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Souveraineté narrative contre les structures coloniales d’enfermement : Autrices et artistes de Cuba, d’Haïti et des nations autochtones au Québec en conversation
Full text linkMa dissertation conceptualise la résistance à l’enferment dans les productions littéraires et cinématographiques de dix autrices cubaines, haïtiennes et autochtones du XXème et du XXIème siècles. Je trace l’histoire de ce que je nomme l’idéologie occidentale de l’enfermement, un enfermement géographique, mais aussi politique, identitaire et économique, mis en place par les gouvernements occidentaux sur les espaces et communautés colonisées. Ces structures sont particulièrement saillantes dans des espaces à la souveraineté contestée, comme les Nations autochtones au Québec, Cuba et Haïti. Je propose une lecture des politiques d’enfermements à la fois des individus et des communautés développées dans le continent européen et qui ont été adaptées sur Abya Yala, tels que les pensionnats ou encore les institutions de travail forcé. Ces espaces carcéraux ont joué un rôle central dans les déplacements forcés et le travail non- ou sous-rémunéré, et ont tenté de vider l’espace de ses occupant·es pour faciliter l’extractivisme des ressources naturelles (chapitre 1). An Antane Kapesh (Innu), Marie Vieux-Chauvet (Haïti) et Daisy Rubiera Castillo (Cuba) combattent les enfermements coloniaux qui se matérialisent par les stéréotypes de genre, de race et de classe. Leur critique est à la fois historique et politique, déconstruisant les identités imposées de l’extérieur pour reconstruire l’histoire coloniale depuis leur point de vue de femme racisée (chapitre 2). La poésie de Soleida Ríos (Cuba) et Joséphine Bacon (Innu) rend lisibles des formes d’habitation du territoire profondément ancrées dans leur héritage afro-cubain et innu respectif. Leur recherche poétique de la liberté s’oppose à l’idéologie occidentale de l’enfermement par la revendication de déplacements tant physiques que spirituels (chapitre 3). Le roman permet à Emmelie Prophète (Haïti) et Dazra Novak (Cuba) d’explorer des pratiques alternatives d’habiter la ville, l’espace domestique et le corps féminin non-hétéronormatif, et ce en contexte de crise du logement (chapitre 4). Caroline Monnet (Anishinaabe et française) et Gessica Généus (Haïti), dans leurs films de fiction, construisent des dialogues intergénérationnels qui proposent de renverser les structures coloniales, notamment économiques et politiques, dont elles rejettent la légitimité historique, dans le but de reconstruire leur communauté grâce à une praxis décoloniale (chapitre 5). En ouvrant des dialogues entre ces dix autrices et artistes, ma thèse contribue à déconstruire l’idéologie de l’enfermement en proposant une archive multi-genre qui transcende les frontières générationnelles, linguistiques, raciales et nationales issues de la colonisation européenne et affirme en lieu et place une souveraineté narrative
The Effect of Parenting Styles on Relational Aggression in Children
Full text link33 pagesThis systematic literature review examined the effect of different parenting styles on relationally aggressive behavior in early childhood to adolescence (age 3-18). Relational aggression is the intent to harm others through damage to the relationship and often occurs at school and with peers. Although research has investigated parenting and aggression, little research has examined how the parenting styles defined by Baumrind are associated with relational aggression. There are four types of parenting styles; authoritative, authoritarian, permissive and uninvolved, which are rated on dimensions of warmth, control, demandingness, responsiveness, and acceptance. Authoritative parenting is categorized by a high responsiveness and clear boundaries for children. In contrast, uninvolved parenting involves little support and low demand in the child's life. Permissive parenting involves high levels of responsiveness, warmth, and acceptance but low levels of demand. Finally, authoritarian parenting encompasses high demandingness and low responsiveness aiming to create a rigid structure with clearly defined rules. It is important to examine predictors of relational aggression throughout childhood and adolescence because it allows parents and teachers to help children and adolescents develop healthy coping mechanisms. The goal of this paper was to understand how parenting styles are related to relational aggression. In addition, this systematic review expands on a prior review published by Kawabata and colleagues (2011) but focused on parenting styles instead of parenting behaviors and clusters. Therefore, this systematic review examined studies published from 2011- present. Two research assistants searched the database Web of Science using a structured set of search criteria. Five articles met the search criteria. Findings indicated that the authoritative parenting style was not positively correlated with relational aggression. In other words, children whose parents use the authoritative style are not at risk to show relationally aggressive behavior in the classroom school environment. In contrast, both permissive parenting and authoritarian parenting have a positive correlation with relational aggression which means that children whose parents use these styles of parenting are typically more relationally aggressive in the classroom. These findings can help identify specific strategies that parents and teachers can use to reduce children's and adolescents’ relational aggression
Inclusive Dual Language Programs: Meeting the Needs of Emerging Bilingual Students with Disabilities in Bilingual Classrooms
Full text linkDual language (DL) programs are rapidly expanding in the United States, offering students the opportunity to develop proficiency in two languages. While research has consistently demonstrated the academic, cognitive, and social-emotional benefits of DL programs for diverse learners, there remains a critical gap in understanding how these programs effectively serve students with disabilities. To explore this gap, I conducted a qualitative study focused on the experiences and perspectives of administrators and teachers in two Oregon school districts. Through interviews with stakeholders, I identified themes that reveal how practitioners navigate the opportunities and challenges of supporting emergent bilingual students with disabilities (EBSWD) in DL settings.Participants emphasized the critical role of systems and structures that foster a school culture grounded in both bilingualism and inclusion. School culture emerged as a central theme, with participants describing how leadership that actively promotes equity and inclusivity helped establish environments where EBSWD could succeed. These findings highlight that the successful inclusion of EBSWD in DL programs relies not only on well-designed, school-wide systems but also on leadership that intentionally cultivates a culture of belonging, linguistic diversity, and high expectations for all learners
Estimating Species-Level Aboveground Carbon in Interior Alaska Using Machine Learning and Process-Based Models
Full text linkAccurate estimates of aboveground carbon in Alaska’s boreal forests are essential for tracking ecological change in a rapidly warming region. This study compares two modeling frameworks, 1) an empirically trained Random Forest model driven by remote sensing (RS-RF), and 2) the process-based LANDIS-II model to assess aboveground C trends from 2000 to 2024 across four dominant species: black spruce (Picea mariana), white spruce (Picea glauca), Alaskan birch (Betula neoalaskana), and trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides). While both models provided valuable insights, they diverged in their representation of carbon dynamics. RS-RF predicted lower carbon with less temporal variability, whereas LANDIS-II projected higher carbon accumulation and greater temporal variability. The models differed in species dominance rankings and spatial change patterns: RS-RF estimated that trembling aspen had the highest biomass while LANDIS-II estimated white spruce had more biomass than the other species. Variable importance analyses revealed contrasting model sensitivities. RS-RF was shaped by spectral and topographic inputs, especially post-fire indices for birch, whereas LANDIS-II was driven by internal ecological processes like fuel dynamics and biomass pools from dead wood and fine fuels. These discrepancies highlight how each model captures different aspects of forest carbon dynamics. RS-RF excels at detecting observed, near-term responses and localized spatial shifts, while LANDIS-II offers process-based insights into longer-term change and broader landscape trajectories. Integrating these approaches can help resolve key uncertainties in boreal carbon modeling and improve our understanding of species-specific trajectories under climate and disturbance pressures
Consent Narratives in Anime and Manga: How They Shape Impressionable Adolescents Attitudes Towards Relationships
Full text link51 pagesThis thesis explores how consent narratives in anime and manga with younger target audiences influence adolescents’ perceptions of romantic relationships. Many popular series depict non-consensual romantic interactions through the framing of humor or harmless misunderstandings. This can normalize boundary violations and reduce acts of sexual harassment or coercion to comedic tropes. If impressionable audiences encounter these narratives as their first impression of consent, it could set a problematic standard for what consent and relationships look like for younger consumers. Through a mixed-methods survey of college-aged consumers, this study investigates consumption patterns, perceptions of influence, and how responses to non-consensual portrayals shift as audiences mature. Shonen (young male demographic) emerged as the genre most associated with non-consensual behavior, raising important questions about how gender expectations and romantic ideals are communicated through media. Findings suggest that participants who encountered these narratives during impressionable stages were more likely to initially overlook or normalize boundary violations, but their reactions became increasingly critical as they aged. At an older age, respondents largely took a negotiated perspective to these portrayals, disliking but accepting them. Drawing on feminist media theory, including Laura Mulvey’s concept of the male gaze and Yuka Nishiyama’s analysis of manga’s gender hierarchies, the study highlights how female characters are often stripped of agency and framed as passive objects of male desire. These findings suggest that when media targeted at youth trivializes consent, harmful relationship expectations can emerge unless they are challenged through critical media literacy. Understanding how audiences interpret and internalize consent portrayals is key to addressing broader questions about media influence, gender socialization, and ethical media production
For the Love of Humanity
Full text link24 pagesA picture is worth a thousand words and this documentary says it all. This documentary is pulling back the curtain to illuminate what it’s like to be a student worker at the University of Oregon and highlights the UO Coffee Outlets baristas and how the UO Coffee Outlets' social media has impacted the internal communications of the company. I chose to use a digital medium for my thesis in an attempt to restore humanity to student workers as being more than just employees of the university, but dynamic, vibrant, real students who have lives, friends, and crucial relationships that power our university. The documentary includes testimonies, interviews, and the journey of what it takes to run a social media account that has united our team in a way we never predicted. Our social media has not only aided in our business and exposure to the rest of campus, but also our internal relationships with one another as students, co-workers, and friends
Polytonal Closure in the Music of Darius Milhaud and Howard Swanson
Full text linkRecent years have seen a renewed interest in cadence and closure in post-Classical-era music, especially Romantic and neo-tonal repertoire (Caplin 2018 and 2024, Rodgers and Osborne 2020, Eng 2019). One subset of neo-tonal music that poses special challenges regarding closure is polytonal music. Polytonality relies on the establishment of separate key centers that can work both independently and in conjunction with one another, which raises many questions concerning cadence and closure—principally, what do we consider a cadence in polytonal music, and is closure possible in only one key or can it happen in multiple keys at once?My thesis addresses these questions by examining the closural strategies utilized by French composer Darius Milhaud and African-American composer Howard Swanson. Drawing upon studies of polytonality by Peter Kaminsky (2004) and studies of neo-tonal closure by Clare Eng (2019), I outline three types of closure that appear in Milhaud’s and Swanson’s polytonal works: (1) monoclosure, where closure is reached in one of the established keys, but the other key(s) does not achieve any closure, either stopping mid phrase or continuing uninterrupted; (3) polyclosure, where simultaneous closure occurs in two (or more) separately established keys; and (3) converging closure, where multiple established keys converge at the point of cadence to achieve closure in one unified key.
After developing this analytical approach, I apply it to large-scale works by Milhaud and Swanson. First, drawing on the Sonata Theory of James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy (2006), as well as writings about twentieth-century sonata form by Joseph Straus (1990) and Damien Blättler (2024), I analyze the first movement of Darius Milhaud’s Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, and Piano, Op. 47-I; this analysis includes a meta-narrative analysis founded on theories of agency theory by Robert Hatten (2018) and Edward Klorman (2016). Then, I turn to Swanson’s Fantasy for Soprano Saxophone and String Orchestra–a work that has never been published or performed, which I found among Howard Swanson’s papers in the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University. After developing a model of analyzing Swanson’s unique polytonal idiom in general terms, building upon Marsha Reisser (1989) and Lee Cronbach (1981), I use my theory of polytonal closure to show how multiple layers of formal function emerge out of this 350-measure single-movement work
Bilingualism and Language Delays: How Parental Concerns are Associated with Spanish and English Language Exposure
Full text linkThis study explores whether parental concerns about communication delays are associated with differences in bilingual language exposure among Spanish-English bilingual children aged 24–30 months. Utilizing data from 115 mother-child dyads, this research compares language input and child utterances between families with and without concerns about their child’s communication. Measures included the Language Exposure Assessment Tool (LEAT), caregiver surveys, and mother-child language samples analyzed using SALT software. Results showed no statistically significant differences in overall Spanish or English exposure based on parental concern. However, children whose parents expressed concern produced significantly fewer Spanish-only utterances, suggesting early shifts in language use. These findings indicate that parental concerns potentially shaped by pervasive myths generated by linguicism around bilingualism may influence bilingual practices even in the absence of formal diagnoses. The study highlights a potential bidirectional relationship between child language delay and reduced heritage language exposure, underscoring the need for culturally responsive, bilingual-affirming practices in early intervention
Bounded Rationality in Financial Markets
Full text linkAgents' beliefs and expectations about financial markets affect resource allocation, regulatory effectiveness, and monetary policy. This dissertation contributes to the literature by introducing a novel perspective on the behavioral aspects of learning and expectation formation in financial markets. While prior studies have largely focused on alternatives to the Rational Expectations paradigm and household finance, my work extends that body of research by presenting new empirical evidence and theoretical insights, particularly regarding adaptive learning in banking and saving motives, that reveal novel mechanisms through which beliefs shape macroeconomic outcomes.
The second chapter examines expectation formation in financial intermediation with biased models due to regularization methods and its relationship with monetary policy. I provide empirical evidence on bounded rationality in bank forecasting by analyzing the timing of Dodd-Frank Act stress test scenarios, which reveals systematic revisions in the pricing of bank securities around the announcement date. Since these scenarios, constructed from professional forecaster surveys, are not designed to predict future shocks, I argue that market participants do not fully price available information beforehand and tend to be overoptimistic about the economic outlook of banks and their market value. To explore macroeconomic implications, I integrate adaptive learning into a New Keynesian model where agents estimate linear models and nowcast bankers' returns while facing multicollinearity issues and the bias-variance trade-off inherent in regression regularization methods. The findings indicate that post-crisis regulatory reforms increased moral hazard and the equity premium in banking, while the biased forecast model helps explain how bank stock prices reflect future returns. In this framework, the bias-variance trade-off, as a form of bounded rationality in a data-rich environment, dampens banking sector responses, leading to an overestimation of franchise value when facing negative shocks. This behavioral mechanism, in turn, weakens expansionary monetary policy by reducing the standard intertemporal substitution effect. This chapter contributes to the literature by offering empirical evidence on bounded rationality in banking and introducing the concept of biased perception equilibrium as a form of bounded rationality in a data-rich environment with estimation challenges.
The third chapter investigates how capital requirements affect financial inclusion, using Mexico’s implementation of Basel III standards in 2013 as a case study. These international regulations were announced in 2010, and following extensive internal debate, Mexican regulators opted for a fully phased-in approach. I argue that anticipation and uncertainty surrounding these regulatory reforms prompted banks to adjust their capital holdings, influencing credit volume and local lending markets. To localize the bank-level changes due to the regulatory policy, I estimate a bank-level credit shock driven by changes in capital ratios, finding that qualitatively, large and small banks changed their lending supply in opposite directions. Utilizing a shift-share design, I compute a municipality-level credit shock, and find that positive credit shocks reduce the number of originated loans and loan sizes, while increasing participation in both retail funding markets and informal credit products. Since the average shock may also capture the predominant type of bank in the locality, these findings highlight the roles of bank competition and regulatory certainty in enhancing financial inclusion while highlighting directions for policy reform.
The final chapter examines the impact of subjective expectations of stock returns on wealth distribution. I provide empirical evidence linking shifts in investor beliefs to changes in wealth distribution, particularly during the early 2000s. By leveraging externally identified shocks and investor surveys, I document the responsiveness of expectations to new information and establish their medium-run effects on the wealth distribution. Moreover, I introduce a novel perspective on the bequest motive, supported by empirical evidence showing a strong correlation between bequest intentions and stock return expectations. To analyze the distributional impact of belief shifts, I propose and calibrate a simple two-period Overlapping Generations model. This framework can be extended to a multiperiod setting to examine belief formation throughout the life cycle and its role in reinforcing intergenerational links that shape wealth distribution
Engaged Journalism: Assessing the Information Needs of Oakridge
Full text link28 pagesIn early 2025, University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication students conducted an information needs assessment to better understand the local news and civic information flow of Oakridge. In partnership with the Sustainable City Year Program, Agora Journalism Center, and the City of Oakridge, students sought to understand how Oakridge’s needs align with the broader scope of small-town news accessibility. The class co-created a survey based on the Listening Post Collective Playbook, which focuses on community led, civic media projects. In addition, students spent significant time outside of the classroom within the Oakridge community through listening sessions, engagement with Oakridge High School classes, and in-person survey distribution. This project aimed to surface both the barriers to being informed and new ideas for building stronger connections
throughout the area.
Based on the survey results, the Engaged Journalism class compiled the following observations about residents’ passion for their community yet frustration with their fragmented local news environment:
• Residents rely heavily on Facebook and word of mouth to stay informed, while expressing deep displeasure with the bias, misinformation, and drama that often characterize those spaces.
• The Highway 58 Herald—one of the few dedicated local outlets—is seen by many as inconsistent in its coverage, too narrow in its perspectives, or lacking in trust.
• There is no single, go-to platform or publication that residents consistently trust for reliable, up-to-date civic information.
• Survey participants cited urgent needs for more frequent reporting, better coverage of community events, and a desire for professional, unbiased local journalism rooted in the lived realities of Oakridge residents.
• Physical third spaces like cafés, grocery stores, the library, and bulletin boards remain important sources for shared information—but access is uneven, and not all residents benefit equally.
• Civic hub collaboration to foster local partnerships
Oakridge residents desire a more inclusive and accessible civic infrastructure. When reliable information is limited
to those who are digitally connected, socially networked, or already engaged, it deepens community divides. Not only does Oakridge need stronger coverage, but it would greatly benefit from a shared system of communication that is representative, trustworthy, and available to all.Community partnerships are possible in part due to support from U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, as well as former Congressman Peter DeFazio, who secured federal funding for SCYP through Congressionally Directed Spending