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On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

Creator:: Stoller, Kevin R.
Abstract:: William James came of age at a time of great social and intellectual change in the United States. During this period, new professional identities proliferated, and a new culture of professionalization developed with important ramifications for conceptions of individual and social identity. Professionalization was also closely related to key intellectual...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: history and shaped my scholarly growth. Jeff Sklansky and Paul Farber, my other committee members, have

Why they volunteer : a study of participants at nature conservancy work parties

Creator:: Hastings, Kevin L.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the motivations of ecological restoration volunteers with the Oregon chapter of The Nature Conservancy. This study helps fill in voids left by a lack of research on the motivations of ecological restoration volunteers. Studies that have explored restoration volunteer motivation relied largely on surveys that revealed altruistic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: committee, Bryan Tilt, Jeff Hale, and Stephanie Bernell, for their flexibility and guidance during this

Food systems in the Marys River region and reinhabitation

Creator:: Burke, Erik P.
Abstract:: Reinhabitation is an approach to building local cultures and economies within industrial society. The food system is a vital starting point. What are the principles of reinhabitory food systems? What are the possibilities for a locally adapted food system in the Marys River region of western Oregon? I describe past...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the region. AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Erik P. Burke for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied

Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

Creator:: Davis, Caryn M.
Abstract:: At first glance, Edgar Rice Burroughs's wildly popular romantic fantasy novel, Tarzan of the Apes (1912), and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist science fiction-utopian novel, Herland (1915), with its dystopian companion, With Her in Ourland (1916), may appear to have little in common. Tarzan celebrates the human connection with wild nature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Things not seen, and other stories

Creator:: Walsh, Amy M.
Abstract:: These six stories investigate characters who must begin to understand their own actions, which are often made in response to authority. In the lives of these characters, there are schemas which they believe they fit, certain rules placed on them by society that they each feel they must obey. It...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: poster of a ridiculous fisherman that Jeff would always refer to as his "Uncle Lou." These things

Palynological Perspectives on Younger Dryas to Early Holocene Human Ecology at Paisley Caves, Oregon

Creator:: Saban, Chantel V.
Abstract:: The Younger Dryas climatic event is a global phenomenon associated with a 1,000 year return to glacial conditions during the late Pleistocene period between 12,800 and 11,500 cal BP. Because of its significant effects on paleoenvironmental conditions in some parts of the world, archaeologists commonly seek to assess whether the...
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

Talking Story, Writing Proper : Pidgin-Speaking Hawaii Writers at Oregon State University

Creator:: Lum, Kristina H. J.
Abstract:: This thesis is based on a two-part study that analyzes the cultural and linguistic characteristics of the Hawaii student population at Oregon State University (OSU). I designed and conducted a survey among Hawaii students at OSU. Then I interviewed ten Hawaii students who self-identified as Hawaii Creole English (a.k.a. Pidgin)...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: SLS). The term pidgin (lowercase ‘p’) in linguistics refers to a “simplified [language] that develop

Child guidance attitudes of parents who have children in cooperative nursery schools and those who do not

Creator:: Pehrson, June
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: child development. New York. Harcourt, Brace, 1954. p. 380 -396. 9. Madoff, Jeff M. The attitudes of

The Writer’s Path: Exploring the Writing Studio Through the Lens of Activity Theory

Creator:: Sylvester, Ruth E.
Abstract:: This thesis explores the potential applications for 3rd generation activity theory in writing studio spaces, using the Undergrad Research and Writing Studio at Oregon State University as a focal point. David R. Russell, Nedra Reynolds, and Deborah Brandt have all investigated systemic and communal elements in student writing processes, while...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: when Jeff Brooks of Seattle University wrote “Minimalist Tutoring: Making Students Do All the Work

Picture this, imagine that : the literary and pedagogic force of ekphrastic principles

Creator:: Pajak, Zachary E.
Abstract:: My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled "Interpreting Britomart's Encounters with Art: The Cyclic Nature of Ekphrasis in Spenser's Faerie Queene III," and "Picture This, Imagine That: Teaching Visual Literacy in the Disciplines." The purpose of my first article is to argue that Edmund Spenser uses ekphrasis in his...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Exploring Embodied Gender Identities in Steven Universe

Creator:: Painter, Stephanie
Abstract:: Steven Universe, a relatively new show from Cartoon Network, explores an unexpectedly complex understanding of gender through their main protagonists. Utilizing Judith Butler’s work on gender performativity and doing gender, as well as Daniel Dennett’s conception of the self as a theorist’s fiction, and Alexander Weheliye’s understanding of power and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

Creator:: Jameson, Sara
Abstract:: Mike Rose researcher, professor, scholar, and author of numerous articles and books including the literacy memoir - Lives on the Boundary - has been active in the field of education and composition for over 30 years. This thesis looks back at the development of the discipline of composition studies to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Preferred customers? : barriers for Hispanics in Oregon's managed care Medicaid program

Creator:: Keys, Robert T. III
Abstract:: From February to September of 2001, a significant body of qualitive data was collected to investigate barriers for Hispanic participation in Oregon's managed care Medicaid program. As a means to investigate this topic, comments were solicited from physicians, hospital administrators, social service agencies, and low-income Hispanics through semi-structured focus groups...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: medical anthropologist Jeff Maskovsky contends that most Medicaid studies remain limited to analyzing

Just do it : an analysis of cultural factors behind the growth of Nike, Inc.

Creator:: Chen, Roger L.
Abstract:: The success of NIKE, Inc. is deemed miracle by professionals on both Wall Street and Madison Avenue. Research done in the past tends to credit the growth of NIKE, Inc. to its marketing strategies. By placing the achievement of the company in the postmodern context, this study analyzes the cultural...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: "Swoosh", for reasons even the name's inventor Jeff Johnson couldn't remember. Spelled with an uppercase

Circles in the sand

Creator:: Amsk, Allyn W.
Abstract:: The creative writing project Circles in the Sand began as a collection of interrelated short stories but is now the three opening chapters of a novel, a chapter and an early draft of what was originally the ending to a novella, and one short story. The landscape is the upper...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: he could enter a command. If he could do so, he would begin with a simple Unix entry: zip -m -9 -p

Genres at Play : History, Tragedy, and Comedy in Shakespeare's Richard II

Creator:: Wiley, Marie
Abstract:: This thesis examines a range of generic influences in William Shakespeare's Richard II. By exploring the play's references to conflicting interpretations of history from different generic perspectives, I hope to advance a more nuanced reading of the play's dynamic staging of history. In Chapter One, I suggest that Richard II...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: for the gleaming elegance of his arguments. I am unspeakably grateful to Jeff for giving me

"We Share a Common Disinheritance": Subjectivity, Dispossession, and Antiblackness in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Paul Beatty's The Sellout

Creator:: Becker, Jade M.
Abstract:: Recent work in moral philosophy has displayed a renewed interest in ethics and ontology that consider the social constitution of the subject. However, these approaches to ethics, exemplified in Judith Butler’s work in Giving an Account of Oneself, often neglect the problem of antiblackness, which Afro-pessimist scholars argue operates at...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Argument and common ground : scholarly research meets the common core state standards

Creator:: Clark, Jillian
Abstract:: This thesis examines the recent history of the teaching of argument and its implications in the face of new writing standards being implemented in K-12 classrooms under the Common Core State Standards. The new educational policies will shift the focus of writing instruction onto argument writing as part of students'...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

"No one cared we was just Indian women" : plants as a catalyst to Eastern Shawnee women's identity change

Creator:: Osborne-Gowey, Cathleen
Abstract:: Being an Eastern Shawnee Tribal member I understand the importance of documenting oral histories of Tribal elders to ensure that our cultural history is passed on to future generations. Therefore, the focus of this project is the collection, of oral histories and folklore in order to document traditional knowledge and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Shawnee women's plant knowledge but rather life stories. As Jeff Titon discusses, life stories can often

A GIS investigation of indigenous intensification of native food plants : humans as environmental variable in maxent habitat suitability modeling of Camassia in Oregon

Creator:: Elliott, Braden T.
Abstract:: This thesis merges the fields of Ecology and Anthropology by applying Habitat Suitability Modeling to the relationship between people and plants in the Pacific Northwest. In it, I create and optimize two Maxent habitat suitability models for camas (Camassia spp.) in Oregon. The first model describes the physical environment of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

Creator:: Foster, Brad D.
Abstract:: This thesis employs the study of gender to demonstrate how recent Hollywood western films have constructed a hero that is reflective of contemporary beliefs regarding masculinity. Beginning with a New Historicist approach at studying gender, this work first considers the construction of masculinity in post World War II America and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Designed to fit : tailored technologies for medical practitioners

Creator:: de Brum, Silvina
Abstract:: Although electronic medical records systems (EMR) present promising benefits, they have not yet been widely adopted. A problem facing many EMR are that they are disruptive technologies; their complex hardware and software are not designed to account for the clinicians' characteristics and needs, thus, demanding a steep learning curve and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: had the joy of working with Tara Robinson, Jeff Jimerson and Danielle Anthony, amazing professionals

The Feminist Itinerant School: A Feminist Pedagogical Approach to Curriculum Transformation for Public School Teachers in Brazil

Creator:: Melchor, Carolina R.
Abstract:: This Thesis examines Brazil’s political and historical context to explore and understand the logics behind the high rates of violence in our society. It focuses in education as one of our main vehicles of disseminating knowledge and therefore culture, language and values that might be contributing and perpetuating sexism, racism,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: classrooms” (Tetreault, Maher, 2001, p.3). 3 Weaving those concepts and ideas with

“Gold Dirt:” An Exploratory Study of Beginner Women Farmers’ Experiences with Farmland Tenure Mediating Care for Soil in Willamette Valley, Oregon

Creator:: Christophel Michaels, Rosa J.
Abstract:: This thesis investigates how beginning, women farmers, within in a women farmers’ network in the Willamette Valley, Oregon are accessing land and farming information. Using ethnographic, community-based research methods, I ask how land access mediates their ability to care for their land and soil. Are these farmers interested in fostering...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Counterfeit arcadias : Nathaniel Hawthorne's materialist response to the culture of reform

Creator:: White, Andrew
Abstract:: Nathaniel Hawthorne lived and wrote in an age of reform efforts, and the progressive movement with which he was most familiar was Transcendentalism. However, he was not sympathetic with Emerson's idealism, a sentiment which comes out in his fiction in way of critique. Throughout Hawthorne's work there is an emphasis...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: for this project. I am also grateful for the assistance of Jeff Sklansky, whose historiographical

Local resilience, canola cropping, and biodiesel production

Creator:: Bates, Christopher Allen
Abstract:: New technology may have negative, as well as positive, effects on a sociocultural system. Biodiesel is growing in popularity as a fuel alternative that addresses global warming and reduces dependency on petroleum. The biodiesel innovation fits well into the existing behavioral infrastructure of Linn and Benton Counties, Oregon. The introduction...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: lobbied at the State Capitol to encourage the passage of bills proposed by Representatives Jeff Kropf and

Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

Creator:: Faris, Michael J.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of blogs in order to understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public audience and developing their rhetorical and civic agency. I do so by exploring the potential for the blogosphere as a public...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Politics on the Nets: Wiring the Political Process, holds an optimistic view: [P]eople searching for

Classified bodies : disability, identity, and the technological classroom

Creator:: Iwertz, Chad E.
Abstract:: This thesis pursues a flexible understanding and definition of dis/ability as a broadly and liberally applied mark of stigma. It asks questions that develop a deeper understanding of how disability influences mētis, a knowledge or cunning use of the body. Through this framework of mētis, this thesis explores technologies as...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Looking for Fish of the Right Age : Developing Predictive Modeling for Submerged Sites Using GIS, Salmon Genetics, and the Human Ecology of Salmon

Creator:: Krier, Jon C.
Abstract:: A major challenge to the study of the peopling of the Americas is that much of the Bering Land Bridge (Beringia), the geographic area that people migrating from Northeast Asia into North America would presumably have passed through, is now submerged due to sea-level rise since the last glacial maximum....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Chasing Tails: Stories for Refining Relationships Between Wolves & Humans

Creator:: Beggen, Kristina
Abstract:: As wolves return to their historic habitats both in Oregon and across the globe, emotions are running high between people either gladdened or disturbed by their homecoming. Prior to colonization, wolves occupied the entire Pacific Northwest alongside Indigenous peoples. However, European settlements that ultimately coalesced to form the state of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Blood, bondage and chains : a legacy of kinship between black-red people

Creator:: Bertha, Clarissa
Abstract:: My research is looking at the cultural and kinship ties of African and Native peoples and how our worlds were forged together by colonization, bonded during the institutionalize state of shackles and slavery and how the legacy of these tools of genocide are now tearing us apart. Being of mixed...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

(Re)-conceiving birthing spaces in India : exploring NGO promotion of institutional delivery in Rajasthan, India

Creator:: Price, Sara
Abstract:: In India, globalized flows of bio-medical discourse, practices and technologies are reshaping the field of reproductive healthcare, and the performance of childbirth more specifically. These projects aim to produce institutional delivery rooms that are "safe and modernized" by equating the utilization of westernized, obstetric techniques for managing delivery with better...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ” environment (Iyengar et al. 2009, p. 283). The majority of studies (Iyengar et al. 2009; Ronsmans et al

The Grizzly Bear and the Deer : the history of Federal Indian Policy and its impact on the Coast Reservation tribes of Oregon, 1856-1877

Creator:: Van Laere, M. Susan
Abstract:: The Coast Reservation of Oregon was established under Executive Order of President Franklin Pierce in November, 1855, as a homeland for the southern Oregon tribes. It was an immense, isolated wilderness, parts of which had burned earlier in the century. There were some prairies where farming was possible, but because...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Furthering Rhetorical Genre Studies Within the Context of Identity and Transfer in First Year Composition

Creator:: Alfaqih, Jessica
Abstract:: Within composition studies, rhetorical genre studies (RGS) and labor-based grading (LBG) are engaged in similar projects that consider students not only as individuals but also as always part of a community; as such, both have worked to understand how students learn, how students value themselves and their work, and how...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , underemployment, and student debt" (II). Chairman Jeff Merkely, a man who experiences the privileges of

A Practical, Ethical Critique of Hydraulic Fracturing and the Shale Gas Extraction Process

Creator:: Bullock, Claude George, III
Abstract:: This thesis analyzes the emerging technology of hydraulic fracturing and shale gas extraction process through a pluralistic philosophical approach. Rather than defending traditional values in nature, such as intrinsic value, I defend a metaphilosophical pragmatism centered on policy implications. I argue that different philosophical positions will, most of the time,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Gender, Race, and Nation in the Dear America Series

Creator:: Furman, Kali
Abstract:: Books and literature help children and young adults develop language, cognitive, and social skills. Additionally children's literature enables individuals to develop a deeper appreciation for their own, and others' cultures and histories. This thesis analyzes the young adult historical fiction series Dear America, published by Scholastic press, and examines how...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: always lending an ear and loving me. Jeff, Whitney, Yamilet, and Lizz, thank you for your support and

Principles and practices in online writing instruction

Creator:: Cole, Gail
Abstract:: This thesis explores the administrative issues that factor into the teaching of writing online. I explore these issues by situating the Conference on College Composition and Communication Position Statement of Principles and Example Effective Best Practices for Online Writing Instruction at the center of this project by both examining and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Bennett and Frederick P. Green’s 2001 literature review of student learning in online course

The emergency department as a provider of nonemergent care

Creator:: Stiles, Catherine M.
Abstract:: Emergency departments (ED) provide access to care for large numbers of patients who have nonemergent medical needs. More than half of the patients presenting to the ED at Salem Hospital in Salem, Oregon, were found to be seeking care for nonemergent medical needs. In an effort to provide an alternative...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Cost Containment Through Managed Care On February 1, 1994, Phase 1 of The Oregon I-Iealth Plan (OI-[P

Understandings of sustainability and the contributions of non-governmental organizations : a case study of Toledo, Belize

Creator:: Rosien, Jessica
Abstract:: This thesis reviews theoretical and local understandings of sustainability and examines the contributions which the NGO, the Toledo Institute for Development and Environment (TIDE), makes to achieving sustainability in the district of Toledo in Belize, Central America. The study focuses mainly on the Port Honduras Marine Reserve, which TIDE manages...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: acknowledge Jeff Kollath who assisted me with statistical calculations. Thank you also to all my fellow

Geoarchaeological research within five river miles of the Upper Klamath River Canyon : use of pedogenic properties to calculate alluvial terrace age

Creator:: Hescock, Sara
Abstract:: Soil is a valuable medium when investigating the past-- from understanding rates of development, landform evolution, to the construction of various predictive models. Landforms and sediments provide insight into depositional environments and soil morphology indicates pedogenic change within those landforms. The rate at which pedogenesis occurs has been quantitatively measured...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Oregon State University Writing Center : history and context

Creator:: Weintraub, Melissa R.
Abstract:: The Oregon State University (OSU) Writing Center: History and Context provides a detailed and multi-faceted view of the Writing Center from its start in 1976 through the present. The information was gathered from interviews, annual reports, archival sources, and scholarly research. Chapter One examines the scholarly conversation about writing centers,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ?Jeff Brooks, in "Minimalist Tutoring: Making the Student Do All the Work," strongly recommends the

Deepening: Place Relationship in the Valley of Lake Creek, Oregon

Creator:: McCumber, Elisabeth Carol Harvey
Abstract:: This is an IRB-exempt thesis exploring place relationship in the valley of Lake Creek, Oregon, at Triangle Lake. An interdisciplinary ethnography of place, it involves a synthesis of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic literature; an analysis of nineteenth-century Coos, Alseya (Alsea), and Kalapuya myth-texts from Native oral tradition; a history of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

She is Somebody: The Care and Labor of Undocu/DACAmented Mothers

Creator:: Hurtado Moreno, Argenis
Abstract:: This thesis is an offering, request, testimonio, refusal, and compliance to the discipline of anthropology and higher education. In this thesis, I engage with different forms of storytelling to highlight the relationships of mixed-status families in the United States. To accomplish this, I draw on the experiences of my mother...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: deliver the news himself, he had then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions deliver the message.8 The message

A settlement model at the Robert Newel Farmstead (35MA41), French Prairie, Oregon

Creator:: Manion, Mollie Jo
Abstract:: This thesis is based on the excavations of the Robert Newell farmstead (35MA41), excavated in 2002 and 2003 by the Oregon State University Department of Anthropology archaeological field school. Robert Newell lived at this farm from 1843- 1854. Major architectural features, including a brick hearth and postholes were discovered at...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Foodways at Fort Yamhill, 1856-1866 : an archaeological and archival perspective

Creator:: Eichelberger, Justin E.
Abstract:: Fort Yamhill, located in the eastern foothills of the Oregon Coast Range near modern day Grand Ronde, Oregon, was a U.S. Army post established in March 1856 as part of a three fort system to guard the newly established Coast Reservation and to provide a Union presence in the state...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Evaluation of the 2001 pilot Oregon Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program

Creator:: Saylor, Kirsten N.
Abstract:: The Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP), piloted in Oregon in 2001, provided $100 worth of vouchers (aka coupons) to low-income seniors to buy fresh local produce from farmers at farmers' markets and roadside stands. Presented in a political ecology framework, this research integrated the perspectives of beneficiaries and their...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Imagining them, reimagining ourselves : a case study of cultural appropriation and the politics of identity

Creator:: Smith-Nolan, Mary K.
Abstract:: Several popular cultural movements emphasizing indigenous spirituality have arisen in the United States and Europe within the past thirty years. Spiritual discourses attributed to Native Americans, among other groups, are borrowed by Euro-Americans in search of alternatives to dominant ideologies. In such a circumstance, Native Americans become part of a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Feeling through Language: Tracing Affect in Gendered Language

Creator:: Moody, Jeana S.
Abstract:: This study looks at how gendered language circulates affect in order to coerce gender binary conformity. I analyze the ways gendered phrases like “sit like a lady”, “don’t be a bitch”, and “man up” communicate binary gender expectations within a U.S. context, and what they have to do with larger...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: societies by hierarchy (Lipsitz, 2006 p. vii). By focusing on emotion, we can point out how ideological

Cooperation and small to medium sized enterprises in Oregon's forest product industry

Creator:: Brown, Nicole A.
Abstract:: This thesis examines perceptions of cooperation among small to medium sized enterprises (SME) in western Oregon's forest products industry. Recent changes in the industry, such as corporate consolidation, global marketing, and government regulations have created an environment in which many SMEs find it difficult to stay competitive. Cooperation among SMEs...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Radicalizing Food: Navigating the Radical Fault Lines of our Local Food Systems—on Farm, at Market, & Online

Creator:: Bennett, Laura E.
Abstract:: Mainstream local food systems focus on environmental and individual health, but labor is out of sight and out of mind. We begin with a story that introduces the immigrant in the room, the locavore’s blind spots, and the need to move beyond mainstream environmentalism and embrace social justice. In the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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