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Browsing Master of Art in Interdisciplinary Studies Theses and Student Research Papers (MAIS) by Title

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Ku on the Columbia : Hawaiian laborers in the Pacific Northwest fur industry

Rogers, Donnell J. (1993-04-19)

Archaeological investigations can reveal persistent traditions of ethnic groups. Hawaiians were employed in the fur trade of the Columbia River from 1810 through 1850. The Hudson's Bay Company employed them at Ft. Van ...
The lanceolate projectile point in southwestern Oregon : a perspective from the Applegate River

Nisbet, Robert Alexander (1981-03-19)

Archaeological investigations of the Applegate Lake project area were conducted by the Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University Univerfrom 1977-1980. A cultural sequence believed to span over 8000 years was re ...
Language differences between women and men and the attribution of leadership

Dunsworth, Sabrina J. (2007-06-20)

This research addresses the perception of leadership attributes in light of evaluator and target gender. It specifically investigates whether there is a difference in language usage when the evaluator is female versus ...
Late-quaternary stratigraphy, pedology and paleoclimatic reconstruction of the Cremer Site (24SW264), south-central Montana : a geographical case study

White, Dustin (1998-05-27)

This study utilizes a multidisciplinary research approach integrating the sciences of archaeology, geology, pedology and paleoclimatology. Deeply stratified and radiocarbon dated sedimentary sequences spanning the last 1 ...
Leadership and loyalty revisited : Catholic Latinas and leadership

Morales-Warming, Melissa (2008-03-12)

White women’s experiences with major institutions, the church included, often are generalized to other women’s experiences, much like how the experience of men in often represented as the experience of all humankind. In ...
The Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead : the development of the macabre in late medieval England

Sandeno, Robin M. (1997-04-14)

Many authorities state that the development of macabre images were a result of the plague that first swept through western Europe 1347-1350. However, many aspects of the macabre were already in place prior to the plague. ...
Letting our students speak : enriching the discourse about feminist pedagogy in the virtual classroom

Hugmeyer, Andrea Doyle (2011-06-23)

The increasingly corporatized and privatized public university has resulted in significant role changes for students and faculty. Among these changes includes the development of online education and its proliferation amo ...
Managing a non-profit organization: directors' views from the top

Barp, Meghan E. (2005-10-12)

This research is based on in-depth interviews with 10 women directors of nonprofit organizations in New York City. Each director identified as feminist, or worked for a feminist-identifying organization that existed to m ...
Maria Susanna Cummins' "The Lamplighter" : a revisioning of a sentimental writer of the nineteenth-century United States as rhetor, social critic, and feminist

Steinert, Laura (1995-06-01)

Within The Lamplighter, a novel written in 1854, Maria Susanna Cummins defines a version of the sentimental novel that significantly differs from the prescriptive analysis male critics have offered for the genre. This ...
Mark Fuhrman's Murder in Brentwood : a rhetorical analysis of apologia as masculine facework

Kearney, Melva J. (1998-06-29)

Apologia is a rhetorical genre of self-defense. As such, apologetic discourse involves a response to an attack upon an individual's character or worth as a human being. Los Angeles Police Detective Mark Fuhrman encount ...
Markets and competition in private and public campground sectors of Oregon : implications from Oregon campground inventories and the 1997 Campground questionnaire

Newton, Lydia (1998-05-22)

This study explores private and public campground markets in Oregon. A profile of private and public campgrounds, their prices, location, and amenities, served as the supply side statistics while responses from the 199 ...
The maturest deliberation : colonial Pennsylvania currency in depression and war

Borden, John F. (1995-11-03)

The purpose of this study is to review Pennsylvania's use of paper money through two distinct periods: the first seven years of currency issues starting in 1723 and concluding in 1730, and the second period encompasse ...
Mayan bilinguality and cultural change in ancient and contemporary Mesoamerica

Smith, William Hoyt (1994-02-11)

The importance of language and bilinguality in the development, perpetuation, and "degeneration" or change of culture is a central theme throughout this treatise. Original pictorial representations of Mayan hieroglyph ...
Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

Streufert, Mary J. (1998-06-08)

Virginia Woolf was a self-proclaimed atheist, yet her fictional and personal writing reveal her ecstatic consciousness. Characters in Woolf s novels experience ecstasy, and her letters and diaries support the theory th ...
Modern piracy : regional cooperative security : Southeast Asia and the Middle East

Christensen, Adam K. (2011-05-26)

Over the past ten years, reports of piracy and other forms of maritime violence have been dramatically on the rise. As these reports increase, so too does international attention toward how to solve this. This thesis exa ...
The morphology of Goethe's botanical work

Hahn, Andre M. (2012-04-16)

This thesis examines the morphology of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) through several lenses. The first explores Goethe's morphology as he applied it in his botanical work and supplies an explanation of what Goet ...
Mother's choices

Dietz, Amy L. (2002-07-18)

A memoir is variously defined as an abbreviated autobiography; a record of events based on the writer's personal observation or knowledge; and the written story of one's own life. I set out to do those things. But when ...
Mothers and work : women's perceptions in contemporary Japanese society

Yoshizaki, Kimiyo (2001-06-28)

This paper investigates certain women's problems in contemporary Japan. Historically, Japanese believed ideal women fit in the stereotype of "Good wife, Wise mother." Japanese women's main roles were regarded as wife ...
Multiethnic women's identity and perceptions of competent communication

Hilliard, Cynthea R. (1994-05-05)

This study identified some of the ways that multiethnic women describe their ethnic identities, how they perceive ethnic-specific gender identities and what they think are appropriate norms for, and effective outcomes ...
Museum education programs : Portland, Oregon

Scherer, Leigh Anne Whitney (1999-11-04)

In this study I explored the variety of educational opportunities available in museums. Next, I examined the museum education programs in the Portland, Oregon area and described what types of opportunities are availab ...