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Narratives of Motherwork, Agency, and Resilience: An Oral History of Afghan Immigrant Mothers in the Pacific Northwest Diaspora

Creator:: Rezai, Fatima
Abstract:: Using intersectional, matricentric feminist of color approaches, this study interrogates the particularities of Afghan immigrants' mothering experiences—as one of the hidden facets of their lived experience—in the United States from a life-course perspective. Using a combination of feminist oral historical approaches, semi-structured interviews, and participant observation, this thesis explores the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: CONTENTS Page Introduction …….....…………..………………………………………………………..……1

LGBTQ Latinx Student Activist and Leaders in the State of Oregon: A Preliminary Study

Creator:: Zayas, Minerva
Abstract:: In 2016, the Oregon Community Foundation reported that twelve percent of Latinx folks graduated with their bachelor’s and/or master’s degree compared to the 31 percent of White counterparts (Latinos in Oregon Report, 2016). While Latinx students continue to be the largest minority in the United States, Latinx students enroll in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: counterparts (Latinos in Oregon Report, 2016). While Latinx students continue to be the largest minority in

Creative Placemaking as a Composition Pedagogy

Creator:: Yerace, Marisa
Abstract:: This thesis explores the ways in which creative placemaking, a neighborhood-based practice for building community, can offer community-building and civic action wisdom as a model for composition. This model brings attention to spatial metaphors for rhetoric and teaching that have persisted for millennia; it re-focuses us on community; it encourages...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1 Introduction...…………………………………………….………………..…… 1 2

Current Use of Dietary Guidelines in Private Clinical Nutrition Practice and its Impacts on the Dietary Patterns of Office Workers in Mexico City

Creator:: Grabinsky, Lisa
Abstract:: For the last 30 years, the population of Mexico has grappled with overweight, obesity, and associated chronic diseases, such as type-2 diabetes and hypertension. To standardize care among healthcare providers and dietitians, an official nutritional guideline was published in the early 2000s, which included a non-modifiable food-based dietary guideline in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Edwards, Shaozeng Zhang, Melissa Cheyney, Kenneth Maes, Vasiliki Touhouliotis, and Lisa Price. Special

The Listening Cure: Theorizing Gender Fluid Performance through Katharine Hepburn’s Transatlantic Accent

Creator:: Dawson, Katherine
Abstract:: My mother named me after Hollywood icon Katharine Hepburn, but what made a working-class girl grow to love this posh celebrity so much? The obvious answer is that my mother aspired to be posh herself; but lack of money or sophistication were not the only things impacting her potential— there...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Page 1 Introduction...………………………………………………………………… 1 2 Sylvia Scarlett and other Transatlantic

Toward More Intersectional, Coalitional Rhetoric: Working at the Intersections of Indigenous, Racial Justice, and Environmental Activism

Creator:: Metildi, Nicole
Abstract:: My thesis consists of two articles that address the ways in which rhetoric emerges from coalitions with unequal power dynamics within the environmental movement. The introduction provides context to help situate my articles within the current environmental movement. In my first article, “Constellating a More Intersectional, Coalitional Rhetoric: Lessons from...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1 Introduction...……………………………………………………………………… 1 2

Big, Black C%#K: Desire, Race and Masculinity

Creator:: Flenory, Emalydia
Abstract:: My thesis examines perceptions of power in relation to white and black masculinity in the United States. The introduction invokes the work of Mireille Miller-Young, Hortense Spillers, Vincent Woodard and Hiram Pérez as a foundation to ground my discussion of agency, consumption, desire, homoeroticism and the characteristics of the Mandingo,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of you. Thank you for making my experience at this university truly special. To my thesis

This Earth Emanating Enchantment: What Wonder and Joy Can Teach Us Within Traditional Western Environmentalism

Creator:: Ohotnicky, Colette E.
Abstract:: G.K. Chesterton once stated, “I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairytales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts….The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in the fairy book,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ............................................................................................................................ 1 Part 1: The World in which We Journey to Enchantment

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:: . TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction

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:: …………………………………………………………………….……1 “Nature” and the Ecopoetic Field …..…………………………………….…1 The Need for a Diffractive

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Narratives of Motherwork, Agency, and Resilience: An Oral History of Afghan Immigrant Mothers in the Pacific Northwest Diaspora

LGBTQ Latinx Student Activist and Leaders in the State of Oregon: A Preliminary Study

Creative Placemaking as a Composition Pedagogy

Current Use of Dietary Guidelines in Private Clinical Nutrition Practice and its Impacts on the Dietary Patterns of Office Workers in Mexico City

The Listening Cure: Theorizing Gender Fluid Performance through Katharine Hepburn’s Transatlantic Accent

Toward More Intersectional, Coalitional Rhetoric: Working at the Intersections of Indigenous, Racial Justice, and Environmental Activism

Big, Black C%#K: Desire, Race and Masculinity

This Earth Emanating Enchantment: What Wonder and Joy Can Teach Us Within Traditional Western Environmentalism

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

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