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Winter 2008 McNair Scholar Presentations

February 20th, 12:00pm-5:00pm
Gumwood Room, EMU

Welcoming remarks by Eric Pederson
Linguistics Department, UO

Maple Room, EMU
1:00 Emily Hayes
The State of the Family: Examining Conceptual
Metaphor in Political Discourse
Mentor: Eric Pederson
1:30

Sara Hendrickson
The Rose of Mysterious Union: The Influence of William Blake on Jim Morrison as a Poet
Mentor: Forest Pyle
Graduate Student Mentor: Karen Shaup

2:00 Nathan Benjamin
Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day
Mentor: Anne Laskaya
2:30 Jenette Eccleston
Reforming the Sexual Menace:  Early 1900s Eugenic Sterilization in Oregon
Mentor: Elizabeth Reis
3:00 Jeannine Schneider
Transcending the Spiritual Conquest: From Tenochtitlan to the Mission San Francisco Solano
Mentor: Robert Haskett Mentor: Stephanie Wood
3:30 Bryce Frazier
Transformative Education: An Analysis of Paulo Freire
and Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Mentor: Robert Haskett
4:00 Sharryl Sosa
Reading Cultural Hybridity in Mestiza Altars:  A Comparative Historical Analysis
Mentor: Tania Triana
4:30 Joy Gipson
Six Oregon Watershed Councils: Finding and Using Community-Impact Indicators
Mentor: Michael Hibbard
Oak Room, EMU
1:00 Katherine Logan Guy
Sensory Semantics: Berkeley's Phenomenological
Theory of Vision, Phenomenology, and Twenty-first Century Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Mentor: Beata Stawarska
1:30 Laura Gibson
As Long As the Waters Run: Metaphors of Water in
Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water
Mentor: Brian Klopotek, Mentor: Ernesto Martínez
2:00 Francis Maddox
Characterization of Histone H4 N-Terminal Regulation of DNA Methylation in Neurospora Crassa
Mentor: Eric Selker, Mentor: Keyur Adhvaryu
2:30 Roseanna Boyer
Literacy Markers for Adults in Lane County Drug Courts
Mentor: Robert Mauro, Mentor: Michael Hibbard
3:00 Anna Spece
Relational Aggression in Relation to Friendship Quality in Female Dyads
Mentor: Thomas Dishion
3:30 Deanna Campbell
Sex Tourism: Travel Media and the Portrayal of Thai Womenfrom a Feminist Perspective
Mentor: Diane Baxter
4:00 Rocío Petersen
Nourishing 19th Century Americans: The Dietary Advice in
Cookery Books
Mentor: Geraldine Moreno-Black
4:30 Rosie Clayburn
Care of a Yurok Collection according to Yurok Religion and Curatorship Practices: A Case Study at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Mentor: Madonna Moss

Other Summer Research
Neil Brown
Nunn-Lugar in the 21st Century: A Plan for Success
Mentor: Jane Cramer

Luke Mayville
Moderate By Association:  Bourgeois Civil Society and Islamist Moderation in Turkish Politics
Mentor: Craig Parsons
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