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Ph.D. Dissertations | Master's Theses |
Masters in Geographic Education


Selected thesis and dissertation titles include the following:

Ph.D. Dissertations

Date

Author

Title

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

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 Kohler, Nicholas P. Protected Areas and Landscape Change in Mainland Southeast Asia
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

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Master's Theses

Date

Author

Title

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 Case Study of Latino Settlement in Independence and Woodburn, Oregon
2003 Corbett, Tara H. Breaking Environmental Gridlock? Stakeholder Involvement in Water Quality Management
2003 Bandow, Jeffrey R. Holocene Alluvial History of the Middle Fork John Day River, Oregon
2003 Briles, Christy E. Postglacial Vegetation and Fire History Near Bolan Lake in the Northern Siskiyou Mountains of Oregon
2003 Dalldorf, Graham K. Influences of Wind Direction, Topography and Paleolake History on the Formation of Aeolian Deposits in the Connley Hills, Fort Rock Basin, Lake County, Oregon

2002

Aigner, Erin

Rethinking Mapping Methodologies in Population and Ethnic Geography

2001

Fallen-Bailey, Anthea

Linguistic "Islands": Geographic Parameters of Language Revival and Maintenance

2001

Kulakowski, Michael,

The Nature of GIS Managerial Work in Local Government Organizations

2001

Cooper, Michael

Evaluating the Quality of Internet-Based Geographic Visualization Applications

2001

Press, Sara      

Reading Wigtown: Place Identities in a Scottish Book Town

2001

Killoran, Peter

Controls of Surface Temperature and Precipitation Patterns Associated with the Asian Summer Monsoon

2000

Shobe, Hunter

Territorial Identity, Ethnic Identity, and Sport: The Case of Catalonia and FC Barcelona

2000 Berkley, Evelyn

Temporal and Spatial Variability of Fire Occurrence in Western Oregon, A.D. 1200 to Present

2000

Scott, Gwen

The Rewa Potters: A Story of Place Construction And Identity Formation in Rural Fiji

2000

Knox, Margaret

Ecological Change in the Willamette Valley at the Time of Euro-American Contact ca. 1800-1850

2000

Taylor, Cynthia

Evaluation of Stream Habitat Enhancement Projects in the Umatilla National Forest, NE Oregon and SE Washington

2000

Pierce, Jennifer

The Effects of Dredge Mining on Channel Adjustment: Granite Creek, Eastern Oregon

 

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Masters in the Geographic Education Summer Program

 

 

Date

Name

School

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

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