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  • Seeing the Ocean For the Whales: How Whales Get Lost in the Sea of Human Perceptions

    Creator:
    McKinnon, Haley
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    Humans have always been fascinated with whales; from prominent features in mythology, to stories of terrifying monsters on the high seas, to globalized utility, to symbolic wildness and radical environmentalism, to figures and statistics, how have human relationships with whales been understood throughout time? Because humans have a need to...
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    . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Ehren H. Pflugfelder

  • Crossing the Human: Posthumanist Deviations in Cormac McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy

    Creator:
    Johnson, Anthony
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    This thesis argues that the first two novels of Cormac McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy mark a sharp turn from the antihumanism of his earlier ‘Southern’ novels to a more affective exploration of posthumanist subjectivity within a world dominated by social discourse and metanarratives. In my examination of All the Pretty...
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    Literature of the late postmodern period, i.e. the late 1960’s to the early 80’s, adopted a more serious

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

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    Loewenstern, Eli
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    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...
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    et al. 2019). Meuwissen et al.’s framework to assess the resilience of farming systems uses five

  • Queering Science Writing: Bringing Marginalized Perspectives to the Mainstream

    Creator:
    Goodfriend, Olivia F.
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    Within the field of science communication, the voices, perspectives, and experiences of the LGBTQ+ community have long been kept at the margins. This has led to a gap in material that recognizes queer individuals and communities as audiences, communicators, and stakeholders in STEM. I address this gap by generating a...
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  • Falling Into Place: Relational Perspectives on the US Creative Residency Field

    Creator:
    Baker, Jay A.
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    Falling Into Place: Relational Perspectives on the US Creative Residency Field is an Environmental Arts & Humanities thesis built around a research project called Creative Residencies and Expanded Senses of Community: Interviews With Artists & Residency Leaders. It’s an extended meditation on arts residencies via research, interviews, and experiential learning,...
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    : Demographics Survey.…..……………………………………….161 Appendix H: Thesis Process Map..……………………………………………. 166 Appendix I

  • Feedback as Critical Care: An Antiracist, Feminist Praxis for Composition

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    Rowland, Olivia A.
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    Feminist compositionists have long argued for addressing the feminization of composition, or its association with low value “women’s work,” by revaluing caring labor (Enos; Heinert and Phillips; Tuell). However, this argument assumes that writing teachers’ care work is beneficial for all students and teachers. Focusing on responding to student writing...
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    audience, our students” (137). Tuell therefore “want[s] to see teaching rewarded,” noting that

  • Solidarity’s Last Stand: Rudi Nussbaum and the Hanford Downwinders

    Creator:
    Vitale, Anthony
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    The Hanford Nuclear Reservation drew public ire during the 1980s and 1990s when activist groups forced the declassification of 19,000 documents and discovered proof of accidental and intentional releases of radioactive materials into the environment. These releases had been kept from the public. Although many locals had for decades wondered...
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    data in this way will “significantly effect resulting risk estimate[s] in a predictable way.”48 It

  • Falling Inward: Ecstatic Dance & Recording the Ephemeral

    Creator:
    Sarreal, Jennifer T.
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    Little scholarship exists on the contemporary trance dance movement known as Ecstatic Dance. This thesis investigates the myriad of pathways dancers in the Ecstatic Dance communities of Western Oregon experience movement-induced altered states of consciousness. A secondary aim was to provide a more visually and ethnographically accessible dance annotation system...
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    S. Sarreal) and my Bella… they are the homes of my heart, the best parts of my soul and my pack

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

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    McCumber, Elisabeth Carol Harvey
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    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...
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    ); Leo J. Frachtenberg, Coos Texts (New York: Columbia University Press, 1913); Albert S. Gatschet, et al

  • Training Community Health Workers in Oregon during a Public Health Crisis: Reflections on the Importance of Mental Health in Care-based Work

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    Bompensa, Amanda A.
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    This ethnographic study addresses the concerns of Oregon based Community Health Workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through their shared perspectives on the importance of mental health and self-care, CHWs highlight the critical need to learn practical skills in their training in order to better support their communities. Recommendations made by...
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    on the substantial body of work by Dr. Stephen Porges who proposed the polyvagal model in the 1990’s