• W.R.B. Willcox: The Architect as Social Critic 

  Smith, Nancy Kimball Morris (University of Oregon, 1971-08)

  The American architect at the turn of the century faced the prodigious task of reconciling his traditional role as the servant of privilege with the exigencies of technological revolution, burgeoning cities, and a rapidly ...
• A Survey of Community Recreation in Gresham, Oregon 

  Adams, Frederick C. (University of Oregon, 1952-06)

  Leisure time for most people has increased tremendously in recent years. The whole economy of our life today has meant fewer hours at work and more leisure for all who toil. What is being done with this leisure time? We ...
• Integrating Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills and Parenting for Emotionally Dysregulated Parents: Intervention Development 

  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 ...
• The Art of Baking: How QAnon Folk Media Turned Crumbs into a Mass Conspiracy Culture 

  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 ...
• Making and Unmaking Worlds: Towards Liberation Beyond Subjectivity 

  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 ...
• Inequality in Shared Micromobility: Global, National, and Local Perspectives 

  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 ...
• Vulnerability in the Avalanche Capital: The Human Dimensions of Avalanche and Landslide Hazard in Juneau, Alaska 

  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 ...
• TRANSGRESSING THE STAGE: FEMALE XIQU PERFORMERS AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 

  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 ...
• Primordial Narratives: The Jomon Period in Postwar Japanese Literature and Thought 

  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 ...
• Eudaimonic Entertainment in Board Games: Serious Interactions in Playful Simulations 

  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 ...
• (De)Constructing Hazard: The Making of Meaning and Value in Oregon’s Firescapes 

  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 ...
• Obscure Pleasures: Ritual, Pain, and the Black Feminist Imagination 

  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 ...
• Multiethnic Intellectual Traditions and Reinvention of America in Early Twentieth-Century Ethnic American Literature 

  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 ...
• The Texture of Affect: Catastrophic Violence and the Matter of Knowing in Late Twentieth Century U.S. Literature 

  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 ...
• The Ru-volution will be Televised: Unveiling the Commercialization of Drag in RuPaul's Drag Race through Bourdieu's Theory of Practice 

  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 ...
• A Counterhistory of the Ratchet: Black Aesthetics in the New Millennium 

  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 ...
• Exhibiting Socialist Chineseness Abroad: PRC’s Audio-visual Propaganda in Cold War Hong Kong and Beyond, 1950s-1970s 

  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 ...
• Silence, Intimacy, and the Other: Rhetorical Storytelling in Asian and Asian/American Feminist Writings 

  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 ...
• Memory, Whiteness, and Right-Wing Opposition to National Heritage Areas 

  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 ...
• Left-Right Patterning: Biophysical and Chemical Signaling Pathways that Contribute to Left-Right Axis Establishment 

  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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