CoDaC, with support from the Graduate School and the Center for the Study of Women in Society, hosts an annual cross-disciplinary Graduate Student Conference every year in early spring. Recipients of the year’s Summer Research Awards present results from their projects at the conference. Listed below are winners from previous years. The award recipients came from 25 departments and programs from across the campus.
2010-2011
Climate Change, Adaptation, and Traditional Culture in Salluit, QC
Alexander Ginsburg, Department of Geography
Planning Public Policy and Management
Proudfoot/Swenson Award
After the Uprising: Render Roles Among Oaxacan Teachers Post-2006 Uprising
Anna Cruz, Department of Anthropology
CoDaC/CSWS Award
Creating, Retaining and Transgressing Boundaries: Transnational Feminist Futures
Amrita Banerjee, Department of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies
CoDaC/CSWS Award
Más que Español: Historicizing the Contemporary Debate over Bilingual Education in the United States
Kathryn Miller, Department of Political Science
CoDaC Award
Southern Gentlemen? Transmen and Masculinity in the U.S. South
Miriam Abelson, Department of Sociology
CoDaC Award
Hinduism’s Alternate Route: Guyanese Hinduism in New York City
Rupa Pillai, Department of Anthropology
CoDaC Award
Responsiveness as Service and Care: Learnings from the SARVAM Project, Pondicherry, India
Divya Bheda, Department of Education Studies
CoDaC Award
Harnessing multiple movements: The political economy of fair trade in subsistence/resistance communities in Chiapas, Mexico
Lindsay Naylor, Department of Geography
CoDaC Award
2009-2010
Early Ceramic Technology from Coastal Guerrero: Reconsidering Pox Potter
Josue A. Gomez Garcia, Department of Anthropology
Advisor: Doug Kennett
Womens’ Voices in Assessing the Impact of a Microcredit Program: A Case Study of an Indian NGO
Aditi Sinha, Department of International Studies
Advisor: Anita Weiss
Muslim Immigrants in Andalucia: The Confluence of Cultures, Ethnicities, and Identities
Derek Miller, Department of Geography
Advisor: Susan Hardwick
Designing Urban Plazas to Strengthen Cultural Identity in Ethnic Neighborhoods
Fai Chong, Department of Architecture
Advisor: Suenn Ho
Retaining Tibetan Culture and Identity in a Geopolitical Landscape
Tom Ptak, Department of Geography
Advisor: Susan Hardwick
Entrepreneurship and Microfinance: A Tool for Economic Development and Empowerment of Women in Kyrgyzstan
Aida Jolosheve, Department of International Studies
Advisor: Anita Weiss
Bodies, Geography and Globalization: Social Reproduction and Urban Geography in Post-apartheid Cape Town, South Africa
Lia Frederiksen, Department of International Studies
Advisor: Dennis Galvan
The Nature of Things: The Social Context of Discipline Related to Sexual and Gendered Harassment and the Social Production of Heteronormativity in Middle School
Julia Heffernan, College of Education
Advisor: Jerry Rosiek
Narrative History of Vanport
Jeremy Ohmes, School of Journalism and Communication
Advisor: Lauren Kessier/ Peggy Pascoe
2008-2009
Networking across Difference: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO)
Maurice Magana, Department of Anthropology
Advisor: Lynn Stephen
Holistic Approaches to Knowledge: Indigenous Epistemologies and Archaeological Discourse
Diane Teeman, Department of Anthropology and Philosophy
Advisor: Madonna Moss
Kari’nja Documentation and Revitalization: Wajambo Region Workshops
Racquel Yamada, Department of Linguistics
Advisor: Spike Gildea
The Poetics of Environmental Justice
Janet Fisko, Department of Environmental Studies and English
Advisor: Louise Westling
Losing Everything for the Third Time: The effects of intergenerational trauma on Vietnamese women during Hurricane Katrina
Gennie Thi Nguyen, Department of Anthropology
Advisor: Lamia Karim
Which Box Do I Check? Naturalization of U.S. Racial Cosmology in School Data Collection Procedures
Martha Martinez, Department of Teacher Education
Advisor: Jerry Rosiek
Providing Support Services to Latino/a College Students: Application of an Ecological Model
Alison Cerezo, Department of Counseling Psychology
Advisor: Benedict McWhirter
Everyday Spaces and Social Change: Urban farms in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Leslie McLees, Department of Geography
Advisor: Shaul Cohen
Cultivating Food Security: Improving Low-Income Latino Community Members’ Access to Healthy Foods Through Community Gardening in Springfield, Oregon
Alison Abbors, Department of Environmental Studies
Advisor: Galen Martin
2007-2008
The One-Drop Rule and Multiracialism in Jim Crow Era Black Communities
Amanda Coleman, Geography, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Alec Murphy
Sentencing Reforms: The Effect of Racial and Gender Disparities in Imprisonment Rates over Time
Mark Harmon, Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Bob O’Brien
Latin American Survivors of Political Violence Living in the US Pacific Northwest
Tami Hill, Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Lynn Stephen
Developing a Pedagogical Grammar of Yakama Sahaptin
Joana Jansen, Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Janne Underriner
The Social Interactional Model, Racism, Social Skill, and School Environment in Predicting Sexual Risk Behavior among African American 8th Graders
Erica Marchand, Ph.D. Candidate, Counseling Psychology, College of Education
Advisor: Ellen McWhirter
John Wayne, Transnational Stardom and Global Hollywood in the 1950s
Russell Meeuf, English, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Kathleen Karlyn
Depression & Suicide in Asian American College Students: “Model Minority” or High Risk Group?
Jessica Murakami, Psychology; M.F.A. Student, Creative Writing, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisors: Anne Simmons and Dorianne Laux
Forests & Women’s Lives: Locating Rural Women’s Power in the Context of Natural Resource Access in Mozambique
Ingrid Nelson, Geography, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Lise Nelson
The Needs of Youth with Disabilities from Latina/o Backgrounds Served by Oregon’s Youth Transition Program
Tiana Povenmire-Kirk, Special Education, College of Education
Advisor: Mike Bullis
Perceived Institutional Justice among Undergraduate Students
Anne-Christin Trost, Educational Leadership, College of Education
Advisor: Diane Dunlap
Sovereignty, Citizenship & Filipino Americans 1900-1952
Veta Schlimgen, History, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Peggy Pascoe
2006-2007
Social Stigma and Subjective Power in Naturalistic Social Interaction
Jonathan Cook, Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Holly Arrow
The Politics of Integration: The Seattle Public Schools and the Seattle Plan
Jennifer Hehnke, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Joe Lowndes
Endangering Organ Pipe?: Immigration and the Environment in the Arizona Borderland
Sarah Jaquette, Environmental Science, Studies, and Policy; English, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Louise Westling
From Helicopter to Collaborator: Tribal Participatory Research in Southeast Alaska
Karin Lutter, Ph.D. Candidate, Counseling Psychology, College of Education
Advisor: Tom Ball
NGO Development Landscapes in Contemporary Nicaragua
Erin Machell, Geography, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Lise Nelson
Canadians among Us: Brain-Drain Immigration, Whiteness, and Identity in the Twin Cities Urban Area
Ginger Mansfield, Geography, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Susan Hardwick
‘Tamagringo’: Amenity Migration and Community Change in Tamarindo, Costa Rica
Lee Pera, Geography, College of Arts and Sciences; Planning and Public Policy Management; School of Architecture and Allied Arts
Advisor: Lise Nelson
Falling Out of the Closet: Kevin Smith’s Clerks
Carter Soles, English, College of Arts and Sciences
Cognitive Science and the Myth of the Standard Body: Some Epistemological and Ethical Considerations
Robin L. Zebrowski, Philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Mark Johnson
2005-2006
St. Petersburg’s Chinese Quarter as Calibration between East and West
Megan Dixon, Geography, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Alec Murphy
Refugees, the State, and Resistance: Bosnians and Southern Sudanese in the Midwest
Jennifer Erickson, Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Carol Silverman
Toward an Intersectional Analysis of the State: The Production of Filipina Migrants in the United States
Sandra Ezquerra, Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Lynn Fujiwara
Traumatic Disclosure within a Cultural Framework
Melissa Ming Foynes, Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Jennifer Freyd
Barriers to Prenatal Care Access in Oregon: An Analysis of PRAMS Data
Terri Gureno, Public Administration, School of Architecture and Allied Arts
Advisor: Jessica Greene
Ethnic Communities in Diaspora: Constructing Tibetan Identity in the United States
Brittany Jones, Geography, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Susan Hardwick
The Romance of Affirmative Action: How Immigration Debate Affects the Dynamics of Affirmative Action
Kennedy Luvai, School of Law
Advisor: Keith Aoki
Choosing Sides: Mixed Race Identity and the College Context
James Lyda, Counseling Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
Advsisor: Benedict McWhirter
The Politics of the Marked Body: An Examination of Female Genital Cutting & Breast Implantation
Courtney Smith, Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Leonard Feldman
2004-2005
Unsettling the Hegemony of Immigrant Settlers: Transnationalism, Provincialism and Native Hawai’ian Sovereignty
Celia Tagamolila Bardwell-Jones, Philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Scott Pratt
The Conflict over Land Reform in Rural Brazil: The Movimiento Sem Terra (MST) as a Latin American Alternative to Neoliberalism
Nicholas Coronel-Viteri, International Studies; Community Regional Planning, Architecture and Allied Arts
Advisor: Michael Hibbard
Racial Passings and Utopian Be/Longings: Race, Citizenship, and National Identity in George Schuyler’s “Black No More” and Eric Liu’s “The Accidental Asian”
Hee-Jung Serenity Joo, Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: David Li
Latino/a Immigrants in Small Town USA: Race, Place and Community Transformation
Nancy Hiemstra, Geography, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Susan Hardwick
Acculturation and Mood amongst International Students
Asako Kanazawa, Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Gordon Nagayama Hall
Path Analysis of Psychosocial Adjustment amongst Southeast Asian Immigrant Youth
May Lim Counseling Psychology, College of Education
Advisor: Beth Stormshak
Poverty, Race and Community Organization: Social and Environmental Justice in Eugene
Maylian Pak, Geography, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Lise Nelson
“We Don’t Have Racial Problems:” Racism, Whiteness, and Racialized Femininity in Argentina
Barbara Sutton, Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Sandra Morgen
A Memory beyond Authenticity: Alutiiq Cultural Display in Fort Ross
Thomas Swensen, English, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Brian Klopotek
Cultural Synthesis through the Media: A Case Study of Kenyan Hip-Hop
Ayisha Yahya, M.A. Candidate, International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Stephen Wooten
2003-2004
Beyond Abu: the Myths and Realities of the Arab American Demographic
Kera Abraham, Magazine Professional Sequence, School of Journalism and Communication
Advisor: Carol Ann Bassett
Purity and Whiteness
Dana Berthold, Philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: John Lysaker
Living la Vida Loca: How Life Experiences Impact Young Mexican Women’s Decisions to Drop Out, Graduate and Pursue Higher Education
Holly Eckles, Educational Leadership, College of Education
Advisor: David Conley
Who is Hoochie Coochie Man?: Succession of the Tradition of Black Badman Tales in Willie Dixon’s Songs for Muddy Waters
Mitsutoshi Inaba, School of Music
Advisor: Carl Woideck
Self-Perception of Asian American Women: A Sociocultural Perspective
Allison Lau and Sharilyn Lum, Counseling Psychology, College of Education
Advisor: Ellen Hawley McWhirter
Ambassador of Goodwill, Advocate for Justice: Journalist Beatrice Morrow Cannady’s Campaign for Race Relations in Oregon
Kimberley Mangun, School of Journalism and Communication
Advisor: Leslie Steeves
Telefónica Española: The Digital Neo-Colonization of Cuzco
Gabriela Martinez, Communication and Society, School of Journalism and Communication
Advisor: Janet Wasko
Steps Towards Improving Reading Outcomes For Spanish-Speaking Students: Fluidez en la Identificación de Aliteración as a Dynamic Indicator of Spanish Phonological Awareness
Jean Louise Mercier, School Psychology, College of Education
Advisor: Roland Good
Delocalized Knowledges: Medicalization of Problem Gambling in an American Indian Community
Daniela Penicková, Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Carol Silverman
An Examination of Eating Behaviors, Body Image, and Sexual Orientation
Carolyn Swearingen and Maya O’Neil, Counseling Psychology, College of Education
Advisor: Linda Forrest
2002-2003
Becoming a Racial Minority: Mexican Immigrants’ Understandings of Race
Maria Eugenia de la Torre, Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Jocelyn Hollander
Southeast Alaska Fishing Narratives Among Tlingits, Euro-Americans and Others: Discursive Representations of Salmon as a Framework for Dominant and Marginalized Values and Meanings
Kathryn Fulton, Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Carol Silverman
Bienvenidos a Mi Pueblito Afro-Antillano: The Construction of Racial and National Identities in Panama’s Tourism Industry
Carla Guerrón-Montero, Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Philip Young
European American and African American Adolescents: Ethnic Identity as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Family Management and Deviant Peer Affiliation
George Hanawahine, Counseling Psychology, College of Education
Advisor: Benedict McWhirter
Striking Against the Empire: An Analysis of the True Indigeous Roots of Chicanos
Zelda López Haro, International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Rob Proudfoot
An Investigation of Service Provider Multicultural Competence and Facility Multiculturalism in Children’s Residential Treatment Facilities
Rebecca Hart, Counseling Psychology, College of Education
Advisor: Benedict McWhirter
Networks of Support Among African Refugees in Portland, Oregon
Susan Hume, Geography, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Susan Hardwick
Beyond the Border: Citizenship, Color and Collective Action in Proposition 187
Robin Jacobson, Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Julie Novkov
Mental Health Attitudes and Coping Practices of Asian American College Students
Jenie Ching-Hua Liang, Counseling Psychology, College of Education
Advisor: Ellen Hawley McWhirter
Brothers and Sisters (and Everyone in Between): Class and Sexuality in the Pacific Northwest, 1970-1995
Christa Orth, History, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Matt García
Negotiating Identity, Claiming Tradition: Women’s Activism in New Social Movements – A Case Study of Sarvodaya Srilanka and Association for India’s Development (AID)
Kumarini Silva, School of Journalism and Communication
Advisor: Leslie Steeves
Examining the On-Line Social Construction of ‘Race’: Insights from a Small Groups Context
Chuck Tate, Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
Advisor: Bertram Malle