectacle, and Crisis of Political Discourse 
Abstract: No Abstract

Whitney Hartzell. Searching for Home in a Commodity World: Building Meaning Back into Our Lives 
Abstract: This paper examines the ways in our conceptions of home and place are conceptualized, threatened, transformed and reclaimed. This paper concludes in a short anthology discussing a few of the numerous ways people are resacralizing their lives through home, place and community

Drew Katz. Development as a Discursive Practice: Hegemony, modernization and the formation of alternatives at the grassroots level. 
Abstract: By applying Gramscian and Foucauldian theories of hegemony and power, this paper explains how the discourse of modernization over the last fifty years has exacerbated problems of ‘underdevelopment’ in the Third World rather than reversed them. Drawing on the ethnographic work of the author, the paper then focuses on how Paulo Freire’s concept of dialogical education could be a viable grassroots alternative to the dominant development paradigm.

Rebecca Novis. From Concrete Jungles to Native Gardens: Flaws in the U.S. Public Housing Policy and Resolutions through Environmentally Sustainable Design 
Abstract: Public housing has carried with it a stigma of carelessness. Dilapidated buildings that utilize unhealthy building materials fosters a social environment of crime, pollution and hopelessness. I propose that redesigning public housing to incorporate environmentally designed structures can facilitate a nurturing community. By encouraging cooperation and self-sufficiency, members of low-income communities can increases their quality of life and move into the private housing market.

Miss E. Pace James. HIV/AIDS Risk Through a Human Rights Dialogue 
Abstract: This paper argues that health and human rights are interconnected and that HIV/AIDS should be discussed using a human rights dialogue to form adequate prevention programs. Current methodologies focus on individual risk factors that contribute to vulnerability. This individual focus perpetuates stigmatization, thus increasing a person’s vulnerability to HIV-infection.

Ryan Wilder. It’s Not Simple, Being Simple: Minimalism and Pop Art’s Postmodern Introduction to the Art World 
Abstract: Minimalism and Pop Art have come to represent the visual representation of the postmodern paradigm shift, while still remaining partially rooted in Modern art. Through three key elements these two groups of artists have come to introduce the basic concepts of postmodernism into the visual world. All of this was situated in a time of late capitalism that created a culture that was willing to accept some strong challenges to the concepts of Modernism.

Fall 2004

Maggie Bogle. Undocumented Laborers or Undocumented Citizens? Transnational Migration and the Boundaries of Citizenship 
Abstract: In this thesis I will look at the phenomenon of undocumented Mexican immigration into the United States to explore the ways in which citizenship is being redefined in the context of ‘globalization.’ In the current era of increasingly transnational flow of labor and capital, new citizenship paradigms which reflect the ‘flexibility’ o transnational migration are needed.

Alanna Butler. The Conflict of Appetites and Construction of Desires 
Abstract: This thesis investigates the abundance of eating disorder in adolescent girls in the United States using a cultural method. I posit the eating disorders are behaviors that are representative of societal values and desires. They are embodied conflict of the desires, in which some appetites become repressed over others. The contradiction between the desires is physically illustrated on the eating disordered body.

Milo Mitchel. Mutual Funds: Democratization of Finance or Bazaar Economy?: An Analysis of the Evolving Class Relations Involved in the Mediation of Capital Flows in the Mutual Fund Industry. 
Abstract: This project is an analysis of the evolution of class domination in the mutual fund industry. These evolving class relations are marked by new market innovations that allow Wall Street insiders to exploit and skim from the capital flows of un-educated investors. I conclude that an independent mutual fund oversight board in necessary structural reform that would curb the incubation of various new forms of class oppression in the mutual fund industry.

Cedar D.W. Ousele. The Floating World: Art, McDonald’s, and Postmodernism in Japan 
Abstract: This thesis deconstructs notions of postmodernism and cosmopolitanism as exclusively Western theories, as inspired by the portrayal of the assimilation of McDonald’s into Japanese culture in the art of Japanese-American artist Masami Teraoka. Through travel and relocation, Teraoka embodies the idea of traveling culture and creates a hybrid cosmopolitanism between the East and West. Through representation of Teraoka’s are in relation to themes of fast food and Oriental/Occidental dichotomy, this thesis decenters Western theories of modernism and cosmopolitanism.

Jessica Persoff. Gendering the Advertising Dialectic 
Abstract: No Abstract

Spring 2004

Mia Blagaila. Religion, Counter-Culture, and Revolution in Postsocialist Romania 
Abstract: This is a study of the life of people who dared to be religious, even as they faced persecution in Romania under socialism. My research focuses on how Pentecostalism was a form of everyday resistance. I investigate the relationships between the rise of the movement and global and historical contexts. I pull from my qualitative data of over 40 interviews and theorists such as Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Jim Scott in order to analyze the rise of a fundamentalist movement under socialism and its progression in post-socialism.

Michele Christle. From Lost Boy to Found Man? Sudanese Refugees and the Negotiation of Identity in Response to an Irrelevant Metaphor 
Abstract: This project is an analysis of a group of refugees from southern Sudan who have become known to the Western world through the name “the Lost Boys of the Sudan”. The way that the media often represents them is negative and therefore potentially detrimental to their ability to reconstitute their identities freely. In trying to construct new identities, these men seek to distinguish themselves as individuals, not homogenized members of the collective “Lost Boys” generation, as men not boys, as active agents not passive victims, and as people who belong and therefore not liminal beings. This thesis will look into the various methods members of this community use to transcend the “Lost Boy” identity and the obstacles they encounter in the process.

Lindsay Dance. Working Children in Ecuador: Alternatives to Cartwheels in the Street 
Abstract: Volunteering with working children in Quito, Ecuador in the spring of 2003 led me through a journey of understanding the realities of child work, the ethnocentricity of my childhood ideals, and the need for change in international involvement with working children. I focus on ethnocentric ideals for childhood that underlie ideologies of international child labor organizations and potentially create barriers for progressive change. I propose a need for collaboration of NGO’s and the international community to improve the lives of working children today and offer hope for a future out of poverty.

Joe Giaudrone. From Ford to Wal-Mart: The Evolution of Capitalist Structure in the United States During the Twentieth Century 
Abstract: This thesis focuses on the evolution of the capitalist structure of the United States of American throughout the last hundred years. I explain how over the last century the largest American capitalist intuitions have been transformed from highly bureaucratized and centralized to flexible network based institutions. I use the examples of the early American auto industry and Wal-Mart to exemplify this transformation.

Joshua Green. Cheap Labor in America: The Modern Prison Industry and its Relationship to Slavery 
Abstract: This thesis looks at prison labor and the effects it has on people of color, specifically African-Americans. The concept of prison labor is not a new phenomenon. From a historical point of view many aspects of the prison labor industry can be compared to the post-slavery convict lease system. After slavery, there was a shift in the racial makeup of the prison population from being majority white to majority African-American. It was not until the mass incarceration of newly freed slaves that prison labor, known as the convict lease system appeared. Although the numbers evened out over the years (1920-1970s) shifts have begun to reemerge in recent times. The prison system has witnessed a mass incarceration of minorities, while at the same time re-implementing work programs, which profit off those incarcerated. This thesis looks at the shift and brings to light problems associated with prison labor, including the issue of companies profiting off those who are incarcerated.

Karen Hambro. Fueling Competitive Low Wage Labor: An Exploration of the Role of Undocumented Workers in the United States’ Labor Market 
Abstract: This thesis explores the nature and history of Hispanic immigrants I the U.S, work force. This thesis demonstrates how the access to cheap labor in our capitalistic society functions as a way for the government and business to maintain low standards of wages and conditions for native born workers. By analyzing previous research and my own interviews I explain how the usage of undocumented Hispanic immigrants as an extension of our own labor force is a systematic exploitation of both immigrants and native-born workers.

Malia Helfmeyer. Organic as Myth: A friendly Critique of Organic Consumerism 
Abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to propose that the evolution of “organic” in society has led to the creation of a contemporary “Organic” myth. I use Organic Style magazine as a tool to inspect the characteristics of Organic myth, and to expose the contradictions and incongruities between the founding ideologies of the organic movement and the marketed Organic myth. The two most noticeably problematic trends are 1) the magazine’s juxtaposition of exotic and local images, which contradicts the sustainability principle of organic, and 2) the conflicted characterization of Nature as harmful and the packaged “natural” as beneficial. Through this lens I show that organic has evolved from movement to myth. In conclusion, I briefly suggest what I see as one potential progeny of organic’s transformation, in terms of a new opportunity for alternative consumption.

Eliza LaCombe Ginn. Women in the Information Age: Social Changes and Infinite Possibilities for Women in the US and India 
Abstract: This thesis examines the digital divide in India and in the United States. It utilizes ethnographic research to illuminate the social and cultural implications for women in the new information age. Women traditionally are overlooked in the information technology world, and in many cases, deny themselves the respect that they deserve by claiming that they are not computer literate. Despite those who claim that women are being exploited in the new information age, the women themselves generally see the new technological revolution to be a positive addition to their lives, socially and economically

Brian Love. Our American History: Ethnic Representations in American History Textbooks, A Content Analysis 
Abstract: One of the principle ways ethnic communities are able to re-define themselves in society is through history textbooks. This thesis there examines tow of the most widely adopted textbooks using a content analysis. The analysis assesses the recognition, respect, and acceptance or treatment of ethnic minority populations offered throughout American history. My analysis proves the strength and presence of the traditional Western curriculum. Multicultural education has yet to reach full integration, though it is evident in certain aspects of both textbooks.

Jennifer Prucher. The Flower that Perfumes the City: The Argentine tango and its Relationship with a National Identity. 
Abstract: This thesis introduces and discusses the world of the tango in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I provide a brief history of the dance and show how the tango has been globalized. My focal point is to try to understand more about an Argentine through this dance and how the tango can create a sense of National Identity.

Sara Sluszka. Sojourners with a Vision: The Contributions of Transnational Communities to Senegal’s “Fight Against Poverty” 
Abstract: In this thesis, I examine the economic relationship between Senegalese living abroad an their country of origin in order to assess the potential of diaspora in contributing to the economic development of Senegal. The majority of the study focuses on the situation of immigrants of Senegalese origin living in New York. The current lack of dialogue between Senegalese abroad and their home government has resulted in a lack of established coordination that would optimize the development potentials of Senegalese abroad.

Julia Swanson. Power goes on Safari on the Dark Continent: An Analysis of Cultural Tourism in Kenya and Tanzania 
Abstract: No Abstract

Terra Alysa Tolley. Myths, Missionaries, and Magic: A Culture Analysis of HIV/AIDS in East Africa 
Abstract: This thesis explores the social and cultural roots of the myths surrounding HIV/AIDS in East Africa. These myths intensify the pandemic by preventing people from coming to a scientific understanding of the way HIV/AIDS is transmitted. It is therefore crucial that the origins and characteristics of these myths are explored, and new strategies for overcoming these myths are devised. This thesis is meant to contribute to this important enterprise. In this thesis, I examine the ways in which colonial legacies, religious fundamentalisms, and the inequalities influence contemporary myths about HIV/AIDS. I also draw on interviews and participatory observation to explore this mythology. In the conclusion, I describe ways that international and grassroots organizations can help overcome these myths and set the stage for more effective prevention and treatment programs.

Ciara Wentworth. Trans-Sending Definitions of Gender and Sex: Transpeople Define Themselves 
Abstract: This thesis explores how transpeople, individuals who have undergone sex change procedures, are challenging contemporary understandings of male and female categories. I first delineate who transpeople are, highlighting the variety of outlooks and experiences that exist within the group. I then argue that transpeople destabilize anatomical and biological definitions of sex as they reveal the fluidity of sex definitions throughout history, particularly in court cases throughout the 20th century. I present that transpeople draw attention to gender norms that make the biological/anatomical sex classification system ineffective in social spaces. I investigate transpeople’s alliances with feminists and gay liberation activists and argue that despite conflicts within these ties, transpeople are strengthening these activists’ efforts to breakdown stereotypes of sex and gender. Throughout the body of this thesis I underscore reasons that transpeople have been misunderstood by the public and how this has undermined the public’s awareness of the agitation of gender and sex categories.

Fall 2003

Usman Ally. Keepin’ it Real: Tracking the Clobal Hip Hop Narrative 
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine various trend within contemporary global Hip Hop culture. In conclusion, I found that the effects of commercialization and commoditization of Hip Hope Culture are wide-ranging. Hip Hop has remained for 20 years a strong voice for the disenfranchised and for various youth groups.

Joleen Fuller. But She’s My Wife: A Legacy of Justifying Domestic Violence 
Abstract: Domestic violence is perpetuated, sustained and legitimated by our society’s ability to keep it behind closed door and protect against state intervention. Although today, our society’s awareness of domestic violence and the mistreatment of women are more established, the legitimation of abuse is now entangled in our notions of privacy. Legal and social constructions of privacy have helped us to deem this violence as a personal and private problem rather than a social problem that elicits prevention and intervention.

Laura Willner. Educators in Complex Social Classrooms: An Evaluation of Reproduction Theory in Education 
Abstract: This thesis explores issues of social class and reproduction theory in education. The project consists of a literature review of sociological and anthropological theory related to social class and reproduction combined with ethnographic research to evaluate these theories in elementary classrooms. The complexities of social class are revealed and necessitate the modification or reproduction theory to adapt to these intricacies. By focusing on elementary teachers’ assertion of agency in the classroom, traditional theories are challenged.

Spring 2003

Anastasia Barron. Crafting Medical Selves: From Total Institutions to Physician Competence at Oregon Health Sciences University 
Abstract: This thesis proposes that through the course of medical school students work through the process of formulating and reformulating conceptions of their professional selves. The aim of this research was to explore the phenomenological process in which students enter into the life world of medicine. More specifically I will be exploring the practices within medicine that are learned, repeated and taken for granted such as: the presentation of self in an institutional setting, the mind-body split, the language of medicine, and the acquisition of competence.

Kyla Bollens-Lund. Individual Actors, Community, and Power Complexities: An Ethnography of Sisters of the Road Café. 
Abstract: This thesis explores how community is constructed and enacted at Sisters of Road Café, a non-profit restaurant in Portland, Oregon. The main parts of this paper are: 1.) conceptualizing and situating community and space, 2.) analyzing individually situated actors complex positionalities 3.) addressing how community is experienced in relation to space, and 4) looking at how community is constituted through power.

Susannah R. Bone. The Meaning of Empowerment: Micro-Credit Lending Programs and Women in Developing Countries 
Abstract: This paper suggests that micro credit lending programs are a means of empowerment for women in developing countries. In order to present this argument, the paper focuses on two micro-credit programs, one functioning in Kenya, the other in India, both ex-British colonies. Although each program takes on two different developmental approaches to providing credit to their female members, the cultural factors remain to play an important role in each programs’ survival.

Jane Cohen. Hegemony, Identity and Violence: The Debacle of the Dominated Under the Modern Chinese Nation-State 
Abstract: This thesis examines the violent nature of the modern-state, and how this affects people who are oppressed under the nation-state system. In particular, the analysis is focused on the intersection between created categorizations as a method of control, and the hegemonic acceptance of those categories by the majority population in Communist China. This study focuses on the experiences and struggle of the Uyghur minority group in Northwestern China.

Karissa Dunbar. You Stupid Slut: Relational Aggression and Teenage Girls 
Abstract: Relational aggression is a tactic that, researcher have documented, is used mainly by women, and that has very damaging effects. In addition to looking to those emotional and developmental effects, this paper explores other effects that are as insidious, and perhaps more damaging.

Elissa Fisher. The Ideological Veil: Ideology, Meaning and Gender in Alcohol Advertisements 
Abstract: Alcohol advertisements work by drawing on differences between men and women. This thesis addresses how ideology works to hide the influence that alcohol advertisements may have on us viewers. Through the mechanisms of image creation and humor, ideology obscures the meaning created from the sign and allows us to not question the influence of the ad.

Kevin M. Gervais. Supreme Surrender: Cultism, Individualism, and the Hare Krishna 
Abstract: In this thesis I examine the construction of the public image of contemporary religious movements as deviant “cults,” which occurs through a process of stigmatization, leaving us with binary categorizations of “cult” vs. “individual.” Rather than accepting these categorizations, this study will discuss the appropriateness of the pejorative images of one primary group that is labeled a “cult”: the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

Jeanice J. Hori. The Power of Food: Identity, Place, and Social Forces 
Abstract: Food, which is ultimately social, becomes a powerful force through its creation of identity for individuals and groups, and represents culture, community, and history. Through different locations and places that one is situated in, many of these elements and social forms created by food get strengthened or may also distance a person which can bring to attention or question one’s identity through food.

Laura Kaplan. Salsa and its Borderlands: Identities in Global Transformation 
Abstract: Salsa, evolving in the lower class Latino barrios of New York City, has transformed significantly in recent decades. I examine how salsa has transformed and, from a personal perspective, how these changes signify new understanding of cultural identity. Through a discussion of history, identity, commercialization, gender relations and the body, I examine the many cultural and social implications of salsa.

Janelle Lamereaux. Danzine: Situating (Re)formulations of the Whore 
Abstract: Danzine is a non-profit organization in Portland, Oregon, created by and for sex workers. This thesis is an ethnography of the organization; it gives an account of Danzine programs and the mentalities that shape them. The organization demonstrates a new mode of progress, allowing action to transpire on an individual level. Simultaneously, Danzine advances a collective movement around issues of health and safety.

Christopher B. Larkin. Turn on, Tune in, and Trance Out: The Exploration of Entheogens and the Emergence of a Global Techno-shamanic Ritual 
Abstract: This thesis is an attempt to display how the emergence of entheogenic substance in the Western paradigm has given rise to a global trance culture rooted in the practices of traditional shamanism. Through participant observation in the trance ritual with and without the use of entheogenic substances, I propose that the trance-dance is an entirely new and unique redefinition of an ancient tribal ritual that holds great value for the future of anthropological and sociological studies on the nature of shamanism and entheogens.

Lara Elizabeth Law. Roses for Everyone? Deconstructing the ‘Common Sense’ of Urban Space, Class, and the ‘Homeless Identity’ 
Abstract: This thesis draws upon Antonio Gramsci’s conception of ‘common sense,’ the common, unquestioned understandings of the world in any epoch, to explore what it is about our collective mindset that allows for anti-homeless legislation. I contend that it is the confluence of mainstream American ‘common sense’ about urban space, class, and the ‘homeless identity’ that leads to the instatement of this legislation and then allows for it to remain largely uncontested. In conclusion I introduce Crossroads a local community organizing project that works across class lines to systemically address human and civil rights issues faced by the homeless in our community.

Cathrine Magelssen. Perspectives on Potholes and Speed Bumps: The Implications of “Transitions” 
Abstract: This paper explores the intricacies, incongruities, and implications of the transition process in postsocialism Serbia/Yugoslavia. Success in these areas is a goal set forth by the “new” and “democratic” government as the country aims for membership I the European Union.

Zoe Helene McLaughlin. Community In Principle and Community In Portland: Perspectives on Community Life In the Sellwood Community Center and Dignity Village 
Abstract: This ethnography focuses on the concept and formation of communities through the Sellwood Community Center, a locus for neighborhood activities, and Dignity Village, and encampment for homeless individuals. Though these communities share basic commonalities, their construction and goals are very different from one another. My analysis centers around the influences of the environment particularly focusing on the notion of locality and space and their effect on the formation of community-life.

Ashley Mills. Oy! Two Jews, Three Opinions: The Power of Jewish Memory, Conflicting Identities and the Attachment to Israel 
Abstract: Jewish collective consciousness of persecution and the history of the Jewish state, play a significant role in the lives of American Jews. Jewish history is remembered as continuous accounts of destruction and discrimination and these memories currently construct the deep emotional attachment to Israel. By sustaining the dominant traditional ideology, which favors assiduous ideological commitment, it also exposes individual Jews to the pressures of one’s cultural group when trying to deviate, leave or challenge the collective.

Courtney Mustad. Selling a War: A dominant narrative, collective memory, and the power of discourse 
Abstract: This thesis examines one of the dominant discourses that was employed by the Bush administration and the mass media during the build-up to war with Iraq in September 2001 through March 2003. This discourse was about the narrative of good verses evil. Those who resisted narrative and opposed a war with Iraq used language, images, and symbols to incite the American public to question the good vs. evil view of reality.

Fairley M. Parson. Black-Bloc Borders: Anarcha-Feminist Challenges to Green Anarchist Subjectivity 
Abstract: No Abstract

Leia Petty. Running on Empty: Diesel as Spectacle, Simulacra, and Style 
Abstract: In a society saturated by images, culture takes the form of spectacle where experiences are mediated and commodities colonize all aspects of life. Recognizing the shifting identity, I explore how the Diesel Corporation sells working classness as a form of dissent and use the internet as a venue for illusory political activism. Their current advertising campaign ACTION!, accessed online, consists of twelve staged protests taking place in urban settings and acted out by youthful models in Diesel attire.

Ryoko Sakurai. A Consideration of Comfort Women in Occupation Japan: The Reflection of Pre-modern Ideologies of Gender and Sexuality 
Abstract: My thesis is an exploration of postwar comfort women system. I show how the perception of these women was parallel to the pre-modern ideologies of gender and sexuality, which divided women into two categories: women for pleasure, and women for procreation. The development of postwar comfort women system was an outcome of pre-modern ideas of female sexuality.

Suzanne Elizabeth Spencer. “The Law is an Ass” Rear-Ending an Ass-Backward Law: Sodomy Statutes and Institutionalized Discrimination 
Abstract: On March 26, 2003, the United States Supreme Court began to hear arguments in the case Lawrence v. Texas, which questions the constitutionality of sodomy statues both in Texas and nationally. This thesis uses the term sodomy to trace its sociohistorical contexts and current uses in legal rhetoric to argue the repeal of sodomy laws and the term’s reclamation by positive interests.

Margot Jane Taylor. Brides vs. Wives From the Altar to the Kitchen: Women’s Roles, Resistance and Realities in Wedding ceremonies and the Institution of Marriage. 
Abstract: The institution of marriage in American previous to the feminist movement was exclusively based on patriarchy. Post feminist women began to utilize everyday forms of resistance in an effort to rid their lives of male domination. However due to the popular discourse of marriage the efforts to dismantle patriarchy have failed, women are victims of patriarchy due to the disproportioned amount of housework they perform.

Hitomi Thompson. Negotiated Identities: Exclusion as a Method of Controlling Mainstream Identity in Japan 
Abstract: This paper looks at how governments and social histories affect individual identities. This paper explores a common theme of people, whose identities are not so readily defined through citizenship, race, language, and ethnicity. Identities are increasingly being defined in terms of commodities values instead of traditional ways, such as religion or family origin.

Fall 2002

Jones, Tracy. Pioneers: How the Ideas of Masculinity of the LC Football Team are Constructed.

Feitelsberg, Matthew. The African American Comic Arena and Humor as the So-Called Language of Freedom.

Kulin, Elizabeth. Sex Education for Whom? Sex Education for What?

Schmidt, Rosemary. Renegotiations: Contemporary Urban Aboriginal Australian Art and Postcolonialism….

Porter, Bonnie Rose. Faces of an Epidemic: the Social Roles of Muslim Women in the Age of AIDS.

Knapp, Marie. 𐇺T.” Reclaiming Women’s Bodies and Power through the Fat Liberation Movement.

Juelson, Kristin Anne. AIDS Action Now! The Political Discourse of AIDS in San Francisco.

Deverman, Allison. Renters and the American Dream.

Mahan, Kristen. Shaken Futures: Land Privatization in Mongolia and the Impact on Rural Women.

Harty, Shannon. The Mother’s Body and Breastfeeding.

Staebler-Kimmel, Joanna. Public Privacy: Blurred Boundaries in Online Communities.

Kurtak, Teresa. Salvation in a Head of Lettuce?

Kral, Maggie. Female Aggression: Subverting Notions of Sex and Deviance.

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Spring 2002

Reis, Bren. The Ultimate Community: A Study of American Social Habits and the Ultimate Frisbee Community.

Kirkbride, Sepia. The Passion and Politics of the Flamenco Complex in Spain and the United States.

Young, Laurie. Adolescent Dating Service: The “Othering” Culture of Media.

Martin, Sarah. A Dance That Goes On and On: Gender on Stage in 20th Century America.

Comandich, Ryan. Affirming IDentity: Tibetan Refugee Music in Portland.

Huckel, Abigail. Why Work Outdoors? Instructor Motivation and the Culture of Outdoor Education.

Alderman, Eleanor. The White Minority: Deconstructing a Monolithic Knowledge of Whiteness.

Harris, Shana. The Social Dis-ease of 𐇎pidemic”

Alverez, Kito. My Mother’s marXed Body: The Globalization of Dislocated Filipina/o Identities.

Levy, Chelsea. United We Stand.

Poulin, Jessica. The Changing Faces of the Male Protector: Police Response to Intimate Violence.

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Fall 2001

Wallace, Lynn. El Jornaleo: El Heroe The Work and Community of Jornaleros in Portland, OR.

Ludwiczak, Sarah. Reading Between the Lines: A Radical Examination of Literacy in Public Schools.

Sullivan, Kathryn. Authority, Culture, and the Guise of Neutrality: Public School Reform….

Yoshikami, Mykle. Casting a New Light on BDSM Practices.

Kempf, Maria. Unconventional Avenues of Adoption: Gay/Lesbian Adoptive Parents.

Schleicher, Kristen. Shifting Languages: A Exploration of Language Death and Decline.

Erwin, Emily. The Construction of Contradiction: Power and Gender in Cuenca, Ecuador.

Topolsky, Abby. Social Constructions of Beauty: An American Perspective.

Mackenzie, Galvin. Technology and Obstetrics.

Paris-Salb, Kylie Nicole. Uncovering Receptivity: American Attitudes Towards Indochinese Refugees.

Taylor, Jarratt. Social Construction Paper and the Motherhood Construction Arts.

Cheney, Ben. Radical Art: A 20th Century History and a 21st Century Outlook.

Foster, Emily Freda. Black Comedy: Social Critique and Nervous Laughter.

Carlson, Jeff. Recognition, Domination, and the Social Legitimization of Gender.

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Spring 2001

Van Dusen, Norah. Persons, Predators, and Property.

Rivera, Susan D. Ghosts in the Field: Political Economy of Mexican Migrant Workers.

Jones, Rachel. Ethnicity and Genocide: A Comparative Analysis of Rwanda and Bosnia.

Pham, Kate Khanh. Anti-Communism in the Vietnamese American Community.

Chiacos, Michael. Putting Community Back into Community-Based Conservation.

Kersey, Noah. Hackers in the Myst: Tracking the Postmodern Hero.

Emery-Cloy, Noreana. Stripper: Language, Symbol, and Power: An Ethnography of Stars Cabaret.

Van Dyck, Sarah. Bound and Determined.

Ott, Molly. Transformations in Native American Education: The Case of the Navajo.

Chapman, Jennifer. Culture Collision.

Boyd, Brysis. SSRI Antidepressants: Manipulation of Identity through Psychopharmacology.

Chabre, Cindy. From John Wayne to Crocodile Dundee: Representation in Tourism.

Ohtsuka, Mayu. The Surroundings of the Delinquent Children.

Hwang, Jina. Conscious Rap.

Beeman, Rebecca. Amigos de las Americas: The Dynamic Forces of Positive Change, A Case Study.

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Fall 2000

Hibyan, Mark. Myth, Magic, and Machismo: Displacing Power in Columbia’s Civil War.

Libby, Sarah. Anarchy, Ethos, and Resistance, Radical Ideology, Cultural Meaning, and Commodification Dialects in Punk.

Kirkpatrick, Lauren. Contagions of Destruction: A Comparative Study of AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Sachs, Emily. Why Not Take All of Me? Constructions and Contradictions in Organ Transplants.

Iranshad, Layla. La Lucha: Identity and Survival of the “Other” in the Dominican Republic.

McCabe, Karen. Mau Mau Women From Invisibility to Resistance: Reinventing Gender, Tradition, and the State in Kenya.

Mountcastle, Iwalani. A Dialectic for the Hawaiian Self.

Sheftel, Caroline. Suicide: Theoretical, Cross Cultural, and Personal Perspectives.

Kirk, Danya Nicole. Pills, Patents, and Politics: Local Action and Global Action—AIDS.

Heim, Joshua. Movement, Magic, and Mana.

Alessio, Jeremiah. Identity and Power in the Religion of Consumption.

Reynolds, Nicole. Worse than Queer: Gender, Identity, and the Making of Feminist Punk Subcultures.

Kenny, Tara. An Exploration of Knowledge in Childbirth.

Civey, Sara. Beyond the Beats.

Campbell, Rocky. Socialization, Masculinity, and Identity: An Auth-Ethnographic Account of Sports and Life.

Uema-Yonamine, Moe. Romance and Violence in the Name of Security.

Roach, Katherine M. Deconstructing the Myth: A Feminist Approach to Female Incarceration.

Risher, Micah. The Identity Conundrum: Framing South Asianness Within the U.S.A.

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Spring 2000

Garduno, Tomas. El Coyote, the Nuevo Mestizo: Explorations of Mixed Race Identity.

Shufelt, Cara. Oh Cara! that girl that got really radical! A Multilayer Map of Consciousness.

Gatti-Beck, Laresa. JANE WTO 19905543: A subversive textual praxis.

Schneider, Heidi. Paxil: Your Life is Waiting.

Nusom, Angela. Re-Assembling the Fragments of a Heart Lost and Found. Reflections of an Education in Zimbabwe.

Hall, Susannah. Shed to Breathe: A Story of Bodily Knowledge.

Borenstine, Mana. The Slave Castles, Image and Subjectives.

Clark, Jesse. Body, Boundary, and Revolution in the Czech Republic: Images of the Body in Transformation.

Reitz, Liza. ReDEAFining Identity.

Kelly, Patrick. Cooking Cookies: An Exploration of Ideological Structures via Surveillance-Based Internet Advertising.

Bender, Ryan Elizabeth. Faces of Chameleons: An Exploration of a Multiethnic Identity.

Raupp, Sasha. Capital City and Desert Dreams: An Exploration of Urbanization and Alternative Possibilities.

Lawrence, Georgia. black and blue and bleeding: an ethnography of a Wound.

Novis, Joshua L. ȁHey Whitey, Yea You!” A Smack in the Face for a White American.

Olerio, Lauren Marissa. Capisci? Do You Understand? An Exploration of Ethnicity and Gender.

Lovehagen, Petter. Intersections: Text, Body, and Performance Arts.

Arthurs, Nicole. Me, Myself, and the Pill: Striving for Liberation within Birth Control.

Woodcox, Jeffery. From Cowboy to Playboy: An Analysis of Masculinity in Popular American Cinema.

Storer, Amanda. A Kiss with the Tongue: Moving Beyond the Anthropoligical Peck of Culture without Language.

Desbrow, Mark. Climbing, Paddling and Skiing the Limits of Masculinity.

Grant, Rosalie. Raven the Creator, Raven the Transformer: A Look into the Formation of Modern Tlingit Society.

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Fall 1999

Talisman, Raphael Charles. Hip Hop: Evolution of a Revolution.

Scholz, Kymberli “Zeenie.” Learning the Language of Huntington’s Disease.

Daugherty, Travis. The Recreation of Masculinity.

Hockett, Tata Dianne. Cash for Incarcerations: Problems with Privatized Prisons.

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Spring 1999

Goldblatt, Heather. Flowers in the Cracks of the Sidewalk: Urban Gardens in the U.S. and Cuba.

Hsu, Jeffery S. Modern Day Material Culture.

Dick, Charlotte. Sigmund Freud Reborn as Ken Starr?

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Fall 1998

Ginochio, Tona. Dancing Through Flesh: Towards an Understanding of the Meaning, Expression, and Power in the Embodiment of Pain and Pleasure.

Seaborg, James W. Stories of a Warm Springs Family.

Resk, Mark K. Battling a Firestorm: Hans Vogel & Otto Wels and the Importance of Political Resistance.

Kujak, Sarah. The Lives of Old Activists: Working for Social Justice Within the Confines of Old Age.

Gilford, Chance M. In, but Never Fully Of: A Discourse on Consciousness.

Jensen, Christine Marie. The Cannibal and the Smoking Mirror: Aboriginal Australia.

Goldsworthy, Emily. Emily Through the Dream World, Madonna as White Rabbit:Fantasies of victimhood, pleasure, and pussy power.

Torrente, Andrew Paul. Healing Ways: Herbs, Hegemony, and Health in the USA.

Raskin, Jesse. Within, Without, Above and About: An Essay on Post Modern Change.

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Spring 1998

Tappan, Jennifer. Phallogocentric Identification Language, Sex And Feminism.

Paden, Samuel. Hope in Soap: Evangelistic Consumption in the Amway Corporation

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Fall 1997

Herman, Devorah Channa. Women of Substance: Women of Power.

Christensen, Emily. Dangerous Games: Deconstructing Masculinist Sport in North American Culture.

Bacal, Joey. Judaism and “Jewishness” as Other in 19th Century Russia.

Nightingale, Heather. The Meaning Behind the Bumper Sticker: A study of radio’s power in the creation of community.

Kham, Sivylay. Prostitution in Thailand: Understanding the Ying Nakorn Sapaenee.

Williams, Megan. Impacts of Westernization on African Traditional Medicine.

Mihailescu, Razvan. Formation of National Identity in Romania: A Study of the Magyar Ethnic Group.

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Spring 1997

Anderson, Robin S. Cultural Bodies in Motion: An Anthropological Analysis of Dance as a Medium of Expression

Johnson, Koeby. Living the Older America: Transformative Intentional Community as Grassroots Social Change.

Watson, Amy. What Women Don’t Know May Be Hurting Them: The Way the Inequalities and Equalities of the Medical Field are Hurting Women Unknowingly.

Bacal, Joseph. Judaism and "Jewishness" as Other in 19th Century Russia.

Jordan, Samuel. Sociological Aspects of the Men’s Gender Movement in America.

Williamson, Megan Genevieve. The Legacy Stops Here: The Social Construction of Women on Welfare.

Adams, Ashleigh E. To Be Delivered or to Give Birth: Challenging Medical Metaphors.

Whitney, Cory. Cyborg Appropriations: Constructing Connections Between Popular Culture and Technology.

Craddock, Carey Robyn. Relocating Nature and Re-evaluating Culture.

Hambleton, Jennifer. On Doing Good: Exploring Volunteerism.

McKay, Brian D. Stepping Into the Future: An Analysis of the Human Condition within the Genre of Science Fiction.

Krass, Holly Jill. Feminism, Judaism, and Rosh Hodesh: Tradition, Masks, Blood, and Milk.

Vanderburg, Sarah F. Y. Between Iraq and a Hard Place: The Uncovered Lives of Refugees.

Prinzing, Jonna. Imagination in Waldorff Land.

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Fall 1996

Kreutter, Jessica Fortier. From Dreamtime To Machinetime: Recontextualizing Australian Aboriginal 'Art'

McCarthney, Rachele. In Need of Protection: An Inquiry Into the Regulation and Liberation of Teenagers.

Spurlock-Cohen, Claire. Ravelishous Love: Technophiles, Technoshamanism

Rebensdorf, Alicia. Representing the Real: Exploring Appropriations of Hip-Hop Culture in the Internet and Nairobi.

Emmons, Gavin. The Development Of Degradation And Impoverishment: Neocolonialism and the Crisis of People and the Environment in East Africa

Berlin, Teresa. Women and the Zapatistas: Indigenous Feminism in Chiapas.

Alldredge, Penny. Investigating Women’s Risk of AIDS in Zaire: A Historical, Epidemiological, and Social Inquiry.

Thatcher, Laura. Making Tourism More Sustainable.

Elmer, Dawn Marie. Changing Times in the Field: Seeking Local Knowledge in a Study of Agricultural and Social Change.

Schlicker, Megan A. Factors Contributing to Adolescent Pregnancy.

Breiten, Elizabeth M. The Alternative View on Allopathic Medicine.

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Spring 1996

Liedle, Erin. The Dynamics and Impact of the Christian Right’s Attack on Homosexuality.

Godfrey, Sabrina L. Domestic Colonization.

Courtenay, Erin. Expectations: Teachers’ Expectations and Reproducing Social Class.

Hill, Lupin. The Success of a Post-Modernist Revolutionary: Subcomandante Marcos.

Niemiec, Jessica Gunther. Unrecorded Wounds: Treating the Children of Abuse.

McCarthy, Michael. The Sounds of Social Dissonance: Vietnam Protest Music and the American New Left.

Child, Jenna. Shabashi: A Story About a Latin and Her People.

McIlroy, Susan. Rastafari and Resistance.

Palmer, Andrea. Housing our Families: Effective Community Development.

Wilcke, Miranda E. E. Images of the Feminine: Portrayals of Women in Indian Buddhist Literature.

Clinehens, Sarah T. Transforming Agriculture: Community Supported Agriculture in the North Willamette Valley.

Hastay, Johanna. Utopias in the Brave New World of Urban Planning: Greenbelt Towns from the New Deal.

Smith, Rachel. The Medicalization of Childbirth in America: An Investigation into Patterns of Power and Control in Birth.

Bacharach, Sandy. Non-Sexist Pornography: A Contradiction in Terms?

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Fall 1995

Brace, Joshua. Mount Bachelor Academy: An Education Alternative.

McCorkle, Lori. Feminist Networks: Deconstructing the “Essential”

Abrahams, Jessica Anderson. Embracing Diversity: For Economic of Ethical Motives?

Nye, Joely K. Perceptions of Rape as Shaped by Race and Class of Perpetrators.

Johnson, Jenny. Community Policing and its Working Methodology in Northeast Portland.

Harding, Johanna. Chitungwisa Integrated Youth Survival Alternative Programs.

Ryan, Molly. Using the Law as a Tool for Social Chance in Zimbabwe: Does it Work?

Pilkington, Laura. Which Witch is Which: An Exploration of Wiccan and Neo-Pagan Identity Construction.

Walters, Danielle. Social Death versus Biological Death: Issues of HIV Prevention for Women in Zimbabwe.

------------------. The Temporary Autonomous Zone in Relation to Structure and Anti- Structure.

Winter, Caleb P. The Technohuman Alliance of Car and Human: The American Cultural Practice of Driving.

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Spring 1995

Baily, Ika. ‚AIDS is Spelled G-A-Y!” Exploring the Socially Constructed and Self-Inflicted Stigma of Gay Men with HIV and AIDS

Eckel, Amy. How Children in Foster Care are Affected by the Social Construction of Deviance.

Johnson, Elsa Linnea. The Search for Authenticity: Interpersonal Relationships on the Internet.

Thompson, Heather. The Hysterectomy Black Box: Deconstructing the multiple meanings of the uterus.

Whitt, Lazuli. Pornography as Hate-Literature.

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Fall 1994

Van Wingerden, Nicole. The Inequalities of our Compulsory Public Education System: A Case Study of 2 Public Schools in Portland, OR.

Faulkingham, Lisa. Toward a Commodification of Reality: A Sociological Investigation of the Evolution in American Advertising.

Moorefield, Laura. Urban Neighborliness: Why is Happens, How to Create it, and What it’s Good For.

Van Zee, Beth. By now, I’m really tired, so you’d better read a fucking zine and believe it! Feminist Resisting in Zines.

Stahl, Tammy. Where is the Place of the Individual? The Effects of Property Ownership on the Plains Native Americans.

Blevins, Emile A. Television: An Exercise in Contradiction.

Baldwin, Brooke. Reproductive Freedom: The Impact of Technologies on Women's’ Reproductive Systems.

Shapiro, Emily C. Cultural Genocide: Termination of the Klamath Indians.

Gannett, Kimberly Cole. The Socio-Cultural Perceptions of Breast Feeding in Chile.

Berne, Aiyana. Renaissance Throwbacks in an Age of Chaos Theory and Conservative Backlash.

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Spring 1994

Mathewson, Calin E. Cultivating Democratic Principles of Morality in American Public Classrooms.

Donald, Emily. A State of Being Such as Moonlight.

Zerwin, Steven Neil. Affirmative Action in the 1990s: Controversial yet Essential.

Kornmesser, Melissa. The Working Women in Kenya; Situation and Strategies for Empowerment.

Wood, Katie. An Ethnography of the Transitional School and Critical Feminist Study.

Cooper, Katherine. Till Death Do Us Part: A Study of Contemporary Dowry and its Consequences.

Goldberg, John. Child Labor and the Mines of Bolivia. Casavant, Collete M. The Irish Travellers within Ireland: A Historical Relationship at a Crossroad.

Green, Chad. The Changing Face of the American Child: Constructing the Child….

Win, Kari Le. Female Circumcision: An Examination of Cultural Relativism.

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Fall 1993

Voorhees, Megan Hannah. The Political Economy of Medical Culture: Female Body/Politics of Menstruation.

Snow, Christy. ȁTwanat”—To Follow Tradition: Examining the Relationship Between Native American Culture and Education.

Lemery, Monya. A Journey through the Valley of the Shadow of Death.

McFerrin, Heather. Bingo Culture.

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Spring 1993

Hammett, Betsy. The Double Whammy.

Johnson, Kristen. Examining Traditional Constructs of Prostitution.

Woodward, Matthew M. Tourism and Colonialism: Believe in the World Market.

Elkind, Kenneth I. Work Attitudes of Inner City Youth in the Urban League of Portland: A Pilot Project.

Macnab, Jeannie. Medical Syncretism: A Culturally Relevant Answer to India’s Health Crisis.

Isosompii, Heidi. Ritual Analysis of Hakomi Body—Centered Psychotherapy.

Hays, Christina Kelly Spencer. Childhood Autism and its Effect on Self-Esteem.

Reinecker, Nicole. A Culture of Homelessness: Social Service Institutions as Family.

Menikheim, Mollyanne. Teach for America: A Grassroots Organization.

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Fall 1992

Cole, Anne. Gender Exclusive Rituals: Gendered Roles Which are Necessary for Maintaining the Community’s Well-Being.

Wilson, Chris. The Effects of Incest on the Sons of the Offender: A Proposal for Treatment.

Crawford, Addison. There Will Always be Queens: Camp and Identity-Formation in the Gay Male Community.

Rodhouse, Thomas J. Sankofa: The Continuing Power of Dance in Urban and Rural Ghana.

Gillett, Sarah. The Oppression of Progress Oriented Ideology: Ishi as the Perfect Primitive.

Bickfork, Elisabeth C. Confronting Oppression within the Criminal Justice System.

Lewis, Ian. Flowers in the Dustbin: A Critique of Punks Counterculture Response.

Lucker, Wendy. Education and Self-Esteem: A Case Study of the Metropolitan Learning Center.

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Spring 1992

Webb, Terry. The Importance of Social and Political Empowerment for Women in 12-step Recovery Programs.

Press, Mark. A Study of Network News Coverage of the 1984 and 1990 Nicaraguan Elections.

Shortt, Sara. Guerilla Readers: Resistance to Privileged Meanings in the Popular Text.

Pratt, Beth Anne. Pastorialism: Ethnographic Images of Stasis and Change.

Steinmetz, Selena. Self Identity of Hearing Impaired Children in the Mainstream.

Duckstad, Patricia. Moving Away from a Gang-Dominated Community with the Influence of Another Strong Male Role Model for Youth.

Johnson, Iphegenia D. Cascade Valley School: As Seen Through the Eyes of Ten Parents.

Van Gorder, Cara J. Understanding Sexual Oppression of the Developmentally Disabled.

Springer, Alissa L. Am I Good or Evil? The Moral Dilemma of Identity of a Disabled Adolescent.

Healy, Rachel M. A Community of Feminist Voices: An Analysis of the Motivations and Constraints for Continued Activism.

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Fall 1991

Johnstone, Melissa R. Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives on Tourism.

Lehner-Monge, Catalina. The Economics of Culture: Women and the Commodification of Weaving in Ghana.

Stone, Kristine Margrethe. Sociological and Anthropological Perspective on Autism.

Anderson, Posie. An Introduction to Navajo Healing Beliefs: A Symbolic Analysis of the Beautyway Chant.

Gibson, Sarah. The Indonesian Press and Government: Revolution, Dialogue, and Control.

Nicholson, Gabrielle. Oprah Donahue Geraldo: An Investigative Report.

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Spring 1991

Shaw, Carol. Whose Choice? Prenatal Screening and Selective Abortion.

Logan, Denise. Vietnam Veterans and American Ideology: Searching for a Realistic Approach to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Tejirian, Jeremy. Ethnic Consciousness in the Armenian Diaspora.

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Fall 1990

Sheehan, Samantha M. Punk Subculture Style.

Aker, Kristin. Brown v. Board of Education and Capitalism v. Democracy: An Examination of School Desegregation in a Capitalist System.

Carter, Julie Anne. Soviet Motherhood and the Myth of Gender Equality in the Soviet Union.

Pollock, Lisa. Hidden Voices: Diversity of Attitudes Towards and Practice of the One-Child Family Policy.

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Spring 1990

Wood, Siri Karlan. Women of Commodity: The Marginalization of West African Marketwomen.

Shirley, Renee. Work and Leisure: A Presumed Dichotomy.

Boynton, Bradley Paul. The Round Trip from Hegemony to Highlife and Back.

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Fall 1989

Greenleaf, Taylor M. Chilean Democracy.

Hsu, Clarissa. Music Videos and the Post-Modern Aesthetic: The Obfuscation of Sexism.

Ellis, Benjamin H. The Construction of Scientific Facts: An Exploration into the Production of Cystic Fibrosis.

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Spring 1989

Pang, Jarrett. How Society Perpetuates Deviant Subcultures of Lower Class Youth.

Walker, Michael. Unifying the Public and Private Spheres: A Comparison of Latino and Anglo-Central American Activism.

Pollack, Maia. Is Participation in the Sex Industry a Matter of Choice?

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1988 - 1980

Strahlou, Sandra E. Oregon Fair Share: An Observers Analysis of the Organizing Process and Objectives of Oregon Fair Share. Fall, 1980

Wright, Eric R. Accepting, Tolerant, Prejudiced, or Scared: A Study of Homophobia. Fall, 1984

Chaplan, Sarah Jo. Crossing the Disciplinary Boundaries: A Rhetorical Study of Group Boundaries. Fall, 1987

Pellegrin, Bertrand E. ‚ll you have to be is you!”: Women and Commodity Self in Advertising. Fall, 1988

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Frierson, Rowena. Deinstitutionalization and its Effects Upon the Rights and Needs of the Homeless Mentally Ill.

Horvatch, Patricia. In Hushed Whispers: An Ethnography of a Group Home for Mentally Ill Men.

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