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1916
- Clark, Archibald Botsford. Survivals in American Life.
- Coffin, Dorothy. Fluctuation in Functions of the Family in Some Primitive American Tribes.
1917
- Chung, Kocheng Chenyang. An Inquiry into the Balkans.
- Eliot, Clara. Statistical Study of Marriage Rates, Birth Rates and Their Connection with Manufacturing.
- Miller, Horace Metcalfe. The Shipbuilding Industry in the Northwest.
- Nelson, Bessie Aurora. The Causes of Non-Support.
- Rueter, Gertrude. Social Valuation of Occupations.
1920
- Swett, Herbert Lazarus. Negro Migration During the War Period.
1922
- Blaine, Gladys Elizabeth. Immigration: With Special Reference to the Japanese.
1931
- Rohrback, Augusta. Sex Education in the Public Schools.
- Wu, Alice. Changing Social Relations among the Chinese Immigrants: An Introduction to an Anthropological and Sociological Analysis.
1933
- Bishop, Helen Pilkington. A Study of the Rise and Diffusion of the Bah·íi Religion.
- Handsaker, Margaret Elaine. International Girl Scouting: The Adventures of a Culture Complex.
1934
- Tator, Marjorie. Public Opinion in Theory and Practice.
- Welty, Elizabeth. A Study of Modern Magic.
1935
- Gallagher, Claire. A Study of …mile Durkheim.
- Kaufer, Brunhild. The Diffusion of Culture: A Study of Theory and Method.
- Schnitzer, Mollie. Propaganda as a Means of Social Control.
- Siegel, Sol. The Principle of Reciprocity in Primitive Life.
1936
- Murphy, Francis S. The Interrelationship of Various American Cultures: Mayan, Mexican, Pueblo.
1937
- Fine, Alvin I. The European Backgrounds of Immigrant Jews in America.
- Hart, Philip. A Preliminary Survey of the Methodological Implications of the Value Problem in Social Science.
1938
- Carlson, Alma Louise. The Role of the Daily Press in the Development of an Urban Society.
- Miller, Frances. Some Aspects of Acculturation in Southeastern Alaska.
- Olsen, Edwina Jeanne. The Unmarried Mother.
1939
- Goldstein, Blossom Wolf. The Immigrant Jewís Adaptation to a New Culture.
1940
- Cahill, Doris Jane. A Study of Migration with Special Reference to Farm Labor in Oregon.
- Johnson, Harriet. A Study of Transiency.
1941
- Bailey, Margaret. Survey of Public Health in Marion County: From Commonwealth Fund Demonstration to the Present.
- Brant, Charles S. Lewis Henry Morgan: An Essay in Evaluation and Criticism.
- Chiotti, Helen Marie. The Italian Community in Portland: A History of Its Social Nature.
1942
- Scott, Jan M. An Investigation of the Culture and Personality Problems of the Eskimos of Western Alaska.
1945
- Havely, Elizabeth Ann. A Study of the Relationship between Attitudes and Information About the Japanese in America.
1949
- Davis, Wilbur A. Tensions and Anxiety in the Personality Formation of the Chiricahua Apache.
- Walsh, Carol Jean Paton. The Sources of Navaho Anxiety.
1950
- Hymes, Dell. A Critique of Christopher Caudwellís Illusion and Reality.
1951
- Harper, Edward. Family Organization of the Portland Gypsies.
- Snyder, Gary. The Dimensions of a Myth.
1952
- Paget, Harry C. An Approach to Documentary Filming through Anthropology and Drama.
- Taylor, James B. Notes on the Linguistic Communication of Affect.
1953
- Gilbert, Lynne Sherley. The Application of Geometry to the Study of Acculturation Among the Ojibwa and Warm Springs Indians.
- Mahar, James Michael. Ethnobotany of the Oregon Paiutes of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation.
- Pope, Richard Kenyon. The Indian Shaker Church and Acculturation at Warm Springs Indian Reservation.
- Scott, Kytja Kerwyn. An Analysis of Kwakiutl Status Systems.
1954
- Cole, Glen H. A Study of the Tlingit Boxes of the Rasmussen Collection.
- Epling, Philip J. Acculturation and Breeding Systems among Some Australian Aboriginal Tribes.
- Wallace, John Robert. Warm Springs Sahaptin Enculturation.
1955
- Ebihara, May. An Ethnohistorical Study of the Shoshoni Indians of the Northern Basin.
- Kelly, Gail Margaret. Themes in Wasco Culture.
- Philips, Yvonne Elizabeth. A Study of the Distribution of Wishram Indian Myths.
1957
- Boyd, Betye Lois. Varying Perspectives on "The Eliot School Problem": An Anthropological Treatment.
- McGuire, Nancy Lyn. An Analysis of Nez Perce Political Organization.
- Schuman, Donald Robert. An Epistomological Enquiry into Whiteheadís The Concept of Nature.
1958
- Adams, Barbara. The Cascade Indians: Ethnographic Notes and an Analysis of Early Relations with Whites.
- Alexander, Gerald. Some Problems of Leadership among the Chinese of Portland.
- Willard, Patricia. An Application and Appraisal of the Lexicostatistic Method of Dating Language Separations.
1959
- Moloso, Phillip J. A Componential Analysis of Navaho Kinship Data.
1960
- Rosin, Robert Thomas. The Occasion of Explicit Ideology.
1961
- Cottrell, Calvert B. Vocative Kinship Terminology.
- Sather, Clifford A. Marriage Patterns Among the Basques of Shoshone, Idaho.
1962
- Hanchett, Suzanne L. Semantic and Other Socio-Cultural Structures: A Study of Aleut Anatomical Knowledge.
- Owen, Michael Gordon, III. Kinship Categories and Kinship Functions.
- Redman, Nina Kathryn. Initiation and Education among Some Coast Salish Peoples.
- Robb, Patricia Stafford. Pan-Indianism: A Consideration of American Indian Acculturation.
- Roth, George. Voluntary Associations in Two West African Cities: A Study of Urbanization.
- Rudy, Sylvia MacColl. Witchcraft and Unilineal Descent in Africa.
1963
- Auerbach, Elizabeth Michaels. An Examination of the Relation between Some Ecological and Social Variables Among Northwest Coast Indians.
- Kurland, Alane. Contrasts in Time Reckoning Systems.
- Norman, Kathryn Addison. Age Organization: A Division of Social Structure.
- Rothschild, Michael. Patterns of Violence and Ties between Lineages in Segmentary Acephalous Societies.
- Wong, Annette Wei-Ling. Labor Migration in Central Africa.
1964
- Byers, Peter Howard. Participant Observation in Mental Hospitals.
- Modjeska, Charles Nicholas. The Anthropology of E. R. Leach.
- Sajovic, Majda Ivanka. Sect Formation during Periods of Social Change: A Consideration of Several Negro Sects of the Urban North.
- Sufian, Jane M. The Practice of a Discipline: Some Considerations of Anthropological Methods.
1965
- Dubisch, Jill Susanna. Double Descent in Africa.
- Endicott, Kirk. An Analysis of Plains Warfare.
- Livingston, Bruce. The American Wedding: A Study of Ritual in Industrial Society.
- Maxwell, Joseph Alex. The Determinants of Plains Kinship.
- McGilvray, Dennis B. Conceptions of Animals in Human Culture.
- Pruzan, Lynn Karen. The Writer in a New Nation: A Consideration of Some Nigerian Novels.
- Rossen, Thomas James. Chinese Social Stratification: A Problem in Ethnography.
- Strodt, Catherine Elizabeth. An Analysis of the Non-Use of Edible Plants by Two Plateau Indian Tribes.
- Weisner, Thomas Steven. Kinship and Trade in the Modernization of West Africa.
1966
- Barnes, R. H. Rationalization and Religious Development in Ancient Judaism.
- Drummond, Julius Leland. The Life of "the Others."
- Holt, Candace E. Diversity among Ethnographic Goals and Methods.
- Moffatt, Michael. The Murngin Controversy.
- Pumpian-Mindlin, Fredric. Historical Writing and Nation-Building in Nigeria.
1967
- Amos, Alan Hildreth. Making Sense of the Savages: Evans-Pritchardís View.
- Bigelow, Charles Andrew. Whither the Dog-Faced Man of the Antipodes: Thoughts on the Remote and the Strange.
- Bleick, Catherine. Beyond the Fringe: Flying Saucers, Pseudo-Science, and Cognition of the Superempirical; or, "Whoís Been Sleeping Here?"
- Dienstbach, Elissa. The Study of Time in Historical and Ahistorical Societies.
- Jenkins, Anne. Explaining the Development of Agriculture: An Application of Historical Models of Explanation to a Problem in Archaeology.
- Larson, Jane Walden. The Social Environment and Internal World of a Chinese-American Family as Explored Through Personal Documents.
- Leland, Stafford. The Two Revolutions in Anthropology.
- Stevens, Laura. The Artist in and out of the Forest.
- Weiner, David. Aspects of Territoriality and Corporateness in the Nuer Lineage.
1968
- Burton, David Brent. Organized Plots against Nature: The Acculturation of the Jungle.
- Collier, Catherine. Cultural Fermentation and Social Change among the Northwest Coast Tribes.
- Fasteau, Susan. The Wheel Within a Wheel: An Investigation of Ecstatic Religion.
- Gaines, John. Anthropology Revisited: Or Linguistics and Sociology In Relation To A Unified Anthropological Theory
- Henrickson, Marnie. Contemporary Astrology As Primitive Thought.
- OíConner, Kaori Lynne. An Essay On The Nyakyusa Of Tanganyika.
- Yale, Carolyn. Medieval Community Planning: Models and Methods.
1969
- Callisen, Jody. This Wheel Shall Explode: An Analysis of Some Ritual Contexts of Abnormal Experience.
- Foster, Stephen. Mid Pleasures and Palaces: Architecture in an Anthropological Setting.
- Gosfield, Edward, III. Some Models in the Muddle: Aspects of Tikopia Ritual.
- Lichter, David. The Common and Garden Variety Mind.
- McFarlane, John Allan. Peasant Community Structures and Contemporary Change: Mexico.
- Nessly, Laurence D., Jr. Partial Sense in Ethnolinguistic Semantics.
- Olsen, Anita Laurie. All Forms Are Similar and None Are the Same, So Their Chorus Points the Way To A Hidden LawóGoethe.
- Rice, Glen. An Activity Orientation in Archaeology.
- Sellery, Stephen B. Urban Police: Active Interpreters of Right and Wrong.
- Taber, Rebecca. Societies Hot and Cold.
1970
- Benham, Patricia Maher. How Can We Know The Dancer From The Dance? A Study Of Dance In Primitive Society.
- Betzenderfer, Grace Elizabeth. Ethnoscience and the Anthropological Problem.
- Brandon, George. The Word That Walks Like a Man: A Study of Primitive and Archaic Literature.
- Choy, Peggy Ann. A Problem in Archeological Model Articulation.
- Hibberd, Thomas. Three Zen Institutions: An Ethnographic Study.
- Honchar, Patricia Anastasia. Stalking the Stalker: An Investigation of Band Size in Hunting and Gathering Societies.
- Jackson, James Streshley. Game Theory and Tribal Marriage.
- Levine, Nancy Elaine. Twin Children of the Sun: A Study in Mythology.
- McConnell, James Andrew. Original Chickens.
- Spector, Robert Jay. Cultural Ecology as Paradigm-Guided Research.
- Sterne, John. Andrew Lang: Victorian Anthropologist.
- Stronach, Michael William. Initiations in Primitive Societies.
- Towne, Terry Anthony. Conflict, Resolution, and Change in Kwakiutl Society and Culture.
- Verdery, Katherine Maureen. The Prophet Motive: Weberian Prophecy in Primitive Tradition; or, Jesus Saves; Moses Invests.
1971
- Cronin, Teresa. Surrealist Anti-Literature.
- Fruth, Patricia Jean. The Interaction Dance: Some Aspects of Proxemic Behavior.
- Hastings, Clare E. The Thunderbolt and The Bell: An Analysis of Tibetan Religion.
- Neustadter, Allan L. Chinese Buddhist Monasticism.
- Rhodes, Aaron Anthony. Myths Of The Apocalypse.
- Romanoff, Steven. Fraser Lillooet Salmon Fishing.
- Schuler, Paul Bruce. Indian Caste Associations.
- Weistein, David Mark. Kwakiutl Space.
- Zucker, Jeffrey. Canyons of the City and Cities Of The Plain.
1972
- Cronyn, Lori. Saints and Leopard-Skin Chiefs: A Comparative Study of Mediator Roles.
- Foreman, Shirley Jean. A Cybernetic Model of Cultural Change.
- Nugent, Stephen. Damaged Goods.
- Weinreb, Herman Joseph. More Than Meets The Eye For An Eye: The Norm of Reciprocity.
1973
- Brightman, Robert. The Continuing Adventures of Raven and Coyote: A Comparative Analysis of North American Indian Transformer Myths.
- Button, VanTries. The Nomadic Origins of the Nabataean State.
- Cuthbert, Richard. Reflections in Echelon.
- Graser, Laura. On Dream Flights, Moon Flights, and Such: The Concept of the Soul among Two Aboriginal North American Peoples.
- Shorrock, Barbara A. The Language of Law: An Exercise in Primitive Jurisprudence.
- Wyer, June. Puritan Witchcraft.
1974
- Madden, James J. Symbols and Society: Remarks on Certain Aspects of Durkheimís Theory of Religion Including a Discussion of Ojibwa Cosmology.
- Nemer, Julie Frances. Dragons and Hypergamy: The Contradiction of Social System By Symbol System.
- Price, Thomas. The Myth of Sisyphus: Social Banditry In The Balkans.
- Rudner, David West. Towards a Formal Kinesics.
1975
- Agins, Gregg. Clear as Mud: A Linguistic Description of Ambiguous Sentences.
- Cohn, Mary Louise. Reconstructing Babel: The Structure of Language Use in Iraq.
- Howe, David A. Land and Liberty: The Political Participation of the Peasantry in the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917.
- Loomis, Mina. Development and Social Continuity in Indian Peasant Communities of the Peruvian Sierra.
- May, Samuel S. Bright Moments: The Anthropology of Clifford Geertz.
- Radin, Daniel J. Dominance and the Maintenance of Order in Pastoral Nomadic Society.
- Rick, Robin Stephanie. Shades of Darkness, Shades of Light: An Inquiry Into The Navajo Use of the Solanaceae (Nightshade Family).
- Tivenan, Nancy J. Anarchical Government? A Form of Uncentralized Government Practiced by the Berber Tribes of the High Atlas of Morocco.
- Yamamoto, Kay. As Long as Youíre Marking It, Dance It: Dance Among Some Indians Of Oregon and Washington.
- Zerwas, Michael. Town Chiefs and Country Chiefs: An Analysis of Keresan Pueblo World View and Social Organization.
1976
- Daehler, Darlene Carol. A Consideration of the Olmec in Terms of Interregional Spheres of Interaction.
- Deikman, Cathy. Myth as Political Ideology: A Comparison of Two Cultural Forms with Reference to the French Revolution.
- H¯gfoss, Robert. Upon Waking up in the Field: Implications of Anthropological Research.
- Pyburn, Anne. Witchcraft: The Relationship of One Aspect of Cosmology to Social Change.
- Reis, Teresa Ann. Determining Social Phenomena and Behaviors in Five Late Pleistocene Open-Air Settlements: An Exercise in Anthropological Archaeology.
- Stein, Roberta. From a Social Community to a Communal Society: Continuity in Japanese Group Solidarity.
1977
- Boyack, Carol Ann. Blood Pudding and Mud Pie: An Analysis of Menstrual Pollution in the New Guinea Highlands.
- Boyarin, Jonathan. Marxist Anthropology and the Idea of the Primitive.
- Freeman, Sarah Hosford. Dreams of Not Waking: Cargo Cults.
- Koplin, Bruce Nicholas. A Matter of Taste: Cannibalistic Revenge in New Guinea.
- Krakoff, Charles Edward. Dominance and the Maintenance of Order in Pastoral Nomadic Society.
- Mason, Rachel Huus. An Application of Victor Turnerís Methodology to the Hopi Indians: Symbols and Social Structure in Action.
- McGill, Douglas Cornish. A Comparison of Two Functional Analyses of Healing Processes in a Traditional and Modern Western Society.
- Siemens, Stephen. Relational Representation in Comparative Ethnology: Ancestor Worship Among the Kwaio and the Tallensi.
- Stockman, Peter Coultas. A Simulation Model of Local and Regional Populations in Highland New Guinea.
1978
- Bowen, Clifton Oliver. "Ideological Marginality" and "Renegade" Mormonism: Toward an Explanation of Mormonism’s Peculiarity.
- Brissonnet, Lydie Carmen. Essai sur l’Affront: Form and Function of the Exchange of Insults in a Few Civilized Societies and in Our Own.
- Camp, Jena Leigh. Membership and Message-Form: A Comparison of Plurilingualism and Contents in Zinacanteco and Nuclear Paraguayan Speech Communities.
- Carlson, Priscilla Beth. Music and Ritual: An Anthropological Perspective; or, Partaking of Immortality.
- Didak, Mark F. Origins of Near Eastern Food Production: An Examination of the Major Hypotheses and Some Suggestions on the Importance of Social Factors.
1979
- Faubion, James D. Take Man Away From Life, Only Words Remain: An Essay on Structuralism.
- Johnson, Martha Elaine. Rank, Exchange, and Power in the Kwakiutl Indian Numaym and the Rural Japanese Dozoku.
- Kingston, Timothy. Social Structure and Social Change: A Weberian Analysis of the Meiji Restoration.
- Lewis, Richard. Mayan Disenchantment and the Collapse of a Civilization: A Marxist Analysis.
- Sokolik, Margaret E. When in Rome: An Exercise in Ethnographic Semantics.
1980
- Biddle, David C. Mothers-in-Law and "Big Men": Sex Role Differentiation in a Polygynous North Australian Tribe.
- French, Alexandra Susanne. Utopian Movements: Architectural Manifestations of Cultural Change.
- Marsalli, Robert Anthony. A Study in Modernization: The Change from Achieved to Ascribed Status Among the Tolai of New Britain.
- Mills, Garey Thornton. Oracles.
- Moore, Robert E. How Coyote Thinks: Exploration of a Linguistic and Narrative Option in Upper Chinookan.
- Palmer, Potter C. Observations on the Intellectualist Approach in Anthropology.
- Rowell, M. Ellen Moeller. A Comparative Analysis of Contemporary German and American Adolescence.
- Simons, Hilary Jill. The Behavioral Development of Female Japanese Macaques (Macaca Fuscata).
- Spangler, Anne. A Consideration of Primary State Formation in Mesoamerica: Some Early Examples.
- Strømholt, Lajla Kristina. Woman and Nature: A Study of Traditional Chinese Society.
- Swickard, Claudine. Dining Out With an Anthropologist: A Comparative Analysis of Food Etiquette.
- Waite, Philip R. Great Basin Prehistory: A Processual Model in Culture Change.
- Wolfe, Judith Ann. The Emperor’s New Clothes: An Analysis of the Imperial Institution in Prewar Japan.
1981
- Beeler, Peter Gordon. A Consideration of the Olmec in Terms of Interregional Spheres of Interaction.
- Hamlish, Tamara Lynn. Witchcraft: The Relationship of One Aspect of Cosmology to Social Change.
- Scott, Wendell Edwin. From a Social Community to a Communal Society: Continuity in Japanese Group Solidarity.
1982
- Ackerman, Lauri. Theoretical Approaches and East African Ethnology: A Study of Age-Set Systems.
- Allen, Tim. Comparative Exchange Systems.
- Fine, John. A Reinterpretation of the Emergence of Land Tenure: Concepts Among the Algonquian Indians of the Subarctic.
- Fowler, Nancy J. Wasco-Wishram Noun Plurals.
- Margulies, Eric Ned Natan. Modes of Thought in the Mishna.
- Peters, Karl Michael. Theory and a Categorical Model of Kinship Terminology Systems.
- Regester, David B. Social Differentiation/Architectural Differentiation: The Architecture of the Fali and the Dogon.
- Rourke, Michael. Homo Erectus Was a Wise Man: A Study of the First Human.
- Shapiro, David. Structure-Functional Ramifications of Bounded and Unbounded Groups in Tikopia and Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea: A Study in Comparative Social Structure.
- White, Joseph Courtney. Ethnographic Film: From Visual Anthropology to the Anthropology of Visual Communication.
1983
- Byerly, Laura. How to Get the Attention of God: Holy Mediators in A Portland Catholic Parrish.
- Carpenter, James. Are They Having Fun or What? The Re-Creation of the Trinidad Carnival.
- Dawson, Ansel Dawn Anselina. The Doyle Owl: A Study of Ritual at Reed.
- Ernest, Sara H. Social Stratification and Social Change in India.
- Ferber, Harold. The Yurok Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
- Head, Genevieve North. Start the Revolutions Without Me: Theoretical Advances (?) in Modern American Archaeology.
- Landsverk, Eric J. Grid and Group in Early Modern Languedoc: An Application of Mary Douglas’s Theory of the Relationship Between Cosmology and Social Structure.
- Pearson, Kristine. The Effects of Teachers’ Attitudes on Black Students’ Success at Humboldt School.
- Pozarny, Pamela F. "The Myth of Male Dominance": A Woman-Oriented Perspective in Cross-Cultural Analysis.
- Quinlan, Sheila. The Theory of Population Pressure: Its Use in Anthropological Models.
1984
- Bressler, Michelle. The Cultural Construction and Experience of Illness.
- Elbaum, Daniel. Tagmemics in the Computer: Two Matrix-Based Verb Inflectors.
- Fullam, Sally. Strategy and Style in Somali Politics.
- Norgren, Lars Per. You Spray, You Pay, You Kill, We Will: Bodily and Social Control Ritual in a Contemporary Population of Northwest Oregon Hill Folk.
- Oldham, Kellie. An Examination of the Native, White Aleut, Eskimo and Indian Ethnic Identities in a Bristol Bay Fishing Village.
- Solomon, Anthony David. Hmong Healing Practices: An Alternative Within a Conceptual Scheme.
- Vaughn, Elizabeth B. Conflict in Containment: Value Divergence and Ideological Domination in the English-speaking Caribbean.
- Weber, Kai Frances. The Study of Spiritism as an Ethnic Identity.
- Wentworth, Patricia Ann. Three Traditional Societies in Transition: A Comparative Study of Cultural Evolution.
1985
- Ames, Sandra Taimi. English Loanwords in American Finnish: Pussaa Peipipoki Petiruumasta Kitsiin.
- Colvin, John. "Oh, Mama, Can This Really Be the End?" or, Changes in the Educational and Ideal Systems of Late Nineteenth Century Confucian China.
- Hautzinger, Sarah. What I Did on My Summer Vacation: Carnies: A Deviant Subculture.
- Kennedy, Ruth. In Pursuit of Paradise: A Case Study of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, a Modern Millenarian Movement.
- King, Douglas R. Liminality and Communities in Islamic Pilgrimage to Mecca.
- Miller, Robyn Winfrid. "She Was a Young Durkheimian": Mary Douglas and the Artistic Process.
- Reiner, Lisa. Migration and Cultural Change in Puerto Rico: A Comparative Study.
- Youngstedt, Scott Matthew. Artistic Explorations in Yoruba Cosmology.
1986
- Dobbin, George Riely. Digging for Goldie: Alexander Goldenweiser’s Contribution and His Iroquois Notes.
- Heinsoo, Robert. Holy Wind in the Context of Navajo Anthropology.
- Martin, Fiona. Between Dissemination and Semiological Illusion: Problems in the Textual Interpretation of Initiation Rituals and the Liminal Period.
- Patterson, Alexander C. Appearance Only: Traditionalization in Hindi Cinema.
- Reid, James. Kill the Head and the Body Will Die: An Exploration of Classic Mayan Chronology.
1987
- Baker, Catherine Anne. Encounters with the Other: A Dialogical Interpretation of the Bikinian Relocation.
- Carnahan, Michael S. An Alternative Explanation for Adult Difficulties in Second Language Acquisition.
- Elliott, Karen Lynne. Power, Purdah, Politics: Cultural Constraints of Hausa Women's Integration to Northern Nigerian Development.
- Emsden, Christopher H. C. Pale Moons and Pert Loquacity: The Category of the Person in India and Papua New Guinea.
- Goldman, Laurie S. Concepts of Linguistic Heroism: Particles in Wasco-Wishram Grammar, Discourse and Mythology.
- Grosser, Mark Jeffrey. Casual Beliefs and Deviant Roles: Responsibility Allocation in Five African Societies.
- London, Christopher Edward. Coffee and Ideology in the Highlands of Costa Rica and Papua New Guinea.
- Marberry, Elizabeth M. Food for Thought: An Anthropological Approach to Vegetarianism.
- Rodman, Rosamond Cary. Models in the Muddles: African Models of Descent in the New Guinea Highlands Revisited.
- Rogers, Mark S. Cultural Physiology: Hallucinogens and Symbolic Transaction in South American Shamanism.
- Simon, Elon Satoru. Summer Days with Residents and Staff at Two Japanese Institutions for the Mentally Retarded.
1988
- Beffort, Brian L. Camera Obscura: Ethnographic Lucida: A Discussion of the Photograph and the Elucidation of Ethnographic Information.
- Bicchieri, Leone José. Ideology and Expressiveness: The Russian Language in Soviet Society.
- Conlin, David L. The Ecology of Ships: Towards a Processual Theory in Underwater Archaeology.
- Davis, Maia J. L. Raising Expectations: Socialization and Social Construction Within a Contemporary American Intentional Community.
- Dawdy, Shannon Lee. Beautiful Heralds and Avatars: The Aesthetics of Efficacious Objects.
- Goodyear, David Craig. Order and Ambiguity in the Religion of Haiti.
- Hooker, Jessica. What We Don't Know About Latah: An Assessment of the Current State of Research into a Malayo-Indonesian Behavior Complex.
- Schultze, Carol A. Resource Utilization Strategies and Settlement Patterning of the Klamath Indians: A Look at Gathering.
- Ward, Kenneth C. Party in the Library, Study in the Street: Escolas de Samba in Rio de Janeiro Carnaval.
1989
- Brown, Stephen Christopher. Camera Obscura: Ethnographic Lucida: A Discussion of the Photograph and the Elucidation of Ethnographic Information.
- Heinsoo, Robert Martin. Ideology and Expressiveness: The Russian Language in Soviet Society.
- Keck, Emily. The Ecology of Ships: Towards a Processual Theory in Underwater Archaeology.
- Paisley, Bryan Shaw. Raising Expectations: Socialization and Social Construction Within a Contemporary American Intentional Community.
- Rodman, Rosamond Cary. Beautiful Heralds and Avatars: The Aesthetics of Efficacious Objects.
- Subramanian, Mukund. Order and Ambiguity in the Religion of Haiti.
- Vireday, Diane C. Museums: An Inventory of Ethnography.
1990
- Barker, Ty Adin. Refinement of Irrationality: Marriage in Portland, 1894-1901.
- Dalla Valle, Jona Sabrina Alexandria. Stealing a Name: Political Education in Guinea-Bissau, Africa.
- Funston, Lance William. The History and Evolution of Traditional Japanese Karate-do in American Society.
- Giffin, Christina Page. Fashion: The Cultural Construction and Social Importance of Gender and Beauty.
- Kurzweil, Joshua Mark. Admiration in Full and Empty Lives: The Mutual Importation of Japanese and American Standards of Pottery Evaluation.
- MacDonald, Anne Charlotte. Tell-Tale Devices: Cultural Translation Through Stories in E. E. Evans-Pritchard’s Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande and Zora Neale Hurston’s Tell My Horse.
- Roth, Christopher Fritz. Verbal Aspect in Black English.
- Sheiner, Amanda Kate. Whose Aesthetic is it Anyway? The Relationship Between Anglos and Navajos in the Creation of Commercial Sandpainting.
1991
- Bezilla, Kenneth Robert. An Application of Victor Turner’s Concept of Liminality to the Study of Warfare.
- Gullikson, Caressa Anne. The Times They Are a Changin’: The Causes and Consequences of Sedentism Among Kalahari Desert and Australian Western Desert Hunter-Gatherers.
- Hall, Sarah Elizabeth Jayne. Hunting for Human Nature: A Gathering of Evidence on the Sexual Division of Labor Among Foragers.
- Kaplan, Michael McKay. The Identity of Jazz.
- King, Alexander David. The Real Thing: Symbolic Power and Domination Behind the Potlatch of the Tlingit and Kwakiutl.
- Kusmierski, Anya. Theater and Ethnic Consciousness-Forming: El Teatro Campesino and a New Mestizo Consciousness.
- Perrault, Sarah. Gender Constructions and Buddhism in Rural Thailand.
- Satkin, Bradley Scott. The Ahl-i Haqq: Towards a Study of the Contemporary Maktab of Ostaad Nur ‘Ali Elahi.
- Sen, Natasha. Exclusionary Practices: The Limitations of a Feminist Identity Politics.
- Shaw, Megan Alyson. An Analysis of Metaphors in the Chinese Language.
- Six, Amanda. Sekirk: A Case Study of "Community" in Rural Washington State.
- Stasch, Rupert Stirling. Rethinking the Culture Concept.
1992
- Andrade, Tonio. Geopolitics, Catholicism and Croatian Nationalism, 1835-1971.
- Batiuk, Elizabeth Kimzey. Art As Informant: Political Art As Works in Progress.
- Brewer, Benjamin Grant. An Assessment of Theoretical Approaches to the Study of African Witchcraft.
- Burkleaux, Thomas C. The Modernization of Thought in Kwakiutl Mythology From Boas to the Present.
- Coleman, Robert Berger. Yo! Bum Rush the Tower: Cultural Production in Rap Music; Reproduction and Resistance.
- DeVault, Jon Paul. Loving the Alien: An Analysis of UFO Abduction and the Modern UFO Belief System.
- Labenski, Edward, III. A Strength To Live: Experience and Tradition on the Plateau, 1805-1847.
- McBreen, Brian J. Wok Meri: A Business Community.
- Nelson, Kristina Renee. The Acquisition of Ethnic Identity and Personality Socialization Among Transracial Adoptees in the United States.
- Propps, Amy Lee. Galicia, the Politics of Regional Identity.
- Rollert, Steve Anton. Paralyzed by the Dream of Distant Mountains.
- Rubovits, Michael Francis. An Explanation of Cargo Cults.
- Sugerman, Adam A. The Constitution of Social Order in Sixteenth-Century America.
1993
- Cross, John Eliot. The Mixed Model: Strategies of Group Identity Among the Toba Batak of Sumatra.
- Feuerle, Miriam Zoë. Invented Ritual and Tradition in Nineteenth Century American Secret Societies.
- Hurtt, Anne Elizabeth. Outside Influences: The Development of Multiple Aesthetics in Navajo Silver Jewelry.
- Knott, Eric Russell. Archaeology, Human Origins and Hawkes’ Ladder: Looking for the Next Rung at Koobi. Fora, Kenya.
- Kullman, Caleb James. Autobiography as Looking Glass: An Anthropological Analysis of the Life and Autobiographical Documents of Salvador Dali.
- Murphy, Sarah Anne. "Something Which You Carry Inside": The Problem of Navarran Identity in Pampalona's Sanfermines.
- Mussen, Sharon Eve Justine. "Persistent Identity System": The Conflicted Religious Assimilation of the Beta Israel into Israel.
- Segal, Lizaveta Élan. Possessed Bodies, Overdetermined Selves: The Zar Cult and Women's Status in the Sudan.
- Spink, Douglas Brian. The Structure and Meaning of IBM: An Anthropological Perspective on Corporate Culture.
1994
- Baldwin, Tessa Marie. The Indian Shaker Church: A Study of Syncretism and Legitimacy in a Native American Community.
- Boyd, Tobias Nathanael. An Historical Anthropology of Morocco.
- Fisher, Kim Christian. Love and Social Change in Heian Japan: An Anthropological Perspective.
- Glass, Aaron Joseph. An Exquisite Corpus: The Body as a Conceptual Model in Traditional Kwakwaka’wakw Language and Culture.
- Loudermilk, Brandon Conner. The Social Mechanisms and Cultural Strategies of Group Cohesion in Computer Hacker Social Organizations.
- Marvy, Paul Alexander. The Transient Palate.
- McGuire, John Francis, III. African Law.
- Miles, Gareth Richard. Incorporeal Crocodiles and Bloodthirsty Baggara: The Rural and Urban Zar Cults of North Sudan.
- Orend, Zachary Daniel. Pilgrim’s Process: A Processual Analysis of an Heretic Shrine in Northeast Brazil.
- Reagon, Matthew David. Prophets and Pakeha.
- Strong, Thomas Paul. "Bad Blood": Individuals, Community, and the Social Body.
- Takarabe, Bo Lee. Exchanging Nostalgia: Japanese Appropriation of the American Western Movie.
1995
- Abuaf, Dona Raymond. Painting Aboriginality: An Artistic Discourse.
- Batsford, Lisa Heather. The Pilgrimage of Grace: Religious Paradigms and Political Action In Reformation England.
- Batson, Andrew Graves. The Structure of Difference in Java: Hierarchy and the Chinese Minority from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century.
- Feldman, George Kenneth. Boundaries of Fat: Epidemiology, Etiology, Cause, and Curing as Methods of Self Identifying in the Bolivian Highlands.
- Fillerup, Sara Frances. And The Lord God Did Cause A Skin Of Blackness: The Conversion of the Hopi Indians to Mormonism.
- Foley, Brennan John. Aboriginal Land Rights in Australia.
- Golub, Alex Jerome. First Contacts or The Eruption Into Otherness: A Study in Social Theory with Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers.
- Gordon, Suzanne Lea. Invented Tradition Within the Texts of the Verein.
- Mockler, Gretchen Lisa. Hypodermic Injections and Sacrificial Chickens: Traditional Curing vs. Government Health Clinics in the Highlands of Chiapas.
- Pandey, Annarose Yamuna. Horses of the Gods: The Process of Syncretism and the Practice of Possession.
- Roberson, Kathryn Grace. The Nineteenth-Century Aristocracy of Central Java.
- Steele, Mila Tabitha. When Nationalists Become Anthropologists.
- Woodsorrel, Shyela Mistaya. Once Upon a Time in Tibet: Folk Tales, Lay Buddhism and Religious Ideals in the Land of Snows.
1996
- Anderson, Michelle Dawn. An Examination of Cultural Objectification and Pan-Indianism in Contemporary Oregon Pow Wows.
- Bates, Ymilul Khunyza. A Symbolic Interpretation of "Supernumerary" Genders: Testing the Utility of "Grid" and "Group."
- Gorton, Michelle Marie. Modernized Traditions and Traditional Modernity: The Objectification of Greenlandic Culture and Identity.
- Lazar, Allyson Heather. "From the Margin, to Center, and Back Again": The Presentation of Native American Artifacts in Tribal and Majority Museums.
- Leherissey, Juniper. Native American Education and the Politics of Social Incorporation.
- Newell, Alexander Findly. Sapé à Mort: Congolese Couture and the Metonymic Consumption of Modernity.
- Rohs, Melissa Wade. Continuity of Utopian Values: A Study of Two Intentional Communities.
- Rojas, Janeen Aleja. Contemporary Consumption of Native American Tradition.
- Rollman, Linus Christian. Thunder of Past Centuries: The Re-Invention of History in Bulgaria.
- Wiss, Noah Samuel. French Colonial Vietnam: An Anthropological Perspective.
1997
- Cherney, Joel Alexander. Nesting and Mediation in the Anthropology of Morocco.
- Miguel, George Albert. The Persistence of Social Structures and Their Effects on the Individual in Japan.
- Steinhoff, Laura Sacajawea. Cultural Identity within the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement.
1998
- Cannara, Rebecca Elizabeth. Eloquent Silence: Forms and Functions of Silence in Communication.
- Chapman, Chelsea Mackenzie. An Anthropological Perspective on the Works of Arthur Rimbaud and the Melanesian Foi.
- Graan, Andrew Peter. The Social Life of Culture: A Structuralist Approach to the Objectification of Culture with Special Reference to Kayapó.
- Randalll, Collin Ross. Ecstatic Technique and Religious Revitalization: Peyote and the Indian Shaman.
- Seibold, Heidi Starlyn. Inclusion and exclusion: Initiation, Warfare, and Violence in Papua New Guinea.
1999
- Agaskar, Maya Anne. The Public Culture of Chai: Tea and Modernity in India.
- Brazeal, Brian Christopher Fahey. La Música Andina en San Francisco.
- Elmer, Bridget Ann. The Feast with the Dead: Ritualization and the Construction of Social Memory in Ayllu Kaata.
- Guetschow, Katherine Kristine. The Manang Bali: An Examination of the Iban Gender System and the Construction of a Third Gender.
- Henker, Karen B. One, Two, Freddy’s Coming for You: A Nightmare on Elm Street and the Problem of Film Consumption.
- Hill, Sienna Glory. Sherpa Medicine: Concentric Dualism and Triadic Meditation.
- Marshall, Caitlin J. The Presentation of Self in Virtual Life.
- Morgan , Marston Hunt. Nomadic Classification and Change Among the Kel Ahaggar Tuareg.
- Stone, Jeremy Thomas. The Fall of the Cassowary: Ethnicity, Morality, and Anthropological Understanding in West New Britain.
2000
- Ballman, Peter Benjamin. Rot Bilong Raskol: A Study of Crime in Papua New Guinea.
- Black, Bradley Elizabeth. Boudreaux and Thibideaux Go Transnational: An Exploration into the Semiotics of Cajun Identity.
- Corsetti, Patrina Elizabeth. Fear and Loathing in the Central Arctic.
- Fagen, Jennifer Lynn. Los Hermanos Penitentes: An Analysis of Ethnic Group Formation in Northern New Mexico.
- Hahn, Jessica Rist. A Diachronic Study of the Effects of Political and Economic Modernization on Choctaw Ethnic Identity: The Politics of Cultural Integrity.
- Konkol, Jonathan Richard. Cultures Transforming into Themselves: Northwest Coast Native Art in Global Modernity.
- Langford, Megan Renee. A Baseball Nation: The Dominican Republic and the American Game.
- Loustau, Marc Roscoe. Leaving to Return: Exploring the Experience of Space in Kodi, West Sumba.
- Meyer, Jess. Interpreting Urban Legends in Contemporary North American Society.
- Molloy, Michelle Elizabeth. "To live, we die": Resistance and Revolution in Mexican Nationalism.
- Monson, Nicholas M. The Kinship of Cannibalism: Cosmology and Social Structure Among Two Tupí-Guaraní Peoples.
- Rosen, Tracey Alexandra. Consuming National Identity: Modernity and the Indian Popular Cinema.
- Rosenbaum, Judith Thandi. The Use of Trash in Zulu Tourist Art.
- Velasco, David Matthew. Obligation and Interpretation in Contemporary Reading Communities.
- Voss, Kara Anne. Indians and the State: A Social-Historical Analysis of the Zapatista Rebellion.
- Weinstein, Katharine E. Local and National Cuisine in Thailand.
2001
- Alexander, John Robert. The Form and Function of Nuer Sacrifice.
- Peterson, Erin Jane. Burtch Home: An American Culture.
- Cabe, Molly E. In the Woman’s Hand: Communication and Negotiation in Heian Court Society.
- Chang, Constance Tai-Fong. Rereading The Andaman Islanders Kristina Marie Clere Global Sisterhood?: The Problematic Role of Western Feminist Discourse in the Movement to End Female Genital Cutting.
- Doyle, Carey Emelita. The Streets and Straits of Space: Latino Day Laborers in Portland, Oregon.
- Gebhard, Blissarah Dawn. Gambling with Culture: The Cultural Influence that Indian Head Casino Has Had on the Warm Springs Reservation.
- Manson, Paul Thomas. The Lay of the Land, the Way of the People: Landscape as Culture for the Iñupiat of Northern Alaska.
- Mauck, Aaron Pascal. Customary Law and Nationalism: The Effect of Village Courts on Personal Identity in the Papua New Guinea Highlands.
- Miller, Katherine J. L. Speaking of Development: Discourse, Development, and Community Building in the Hunza Valley, North Pakistan.
- Molen, Miranda Yvonne. Forging the Unknown: Subculture, Popular Culture, and Resistance Reconsidered in the Case of Rave.
- O'Connor, Caitlin Ruth. Representations of the Penan of Sarawak and Changing Notions of Self.
- Orr, Kristen Marie. Dialogue through Rhetorical Violence: A Historical Anthropological Study of Identity Formation in the Sicilian Mafia.
- Toland, Shauna Terese. Skateculture: Ethnographic Reflections on an Urban Subculture.
- Winfield, Sarah Gordon. Wordsound is Power: Rastafari Reasoning as Symbolic Mediation.
2003
- Blake, Nicholas. Culture in motion: history and change among the Tsimshian.
- Carroll, Jennifer J. Radical democracy and discourse on globalization.
- Goldman, Ezra. On the implementation of the urban utopias of Le Corbusier and Paolo Soleri.
- Gustafson, Karin Wolfe. The Havana neighborhoold transformation project in Atares.
- Hubbard, Thomas Edward. The me that exists in your mind: Japanese animation and the ambiguity of the self.
- Parker, Ian Nicholas. Of religion and identity: the study of values, transformations, and confrontations among the Tobelo of eastern Indonesia.
- Paulson, Araiana. The mitzvah of rememberance: holocaust twinning and the production of memory.
- Sandy, Nathaniel Merrill. Structural crisis in the pacific islands.
- Stevenson, Chloe B. The production of gender categories in ritual and narrative in a Melanesian society.
- Tucker, Sarah. The representation and re/production of subculture and identity: investigation of the performativity of drag in "Third Antenna"
- Wilensky-Lanford, Ethan. Contemporary Tradition: marriage and modernity in post-soviet Kyrgyzstan.
2004-2005
- Asch, Sarah Farel. What Comes Around Goes Around: An Exploration of Consumption, Materiality, and the Implications of the Fashion System for Social Agency.
- Bina, Brooke Alice. Professionalization, Authoritative Knowledge, and Conceptions of Midwifery and Medicine in the Contemporary United States.
- Blue, Eleanor Jean. Starbucks is Everywhere.
- Brod, Artemis Leah. Ironic Appropriations: Creating White Masculinities Through Hiphop.
- Casana, John. Christians Gone Socialist: A Theology of Liberation and Its Role in the Nicaraguan Revolution.
- Delfino, Jennifer Bryan. "The Beautiful Struggle": Rap Music, Black Cultural Production, and the Representation of African American Youth.
- Denvir, Daniel Peter. Experiencing Neoliberalism at the Border: Economic Restructuring and Cultural Change in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
- Gagliano, Gina. In Court and Countryside: Class and Cultural Critique in French and Russian Fairy Tales.
- Grass, Jonathan Michael. Connecting to the International Muslim Community through Nationalism: Muhammad Speaks and the Nation of Islam in the 1960s.
- Kendziorski, Kelly Christin. Gradations of Independence in the Portland Film Community.
- Lugo, Adonia Elena. Defining Orange County: A Native Perspective.
- McMurray, Sarah Elizabeth. Hypersexual Performance and Femininity in Girls Gone Wild.
- Melnick, Garth Bunker. Black and Blue: Anthropological Approaches to the Conflicted Relationship Between the African American Community and the Police in Portland, Oregon.
- Mott, Sara Doane. Nigerian Video Films: Cultural Discourse and the Cinematic Spectacle.
- O'Toole, Steven Michael. Counterculturalism and the Beat Generation Myth in America.
- Perdue, Alexander Seaver. National Liberation and Culture in Angola.
- Rasmussen, Sara Anne. "What's Wrong With This Country?" Talking Politics and Making Sense of the 2004 Presidential Debates.
- Reddy, Elizabeth Anne. Portland's Zine Community.
- Rempe, Katherine Victoria. American Inequality and Segregation: Public Education and the Supreme Court.
- Ruiz de Luzuriaga, Nicole Erin. Feminisms and Femininities: Liberation and Regulation in Popular Feminist Movements.
- Sargent, Adam Carl. "It's Not Fake, It's Entertainment": Professional Wrestling and Working-Class Masculinities.
- Seidler-Feller, Shulamit Rebecca. Identities on Fire: Black Masculinity and Racialized Representation in the Los Angeles Riots.
- Shank, Amanda Aguilar. (De)Constructing the Mexican Transmigrant Population.
- Shrigley, Caitlin Bess. Voices from the Blogosphere: Identities in an Online Public Sphere.
- Slesinger, Ian Bradley. An Anthropological Perspective on the Social Construction of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
- Ureda, Kent F. Beer and Traditions: College Football in the South.
- Walsh, Emily Kathleen. Examining Themselves: Breast Cancer Illness Stories and the Negotiation of Identity.
- West, Lindsey Marie. Immigration and Exclusions in the Republic of Ireland: A Thousand Welcomes?
- Wilcoxen, Ryan A. Joking Matters.
- Lafleur-Vetter, Sara Anne. Russia at the "Post": Reading the Changing Role of Literature in Russia Through the Prism of Post-Soviet Publishing Houses.
- Peterson, Tamzyn Ruth. Photography in the Age of Transcultural Reproduction: Co-opting the Materiality and Discursivity of Photography in Contemporary India.
2006-2007
- Serene Elaine Bacigalupi. Cosmetic Suergery: Agnecy and the Plasticity of Identity.
- Elizabeth Stephanie Bryson. Voices from the Flood: Racism, Representation, and Narrative Resistance in the Telling of Hurricane Katrina.
- Caihuajia. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway: A Mirror of China's Development.
- Julia Helen Cattrall. The Appellation Contr�l�e and Reformation of Rural Identity in Viticultural France.
- Erin Ashley Crews. Defining the Worth of a Child: How Parents' Motivations for Adoption Affect the Social and Monetary Valuation of Adoptive Children in the United States.
- Douglas Todd Dickerson. Baptism by Fire: Ritual and Social Organisation of the Vodou "Soci�t�."
- Vanessa Nicole Garrido. Exploring the Cuban Synthesis: Race, Culture, and the Nation in the Works of Fernando Ortiz.
- Andrea Michaele Glaser. Marketing Minzu: The Cultural Politics of "Ethnic Tourism" in Post-Mao Yunnan.
- Owen Marshall Hawkins. Alternate Hierarchies: Symbolism and Its Effect on Material Practice among the Maori Culture.
- Peter Robin Johnson. Brothers and Others: Understanding Kogi Cultural Ecology.
- David Joseph Kennedy. A Fear of Hospitals: Plague Searches, Indian Protests and the Morality of Community during Disaster in Late-19th century Bombay Presidency.
- Ulric S. Legouest. Engendering Citizenship and Militancy: Collective Agency and the Coordination of Value(s) in Porto Alegre's Alternatives in Families, Neighborhoods, and the Participatory Budgeting Process.
- Christine Elisabeth Lewis. Complexities in Coca-Colonization: Locating Collective Agency in Colombia and the United States.
- Jacob Donegan Luce. Whose Empowerment? Which Agency: Micro-credit and Subject Formation in Rural Bangladesh.
- T.A. Emmet Moseley IV. Constructing Nations, Nomads and Grasslands: Enclosure on the Rangelands of Amdo.
- Andrew Marc Pappone. Branches of Existence and Resistance: Creating and Recreating Palestinian Identity.
- Rachel Sona Reed. Humans and Other Animals in North Dakota: Relationships, Institutions, and Ideology.
- Provo Roellich. Development Dynamics: Anecdote and Symbol in Microfinance at Banco Compartamos, Mexico.
- Arthur Levi Scott. Shamanism, Tourism, and the "New Age": Mimetic Reflections of the Past in Contemporary Hallucinogenic Healing Practices of Northwestern Amazonia.
2007-2008
- Danielle Aquino-Roitmayre. Dancehall Queens and the Co-Gendering of the Jamaican Dancehall.
- Lydia Jane Baghdoyan. "How You Move when Moved": Discourses on Skill and Fantasy in Stripping.
- Andrew David Stork Birnberg. What's in a Word? Profiles of Nine Women with Cancer.
- Jane Alexis Chipman. Arabic, Extravagant, and Superluxurious": Spatial Projections of Dubai.
- Erin Gray Crowell. Stumptown Coffee: The Aesthetics of Taste and Identity.
- Ana Felicia Dorado. Concerning Violence, Nationalism and Identities.
- Caitlin Teal Ecklund. Properties of Belonging: Relatedness and Recognition From the Ground Up.
- Kevin Stevenson Fiske. Digg.com, User Revolt and Emergent Forms of Political Expression and Agency via the Internet.
- Christine Garam Han. Shifts in Romantic Love and Courtship Rituals in the South Korean Television Drama and the Modern Viewing Society.
- Maron Lynne Levesque. The Local Construction of an Elite and Modern Place in Quito, Ecuador.
- Emily Virginia Mentzer. Re-inhabiting the Legal Body: Consent, Subjectivity, and Justice in Baby v. Maryland.
- Gabriella Sophie Miller. Eat an Eel in a Red Baguette: Experimental Art and Artists from Hanoi.
- Maralena Roisin Murphy. Imaging Modern Identities in Postcolonial Peru.
- Genevieve Peterson Roudane. Organizing Around the Center: Problems, Process, and Place in Portland's Day Labor Center.
- Anais Milagros Schenk. Encountering Gender: Feminists and Feminisms in El Salvador.
- Emma Dickens Seward. Mummies, Treasure, Archeologists, and the Politics of Exhibition: The Past and Present of Egyptological Museums.
- Sasha Anne Shyduroff. Weaving Narrative: Women Writing Identify and Ethnography.
- Hanna Leslie Smith. Going Country: An Examination of Irony and Sincerity through a Portland Country Bar.
- Alexander Ray Stein. Diamonds in Motion: The Conflict - Diamond Connection.
- Amanda Marjorie Ufheil-Somers. Keeping Watch from Space: Genocide and Technologies of Witnessing in the Age of Digital Surveillance.
- Gwendolyn Snow White. Imagining Poor People: Market Anxieties and the Symbolism of Welfare.
- Lisa Edana Zorah Winters. Self-Positioning: Claiming Yoga as Intellectual Property or Traditional Knowledge.
- Xire Xirejiancuo. Klu-rol (lu-rol) Ritual: A Symbolic Communication between Mountain Deities and Human Agency.
2008-2009
- Athena Lee Abrams. Artifice and Androgyny: David Bowie and the 1970s Glam Rock Counterculture.
- Alexander Botero-Lowry. Formal Failure: Anthropology in the World of the Mind.
- Jacob Thomas Connell. La Pi�ata del Sida: An Ethnographic Study of the Neoliberal Political Economy of AIDS in Managua, Nicaragua.
- Judson James Steele Daffern. �It Comes Up Better�: Helping Nature Along in the Indigenous Miwok Landscape of the California Sierra Nevada.
- Laura Alice Evans. Tanzania in the Limelight: Responding to Witchcraft-Related Killings of Tanzanian Albinos.
- Robin Anne Fink. Fuera de la Oscuridad: Shifting Subjectivities among Evangelical and Catholic Kichwa through Discourses of Illness and Modernity.
- Andrea Monique Fisk. Labor of Love: The Performance of Erotic Agency in the Sex Industry -- How Cultural Value, Gender Subversions, and Resistance Are Worked.
- Gabriel Tianjiao Gao. Gifting Nationhood through Tourism: Taglit-Birthright Israel, Travel, and Contemporary Zionism.
- Jacob Isaac Gervich. Correlations Between Religion and Cinema: India�s Religious Film Genre.
- James Joseph Harper. A Multi-sited Analysis of the Production, Marketing, and Consumption of Willamette Valley Wine.
- Eliza Hofkosh-Hulbert. Processing Fragmentation: A Phenomenology of Intimacy and Authority in a Postmodern Practice of Spiritual Healing.
- Zemen Kidane. The Drama of Cyberspace and the Materiality of the Melodrama: A Media Reflection of Eritrean Transnational Identities.
- Matteson Knox. Cultural Xenology: Science Fiction, Aliens, and Alterity.
- Ian P.M. Lowrie. Cognitive Practice and Non-Local Being: Pragmatic Activism in a Transcendent American Context.
- Michael Orion McManus. Teaching Transformation: Technology, Sound, and Embodied Worship Practices in a Kingdom Fellowship.
- Caleb William Plakun. Under a Broken Blue Sky: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Violence in Mongolia.
- Lauren Elizabeth Raheja. Outsider Art, Art Therapy, and The Mutual Constitution of Madness and Creativity.
- Rinna Vickie Rem. Chinese Gold Farmers Must Die: Killing for the Fantasy of Play, Identity, and the Commodity in World of Warcraft.
- Cristina Isabel Rovira-Gonzalez. A Biography of Mexican Cuisine: A Story of Cross-Cultural Consumption and the Politics of Representation.
- Mariza Isabel Ruvalcaba. Vamos a bailar al son que toca: Neoliberalism and the People of Corn.
- Emily Frances Samstag. Culture as Communication: Anthropology�s Journey Out of Reflection.
- Genevieve Skruodys. Imagining Intimacy: Discourse, Power and Subjective Navigations of Commercial Sex.
- Kendall Turner Taggart. Torture: The Social Logics of the Exception in the War on Terror.
- Manako Tamura. In Search of Totoro in Contemporary Japanese Society.
- Jenny Tso. Faint Echoes of Common Voices: The Red Lantern Shining.
- Joseph Aaron Wasserman. Literacy, Meritocracy, and the National Assessment of Educational Progress: the Problem of Standardized Testing in America.
2010
- Anayas, Christian Ray. Milk Does a Nation Good: Development, Nutrition, and the Signification of Milk.
- Ates, Tya. Condemned Lives and Transformed Bodies: Value and Meaning in Organ Harvesting from Prisoners in China.
- Bellis Caitlin. La Movida and the Body Politic: Performance, Embodiment, and Nation-building in Post-Franco Spain.
- Blanks, Jennifer Pidge. I Just Struggle with Corporeality: Embodied Practice, Narrative Construction and the Reconciliation of the Mind-Body.
- Bontecou, Jesse M. Otpor and Nonviolent Action.
- Carter, Kathleen. Many, Yet One: the Nature of Representation in Various Iterations of Indonesian Cultural Art.
- Chisler, Deborah Lucile. Becoming a Total Package: the Pricing of Pint-Sized Queens in American High Glitz Child Beauty Pageants.
- Christie, Taiga Anne. Six Billion Utopias: from Spectator to Protagonist in Community-Based Theatre.
- Diacon-Furtado, Natan L. Raising Twins.
- Fadaak, Raad Tarek. Disciplining Death: Death, Dying and Palliative Care in American Hospitals.
- Fenollosa, Thomas Galloway. Discipline of Address: Bureaucracy, Consent, and Citizenship in the Making of Tenants within Portland's Non-Profit Public Housing Industry.
- Henner, Kevin. The Ruru of the Game: Semiotics of Analogy and Ontology in the West Pacific.
- Hirtle, Lauren Eve. Constructing Das Deutsche Wesen through the Native American Other: German Indian Hobbyist Identity Development through the Experience of the Noble Savage and the Pursuit of the Imagined Authentic in American Indian Culture.
- Lambert, Lauren Marie-Jasmine. Beyond the Barricades: Resistance and Narrative in APPO Conflict, Oaxaca 2006.
- Macdonald, Skye. Projecting Rwanda: Imagined Identities through Space and Time at the Rwanda Film Festival.
- McEwen, Ryan C. Sine of the Times: Affect, Subjectivity, and the Propagation of Vibrations in a Dubstep Environment.
- Mercer, Rachel Petra. Dancing Identity: the Politics of Performance and Embodiment in the Argentine Tango.
- Mills, Holly Henson. Becoming Neighbors: Neighborhood Assemblies, Collective Subjectivities, and Making Politics Happen in the Argentine Economic Crisis.
- Nielsen, Anna. The Baltimore Development Co-operative: the Dialogic and Dialectic in a Radical Art Practice.
- O'Hara, Morgan. Inhabiting an Improved Future: Transition Movement Initiatives and the Temporality of Communal Anticipations.
- Olian, Jesse. Israeli Backpacking in India: (Re)imagining the Nation in the Context of Mobility and Modernity.
- Parks, Kristen. Bodies and Boundaries: an Analysis of Blood Exchange in Queer Performance Art.
- Prentice-Walz, Heather. Fragments: an Engagement with Graffiti in Palestine.
- Rickard, Elizabeth Hazel. The Fox Sisters: Uncovering the Secrets of the Dead.
- Rogers, Minetta Sue. Exporting South Korea's Dream: Television Dramas and Constructed Nationalism(s).
- Savignano, Stephen Walsh. The Wolves of God: Prometheus and the Chechen Wars.
- Simpson, Jonah Orrin. The Discursive Life of Buryat Shamanic Practices.
- Stanescu, Ana. Embodiment, Abjection, and Community: Trans Women's Spoken Word Narratives at the 2009 National Queer Arts Festival.
- Streicher, Matthew. Nomads and Gravity.
- Szostkowski, Alaina Hopkins. Sharing Our Heritage: Re-envisioning Reciprocity on the North Pacific Coast.
- Tetzlaff, Lila. Reading Public Space through the Cafes and Dance-Halls of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Youatt, Emily. Becoming Native Again: Cultural Revitalization of the White River First Nation in the Yukon/Alaska Borderlands.
- Young, Alexandra Channing. The Construction of the Street Child in Brazil.
- Zappas, Marika Rose Novak. $esame $treet: Imagining the Nation through Mutual Reciprocity, Brought to You by the Letters U, S, and A.
- Zukor, Leslie A. Up in Smoke: Cigarettes at Reed College in Light of Public Health.
2011
- Bergman, Pia Gedahlia. Breaking Soviet Unity: Deterritorialized Multiplicity in Samizdat Texts.
- Flagg, Nathaniel Rickert. Branding Heaven: Commodity, Fantasy, and Conceptual Architecture in the Chinese Countryside.
- Friedman, Emmeline. Suicide as Citizenship.
- Gerber, Monica Wilkinson. Giving Women Credit: the Resignification of Feminist Ideals in the Context of Microfinance at Pro Mujer Bolivia.
- Green, Anna. Techno-Materiality and Stereotypes: Mass Media Representations of American Indians (1890's-1920's).
- Joseph, Kathryn Eliana. Finding Unity through Contestation: the Human Terrain Systems Controversy and the Rearticulation of Professional Ethics.
- Koller, Tammra. Knowing One's Place: Memory and Politics of Place in South Africa.
- Kopit, Alison. Moonifest Destiny: Transformation, Boundary Formation, and the Sustainability of Southern Oregon Women's Lands.
- Lewis, Scott. Slavery, Agency, and Personhood in Colonial Imagination.
- Moro, Tasha N. Watching the Walls Speak: Popular Politics, Public Discourse, and Collective Memory in the Graffiti of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Munger, William W. Social War in the Salad Bowl: on Gangs and the Domestic Application of Counterinsurgency.
- Overholser, Nathan H. La Santa Muerte, Senora de la Vida: Mexico's Indexical Death.
- Paik, Monica. Humanitarianism and the Recognition of Refugee Status in Australia.
- Reese, Adam. Narcocorridos, la Plebada, and the Big Corrupt Bosses.
- Ross-Rhudy, Nicholas Frank. Breaking the Silence: Rompiendo el Silencio.
- Thornhill, Ariella. Naturally Inspiring: Representations of the Maasai in American Zoos.
- Vickery, Rosevan R. Pollution Victims to Eco-Citizens: Japanese Environmentality, 1960-2000.
- Von der Porten, Peter Albert. The Liberalism of Piracy: Ethics, Technology, and Breakdown on a File-sharing Forum.
- Walla, Anne. Biopolitics and the Manufacture of Obedience in North Korea.
- Yenni, Christine. Arab-American Hip Hop.
2012
- Andres, Blaire. Modernity and maternity : national enterprises within the commercial surrogacy industry of Gujarat, India.
- Alter, Robert. A butterfly dream of ideology : icon and individual in Stalinist Russia./li>
- Blanc, Elena. Workplace protections in the home : regulating caring labor in the post-Fordist domestic scene.
- Blanton, Vladislav. A holocaust of Soviet peoples Nazi atrocities and Belarusian Jewish identity during WWII.
- Butcher, Lucy. The reconstruction of Civil War memory in Kentucky.
- Eising, Perry Rosemary. Showing up strange : portraiture and nightlife in Portland's queer community.
- Gould, Grace. "Call of duty : modern warfare" and the anti-feminine space.
- Greaves, Sophia Angeline. A closer look into Mexican nationalism : Carlos Chávez and the MOMA exhibition "20 centuries of Mexican art”.
- Hsu-Flanders, Adriel. Gendering cuisine : the construction of gender in slow food, modernist cuisine, and fast food.
- King, Isobel. Global agreements in the state domain : the political project of imagining knowledge as property.
- Lee, Victoria. This trip will change your life : considering two environmentalist models in Costa Rican ecotourism.
- Owens-Stively, Evan Matthew. The transfiguration of General Butt Naked
- Pascal, Ulysses. Beyond synchronicity : the semiotics of the human in high frequency trading on Wall Street.
- Robins, Alexander. Ideology is our strongest weapon : nationalism in North Korea.
- Scarlett, Will. Somatherapy against the state.
- Silver, Jake. Intimacy and assemblage : Israeli nationhood and the everyday violence of sexuality.
- Spillane, Torra. Negotiating absence : imaginings, sensations, and national subjectivities at the 9/11 memorial.
- Tsering Bum (Cairangben). Creating docile bodies : pathologization of "internet addiction" in postsocialist China.
- Villafranca, James. Control societies at work : pharmaceuticals and Argentina.
2013
- Arms, Nicolas. Spirits and metamorphosis in Chocóan thought
- Bauer, Aubrey Louise Mackenzie. Speaking utopia : kibbutz architectonics in Israeli-Palestinian landscapes
- Bender-Brown, AnnaLise. Female genital cutting intervention projects and girls' agency.
- Due, Emily C. Foreign bodies : migration, the U.S. nation, and the imaginative geographies of public health.
- Forbes, Soudea. Liberating les beurettes.
- Huazejia. Constructing "civilized" subjects and "stable" societies through the reorganization of space : "The nomadic settlement project" among Tibetans in Amdo.
- Jones, Kaatje Leilani. Journeys in paradox : a medieval pilgrimage in 21st century Spain.
- Jones, Stella Lucia. The anatomy of a promise : exploring the epistemology of truth and trust in the Vlax Romani "kris".
- King, Kira. Zaum : three waves of poetic and semiotic experimentation.
- Mastrangelo, Elizabeth Grace. Please don't pick the cotton : representations of Gullah Geechees and paternalistic ideology in 21st century cultural resource management
- Nortey, Ben. Boko haram : the amorphous absolute enemy.
- Reed, Kelly. Based on a true story : an examination of the relationship between fiction and ethnography.
- Silber, Laramie Hermine Cody Van Duzer. New man, new nation? : gender-based violence, nation-building, and historical memory in post-apartheid South Africa.
- Smith, Coleman Samuel. "The market climbs the hill" : mega-events and the neoliberal production of space in Rio de Janeiro.
- Thompson, Taylor Calamity. Sights and sites of the self : sex reassignment surgical tourism in Thailand and the politics of consumption.
- Weidner, Creighton. Anthropophagic frontier : cannibal ethics in the age of biocolonialism.
2014
- Ahmed, Serena. Problem-posing pedagogies in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
- Appleton, Kelsey Lauren. Hooray for all kinds of things! : Iceland’s “anarcho-surrealist mayor” and gnarratives of national identity.
- Casey, Adam. Marking indigeneity : race-shifting performers at the site of emergent “Cherokee” identity.
- Dallal, Rachel. The politics of history and gendered nationalisms : contested memories of Japan’s “comfort women”.
- Law, Samuel. Aspirational sovereignties : indigeneity and the law in a Guatemalan mining conflict.
- Li, Lumo. Commoditization of land and moral dilemmas : “Yartsa gunbu” practices in Tibet, western China.
- Mackenbach, Dieter. Self-imaging and self-making : women’s normative ethics in the Hindu nationalist movement.
- Maguire, Alexander. Moroccan Sufi modernities.
- McNeal, Jennifer K. Whose Istanbul? : Taksim Square a site of national imaginations and contest.
- Mekarski, Grace. Call me Coco : the construction of the modern woman: changing normative views on class and sexuality in the twentieth century.
- Montgomery, Anna L. The production of the U.S.-Mexico border as legal, scrutinized, & inhumane.
- Moon, Hoyoung “Jodie.”“Here, one more ingyŏ” : being a surplus human in comtemporary South Korea.
- Peress-Escolar, Nicholas. iKasi ama-get-down! : nonpolitics and the black Atlantic in urban South Africa.
- Purtzer, William. Class, space, and “post-politics” in the 2011 London riots.
- Rahman, Amina. Through the eyes of immigration : politics, entextualization and bureaucratic arbitrariness [sic] of the u-nonimmigrant visa.
- Richman, Rebecca. That’s crazy talk : trajectories of schizophrenia and political psychiatry in China.
- Rosemont, Colin. Transforming the body : Waorani ontologies and historical perspectives.
- Smith, Shannon Mearl. Subterranean secrets : defecation, the “Bayakou,” and social inequality in Haiti.
- Steidle, Stuart. “Pure and valuable” : the removal of Muslims from Myanmar amidst ritual inscription of the sacred, a Burmese ghost in new robes.
2015
- Andrade, Mariuxi. DACAmented-generation migrants contesting hegemonic notions of citizenship through the DACA Relief and Education.
- Apone, Rachel. Satan on the skin: divine and demonic mediation in Papua New Guinea’s Pentecostal public sphere.
- Bahmanyar, Sara. In their own image? : online media fandom and processes of subject-making.
- Breidenbach, Lilian Charlotte. Privileging presence : healing the collecting shadow of the Holocaust.
- Davis, Salish Jordan. Birth in the El Paso borderlands : navigating Latina migrant citizenship and il/legality.
- Marino, Nicole. Intimate strangers : how dogs and their humans combat ambivalence about companion animals in the United States.
- Reyes, Annemarie Gueco. Playing a serious game : bodies and gender performativity in women’s artistic gymnastics.
- Shahbazian, Nikole. “Air-conditioning the nation” : technopolitics, spatial conceptions, and performances of citizenship under Singaporean street and internet surveillance.
- Wolf, Amelia. “My heart is in the east and I am in the uttermost west” : material representations of the homeland in Jewish and Palestinian diaspora.
- Ziegler, Stella. Unsettling non-Native America : challenging ideologies with documentary film.
2016
- Allen, Natalie. #snowball_x000B_Performances of Climate Change Denial within the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
- Ayivor, Delali. Displaying Pain, Creating Publics, Saving Lives: Affect, Empowerment and the Postcolonial Gaze in The Maternal Health Channel Gha
- Barba, Sophia. Deconstructing Citizenship: Migrant Labor, Immigration Policy, and Race in American
- Cohen, Nicole. Free In Vitro Fertilization For All: Pronatalist Policy, New Reproductive Technologies, and Unequal Citizenship in Israel
- Curry, James. In Whose Terms?: Difference, Similarity, and Prosthesis in the Encounter Between the Stenella Frontalis and the Wild Dolphin Project
- Drayton, Elspeth. The "Wisdom" of Dominant Discourses: A Study on the Ambiguous Status of Woman in Moroccan Proverbs
- Eyring, Seth. AIDS Among Drug Users in the United States: Barriers to Hearing Voices of the Continuing Epidemic
- Johnson, Kate. Televising Truth and Reconciliation: Mass Mediation of Irreconcilable Publics in the SABC's Special Report
- Mathis, Meredith. Acting on Vanishing Grounds: The American Indian Movement and the Self-Preserving Logics of U.S. State Sovereignty 1968-1974
- Warden, Christopher. Tracing Settler-Colonial Violence on the Navajo Reservation: 1863-1935
- Xie, Qingyang. Regulating Public Memories through Spatial Changes: Earthquake Reconstruction and Tourism Development in Dujiangyan, Sichuan, Southwest China
2017
- Adams, Madeleine. Communing with the Dead: Spiritualism, Language, and the Construction of Science from 1865-1914
- Felsenthal, Eve. Scripting injury : non-suicidal self-injury, adolescence, and the production of cultural categories in the United States
- Garfia, Francisca. Learning to speak Chinuk Wawa : language revitalization in the Pacific Northwest
- Hausdorff, Rebecca. Paradox as paradigm : understanding social change in post-revoluntionary Cuba
- Kimura, Maya. Negotiating exclusions : Southeast Asian migrant domestic worker subjectivity and collective action in Hong Kong
- Lieb, Mikaela. Living well? : nature and indigenous populations in Rafael Correa's Ecuador
- Patterson, Karolyn. First the earthquake, then the disaster : imagining Peruvians in the highlands as victims and suffers in the aftermath of the 1970 Ancash earthquake
- Phan, Jeannette. Places of memory after the war : locating the transnational experience of Vietnamese people today
- Sokolov, Rosemary. Socializing the political : decolonial humanism and attempts at unmaking the state in Kurdish democratic confederalism
- Stackhouse, Stefan. Vital reckonings : cartographic power, abyssal thought, and the birth of modern piracy in Southeast Asia
2018
- Avery, Brita. I liberated myself from mass media hegemony through memes : or, A practical analysis of tactical media through the mediums
- Condon, Natalie. Labor relations : transnational commercial surrogracy in Cambodia
- Desai, Viraj. Out of the ashes of a pyre : representing and creating figures of agrarian distress in Maharashtra
- Gómez-Lacayo, Alexandra. Negotiating authenticity in Brujería.
- Hariprasad, Akshay. You are that I am : auto-ethnographic explorations of mindful subjectivity in America
- Hayman, Jacob. The policing of poblaciones.
- Hutchison, Jessica. Utang na loob : the politics of language and the figure of the local domestic worker in the Philippines
- Spencer-Zavos, Sophie. You say Palestine and people just say oh, it's too complicated : queers against Israeli apartheid : disruptions and (re)articulations of Canadians nationhood in Pride Toronto
- Tang, Daliyah. The figure of Northern Cheyenne meth user and the obfuscation of settler-colonial violence
- Timms, Jolon. Futuristic globalisms : on the possibility of modernity in imperial ruins
- Williams, Christy Jo. A new sun of liberty over Macdeonia : ethnic nationalism and the contested space-time of the Macedonian nation
- McNalley, Grace. This house has been built by vaginas, penises have done nothing : conjugal disappointment, agency, and intimacy in urban Senegal
- Aneteneh, Djemanesh. Emergent communities in mid-1980s to mid-1990s Afro-German feminist literature
2019
- Augustin, Alystair J. "Everything we do" : black queerness and transness, and surviving the carceral state .
- Cheeneebash, Malina. Bending (straight, capitalist) time and space affectively decolonizing resistance through radical subjectivities .
- Finstrom, Ariel. Multispecies ethnography and the domestic cat : an investigation of method .
- Freda, Karen. Neoliberalism and reconfigurations of hope in revitalization projects of rural Japan .
- George, Abigail J. "We women have more values" : feminist ethics, political corruption, and practices of care in an indigenous Guatemalan town .
- Gothard, Grayson Matthew. Questioning popular conceptions of the cop : mediated realities and representations of policing in the United States .
- Grano, Archer Amelia. The Malheur standoff : legal ecologies in the western United States .
- Grant, Aiko. Oscar and the fangirl gaze in Takarazuka Revue's Berusaiyu no bara .
- Hugueley, Savannah Ray. Defining the nation through exclusion : citizenship law, embodied borders, and the politics of belonging in the Dominican Republic .
- Imanipassand, Nilufar. Deconstructing land expropriation policy in South Africa .
- Li, Alex. Self-help and the construction of old age in America : time and the self in contemporary self-help books on aging and the life course .
- Liu, Katherine. "Violence against sistas is not tolerated [here]" .
- Mateo, Carmen. Juntos realizamos nuestro habitat, unidos lograremos nuestro ideal : the production of the urban land, justice, and community in Cochabamba, Bolivia .
- Mount, Eric. Waterscapes of the Ñuble .