• Daughters of Hereditary Societies: The Role of the Amateur in Professional Historic Preservation 

  Vanier, Jolie (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  Hereditary societies are membership organizations dedicated to the preservation of the memory of particular people or events. This research explored the contribution of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), as ...
• Two Searches for Signals of Dark Matter with the ATLAS Detector in 139 ifb of LHC $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV Proton-Proton Collision Data 

  Gledhill, Galen (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  This dissertation presents two searches for signals of dark matter in an integrated luminosity of 139 ifb of proton-proton collision data collected at a center of mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector ...
• Machine Learning in Large and Small Earthquakes: from Rapid Large Earthquake Characterization to Slow Fault Zone Processes 

  Lin, Jiun-Ting (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  This dissertation summarizes the work of integrating machine-learning and traditional seismic analysis techniques into large and small earthquake problems. Earthquake early warning for large magnitude earthquakes is one ...
• Sense Perception and the Early Modern Social World 

  Johnson, Abigail (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  In this dissertation, I analyze representations of the intersections between sense perception and sociality in early modern English literature. Literary texts from the late sixteenth through mid-seventeenth centuries ...
• The Farce of Fascism: A Tragedy of Othering and Power in Three Acts 

  Bailey, Natalia (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  In his essay Urfascism, Umberto Eco outlines the various ideological traits that he perceives to be the basic “familial resemblances” of fascism – one of these traits being “the natural fear of difference”. In acknowledgement ...
• Using Extant Data to Examine the Lived Experience of Special Education Teachers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Coping, Resilience, and Changes to Level of Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, and Personal Accomplishment to Determine Teacher Burnout Occurrence Level 

  Whitehat, Paulina (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  DISSERTATION ABSTRACT Paulina Whitehat Doctor of Philosophy Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences December 2022 Title: Examining the Lived Experiences of Special Education Teachers During the COVID-19 ...
• Off-time Illness: When Young Adults get Illnesses Associated with Old Age 

  Norton-Smith, Kathryn (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  This dissertation explores the lived experiences of young adults with cancer through qualitative methods, including 40 in-depth interviews and participant observation. This dissertation extends sociological inquiry to an ...
• General Purpose Flow Visualization at the Exascale 

  Yenpure, Abhishek (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  Exascale computing, i.e., supercomputers that can perform 1018 math operations per second, provide significant opportunity for improving the computational sciences. That said, these machines can be difficult to use ...
• At the Limits of Rhetorical Thought: Listening, Wonder, and the Problem of Silence 

  Manuel, June (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  What does it mean to study silence in a field that has historically been the study of speech and language in action? The discipline of rhetoric and composition relies on a foundational equivocation of speech with being and ...
• Jefferson County, Oregon: A Historical Case Study of Conflict, Community, and a Peculiar Confluence of Watersheds 

  Anderson, Ian (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  Jefferson County, between 2011 and 2016, is an excellent case study of emergent water resource and environmental conflict. Three major waterways – the Middle Deschutes, Crooked, and Metolius Rivers – are examined through ...
• Networks of Experience: Interactive Digital Art in the 21st Century 

  Lawhead, Emily (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  Networks of Experience: Interactive Digital Art in the 21st Century considers interactivity in digital art practices. Emerging technologies advance so quickly that artworks using such technologies are not fully understood. ...
• Ancient soils of Earth and Mars 

  Broz, Adrian (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  Three to four billion years ago the surface of Mars may have been habitable. Ancient martian rocks that were subject to aqueous alteration in near-surface environments may store a record of this habitable paleoclimate, and ...
• Early Social-Emotional Development and the Utility of a Social-Emotional Screening Tool for Toddlers in Taiwan 

  Lin, Fang Yu (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  In Taiwan, the high prevalence of emotional and behavioral problems in children has increased public awareness of young children’s social-emotional development in recent years. Early identification of social-emotional ...
• Cultural Landscape Documentation and Repeat Photography: Linking Framework and Practice 

  Kerr, Noah (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  Cultural landscape professionals commonly use an established, framework-based approach to assess distinctive site features. This framework serves to organize and inform the study, reconnaissance, and documentation of ...
• From Son To Father 

  Plada Guerra, Washington (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  This programmatic work for chamber orchestra features musical motifs based onthree characters: myself, my father, and my son. Musical transitions evoke these characters transitioning along the cyclical paths of life and ...
• Chromatin Regulation: How Nucleosomes Find their Positions and the Role of Chromatin Binding Proteins in Cellular Quiescence 

  Bailey, Thomas (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  Chromatin is made up of an organism’s DNA and DNA binding proteins inside of the nucleus. Nucleosomes are the fundamental unit of chromatin, consisting of a 147 base pair DNA sequence and a protein octamer comprised of 8 ...
• From the Subglacial Environment to the Coastal Ocean: Exploring Feedbacks Between Glacial Meltwater and Tidewater Glacier Dynamics. 

  Hager, Alexander (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  Mass loss from the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets has accelerated in recent decades and is predicted to contribute < 40 cm of mean sea level rise in the 21st Century. However, there is significant uncertainty in ...
• Promoting Culture as a Protective Factor among AI/AN Youth in Klamath County 

  Barney, Nicole (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  Youth suicide continues to be a growing public health tragedy in the United States. In particular, AI/AN youth are at disproportionate risk for suicide. The present study takes place in Klamath County, Oregon where the ...
• Case and Gender Loss in Germanic, Romance, and Balkan Sprachbund Languages 

  Alhazmi, Mofareh (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  My dissertation investigates the loss of morphological case and grammatical gender in the Germanic, Romance, and Balkan Sprachbund languages. Crucial language-internal and language-external motivations are considered. To ...
• A Double-Edged Sword: Feminist Reclamation in Neomedieval Fantasy 

  Garner, Alexandra (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  Heroic fantasy produced by Anglophone creators overwhelmingly and often explicitly draws on western mythopoetic literary traditions. Just as products of the Renaissance and the Victorians before them, late 20th and 21st ...

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