Titles of Recent Theses

2020—2023

1619 Or 1776?
The Brownie's Book: W. E. B. DuBois's Community Schoolhouse
A Cracker Jack of a Corporation: How Candy Covered Popcorn Influenced America
The Conditions of Exile: Memory, Movement and Trauma in Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin
Consciousness: Where Are We?
Domination and Justice in the Allegorical Story "La Reunion De Ayer" By Adela Zamudio (1854-1928), Bolivia
Dreaming of Diaghilev: Richard Buckle's Diaghilev Exhibition of 1954–55
The Heroes We Need Right Now: the Political Transformation of the Post-9/11 Superhero Film Genre
Investigating the Efficacy of Applied Theatre: a Theoretical Exploration into Quantifiable Impact using Community Sentiment Analysis
Modes of Intersubjectivity in Kafka's The Trial and Amerika

2015—2019

Before, During, After Brown: a Default On Democracy
California’s Healthy Soil Program: a Policy History of America’s First Attempt At Carbon Sequestration Through Farming and Ranching
A Close Reading of Varlam Shalamov's "On Tick" from Kolyma Tales
Corporeal Texts: Writing, Bodies, and Identities in Kafka's Short Fiction and Fin-De-Siecle Prague
The Cracks between the Binaries: "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" as a Work of Iconoclasm
Early Modern Science as an Institutional Project: Insights From Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society (1667)
An Examination of How and Why Divided Political Allegiances Destroyed the German Community in the Mohawk Valley of New York During the Revolutionary War
From Banned to Celebrated, yet Regulated and Segregated: the Struggles of the Female Footballer
Homer Is Where the Heart Is: Emergence of Character Through Intertextuality in the Similes of Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica
"Irrigation makes it rain": GI Homesteads, Spuds, Sugar Beets, and the Making of the Post-War West
Labor Unions, Community Organizing, and a Liquor License: William H. McClendon's Early Years of Activism in Portland, Oregon, 1938–1955
Manche Irene Langley (1883-1963): Early Oregon Woman Lawyer and Political Activist With a 'Bachelor’s Soul' Illuminates Conflicts With Gender Roles and Progressive Politics
Minsky, Behavioral Economics, and the Long Trend toward the Great Recession
"Planet of the Apes" and the Destruction of the Earth: Visions of Post-Apocalypse, Eden, Wasteland, and Wilderness
Smelter Pollution, Environmental Health, and the Narrative of American Progress in Butte, Montana, 1880-1910
The Strange Situation: Practice Babies, Home Economics, and Attachment Theory
"A Voice and Nothing More": Technological Embodiment and the Artificial Female Voice
"Words? Music? No, It’s What’s Behind": Communicative Affect in Joyce’s Ulysses

2010—2014

An Abundance of Deficits

And now, we look ahead to the past: the specter of slavery in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Octavia Butler's Kindred

Anti-Immigration Legislation in Alabama: Comparing House Bill 56 to Jim Crow Segregation

Arendt's Empirical Theory of Judgment

Bob Moses's Voter Registration Work and the Algebra Project: Organizing to Create Political and Economic Access For All Citizens

Death and wellbeing : a reply to the Epicurean puzzle

False Fathers: Marlen Khutsiev's "Ilich's Gate" and the Myth of Soviet Paternity

From the Garden to the Atelier: the History of Eco Fashion in America, 1960-2010

How Can Feedback Increase Self-Determined Motivation to Keep Writing?

Images of Muteness: a Reading of Anne Carson's "Nox"

Magazine as World in Miniature: How "S.M.S." Makes Visible the Invisible Frames of Perception

Mirrors and the Grotesque in David Altmjed's The Index

Muslim Nationalism: Allama Muhammad Iqbal and the Origins of an Ideal

Mythological Wine: Australia, Terroir, and Whiteness

Plato's Lost Lecture "On the Good.": Normative Ethics and Intellectual History

"A Plausible Witness": Helen of Troy and the Problem of Truth and Representation in Early Greek Literature

Redemption Songs, Rebel Music: Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, and a History of Reggae as Resistance

Rethinking the Imperial Archive: the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee (COVIC) Digital Photographic Archive, powered by Omeka and WorldPress

Selfhood and the Problem of Authenticity: the Politics of the Personal in Rousseau's Second Discourse

Small Cabbage and Little Weasel: a Memoir

Storytelling in Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy

The Mormon Stories

Utopia, Allegory, and Palimpsest: Trajectories of Intercultural Exchange in Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Word For World Is Forest"

"You've Got to Be Carefully Taught": Messages of Tolerance in Rodger's and Hammerstein's 1949 Broadway Musical "South Pacific"

2005—2009

American Frontiers: Historical and Literary Representations of Gauchos and Cowboys
And Now, We Look Ahead to the Past: the Specter of Slavery in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Octavia Butler's Kindred
Arms of the Sea
Character, Content & Context: an Account of Natural Kind Terms and Proper Names
Claude Lefort and the Illegitimacy of Modernity
Death and Wellbeing: a Reply to the Epicurean Puzzle
Documenting Louisiana: Rural and Industrial Photographs of Elemore Morgan 1942-1952
Du-Partzufim: Androgyny in Antiquity and Early Midrashic Literature
Elevators For Freight and Disabled Only: Making the Case For a Strong Disability Culture in Defining the Disability Experience
Engaging Music: the "Ernste Gesänge" of Hanns Eisler and How One Cycle Affects Another
Faculty Salary Policies At Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Has Market-Driven Differential Pay Replaced the Equity Principle?
Faust in Film and the Persistence of the Romantic Impulse
Female Rulers in Aristophanes' "Ecclesiazusae" and Plato's "Republic V"
Feminism and the Daughters of the American Revolution: 1890-1920
Lecture Versus Nurture: Platonic Eros as an Integral Component of the Teacher/Student Relationship
Looking For Homosexuality as 'Disease' in Thomas Mann
"Lucifer Joy": Complexities of Tone in Gregory Corso's Poetry
Moral Imagination and Compassionate, Just Attention in Iris Murdoch's "The Good Apprentice"
Putting the Faust Back in Faustus: Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus" and the Court of the Faust Myth
Re-envisoning the Marketplace: a Radical Redesign of the Modern Supermarket
Still Unredeemed: On the Centennial of Herbert David Croly's "The Promise of American Life"
Storytelling in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy
The "Xianglian Run Se": a Late Ming Beauty Manual
The Black and Blue Collar Blues: Examining Notions of Labor in Langston Hughes's Poem "Good Morning Revolution"
The Domestic Roles of the "Flax Mother of Oregon": Juliette Montague Lord and the Politics of the Oregon Fiber Flax Industry
The Language of the Making: Nominative Conflict in Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea
The Southern Oregon Chautauqua Association: Building the Foundation of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
The Winners and Losers of French Agricultural Subsidies
The Work of Art in the Age of "Nuclear Enchantment"
"These Two Emerge Together But Have Different Names": Chuang-Tzu Meets Nagarjuna in the Excluded Middle
Transgressing the Boundaries: South Seas Hybridity in the Work of Paul Gauguin and Robert Louis Stevenson
Ursa Minor: an Exploration of the Present Moment, the Personal Essay, and Virginia Woolf
Virna Haffer: Regional Artist and Photographer
Wrestling Shakespeare: Excerpts From a Novel
"You’re So Known to Me": Construction of Lesbian Identity in Two Novels By Gale Wilhelm

2000—2004

A Sense of Doubleness in Twentieth Century Literature By Two Jewish American Writers
Form of One's Own: a Study of Playwright Maria Irene Fornes Accompanied By an Original Play
Furious Feminist: the Riotous Radicalism of Dr. Marie Equi
Galileo: His 17th Century Trials and 20th Century Rehabilitation
Image and Controversy: Brother Elias and the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi
Inca Garcilaso De La Vega's Incas as Civilizers of the Andes and Quasi-Christians: Defending the Incas Through Reason and Natural Law
Industry Competition and Cooperation: Assessments of the Reserve Rule and Player Free Agency in Major League Baseball
Not Just Black and White: the Complexities of Race and Femininity in Seventeenth Century English Discourse
Observations of Resilience and Defeat in Arthur Runquist's Paintings of Labor and the Land
Orphan of the Camus Storm: the Poetics of Bob Kaufman
Paracelsus and the Decline of Galenism
Pessimism and Enlightenment in the Philosophy of Schopenhauer
Queer Ecology: a Theory of Identity and Ecological Ethics
Reflections On Violence, Working Through the Past, and the Literature of Post-World War Ii Austria: Adorno and Ingeborg Bachmann's 'Among Murderers and Madmen' and "Malina"
Ritual Dance: Primary Social Text
The Decline of Wild Salmon and the Industrialization of Aquaculture: How the Trend Toward the Adoption of Transgenics in Aquaculture Threatens Wild Salmon With Extinction
The History of the Portland Story: Looking For Native Americans in the Popular Historiography of Portland, Oregon
Theaters and the Urban Environment: Portland, Oregon 1880-1910
Third Wave Feminism and Rural Maine: an Exploration of an Interdisciplinary Course

1995—1999

A Creative Approach: Using Social Psychology Research and Works of Art to Reduce Racism and Sexism
Art Criticism and Practice in the Post-Historical Age: a Reading of Arthur C. Danto's "After the End of Art"
Beyond "Chromos and Cheap Literalism": C.E.S. Wood's Contribution to the Cultural Life of Early Portland
Cultural Identity and Property in Sherman Alexie's "Reservation Blues" and "Indian Killer"
Hold My Hand, Lest I Fall: the Salvation Army and Temperance Principles as Lifeline and Roadmap, 1898
Interpreting Women's "Privileges" After the Fourteenth Amendment: Ideas, Litigation, and Politics in the "New Departure," 1868-1875
Nathaniel Hawthorne Community and the American Novels
Negotiations to Mitigate Climate Change: Economic Perspectives and Experience From International Environmental Agreements
Red Machine 4.0: Dziga Vertov and the Kino-Eye
Rites of Passage and the Autobiography of Malcom X as Told to Alex Haley: Who Writes Whom?—Revolutionizing the Potentialities of Both Self and Text
Riverdale High School: an Experiment in Public Education: a Deliberation On the Use of Tuition in Public High Schools
Serbian and Slovenian Media Campaigns and the Demise of Yugoslavia
The Bean Counter: Three Auto/Biographies in Exploration of a Community
The Bridge Between Epic and National Identity: Ivo Andric's "The Bridge On the Drina"
The Magic Mountain: an Experience in Time
The Right of Privacy, Equality and Women's Reproductive Freedom
The Role of Women in "The Grass Dancer": Utopia Or Realism For Sioux Women?
Vibroacoustic Technology and Transformation: Parsing the Musical Syntax of Healing
Women in the Theater: Euripides' Female Characters in Their 5Th Century Context