Admission
A Community of Cultures
Senior Thesis
Each senior writes a sustained research or creative thesis paper; the following are some recent theses that explored multicultural questions.
Keep Talkin' Happy Talk: Civil Rights on Broadway in the Late 1940s
Elizabeth Diane Raby | music
Intersections of Global Capitalism and Indigenity: Problems of International Environmental and Social Justice
William Reed Allmendinger | political science
French Islamic Altercommodities: Value and Subjectivity Creation
Stephane Cristin Barile | anthropology
The Myth of Consociationalism? Explaining Social Stability Amidst Racial Fragmentation in South Africa and the Hegemony of the African National Congress
Graeme Douglas Blair | political science
An Exploration of Individual and Contextual Factors Affecting the Racial Wealth Gap
Alexandra K. Bradspies | sociology
Roots and Wings: Reconstructing the Past in Two American Danza Azteca Groups
Andrea Victoria Brambila | anthropology
Suspending the Plot of the Real: Narratives of Collective Action in Chicana/o Literature and History
Israel Cruz | anthropology
Zombis and The Contours of Material, Bodily, and Spiritual Possesion in Haiti
Elizabeth Nicole Ebright | anthropology
Being Salt and Light: Conservative Christian Politics at the Grassroots
Leah Edith Dundes Faw | political science
The Demolition of Zhejiangcun: A State Spectacle of Destruction in a Beijing Migrant Enclave
Emilie Hayward-Allen | anthropology
Tradition, Terrorism, and the Struggle for Political Privilege: The Union of the Russian People and the Russian Orthodox Church
Antonia Marie Keithahn | history
Overcoming Racial Inequalities: Recent Integrating Trends in the United States
Lauren Elizabeth Lanahan | sociology
Aqui en La Esquina: An Ethnography of Latino Day Laborers in Portland
Joshua Sol Lewis | anthropology
Gathering Tradition: Land Use and Culture Change on the Columbia Plateau
Brenna Colleen McDonald | anthropology
Civil Rights and the Family: Examining the Debate over Same-Sex Marriages
Aleck C. Ross-Frye | political science
The Emergence of Equador's Comunidad Gay: Constructing Ecuadorian Authenticity and Identity in Nationalist and Transitional Processes
Emma Lillian Rowe | anthropology
Trash Talking in Queer Activism
Clio Reese Sady | sociology
Self Governance and Tribe Economic Development: A Case Study of the Northern Cheyenne and Crow Tribes
Robin Valli Woods | economics
Memorias del subdesarrollo and the Function of Art in the Cuban Revolution
Sophie Elizabeth Bennett | Spanish
Maintaining a Terrifying Reality: Dialogue, Language, and Ethics in the Book of Job
Lindsay Rose Helms | English
The Flow of Absence: Asian Influence from Ezra Pound to Gary Snyder
AdriAnne May Huff | English
Race and Identity in the Poetry of Luis Palés Matos
Hannah Catherine Mathewson | Spanish
Jewish-American Absurdist Tragicomedy: Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift and Woody Allen's Annie Hall
Lurline Lauren Sweet | English
Islam on the Inside: An Ethnographic Case Study of Muslims in an Oregon Prison
Samuel Benjamin Kigar | religion
Rewriting Religion: W. D. Muhammad's Construction of an African-American Muslim Identity
Miranda Noel Meadow | religion
Lexical Access in Spanish-English Bilinguals During Auditory Comprehension
Lauren Rose Scheiner | psychology
One for One and All for All?: The Effect of Group Identity and Communication on Self-Interested Behavior and Trust in Social Dilemmas
Penelope Rose Stanton | psychology
Language Revitalization and its Sociocultural Context: Chinook Jargon
Robert Owen Daly | linguistics
Speaking of Birth: The Intersection of International Development and Childbirth in Chiapas, Mexico
Miriam Nehama Rosenberg | international and comparative policy studies
The Linguistic Construction of Events and the Production of Knowledge: Reported Speech and Translation in French Newspaper Reports
Alexander Mark Wallace | linguistics