Admission
A Community of Cultures
Senior Thesis
Each senior writes a sustained research or creative thesis paper; the following are some recent theses that explored multicultural questions.
Elizabeth Diane Raby
Music
Keep Talkin’ Happy Talk: Civil Rights on Broadway in the Late 1940s
William Reed Allmendinger
Political Science
Intersections of Global Capitalism and Indigenity: Problems of International Environmental and
Social Justice
Stephane Cristin Barile
Anthropology
French Islamic Altercommodities: Value and Subjectivity Creation
Graeme Douglas Blair
Political Science
The Myth of Consociationalism? Explaining Social Stability Amidst Racial Fragmentation in South
Africa and the Hegemony of the African National Congress
Alexandra K. Bradspies
Sociology
An Exploration of Individual and Contextual Factors Affecting the Racial Wealth Gap
Andrea Victoria Brambila
Anthropology
Roots and Wings: Reconstructing the Past in Two American Danza Azteca Groups
Israel Cruz
Anthropology
Suspending the Plot of the Real: Narratives of Collective Action in Chicana/o Literature and
History
Elizabeth Nicole Ebright
Anthropology
Zombis and The Contours of Material, Bodily, and Spiritual Possesion in Haiti
Leah Edith Dundes Faw
Political Science
Being Salt and Light: Conservative Christian Politics at the Grassroots
Emilie Hayward-Allen
Anthropology
The Demolition of Zhejiangcun: A State Spectacle of Destruction in a Beijing Migrant Enclave
Antonia Marie Keithahn
History
Tradition, Terrorism, and the Struggle for Political Privilege: The Union of the Russian People
and the Russian Orthodox Church
Lauren Elizabeth Lanahan
Sociology
Overcoming Racial Inequalities: Recent Integrating Trends in the United States
Joshua Sol Lewis
Anthropology
Aqui en La Esquina: An Ethnography of Latino Day Laborers in Portland
Brenna Colleen McDonald
Anthropology
Gathering Tradition: Land Use and Culture Change on the Columbia Plateau
Aleck C. Ross-Frye
Political Science
Civil Rights and the Family: Examining the Debate over Same-Sex Marriages
Emma Lillian Rowe
Anthropology
The Emergence of Equador’s Comunidad Gay: Constructing Ecuadorian Authenticity and
Identity in Nationalist and Transitional Processes
Clio Reese Sady
Sociology
Trash Talking in Queer Activism
Robin Valli Woods
Economics
Self Governance and Tribe Economic Development: A Case Study of the Northern Cheyenne and Crow
Tribes
Sophie Elizabeth Bennett
Spanish
Memorias del subdesarrollo and the Function of Art in the Cuban Revolution
Lindsay Rose Helms
English
Maintaining a Terrifying Reality: Dialogue, Language, and Ethics in the Book of Job
AdriAnne May Huff
English
The Flow of Absence: Asian Influence from Ezra Pound to Gary Snyder
Hannah Catherine Mathewson
Spanish
Race and Identity in the Poetry of Luis Palés Matos
Lurline Lauren Sweet
English
Jewish-American Absurdist Tragicomedy: Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift and Woody
Allen’s Annie Hall
Samuel Benjamin Kigar
Religion
Islam on the Inside: An Ethnographic Case Study of Muslims in an Oregon Prison
Miranda Noel Meadow
Religion
Rewriting Religion: W. D. Muhammad’s Construction of an African-American Muslim Identity
Lauren Rose Scheiner
Psychology
Lexical Access in Spanish-English Bilinguals During Auditory Comprehension
Penelope Rose Stanton
Psychology
One for One and All for All?: The Effect of Group Identity and Communication on Self-Interested
Behavior and Trust in Social Dilemmas
Robert Owen Daly
Linguistics
Language Revitalization and its Sociocultural Context: Chinook Jargon
Miriam Nehama Rosenberg
International and Comparative Policy Studies
Speaking of Birth: The Intersection of International Development and Childbirth in Chiapas, Mexico
Alexander Mark Wallace
Linguistics
The Linguistic Construction of Events and the Production of Knowledge: Reported Speech and Translation
in French Newspaper Reports
