Selected Theses and Dissertations
Ph.D. Dissertations
| DATE | AUTHOR | TITLE |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Blanton, Paul | The distribution and impact of roads and railroads on the river landscapes of the coterminous United States |
| 2009 | Marlon, Jennifer R. | The geography of fire: A paleo-perspective |
| 2009 | Dixon, Megan L. | The Baltic Pearl in the Window to Europe: St. Petersburg's Chinese Quarter |
| 2009 | Hommel, Demian H. | Placing risk and security: news media framing of the 2004 tsunami disaster |
| 2009 | Walsh, Megan K. | Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on the Holocene Fire and Vegetation History of the Willamette Valley, Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington |
| 2008 | Briles, Christy |
Holocene Vegetation and Fire History of the Floristically Diverse Klamath Mountains, Northern California, USA |
| 2008 | Coleman, Amanda K. |
Reform(ulat)ing the Region: Competing Discourses of Region and Regional Change in the Depression-Era U.S. South |
| 2008 | Johnson, Corey |
Spatial Strategies for Addressing Structural Changes: The Case of Eastern Germany |
| 2008 | Tang, Guoping |
An Examination of Vegetation and Modeling-Related Issues and the Variation and Climate Sensitivity of Vegetation and Hydrology in China |
| 2008 | Vogel, Eve |
The Columbia River's Region: Politics, Place and Environment in the Pacific Northwest, 1933-Present |
| 2007 | Laudati, Ann |
The Greening of the Fortress: Reclaiming the Politics of Exclusion in a Green Era |
| 2007 | Songer, Lynn |
Comparative Impacts Of Web-Based GIS On Student Content Knowledge, Geography Skills, And Self-Efficacy In Introductory Human Geography |
| 2006 | Power, Mitchell |
Recent and Holocene Fire, Climate and Vegetation Linkages in the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA |
| 2005 | Kohler, Nicolas |
Protected Areas and Landscape Change in Mainland Southeast Asia |
| 2005 | Knox, Margaret A. |
Territory, Identity and Place: Insights from the Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon |
| 2005 | Shobe, Hunter W. |
Mes Que Un Club: Place, Identity and Futbol Club Barcelona |
| 2005 | Hume, Susan E. | Just Drops in the Ocean: The Contextualized Identities of African University Students in Their Home Countries and in the United States |
| 2004 | Holman, Justin O. | Quantitative Comparison of Categorical Maps with Applications for the Analysis of Global Environmental Data |
| 2004 | Hurley, Patrick T. | Whose Vision? The Political Ecology of Land-Use Planning in Nevada County, California |
| 2004 | Light, Adam F. | Design Patterns for Cartography and Data Graphics |
| 2004 | Leiserowitz, Anthony A. | Global Warming in the American Mind: The Roles of Affect Imagery and World Views in Risk Perception, Policy Preferences and Behavior |
| 2004 | Pavulans, Anna-Minna U. | Identitles in Motion: Citizenship, Mobility and the Politics of Belonging in the Post-Cold War Era |
| 2004 | Serralles, Roberto J. | Landscape, Electricity and Policy: An Integrated Geographic Approach to Renewable Ener |
| 2003 | Shinker, Jacqueline J. | Mechanistic Controls of North American Climate Variability |
| 2003 | Scott, Gwen G. | Situating Fijian Transmigrants: Spatial Legitimacy As Geographic Process and Theoretical Paradigm |
| 2003 | Long, Colin J. | Holocene Fire and Vegetation History of the Oregon Coast Range USA |
| 2003 | Fouty, Suzanne C. | Stream Channel Response to Changes in Cattle and Elk Grazing Pressure and Beaver Activity |
| 2003 | Baldwin, Jeffrey R. | Reconceiving Wealth for Geographic Analysis: Intersections of Environments, Life and Ethics |
| 2002 | Kerr, Robert |
The Territorial Imperative of Xenophobia: Putting the Extreme Right in its Place |
| 2002 | Evered, Kyle | Romancing the Region: Mapping the Discursive: Terrains in Turkish Constructs of a “Turkish Dunyasi” |
| 2002 | Rothenberg-Aalami, Jessica | Coming Full Circle? Nike Production Networks In and Beyond Viet Nam |
| 2002 | Brunelle, Andrea | Holocene Changes in Fire, Climate andVegetation in the Northern Rocky Mountains of Idaho and Western Montana |
| 2001 | Mansfield, Becky | Globalizing Nature: Political and Cultural Economy of a Global Seafood Industry |
| 2001 | Forest, Marguerite | Ecological Sustainability on Haida Gwaii |
| 2000 | Grigg, Laurie | Millennial-scale Vegetation and Climate Variations in the Pacific Northwest During the Last Glacial Period (60,000-16,000 cal. yr. B.P.) |
| 2000 | Shafer, Sarah | Potential Vegetation Response to Future Climate Change in Western North America and its Implications for Biological Conservation and Geographical Conceptualizations of Place |
| 2000 | Kepka, Joanna | Euroregions in the New Europe: The Case of Poland's Western Borderlands |
| 2000 | Bjarneson, Stefan | Lawn and Order: Gated Communities and Social Interaction in Dana Point, California |
| 2000 | Fox, Coleen | Flexible Sovereignty and the Politics of Hydro-Development |
Click here for additional dissertations
M.A. / M.S. Theses
| DATE | AUTHOR | TITLE |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Isaak, Marissa T. | Remembering the Present: Oregon's Afghan-Iraqi Freedom Memorial |
| 2010 | Frederiksen, Lia M. | Bodies, Geography, and Globalization: Social Reproducation in Capte Town, South Africa |
| 2010 | Landers, Matthew W. | Catalonia is a Country: World Heritage and Regional Nationalism |
| 2010 | Miller, Derek W. | Anti-Immigrant Attitudes and Neighborhood Exclusion: A Microscale Analysis of How Moroccan Immigrants Are Perceived in Almería, Spain |
| 2010 | Millett, Matthew E. | The Egocentric Map Perspective in Qualitative Classed Chloropleth Maps |
| 2010 | Ptak, Thomas W. | Tibetan Migration, Cultural Identity and Place in Portland and New York City |
| 2009 | English, John T. | Effectiveness of Extracting Water Surface Slopes From LiDAR Data Within the Active Channel: Sandy River, Oregon, USA |
| 2009 | Jablonski, Jon R. | Cultural Heritage Cyberinfrastructure: A Geographic Case-study of China |
| 2009 | Javdani, Marie S. | Stop the Bleeding, Heal the Wound: The Role of Fertilizer Subsidies in Food Security -- Zomba District, Malawi |
| 2009 | Lind, Pollyanna | Holocene Floodplain Development of the Sycan River, Oregon |
| 2008 | Choi, Y Minie | "Fighting" in the Nation's Capital: Understanding Residential and Occupational Assimilation of Koreans by Generation in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area |
| 2008 | Fischetti, Diana | Resist From Home?: Confronting Consumerism from Ecovillage at Ithaca |
| 2008 | Goworowska, Justyna | Gentrification, Displacement and the Ethnic Neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn |
| 2008 | Martinelli, Earl N. | Dynamic Time Course of Cognitive Map Distortion |
| 2008 | Nurhussein, Safy | Global Networks, Fragmentation, and the Rise of Telecommunications in Stateless Somalia |
| 2008 | Pera, Jennifer L. | Tamagringo: Citizenship and Political Agency in Tamarindo, Costa Rica |
| 2007 | Machell, Erin L. | Whose Development? Agency, Democracy and Efficacy in Nicaraguan NGO Landscapes |
| 2007 | McConnel, Jonothon L. | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Nautical Charts: A Cartographic History |
| 2007 | Mansfield, Ginger S. | Canadians Among Us: Migration to the Twin Cities Urban Area |
| 2007 | Lake, Adam B. | North African Immigrants in Marseille: A Comparison of Settlement Patterns, Activity Spaces, and the Urban Landscape |
| 2007 | Fox, Samuel H.. | Collaborative Structure, Power and Place: A Case Study of Four Western Oregon Watershed Councils |
| 2007 | Crooks, Mary L. | A Geographical Look at Students’ Experiences: Cognitive Maps of the University of Oregon Campus |
| 2006 | Metzger, Kate T. | A Geomorphic Assessment of Reference and Managed Stream Channel Conditions in Two Ecological Regions on the Chattahoochee National Forest, Georgia |
| 2006 | Cram, Shannon C. | Nuclear Legacies: The Changing Cultural Landscape of the Tri-Cities and Hanford |
| 2006 | Steingisser, Alethea Y. | Losing Steam: A Multi-scale Historic Analysis of Human Impacts on Geyser Basins |
| 2006 | Sproles, Eric A. | Integrating Hydraulic and Geomorphic Processes in River Restoration |
| 2006 | Jones, Brittany G. McBurney | Ethnic Communities in Diaspora: Constructing Tibetan Identity in the United States |
| 2005 | Cates, Barbara E. | Behind the Industrial Facade: An Exploration of Urban Revitalization and Migration in Portland, Oregon's Pearl District |
| 2005 | Derrick, Matthew A. | Contested Autonomy: Tatarstan under Putin |
| 2005 | Day, Jonathan W. | Historical Savanna Structure and Succession at Jim's Creek, Willamette National Forest, Oregon |
| 2005 | Hiemstra, Nancy A. | Latino Immigrants, Spaces of Interaction, and the Politics of "Being Illegal" in Leadville, CO |
| 2005 | Lawrence, Megan M. | The Neural Basis of Map Comprehension and Spatial Abilities |
| 2005 | Pak, Maylian J. | Poverty, Race, and Community Organization: Social and Environmental Justice in Eugene, Oregon |
| 2005 | Rubinstein, Vicki B. | Interpretation of Charcoal Accumulation Rates in a Sediment Core From Carp Lake, Washington |
| 2005 | Strandhagen, Erik | Views of the Rivers: Representing Streamflow of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem |
| 2004 | Groshong, Lorin C. | Mapping Riparian Vegetation Change in Yellowstone's Northern Range Using High Spatial Resolution Imagery |
| 2004 | Hommel, Demian H. | People and Politics in a Thai National Park |
| 2004 | Johnson, Corey M. | Hamburg's New Geographies: Strategies of Coping with Structural Change |
| 2004 | Knox, Andrew G. | A Survey of Secondary Geography Curricula in Canada and England |
| 2004 | Marlon, Jennifer | A Meta-Analysis of Charcoal-Based Fire History Records from the Northwestern United States |
| 2004 | Plank, Alexandria R. | Conventional Agriculture and the National Organic Standards: Implications for Local Food Production |
| 2004 | Rubinstein, Vicki | Interpretation of Charcoal Accumulation Rates in a Sediment Core From Carp Lake, Washington |
| 2003 | Juhn, Anika E. | A Critical Review of Categories of race and Pan-ethnicity using Cluster Analysis of Foreign-born Residentail Settlement |
| 2003 | Green, John K. | Influence of Debris Flow Deposits on Small Stream Channel Morphology in the Oregon Coast Range |
| 2003 | Ray, Maureen | A Tale of Two Cities: The Role of Place in Ethnic Acculturation |
Click here for additional theses.
Masters in the Geographic Education Summer Program
| DATE | AUTHOR | SCHOOL |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Anno, Stephen E. | |
| 2010 | Boggs, Eric M. | |
| 2010 | Graves, Richard K. | |
| 2010 | Haapanen, Rebecca C. | |
| 2010 | Lawrence, Damien C. | |
| 2010 | Peterson, Keith | |
| 2010 | Schneider, Jane B. | |
| 2010 | Swope, Deborah | |
| 2009 | Highfield, Christopher M. | |
| 2009 | Scholtz, Michael | |
| 2009 | Shea, Kristin L. | |
| 2009 | Wren, Janelle K. | |
| 2008 | Evaniuck, Jayson | Raleigh-Egypt High School, Memphis, TN |
| 2008 | Gault, Jonthan M. | Thurston Middle School, Springfield |
| 2008 | Shea, Kristi | Teeland Middle School, Matanuska Valley, Alaska |
| 2008 | Wakefield, Julie R. | McQueen High School, Reno, NV |
| 2008 | Webster, Melissa C. | Cascade High School, Everett, WA |
| 2007 | Deutsch-Kirkman, Anne | Centennial Middle School, Portland |
| 2007 | Klarr, Nathan | Agnes Middle School, Springfield |
| 2007 | Ray, Jason | Briggs Middle School, Springfield |
| 2007 | Shilling, Annika | Duniway Middle School, McMinnville |
| 2007 | Thrope, Britt | Russia High School |
| 2007 | Unruh, Nancy | Harrison Elementary School, Cottage Grove |
| 2006 | Hernandez, Kimberly | Centennial Middle School, Eugene |
| 2006 | Holman, Chris | University of Oregon |
| 2006 | Peters, Scott | Astoria Middle School, Astoria |
| 2005 | Clark, Robert B. | Western Oregon University |
| 2004 | Brown, Ray | Cascade Middle School, Eugene |
| 2004 | Mellor, Brant | Churchill Middle School, Eugene |
| 2003 | Boyle, John | Lowell High School, Lowell |
| 2003 | Knox, Andrew | Sitka, Alaska |
| 2003 | Mattiace, James | Springfield |
| 2003 | Wondra, Patrick | Mapleton High School, Mapleton |
| 2002 | Shafer, Eric | Othello Jr. High School, Othello, Washington |
| 2001 | Maeyart, Pam | Lebanon High School |
| 2001 | Geffen, Brooke | Portland Outdoor School |
| 2000 | Simmons, Leslie | Willamette High School, Eugene |
Click here for additional Master's in Geographic Education theses.