James Beattie

Meta-Analysis: First-Generation/Low-Income Outreach Program Development

Samantha Bryant

Public Policy Assessment of Local Government Approaches to Implementing California's Medical Marijuana Laws

Patricia Hutchens

Multicultural Feminism and Domestic Violence Services in Rural Communities

Rachelle Irby

Student-Driven Energy Independence: A Case Study of Humboldt Energy Independence Fund

Ronald Kuhnel

Reframing the Whimsy Garden Project

Vanessa Villavicencio

Leaving Home: An Analysis of Intra Migration Patterns Within the European Union

Spring 2011 MA Graduate Thesis Titles

Amanda Bertana

China's Rise to Hegemony: The Search for African Oil

Jacqui Brennan

Youth at the Crossroads: Participatory Action Research with Homeless Rural Youth

Travis Byrne

Bill Devall's Deep Ecology: Simple In Means, Rich In Ends

Dan Davis

The Mystic on the Concrete: Decision Making Strategies Among Those Who Say They Hear From God

Robert Hogard

The Mentoring of Male Youth: A Valuable Contribution to Society

Dustin Mabry

Community Food Security: A New Social Movement Approach

Colin Trujillo

Marijuana, Mexico and the Media

Jimmy Valdes

Sociology and Health: Understanding Nonurgent E.R. Visits in Humboldt County

Amanda Ybarra

Latino Immigration, Globalization and Health: Striving to Find Equality in the United States

Spring 2010 MA Graduate Thesis Titles

Rebecca Raymond

Montana Bison: Controversy in Yellowstone National Park

Laura Atkins

The Humboldt Community Breast Health Project: Social Support Among Women with Cancer

Elias Pence

Becoming Upward Bound: Ritual, Self-Esteem and the Production of Belonging

Sheila Pierre

The Achilles Heel of Higher Education: Minority Student Retention

Spring 2009 MA Graduate Thesis Titles

Brandi Wilson

An Adventure in creating Socially Just Community Colleges: A case study of a Northern California Community College

Jason M. Whitley

Cameras, COPS, and Contention: The Policing of Independent Media at the 2008 Republican National Convention

Ali Razzak Chaudhary

Choosing "Desi" Exploring the New Second Generation South Asian American Community

Mark Daniel Blackurst

Community Influence in Humboldt County a Comment Regarding Power

Zachary David Funk

Dissonant Lyricists: Expressions of Identity and Resistance in Underground Hip Hop

Jayme Buckley

Food, Land, and Community: A Social Movement in Humboldt County

Ruben Sanchez

Families and children: their experience of homelessness

Spring 2008 MA Graduate Thesis Titles

Amanda Beatty

The Globalization Of Agriculture and Social Resistance

Berru, Melanie Renee

Voices of strength: a qualitative study of the process of leaving domestic violence relationships

Vance William Luther Edwards

Well-Being in Cohousing:  A Qualitative Study

Kathleen Joy Ellion

Researching Evidence-Based Actuarial Assessment Tools for the Humboldt County Probation Department

John Edward Haskell

A Bird's Eye View:  Medical Marijuana - The Patient's Perspective

Lou Jacobson

Anthroprogenic Carbon Dioxide Mitigation: Social Barriers to the Diffusion of the Compact Flourescent Light Bulb

Matthew Ambrose Jelen

Evaluating the Viability of Community Currency as a Tool of Sustainable Development: A Case Study of the Humboldt Exchange Community Currency Project

Karen Elizabeth Nelson

The Right Thing to do: Returning Land to the Wiyot Tribe

Amber Lea Smith

Mapping a Whole New World With the Emma Center: Integrative Healing to Generate Empowerment

Natalie Terese Soder

Community Currency : An Approach to Economic Sustainability in One Local Bioregion

Jessica Ruth Stephan

The V-Day Movement:  Women Organizing Communities Against Violence

Spring 2007 MA Graduate Thesis Titles

Maral Attallah

Choosing Silence: The United States, Turkey, and the Armenian Genocide

Sarah Barrington

Community organizing for economic development : a program evaluation of the Maine Downtown Center

Mark Bauermeister

Small Farm Disinvestment in Eastern Nebraska: Seeking Sustainability in the Periphery

Lori Cortez-Regan

Expanding your horizons: A Study of girls' participation in math and science

Timothy Faiella

Media and Social Change Processes Cal Poly Humboldt

Gisela Rutishauser-Chappelle

Assesment and Redesign of Teaching "Theories and Methods of Alternative Dispute Resolution" Online

Belinda White

Disaster Preparedness in the United States

Spring 2006 MA Graduate Thesis Titles

Elizabeth Archibald

Learning Disability Assessment and Student Retention Rate at Cal Poly Humboldt

Dorothea Bott

Your Voice~ Your Choice Coalition Transportation Committee Project

Margaret Campbell

Social Sustainability of Rural Community Well-Being and Designing a Planning Process that will Minimize the Negative Impacts of "Big Box" Retailers

Megan McDrew

Peace Corps: Motivational Factors to Enhance Recruitment and Volunteer Retention

Leah Thompson

Girls Participation in Math and Science: A Program Evaluation of Expanding your Horizons

Spring 2005 MA Graduates Thesis Titles

Jordan T. Camp

Zapatismo and Autonomous Social Movements: Reading the Communities Politically

Yi-Lang Chao

The Equip Mode and the New Horizons Program

Adrian L. Chevraux-Fitshugh

Discovering Democracy: Grassroots Organizations and Strategies of Mobilization

Stephanie Daley

An Evaluation of Humboldt County's Juvenile Detention Risk Assessment Tool

David D. Dominguez

Totalitarian Democracy

Christina E. Fritschi

Barriers to the Process of Change in the Integrated Health Care Model for Clients and Health Care Providers

Jeffrey Gunn

The Nation-State and the Transitional Capitalist Class in the Era of Global Accumulation

Micheal Levy

Globalization, Biodiversity, and Resistance in Mexico: Deconstructing Plan Puebla-Panama

Lorrie A. Loveman

The Global Genie Project

Henryetta H. Martin

The Suppression of Honor: Sexual Molestation of Young Men in the Boy Scouts of America

Keiko Mori

Social Change in the Emperor System

Adriane S. Mozzini

Learning for Life: The Social and Academic Outcomes of a Waldorf Education

Tiffany Wilson

The Fusion of Asset Mapping and a Community Network: Bayside as a Case Study

Paula Yoon

Utilizing Principles of Transformative Mediation in the Development of the Redwood Regional Watershed Center

Spring 2004 MA Graduate Thesis Titles

Hermine Amoussou

Social Perception of Working Women in Benin: Gender Analysis

Michael Levy

Globalization, Diversity, and Resistance in Mexico: Reconstructing Plan Puebla- Panama.

Andrew Lord

A Brief History of Place: a Guide to Economic Recovery for Timber Dependent Communities

Lorrie Loveman

The Global Genie Project

Nicholas Osborne

Prostitution as Legitimate Work: an Analysis of Sex Work in America

Jenny Shayani

A Sociological Theory of Depression: an Integrated Approach to Optimism and Pessimism, Toward Effective Resolution of a Societal Problem

Spring 2003 MA Graduate Thesis Titles

Andrea Bustos

Examining Organizational Social Change in CA and Chile

Richard Jennings

RV Tourism in Humboldt County, California: an Exploratory Case Study

Jodi Kateiva

When the Abused Fightback: Analysis of Victim Precipitated Trigger Response

Jacelyn Macedo

Working Butch: Lesbian Gender Nonconformity in the Workplace

Nadia K. Raza

From Awareness to Action: A Case Study on Applied Environmental Values

Dan Saveliff

The Hurdles We Overcome: Factors and Processes Influencing the Social and Academic Integration of Non-traditional College Students

Will Tift

Exploring Alcohol use Among University Students in Social Context: The Impacts of Binge Drinking, Connectedness to Drinking Peers

Bethaney Weber

A Rationalization of Bureaucratic Infrastructure: Federally Recognized Indian tribes in California

Spring 2002 MA Graduate Thesis Titles

Christina Begley

Training Mediators to be Reflective Practitioners

Fergus Breck

Five Cases of African Revolution- a Comparative Historical Study of Successful Anti-colonial Revolutions.

Farnad Darnell

Iranian Americans: a Comparative Study of Iranian Cultural Retention Among Three Generations of Iranian Americans

Gregory Gibson

Carnegie Heroes: a Social Exchange Theory Examination

Michael Grossman

A Feminist/ Interactionist Approach to Disability

Thomas Hunnicutt

A Teacher's Guide to Genocide in California History

Karla Lusby

Men Who Batter: an Examination of a Typology in Batterers Completing Treatment

James Vaughn

The Culture of the Bohemian Grove: a Symbolic Interactionist Study

Spring 2001 MA Graduate Thesis Titles

Elizabeth Bennett

Surf like a Girl: Women, Identity, and Representation in Surf Culture

Laura Estetter

Personal Assistance for People with Disabilities: an Exploratory Study

Joel Mitchell

The Moral Panic About Raves: Newspaper Transmission and Legislation

Robyn Schroeder

Designing a Parent-teen Mediation Program for the Eureka, Arcata, McKinleyville, Area

Lael Washington

Black Women at the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Class: How These Issues Affect our Lives and How we Deal with Them