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Anthropology Thesis Guide

Past Anthropology Theses

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.

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