• Structural Organization in Benjamin Britten's Three Suites for Solo Cello 

  Brunhaver, Kathryn (University of Oregon, 2017-08)

  Benjamin Britten's instrumental music has received relatively little attention in the music theory community compared to is operas and vocal music. This lecture document examines three of his instrumental works: the Suite ...

• Structural Models in Debussy's Late Works 

  Loken, Ulysses (University of Oregon, 2017-08)

  In Claude Debussy’s late works one sometimes encounters passages with unclear and seemingly fragmented structures. Performers often make interpretive decisions based on musical structure, and understanding these problematic ...

• What to Listen for in Copland: An Interpretive Analysis of His 1941 Piano Sonata 

  Stevens, Mark (University of Oregon, 2017-07)

• Selected Solo and Chamber Works for Clarinet by Germaine Tailleferre: Historical, Compositional and Pedagogical Perspectives 

  White, Colleen (University of Oregon, 2017-09)

  A successful and prolific composer throughout the twentieth century, Germaine Tailleferre remains relatively unknown despite her membership in Les Six and collaborations and friendships with some of the most well-known ...

• The Distribution of Two Marine Cladocerans During Upwelling and Relaxation Events Off the Oregon Coast 

  Thomas, Kate (2010-11)

  Offshore surface currents that appear during upwelling events have the potential to carry nearshore coastal zooplankton offshore. I tested the hypothesis that the marine cladocerans Podon leuckarti and Evadne nordmanni are ...

• The subtidal Bryozoan fauna off Cape Arago, Oregon 

  Cottrell, Dylan (2013-05)

  The subtidal marine biodiversity off the Oregon coast is poorly studied and not well understood. The few subtidal studies in Oregon have focused on vertebrates with little regard to invertebrate assemblages. Oregon’s ...

• Reconstructing the Mothership: Meaning and History in the Music of P-Funk 

  Whitman, Kevin (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  During the 1970s, the Parliament-Funkadelic collective, or P-Funk, performed a unique type of funk music that impacted the lives and culture of generations of fans. Their music has been a vital force in the developments ...

• Russia's Hybrid Warfare: The Prowess and Limitations of Putin's (In)Visible Hand in Estonia and Latvia 

  Casselman, Rachel (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  Russia’s recent increase in acts of aggression against bordering nations is concerning. After Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, many wondered if the world should anticipate a Baltic intervention. This ...

• Stylish Politics: Long Takes in Post-1945 Cinema 

  Cheney, Zachary (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  This dissertation is a politically conscious, comparative-historical formal analysis of long takes at the intersection of art and mass-market cinemas in the post-WWII era. Given the contemporary fascination with long takes ...

• Investigating Dopamine- and Norepinephrine-Linked Variability in Cognitive Control in Lab and in Life 

  Calcott, Rebecca (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  A series of experiments investigated the relationship between locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) function and striatal dopamine (DA) tone and the flexibility of stability of cognitive control. Across 4 experiments, ...

• Faithful tropicalization of hypertoric varieties 

  Kutler, Max (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  The hypertoric variety M_A defined by an arrangement A of affine hyperplanes admits a natural tropicalization, induced by its embedding in a Lawrence toric variety. In this thesis, we explicitly describe the polyhedral ...

• A Better Tomorrow: Examination of International Students’ Success in Higher Education 

  Shen, Yue (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  International student enrollment in U.S. higher education has increased and diversified over the past decade. The unique needs and challenges international students face in pursuing higher education in the U.S. need a ...

• Synaptic Target Selection in the Drosophila Visual System 

  Casper, Sarah (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  Synapses are necessary for a functional nervous system. To form a synapse, a neuron must first extend an axon, then select its proper synaptic target, and finally, a series of adhesion and adaptor molecules must work ...

• INTERLIMINAL TONGUES: SELF-TRANSLATION IN CONTEMPORARY TRANSATLANTIC BILINGUAL POETRY 

  Rigby, Michael (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  In this dissertation, I argue that self-translators embody a borderline sense of hybridity, both linguistically and culturally, and that the act of translation, along with its innate in-betweenness, is the context in which ...

• Folk Networks, Cyberfeminism, and Information Activism in the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Series 

  Wyer, Sarah (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  This thesis explores how the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon event impacts the people who coordinate and participate in it. I review museum catalogs to determine institutional representation of women artists, and then ...

• Weighing in on Wonder Woman: Analyzing Gardner Fox's Writing for Potential Sexism 

  DeRoss, Jennifer (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  Wonder Woman is seen as the embodiment of feminism in the comic world and her placement as the secretary of the Justice Society of America is seen as a crime against her character. Many blame Gardner Fox for this decision, ...

• HOW SOCIAL DOMINANCE THEORY MIGHT CONTRIBUTE TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE LIBERIAN CIVIL WAR (1989-2003) 

  Weah Weah, III, Sunnyboy (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  Even though scholars and researchers have suggested that the Liberian civil war arose as a result of socioeconomic and political inequalities, oppression, discrimination, and marginalization of a certain group of people, ...

• Aspirational Migration: The Case of Chinese Birth Tourism in the U.S. 

  Folse, Brandon (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  The ways in which individuals navigate the globe today complicates previous conceptualizations of migration and mobility. Once such mode of contemporary movement which challenges scholars is known as "birth tourism." This ...

• Images of Protest: The Barrier Wall Art of Ron English and Other Artists 

  Moorman, Michael (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  This thesis looks at illegal public art produced on state built barrier walls. The focus is on the artist Ron English, and his artworks produced on the Berlin Wall, Israeli Barrier Wall, and Mexican Border Fence. I examine ...

• Concerto Grosso No. 1 

  Quiroga, Martin (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  This concerto is the composer’s conversation with the past. In four movements, each one embodies a traditional musical form. The work is a continually transforming kaleidoscope of relentless virtuosity, fanciful flights ...

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