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Creator:: Murray, Mary K.
Abstract:: A number of researchers view farmers’ markets as an appropriate vehicle for re-embedding food markets into communities (O’Hara & Stagl, 2001, Feenstra, 2002, Lyson, 2005). Amidst astounding growth in the number of farmers’ markets in the United States in recent decades, many markets struggle and fail. Recent research suggests that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Fisher, Dianna M.
Abstract:: This thesis explores the reasons for conversion to Islam for ten well-educated, Caucasian, American born women of European descent in a small, relatively affluent college town in Oregon, United States. It follows their process of constructing a new identity with their families, with friends, within the Muslim community and within...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Women’s Studies and to Dr. Karen Hooker for agreeing to be my grad representative. I am grateful to

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
Full Text:: as Karen Mills and Loretta Wardrip in helping me navigate the bureaucratic complexities of the PhD

Creator:: Eichelberger, Justin E.
Abstract:: During the 19th century the United States Army was a military institution characterized by a hierarchical system of authoritative, social and economic inequality between members of its different military grades. Although necessary for insuring military discipline within the Army this system of inequality also influenced the non-military social lives of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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