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Archaeological Textile Fragments Present an Opportunity In the Study of Social and Landscape Interactions

Creator:: Lopez, Kirsten M.
Abstract:: Textiles (including basketry, cordage, woven, knotted, or plaited products) make up a considerable portion of the perishable archaeological record in dry caves of the northern Great Basin region, much of which is created from plants and plant fibers. The archaeological study of precontact textiles greatly informs our understanding of how...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Oney, Celia E.
Abstract:: People involved in a nuclear activity, whether they are developing it, benefiting from it, or opposing it, see inherent connections between various aspects of nuclear science and technology. This thesis investigates three nuclear sites: a university research reactor, a dual-purpose reactor that produced plutonium for the U.S. military and electricity...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: industry.4 John M. Findlay and Bruce Hevly have looked at the extent to which local residents and

Nuclear Imperialism: Examining Atomic Test Reactions and UN Intervention in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana, 1957-1966

Creator:: Bremigan, Shelby R.
Abstract:: France’s decision to test their nuclear weapons program in the Sahara in 1960 wholly reshaped how the Cold War infiltrated into West Africa. During a time of nation building, Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah urged Ghana and Africa, more broadly, to break ties with colonial powers and rebuke further attempts of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: in mind, Frank Gerits, Jean Allman, and Jeffrey Ahlman’s work on Ghanaian pan-Africanism is

Dig Sites and Domesticity: Jessie Camp and the 1947 University of California Africa Expedition

Creator:: Fraas, Picabo K.
Abstract:: In 1947, scientists from the University of California departed for a fifteen-month expedition to Africa. Jessie Camp, wife of the head paleontologist Dr. Charles L. Camp, had no official position on the expedition. Yet in performing her traditional domestic duties, she greatly contributed to the overall success of the expedition....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Modern Science, 2. 28 Phyllis M. Palmer, Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the

“Missed the Best Months of the War”: Masculinity, Homosociality, and Empire among British Royal Flying Corps Interned in First World War German Prisoner of War Camps

Creator:: Graham, Devon E.
Abstract:: This thesis focuses on performances of masculinity by British Royal Flying Corps (RFC) airmen in the charged landscape of the First World War prisoner of war (POW) camp. I examine how captive airmen coped with imprisonment by reasserting the familiar homosocial communities of pre-capture squadron life, particularly through practices associated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Decentering the Human in 12th Century Histories and Chronicles: Divine Nonhumans at the Center of the Itinerarium Cambriae and the Historia Anglorum

Creator:: Phelps, Nathan J.
Abstract:: This thesis primarily investigates nonhumans in the writings of 12th century historians. Where these writings may typically be seen as having little room for nonhuman agency, this thesis investigates how divinity, as an important part of medieval life, creates a space for nonhuman agency that is otherwise overlooked. In chapter...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: In what I believe was his first monograph, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen wrote a passage that impacted me as

Eaffective Ecopoetics as a Practice for Feeling a World in Crisis

Creator:: Platt, Benjamin D.
Abstract:: Discussions of ecopoetics often seek to investigate how poetics as a form can be rendered more ecological, often in contrast to nature poetry. These conversations tend to concentrate on this generic contrast and the formal qualities of an ecological poetics. Ecopoetics as a field emerged largely as a response to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ” occurs in Leonard Scigaj’s 1999 book Sustainable Poetry to describe poems that present nature “as a

Piers Plowman, Healthcare Praxis, and the Corporal Mercies

Creator:: MacDougall, Eric W.
Abstract:: I argue that Matthew’s seven acts of corporal mercies provide a means of reading Piers Plowman within a framework familiar to medieval audiences, but also exposes the different models of health that are at work within the poem and the soteriological significance of these healths. In chapter one, I focus...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Farms in the Willamette Valley

Creator:: Loewenstern, Eli
Abstract:: This thesis examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on farms in the Willamette Valley. Using semi-structured interviews, this study analyzes the economic and social challenges created by the pandemic and the adaptation strategies farmers employed to build resilience within the food system. This study found that the farmers experienced...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Translingual Science Communication: From Local Publications to the STEM Writing Classroom

Creator:: Werndli, Alexander J.
Abstract:: In order to assist WAC/WID practitioners and science writing faculty in incorporating translingual perspectives in disciplinary writing instruction, this study extends translingualism to language practice in the sciences by conducting a corpus study of Al-Awamia, a Moroccan agronomic journal. Mapping rhetorically significant changes across abstracts authored in English, French, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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Archaeological Textile Fragments Present an Opportunity In the Study of Social and Landscape Interactions

Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

Nuclear Imperialism: Examining Atomic Test Reactions and UN Intervention in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana, 1957-1966

Dig Sites and Domesticity: Jessie Camp and the 1947 University of California Africa Expedition

“Missed the Best Months of the War”: Masculinity, Homosociality, and Empire among British Royal Flying Corps Interned in First World War German Prisoner of War Camps

Decentering the Human in 12th Century Histories and Chronicles: Divine Nonhumans at the Center of the Itinerarium Cambriae and the Historia Anglorum

Eaffective Ecopoetics as a Practice for Feeling a World in Crisis

Piers Plowman, Healthcare Praxis, and the Corporal Mercies

Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Farms in the Willamette Valley

Translingual Science Communication: From Local Publications to the STEM Writing Classroom

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