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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
Full Text:: their bills and increased food insecurity during the pandemic (Mora et al. 2020

Latinx Adolescent Sexual Health Education: Informing a Culturally Centered and Inclusive Program

Creator:: Cervantes, Beathriz
Abstract:: Latinx youth in the US experience stark inequities in sexual and reproductive health, including rates of unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. One promising way to reduce these inequities is to provide culturally centered, comprehensive sexual health education. However, such curricula are rarely offered to Latinx youth, in part because...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: community members face (paying for rent, groceries, and other bills; unfair conditions in the workplace

Positioning Recreational and Medical Cannabis Cultivation within the American Agricultural Landscape: An analysis of cannabis cultivator occupational identities and practices in Colorado and Oregon

Creator:: Nelsen, Berit
Abstract:: Using data collected from cannabis growers and traditional farmers, and the “Good Farmer” approach, this research provides a comparative analysis of the occupational identities of cannabis cultivators and traditional farmers in Colorado and Oregon. Though both growers and farmers within the study suggested that cannabis cultivation differed from conventional agriculture,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Pandemic Narratives Navigating Pregnancy and Social Services in the Time of COVID

Creator:: Ketsdever, Michael James
Abstract:: This creative writing project employs the use of ethnographic fiction to position the voices of newly mothering women within the literature surrounding gender inequality, access to social services, and pregnancy while being situated during the global COVID-19 pandemic. The voices of four women are brought to life within a broader...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: systemic racism, poverty, and heterosexism are all determinants of poor health outcomes (Bryant, T

Comparing Random and Nonrandom Spatial Patterns of Artifacts within Lithostratigraphic Unit 3 at Cooper’s Ferry, Idaho

Creator:: Gregory, Alex R.
Abstract:: Archaeological investigations at the Cooper's Ferry site in Western Idaho have recovered cultural remains dating to 16,000 years ago, suggesting the oldest human occupation recorded in North America. However, many archaeologists have argued the initial peopling of North America occurred no earlier than the opening of an ice-free corridor between...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: io n a l c o n te xt o f th e C o o p er ’s F er ry s it e. ( ri g h t) lo ca l

Tiers of Development: Technology, Education, and Black and Indigenous Life in Bocas del Toro, Panama

Creator:: Pleasant, Traben L.
Abstract:: This dissertation examines development and the implications of information and communication technology, particularly computers, on issues relating to education, labor, and the overall wellbeing of Black and indigenous people in Bocas del Toro, Panama. It details the Black and indigenous legacy of dependency in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries on...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , where cheap labor tends to afford locals only enough to meet short-term needs (i.e., food, bills, and

Assessing the Potential for a Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Occupation at the Tahkenitch Landing Site (35DO130), Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area

Creator:: Kirkpatrick, Molly C.
Abstract:: The archaeological record of the First Americans is known almost exclusively from interior sites located away from coastal margins. While archaeologists hypothesize that early peoples initially migrated into the Americas along the Pacific coast, environmental changes associated with postglacial sea level rise may have destroyed or obscured such early sites....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Competing Food Sovereignties: Food Democracy and GMO-free Activism in Southern Oregon

Creator:: Daye, Rebecka Rising
Abstract:: Food sovereignty is increasingly being conceptualized as a human rights issue. This is evidenced in the growth of local actors, communities, and nation-states that are working towards a food sovereignty agenda. Indicators of food sovereignty center on people having the right and ability to define their food polices. One of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Expectations and Lived Realities of Iraqi Women Refugees and Refugee Mental Health Providers in Portland: An Ethnographic Study to Inform Refugee Mental Health Services and Policy

Creator:: Eiwaz, Massarra Adnan
Abstract:: Distress among resettled refugees in the U.S. consistently reflects refugees’ experiences of discrimination, re-traumatization, gaps in healthcare services, and disrupted expectations and lived-realities. This thesis aims to fill a critical need for ethnographic studies investigating how recent anti-immigrant, -Muslim, and -Arab rhetoric and policies combine with chronic gaps in services...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Conceiving A Colony: A Multi-Level Biocultural Analysis of the Maternal Stress-Preterm Birth Nexus in Puerto Rico

Creator:: Horan, Holly L.
Abstract:: This dissertation aims to elicit how a neo-colonial context shapes maternal and infant heath (MIH) outcomes by describing how they are socially, politically, historically, and culturally produced. Using a multi-level critical biocultural, medical anthropological research approach, the purpose of this research was to investigate maternal stress in the United States...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: National Science Foundation and Debra Winslow – thank you for your continuing support in my efforts to

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

Latinx Adolescent Sexual Health Education: Informing a Culturally Centered and Inclusive Program

Positioning Recreational and Medical Cannabis Cultivation within the American Agricultural Landscape: An analysis of cannabis cultivator occupational identities and practices in Colorado and Oregon

Pandemic Narratives Navigating Pregnancy and Social Services in the Time of COVID

Comparing Random and Nonrandom Spatial Patterns of Artifacts within Lithostratigraphic Unit 3 at Cooper’s Ferry, Idaho

Tiers of Development: Technology, Education, and Black and Indigenous Life in Bocas del Toro, Panama

Assessing the Potential for a Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Occupation at the Tahkenitch Landing Site (35DO130), Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area

Competing Food Sovereignties: Food Democracy and GMO-free Activism in Southern Oregon

Expectations and Lived Realities of Iraqi Women Refugees and Refugee Mental Health Providers in Portland: An Ethnographic Study to Inform Refugee Mental Health Services and Policy

Conceiving A Colony: A Multi-Level Biocultural Analysis of the Maternal Stress-Preterm Birth Nexus in Puerto Rico

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