2020 Undergraduate Honors Thesis and Research Awards in the Environmental Humanities
Thanks to generous support from a Mellon Foundation grant, the University of Oregon’s Center for Environmental Futures plans to award 10 awards of $1,000 each to UO undergraduates for honors thesis research projects in any area of the environmental humanities. The field of environmental humanities contextualizes and complements environmental science and policy by pursuing research on narrative, critical thinking, history, cultural analysis, aesthetics, and ethics of diverse environmental topics and issues, such as land use, animals, resource allocation, agriculture, species conservation, climate change, water, and other related issues. Research in environmental justice is also an integral part of the environmental humanities at the UO.
Lydia Angel
Project Title: Water Conflict in the Klamath: How a river shapes the land and the community
Advisors: Peter Walker and Dean Gabe Paquette
Jordan Barton
Project Title: Juliana v. United States: Climate Change, Youth, and the Law
Advisor: Mark Carey
Rachel Connor
Project Title: 100 Years of Malaria in Zanzibar
Advisors: Melissa Graboyes and Philip Matern
Momo Wilms-Crowe
Project Title: “Desde Abajo, Como Semilla”: Narratives of Puerto Rican Food Sovereignty as Embodied Decolonial Resistance
Advisors: Dan Tichenor, Michael Fakhri, and Colin Anderson
Jordan Harden
Project Title: “Understanding Native Hawaiian Land Relations Through Kanaka Maoli Literature”
Advisors: Kirby Brown and Kate Kelp-Stebbins
Julia Lui
Project Title: Quantifying Diabetes Disparities Related to American Indian and Alaskan Native Residency on Reservations
Advisors: Clare Evans and Barbara Mossberg
Cal Penkauskas
Project Title: Hogs and Hazelnuts: a win-win scenario for oak conservation and organic agriculture
Advisors: Alejandro Brambila and Lauren Hallett
Siena Polk
Project Title: Fossil Fuel Landscapes in Agriculture
Advisors: Galen Martin and Carol Stabile
Jasmin Tribolet
Project Title: Race and the Environmental Movement in Oregon (1960-present): Case Studies
Advisors: Steven Beda, Casey Shoop, and Aimee Okotie-Oyekan
Bethan Tyler
Project Title: The Radical Lyric: Claude McKay and W.S. Merwin
Advisors: Mark Whalan
2020 Undergraduate Research Symposium Awards
Participation in the Undergraduate Research Symposium empowers undergraduates to share their ideas, discoveries, and artistic work with the campus and the local community. The event traditionally takes place in the EMU in the style of an academic conference and includes all types of academic research, allowing you to present your work through a poster, oral presentation, data story, or in a performance.
Abby Keep
Peace Canal: Conflict, Cooperation, and the Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance
Jaemie Bynum & Alexandra Acosta-Torres
COVID-19, Climate Change, and Collages – A creative analysis disguised as an educational approach to inform about the connection between climate change and COVID-19.
Michaela Fishback
Endemic Serpentine Grassland Plant Communities amid Environmental Changes in response to Human Activity
Amy Shannon
Alutiiq Use of Birds at Rice Ridge, Kodiak Island
Cal Penkauskas
Hogs and Hazelnuts