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

Creator:: McKinnon, Haley
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . ©Copyright by Haley McKinnon December 8, 2023 This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 http

Femslash Fanfiction as a Reparative Practice of Critique

Creator:: Johnson, Colleen E.
Abstract:: Ever since Henry Jenkins’ groundbreaking _Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture_ (1992), fan studies has slowly worked its way further into mainstream academia. However, particular practices and cultures of femslash fandom, and the contribution of queer women to fandom archives and circulation have, in many ways, been neglected. In...
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

Making the Shift: Narratives of Transfer from Planned Home Birth to the Hospital in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Houtman, Leah S.
Abstract:: About 1% of U.S. births each year are planned home births (Vital Statistics Reports 2017). Of these, roughly 10% transfer to a higher level of care during labor (Melissa Cheyney et al. 2014), yet their experiences are rarely heard. Storytelling has long been used not only as entertainment, but as...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Learning to Care : Applied Ethics for Improving Farmed Animal Welfare

Creator:: Zarajczyk, Katie MaryRuth
Abstract:: This thesis seeks to explore how an ecofeminist lens is currently the most useful approach for improving farmed animal welfare. Through examining Western conceptions of non-human animals, I seek to shed light upon the inconsistent treatment of domestic species. Species that are dependent upon us deserve, at a minimum, not...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Steps and Strikes

Creator:: Scopatz, Shane
Abstract:: Steps and Stikes is an Environmental Arts and Humanities capstone thesis project taking the shape of an art film. The video layers contemporary dance with natural and industrial imagery on a foundation of personal narrative. It engages with contemporary environmental discourse as a choreographed essay, questioning why the environmental movement...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: . https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/t-magazine/postmodern-dance.html. 3 environmental crises of our

Rhetorical Arrangement and the Digital Archive : Finding Women’s Voices in the Linus Pauling Papers

Creator:: Boardman, Colleen
Abstract:: The common imagining of archives characterizes these spaces as monolithic, hallowed sites of preserved truths, carefully catalogued and stored, static and frozen in history and waiting to be uncovered. My thesis works to dispel this myth and identify rhetorical elements of the archive’s structure in order to assess how the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Steps and Strikes

Creator:: Scopatz, Shane
Abstract:: Steps and Stikes is an Environmental Arts and Humanities capstone thesis project taking the shape of an art film. The video layers contemporary dance with natural and industrial imagery on a foundation of personal narrative. It engages with contemporary environmental discourse as a choreographed essay, questioning why the environmental movement...
Resource Type:: Video and Capstone Project

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:: descendants of these people are a part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (https

"It Brings You into the Fold": Understanding Patients' Experiences of Mobile Health Technologies

Creator:: Lee, Jenney R.
Abstract:: Chronic disease is costly to treat and burdensome for those living with its impacts. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2017), 117 million Americans currently live with chronic disease, and one in four adults live with two or more chronic diseases. The burden placed on the U.S....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

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

Femslash Fanfiction as a Reparative Practice of Critique

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

Making the Shift: Narratives of Transfer from Planned Home Birth to the Hospital in the Pacific Northwest

Learning to Care : Applied Ethics for Improving Farmed Animal Welfare

Steps and Strikes

Rhetorical Arrangement and the Digital Archive : Finding Women’s Voices in the Linus Pauling Papers

Steps and Strikes

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

"It Brings You into the Fold": Understanding Patients' Experiences of Mobile Health Technologies

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