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Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations appearing in this collection have been digitized, with the authors' permission, from the paper version approved by the UO Graduate School.
Dissertations are under copyright protection and should be appropriately cited.
There are two collections of dissertations listed below:
- Theses and Dissertations (Official) represent items that have been digitized from official paper manuscripts approved by the Graduate School.
- Theses and Dissertations (Self-Submitted) represent items for which authors have submitted their own electronic files of their dissertations. The electronic files have not been reviewed by the Graduate School and the content may differ from the official, authorized paper manuscripts.
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Everett, Yoel
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Parental emotion dysregulation (ED) is linked to less effective parenting behaviors that are associated with increased child emotional and behavior problems. There is a lack of integrated adult mental health + parenting ...
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Selcer, Leslie
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
QAnon’s umbrella conspiracy culture operates through a multi-scaled folk media infrastructure constituted by an array of distinct subcultures. Because QAnon offers a broad variety of online subcultures and corresponding ...
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Friaz, Ricardo
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This dissertation develops the concept of liberation by questioning what it means to destroy, abolish, and create worlds. I develop a critical position towards agential or subject-based accounts of liberation in order to ...
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Meng, Sian
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Shared micromobility systems, such as shared bicycles and e-scooters, have seen substantial global growth over the past decade. Although these systems offer affordable, flexible, and environmentally friendly transportation ...
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Provant, Zachary
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
In the United States, climate disasters kill thousands of people and cost billions of dollars each year. In 2023, the United States experienced 28 environmental disasters that cost more than one billion dollars each—the ...
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Deng, Xiaoyan
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This dissertation explores a previously overlooked aspect of xiqu history - the role of female xiqu performers in fin-de-siècle China. Focusing on the transitional period between the late Qing and the early Republican era ...
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Strikwerda, Timothy
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This dissertation explores the reasons that Japanese intellectuals and writers reached back to the Jōmon period (12,500-500 BCE) to define Japanese culture in the wake of Imperial Japan’s defeat after World War II. The ...
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Rahman, Md Waseq Ur
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This dissertation studies the formation of pleasurable and meaningful entertainment experiences during playing board games using a media psychological lens. It sheds light on players’ psychological and emotional substrates ...
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Casey, Alexandra
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Amidst the global rise of wildfire disasters and the complex human-environment interactions they (re)produce (Fischer, et al., 2016), Oregon’s Senate Bill 762 stands out as an ambitious policy initiative aiming to improve ...
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Stephens, Jiesha
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
My dissertation, Obscure Pleasures: Ritual, Pain, and the Black Feminist Imagination, traces how twentieth- and twenty-first-century black women’s literature and performance generate ways of feeling, inhabiting, and embodying ...
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Jung, Junha
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
The interwar period was a time when the American community and the meaning of its membership were dismantled, contested, and demanded to be redefined through a series of events, such as the Great Depression, the Great ...
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Ecklund, Ashley
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
DISSERTATION ABSTRACTAshley Ecklund
Doctor of Philosophy in English
The Texture of Affect: Catastrophic Violence and the Matter of Knowing in Late Twentieth Century U.S. Literature
This project addresses affectivity as ...
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Guzman, John
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This dissertation explores the commodification of drag by exploring the reality competition series RuPaul’s Drag Race. Using Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice, the show draws its data from the first fourteen seasons of the ...
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Thompson, Jalen
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Framing my discussion in the 1990s and early 2000s, my dissertation—“A Counterhistory of the Ratchet”—explores what I term “the ratchet aesthetic” as both an aesthetic language that rejects the politics of respectability ...
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Tao, Sabrina Y.
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This dissertation investigates how socialist Chinese audiovisual productions (especially cinema) that incorporate folklore, regional, and traditional Chinese cultural elements after socialist reform were exported internationally ...
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Nadarajah, Madhura
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
My dissertation, Silence, Intimacy, and the Other: Rhetorical Storytelling in Asian and Asian/American Feminist Writings investigates how Asian and Asian/American women have used storytelling as a form of discursive ...
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Ford, Sophia
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
The political right is most often associated with defending statues and monuments honoring colonizers, confederates, and enslavers. An example is the 2017 'Unite the Right Rally' in Charlottesville, Virginia, where activists ...
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Luna-Arvizu, Gabriel
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Cells sense their environment by detecting and responding to mechanical forces and chemical signals across their surface. Fluid flows, which can impart force and distribute chemicals, are critical for organ development, ...
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Abuhmaid, Hadil
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Since the production of the first Palestinian film in the 1930s, cinema in Palestine has unfolded into four different periods, each shaped by the political climate of its era: (1) Al-Nakba or “Catastrophe” (1935 - 1948); ...
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Asberry, Craig
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This dissertation explores the origins and content of strategic communication in the House of Representatives. Social science literature has established that congressional communication is mediated by various factors: ...
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