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.

2009-2010

Early Ceramic Technology from Coastal Guerrero: Reconsidering Pox Potter CoDaC Award

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 CoDaC Award

Aditi Sinha, Department of International Studies

[Advisor: Anita Weiss]

Muslim Immigrants in Andalucia: The Confluence of Cultures, Ethnicities, and Identities CoDaC Award

Derek Miller, Department of Geography

[Advisor: Susan Hardwick]

Designing Urban Plazas to Strengthen Cultural Identity in Ethnic Neighborhoods CoDaC Award

Fai Chong, Department of Architecture 

[Advisor: Suenn Ho]

Retaining Tibetan Culture and Identity in a Geopolitical Landscape CoDaC Award

Tom Ptak, Department of Geography

[Advisor: Susan Hardwick]

Entrepreneurship and Microfinance: A Tool for Economic Development and Empowerment of Women in Kyrgyzstan CoDaC Award

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 CoDaC Award

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 CoDaC Award

Julia Heffernan, College of Education

[Advisor: Jerry Rosiek]

Narrative History of Vanport CoDaC Award

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) CoDaC/CSWS Award

Maurice Magana, Department of Anthropology

[Advisor: Lynn Stephen]

Holistic Approaches to Knowledge: Indigenous Epistemologies and Archaeological Discourse Proudfoot-Swenson Award

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 CoDaC/CSWS Award

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 CoDaC/CSWS Award

Mark Harmon, Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences

[Advisor: Bob O'Brien]

Latin American Survivors of Political Violence Living in the US Pacific Northwest Proudfoot-Swenson Award

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 CoDaC/CSWS Award

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 CoDaC/CSWS Award

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]