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Brand Activism: Working Toward Progressive Representations of Social Movements in Advertising
(University of Oregon, 2018-06)Brands and advertising agencies have always used the cultural energy of social movements to connect to new audiences and promote their products. Academics have written a large body of critique about the intersection of ... -
The Ethics of Developing New Treatments: A Case tudy of the West African Ebola Outbreak and the Use of Randomized Control Trials
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-29)The 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic was the most devastating Ebola outbreak in history which killed over 10,000 people. During the outbreak, the WHO led efforts to design the best method to test the potential treatments quickly. ... -
Challenges to Democratic Inclusion and Contestation of Space: Contemporary Student Activists in Transforming South Africa
(University of Oregon, 2018)Twenty-four years into democracy, in a time marked by stark inequality and rising levels of political disillusionment, student activists are key players in the pursuit of a more just, more equitable, and more democratic ... -
Using Deep Learning for FACT Source Detection
(University of Oregon, 2018-06)Cosmic rays bombard the Earth constantly, causing air showers that contain information about the original particle and potentially about that particle's source. Determining if an air shower is from a gamma-ray or a hadron ... -
Plastic Debris in Deep-Sea Canyon, Estuarine, and Shoreline Sediments
(University of Oregon, 2019-05)Recent calculations estimate there are currently 5.25 trillion plastic particles afloat in the ocean. Many of these are characterized as microplastics <5mm in diameter. Studies from the past decade have shown that no ... -
Sa'di and the Safavid: The Material Culture of a Treasured Persian Manuscript Now at UO
(University of Oregon, 2019)The Burgess MS 43 manuscript of Sai'di's Gulistan and Bustan, now at University of Oregon Special Collections Archive, was created in 1615 CE in Persia. It was later transported to Europe, where the original Persian leather ... -
Portrayals of Power: The Local Identity of Three Cypriot Sarcophagi from the Fifth Century BCE
(University of Oregon, 2018-06)Cyprus’ location just beneath the Anatolian peninsula has made the island a meeting ground of many of the iconic Mediterranean powers of history, including Greece, Egypt, Assyria, and Persia. There has been a great deal ... -
When Worlds Collide: Manichaeism and Christianity in Late Antiquity
(University of Oregon, 2018-06-05)Trade and travel played a tremendous role in connecting Sasanian and Roman empires in late antiquity. Yet this exchange between Persia and Rome was not confined to the movement of peoples and objects; it encompassed the ... -
Reconceptualizing Feminist Utopias: Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time and Margaret Drabble’s The Millstone
(University of Oregon, 2019)Theories of feminist utopia tend to focus on its presence within science/speculative fiction, upholding works like Marge Piercy’s 1976 novel Woman on the Edge of Time as exemplars of the genre. Literary critics typically ... -
The Impacts of Increased Heat and Precipitation on Plant Phenology and Demography in Pacific Northwest Prairies
(University of Oregon, 2019)This study seeks to understand the implications that projected climate change will have on the phenology of seven prairie grass and forb species, such as disruptions in species interactions and native biodiversity loss. ... -
Before the Spectacle: Shaping Gender and Class in Beirut’s Beauty Salons
(University of Oregon, 2019)“Beirut, in the words of one designer, is like a third world city that’s put on some makeup” writes Rima Suqi in the New York Times (2016). Indeed, scholars worldwide have coined Beirut the trendsetting beauty city and ... -
“Bannabees,” Bananas, and Sweet Potatoes: Claude McKay’s Songs of Jamaica and Traditional Jamaican Foodways as a Nationalist Expression
(University of Oregon, 2019)Jamaican poet Claude McKay is largely anthologized for a handful of poems he contributed to the Harlem Renaissance, but his early work authored in Jamaica has long been dismissed for a variety of racist and xenophobic ... -
A Monstrous Philosophy of Emotions
(University of Oregon, 2019)Through an analysis of Søren Kierkegaard’s Diapsalmata from the first volume of Either/Or, a work which exhibits strikingly contemporary ways of thinking, this paper seeks to uncover the complex and paradoxical ways in ... -
Guest Editorial — “Obstacles and Opportunities in Undergraduate Research”
(University of Oregon, 2019)A week and a half ago, I turned in a six-hundred-page manuscript to a press for peer review. It began its journey seventeen years ago as my undergraduate thesis. In fact, it is the second book to grow out of my thesis. Who ... -
Letter from the Editor
(University of Oregon, 2019)Our inspiration to conduct research can come from anywhere. For some, it might be an interesting idea from a lecture, or a unique detail from a research article. For others, it could be an observation of the world around ... -
Cover Art — “Ancestry”
(University of Oregon, 2019)Ancestry is a representation of being torn between wisdom and desire, where her youth screams for her to be hip, urban, and carefree while her inheritance keeps her grounded and resilient. Her vision has been replaced by ... -
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Spitting Bars and Subverting Heteronormativity: An Analysis of Frank Ocean and Tyler, the Creator's Departures from Heteronormativity, Traditional Concepts of Masculinity, and the Gender Binary
(University of Oregon, 2018)This paper seeks to investigate an emerging movement of rap and pop artists who actively subvert structures of the gender binary and heteronormativity through their music. The main artists considered in this research are ...